File:RecentChanges page explanation for Roblox Wikia

In this video, I will be going over how to use the RecentChanges page.

Hi there! It's Erika, otherwise known as Acebatonfan on the Roblox Wikia. Yesterday afternoon, our community migrated to Wikia's Unified Community Platform. We have been making some changes in preparation for this migration, but there are definitely some things I want to go over with you to help make the change a little bit smoother.

This video is about the RecentChanges page, how to read it, and how to use some of its new features to make digging through changes more efficient. With this migration to UCP, WikiActivity has been discontinued, and the only way to see the wiki's activity is through Recentchanges.

So here we are on the Recentchanges page. I am going to go through everything from the top down. First off, we have a tabber that allows you to select whether you want to look at wiki activity or image activity. Clicking on image activity will take you to a separate page that will take you to our RecentImages page, like if you are clicking the Images link under our Explore header.

Going down the wiki activity page, we see a section with other review tools that allow you to only see new pages and new files, or for us patrollers, logs of account creations and abuse filter flags.

The filters below is something I am really excited about, as it is going to allow us to only see specific types of edits. A lot of you aren't planning on using this, so I am going to go through this really quick. For us who patrol the wiki, some filters that really catch my eye include only showing newer users' edits, edits that have not been patrolled yet, and not showing edits that I have made. Beside the filter selection is an option to only see edits from a certain namespace, such as Community or only talk pages.

Below that is a checkbox that automatically refreshes the page when there are new updates. Beside that is where you can change how many recent changes you want to see, such as if you only want to see the changes from the past 24 hours. The next section is a table that shows you what certain dots on the page mean. The big ones we look at is the green dot that represents a new page being made and the red dot that means a mod or adimin has yet to take a look at the edit.

Now that we got the information section out of the way, we finally are where the meat is at. Let's go ahead and take a look through some of the recent edits. The first one I see is Community:Inceptiontime. There is a red circle, which tells me the edit has not been patrolled. To the right of it is a drop-down menu, which shows that there are multiple recent edits to that page. I click on that, and there are three edits. One of them is by Michael, our other admin, while the other two are by TheInceptionTime. I am going to click on the most recent unpatrolled edit.

We are on the changes detail page. The red text means something was removed, while the green text means something was added. It looks like InceptionTime added a newer picture of him, since we can see the older picture is still in the source code. It is a good faith edit, so I am going to go ahead and patrol it. If this was a bad edit, such as a vandal, there usually would be an undo button. The only exception is if they made multiple edits to the page, where in that case it is easier to go into the page history and restore an older good-faith edit.

So that is it for the recentchanges page. I hope this video gives you enough detail to somewhat comfortably go through it. If you have any questions, us admins are always available on our talk pages and discord servers.