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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Specific-Revisions could use a onebox
Very similar to: Onebox suggested edits/revisions in chat
I often find it helpful, especially when sorting flag-disputes and discussing posts to link to specific revisions of a post. This is ...
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May we have a mobile version of revisions? [duplicate]
If I am browsing site in mobile version, open some post and click on "edited" it takes me to the Revisions, but on the full site. Could we have mobile version of the Revisions page?
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Please change "suggested" to "approved" in Revisions list for an approved suggested edit
I just noticed something confusing which can be easily improved.
See this screenshot from a revisions list:
From this it looks like I suggested the edit 49 minutes ago. But looking in the ...
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Diffs at /revisions differ from the diffs at /suggested-edits/
https://hinduism.stackexchange.com/posts/238/revisions (private beta; please don't make a mess) looks like this:
The corresponding suggested edit (https://hinduism.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-...
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Titles should be side-by-side in side-by-side markdown view [duplicate]
If you look at a revision history in side-by-side view, the titles are, as you would expect, side-by-side:
If, however, you look at it in side-by-side markdown view, the titles cease to be side-by-...
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Allow linking to specific revision of revision history showing diff
Currently, the only way to link to a revision (clicking "link"), you just get a page which shows what the post looked like at that revision:
Personally, I rarely use this and haven't ever found ...
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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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Why can't one see the edit summary of their deleted post?
I recently noted that one is not allowed to see the edit history of their post if it is deleted. e.g. when I click on the edit summary link of this1 self-deleted post of mine I meet the 404 error. The ...
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There's something funky about some titles in revision histories here on Meta Stack Exchange
If you look at the revision history of Is SO pricing their site predatorially if it is making a loss? on Chrome 34 / Windows 7, you should see the following:
The behavior of the title in revision 7 ...
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What are these mysterious empty tags in the revision history?
While glancing at the revision history of Would a SO variant for graphic designers go down well?, I noticed that both of the tag edits (revisions 3 and 6) contain mysterious empty tags:
What ...
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Add the revision history to the Android app
Basically this suggestion for the Android app: Revisions list in iOS app
Many times I'll see that a post has been edited on the Android app. I'll want to see exactly what was edited, and the Android ...
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Revisions list in iOS app
I find revisions a really useful way to see full edit history of every post in Stack Exchange.
Can we please have it on the iOS app too? It will also let us see original time of the post submission ...
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Does Stack Overflow save all the versions of the edited blobs in database or just the diffs?
I read in many posts that Stack Overflow uses some kind of diff algorithm to find diff between text blobs of edits. I wanted to know if Stack Overflow saves all the blobs in the database as-is or if ...
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Why is there a revision history?
I was just wondering why the revision history is important besides the facts that it allows users to see how a question has changed and have edit accountability.
I completely agree with having a ...
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Add a magic link for revisions
I just wrote this comment and thought to myself: We got a link to the edit, why not for revisions too?
I just edited your sentence from a codeblock (as used on [so]) to a blockquote. This should ...
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Clicking the username redirects to the revision history in CW posts [duplicate]
When using the mobile site, clicking the username of the OP redirects to the edit history of the post while it should redirect to the profile page of the user (as it normaly does in the full site).
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Missing rollback option for pure tag edit revision
I see that I have made an invalid edit on a question by replacing a tag with another. Now I want to correct that by reverting that edit.
But the normal rollback feature is missing:
I assume this is ...
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The side-by-side diffs should make it clear when a link is added
On Meta:
On SO (rev 2):
As you can see, on SO you can't easily notice that a link was added in the side-by-side view. This way spam can get through the suggested edits review process....
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Add "delete" event when post is deleted via the low quality review process
After asking here what can cause an answer to get deleted without any information who deleted it any why, I learned that when 6 users vote "Recommend Deletion" in the low quality review process, the ...
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Side-by-side markdown diffs no longer render newlines. Is this deliberate?
Self-explanatory title, I think.
Example here: https://stackoverflow.com/posts/21689452/revisions
FYI Firefox 26.0 Win XP SP3.
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Invalid entries in edit changelog [duplicate]
For example in this question shows changes I did not make, attributed to my suggested edit. I did not change contents of database examples (Qty columns). Similarly, I did not add "(with how many times ...
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Show revision history link on question for any moderation action (edit, closure, deletion, etc) [duplicate]
Background
Many events are included in the revisions list, primarily:
edits
deletions
closures
However, the only thing that creates the link to the revisions list is edits. This link is in the form ...
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Flagging a question/answer which contains some login info is right? [duplicate]
That happened to me for the second or the third time now. When I am checking new questions, I saw a question (generally trying to login to a website, browser manipulation questions etc.) which ...
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Moderator name displayed twice in the revisions list for migrated question
One of my questions was migrated from MSO to meta.physics.SE yesterday. I just checked the Revision history for that question and this is how it looks like:
As you can see, the moderator name is ...
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Why can I see the revision history of a deleted question?
