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<span>Limitations</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Limitations-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-How_to_read_a_watchlist_(or_recent_changes)" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#How_to_read_a_watchlist_(or_recent_changes)"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3</span> <span>How to read a watchlist (or recent changes)</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-How_to_read_a_watchlist_(or_recent_changes)-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle How to read a watchlist (or recent changes) subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-How_to_read_a_watchlist_(or_recent_changes)-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Options" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Options"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.1</span> <span>Options</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Options-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Customizing_watchlists" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Customizing_watchlists"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4</span> <span>Customizing watchlists</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Customizing_watchlists-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Customizing watchlists subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Customizing_watchlists-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Hiding_pages_from_a_watchlist" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Hiding_pages_from_a_watchlist"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.1</span> <span>Hiding pages from a watchlist</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Hiding_pages_from_a_watchlist-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Alternatives_to_watchlists" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Alternatives_to_watchlists"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5</span> <span>Alternatives to watchlists</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Alternatives_to_watchlists-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Watchlist_notices" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Watchlist_notices"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6</span> <span>Watchlist notices</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Watchlist_notices-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Reporting_technical_issues" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Reporting_technical_issues"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7</span> <span>Reporting technical issues</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Reporting_technical_issues-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-See_also" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#See_also"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8</span> <span>See also</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-See_also-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-References" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#References"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">9</span> <span>References</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-References-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-External_links" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#External_links"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">10</span> <span>External links</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-External_links-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </nav> </div> </div> <div class="mw-content-container"> <main id="content" class="mw-body"> <header class="mw-body-header vector-page-titlebar"> <nav aria-label="Contents" class="vector-toc-landmark"> <div id="vector-page-titlebar-toc" class="vector-dropdown vector-page-titlebar-toc vector-button-flush-left" > <input type="checkbox" id="vector-page-titlebar-toc-checkbox" role="button" aria-haspopup="true" data-event-name="ui.dropdown-vector-page-titlebar-toc" class="vector-dropdown-checkbox " aria-label="Toggle the table of contents" > <label id="vector-page-titlebar-toc-label" for="vector-page-titlebar-toc-checkbox" class="vector-dropdown-label cdx-button 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mw-list-item"><a href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%B3%D8%A7%D8%B9%D8%AF%D8%A9:%D9%85%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%82%D8%A8%D8%A9_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B5%D9%81%D8%AD%D8%A7%D8%AA" title="مساعدة:مراقبة الصفحات – Arabic" lang="ar" hreflang="ar" data-title="مساعدة:مراقبة الصفحات" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>العربية</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A3%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BF%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%B8%D1%8F:%D0%9D%D0%B0%D0%B1%D0%BB%D1%8E%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B5_%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%86%D0%B8" title="Уикипедия:Наблюдение