Questions tagged [revisions-list]
For questions about the public lists of changes made to posts by a site's users. They are available for questions and answers by clicking the "edited X min ago" link, and on tag wikis as "history" and "excerpt history" links.
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Translation for "comment edited" in revisions not used
When moderator makes an edit of description for post edit there's additional part in revisions page for that revision:
String is translated in Traducir, but for some reason not used.
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Error when trying to see a revision of a proposal of Area 51 [duplicate]
When I try to see a revision of a proposal of Area 51:
(I click on the "4 days ago")
It shows me the error page:
Here's a raw link for anyone who would like to try it:
https://area51....
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Revision description doesn’t fit in page
Because long single words don't wrap, in particular links, the description in the revision may overflow the page width.
E.g. here:
This also affects long enough user names like here:
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Edits no longer have a grace period?
Usually edits made within 5 minutes of making or editing a post are rolled into a single revision in the edit history. However, it looks like edits are getting listed separately even if they were ...
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Descriptions for posts created by Community user can't be translated
The Community user is officially credited with the creation of empty wikis and excerpts for new tags. The descriptions of these events on Community's activity page always take the form of:
created ${...
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Long usernames overflow revision list headers
When a user has a long name without spaces, their name overflows the revision header, as can be seen e.g. here:
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Unable to translate "to" part for migration notice
The old resolved bug is relevant again, but only for "migrated to" part.
I can't find that "to" in traducir source strings.
But the better way is to use full sentence to translate ...
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API method /posts/{ids}/revisions returns "<strong></strong> " for hot questions and hot meta posts
The API seems to return <strong></strong> instead of <b>Became Hot Network Question</b> as the comment field for the revision item in which a post became a HNQ. Here is an ...
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Meta questions have been unfeatured without creating revisions, causing problems when editing [duplicate]
This started out as a Stack Apps question, because my script was trying to repair the image in the DBA.Meta post So what's with the hats thing?, and encountered the following error while trying to ...
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Add anchors to revisions
I just wanted to refer to revision 2 in a question. The question on meta is Allow markup in edit comments, and these are the revisions: https://stackoverflow.com/posts/8149545/revisions.
It would be ...
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Some questions show a tag that nobody put there
I ran into this post (74102654 on SO) as a review audit. It has the dart tag, though it's not related to Dart. I was about to comment about it, but thought to check its revision history (which at the ...
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Archive Questions
How about we create a new status, Archived.
A moderator could Archive a question. This would allow rep from the question to still be counted, and a special search 'isarchived' could be used to find ...
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History page for Help Center articles is titled "Revisions to unknown"
Similar to Election: Questionnaire history is titled "Revisions to unknown", the history page for the Help Center articles editable by moderators, for example What topics can I ask about ...
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When viewing a post's revisions history from a review queue, make the "Return to Question/Answer" link less unintuitive
I was in the First questions review queue and found that when clicking to view the revisions list, the "Return to Question" link was a bit unintuitive (since I didn't get to the revision ...
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Remove minimum length restriction when moderators edit a revision comment (a.k.a. edit summary)
A moderator can edit a post's revision comment (a.k.a. edit summary). However, when the text is too short, they get an error message that says:
Your edit summary must be at least 10 characters.
On ...
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"Added to review" label looks like a tag badge
When there is a question was closed and the author edited the post to reopen it, there is a new label added named "Added to review" in the revision and timeline of the post.
But the "...
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Added code not always visible as a change in the Reopen Votes review queue
Here is a Reopen Votes review queue item, where the author added some code to the question. However, that is not displayed in the 'Inline' and 'Side-by-side' tabs, which just show some grammar ...
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revision_number is returned in every revision item, even if it's not an edit
As of recently, the Stack Exchange API v2.2 (and v2.3) returns revision_number in every revision item, even if it's not an actual edit, effectively invalidating the "may be absent" for ...
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Revision history behaves strangely when there is only an edit in Markdown
I was trying to see what was changed from revision 1 to revision 2 of this post and it appeared that nothing changed in the side-by-side view:
I switched to the side-by-side Markdown view and the ...
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Please make the revision history of help center articles public
Please make the revision history of help center articles public to all users. When a non-moderator tries to access the revision history of a help center article (example), this is shown:
I really don'...
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Please make the revision histories of comments visible to their authors
When one posts a comment, one is able to edit it during a brief grace period. Moderators can edit any comment at any time.
A comment that has been edited will have a little pencil symbol:
Moderators ...
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Text selection overflows in revisions, "Side-by-side Markdown" mode
When trying to select text in a side-by-side revision, that is, select the text from one side, it works perfectly fine. However, the selection overflows to the other side when using "Side-by-side ...
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The revision number could use some more room
There's (too) little space between the revision number on the left, and the edit summary and links to the right, when the revision number has three digits. See for example the most often edited Stack ...
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Who has the privilege to delete a revision?
I saw a PPT posted by Jeff that showed a revision page which had the delete revision function, like this:
But I have never seen this functionality on SO's revision pages. I guess that's because I ...
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How does SO manage this wiki post edit/rollback/peer review workflow function? [closed]
If you click on any page on Stack Exchange, you can find out the versioning history very clearly. Who made the change, what's the comment, source, link, even the very cool difference made with ...
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Is there a way to separately view edits made to own posts and edits made to others' posts?
Currently, in the All Actions tab in the Activity page, you can see all the edits you have made so far under the Revisions tab:
Sometimes, at least for me, it gets a bit difficult to find edits made ...
