Help:Enhanced recent changes

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{{#if: Template:SUBJECTSPACE|{{H:h Template:SUBJECTSPACE|Reader toc}}|Template:H:h Help}} The preferences can be set to use the Enhanced Recent Changes feature (not for all browsers) instead of the classical Recent Changes. It groups recent changes per day, where "day" is defined according to local time. For each day, it groups the changes by article, and displays the titles of the changed articles in order from new to old latest change of the day concerned, or in the case of hiding minor edits, latest major change.

Multiple edits on the same day to a single article are grouped together on the Recent Changes screen. All the edits except for the most recent one are hidden, but can be revealed by clicking on the blue arrow next to the article. This option uses JavaScript, and won't work in every browser (see Browser issues with MediaWiki).

This feature applies also to Related changes and the enhanced watchlist. The latter is simply a selection of the enhanced recent changes, namely a restriction to watched pages, without the bolding.

1 Composition of lines
- 1.1 Pages for which there is only one edit
- 1.2 Pages for which there are multiple edits
2 Examples
3 Common installation error
4 Links to other help pages

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Composition of lines

(For the pages Wikipedia:Upload log, the corresponding pages on Wiktionary and Wikibooks, and perhaps a few more pages some links are not present).

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Pages for which there is only one edit

The line shows:

time (the date is not shown here, it is in a header)
page name linked to the current version
the link cur to the edit concerned, e.g. http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Election_results_2005&curid=19333&diff=178548&oldid=178465
hist linking to the page history
user, linked to his or her user page
Talk, linking to the user talk page
edit summary

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Pages for which there are multiple edits

The top line, which is the only one shown before clicking on the arrow, shows:

time
page name linked to the current version
number of edits during the day concerned (if it is the oldest day covered by this Enhanced Recent Changes page: restricted by the total number of edits covered by this page)
the link changes to the cumulation of these changes
Link Page history
the users, linked to their user pages

The lines per edit show:

time, linked to the page version created at this time
the link cur to this edit
the link last to this edit
user, linked to his or her user page
Talk, linking to the user talk page
edit summary

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Examples

The default recent changes looks like this:

(diff) (hist) . . MediaWiki User's Guide: Editing mathematical formulae; 10:06 . . 111.222.33.44 (Talk) (Add examples)
(diff) (hist) . . M MediaWiki User's Guide: Editing mathematical formulae; 10:04 . . Anthere (Talk) (links)
(diff) (hist) . . N MediaWiki User's Guide; 10:04 . . Brion VIBBER (Talk) (New page)
(diff) (hist) . . Endnotes moved to Footnotes; 10:03 . . Maveric149 (Talk)

Enhanced recent changes shows changes to one page on the same line, with an arrow next to it:

Image:Arr r.png 10:06 MediaWiki User's Guide: Editing mathematical formulae (2 changes; Page history) [111.222.33.44; Anthere]
N .10:04 MediaWiki User's Guide (cur; hist) . . Brion VIBBER (Talk) (New page)
.. 10:03 Endnotes moved to Footnotes (cur; hist) . . Maveric149 (Talk)

Clicking this arrow expands the entry so you can see all the changes made:

Image:Arr d.png 10:06 MediaWiki User's Guide: Editing mathematical formulae (2 changes; Page history) [111.222.33.44; Anthere]
. . . . . . 10:06 (cur; last) . . 111.222.33.44 (Talk) (Add examples)
. . .. . M 10:04 (cur; last) . . Anthere (Talk) (links)
N 10:04 MediaWiki User's Guide (cur; hist) . . Brion VIBBER (Talk) (New page)
.. 10:03 Endnotes moved to Footnotes (cur; hist) . . Maveric149 (Talk)

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Common installation error

In projects outside Wikimedia it may happen that during installation one forgets (or perhaps it is missing in the installation instructions?) to copy three little image files:

http://www.wikipedia.org/upload/Arr_r.png