2009/3/14 Jussi-Ville Heiskanen cimonavaro@gmail.com:

The only thing *on* wikimedia websites that does satisfy that currently is the history of articles; a direct link into the history is sadly the only option available. I think it is way cool that people are thinking of innovative ways of formatting that information (in ways that would for instance cut out the often inflammatory edit summaries), but that is for the future.

Here's an idea: nice URLs for the history. So we don't end up with stupid things peppered with ? and & and = printed on mugs, travel guides, etc.

e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/history/Xenu for the history of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenu .

Something to point at for CC-by-sa attribution is an actual reason to put this into MediaWiki.

cc to wikitech-l - is this something suitable for Wikimedia use? Shall I file an enhancement bug?

See also: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1450 .

- d.