remove the recent edits hard limit of 500?
You can see as many edits as you want if you change the URL yourself: http://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Special:RecentChanges&days=30&limit=1000
You can also go back as many days as you want, although you will eventually need to adjust $wgRCMaxAge.
I've tried this and can't get numbers above 500. I can get any number below 500 such as for example 312 by editing the URL but it seems capped at 500.
What exactly happens when you try a number above 500? Can I have a link to your wiki?
http://with-logic.co.uk/CAWiki/index.php5?title=Special:RecentChanges&limit=450 :¬)
http://with-logic.co.uk/CAWiki/index.php5?title=Special:RecentChanges&limit=600 :¬(
Looking at the log as well I see my IPBans have been useless.
Those are all the edits your wiki has had in the last 7 days (since you're running 1.15, $wgRCMaxAge is set very low by default).
Manual:Combating spam addresses your other problem.
I can change the number of days as well but thats not the problem, even if I make it 30 days I still cannot exceed 500 recent changes even by changing the URL, it seems capped at 500.
Thanks for the anti-spam link.
The limit for the maximum number of edits in the RC is hardcoded as 500 in includes/specials/SpecialRecentchanges.php (line 58). So it can't be changed without changing SpecialRecentchanges.php. In 1.16 this has been changed to 5000.
Thanks :) Is it safe to edit the file and change this to a larger number such as 5000?
That should work (but you should upgrade!).
