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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Please reword the "rollback" link
In a post's revision history, every time I go to rollback an edit, I have to scroll up and down to figure out whether the link means "rollback this revision" or "rollback to this revision" (eventually ...
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Error when attempting to view the tour's revision history
On Latin.SE, I am getting a 404 error when clicking any of the three "history" links on the tour page. That is, this:
Gives this:
All three editable sections have a revision history with ...
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Show votes count history in editing (revisions) history
We should show near every revision how many votes the post had at the time of publishing that revision.
It can be interesting to see, for example, that, if a question had some features that led to ...
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Give different background color to OP in revision list [closed]
Sometimes, the original poster of a question is making such edits: (link)
However, there is no easy way to tell this is the OP, hence that edit looks suspicious, and users might roll it back.
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Show what has been revised in a direct revision [duplicate]
I wanted to show someone in chat a revision that someone did so I linked it to them: https://stackoverflow.com/revisions/17528749/3
But that just shows this:
Which has no data about the revision....
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Not getting “credit” for Improve Edit
The day before yesterday I reviewed this suggested edit
in the Super User Suggested Edit Review Queue (I have > 2K rep there).
I clicked on “Improve Edit”, made some more changes,
and saved (...
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Editing a revision comment bounces me to the top of the page
When I click the new(ish) 'edit comment' link on a revision as a moderator, the page always bounces back up to the top. This is perfectly fine... if I'm at the top of the page.
Otherwise, it's ...
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Is there a way to hide edit history of question?
If I want to edit a question, is there any way to not let anyone else see the previous version?
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Providing a public (or 5K-/ 10K-accessible) indicator of a "silent" revision (or the total number of "silent" revisions per mod)
Related: Allow moderators to hide a revision
Current situation: after the revision-hiding silent-revision feature has been implemented, it takes two moderators to soft-hide a revision in silently ...
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Is there a way to see how the markup of a per-site meta answer is formed?
I sometimes see a useful markup feature in a per-site meta answer. However, I cannot edit it to see how one did it, since editing (or suggesting edits) is disabled for users with less than 2k ...
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Duplicate edits submitted at nearly the same time both go through [duplicate]
I posted a question a short while ago and accidentally left a few zero-width spaces from a bug I was testing earlier. odnU pointed out my error, and we both made edits to fix it, which you can see in ...
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In the revisions, tag badge gets too faint background color once hovered
Find some question which was hammer-closed/reopened
Go to the revisions
Hover over the badge.
The badge background gets too faint compared to the background of the revision entry, i.e. the badge and ...
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Usage guidance revision histories show formatting, which doesn't work in them
This excerpt history shows up with italics. But no formatting at all will ever show up in a tag's excerpt, so it seems pretty silly to have it show that way (i.e., wrong, and possibly misleading to ...
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Seeing the history of edits to one's own post [duplicate]
If I make a post and I make edits to it and perhaps others make edits to it as well, then, can I see the list of all edits (is this information made permanent in the SE database), or does subtituting ...
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Don't open "source" link on revisions list in new tab
I noticed today that the "source" link, when you look at a post's revisions, opens in a new tab. This seemed strange to me - I tried to go back several times before realizing why it wasn't working.
I ...
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Why do closed questions with rollbacks show up so strangely in the Reopen Queue? [duplicate]
At present, this Reopen queue entry shows up like this on the Revision tab:
- Jan 8 at 16:47 - Rollback to [8142c784-73d6-4387-9fa2-366dec3a5762]
No changes to display.
View this post's full revision ...
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Either I don't know how to into Twitter, or the Twitter links in revision histories are broken
Consider the revision history of How to delete every second line from a file?, chosen more or less arbitrarily: https://unix.stackexchange.com/posts/219859/revisions. There's a history event ...
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Let's be smarter when rolling back in the grace-period
Currently, rollbacks are never rolled into the previous revision.
I propose a simple change making the rollback-link more useful:
If the rollback is to the pre-edit revision, and an ordinary edit ...
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(How) can I see the edit history of questions in Area 51?
Someone recently left a comment on an older Area 51 example question of mine. When reading the comment, I noticed that the question title was slightly different than I remembered it. Indeed, the ...
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Editing the latest revision of certain types of posts (incl. tag wikis) within the grace period throws an error (but succeeds anyway)
Steps to reproduce:
Go to a site where you have tag wiki editing privileges (20k+ graduated, 4k+ beta) and edit the tag wiki (not the excerpt).
Make some changes.
Click "Save Edits".
Go to the ...
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Is the baked HTML of past revisions saved anywhere?
Is the baked HTML of the old revisions of a post available anywhere?
I am aware that you can get the markdown of old revisions of a post by looking at the "source" links on /posts/###/revisions (and ...
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Five minute answer edit window failed? [duplicate]
(Pardon me if this is a duplicate. I did try to find one but I am apparently not good at navigating Meta.)
On Mathematica I experienced something I don't think I've seen before. I posted an ...
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If the revision comment is the One Long Word, it doesn't wrap... or do anything else not to look that long
Example:
Also, it causes the revision number to have no right margin.
It probably should be wrapped.
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There are (at least) two questions which have ghost notice on meta
First and second. You can click "Return to Question" and see no actual notice.
