When your wiki has hundreds or thousands of pages, it is important to have a way to follow up changes made by the numerous wiki contributors.
There are many tools onboard to follow up changes in MediaWiki:
Recent changes is a special page that lists recent changes in reverse order, with change date and time, change in the page size, user who created the page, and edit summary.
This feature is accessible at Special:RecentChanges. The page results are adjustable using settings on the Recent Changes tab in your preferences. You can choose which Recent Changes you want to display. You can combine different kinds of filters to display the results you want. The list of results is explained here.
Your watchlist functions as a tool to monitor modifications, akin to the Recent Changes view, yet it exclusively showcases updates to the pages you are monitoring or "watching." Any alterations to pages you haven't checked since the latest updates will appear in bold, marked distinctly. To access your watchlist, simply click on the Watchlist link located within your account menu.
Pages can be added to your Watchlist:
Every action in MediaWiki is logged in the logging table. Users can see those edits on Special:Log, except for a few restricted logs. For example, you can see logs for:
The Echo extension provides an in-wiki notification system. It can inform you about various events using Noticesand Alertsicons , and by email, in accordance with your preferences.
You can view additional information on reviewing changes to a wiki in our other blog article.Don't hesitate to contact us for any further assistance.Trust in our dedicated team to deliver the support you need and enhance your MediaWiki journey.
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