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The wiki offers a collection of special pages and tools to keep track of what is going on in the wiki. So you can watch for example:

* recent changes to all pages
* the revision history: all changes made to one page
* the contributions of one specific user
* newly created pages

The most interesting special page is [[Special:RecentChanges]]. This page displays all edits, file uploads, page moves, deletions and other actions done in the wiki. The menu at the top offers a collection of links to customize your display: limit the number of changes or the number of days shown or restrict the display to show edits to a certain namespace only. You can also hide edits marked as minor (but don't forget that a change can be major even though the user flagged it as minor).

One line in the Recent Changes page consists of several links:

* “diff” displays the difference from the previous revision of the page
* “hist” links to the revision history of the page
* the full title of the page links to the current version. If the page is on your watchlist, the title appears in bold.

Next is a flag describing the page modification type:

* N - This edit created a new page
* m - This is a minor edit
* b - This edit was performed by a bot

Following the timestamp, the page size difference from the previous revision appears. Then the user is mentioned, with a link to either their [[Help:User page|user page]] and their [[Help:Talk_pages|talk page]] and contributions or (in the case of anonymous users) to their talk page only.

If the user submitted a summary when they made the edit, the summary appears in italics as the last link in the line.

[[Category:Help]]

Help:Tracking changes - Revision history

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