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Recent changes
is a
special page
that lists recent changes in reverse order, with change date and time, change in the page size, user who created the page, and
edit summary
. It also provides links to
patrol
these new edits when that feature is enabled.
This feature is accessible at
Special:RecentChanges
. The page results are adjustable using settings in the
Preferences section "Recent changes"
You can choose which Recent Changes you want to display.
You can combine different kinds of filters
to display the results you want.
Transclusions
This special page can be
transcluded
, with usage similar to normal templates.
{{
Special
RecentChanges
days
}}
A wiki can be configured with aliases for the namespace "Special" and the title "Recent changes", and those localized versions can be used instead of the canonical ones.
Additional parameters may be used in the same way they would in templates:
{{
Special
RecentChanges
days
limit
40
hidebots
hideminor
}}
Even if a wiki is configured with aliases for the namespace and title, it is not possible to use localized parameters.
parameter
value type
description
days
integer
Maximum number of days to display
limit
integer
Maximum number of entries to display
namespace
integer
Limit results to the specified namespace, or multiple namespaces separated by semicolons
hidebots
boolean
Hide
bots
bots
boolean
Show bots
hideminor
boolean
Hide
minor edits
minor
boolean
Show minor edits
hideliu
boolean
Hide logged in users (LIU)
hidepatrolled
boolean
Only show pages which have not been
patrolled
hideanons
boolean
Hide
anonymous users
hidemyself
boolean
Hide the logged in user's own changes
hidecategorization
boolean
Hide page categorization
hidelog
boolean
Hide logged actions, showing only page edits
tagfilter
string
Only get entries for that
tag
T142878
subpageof
string
Show only changes to
subpages
of the given page
MW 1.45+
Interface
The interface consists of two main parts:
At the top are the
filters
, which help you sort through edits.
Below that is the list of recent changes.
The filters
Filtering
This page explains how the improved filtering interface works and how to get the most out of the new tools.
Highlighting
User-defined Highlighting tools let you use color to emphasize the edits that interest you most. The functions and techniques described on this page will help you to make your Recent Changes results more meaningful.
Quality and Intent Filters
"New filters for edit review" introduces two filter groups—Contribution Quality and User Intent—that are powered by machine learning and work differently from other filters. They offer probabilistic predictions about, respectively, whether or not edits are likely to contain problems and whether the user who made them was acting in good faith. Knowing a bit about how these unique tools work will help you use them more effectively.
Bookmarks
Save and restore your favorite filters. You can also set the default filter.
Live updates
Filtered results are updated periodically.
The list of recent changes
When using the default
preferences
configuration, most of the page displays 50 lines, each representing an edit, arranged for left-to-right language wikis.
Below are examples of recent changes.
diff
hist
) . .
Manual:$wgContentNamespaces
; 07:07 . .
(-35)
. .
Shirayuki
talk
contribs
) (Reverted edits by
Trangbe1992
talk
) to last version by 94rain) (
Tag
: Rollback) (
thank
diff
hist
) . .
Reporting_security_bugs/pt-br
; 06:53 . .
(-40)
. .
187.73.25.7
talk
) (
Tag
: Manual revert)
Understand the list
This shows 2 edits: the first by an administrator who is logged in, to the
Manual:$wgContentNamespaces
page; the second by an un-registered user to the
Reporting security bugs/pt-br
page.
From left to right:
The "
diff
" link takes you to the changes made in that edit; it's not available for new pages or page moves.
The
hist
link leads to the page's history, showing all edits, including older and newer ones. For page moves, it shows the history of the new page title.
Single-letter bold abbreviations, which are called "change flags". They include:
indicates the user considered the edit "minor". Only users with the
minoredit
right (usually logged-in users) can mark edits as minor to prevent misuse.
shows the page is "new," meaning it didn't exist before.
indicates edits made by a bot or hidden by an admin.
indicates unpatrolled pages. See
Help:Patrolled edits
ORES
is a tool used on some wikis to flag potentially harmful edits, showing them with a red
and a light yellow background.
A link to the current version of the page.
Bold
indicates it's on your watchlist.
"07:07" refers to UTC time. You can adjust it to your time zone in
preferences
(-35) Changes in bytes are shown as a green plus (+) sign for additions and a red minus (-) sign for removals.
Bold numbers highlight changes of more than 500 bytes.
For logged-in users, a link to their userpage is provided. For others, it's their User Contributions.
A link to the user's talk page is included.
For page moves, both the old and new titles are linked.
Recent changes can display up to 500 edits, or 5,000 if the URL is modified.
Regardless of what filters are used, it cannot display edits older than
$wgRCMaxAge
(90 days by default, 30 days in Wikimedia wikis).
Page moves and deletions
Once a page has been renamed (moved), previous edits and the initial creation of the page appear in recent changes under the new name.
Once a page is deleted, previous edits and the initial creation of the page are no longer visible in recent changes or similar logs.
Edits made by bots
Bots can appear in recent changes if you include
&hidebots=0"
in the URL.
Sysops can label certain edits as bot edits, so they won't appear in the usual recent changes.
See
Help:Reverting
for more details.
Advanced features
Hide the filters
Users can choose not to use the filters by clicking
Hide
on the filters panel.
Users can opt out of the new filters by going to the
Advanced options
section at the bottom of
Special:Preferences
on the wikis they are active on and selecting
Use non-JavaScript interface
The
old configuration documentation
is available for users.
Web feed
To get
web feeds
RSS
and
Atom
) for a wiki's recent changes, add "
&feed=rss
" or "
&feed=atom
" to the URL of the recent changes page.
This shows the
differences
for several edits, each with a link to the current page.
Some browsers may offer options like sorting by author.
See also
Syndication
for more details.
Differences from page history
Each line in the
page history
represents a single change made to the page and the version that resulted from it.
prev
is similar to
diff
mentioned earlier.
cur
shows the changes between this version and the latest one, including all edits made afterward, even those not listed in this revision history because they happened after loading this page.
The
cur
and
prev
features resemble those in the
improved recent changes
, except for the
cur
in the initial line: it isn't linked in the revision history, unlike in the improved recent changes where it shows the changes from the last edit.
See
Places where the edit summary appears
See also
Manual:Configuration settings
Manual:Recent changes
Manual:RCFeed
API:RecentChanges
Help:Patrolled edits
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