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  • 08:12, 27 November 2005 User:Uncle G (Fixed capitalization of template name.)
  • 03:37, 25 November 2005 User:Uncle G (Fixed capitalization of template name.)
  • 17:25, 17 November 2005 User:Uncle G (Fixed hyperlinks that break when this page is copied to other projects.)
  • 17:23, 17 November 2005 User:Uncle G (Fixed hyperlinks that break when this page is copied to other projects.)
  • 05:27, 16 November 2005 User:Uncle G (Replacement of {{new}} with {{H:new}})
  • 05:55, 3 November 2005 User:71.141.227.105 (→Watchlist)
  • 03:18, 28 September 2005 User:70.109.52.109 (1st line/"Anyone"-->"Anyone with an account")
  • 09:13, 24 September 2005 User:AlanBarrett m (→Css - capitalise "CSS" in heading)
  • 09:11, 24 September 2005 User:AlanBarrett (→Privacy of watchlsts - new section, prompted by a query at the en: village pump)
  • 20:19, 30 August 2005 User:Datrio m (Reverted edits by 220.161.107.106 to last version by Patrick)
  • 20:19, 30 August 2005 User:220.161.107.106
  • 20:22, 17 July 2005 User:Patrick (→See also - Detection of additions to a category)
  • 08:20, 16 May 2005 User:Patrick (==Watching wikitext vs. watching the rendered page==)
  • 08:17, 16 May 2005 User:Patrick (→Watching wikitext vs. watching the rendered page)
  • 08:12, 16 May 2005 User:Patrick
  • 05:35, 16 May 2005 User:Patrick (→Email notification -misc)
  • 21:04, 15 May 2005 User:Patrick (→Email notification)
  • 20:54, 15 May 2005 User:Patrick (→See also)
  • 20:48, 15 May 2005 User:Patrick (→Update marker - Note that to reset this (clear the notification flag) one has to be logged in when viewing the page.)
  • 20:42, 15 May 2005 User:Patrick m (→Email notification)
  • 11:29, 15 May 2005 User:Patrick (→Email notification)
  • 11:18, 15 May 2005 User:Patrick (Having a separate email for every edited page that one likes to watch in the sense of the other watch features, may be too much. New features are being proposed and developed: emails with a list of ed)
  • 10:43, 15 May 2005 User:Patrick
  • 09:44, 15 May 2005 User:Patrick (→Update marker)
  • 09:36, 15 May 2005 User:Patrick m (===Update marker===)
  • 09:35, 15 May 2005 User:Patrick (→Effects of watching a page)
  • 09:12, 15 May 2005 User:Patrick (→Effects of watching a page)
  • 09:02, 15 May 2005 User:Patrick (→Effects of watching a page)
  • 08:58, 15 May 2005 User:Patrick (→Effects of watching a page)
  • 08:54, 15 May 2005 User:Patrick m (→Controlling which pages are watched)
  • 08:53, 15 May 2005 User:Patrick (→Controlling which pages are watched)
  • 08:50, 15 May 2005 User:Patrick m (→Controlling which pages are watched)
  • 08:48, 15 May 2005 User:Patrick (→Controlling which pages are watched)
  • 08:41, 15 May 2005 User:Patrick
  • 08:34, 15 May 2005 User:Patrick (→Use)
  • 12:24, 21 April 2005 User:AnyFile
  • 11:43, 19 April 2005 User:Patrick m (→See also)
  • 18:10, 14 April 2005 User:67.166.125.169 (→Watching and unwatching)
  • 11:53, 31 March 2005 User:Patrick m
  • 11:49, 31 March 2005 User:Patrick (Unfortunately, the latter possibility does not have the feature of edited pages automatically being added to the watchlist.)
  • 11:42, 31 March 2005 User:Patrick (Even if Related Changes has equal difficulty in allowing a large watching a large set of pages, the difference is that when [[#Using a set of pages with links as a set of separate watchlists|using a s)
  • 11:37, 31 March 2005 User:Patrick (==Using a set of pages with links as a set of separate watchlists==)
  • 11:36, 31 March 2005 User:Patrick (==Using collections of pages with links as a set of separate watchlists==)
  • 11:09, 31 March 2005 User:Patrick (Note that the watchlist feature is not as reliable as Recent Changes and Related Changes: it gives more often "Database error" without any further explanation.)
  • 11:15, 24 March 2005 User:Patrick (Note that Related Changes does not detect an edit in the page itself and its talk page. Either include a self-link and a link to the talk page in the page, or put the page in another "special watchlis)
  • 11:08, 24 March 2005 User:Patrick (Watching pages in a category by applying Related Changes to the category has a major drawback: removal of a page from the category is not detected.)
  • 21:30, 19 March 2005 User:128.97.70.46 (replaced -- with &mdhash; link to HTML)
  • 22:20, 19 February 2005 User:Angela (rm "However, one can watch the Deletion log." - no longer true)
  • 01:16, 16 February 2005 User:Patrick (→Watching a category or an image)
  • 01:14, 16 February 2005 User:Patrick (→Watching a category or an image - The same applies for changing the image.)
  • 01:11, 16 February 2005 User:Patrick (Watching a category or an image means watching the editable part. Additions to, and removals from a category are not reported.)
