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==Top of Recent Changes page==
The content of [[Wikipedia:Recentchanges]] is what appears at the top of [[Special:Recentchanges]]. It can be edited when necessary. [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia talk:Recentchanges|Wikipedia talk:Recentchanges]] is for discussing what might go on it.
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== Understanding Recent Changes ==
With the default [[MediaWiki User's GuideHelp: Setting preferencesPreferences|preferences]], the bulk of the page consists of fifty lines, one for each edit, looking like this:
* ([[Main Page|diff]]) ([[Main Page|hist]]) . . [[MediaWiki User's Guide: Editing mathematical formulae]]; 10:06 . . [[Main Page|128.214.14.50]] ([[User talk:128.214.14.50|Talk]]) ''(Add examples)''
* (diff) ([[Main Page|hist]]) . . '''N''' [[MediaWiki User's Guide]]; 10:06 . . [[User:Brion VIBBER|Brion VIBBER]] ([[User talk:Brion VIBBER|Talk]]) ''(New page)''
== Preferences ==
Logged in users can set preferences to adjust the way that Recent Changes looks. For help in doing this, see [[MediaWiki User's GuideHelp: Logging-in|how to log in]] and [[MediaWiki User's Guide: Setting preferencesPreferences|how to set preferences]]. The options that affect recent changes are:
* '''Hide minor edits in recent changes''' - this hides all edits that have been marked as minor by logged in users;
* '''Enhanced Recent Changes''' - with this option enabled, multiple edits are grouped together. This option uses [[en:JavaScript|JavaScript]], and won't work in every browser (see [[Browser issues with MediaWiki]]). See [[MediaWiki User's Guide: The enhanced Recent Changes page]]
* '''Number of recent changes'''. You may select the number of changes which will be shown by default on the Recent Changes page. Once on that page, links are provided for other options. In the case of Enhanced Recent Changes this number of changes includes those that are initially hidden.
==Viewing new changes starting from a particular time==
If you have loaded the recent changes at, for example, 09:45 Feb 25, 2003, it gives a link "Show new changes starting from 09:45 Feb 25, 2003", giving you the changes you have not seen yet. In order to use this link later, after you have used the browser window for other things, or if you switch off the computer in between, you can instruct your browser to bookmark it (with [[enwikipedia:Internet Explorer|Internet Explorer]]: right-click on the link and choose "add to favorites"). Alternatively, you can save the page with recent changes.
To get the new changes without one of these preparations, use (in this case, if the time above is [[en:UTC|UTC]]+1):
<nowiki>http://textbook.wikipediaorthodoxwiki.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Recentchanges&from=20030802064526</nowiki>
(format yyyymmddhhmmss, UTC time).
You can copy this [[enwikipedia:URL|URL]] to the address bar and change date and time.
The "Number of titles in recent changes" set as preference is applicable.
[[Special:Recentchanges/hideliu]] is a version of recent changes that only shows changes by users who have not logged in. This can be useful for those watching out for [[vandalism]]. Features such as viewing changes starting from a particular time can be used with the hideliu feature, but only by manually altering the URL to add <tt> &hideliu=1</tt> to it. For example, clicking the time (as described in the section above) may take you to the url
:<nowiki>http://textbook.wikipediaorthodoxwiki.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Recentchanges&from=20030802064526</nowiki>
You would need to change this to read
:<nowiki>http://textbook.wikipediaorthodoxwiki.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Recentchanges&from=20030802064526&hideliu=1</nowiki>
in order to view the recent changes without logged in users starting from this time.
== Patrolling edits ==
See [[wikipedia:HelpOrthodoxWiki:Vandalism#Patrolled editEdits]].
==Other OrthodoxWiki features showing lines about edits==