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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Meta question with link from the future in original post?
The famous question on John Skeet Facts has a rather unusual edit history.
It shows that the question was asked on November 20th, 2008. But when Bill The Lizard posted the question, he had a link in ...
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feature-request tag shown at the end of tag list. [feature-request] tag was replaced with itself [duplicate]
I saw this question and see that it has feature-request in the end of tag list (it should in the beginning).
If I go to revision history I'm also facing some oddities: feature-request was replaced by ...
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Why is edit history being logged during the grace period? [duplicate]
https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/posts/367912/revisions
The initial post occurred at 2018-03-19 15:37:03Z.
The first edit (second revision) occurred at 2018-03-19 15:38:52Z and the ...
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Links within spoilers are not hidden on the Revisions page
Similar to Visited links within spoilers are not hidden anymore, links in spoilers aren't properly hidden on Revisions pages like this one.
Tested on the latest versions of Safari, Firefox and Chrome ...
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Searching the edit history for occurrences of a case-sensitive keyword
I wish to search my edit history ("revisions" tab in user profile) for occurrences of a particular keyword. Is it possible to get a list of all such revisions, possibly through SEDE? And can the ...
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Excessively long edit summary breaks Revision History page
Affected page
Screenshot: (right click -> open image in new tab)
Edit summary text:
corrected citation; the prev citation was neither in indian edition neither in the archived edition (https://...
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Height of diff mode buttons is larger than needed in revisions list
Areas marked with red rectangles are excessive in the post revisions list:
Seems there is some css issue.
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Revisions list should tell which mod moved comments to chat
When a mod moves comments to chat, an entry "Mod Moved Comments To Chat" appears in the edit history (revisions list) of a question/answer (Example).
It would be more useful, in my view, if this ...
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Comment deletion events in the revisions list
When a mod moves comments to chat, an entry "Mod Moved Comments To Chat" appears in the edit history (revisions list) of a question/answer (Example).
I believe it would be useful if a similar entry ...
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Make both sides of the edit show a spoiler at once
When looking at edits in the "side-by-side" view, spoilers are hidden as they are usually and get shown on mouseover. However, I only have one mouse, so I can't see the old and the new at once.
It ...
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Why doesn't this reopen review have a "Revision" tab?
https://unix.stackexchange.com/review/reopen/223325
I see:
The question has been edited at least once after closing, so shouldn't there be a tab that shows the changes made, like so:
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Title is removed/cleared/erased when starting editing
First time this happens to me.
When I try to edit I purchase api for sms gateway I have implmented in php. when i execute in localhost it shows error?, the title part is immediately erased:
And when ...
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Added/deleted blockquote displayed with bigger height in revisions
If while editing a post a blockquote was added or deleted then this block is displayed with bigger height than non-deleted:
Non-deleted block in revisions page is dislplayed same as in the post ...
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User names on community wiki posts link to revision histories if they're never edited
Related:
User names on community wiki posts should link to profile pages (like they do everywhere else)
Revision history & community wiki links show the same page
This is even stranger because ...
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iOS app: Some parts of code snippets are replaced with UUIDs in the edit revision view
When I checked my suggested edit of this question on Code Review, I thought I must have messed it up, by accidentally pasting something into a code block / code snippet.
Actually I didn't change the ...
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Edit conflicts during a re-edit within the 5-minute window can create an erroneous revision history
The last revision shown in a post's revision history is the current revision, but I have encountered a situation where an edit conflict can cause the displayed text of a post to differ from it.
I ...
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Suggested edit that made no apparent difference to question
I assume this is a network-wide issue: recently on Electrical Engineering I reviewed a suggested edit that I rejected because it made no apparent difference to the question. It was subsequently ...
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Rollback notice is not used from Transifex
Seems that "Edit approval overridden by post owner or moderator" message translation is not used from Transifex in the revision list. I've made translation about 3 months ago, but it's not used yet.
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Numbers instead of titles for duplicate list
Is it normal that specific revision page with a list of duplicates contains numbers instead of titles? E.g. here (also probably "duplicates list edited" is lost before "from"):
But all revisions ...
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How can I query the Data Explorer for historical changes in posts' tags?
On my home site of RPG.SE, I'm trying to investigate whether a particular tag might be causing trouble. Specifically, I'm trying to find all the questions that had that tag in the first revision but ...
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Changing length of line prior to tab shows as changed in diff
If there's a tab in the answer, and the part before the tab is changed, the words after the tab will appear changed.
Here's the issue in action on Bitcoin SE. The address looks changed, even though ...
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When featured tag is auto removed by Community, there is no edit summary
Just noticed this: (source)
It is not hard to understand that the featured tag has been auto removed by Community, but I still expect some sort of edit summary, even the generic "edited tags". ...
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Allow side-by-side comparison of edited question titles [duplicate]
On a question's revision page, you can select between 3 diff modes:
This generally works fine for edits to the question body, but does not work for the question title. E.g. in the side-by-side ...
