Template:History3/doc

This template creates a link to a specific time within a page's history and n-1 older edits. It accepts the page name, the number of edits to display and the date and time of the most recent edit displayed (which is displayed at the top of the output). Time is in UTC.

If you want to reference from the bottom of the history displayed use history2.

If the page has a multiple edits within the same minute then with history3 the last one in that minute is on the top of the displayed page. In such a case and a specific edit is desired to be the first displayed, one will need to use history2 to start from an earlier edit and count up from that edit to the specific one within the minute which is desired. Alternately, you can include two additional digits for the fraction of a second at which the edit occurred. However, that information is not normally displayed so you would probably have to guess.

Usage
When splitting the date/time into several parameters for better readability, make sure that month, day, hour etc. still have two digits each, using leading zeros if necessary.

Example when to use History2 instead
It is necessary to use history2 when there is more than one edit in a minute and you want an edit other than the last in that minute to show up as the top line displayed.

The following example is from contribs3. The differences between contribs2 and contribs3 are the same as with history2 and history3. It was much easier to find an example of a user making multiple edits in a minute than it was to find a page that was edited multiple times in a minute.

You desire to show the edits of lowercase sigmabot III, at bot that is making many edits in a minute, on a page with the edit of  at the top and the prior 53 edits. Using contribs3, the edit is 4th on the page: it is not possible because the edit desired is not the last one in that minute. It is necessary to use contribs2 and display 57 edits:

Alias

 * ph3: Stands for "page history3"