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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 [[w: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 [[w:UTC|UTC]] +1):
<nowiki>http://textbook.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Recentchanges&from=20030802064526</nowiki> (format yyyymmddhhmmss, UTC time). You can copy this [[w:URL|URL]] to the address bar and change date and time. The "Number of titles in recent changes" set as preference is applicable. This feature can not be used in conjunction with "hide logged in users" (see below) unless the URL is modified manually. ==Hiding logged in users from recent changes== [[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 [[w:vandalism|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.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Recentchanges&from=20030802064526</nowiki>You would need to change this to read:<nowiki>http://textbook.wikipedia.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. ==Restriction on number of edits; alternatives== A maximum of 5000 edits can be obtained, currently on the English Wikipedia covering ca. 3 hours (use "limit=5000"). Checking changes for a longer period are restricted:*watched pages: (use "My watchlist" in combination with "Revision history"). This runs less smoothly: on the English Wikipedia it often does not work ("database error" or "sorry, we have a problem").*pages that are linked from a given page (use "Related changes" in combination with "Revision history")*newly created pages (use "Newly created articles", then view the current version, or, if desired, also the revision history).*individual pages (use "Revision history") and individual users (use "User contributions" in combination with "Revision history").*namespace filter in the "Recent changes" (since [[m:MediaWiki 1.5|MediaWiki 1.5]]) lets users see recent changes for the given namespace. See also below. ==Edit records that are changed or lost== After a page has been renamed (moved), earlier edits, including the original creation of the page, are shown in Recent Changes etc. under the new name. After a page has been deleted, earlier edits, including the original creation of the page, are not shown in Recent Changes etc. In this Recent Changes differs from a real log of editing events (the latter in the sense that something that has happened can not be changed afterwards). Compare [[w:Historical revisionism|Historical revisionism]]. However, some edit lines are in Recent Changes (as long as it lasts) but no longer in edit histories, watchlists, Related Changes or User Contributions: when [[Help:Moving a page#Moving_over_a_redirect|moving a page over a redirect]], the ''creation'' of ''that'' redirect is only in Recent Changes (and only if that was recent enough, of course). In particular this applies in the case of re-renaming a page back to its original name, and subsequent renamings back and forth. ==Bots==Bots can be hidden from recent changes by adding <tt>&hidebots=0</tt> to the url. It is possible for sysops to mark some edits as bot edits, thereby preventing them displaying in the default recent changes. See [[Help:Reverting]] for more information on this. == Patrolling edits ==See [[Help:Patrolled edit]] ==Other MediaWiki features showing lines about edits== (see also [[Help:Edit summary#Places_where_the_edit_summary_appears]]). ===Revision history (also called page history)===Every line represents one edit to the given page and the version resulting from it*"last" is similar to "diff", explained above*"cur" gives the difference between this version and the current one (i.e., excluding the edit shown by pressing the "last" next to it), which is the cumulation of all later edits, including those which are not in this revision history because they were made after loading this page*the date and time link to the version of that day and time, except that in the first line, which is about the latest edit at the time of loading this revision history, the date and time link to the current version, hence with the changes made after this revision history was loaded; The "cur" and "last" features are similar to those in [[Help:Enhanced recent changes|Enhanced Recent Changes]], except for "cur" in the first line: it is not linked in the revision history, while in the Enhanced Recent Changes it gives the differences corresponding to the last edit; just after loading the revision history this is the same as the "cur" link of the second line gives, but if there have been edits after loading it is different. {{h:|See also [[m:Meta:Recentchanges/All languages]]}} {{h:f|langs=|enname=Recent changes}}
