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Make index.php parameter to view a page at a specific time
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Feature summary (what you would like to be able to do and where):

Add a time index.php parameter that accepts a timestamp that allows users to view the page at that point in time.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/w/index.php?title=Help:Contents&time=1672367754

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Lectrician1 created this task.Dec 30 2022, 2:40 AM
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Lectrician1 updated the task description. (Show Details)Dec 30 2022, 3:01 AM
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Bugreporter added a subtask: T7877: View all articles as they were at a specified point in time.Dec 30 2022, 6:16 AM
valerio.bozzolan subscribed.Dec 30 2022, 7:44 AM
valerio.bozzolan added a comment.Dec 30 2022, 7:52 AM
NOTE: probably, any early implementation of this will not be recursive, so, it will "just" show the old version of the content of page, but showing recent content from templates and recent content from Wikidata.

So, if you are interested in being recursive and also show old templates instead of recent ones, I think it still possible but just more difficult. Also, if you want to add this thing into Wikidata and Wikibase, please indicate it, and it's even more and more difficult.

In any case some things will probably be just impossible, since for example you cannot adopt this method to recover deleted templates, etc.

Aklapper removed a subtask: T7877: View all articles as they were at a specified point in time.Jan 11 2023, 10:47 AM
Aklapper closed this task as a duplicate of T7877: View all articles as they were at a specified point in time.
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