User:Nardog/MoveHistory

MoveHistory

Description	Lists the past moves a page has gone through
Updated	January 27, 2024     (9 months ago)
Browsers	Chrome, Firefox, etc.
Source	User:Nardog/MoveHistory.js User:Nardog/MoveHistory-core.js

Disentangling all the moves a page has gone through can be quite a hassle. So let this script do it for you. It adds the link "Move history" to the Tools section of the sidebar, which opens a dialog. For example, looking up the move history of Anne Hathaway (wife of Shakespeare) will show you something like this:

Anne Hathaway (Shakespeare's wife) → Anne Hathaway (Shakespeare) → Anne Hathaway Shakespeare → Anne Hathaway (Shakespeare) → Anne Hathaway Shakespeare → Anne Hathaway (Shakespeare) → *H E Ŗ M EE? → Anne Hathaway (Shakespeare) → Anne Hathaway (Shakespeare's wife) → Anne Hathaway (wife of Shakespeare)

Date	From	Performer	Comment
	To
2006-04-17 T15:59:19Z	Anne Hathaway (Shakespeare's wife)	Jerzy (talk | contribs)	context suffices to Dab
	Anne Hathaway (Shakespeare)
2007-03-23 T19:15:05Z	Anne Hathaway (Shakespeare)	K157 (talk | contribs)
	Anne Hathaway Shakespeare
2007-03-25 T01:30:48Z	Anne Hathaway Shakespeare	Paul Barlow (talk | contribs)	restore original title
	Anne Hathaway (Shakespeare)
2007-03-27 T23:33:54Z	Anne Hathaway (Shakespeare)	K157 (talk | contribs)
	Anne Hathaway Shakespeare
2007-03-31 T17:41:45Z	Anne Hathaway Shakespeare	Paul Barlow (talk | contribs)	original name change for inaccurate name
	Anne Hathaway (Shakespeare)
2009-01-04 T12:35:40Z	Anne Hathaway (Shakespeare)	Joseosoria (talk | contribs)	per consensus
	*H E Ŗ M EE?
2009-01-04 T12:36:18Z	*H E Ŗ M EE?	Slakr (talk | contribs)	reverting pagemove vandalism
	Anne Hathaway (Shakespeare)
2013-06-18 T03:59:05Z	Anne Hathaway (Shakespeare)	Obiwankenobi (talk | contribs)	confusing dab. If we are dabbing by someone else, better to explain the relationship rather than leaving is as exercise for the reader
	Anne Hathaway (Shakespeare's wife)
2016-12-13 T19:42:43Z	Anne Hathaway (Shakespeare's wife)	Fuortu (talk | contribs)	requested move; consensus at Talk:Anne Hathaway (wife of Shakespeare)
	Anne Hathaway (wife of Shakespeare)

Installation

Add the following to your common.js or global.js:

mw.loader.load('//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Nardog/MoveHistory.js&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript');

Or you may enable the script installer in Preferences → Gadgets and click "Install" in the infobox on this page.

Limitations

• Moves within merged history appear like any other, resulting in the target of one move and the source of the next (or the current name) not lining up.
• A move will not be detected if:
  • it was made before late June 2005;
  • it was the first edit since the date specified in "Since";
  • the user or edit summary in the history or move log has been hidden;
  • there was a server latency between the revision and move log entries longer than one minute; or
  • the namespace prefix has been changed since the move.

See also

• phab:T66184
• phab:T152829