Disentangling all the moves a page has gone through can be quite a hassle. So let this script do it for you. It adds the link "Move history" to the Tools section of the sidebar, which opens a dialog. For example, looking up the move history of Anne Hathaway (wife of Shakespeare) will show you something like this:

Anne Hathaway (Shakespeare's wife) → Anne Hathaway (Shakespeare) → Anne Hathaway Shakespeare → Anne Hathaway (Shakespeare) → Anne Hathaway Shakespeare → Anne Hathaway (Shakespeare) → *H E Ŗ M EE? → Anne Hathaway (Shakespeare) → Anne Hathaway (Shakespeare's wife) → Anne Hathaway (wife of Shakespeare)

Installation

Add the following to your common.js or global.js:

mw.loader.load('//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Nardog/MoveHistory.js&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript');

Or you may enable the script installer in Preferences → Gadgets and click "Install" in the infobox on this page.

Limitations

• Moves within merged history appear like any other, resulting in the target of one move and the source of the next (or the current name) not lining up.
• A move will not be detected if:
  • it was made before late June 2005;
  • it was the first edit since the date specified in "Since";
  • the user or edit summary in the history or move log has been hidden;
  • there was a server latency between the revision and move log entries longer than one minute; or
  • the namespace prefix has been changed since the move.