Wikipedia talk:Related Changes

Hi, the function "Related changes" is not yet clear to me. I added a lot of links on my page, but when i click on "Related changes" i get only a very small list. This list must be longer, there are more changes to this articles in the last days. Is this function not working properly yet or did I not understand what it is supposed to do? In the wikipedia help I also could not find anything about this function. Thanks for help, Fantasy 18:36 Apr 29, 2003 (UTC)

Related changes list all recent changes in articles linked to by the current article. -º¡º

Yes, I also thoght that. But go to my Page, you can see e.g. a link to Maverik´s page. But on "Related changes" he does not show up. Why that? Fantasy

Because the last edit to his page was slightly more than 3 days ago. 3 days in the default limit for related changes. Click "30" in the list "in the last 1|3|7|14|30 days" and you will see many more related changes. --rbrwr

The standard seems to me 7 days, and even with 30 Days User:Maveric149 does not show up. Why? Fantasy

When I do Related changes on your user page and click on 7 days, I get the following correct output:

Below are the last 50 changes in last 7 days.
Show last 50 | 100 | 250 | 500 changes in last 1 | 3 | 7 | 14 | 30 days.

Apr 29, 2003
  15:28 Wikipedia:Requested articles (cur; hist) . . (....)
N 10:18 Rack railway (cur; hist) . . G-Man (Talk)
M 08:54 Patent (cur; hist) . . Minesweeper (Talk) (fm)

Apr 28, 2003
M 23:18 User:º¡º (cur; hist) . . º¡º (Talk)

Apr 26, 2003
M 20:38 Cats (cur; hist) . . Fantasy (Talk) (Adding a number)
M 03:40 User:Maveric149 (cur; hist) . . Maveric149 (Talk) (....)

Apr 25, 2003
M 18:25 Train (cur; hist) . . G-Man (Talk)

Could it be that you have the option "Hide minor edits" enabled in your user preferences? Because the last edit to Mav's page was minor. --Eloquence 21:32 Apr 29, 2003 (UTC)

That's possible. I've just experimented with "hide minor edits", and it makes all the pages whose most recent edit is minor disappear, even if they had a non-minor edit within the time limit. There was a non-minor edit to User:Maveric149 just 14 minutes before the most recent edit, but it doesn't show on the "releated changes" to User:Fantasy. This only seems to affect "related changes", not the main "recent changes", presumably because "related" only shows the single most recent edit to the linked pages. If the most recent change is suppressed by "hide minor", "related changes" doesn't go looking for another edit to that page. --rbrwr

Thanks a lot, now I understand it. I will switch off the "hide minor edits" for now, otherwise the "related" changes are not so reliable. I will also add this information to the Wikipedia:help. Thanks for your help, Fantasy

Plan to move this page to meta soon

We need one place to develop MediaWiki documentation so I'm starting a project-neutral MediaWiki User's Guide in meta and think it would be a good idea to cross wiki redirect this page to meta:MediaWiki User's Guide: Using the Related Changes function as soon as I'm done with the conversion (before that I will change each link to this page to a direct one to meta so that it appears correctly as an external link). --mav 01:42, 7 Sep 2003 (UTC)