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The Special:Recentchanges page lets you see the most recent edits made to pages anywhere in Wikipedia. Using this page, users can monitor and review the work of other users, allowing mistakes to be corrected and vandalism to be eliminated. There is a link to the Recent Changes page at the top of every page, and in the sidebar. You can create a link to the page like so: Special:Recentchanges. '''For a more detailed guide to the Recent Changes page see the meta:Help:Recent changes''' You can specify wanting to see the last [ 25] | [ 50] | [ 100] | [ 250] | [ 500] major changes; if you visit the main recent changes page, you will see Special:Recentchanges. You can monitor the most recent changes to Wikipedia articles with [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Recentchanges&feed=rss this RSS feed].

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We need one place to develop m:MediaWiki documentation so I'm starting a project-neutral m:MediaWiki User's Guide in meta and think it would be a good idea to cross wiki redirect this page to meta:MediaWiki User's Guide: The Recent Changes page as soon as I'm done with the conversion (before that I will change each link to this page to a direct one to meta so that it appears correctly as an external link). --User:Maveric149 01:27, 7 Sep 2003 (UTC) ==Edit Recent Changes?== What happens if you select the ''edit'' link at the top of Special:Recentchanges? User:Phil Boswell 12:05, Oct 31, 2003 (UTC) :You can edit the top of the recent changes page and change things like the requested articles in. See also Wikipedia talk:Recentchanges. User:Angela ==Time for a second hand?== Given the pace at which Wikipedia contributions are coming in (now sometimes numbering more than a dozen per minute), would it be reasonable to add seconds to the RC timestamps? -- User:Seth Ilys 23:29, 25 Feb 2004 (UTC) == Feature suggestion: Redirects on RC and NP == I don't know how technically feasible this is, but it seems to me that it'd be very handy for the Special:Recentchanges and Special:Newpages to show when an entry simply contained a #REDIRECT. As someone who patrols RC regularly and NP occasionally, I think it'd be good to know at a glance which entries can be disregarded completely because they're just redirect pages. Sometimes people indicate this in the edit summary, or by marking a new page as a minor edit (so that it shows up as "Nm" on the list), but this isn't always that consistent. Could we get some kind of notation on the lists (maybe an "r" where "N" and "m" go?) or, failing that, a push for more widespread usage of the new-and-minor convention? User:Etaoin 06:30, 14 Jul 2004 (UTC) :Trouble is, is it really safe to disregard ''anything'' if you are on the lookout for vandalism? I am sure we all know of cases where something that can be marked as innocuous and might be disregarded has had a more serious effect than you'd think, at first sight. As the system gets cleverer the vandals will too ... --User:Nevilley 07:12, 14 Jul 2004 (UTC) :On the newpages the redirects are already filtered out - only those redirects show up which are for whatever reason broken - like #redrict target - and thus if you spot a short page on NewPages which looks like a redirect it is a redirect which needs fixing. However not all redirects are good - I recently had to override some with disambiguation pages, as the one who created those redirect did not check what articles linked there and did not notice that the lastname of a famous person was also the name of a city, and then a link to that city led to a totally unrelated article. Thus they should be listed on recentchanges at least. User:Ahoerstemeier 07:14, 14 Jul 2004 (UTC) == RSS feed == How can I access Special:Recentchanges as an RSS feed? User:Gracefool |User talk:gracefool 13:20, 31 Aug 2004 (UTC) :http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Recentchanges&feed=rss

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Other languages: , The Special:Recentchanges page in MediaWiki lets you see the most recent edits made to pages in your MediaWiki project. Using this page, users can monitor and review the work of other users, allowing mistakes to be corrected and vandalism to be eliminated. There is a link to the Recent Changes page at the top of each page and in the sidebar of each page. You can also create a link to the page as Special:Recentchanges. == Understanding Recent Changes == With the default MediaWiki User's Guide: Setting preferences, the bulk of the page consists of fifty lines, one for each edit, looking like this: * (Main Page) (Main Page) . . MediaWiki User's Guide: Editing mathematical formulae; 10:06 . . Main Page (User talk:128.214.14.50) ''(Add examples)'' * (diff) (Main