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With the default [[Help:Preferences|preferences]], the bulk of the page consists of fifty lines, one for each edit, looking like this:
* ([[Main Page|diff]]) ([[Main Page|hist]]) . . [[wikipedia: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)''
* (diff) ([[Main Page|hist]]) . . [[Endnotes]] moved to [[Footnotes]]; 10:05 . . [[User:Maveric149|Maveric149]] ([[User talk:Maveric149|Talk]])
From left to right:
* "[[wikipedia:Help:Diff|diff]]" links to the diff-page for this edit; it is not available for new pages, or for page moves* The [[enwikipedia:hist|hist]] link corresponds to the ''Page history'' link on the edited page: it shows not just this edit but also older and newer ones. For page moves, the hist link leads to the history of the new page title
* A bold '''m''' indicates that the user marked the edit "minor". Only logged in users can mark edits minor, to avoid abuse.
* A bold '''N''' indicates that the page is "new", i.e., previously did not exist. It is possible for a change to possess both the "minor" and "new" indicators; this is typically used for new [[MediaWiki User's Guide: Using redirects|redirects]].
* The next link is a link to the current version of the page in question.
* 10:06 refers to the time in [[enwikipedia:UTC|UTC]]. You can change the time to your time zone using your preferences - see [[MediaWiki User's Guide: Setting preferences|how to set preferences]].
* For [[MediaWiki User's Guide: Logging-in|logged in]] users, the next link is a link to their user homepage (as usual with internal links, the view page if the page exists, the edit page if it does not, the two being styled differently). For users who are not logged in, the link is to their ''User Contributions''.
* Finally, there is a link to the user's talk page (the same remarks regarding existence apply).