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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. It also provides links to patrol these new edits when that feature is enabled.

This feature is accessible at Special:RecentChanges. The page results are adjustable using settings in the Preferences section "Recent changes".

You can choose which Recent Changes you want to display. You can combine different kinds of filters to display the results you want.

This special page can be transcluded, with usage similar to normal templates.

{{Special:RecentChanges|days=5}}

A wiki can be configured with aliases for the namespace "Special" and the title "Recent changes", and those localized versions can be used instead of the canonical ones.

Additional parameters may be used in the same way they would in templates:

{{Special:RecentChanges|days=5|limit=40|hidebots=1|hideminor=1}}

Even if a wiki is configured with aliases for the namespace and title, it is not possible to use localized parameters.

The interface consists of two main parts:

• At the top are the filters , which help you sort through edits.
• Below that is the list of recent changes.

When using the default preferences configuration, most of the page displays 50 lines, each representing an edit, arranged for left-to-right language wikis.

Below are examples of recent changes.

This shows 2 edits: the first by an administrator who is logged in, to the Manual:$wgContentNamespaces page; the second by an un-registered user to the Reporting security bugs/pt-br page.

From left to right:

• The "diff" link takes you to the changes made in that edit; it's not available for new pages or page moves.
• The "hist" link leads to the page's history, showing all edits, including older and newer ones. For page moves, it shows the history of the new page title.
• A bold m indicates the user considered the edit "minor". Only users with the minoredit right (usually logged-in users) can mark edits as minor to prevent misuse.
• A bold N shows the page is "new," meaning it didn't exist before.
• The use of a bold b indicates edits made by a bot or hidden by an admin.
• Bold ! indicates unpatrolled pages. See Help:Patrolled edits .
• ORES is a tool used on some wikis to flag potentially harmful edits, showing them with a red "r" and a light yellow background.
• A link to the current version of the page. Bold indicates it's on your watchlist.
• "07:07" refers to UTC time. You can adjust it to your time zone in preferences .
• (-35) Changes in bytes are shown as a green plus (+) sign for additions and a red minus (-) sign for removals.
• Bold numbers highlight changes of more than 500 bytes.
• For logged-in users, a link to their userpage is provided. For others, it's their User Contributions.
• A link to the user's talk page is included.
• For page moves, both the old and new titles are linked.

Recent changes can display up to 500 edits, or 5,000 if the URL is modified. Regardless of what filters are used, it cannot display edits older than $wgRCMaxAge (90 days by default, 30 days in Wikimedia wikis).

Once a page has been renamed (moved), previous edits and the initial creation of the page appear in recent changes under the new name.

Once a page is deleted, previous edits and the initial creation of the page are no longer visible in recent changes or similar logs.

Bots can appear in recent changes if you include &hidebots=0" in the URL. Sysops can label certain edits as bot edits, so they won't appear in the usual recent changes. See Help:Reverting for more details.

Users can choose not to use the filters by clicking "Hide" on the filters panel. Users can opt out of the new filters by going to the "Advanced options" section at the bottom of Special:Preferences on the wikis they are active on and selecting "Use non-JavaScript interface".

The old configuration documentation is available for users.

To get web feeds (RSS and Atom) for a wiki's recent changes, add "&feed=rss" or "&feed=atom" to the URL of the recent changes page. This shows the differences for several edits, each with a link to the current page. Some browsers may offer options like sorting by author. See also Syndication for more details.

Each line in the page history represents a single change made to the page and the version that resulted from it.

• "prev" is similar to "diff" mentioned earlier.
• "cur" shows the changes between this version and the latest one, including all edits made afterward, even those not listed in this revision history because they happened after loading this page.

The "cur" and "prev" features resemble those in the improved recent changes , except for the "cur" in the initial line: it isn't linked in the revision history, unlike in the improved recent changes where it shows the changes from the last edit.

See Places where the edit summary appears.

• Manual:Configuration settings#Recent changes
• Manual:Recent changes
• Manual:RCFeed
• API:RecentChanges
• Help:Patrolled edits