Thread:Project:Support desk/filter recent changes

Is it possible to filter "recent changes"?

For instance,
 * "I only want to see changes to pages beginning with 'A'"
 * "I only want to see changes to pages belonging to the American Civil War portal"
 * "I only want to see changes to pages from the XYZ category"

(My question applies to any wiki site, such as Wikipedia or editthis.info)

I browsed Wikipedia's help on this, including the linked MediaWiki page, but no luck. Thanks 213.112.128.96 08:21, 4 March 2012 (UTC)