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<h3> ''Recent Changes'' on steroids </h3>
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For some of us overly-organized types, there is a tendency to want to categorise everything.  In fact, a quick visit to [[Special:Uncategorizedpages|Uncategorized pages]] should show only a very few pages. Categories are one of the best ways to organize articles in the wiki, and all community members are encouraged to add every article to an appropriate category (''or occasionally more than one'').  There's a place for everything else, and everything is in its place.
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When you click the [[Special:Recentchanges|Recent changes]] link, you get a protocol of recent modifications to wiki pages. One neat feature of that page is the "Show new changes starting from" link. If you keep a [[Wikipedia:tabbed document interface|browser tab]] open on the Recent Changes page, you can use it to regularly fetch a list of changes that you haven't seen yet.
  
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Others don't want to stop there, and that's where we need some good old NSwiki consensus.  It's possible that [[Hell Bovines]] want a lettuce category for all their different brands, or [[SAG Weapons Corporation]] needs a complete catalog of handguns. Well, they both can, at present, by adding those items to their factbooks.  What we're trying to avoid is the existence of standalone categories for Lettuce and Handguns.
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Have you tried the option "Enhanced [[Special:Recentchanges|recent changes]]" in your [[Special:Preferences|user preferences]] already? It requires a modern browser to work and is disabled by default. Unlike the normal "recent changes" page, this one summarizes edits to the same page and lets you dynamically expand and collapse the list items. For multiple edits to the same page, it also provides a single "changes" link which will show you a view of the differences between these combined edits and the last non-recent revision.
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If you want to create a new factbook for your main nation, go right ahead.  Instructions are posted in [[:Category:Factbooks]].  Before creating anything else, though, post a comment in the [[NSwiki:Village pump|Village pump]], bring it to [[NSwiki (IRC)|#nswiki]], or drop a note on the Talk page of one of the [[NSwiki:Administrators|sysops]]. Thanks.
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Revision as of 20:37, 7 November 2004

Recent Changes on steroids

When you click the Recent changes link, you get a protocol of recent modifications to wiki pages. One neat feature of that page is the "Show new changes starting from" link. If you keep a browser tab open on the Recent Changes page, you can use it to regularly fetch a list of changes that you haven't seen yet.

Have you tried the option "Enhanced recent changes" in your user preferences already? It requires a modern browser to work and is disabled by default. Unlike the normal "recent changes" page, this one summarizes edits to the same page and lets you dynamically expand and collapse the list items. For multiple edits to the same page, it also provides a single "changes" link which will show you a view of the differences between these combined edits and the last non-recent revision.

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