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'''Recent changes''' is a [[Help:special page|special page]] that lists recent changes in reverse order, with creation date and time, change in the page size, user who created the page, and [[help:edit summary|edit summary]].  It also provides links to [[Help:patrolled edits|patrol]] these new edits when that feature is enabled.

This feature is accessible at [[Special:RecentChanges]]. The page results are adjustable using settings the [[Help:Preferences#Recent_changes|Preferences section "Recent changes"]].

This special page can be [[Help:transclusion|transcluded]], with the first unnamed parameter specifying how many entries should be displayed.

<pre>{{Special:RecentChanges/50}}</pre>

Additional parameters may be used in a comma separated list such as:

<pre>{{Special:RecentChanges/days=5,limit=40}}</pre>

{|class="sortable wikitable"
!parameter!!value type!!class="unsortable"|description
|-
|days||integer||Maximum number of days to display
|-
|limit||integer||Maximum number of entries to display
|-
|hidebots|| || Hide [[Help:Bots|bots]]
|-
|bots|| || Show bots
|-
|hideminor|| || Hide [[meta:Help:minor edit|minor edit]]s
|-
|minor|| || Show minor edits
|-
|hideliu|| || Hide logged in users (LIU)
|-
|hidepatrolled|| ||Only show pages which have not been [[Help:patrolled edits|patrolled]].
|-
|hideanons|| || Hide [[Help:Anonymous user|Anonymous user]]s
|-
|hidemyself|| || Hide the logged in user's own changes
|}

==See also==
* {{mediawiki|Manual:Configuration settings#Recent changes}}
* {{meta|Help:Recent_changes|Further reading on the Meta-Wiki}}

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