Template:Recent changes in Medicine/doc

The template adds a box to a page with five or more links. Each link opens a list of Recent changes for a set of WP:MED pages.

{{Recent changes in Medicine}}

Options

Your options (can set in your Preferences, tab: recent changes):

• Hide minor edits
• History length (maximum number of days)
• Length of list (e.g., maximum of 500 edits)
• ...

Add more links to track

You can add extra pages that are tracked (=presented in a Recent changes list).

Recent changes in WP:Medicine

Articles and their talkpages:

• In all Medicine articles (not talks)
• In articles with Top-, High-importance
• In articles with Mid-importance
• In articles with Low-importance
• In pages with NA, ???=unknown importance
• In the 1000 most popular articles (source)

Not mainspace:

• In all non-articles
• In all templates
• In Medicine navigation templates

• Leukemia (source)
• My topic of study (source)

Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
99	1,070	11,550	38,917	20,684	1,275	73,595

List overview · Lists updated: 2015-07-15 · This box:

Examples

{{Recent changes in Medicine
|mylinks1=Leukemia
|mylinks2=Malaria|label2=My topic of study
}}

|label2= is optional.

• Four pages can be added: |mylinks1=, |mylinks2=, |mylinks3=, |mylinks4=. With them, |label1=–|label4=) can be added, optionally.

Do not skip numbers. Add the whole pagename, including the namespace.

Setting |sourcelink=no hides the "(source)" link to your individual pages. Default is |sourcelink=yes.

Style settings

|style= is an optional parameter, and can set or overrule the css style:

{{Recent changes in Medicine|style=float:left;}} will let the box float to the left side of the page.

Workings of "Recent changes"

The Recent changes special page produces a time-ordered list of edits, a bit like "Recent changes", "Watchlist" and "History" do. The specialty is that it lists only "outgoing links that are on a page." The option is in the toolbox menu in the left-hand side of this screen. When clicked, you'll see the edits listed for all links that are on this very page.

We can also feed this Special with another page's links to follow. For example, this is the Related changes list looking at talkpage WT:Medicine: Special page Related changes for WT:Medicine. This template uses the trick is that it uses another pages that has exactly all "Medicine X-importance" pages listed.

If we put all 30,000 MED-pages in one page to follow, the visible list would roll over every 5 hours, so that you'd easily miss edits to you pages of interest: they're falling off the list quick.

See also

• Category:Medicine articles by importance - used as source for the lists