на страници – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Уикипедия:Наблюдение на страници" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajuda:Vigilar_p%C3%A0gines" title="Ajuda:Vigilar pàgines – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Ajuda:Vigilar pàgines" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C3%A1pov%C4%9Bda:Sledovan%C3%A9_str%C3%A1nky" title="Nápověda:Sledované stránky – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Nápověda:Sledované stránky" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hj%C3%A6lp:Overv%C3%A5gningsliste" title="Hjælp:Overvågningsliste – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Hjælp:Overvågningsliste" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilfe:Beobachtungsliste" title="Hilfe:Beobachtungsliste – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Hilfe:Beobachtungsliste" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%92%CE%BF%CE%AE%CE%B8%CE%B5%CE%B9%CE%B1:%CE%9B%CE%AF%CF%83%CF%84%CE%B1_%CF%80%CE%B1%CF%81%CE%B1%CE%BA%CE%BF%CE%BB%CE%BF%CF%8D%CE%B8%CE%B7%CF%83%CE%B7%CF%82" title="Βοήθεια:Λίστα παρακολούθησης – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Βοήθεια:Λίστα παρακολούθησης" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayuda:Lista_de_seguimiento" title="Ayuda:Lista de seguimiento – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Ayuda:Lista de seguimiento" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aide:Liste_de_suivi" title="Aide:Liste de suivi – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Aide:Liste de suivi" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axuda:Lista_de_vixilancia" title="Axuda:Lista de vixilancia – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Axuda:Lista de vixilancia" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%8F%84%EC%9B%80%EB%A7%90:%EC%A3%BC%EC%8B%9C%EB%AC%B8%EC%84%9C" title="도움말:주시문서 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="도움말:주시문서" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hi mw-list-item"><a href="https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%B9%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%A4%E0%A4%BE:%E0%A4%A7%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A8%E0%A4%B8%E0%A5%82%E0%A4%9A%E0%A5%80" title="सहायता:ध्यानसूची – Hindi" lang="hi" hreflang="hi" data-title="सहायता:ध्यानसूची" data-language-autonym="हिन्दी" data-language-local-name="Hindi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>हिन्दी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hsb mw-list-item"><a href="https://hsb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomoc:Wobked%C5%BAbowanki" title="Pomoc:Wobkedźbowanki – Upper Sorbian" lang="hsb" hreflang="hsb" data-title="Pomoc:Wobkedźbowanki" data-language-autonym="Hornjoserbsce" data-language-local-name="Upper Sorbian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hornjoserbsce</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedija:Pra%C4%87ene_stranice" title="Wikipedija:Praćene stranice – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Wikipedija:Praćene stranice" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hrvatski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bantuan:Daftar_pantauan" title="Bantuan:Daftar pantauan – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Bantuan:Daftar pantauan" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-is mw-list-item"><a href="https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hj%C3%A1lp:A%C3%B0_vakta_s%C3%AD%C3%B0ur" title="Hjálp:Að vakta síður – Icelandic" lang="is" hreflang="is" data-title="Hjálp:Að vakta síður" data-language-autonym="Íslenska" data-language-local-name="Icelandic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Íslenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aiuto:Osservati_speciali" title="Aiuto:Osservati speciali – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Aiuto:Osservati speciali" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A2%D7%96%D7%A8%D7%94:%D7%A8%D7%A9%D7%99%D7%9E%D7%AA_%D7%9E%D7%A2%D7%A7%D7%91" title="עזרה:רשימת מעקב – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="עזרה:רשימת מעקב" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-jv mw-list-item"><a href="https://jv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Pawawangan" title="Wikipédia:Pawawangan – Javanese" lang="jv" hreflang="jv" data-title="Wikipédia:Pawawangan" data-language-autonym="Jawa" data-language-local-name="Javanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Jawa</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ks mw-list-item"><a href="https://ks.