[Foundation-l] History splitting (main namespace)

James Forrester james at jdforrester.org
Fri Feb 13 16:49:13 UTC 2009


2009/2/13 Lars Aronsson <lars at aronsson.se>:

> When we renamed [[en:Angola/History]] to [[en:History of Angola]]
> (after it was decided that subpages was a bad idea), we copied the
> text, because back then there was no way to rename a page. In the
> revision history, it looks as if I (user:LA2) created this page on
> February 25, 2002, but I probably only contributed the initial
> line.  The oldest versions from 2001 can be found in the revision
> history of [[Angola/History]], but this was never documented.

[Slightly OT]

Actually, with a delete-move-undelete merge, you can combine the
histories of the articles.

Yours,
-- 
James D. Forrester
jdforrester at wikimedia.org | jdforrester at gmail.com
[[Wikipedia:User:Jdforrester|James F.]]




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