User blog comment:Dopp/Meet More Wikians with Improved Profiles/@comment-10370-20110802173836

One thing that's come up in the discussions below is the problem of user page changes flooding Wiki Activity and Recent Changes. We've been actively thinking about that. One option that we considered was not having profile masthead edits show up in those feeds at all. As Ciencia said below -- the masthead is global, so someone could make an edit to their masthead in another wki and you wouldn't see anything in RC / WA, so why represent it in the activity feeds on the wiki where you make the change?

However, there are a couple counter-arguments to that -- first, it breaks the expectation for wiki vets that everything that happens on the wiki should show up in RC. Second -- somebody coming in and editing their masthead is a nice cue for other people on the wiki that this is a potential new friend to talk to. If a new person comes in who likes the same stuff that you like and you don't know that they're there -- you miss an opportunity to make a connection. This is especially important for smaller wikis that don't have a ton of active editors, where any new person who comes to the site is an exciting moment.

We have some changes planned for the Wiki Activity feed that will do a better job of separating the communication activity from the content-building activity. We weren't planning to make any changes to the Recent Changes log, because folks who use RC usually don't like seeing any changes to that feed. But if "flooding Recent Changes" is an issue, then we're definitely interested in making that better.

So that's still in active discussion right now on our team. We're very interested in hearing other people's thoughts about it, so please let us know what you think!