Help talk:Tracking changes

Namespaces
Is there a Solution to get recent changes on namespaces? --Zizanzu 17:23, 3 September 2007 (UTC)
 * In "Recent changes options", change "Namespace" to something other than all and click Go. --Damian Yerrick (talk) 01:27, 29 October 2013 (UTC)

Changing limitations of edits and time
Hello! How can I change the standard limitations to the numbers of edits (500) and days (30) which are shown in the recent changes list? Is there a possibility to get just a certain number of edits with no day limitation? (Well, I am the only one working on my MediaWiki :-) - and sometimes there's a lot of time between two edits ...) Regards -- commons:User:JörgM 12:56, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

Well, I detected the possibilities in SpecialRecentchanges.php and added two parameters (60 and 180 days) at the parts "Used by Recentchangeslinked" and "Creates the option panel", and it works (at least I hope so :-) ). Because I usually don't want to play on those original includes: Is it possible to add these changes somewhere in LocalSettings.php instead of SpecialRecentchanges.php? Regards -- commons:User:JörgM 15:59, 30 December 2007 (UTC)

Solution is now to add/modify $wgRCLinkLimits and $wgRCLinkDays in LocalSettings.php as described at Manual:Configuration settings

Recent Changes available as parser function
Are there any global vars stored that hold information about recent changes? And if not, where do I find more information about using the MediaWiki API's to perform db queries, or using class functions? Are there any guidelines on how to use certain vars or functions?

I would like to use some kind of parser function that would print the last 5 recent changes on the 'frontpage' of our Wiki...


 * thnx Kaspera 09:38, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

Doesn't require parser functions or API's actually. You can use transclusion to bring in any page, and this actually includes Special:Recentchanges. Do it with the wiki syntax:  

No idea where that is documented actually. I found out about it while chatting to Tim Starling at a meet-up in London, but I think it is documented somewhere. We need to describe more about transclusion on this page help page here.

And yes I think it actually a very interesting idea to bring in recent changes on the front page of the wiki. I do exactly that, on my wiki. I think works very well as a way of making visitors more aware of the dynamic editable nature of the wiki. It increases the prominence of 'recent changes', which is actually the most important page of wiki. I also did it on this wiki. Here it was partly as a way of drawing attention to the wiki spam problem on this low-traffic wiki, and encouraging other people to help keep the wiki spam free.

-- Harry Wood 11:21, 23 November 2007 (UTC)


 * Thanks for replying. The thing is, I do not want to have all the other information displayed on my frontpage. I want to be in control of the output, so in that case I need a raw list of new pagenames to create my own box on the frontpage.

I am currently owrking on another extension. If I get it working properly, I'll have a go and create my own hook to do some magic with new pages. I'll keep you posted, Kaspera 11:37, 23 November 2007 (UTC)


 * Just want to inform that the hook is working. Not that bigga deal, so if somebody is interested in the code, just give me a shout. Cheers --Kaspera 10:08, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

Colors
On wikipedia, the recent changes has a green font color for addition of material, and red for removal of it. How can this be accomplished?Daedalus969 02:03, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

User order
Do you know how are ordered the users who edited a page in the feature? See this (maybe a bug? I can't understand, I'd had this doubt for several months). Thanks, Nemo bis 00:20, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

Enhanced View
In the line 15:17 Main Page (4 changes; (+236) Page history) [Some User‎ (2×); Some Other User (2×)] what does the (+236) signify?


 * The dimension of the [wikitext of the] page is increased of 236 bytes. --Nemo bis 19:13, 24 November 2009 (UTC)
 * How do they get it to display (2×) instead of two separate edits, as it does on most wikis? Tisane 06:53, 2 March 2010 (UTC)
 * It's an enhanced setting in the user preferences. Please read Help:Tracking changes. Hamilton Abreu 12:20, 3 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks! What a difference it makes! Tisane 01:55, 5 March 2010 (UTC)

Watch Deletions
I have a low traffic wiki and get a mail notification on every change (using "wgUsersNotifedOnAllChanges" in LocalSettings.php). However I just noticed that I missed a few deletions that way because no mail was sent when a page was deleted. Is there a setting I can use to receive an email when a page is deleted?

Non-personal watchlist
I want to set up a public watchlist on English Wikipedia external to my account. I actually need lots of watchlists which can be checked by anyone. How can I set this up?

I was thinking to put a lot of links onto a page then clicking "Related changes". Is this the best way to do this? I notice that this method shows lots of changes for each article instead of only the last change as an account watchlist would do. Are there other limitations? Where can I find a discussion about this?  Blue Rasberry   (talk)   20:47, 8 August 2012 (UTC)

Changes by a specific user
"Changes by user" is an option that comes up under history. But how is it used? When I click on it or on the box-and-arrow after it, I just get a message that I haven't specified any-one. But where/how do I do that? Kdammers (talk) 04:59, 7 August 2014 (UTC)