Editing Encyclopedia:Special pages bug reports (section)

== Recent Changes ==

The Recent Change page has many design flaws.  

When I want to list all the new changes since my last visit to the site, I can only see the most recent 100 changes. Given all the minor changes are always included, one exceeds the 100 entries limit in a few hours, if you are away for more than a day, you have serious trouble seeing the complete list. It may not be problem for the wikipediaholics who check the Recent Change page every 30 seconds, but it simply does not work for the regular users.  

I tried using the max count and the age link, they also have design flaws and do not work intuitively.  
When I click last seven days, it shows only 100 entries that cover only half a day, (same problem as above).  
When I click last 2500 entries, it either fails to return anything or it covers only the last 3 days. i.e. There is no way to ask for last seven day without count limit, or a count limit but no age limit.  

::'''workaround''': Since the 100 count limit can be easily reached, it becomes the limiting factor.  In effect, all the links, 1 day, 2 days, 3 days, 5 days, 7 days, 14 days all give the same 100 result.  To workaround this problem, you can right click on these links and copy its URL iinto the address field of the browser, change the count limit and hit ENTER.

RecentChanges regularly claims (2 Changes) if there was only one. Except for new pages, it always counts one to many. [[user:AxelBoldt|AxelBoldt]]

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'''Changes to the [[http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki main page]] show up wrong'''

Every time the main page is edited, the [[special:RecentChanges]] shows a date a long way in the past and only the diff and the changes can be clicked.  The person doing the edits is also not visible.  The entry in the Recent Changes looks like this:

 Wednesday, December 31, 1969

    * (diff) ; 15:59 (75 changes) . . .

It should have looked like this:

    * (diff) Main Page; 15:59 (75 changes) . . . xxx

Another oddity: after another page is edited, the name of that page ends up in place of the Main page and the entry in the Recent Changes than looks like this:

 Wednesday, December 31, 1969

    * (diff) Vicki Rosenzweig; 15:59 (75 changes) . . .





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'''"List only new changes" doesn't work'''

(2002/1/26) On [[special:RecentChanges]], the link saying "list only new changes" consistently returns an empty list, even after waiting a while. --[[user:AxelBoldt|AxelBoldt]]

:Right! Same here. Maybe because i'm using a +8 hours offset?  --[[user:Luis Oliveira|Luis Oliveira]]

::Yes, there's a bug in the time zone handling code. I am on Central time (Server time + 2h) which I set in my user preferences and I noticed that the "List only new changes" link returns something only after I wait for 2 hours, and then only those changes that have occurred two hours since I last accessed RecentChanges. [[user:AxelBoldt|AxelBoldt]]

'''minor edits showing up even if turned off''' (2002/03/05)

And with bad links and dates?

'''minor edits hide the major edits''' (2002/04/12)

When I turn off the minor edits in the preference, I would expect the most recent major edit would take its place.

For example, the history shows that an article was edited (major) at 1pm, and the same article was edited again (minor) at 1:02pm.  In the Recent Change page, both the 1pm and 1:02pm edits become invisible if the preference is set to hide minor edits.