Forum:Logs stop after 30 days

Hi folks. Suppose I wanted to make a list of all pages created on a wiki in the last 6 months; is there a straightforward way to do that? Special:Recentchanges and Special:Newpages only display changes from the last month (even when I enter a larger number of days into the URL by hand, and even when the top of the page claims in bold type that the number of days is more than 30).

Sorry if this limitation is addressed elsewhere, but I did a number of searches in all the talk spaces here and couldn't find it. Ryan W 03:59, 12 January 2007 (UTC)


 * You could try going by the curid. Example: A new page on Wikia is http://www.wikia.com/index.php?title=-&curid=16396 and you could decrement the curid by 1 until you find pages more than 6 months old. --Splarka (talk) 11:33, 12 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Actually, I believe it would also work to edit the URL. Pick one of the "other" number of days besides your default.  Then the URL will have a "days=" section.  Edit that.  For example, http://www.wikia.com/index.php?title=Special:Recentchanges&days=365&limit=100 will show the last 365 days of the Central Wikia's recent changes -- except that there are more than 100 of them, and I left the number limited to 100.  Be careful what you ask for... on a relatively inactive wiki, the last 90 days may not be much, but on an active one, it will be a huge amount.  Hope that helps!  --CocoaZen 20:41, 12 January 2007 (UTC)


 * P.S. You indicated that this didn't work for you, but it has worked for me in the past... however, you may need to change the limit too.  I don't know how to make adjustments for new pages.  Good luck!  --CocoaZen 20:47, 12 January 2007 (UTC)


 * I typed the following:

http://www.wikia.com/index.php?title=Special:Recentchanges&days=365&limit=5000


 * This did what I asked. I then changed "www" to "doom":

http://doom.wikia.com/index.php?title=Special:Recentchanges&days=365&limit=5000


 * (When "limit" is more than 5000, it balks and gives you 50 instead, but 5000 would still be an improvement over what I had so far.) This returned only the past month's changes, even though the top of the page claimed otherwise: "Below are the last 5,000 changes in the last 365 days, as of 2007-01-12 17:29:25."  Special:Version looks about the same on both wikis, too.    Ryan W 21:37, 12 January 2007 (UTC)


 * The recent changes table has an ultimate limit, while using curid does not. --Splarka (talk) 23:01, 12 January 2007 (UTC)