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Revision hashing in MediaWiki: Revision history

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4 October 2026

  • curprev 05:3005:30, 4 October 2026 Idea talk contribs 4,201 bytes +885 No edit summary
  • curprev 05:2705:27, 4 October 2026 Idea talk contribs 3,316 bytes +3,316 Created page with "Q: Does MediaWiki have an edit hash capability or any Git-like qualities with respect to tracking changes (and verifying changes) and so forth? A: MediaWiki does calculate content hashes, but its architecture is fundamentally different from Git's cryptographic DAG (Directed Acyclic Graph). == Revision Content Hashing (<code>rev_sha1</code>) == MediaWiki calculates a '''SHA-1 hash''' for the content of every edit. * '''Storage:''' The hash is stored in the database u..."
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