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The preferences can be set to use the '''Enhanced Recent Changes''' feature (not for all browsers) instead of the classical [[Help:Recent changes|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 [[en:JavaScript|JavaScript]], and won't work in every browser (see [[Browser issues with MediaWiki]]).

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

==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).''

===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 [[Help:Page history|page history]]
*user, linked to his or her user page
*'''Talk''', linking to the user talk page
*[[Help:Edit summary|edit summary]]

===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

==Examples==

The default recent changes looks like this:
* ([[Main Page|diff]]) ([[Main Page|hist]]) . . [[MediaWiki User's Guide: Editing mathematical formulae]]; 10:06 . . [[Special:contributions/111.222.33.44|111.222.33.44]] ([[user talk:111.222.33.44|Talk]]) ''(Add examples)''
* ([[Main Page|diff]]) ([[Main Page|hist]]) . . '''M''' [[MediaWiki User's Guide: Editing mathematical formulae]]; 10:04 . . [[User:Anthere|Anthere]] ([[User talk:Anthere|Talk]]) ''(links)''
* (diff) ([[Main Page|hist]]) . . '''N''' [[MediaWiki User's Guide]]; 10:04 . . [[User:Brion VIBBER|Brion VIBBER]] ([[User talk:Brion VIBBER|Talk]]) ''(New page)''
* (diff) ([[Main Page|hist]]) . . [[Endnotes]] moved to [[Footnotes]]; 10:03 . . [[User:Maveric149|Maveric149]] ([[User talk:Maveric149|Talk]]) 

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

[[Image:Arr_r.png]] <tt>10:06</tt> [[MediaWiki User's Guide: Editing mathematical formulae]] (2 [[Main Page|changes]]; [[Main Page|Page history]]) <font size='-1'><nowiki>[</nowiki>[[Special:contributions/111.222.33.44|111.222.33.44]]; [[User:Anthere|Anthere]]<nowiki>]</nowiki></font><br/>
'''<tt>N</tt>'''<font color=#eee>&nbsp;.</font><tt>10:04</tt> [[MediaWiki User's Guide]] (cur; [[Main Page|hist]]) . . [[User:Brion VIBBER|Brion VIBBER]] ([[User talk:Brion VIBBER|Talk]]) ''(New page)''<br/>
<font color=#eee>&nbsp;..&nbsp;</font><tt>10:03</tt> [[Endnotes]] moved to [[Footnotes]] (cur; [[Main Page|hist]]) . . [[User:Maveric149|Maveric149]] ([[User talk:Maveric149|Talk]]) 

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

[[Image:Arr_d.png]] <tt>10:06</tt> [[MediaWiki User's Guide: Editing mathematical formulae]] (2 [[Main Page|changes]]; [[Main Page|Page history]]) <font size='-1'><nowiki>[</nowiki>[[Special:contributions/111.222.33.44|111.222.33.44]]; [[User:Anthere|Anthere]]<nowiki>]</nowiki></font><br/>
<font color=#eee>&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;</font><tt>10:06</tt> ([[Main Page|cur]]; [[Main Page|last]]) . . [[Special:contributions/111.222.33.44|111.222.33.44]] ([[user talk:111.222.33.44|Talk]]) ''(Add examples)''<br/>
<font color=#eee>&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;..&nbsp;.&nbsp;</font>'''<tt>M</tt>''' <tt>10:04</tt> ([[Main Page|cur]]; [[Main Page|last]]) . . [[User:Anthere|Anthere]] ([[user talk:Anthere|Talk]]) ''(links)''<br/>
'''<tt>N</tt>''' <font color=#eee>&nbsp;</font><tt>10:04</tt> [[MediaWiki User's Guide]] (cur; [[Main Page|hist]]) . . [[User:Brion VIBBER|Brion VIBBER]] ([[User talk:Brion VIBBER|Talk]]) ''(New page)''<br/>
<font color=#eee>&nbsp;..&nbsp;</font><tt>10:03</tt> [[Endnotes]] moved to [[Footnotes]] (cur; [[Main Page|hist]]) . . [[User:Maveric149|Maveric149]] ([[User talk:Maveric149|Talk]])

==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:

<nowiki>http://www.wikipedia.org/upload/Arr_r.png</nowiki> 
http://www.wikipedia.org/upload/Arr_r.png 

<nowiki>http://www.wikipedia.org/upload/Arr_d.png</nowiki>
http://www.wikipedia.org/upload/Arr_d.png 

<nowiki>http://www.wikipedia.org/upload/Arr_.png</nowiki>
http://www.wikipedia.org/upload/Arr_.png (blank)

to the corresponding directory. As a result the enhanced Recent Changes are more cumbersome to use.

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