Help:Recent Changes

Line from a Mediawiki page history, with annotations explaining elements

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The Recent changes page is conveniently accessed from the left navigation on USApedia's sidebar (displayed on the left side of your screen). It lists the most recent edits made to pages in USApedia.

Using this page, you can monitor and review the latest contributions, to discover and correct mistakes and to spot and revert vandalism.

Official Site - saintapedia.org

Elements

Items seen on recent changes:

Editor - every edit is attributable to someone
Page Title - To make articles easy to find and be linked from other page, article titles must meet certain Naming conventions
Date Stamp - When the change was made
+ or - characters
Hist - every article has an edit history that captures every edit and every version of the article
Diff - Shows the changes made to the article
Contribs - List of changes made by the editor

External links

For a more detailed description, see the recent changes help page of MediaWiki.