I'm under 10k rep on Stack Overflow, so I can't see deleted content. I looked at this question from a meta post. When I visit the question page, I get the standard removed for moderation reasons ...
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"No changes to display" when changes are apparent
As a result of a revision to an already-closed question, it showed up in the re-open review queue. Clicking to see what the revision (edit) was, the result was "No changes to display":
Viewing the ...
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Edit history shows an edit that I can't see on the question
Relates to this question: Encoding and decoding get parameters in CodeIgniter not working
The screenshot below shows how I can currently see the page. Note the last editor and the presence of the PLZ ...
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Show every edit in the question revision history
I'd like to propose that all edits performed on a question are visible in the review history. Specifically, I'm asking that the five minute grace period goes away from the perspective of the revision ...
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Keep track of the number of grace period edits on each revision
Everyone knows about the grace period, and everyone knows the confusion that grace period can cause when it comes to "hidden edits" that seemingly came out of nowhere.
My simple solution: add another ...
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Differentiate formatting changes in Revision Diff from text content changes
In the current style of diff pages, all changes made in an edit are shown as deletions and additions.
This makes it rather difficult to distinguish between formatting and capitalization changes from ...
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Last edit shows unlinked deleted user, but revision list shows user still exists
If you go to this question, you will see the following:
It appears as if the user has been deleted -- neither their icon appears, nor are you able to click on it.
But this isn't the case. When ...
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Why in some case, a tag can't be append again
When someone remove a tag on a user question, then the user who created the question can't append it again, even it the was removed with no real reasons...
Are there any exceptions to this? If not, I ...
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Rollback link is a bit eager to appear
Errr... that shouldn't happen?
Note that this has been noticed before; that question (an investigation into what on earth that link actually does) indicates that it doesn't really do anything:
If ...
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A specific question has been revised 16 times...what to do? [duplicate]
I have a specific situation for which I require the input of the community before I take action, because I am not confident enough in my evaluation of the situation to take the appropriate action.
I ...
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Does a migration remove edits from the edit history?
According to D.W., someone else edited this answer before it was migrated.
However, when I go to the edit history, I only see 2 versions, which corresponds to only his edit.
Does migration remove ...
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Strange revision note for Community Wiki
On a recent post, the revision history states:
Post Made Community Wiki by question having more than 30 answers
Now, I totally understand why it was made wiki, and realize that it now has over 30 ...
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Question not appearing in user's profile
In the revision history of question 1332120, it says that the question was asked by Jeff Atwood♦. However, the question
does not appear in the question list in his profile
does not appear in search(...
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A question made CW by over 30 answers sometimes names the user responsible [closed]
When a question gets 30 answers, it's automatically turned into a Community Wiki. That's not new and it's totally fine in my opinion.
Normally, it's supposed to show the following message in the ...
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Immediate unlock/lock succession is recorded in the wrong order in the revision history
Scenario: attempting to migrate a question to SO. The asker is question-blocked. I get a popup telling me that the asker is blocked from asking questions and the migration is automatically rejected. ...
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Edit comments don't update [duplicate]
Find a post that needs editing.
Edit the post and save your edits.
Realize you forgot to describe the changes in the edit comments box. It just says something like "replaced xxx characters in body" ...
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What is the community mailbox?
What is the community mailbox (community@stackexchange.com) for and what happens to messages that are sent to it?
Additionally, on some closed questions that have lots of views, I see the following ...
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Link a comment to a post revision
For example, in this answer:
Why does HTML think “chucknorris” is a color?
If you read the comments, they are misleading. Everyone is saying the answer is wrong, while in fact, the errors in the ...
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Post-ban removal suggestions needed by reviewing of my questions [closed]
I've been post-banned for about 4 months or more. I tried to give some answers. Also I tried to edit my questions but I can't make any big difference as I don't know the faults. Please kindly review ...
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Add "About me" revisions
I would like to have a history of the "About me" box in my profile.
I edited my details on my profile page and it replaced all profiles with the same content, so I'd like to be able to go back to the ...
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Reviewed suggested edit view for title-only edits takes body of last revision?
Yesterday I was pointed at some rejected suggested edits. Some of the corrections were valid, so I edited the posts accordingly, while making several further edits. Looking at the suggested edits now ...
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Removing a revision from a question causes the tags and the title to be removed
I edited How is it possible that a single user who is not a moderator can delete a comment? after an image was removed from the question, since the question without image was not that much clear.
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Please advise if I should rollback this revision:
Please check this revision.
The new question title seems a bit ironical to me. But I'm not a native speaker (surprise!), so I may be nitpicking.
Can I rollback?
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How to find who approved a revision from revisions activity?
How can I see who approved the revisions from the revisions history. All I can see is the post was revised.
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Treat rollbacks from the same user as single edits
When a single user makes multiple edits to a single post within a 5 minute period these get merged into one single edit in the revision history to avoid excessive verbosity.
When handling rollbacks ...
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