Help:Introduction to navigating Wikipedia/4
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Introduction
Navigating Wikipedia
Namespaces
The different types of pages
Searching pages
Tricks to find what you want
Page histories
See past revisions
Redirects and shortcuts
Redirecting traffic
Useful links
Handy pages for editors
Summary
Review of what you've learned
Every edit made to Wikipedia is recorded and (with rare exceptions) is publicly viewable in a page's history.
![Circled location of the history tab](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/33/Wiki_history_tab.png/220px-Wiki_history_tab.png)
To access it, click the "View history" tab at the top of the article.
Page histories consist of rows, each representing a past revision of the page. Each line contains various elements with information or tools related to that revision:
To see the difference between two revisions, adjust the radio buttons and then click Compare selected revisions.