  • 13:33, 28 January 2005 User:Patrick (In particular talk pages of template pages are vulnerable: content that is valuable enough for a non-talk page could be put here, if, by the nature of the template, it is not suitable for the template)
  • 13:16, 28 January 2005 User:Patrick (misc)
  • 13:10, 28 January 2005 User:Patrick (All additions to and deletions from the list of watched pages apply to the non-talk page / talk page combination: one can not watch one and not watch the other.)
  • 13:05, 28 January 2005 User:Patrick (→Use -"page" more general than "article")
  • 12:58, 28 January 2005 User:Patrick (→Deletion of pages - However, talk pages are not listed separately, hence deletion of a talk page can not be detected in this manner.)
  • 12:29, 28 January 2005 User:Patrick (mv section down / Since the pages in the list are given in the form of links, deleted ones are easily identified, especially if you normally do not watch nonexisting pages.)
  • 12:24, 28 January 2005 User:Patrick (A list of watched pages, with the possibility of en masse unwatching pages by clicking checkboxes, can be done conveniently using {{SERVER}}{{localurl:Special:Watchlist|magic=yes}}, also available as)
  • 12:10, 28 January 2005 User:Patrick (→Deletion of pages - Since the pages in the list are given in the form of links, nonexisting pages (including the deleted ones) are shown in a different format.)
  • 12:04, 28 January 2005 User:Patrick (Also, {{SERVER}}{{localurl:Special:Watchlist|magic=yes}} shows all watched pages, including the deleted ones, with as usual by default a different format for nonexisting pages, including the deleted o)
  • 09:47, 26 January 2005 User:Patrick (→Article Hit Statisitics - There is a counter for page views of a given page, but on Wikimedia sites it has been disabled for performance reasons.)
  • 03:30, 26 January 2005 User:203.122.225.240 (Article Hits -- Save others looking in vain)
  • 12:42, 24 December 2004 User:192.169.41.37
  • 14:42, 15 December 2004 User:Patrick (with items in the form <nowiki>Main Page </nowiki> showing up as just Main Page .)
  • 14:35, 15 December 2004 User:Patrick (Note however that unlike My Watchlist, Related Changes does not automatically include talk pages; to watch also the corresponding talk pages, links to them also have to be in the page on which Related)
  • 03:07, 4 December 2004 User:Patrick (Such pages can use the template mechanism to include other pages. However, see Pollution of categories)
  • 03:45, 27 November 2004 User:Patrick (Oddly, this link for reducing the number of watched pages is not available when the watchlist function does not work because of too many watched pages. In that case use a URL like http://en.wikipedia.)
  • 06:46, 29 October 2004 User:Jean-Christophe Chazalette m (Reverted edits by 221.194.206.191 to last version by Patrick)
  • 05:34, 29 October 2004 User:221.194.206.191
  • 07:08, 26 September 2004 User:Patrick m
  • 06:08, 23 September 2004 User:AaronPeterson m ({{handbook sidebar|reader toc}} and a briefer main comment.)
  • 08:48, 14 September 2004 User:MattTM m (→Css - disambig CSS)
  • 02:39, 19 August 2004 User:Patrick (→See also - *Watchlist sizes for enwiki 2004-08-11)
  • 13:56, 16 August 2004 User:Patrick (==Keeping a number of separate watchlists==)
  • 23:13, 11 August 2004 User:Patrick (→Css)
  • 22:59, 11 August 2004 User:Patrick m (→Css)
  • 16:09, 11 August 2004 User:Patrick m (→Css)
  • 16:08, 11 August 2004 User:Patrick (→Css -Note that the full url is needed, even to highlight links from the same project, although the html code uses the relative url /wiki/''pagename''.)
  • 15:50, 11 August 2004 User:Patrick (→Css -To highlight links to the given page also from other websites, including interlanguage links, additionally use)
  • 15:26, 11 August 2004 User:Patrick (→Css - (also for piped links, but not for indirect links through a redirect).)
  • 14:39, 11 August 2004 User:Patrick (→Css - Furthermore, it also works on other pages.)
  • 14:32, 11 August 2004 User:Patrick (One can also define a help:user style for links to selected pages, putting in your w:css a list of lines like:)
  • 20:32, 28 July 2004 User:Patrick (Watchlist table)
  • 22:34, 22 June 2004 User:Raul654 (rv vandalism)
  • 22:14, 22 June 2004 User:69.69.20.216
  • 11:46, 2 June 2004 User:Patrick (→Watching and unwatching - You can also watch a non-existing page. Then you see it on your watchlist when somebody creates it. If a page has a (broken) link to it, press that link and press "Watch")
  • 01:09, 27 May 2004 User:Angela m (change next page link)
  • 21:03, 25 May 2004 User:193.29.77.111
  • 01:05, 15 April 2004 User:Jroes m (Added a link to the next page in the guide)
  • 17:36, 16 March 2004 User:195.11.216.59 (Added "no way to exclude minor edits in watchlist".)
  • 04:44, 9 February 2004 User:Angela (link to en:Wikipedia:Minor edit)
  • 21:44, 6 December 2003 User:Angela (en link)
  • 21:43, 6 December 2003 User:Angela (The default cutoff for the watchlist is currently three days for users with less than 1000 pages in their watchlists and 12 hours for Wikipediholics with more than 1000.)
  • 20:49, 13 November 2003 User:Daniel Mayer (updating from EnWikipedia version)
  • 02:13, 7 September 2003 User:Daniel Mayer (converted)
  • 02:06, 7 September 2003 User:Daniel Mayer (en.wikipedia version)