User:Colin Hill/BetterHistory

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As of 2006-04-05, the uoregon.edu server which had been hosting Colin Hill's script is replying to requests for the script with "403 Forbidden: You don't have permission to access /~chill1/betterhistory/betterhistory.js on this server." In other words, it looks like Colin graduated and is no longer a student there, and so they are not hosting his pages anymore. Also, Colin's last activity here on Wikipedia was on 2005-12-14.

Colin, when you resurface, please host your script here on Wikipedia. See WP:POPUP for an example of where and how.

BetterHistory is a small Javascript extension for Wikipedia that allows you to smoothly view past article revisions. It's only a beta version, but I like it already. So there's that...

The current version is 0.6, released June 21, 2005. (changelog)

1 Requirements
2 How to Install
3 Hosting the script
4 See also

[edit] Requirements

BetterHistory should run on all the Wikimedia projects, with small modifications. It does require a MonoBook-based skin.

It has been confirmed to run on the following platforms:

Windows XP: Internet Explorer 6, Firefox 1.0.4, and Opera 8.

[edit] How to Install

First, check this page's history to make sure you aren't installing something else by mistake.
Start a new page at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Your Username/monobook.js
Cut and paste the following code into that page:

document.write('<script src="http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~chill1/betterhistory/betterhistory.js"><\/script>');

[edit] Hosting the script

It is possible to cut-and-paste all of the code, but by linking to it, upgrades are automatic. This is a list of places where you can download the BetterHistory code. If you want to host these files too, list yourself below.