Wikipedia Tools - Page Histories

Page Histories

General:

• Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts/HistoryCount – user script that specifies the number of history entries on the history tab (without the script, 50 entries are shown when the tab is opened)
• Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts/Six tabs – adds a history tab (and an edit tab) for the page that is paired with the page that is visible
• User:Ixfd64/revision sizes – revision size visualizer written in R
• watcher - shows how many people watch a page (if more than 30)
• Wikipedia:Wiki2VCS - script that loads histories onto one's computer, so that they can be quickly diffed and searched

Diffs:

• User:Superm401/Compare link.js – makes the "compare selected versions" button into a link (diffs can be in new windows, tabs, etc.)
• Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts/Changes since I last edited – adds a tab that does a diff between the editor's last edit and the current version of a page
• MediaWiki talk:Monobook.css/Archive 4#Better rendering for .diffchange in diffs
• User:Cacycle/wikEdDiff – user script – additions and deletions are highlighted by color in one continuous text
• User:Stevage/EnhanceHistory.user.js – Collapses consecutive edits from the same person into one, integrates (shows) diffs on the history page
• User:DerHexer/revisionjumper allows easier navigation of a page's history, generating diffs between arbitrary revisions or time periods with just a few clicks (Signpost description)

Finding the responsible editor:

• WikiBlame – searches for given text in versions of article
• Soxred93's Article Blamer – similar to WikiBlame, identifies revisions that added given text
• User:AmiDaniel/WhodunitQuery – Windows application that identifies the edit and user who added a specific word or phrase

Contributor edit counts and analysis:

• userhist – user script, adds interface elements for isolating a user's changes to a page.
• Contributors – lists edits, similar to page history, but can be sorted by contributor; easy to exclude different groups
• User contribution search – finds all the edits by a user to a single page
• Page history statistics by user:aka – builds an edit history overview page
• Intersect Contribs – compares the edits of two editors in any Wikimedia Foundation wiki to see which articles overlap
• Wikistalk – similar to Intersect Contribs, allows comparisons between more than two users and namespace selection, works only on the English Wikipedia
• Editor Interaction Analyzer, shows the common pages that two editors have both edited, sorted by minimum time between edits by both users. Only works on the English Wikipedia.

Visualization:

• IBM History Flow tool History Flow Visualization Application
• Wikipedia Animate – user script; shows the evolution of a page, like a webcast
• WikiEditsGraph – user script; shows two graphs: edits/time & edits/user in a graphical overlay

See also: Tools, part 2: Internal links and page histories (part of a Signpost series)