Hello, I can't seem to find a way to search an old edit on my wiki, as it is more than 90 days old. Is there a way to search older edits through a special page ?
And if not, why has this feature been removed ??? it was so helpful, just why ?
Hello, I can't seem to find a way to search an old edit on my wiki, as it is more than 90 days old. Is there a way to search older edits through a special page ?
And if not, why has this feature been removed ??? it was so helpful, just why ?
Go to Special:Recent Changes
That wouldn't work. RecentChanges can't view edits more than 90 days old
Recent Changes is something that is a difficult thing to modify since it’s built across all MediaWiki platforms, so it wouldn’t be possible to go past 90+ days without contacting them yourself to request that change, which might be a unsuccessful endeavor to deal with.
It's called Recent Changes, not All Changes. Going past 90 days will seriously hamper performance. 30/1000 is already a pain to load.
One thing you may try is the DPLForum ability to tell you when was a page edited last time. But you will have to do that for each page separately.
Put a code like this on a page:
<table><forum>
category=Characters
</forum></table>
<table><forum>
category=Places
</forum></table>
It will output tables with the time of the last edit of each page, also sorted by last edit.
It would be nice if UCP went to 93 days so at least you can ensure you get a full 3 months.
LOL... knowing UCP they would code it only for February, non-leap year months lengths, so you would only get 84 days.
Just FYI on Special:RecentChanges - The JS interface (enabled by default) auto-updates your account preferences with whatever time and count limits you last used. So if you change it to something really large on one wiki just to see an old edit, you need to change it back before leaving the page or else the next Special:RecentChanges you visit will use the same really high limits. Alternatively, you can just disable the JS interface via your preferences.
The day numbers are standard, check Wikipedia's RC.
The default list in the GUI is but what you see in the GUI is not necessarily the actual limit. For example, legacy wikis can go back 93 days even though the highest displayed limit is 30. By the way, it is the same default list for UCP as well. It caused a bit of confusion between HumansCanWinElves and me the first time but it appears the JS interface remembers your last limit and adds that on to the end of the list if it is larger than 30 days. As for edit count, the UCP list does show up to 5,000 which the legacy does not but you can do 5,000 on legacy.
Edit: In the past, legacy wiki have had even larger day limits. I think at one point is was temporarily something like 123.
What do you think?