Page) . . N MediaWiki User's Guide; 10:06 . . User:Brion VIBBER (User talk:Brion VIBBER) ''(New page)'' * (diff) (Main Page) . . Endnotes moved to Footnotes; 10:05 . . User:Maveric149 (User talk:Maveric149) This indicates three edits: the first by a user who is not logged in, to MediaWiki User's Guide: Editing mathematical formulae; the second by Brion VIBBER to MediaWiki User's Guide; and the third by Maveric149 to Endnotes. From left to right: * In a line showing the most recent edit to an page at the time of creating the Recent Changes list, the MediaWiki User's Guide: Diff link shows the changes introduced by this edit, and also any edits that have taken place since the Recent Changes page was loaded. For other lines, it shows the changes in that edit only. The diff link is not available for new pages, or for page moves * The en:hist link corresponds to the ''Page history'' link on the edited page: it shows not just this edit but also older and newer ones. For page moves, the hist link leads to the history of the new page title * A bold m indicates that the user marked the edit "minor". Only logged in users can mark edits minor, to avoid abuse. * A bold N indicates that the page is "new", i.e., previously did not exist. It is possible for a change to possess both the "minor" and "new" indicators, this is typically used for new MediaWiki User's Guide: Using redirects. * The next link is a link to the current version of the page in question. * 10:06 refers to the time in en:UTC. You can change the time to your time zone using your preferences - see MediaWiki User's Guide: Setting preferences. * For MediaWiki User's Guide: Logging-in users, the next link is a link to their user homepage (as usual with internal links, the view page if the page exists, the edit page if it does not, the two being styled differently). For users who are not logged in, the link is to their ''User Contributions''. * Finally, there is a link to the user's talk page (the same remarks regarding existence apply). * For page moves, a link is given to both the old and new title. == Preferences == Logged in users can set preferences to adjust the way that Recent Changes looks. For help in doing this, see MediaWiki User's Guide: Logging-in and MediaWiki User's Guide: Setting preferences. The options that affect recent changes are: * Hide minor edits in recent changes - this hides all edits that have been marked as minor by logged in users; * Enhanced Recent Changes - with this option enabled, multiple edits are grouped together. This option uses en:JavaScript, and won't work in every browser (see Browser issues with MediaWiki). See MediaWiki User's Guide: The enhanced Recent Changes page * Number of recent changes. You may select the number of changes which will be shown by default on the Recent Changes page. Once on that page, links are provided for other options. In the case of Enhanced Recent Changes this number of changes includes those that are initially hidden. ==Top of Recent Changes page== The content of Wikipedia:Recentchanges is what appears at the top of Special:Recentchanges. It can be edited when necessary. Wikipedia talk:Recentchanges is for discussing what might go on it. ==Viewing new changes starting from a particular time== If you have loaded the recent changes at, for example, 09:45 Feb 25, 2003, it gives a link "Show new changes starting from 09:45 Feb 25, 2003", giving you the changes you have not seen yet. In order to use this link later, after you have used the browser window for other things, or if you switch off the computer in between, you can instruct your browser to bookmark it (with en:Internet Explorer: right-click on the link and choose "add to favorites"). Alternatively, you can save the page with recent changes. To get the new changes without one of these preparations, use (in this case, if the time above is en:UTC+1): http://textbook.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Recentchanges&from=20030802064526 (format yyyymmddhhmmss, UTC time). You can copy this en:URL to the address bar and change date and time. The "Number of titles in recent changes" set as preference is applicable. This feature can not be used in conjunction with "hide logged in users" (see below) unless the URL is modified manually. ==Hiding logged in users from recent changes== Special:Recentchanges/hideliu is a version of recent changes that only shows changes by users who have not logged in. This can be useful for those watching out for vandalism. Features such as viewing changes starting from a particular time can be used with the hideliu feature, but only by manually altering the URL to add &hideliu=1 to it. For example, clicking the time (as described in the section above) may take you to the url :http://textbook.