Help:Related changes
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As in Recent Changes and Enhanced Recent Changes, watched pages are bolded.
Options
For registered users, the Recent changes tab of Special:Preferences has several options which affect both Recent changes and Related changes.
A maximum age and number of edits can be chosen, up to 30 days and 1000 edits. The default is 7 days and 50 edits. It can also be changed in the right side of a currently viewed Related changes page.
"Hide minor edits from recent changes" can be set.
See also Help:Preferences#Recent changes.
Caveats
- Changes to the current page itself are not listed. Click the "View history" tab to see them.
- Changes to transcluded pages like templates are not listed, unless there is also a link to or from the page. Except for navigation templates, there are usually no such links.
- For links to redirects, only a change in the redirect is given, not a change in the target article. In this regard a direct link to the target article is superior.
- Changes to used files and their file pages are not shown if the file is hosted at Wikimedia Commons.
- When applying the feature to a subpage, the automatic link to the parent page is ignored, i.e., changes in the parent page are not listed unless there is also an explicit link.