User:Powguma

Is there a way to see who contributed to a particular edit?

Please forgive me if this has been answered. It seems it would be a popular issue, but I couldn't find any answer even close to it... Is there a way to check who is responsible for a certain edit? For an article with a long history, it was very difficult to find who's input the edit is from. (This is for a company wiki, so I would know who the editor was) Also please forgive me and look kindly if the question is irrelevant. No offense, just ignorance.Powguma (talk) 19:53, 12 March 2015 (UTC)

@Powguma: Hey Powguma. It is often a highly relevant query. There are three tools I know of for trying to pin this down (listed at WP:TOOLS): 1) WikiBlame (which is integrated into the page history view – go to the history and then click on Revision history search); 2) Article Blamer; and 3) User:AmiDaniel/WhodunitQuery.

Manually, you might try first expanding the history view (after expanding to "500" you can just change that number to a larger one in the URL), then (this might or might not be obvious) go back about halfway (opening in a new tab), check if the text is still present or somewhere further back and then repeat, narrowing the history by one-half each iteration.

By the way, other than questions that truly don't belong here ("how do I do X" [X being completely unrelated to Wikipedia]), ask anything you'd like and don't worry about it having been answered before or being possibly obvious to veterans. Best regards--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 21:10, 12 March 2015 (UTC)

@Fuhghettaboutit:: Thank you for such a great answer! Although I've had no luck with the tools on my company wiki, I can certainly try the manual method you described.

Also, thanks Fuhghettaboutit for saying nice words. I thought I could be asking an inappropriate question, which is mercilessly punished on sites like StackOverflow. I now have trust in humanity again.Powguma (talk) 21:38, 12 March 2015 (UTC)