Keep an Eye on Your Wiki Activity in Style
September 27th, 2009 by Sarah
Your “Recent Changes” page has a snazzy new look which allows you to better monitor and manage the activity on your wiki.
Whether you are just beginning your wiki or you’ve been actively using it for a while, Recent Changes has always been a great place to see the recent edits or discussion posts on your wiki. It lets you monitor the activity on your site, make sure you respond to a newbie’s discussion question, or get a bird’s eye view of the work happening among the ten different groups on your wiki.
With our recent improvements, you can now:
- Monitor changes to pages, files, tags, and membership on your wiki. On a Private Label site, you can also see recent wiki creations.
- More easily navigate your Recent Changes list and sort changes by type with our more intuitive design.
- Find more detail about a particular edit or post with our change summaries.
To view these changes, go to your wiki and click on “Recent Changes.” If you notice that someone has made a change to a page that you care about, you now won’t have to leave Recent Changes to see what they’ve done. Simply click on the gray text to the left of their username to view a summary of their changes. To hide this detail, click the gray text again.
Check out your Recent Changes and send us your feedback at help@wikispaces.com.
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The new look with colorful graphic indicators of change types certainly does make it easier to skim lists of changes. However, what you call a “change summary” (Find more detail about a particular edit), a mechanized display of changes in context, isn’t what I’d call a summary. The details I’d like to see at a glance are comments left by people who make changes, then summarize, and explain them as part of a wiki metalogue.
The problem is that now, in order to monitor comments that used to appear in the rightmost column on recent changes pages, it is necessary to make numerous extra moves: opening and closing individual pages, opening and closing individual page histories, ad nauseam, in order to see whether the people who edited recently changed pages them have left comments.
Instead of the gray slugs in the middle of recent changed items, slugs that for pages changed repeatedly sometimes appear identical, why not display comments, if any?
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IM JUST LOVEN WIKISPACES.