Chameleon3322 is taking a short wikibreak and will be back on Wikipedia occasionally, time permitting.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail . —Ralph Waldo Emerson
The story of Chameleon3322
I'm relatively new to Wikipedia, and would like to get to know more about Wikipedia. I hope to contribute as much as I can and follow all policies that are encouraged to follow. I have been editing some minor things here and there on Wikipedia for a few weeks but have never got around to actually become a member. Now that I have created my own account I will try to contribute more to Wikipedia and encourage others to do the same.
Have you ever been frustrated that you are limited to viewing 500-edits in View-History for pages?
Solution to see more edits:
On any page with more than 500 edits...
Click on that page's "View History" tab
Click on the "|50)" wikilink just above and to the right of Compare selected versions
Go up to your web browser's address bar and change limit=50 in the URL to any higher number (N) up to 5000, for example: limit=2500
Press ↵ Enter or hit "go"
Go slow with "N", until you know what your web browser and computer can handle. If you get greedy your computer and browser may lock up. After the page fully loads you can use your browser's search feature to find what you are looking for or you can scroll down the page. As a bonus, your "next" choice will now offer next-N instead of next-500.
Bonus tip #1: The same process works in "Contributions", and on the search results page. Bonus tip #2: If you prefer, you can tweak the web address (URL) on a view history page to go back from a specified date, which is useful for looking way back in long histories. In your browser in the URL after "&action=history" add "&offset=YYYYMMDD", where YYYY is the year, MM is the month, and DD is the day. Then press ↵ Enter or hit "go".
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