Help talk:Recent changes

Typo
This page is "recent changes"... but the first paragraph is talking about "Recent pages". I'd take a stab at correcting it, but this page has too much visibility.
 * Good observation. I just fixed it. Cheers. --Lorikeet 23:30, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

Show last changes of a specific namespace
Hello, i want to show on my mainpage the last 5 changes of the namespace 106. What is the parameter for the namespace? I tried didn't work.. Thx for your help!

More support on meta
The main documentation page for this concept is at meta:Help:Recent changes. These should be synced eventually.  Blue Rasberry   (talk)   14:50, 11 April 2016 (UTC)

Recent changes in a category
Hello,

Is there a way to only list recent changes in a category? It seems it could (I can see a related setting Manual:$wgAllowCategorizedRecentChanges).

The Extension:Dynamic_Article_List extension which used to do the same thing seems to be obsolete for MW 1.26 already.

Thanks Petr


 * It's called Special:RelatedChanges, see Help:Related changes. Nemo 14:50, 3 June 2016 (UTC)

Thanks Nemo. Actually the Related pages seems to search on linked pages/namespaces. Nevertheless, the out-of-the-box "Special:RecentChanges" page has the filter for categories (the "Limit to categories (separate with "|"):") textbox but I get an error when filling out a category name (works fine if blank): The issues above can be fixed by doing count on the array instead of calling ->numRows method, and by removing $rows->free altogether. (We're on MW 1.26.2, PHP 5.6.21.)
 * PHP Fatal error: Call to a member function numRows on array in ...\qawiki\includes\specialpage\ChangesListSpecialPage.php on line 345
 * PHP Fatal error: Call to a member function numRows on array in ...\qawiki\includes\specials\SpecialRecentchanges.php on line 364
 * PHP Fatal error: Call to a member function free on array in ...\qawiki\includes\specialpage\ChangesListSpecialPage.php on line 79


 * Are you sure you run update.php? No idea what you mean by "Actually the Related pages seems to search on linked pages/namespaces", perhaps an example shows better. Nemo 11:19, 1 October 2016 (UTC)

Yes, the example helped! So, I need to navigate to any wiki page, then I click the "Related changes" link (I have it in the left pane at the bottom), and then I (in the "Page name:" textbox) I replace the current page name with "Category: ". The search then works fine. Still, there seems to be a bug in the "Special:RecentChanges" page though (calls to numRows and free) - as I described it above.

What's also a bit confusing: In your an example page (which is a Special:RecentChangesLinked page), there are the following boxes: "Namespace" (a dropdown), "Tag filter" (an editbox), and "Page name" (an editbox). In our instance, I have: "Namespace" (dropdown), "Limit to categories" (textbox), and "Page name" (textbox). If I type my category (let's call it CategoryA) to "Limit to categories" box (and leave "Page name" box empty) and hit "Go", I get nothing. If I leave "Limit to categories" box empty and type "Category:CategoryA" to "Page name" box, I get correct results.