While editing content for MaxDB Wiki here in SDN I wondered how I might return to an older version of the page.
Unlike e.g. MediaWiki http://www.mediawiki.org/ the WIKI engine behind Wikipedia (http://www.wikipedia.org) in the SDN Wiki there is no tab bar “Versions”.
Instead one finds the “Info” tab bar, which brings up a page with quite handy tools:
As you see there are different information boxes. The upper left one not only summarizes the most important document data but also provide a tinyurl function which is very useful to refer to a specific page in the WIKI.
Using this function a link like https://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/display/MaxDB/Introduction+to+the+MaxDB+Optimizer
becomes
https://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/x/Oyw
Nice, isn’t it?
Beside this, there is also an infobox about the most recent changes to the current page available.
This ‘Recent Changes’ box, in turn, has a link ‘View page history’ which lead us to the complete page history. From there one can compare two version of a page or restore an older version of the page:
As you see, the standard WIKI features are there – one ‘just’ has to know where exactly…
Best regards,
Lars
p.s. while we’re at it: if you’re interested in MaxDB you really should give the WIKI a try. It’s available at https://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/display/MaxDB – I mean https://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/x/gjc :-))