Last modified: 2014-11-17 10:35:26 UTC
Recent Changes limits were recently reduced to a maxmimum of 500, and this is a bit low for some projects. http://wikitech.wikimedia.org/index.php?oldid=19388#March_24 Several have suggested that Recent Changes be paginated, and I have not yet seen an open bug for this (although bug 17749 is related and might be solved by a good pagination system) The best UI for this would probably be the type used on Special:Log and Special:Contributions. The Allpages/Prefixindex next/prev, and the TablePager big blue buttons are more for alphabetical listings and tabled/columned lists. The UI could just add inside the existing form: (latest | earliest) View (newer 50) (older 50) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500) This isn't ideal for a recent changes field (where the tail end of the information is trimmed), but it is already used by Special:Newpages so should suffice. Another problem, is the &from= URI already used in recent changes, has contrary meaning to some interpretations of what it should do. The best solution probably is to just ditch this parameter (or leave it for legacy, possibly interpret it as an alias for ×tamp=X&dir=prev) and use the same thing done for almost all other time based pagination: &offset=TIMESTAMP combined with &dir=next/prev.
Imho a link in the bottom for "Show older changes" is enough.
Not an enhancement. The 500 limit greatly limits the ability to browse history in most wikies. In any but the smallest wikies there is data that cannot be browsed trough Special:Recentchanges.
(In reply to comment #2) > Not an enhancement. The 500 limit greatly limits the ability to browse history > in most wikies. In any but the smallest wikies there is data that cannot be > browsed trough Special:Recentchanges. * The limit is 5000, not 500. (Half an hour on en.wikipedia, yay) * Since data is kept in recentchanges only a short time anyway (1 month?) there is plenty of data that cannot be browsed through Special:Recentchanges even on the smallest wikis. This is by design.
(In reply to comment #3) > (In reply to comment #2) > * The limit is 5000, not 500. (Half an hour on en.wikipedia, yay) Was, see r48735. > * Since data is kept in recentchanges only a short time anyway (1 month?) there > is plenty of data that cannot be browsed through Special:Recentchanges even on > the smallest wikis. This is by design. Now three months by default (was one week), see r50930. Of course the history is truncated at some point, but it should be possible to browse what there is.
*** Bug 17749 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
