MoveHistory| Description | Lists the past moves a page has gone through |
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| Updated | January 27, 2024
(3 months ago) |
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| Browser support | Chrome, Firefox, etc. |
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| Source | |
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Disentangling all the moves a page has gone through can be quite a hassle. So let this script do it for you. It adds the link "Move history" to the Tools section of the sidebar, which opens a dialog. For example, looking up the move history of Anne Hathaway (wife of Shakespeare) will show you something like this:
Anne Hathaway (Shakespeare's wife) → Anne Hathaway (Shakespeare) → Anne Hathaway Shakespeare → Anne Hathaway (Shakespeare) → Anne Hathaway Shakespeare → Anne Hathaway (Shakespeare) → *H E Ŗ M EE? → Anne Hathaway (Shakespeare) → Anne Hathaway (Shakespeare's wife) → Anne Hathaway (wife of Shakespeare)
Installation
Add the following to your common.js or global.js:
mw.loader.load('//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Nardog/MoveHistory.js&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript');
Or you may enable the script installer in Preferences → Gadgets and click "Install" in the infobox on this page.
Limitations
- Moves within merged history appear like any other, resulting in the target of one move and the source of the next (or the current name) not lining up.
- A move will not be detected if:
- it was made before late June 2005;
- it was the first edit since the date specified in "Since";
- the user or edit summary in the history or move log has been hidden;
- there was a server latency between the revision and move log entries longer than one minute; or
- the namespace prefix has been changed since the move.
See also
Nardog's scripts |
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Extra functionality
- CatChangesViewer – Lists recent category additions/removals on a category page.
- CodeEditorAssist – Allows customizing the code editor, e.g. changing the color theme and enabling live autocompletion.
- Consecudiff – Adds links to diffs of consecutive edits by the same user on watchlist, history, etc.
- CopyCodeBlock – Adds a button to copy the content of each code block (
<pre>).
- CopySectLink – Adds a button to copy the unencoded page title or section path next to each heading.
- MoveHistory – Lists the past moves a page has gone through.
- RCMuter – Hides specified users' edits on Watchlist/RecentChanges.
- SmartDiff – Makes links and template calls in diffs clickable (supports red links, avoids WP:SEAOFBLUE).
Editing assistance
- ExpandContractions – Expands contractions.
- IPAInput – Type in IPA symbols by directly looking at an IPA key like Help:IPA/English and clicking on the symbols.
- RefRenamer – Replaces reference names like ":0" with descriptive ones like "Smith-2015".
- Unpipe – Converts each piped link to a non-piped one if both lead to the same article.
Itch scratchers
- AutoSectionLink – Adds or refines the
/* section link */ as you edit so only the modified section will be linked in the summary.
- AutoTestcases – Autofills "Preview page with this template" with the most relevant /testcases page that exists.
- CatChangeLinker – Links "diff" and "hist" for category additions/removals on Watchlist/RecentChanges.
- PasteToCommons – Upload an image to Commons from anywhere on the site by pasting it.
- SortCentralAuthByEditCount – Sorts the list of local accounts on CentralAuth by edit count.
- TemplatePreviewGuard – Warns when you try to use "Preview page with this template" with a page that doesn't transclude the template.
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