There was a bounty added by a user in both questions, and then manually removed by moderator. In most cases, the notice ...
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What's the difference between "revisions" and "suggestions"?
In user's profile, there is revisions and suggestions. I see the two lists are all about revisions and edits. What's the difference between them?
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Why did this edit do nothing? [duplicate]
The revision history of this question shows that Revision 4 was made by a user who did not yet have full editing privileges. The edit was approved by another user with full editing privileges because ...
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Make links clickable in summary of revisions
The link underlined with red is unclickable in revisions list in the iOS app:
It is, however, in desktop view. Can we please have it clickable in app as well?
Here is the question.
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Bounty recipient in revision history has the wrong font size
Random example here, but all awarded bounties exhibit the problem:
https://meta.stackexchange.com/posts/242517/revisions
The link to the answer ("Infinite Recursion's answer") is too large.
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I can't see any edit revisions! [duplicate]
Using Android app 1.0.59
The button to see revisions seems to be broken in the Android app. The app does nothing when I click the "Edited " words (which should bring me to a page with revisions).
My ...
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Non-edit revisions in iOS app don't have any time stamp
The revisions list on this question is showing a good example to what I mean:
As you can see, no way to know when each action took place.
Worth adding the way it's showing in the site:
Can this ...
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Revision history says these two questions are deleted, but they still exist
While playing around with some SEDE queries, I came across the following two odd questions (both from the same user):
758706: Insert matching parentheses xcode? (revision history)
1101705: Input ...
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Revision history is out of order in the iOS app
When I look at the revision history for this answer in the iOS app (version 1.2.2), I see the following - notice the revisions are not shown in the correct order:
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Links in iOS app revision page are not clickable
When viewing a specific revision of a post in the iOS app, clicking links in the contents has no effect.
Even long tapping then choosing Open is not working and is silently ignored.
Can this please ...
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Viewing revisions on mobile [duplicate]
Could this feature be implemented? I don't see what the point of being able to edit, and being able to see that a question has been edited but not be able to see past edits.
Or is it supposed to ...
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Broken side-by-side comparison in revision page when a Youtube video is included and rendered
I came across this post and decided to check its revision (to explore the source code for the YouTube video).
If we choose a view then refresh, then the views show up correctly, except for the side-...
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User signature cards on old revisions look funny
This meta post, while mainly about something else, also points out that user signatures on old revisions look kind of weirdly stretched out on SO:
Also, they seem to be missing padding here on ...
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Question says modified when no modification was done? [duplicate]
This post on increased frequency of urination in biology displays in the biology main page as shown below.
As clearly seen, the post says modified by Good Gravy. However on opening the post, I could ...
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How to know who offered bounty when revision history is not available?
The answers here explain that looking at revision history will show who offered bounties.
However what to do when no revision history is available? Like in this question, the first answer has been ...
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Adding bounty shows two listings on /revisions
I started a bounty on this question. On its /revisions, there are two entries for this:
I propose that it look like this instead:
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Rollback option is displayed for the last edit if it is followed by another revision entry
Normally, in a post's revision history, users are able to roll the post back to any revision prior to the last one. The rollback link is hidden for the head revision because obviously it's pointless ...
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Text accompanying CW-ification in revision history sometimes suggests automatic CW-ification
I likely don't go through revision histories as much as I should, but I recently came across the following entry that had me scratching my head:
But wait! Automatic Community Wiki conversions have ...
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Please link to chat room when mod moves comment to chat
In a recent discussion about a question, a moderator moved the numerous comments to chat, and left a comment with a link to the room.
However, a bunch of us were left wondering why there isn't an ...
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Workaround Bug in Suggested Edits After 20 Review Limit
Normally, when you are reviewing suggested edits, and you come across one you would like to further edit, you (as the reviewer) can click on Improve Edit and make changes. When you click on Improve ...
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Why is revising bad?
For some reason, the revision text is in red (a colour I see as negative). Is there any reason for this - to me it makes it seem like revising / editing is bad, asking / commenting and getting badges ...
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What is the 'rev' dropdown supposed to do?
I only see this on sites where I don't have edit privileges, and only where there have been multiple revisions:
What exactly is this supposed to do?
Intuitively, I would expect it to change the ...
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Support viewing old editions of the question on iPad app
I want to see the old revisions of this question. Is there a way to show this in the iPad app? If not, please add this to your wish list.
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Edit got rejected after I approved it and then edited post
So I approved an edit. Then I went to the question revs, clicked to edit the last rev and edited it. Suggested edit got rejected.
I think that edit should be autoapproved when I submit an edit to ...
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Change wording of dupehammer tooltip in case of reopen event in revisions list
Currently when the Dupehammer is used to reopen a question, the following tooltip is used: (example)
Users with the [tag-here] gold badge can single-handedly mark [tag-here] questions as ...
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Revision history formatting has gone mental again
See this revision 3. The side-by-side markdown view shows that no code was altered in the revision, but the side-by-side view highlights the entire code block as changed … and inline view goes totally ...
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If automatic community wiki conversion is gone, why do the confusing messages still exist?
Now that posts can't be automatically converted to community wiki, it makes sense to just ditch all those annoying messages for "why" a post got converted in the first place. The code for ...
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