https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42660

--- Comment #12 from Jon <[email protected]> ---
Firstly I dispute the 'high/major' importance of this bug since the history is
still there. The last edit was a redirect and it seems logical at least to me
how you find the full history. What would you expect to see in this situation?
Maybe an editor wants to see who set up the redirect and when? If we link to
the full edit history of the content of the article this useful information
gets lost. On a page with a large edit history e.g.
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Barack_Obama&action=history you still
have to click on "older 50" to view the entire contribution history.

The person who setup the redirect is a contributor and surely under cc by sa
should be credited as well??

Luis could you clarify what exactly is required to adhere to licensing - I was
under the impression it was just a link to a page which allows you to view all
the contributors to some content.
Specifically:
1) Would linking to the last diff with history links back and forth adhere to
the license?
2) Would a list of all users that contributed to the page be sufficient? (or
would it need to also link to their edit)
3) If
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mitigating_factors&action=history
linked to
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mitigating_factor&action=history
would this be acceptable?

Off topic but relating to redirects:
It still seems extremely strange to me that you'd have near identical content
on 2 different urls. I understand the importance of redirects as I've been
confused by this in the past (even the 'redirected from X' link is sometimes
hard to spot and has led to much confusing). I'd personally prefer it to just
link to the article (See [[Mitigating factor]]) - it seems really strange that
you'd generate exactly the same page with a one line difference. In this
particular case a 302 would make sense as the difference between titles is so
minimal.

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