User blog comment:TimmyQuivy/On the Importance of Upgrading MediaWiki/@comment-29964201-20200508221709/@comment-24264457-20200509051141

Special:WikiActivity was intended for new users to see where activity was on a wiki, but is used by many as an easy way to keep an eye out for vandals and other users with bad intentions. RecentChanges makes both of these extremely difficult. I went on a newer wiki on the UCP and wanted to see where activity was (that is to say, WikiActivity’s “original purpose”) and RecentChanges was such a complete mess I couldn’t make heads or tails of it and just left. And as for spotting vandals, everything looks the same in RecentChanges. It’s just such a sea of edits vandalism is almost indistinguishable from regular everyday edits and will not be caught as easily.