User blog comment:BatJarleyPatrickCher/Auto Refresh/@comment-1999071-20130101021551

Add the following code to MediaWiki:Common.js. /* Auto updating recent changes opt-in * See w:c:dev:AjaxRC for info & attribution */ AjaxRCRefreshText = 'Auto-Refresh'; AjaxRCRefreshHoverText = 'Automatically refresh the page'; ajaxPages = ["Special:RecentChanges","Special:WikiActivity","Special:UncategorizedPages","Special:AllPages"]; importScriptPage('AjaxRC/code.js', 'dev');