Where a question came from and where its history went
Pick any question and follow one member's answer through every rewrite, split, merge and retirement the programme has made.
This identifier has never changed and never will. Everything in the timeline below is a version of it.
Asked as 2 separate questions this cycle.
Which body holds formal oversight of the Climate Transition Plan?
How often does that body review transition plan progress?
Asked as 2 separate questions this cycle.
Which body holds formal oversight of the Climate Transition Plan?
How often does that body review transition plan progress?
Which body holds formal oversight of the Climate Transition Plan, and how often does it review progress?
History flowing in
Oversight body and review frequency were always answered together and were producing contradictory pairs. Merged into one question; both prior answers are shown side by side so the respondent can pick the combined option.
History flowing out
Why this is a table and not a convention
A split or a merge is a claim about where history went, and a claim needs somewhere to live. Storing it as a row in question_lineage — with the cycle it took effect in — means the portal, the export and the analyst all read the same answer to "what happened to this question". Encoding it in the ID string instead (Q34a, Q34b) works right up until the second split.