Manual:PopulateRecentChangesSource.php/en

Details
populateRecentChangesSource.php file is a maintenance script to populate the  field of the recentchanges table with the data in.

The allows specifying the type of change and for more flexibly specifying different types of RecentChange entries. For example, 'mw.edit', 'mw.log', 'mw.new' for core RecentChange types and 'wb' and 'flow' provided by extensions.

This script runs by default when you runs. It process 100 items in a batch.