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Recentchanges&from=20030802064526 You would need to change this to read :http://textbook.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Recentchanges&from=20030802064526&hideliu=1 in order to view the recent changes without logged in users starting from this time. ==Restriction on number of edits; alternatives== Possibly the largest number of edits can be obtained when you do ''not'' log in: 5000, currently covering ca. 17 hours (use "limit=5000", see WP:UR). Disadvantages are that watched pages are not bolded and that you can not use Enhanced Recent Changes. After obtaining the Recent Pages page you can log in, of course. However, sometimes when not logged in and also when you are logged in the limit is lower, but it is not clear how much it is. If a request would involve more, no edits are given, nor any error message: the response is a blank page (not to be confused with no response; the response is a HTML page with nothing in the body part); alternatively after 30 minutes the system still says it is busy, but nothing is shown. Checking changes for a longer period is restricted to watched pages (use "My watchlist" in combination with "Revision history"), pages that are linked from a given page (use "Related changes" in combination with "Revision history"), newly created pages (use "Newly created articles", then view the current version, or, if desired, also the revision history), individual pages (use "Revision history") and individual users (use "User contributions" in combination with "Revision history"). See also below. ==Lines about edits of pages that have later been renamed (moved) or deleted== After a page has been renamed (moved), earlier edits, including the original creation of the page, are shown in Recent Changes etc. under the new name. After a page has been deleted, earlier edits, including the original creation of the page, are not shown in Recent Changes etc. This is caused by the fact that Recent Changes pages, etc., are created on demand, based on the pages that exist at the time of the request, and on the name they have at that time. In this Recent Changes differs from a real log of editing events (the latter in the sense that something that has happened can not be changed afterwards). Compare w:Historical revisionism. ==Bots== Bots can be hidden from recent changes by adding &hidebots=0 to the url. It is possible for sysops to mark some edits as bot edits, thereby preventing them displaying in the default recent changes. See en:Wikipedia:revert for more information on this. ==Other MediaWiki features showing lines about edits== (see also en:Wikipedia:Edit_summary). ===Revision history (also called page history)=== Every line represents one edit to the given page and the version resulting from it *"last" is similar to "diff", explained above *"cur" gives the difference between this version and the current one (i.e., excluding the edit shown by pressing the "last" next to it), which is the cumulation of all later edits, including those which are not in this revision history because they were made after loading this page *the date and time link to the version of that day and time, except that in the first line, which is about the latest edit at the time of loading this revision history, the date and time link to the current version, hence with the changes made after this revision history was loaded; The "cur" and "last" features are similar to those in MediaWiki User's Guide: The enhanced Recent Changes page, except for "cur" in the first line: it is not linked in the revision history, while in the Enhanced Recent Changes it gives the differences corresponding to the last edit; just after loading the revision history this is the same as the "cur" link of the second line gives, but if there have been edits after loading it is different.

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''From WP:RfD:'' * Recent changes → Wikipedia:Recent Changes * Recent Changes → Wikipedia:Recent Changes * Self-references. Today some anon redirected one of them to Special:Recentchanges, without bothering to update the another. I think it is time to get rid of this old cruft. User:Jni 06:05, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC) ** These have old history, so we'd have to move them to the holding pen anyway. User:Jnc User_talk:Jnc 01:44, 11 May 2005 (UTC) **Keep. I typed Recent changes today, and was mildly annoyed when it didn't auto redirect. There's no reason to get rid of them, IMO. --User:Quuxplusone **Keep. Agree with Quuxplusone. Why remove it? User:Tempshill 23:48, 9 May 2005 (UTC) ** If we keep them, which one would we point them to: Special:, or Wikipedia:? User:Jnc User_talk:Jnc 01:44, 11 May 2005 (UTC) ----

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