Help:Tracking changes

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

The most interesting special page is Special:Recentchanges. It displays all edits, file uploads, page moves, deletions and other actions done in the wiki. In the menu on top it offers a collection of links to customize your display: limit the number of changes shown, the number of days or restrict it to edits to a certain namespace. You can also hide edits marked as minor (don't forget that major changes can be flagged by a user as minor anyway).

One line in recentchanges consists of several links:
 * diff displays the difference to the previous revision of the page,
 * hist links to the revision history of the page,
 * the link with the full title of the page brings you to the current version. If the title is in bold, it indicates...

Next is a flag describing the article modification type:
 * N signalizes a new page,
 * m a minor edit,
 * b an edit made by a bot.

Following the timestamp the user is mentioned with a link to his user and talk page and to his contributions. In italic follows a comment if the user has submitted one.