7 Components: the Function Pages - Developers

The Recent changes page lists the subpages of the wiki that have
been recently modified (see Fig. 7.2). The most recent changes are at
the top. In addition to the display function for lists we have mentioned,
there are also two further ordering criteria. You can obtain a
list of the changes made in recent days, and a list of changes since
the last access to that page. The latter link can be found in the line
“Show new changes starting from.” The following date corresponds
to the server time at the point when the page was last accessed, and
is updated every time. Note that the server time does not necessarily
correspond to the time on your computer; for instance, the server
might be located in another time zone. The advantage of this function
is that you only see those changes that you have not yet viewed.
Also, you can see at a glance if no edits have been performed, since
the hit list would then be empty.
The individual result lines consist of several links. Diff indicates a
view of the differences between the latest version of a page and its
predecessor. This corresponds to the last change. Hist provides a list
of versions of a page. Next, we see information on how the page was
edited. If only two dots are shown, normal editing took place. If
there is an N, the page was newly created. You will see a red exclamation
point in some lines. This is part of a control system, and indicates
whether the edit has already been viewed by anyone (see below).
The next piece of information is the title of the page that was
modified, followed by the point in time in which it was edited. This
is followed by the name or IP address, including the talk page, of the
user who made the modifications. Last but not least, any comments
are shown that were made regarding the edit.
Recent changes
Fig. 7.2
Result lines
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