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Revision history for migrated post is not visible in app
Revision history for migrated post is not visible in the iOS app:
But in web I can see it:
I'm not sure, but probably this happened due to the post deletion (not only migration). I know that ...
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Add the plus symbol with the bounty score in the revision history
I see the bounty score with the + (plus symbol) in the Featured tab and the bounty offered post itself. Like the below:
But the + (plus symbol) is not added in the revision history
For uniformity ...
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Revision history marks spaces when retagging occurs
When question tags have been changed you can see spaces marked with green or red color. E.g. rev 18:
I suppose it's done because of easily implementation, but it looks ugly.
Is it possible do ...
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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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My question edit is only displayed correctly in revisions, but not on main site
I edited the question https://askubuntu.com/q/877978/367990 (now deleted unfortunately) to correct the formatting.
When you follow the link and look at the site, it looks like this:
You see that the ...
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What's up with these dates?
I was reviewing some edit dates on a post at PPCG when I noticed something odd:
Why are the dates formatted differently if they are on the same day? Last time I checked, the year was 2017, so why the ...
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Number instead of title when looking revisions via direct link
Recently asked question helps me to find a bug. If I open revisions via direct link as in mentioned question, then top bar contains a number (question id):
When revisions is opened from the ...
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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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Wrong edit description
I just added a new tag into my question, but revision's description says I added 20 characters:
added 20 characters in body; edited tags
Is it a bug in the auto generated edit description?
Update:...
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Why can't I access the source of revisions for my own deleted posts?
I can see the revision history, but clicking the provided "source" links by each revision 404s. For example, this revision was unavailable while its corresponding answer was deleted.
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Hats break formatting for the revision [duplicate]
Hats break formatting for the revision:
Also applicable for localized sites, like ruSO.
I think my post is not a dup of another question because in current case timestamp is not cutted off, but ...
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Could links in edit summary be clickable?
Would it be possible that if a user views revision history and timeline, if edit summaries contains a link, then this could be opened by clicking on it, rather than having to copy and paste the link?
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Text highlighting in revisions is wrong [duplicate]
For example, when watching revision 2 in this revisions list in the side-by-side mode, word "answer" marked as deleted on the left hand side and as added again on the right hand side:
If we ...
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Show markdowns for revision links [duplicate]
While seeing revisions of a post, there are three options inline, side-by-side and side-by-side markdown for every revision:
And every revision has link facility to share/link:
But the revision ...
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Why do "tweeted" events appear in post revisions?
I thought revisions (the page that appears when you click on the "edited..." link on a post) were for displaying events related to the modifications of a post (changing title/content/tags/...).
But I ...
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Return to Question shouldn't forward to target site on a migrated question
When looking on a question that was migrated to your site, you can follow the migration notice to the source site. You will see the revision history there (the migration notice under this question ...
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Why isn't my edit visible?
I edited this question to show smaller screenshots.
When I came back to the question, my edit was gone:
It still says I edited the question:
My edit is still the most recent edit in the ...
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TeX formatting wrong in revision view
When viewing my question's revisions, the TeX formatting does not switch out of math mode. It treats the text "I wonder why would it not be possible to specify" as math, for some reason. In the main ...
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Not showing last/my edit in revisions list
Steps to reproduce:
Look at the revision list for a question.
Edit that question and submit.
Observer that question body is updated.
Go to revisions again.
Can't see my edit in revisions.
App ...
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Is there a way to compare a suggested edit with Rejected and Edited result?
If a suggested edit is rejected and edited, the post history only shows the difference between original post and the end edit.
Is there a way to see how big an edit of the rejecting reviewer was ...
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Can the side-by-side diff algorithm inform the side-by-side Markdown algorithm?
The side-by-side Markdown diff of this change (to the Recent feature changes) gets rather confused, because it decides to see some similarities in the new entry for 2016-06-30 to the old one, and thus ...
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Bounty can be started without a reason, while adding a moderator only notice in revisions
I noticed here that a fresh bounty has been started without a notice, and suspected I know how it was done.
It was easy enough to reproduce on one of my questions:
No reason is displayed, and ...
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Show the original post date on iOS app
On the iOS app, a post that has been edited no longer shows the original post date:
Before any edits:
After at least one edit:
This makes it a little harder at first to see how old a post might be. ...
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Never content: What is the most changed post?
What post has the longest list of revisions on all SE sites? Where is this information available?
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"Request failed. Tap to retry" when viewing revisions of an answer
When tapping the "Edited … ago" button on this answer, I consistently get a "Request failed. Tap to retry" error.
It does not appear to be a transient network problem: viewing the revision history of ...
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Inconsistency, Craziness in a particular question
I was on this page:
It looks like a haunted page, with no revisions giving the right information, when you click on any revision, looks like the revision and the contents do not match.
And also the ...
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Error viewing revisions list of an answer
Page that triggers this:
https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/posts/9323/revisions
Another moderator and I get an error when viewing the above link. It seems to only happen on this answer. As far as I ...
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