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Help:Watchlist

2011-11-07T14:33:08Z

Dan Bolser: adding the template

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Your '''watchlist''' is a display for [[Help:Tracking changes|tracking changes]], similar to the “{{int:recentchanges}}” display, but limited to showing changes only across your set of “watched” pages. You can see the watchlist display by clicking “{{lcfirst:{{int:mywatchlist}}}}” link in the top right, however this is only available to users who have registered and logged in.

Before you see anything interesting here, you must add some pages to your watchlist. Do this by navigating to a page which interests you, and clicking the '''star icon''' or ''' “{{lcfirst:{{int:watch}}}}” tab'''.

The watchlist feature is mainly useful on a very busy wiki where the “{{int:recentchanges}}” display becomes too “high traffic.” On a typical low traffic wiki, you can normally see all of the editing activity across the whole wiki without feeling overwhelmed. On a more busy wiki you will find that many edits are taking place on pages which you personally find less interesting. To help track changes which are more interesting, start watching pages!

Typically you would watch pages related to your interest areas, and also pages where your care most about the content. If you make a significant edit to a page, you might chose to watch the page, to see if there are any follow-up edits for example. Note that there is a “{{int:watchthis}}” tickbox provided on the editing screen for this purpose.

On the watchlist display, some page names appear in bold. This indicates whether or not you have visited the page to see the change. It's a bit like read/unread emails in an email inbox. The “{{int:recentchanges}}” display will also have some new bold highlighting, but for a different reason. Here bold is just indicating edits to pages on your watchlist.

See also [[Help:Tracking changes]].

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Help:Undelete

2011-11-07T14:32:38Z

Dan Bolser: standardizing

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The [[Help:Special page|Special page]] [[Special:Undelete]] is for wiki administrators to browse the revisions associated with deleted pages (so called deleted revisions).

To view this page you will need the '''deletedhistory''' [[Manual:User rights|permission]]. If you also have the '''browsearchive''' permission, you will additionally be able to search for deleted pages. ''Note, '''browsearchive''' does '''not''' imply '''deletedhistory'''''.

The text of the deleted revisions will only be viewable with the '''deletedtext''' permission.

Finally, you can restore deleted revisions with the '''undelete''' permission. ''Note, '''undelete''' implies '''deletedtext''' (as you wouldn't want to restore text you couldn't see''.

For completeness, it is perhaps worth mentioning that the '''undelete''' permission alone isn't sufficient to restore a deleted page, you additionally need the '''deletedhistory''' permission, which, unlike '''deletedtext''', isn't implied by '''undelete'''. This is [https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21076 probably a bug], however.

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Help:Random page

2011-11-07T14:31:55Z

Dan Bolser: adding he template

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[[Image:M-en-sidebar.png|framed|right|The default sidebar on the left, see the fifth link from top]]
The '''random page''' feature allows users to view a wiki page at random. The default, and most convenient use is to show a random page in the main namespace, and is accessed through the [[Special:Random]] page. Users will be redirected to the selection.

[[Special:Randompage]] is an alias for the feature and works in the same manner.

== Namespace selection ==

Users can also opt to view a random page in a namespace of their choice. This is achieved by specifying a namespace as a parameter to the page, i.e. [[Special:Random/Help]] will select a random page in the Help namespace; [[Special:Random/Category]] will show the contents of a random category, etc.

==Settings==
* {{mediawiki|Manual:$wgContentNamespaces}} - this will set what namespaces should be counted as article content and included in [[Special:Random]] function
* {{mediawiki|Manual:$wgExtraRandompageSQL}} - this settings allows for filtering of content from the [[Special:Random]] function

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Template:Special page

2011-11-07T14:31:00Z

Dan Bolser: Tidying up the +cat code.

<noinclude>A template to help document special pages, like when they were introduced and stuff. I guess clone and adapt from a similar manual template.

Currently all this template does is categorize the calling page with [[:Category:Special Pages]].

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== Template code ==
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| header = '''[[Help:Special pages|Special pages - Help]]'''
| image = [[File:Crystal Clear action info.png|30px|link=|alt=]]
| text = [[Help:Merge history|Merge history]] • [[Help:New images|New images]] • [[Help:New pages|New pages]] • [[Help:Preferences|Preferences]] • [[Help:Random page|Random page]] • [[Help:Undelete|Undelete]] • [[Help:Watchlist|Watchlist]]
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Help:New pages

2011-11-07T14:29:47Z

Dan Bolser: adding the templatge

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

This feature is accessible at [[Special:NewPages]]. The page results are not adjustable in the [[Help:Preferences|Preferences]].

The ability to filter by user was added in [https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6448 bugzilla:6448].

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

:<nowiki>{{Special:NewPages/50}}</nowiki>

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

:<nowiki>{{Special:Newpages/limit=5,shownav,offset=20081210,namespace=Template}}</nowiki>

{|class="sortable wikitable"
!parameter!!value type!!description
|-
|limit||integer||Number of entries to display
|-
|offset||date||Date to begin the list of entries
|-
|namespace||string|| Restrict the results to the named [[Help:Namespaces|namespace]]
|-
|hideliu|| || Hide logged in users (LIU)
|-
|hidepatrolled|| ||Only show pages which have not been [[Help:patrolled edits|patrolled]].
|-
|hidebots|| || Hide [[Help:Bots|Bots]]
|-
|showredirs|| || Show [[Help:Redirect|Redirect]]s
|-
|shownav|| ||Display result navigation links above and beneath the results, i.e,<br>"(Latest | Earliest) View (newer 5) (older 5) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500)"
|}

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Help:Merge history

2011-11-07T14:28:43Z

Dan Bolser: adding back the languages template (my bad)

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'''Merge history''' (added in {{r|27823|MW 1.12}}) is a [[Help:special page|special page]] that makes it possible to automatically merge the history of two pages.

This feature is accessible for users with the "mergehistory" [[Help:User rights|user rights]] at [[Special:MergeHistory]]. By default, no user groups have this right assigned to them.

Pages merged through this special pages is logged in a "[[Special:Log/merge|merge log]]".

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Help:New images

2011-11-07T14:28:03Z

Dan Bolser: Adding the new template... shame you can't query lists like this... sigh

{{PD Help Page}}
{{Special page}}

'''New images''' is a [[Help:special page|special page]] that lists recently added files as a [[Help:gallery|gallery]] in reverse order, with creation date and time, current size, user who [[Help:upload|upload]]ed the file, and name of the uploaded file.

This feature is accessible at [[Special:NewImages]]. The page results are '''not''' adjustable using settings in [[Help:Preferences|Preferences]].

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

:<nowiki>{{Special:NewImages/50}}</nowiki>

This special page does not accept additional parameters, {{mediawiki|bugzilla:3358|yet}}.

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