https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38795

--- Comment #2 from [email protected] 2012-07-30 00:43:46 UTC ---
This is primarily a way to add information about "this page about the Czech
Republic is branched off from the page about the former Czechoslovakia" and
similar for Slovakia, or even that the wp-site for Danish can point to English
as the source. It would also be nice to say that only some part of the page is
from an other article/revision, or is based on that article/revision.

The purpose is _not_ to make duplicates or similar articles, it is about
crosslinking histories of different articles. It is neither about how to solve
merge of revisions from a single article.

The bug is unclear due to its title "History should support branches", it is
not branching in traditional programming sense, it is marking the source that
was then reused at another page.

It could be said to be similar to the problem in
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/62445 but
with only the marking of the connected revisions.

Likewise it could also be said that this is a kind of
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Duplicator but only for a single
revision and an added log entry that points to the source.

Not sure if this is much clearer.. ;)

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