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Diff doesn't take stripped HTML tags into account
Yesterday I edited this question to correct the display of something in angle brackets, <root_music_folder>. The Markdown parser thinks it's an HTML tag, it's not on the allow list so it strips ...
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The imported tag-info for default tags is ignored in revision history
There are several default tags which are automatically imported to all metas. (See also here.) It seems that some of them have been also imported with the tag-info. By looking at metas of some ...
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The tag wiki for [status-review] doesn't have a post id, leading to a 404 on viewing its history [duplicate]
Behold, status-review's info page:
Mousing over the history (or indeed the excerpt history) links shows the target URL:
meta.stackoverflow.com/posts//revisions
Following this, naturally enough, ...
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How can I find the revisions history for the help center?
Some parts of the help center can be edited by the moderators and, of course, any part can be edited by a Stack Exchange employees. According to this post, the link to revisions is accessible to ...
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Revision history of the moderator-editable parts of /helpcenter
The moderator-editable part of the /faq used to have a 'history' link (visible only to moderators) that allowed moderators to see past revisions of that part. There doesn’t seem to be any such link ...
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Error when viewing revision history for Help Center article as a moderator
When I visit this revision list: https://meta.stackexchange.com/posts/66740/revisions, which for regular users looks like a history for the participate in Meta privilege, I get an error page:
It ...
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Revision history links for wikis/excerpts for standard tags on metas (status-*, bug, discussion, etc) result in 404 error [duplicate]
The history links for the "standard" tags that are present on all metas (the mandatory ones like discussion and the mod-only ones like featured) don't work unless the tag has been edited at least once ...
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Revision history and suggested edits pages don't recognize non-standard MathJax delimiters
A follow up of What delimiters work for MathJax?: the question Vector convolution? on MathOverflow contains some non-standard MathJax delimiters: \begin{equation} and \end{equation}. They are ...
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Unable to view revision history of an Area 51 proposal
I'm trying to view the revision history of a proposal on Area 51 by clicking the "edited by X Y days ago", but whenever I click on it, it brings me to this error page:
Here's a link to the error ...
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Is there a shortcut for accessing the posts/revisions when an edit hasn't been made? [duplicate]
Edit 2: Let me reopen to have the ff as answer:
@BCLC I usually just click the Timeline icon, then manually replace "timeline" with "revisions" in the URL. –
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Show link to revision history when there are revisions but no edits
In the latest Recent Changes FAQ I saw this:
2013-02-18: The revision history of a question that was closed as a duplicate is now showing the chosen originals as part of the "Closed as duplicate&...
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Did the "grace period" for edits on posts break?
Did the grace period for edits on posts recently go away? Or did the mechanism break maybe?
I was recently editing an FAQ post on MSO, and after saving the edit, realized I changed something which I ...
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Tag wikis are incorrectly limited to 30,000 characters when editing them from the revision history
Preparation
You need the Edit community wiki privilege (100 reputation), but the bug also occurs when you have the Tag Wikis privilege (20,000 reputation).
Find a tag with a body of more than 30,000 ...
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How are questions linked?
A question of mine just got edited, where a link to another question was provided.
The edit's log tells it was done by a moderator. So, is this done by a script, or are people doing it manually?
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Add "Return to nomination" link to nomination revision page
Any post revision page contains a link "Return to {post}" at the top of the page:
But there is no such link in candidate nomination revision page, e.g.:
Without a link it's impossible to ...
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Election: Questionnaire history is titled "Revisions to unknown"
On the Mathematics election page, there is a minor bug in that clicking on a candidate's questionnaire history from the drop-down box [it looks like "history" has a larger font size?] leads ...
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Links to migrated answers' revision histories incorrectly go to the parent question's revision history instead of the answer's history
When a question along with its answers is migrated to another site, only its latest revision is copied to the destination site. Originally, there was no attribution supplied to users who edited either ...
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All post history events are now incorrectly showing as edits in post histories and timelines
When checking the timeline of a post I noticed that "Post Closed" events are now attributed to Community, and the close voters were moved to the "comment" column. Before, all close ...
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Can anyone see edits which occured before the 5 minute mark after posting?
I have noticed some people in Stack Overflow who write answers just for the sake of adding an answer, and maybe answering first. And when warned by others, and additionally flagging them, that's when ...
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Tag wiki excerpt history applies Markdown formatting to what should be plain text
For example, on the array-shift excerpt history, note that the edits are rendered with Markdown previews.
(E.g. the code-ified and linked array_unique() at the start of my post.)
Markdown is not ...
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Editing an earlier revision of a post doesn't change it nor does it create a new revision item, but shows me as the last editor
Steps to reproduce:
Find a post that has been edited at least once.
Go to the revisions history
Click 'Edit' on an earlier revision:
Do not edit the body, just add a random edit summary.
Submit ...
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Why is the "Became Hot Network Question" event shown as an edit? [duplicate]
I was looking at this question to see when it became a Hot Network Question. I went to the revisions page and noticed that this event is shown as an edit, along with the tweet on Twitter:
The ...
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Suspended users' badge counts show up in edit histories
The user card for a suspended user in an edit history page (a page with a URL like site.stackexchange.com/posts/12345/revisions) shows the badge counts for the suspended user, along with 1 reputation. ...
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Can't see revision history for returned migrations
When a migration is rejected after a post is migrated, the post migrates back to the original site.
Normally with migrations you can see the revision history of the migrated post (to give attribution ...
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