Help talk:Recent changes

message: I've been noticing some positive and negative numbers in the related changes pages. For example, three edits of mine from yesterday:
* (diff) (hist) . . m 35 (number)‎; 22:05 . . (-32) . . PrimeFan (Talk | contribs) (Removed "in pi at the tenth digit" (not particularly interesting, in my opinion))
This was my edit. Constint 21:43, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I asked this a couple days ago. It's the number of bytes by which an edit changed the article. Negative means the article got shorter. -Amatulic 23:01, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Oh, that makes sense. Then negative numbers might not always be a bad thing here. Thanks! PrimeFan 22:40, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, a bold negative number means the article got a lot shorter (500 bytes appears to be the threshold for bold numbers). This might indicate blanking by vandals, especially if there's no edit summary. -Amatulic 22:53, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Seems somewhat useful, although I usually just do a quick look-see to find out what was changed. VD64992 07:14, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Same here. Alex43223 Talk | Contribs | E-mail | C 07:16, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The first guess I had when I saw these was that it was a user ranking, so that large negative numbers would warn of trolls/vandals, not sure how many others would jump to the same erroneous conclusion, or whether there is anything that can be done to avoid it sensibly. --81.150.229.68 13:43, 17 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I did. :/ DPCDSB (talk) 06:31, 4 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  What does this mean? 

message: Is there an easily parse-able log of all recent changes of Wikipedia?  The database defeinitly has it, I'm just if there are files somewhere. I can watch the IRC channels but I've missed so many years already :-) --Djihed 19:37, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Past recent changes log? 

message: This page is currently not normal, is it?
nvm, un-did this myself now --84.159.42.97 12:40, 19 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Chinese help for the English Wikipedia? 

message: Is there a place to see the new articles as they are started?  Thanks. Steve Dufour 16:12, 14 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, at Special:Newpages. Libcub (talk) 06:08, 24 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: New articles?

message: What are those green and red numbers for?-KojiDude (Contributions) 01:40, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Nevermind, I think I figured it out on my own.-KojiDude (Contributions) 01:55, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

text: Green numbers represent that the overall character (letter) count in the article increased, and red numbers represent a decrease. Admiral Norton (talk) 11:24, 10 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Numbers 

message: Recent changes to Watchlist items are shown in bold, but if they are moved they are not. Moving of a page is rather an important change and would be good if it was bold if it was being watched. SunCreator (talk) 12:13, 1 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Moves not bold 

message: Bold text
69.149.247.30 (talk) 14:58, 31 August 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: , as you have made no request and I suspect you are in the wrong place, since this page is only to discuss improvements to Help:Recent changes.If you want to suggest a change, please request this on the talk page of the relevant article in the form "Please replace XXX with YYY" or "Please add ZZZ between PPP and QQQ".Please also cite reliable sources to back up your request, without which no information should be added to, or changed in, any article. - Arjayay (talk) 15:02, 31 August 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 31 August 2016 

message: Where can i view the article history on mobile?
Vkb24312 (talk) 19:22, 22 February 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mobile 

message: Are there stats on how many users regularly patrol Recent changes? (not watching, please ) czar 22:34, 2 December 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Stats 

message: hi, is there a way to view recent changes from a certain date? like if I want to see the most recent 50 changes that occured before december 13th 2007 or something? thanks  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.44.163.132 (talk) 22:00, 15 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  recent changes from a point in history 

message: For example I want to See only larger edits (+500 Bytes).
--88.152.11.251 (talk) 22:45, 21 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is there a way to filter by size in bytes?