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%8E%D8%AF%D9%8E%D8%AA%DA%BE:%D9%86%D9%8E%D8%B8%D8%B1%D9%90_%D8%AA%D9%8E%D9%84_%D9%81%D9%90%DB%81%D8%B1%D9%90%D8%B3%D8%AA" title="مَدَتھ:نَظرِ تَل فِہرِست – Kashmiri" lang="ks" hreflang="ks" data-title="مَدَتھ:نَظرِ تَل فِہرِست" data-language-autonym="कॉशुर / کٲشُر" data-language-local-name="Kashmiri" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>कॉशुर / کٲشُر</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pagalba:Stebimi_puslapiai" title="Pagalba:Stebimi puslapiai – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Pagalba:Stebimi puslapiai" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lietuvių</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Figyel%C5%91lista" title="Wikipédia:Figyelőlista – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Wikipédia:Figyelőlista" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bantuan:Memantau_laman" title="Bantuan:Memantau laman – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="Bantuan:Memantau laman" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" 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data-title="Hjelp:Overvåke sider" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uz mw-list-item"><a href="https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yordam:Kuzatuv_ro%CA%BByxatim" title="Yordam:Kuzatuv roʻyxatim – Uzbek" lang="uz" hreflang="uz" data-title="Yordam:Kuzatuv roʻyxatim" data-language-autonym="Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча" data-language-local-name="Uzbek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pa mw-list-item"><a href="https://pa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A8%B5%E0%A8%BF%E0%A8%95%E0%A9%80%E0%A8%AA%E0%A9%80%E0%A8%A1%E0%A9%80%E0%A8%86:%E0%A8%A8%E0%A8%BF%E0%A8%97%E0%A8%B0%E0%A8%BE%E0%A8%A8%E0%A9%80-%E0%A8%B2%E0%A8%BF%E0%A8%B8%E0%A8%9F" title="ਵਿਕੀਪੀਡੀਆ:ਨਿਗਰਾਨੀ-ਲਿਸਟ – Punjabi" lang="pa" hreflang="pa" data-title="ਵਿਕੀਪੀਡੀਆ:ਨਿਗਰਾਨੀ-ਲਿਸਟ" data-language-autonym="ਪੰਜਾਬੀ" 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For WikiProject Watches, see <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Watches" title="Wikipedia:WikiProject Watches">Wikipedia:WikiProject Watches</a>.</div><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238436933">.mw-parser-output .ombox{margin:4px 0;border-collapse:collapse;border:1px solid #a2a9b1;background-color:var(--background-color-neutral-subtle,#f8f9fa);box-sizing:border-box;color:var(--color-base,#202122)}.mw-parser-output .ombox.mbox-small{font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em}.mw-parser-output .ombox-speedy{border:2px solid #b32424;background-color:#fee7e6}.mw-parser-output .ombox-delete{border:2px solid #b32424}.mw-parser-output .ombox-content{border:1px solid #f28500}.mw-parser-output .ombox-style{border:1px solid #fc3}.mw-parser-output .ombox-move{border:1px solid #9932cc}.mw-parser-output .ombox-protection{border:2px solid #a2a9b1}.mw-parser-output .ombox .mbox-text{border:none;padding:0.25em 0.9em;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .ombox .mbox-image{border:none;padding:2px 0 2px 0.9em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ombox .mbox-imageright{border:none;padding:2px 0.9em 2px 0;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ombox .mbox-empty-cell{border:none;padding:0;width:1px}.mw-parser-output .ombox .mbox-invalid-type{text-align:center}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .ombox{margin:4px 10%}.mw-parser-output .ombox.mbox-small{clear:right;float:right;margin:4px 0 4px 1em;width:238px}}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output table.ombox img{max-width:none!important}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .ombox-speedy{background-color:#310402}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .ombox-speedy{background-color:#310402}}</style><table class="plainlinks ombox ombox-notice" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9e/Twemoji_1f527.svg/30px-Twemoji_1f527.svg.png" decoding="async" width="30" height="30" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9e/Twemoji_1f527.svg/45px-Twemoji_1f527.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9e/Twemoji_1f527.svg/60px-Twemoji_1f527.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="512"/></span></span></td><td class="mbox-text"><div style="padding-top: 6px; padding-bottom: 5px;"><b>This help page is a <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Project_namespace#Wikipedia_how-to_and_information_pages" title="Wikipedia:Project namespace">how-to guide</a>.</b><br/><div style="font-size: 90%;">It explains concepts or processes used by the Wikipedia community. It is not one of <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Policies_and_guidelines" title="Wikipedia:Policies and guidelines">Wikipedia's policies or guidelines</a>, and may reflect varying levels of <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Consensus" title="Wikipedia:Consensus">consensus</a>.</div></div></td><td class="mbox-imageright"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1252059228">.mw-parser-output .module-shortcutboxplain{float:right;margin:0 0 0 1em;border:1px solid var(--border-color-base,#a2a9b1);background-color:var(--background-color-base,#fff);padding:0.3em 0.6em 0.2em 0.6em;text-align:center;font-size:85%}.mw-parser-output .module-shortcutboxleft{float:left;margin:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .module-shortcutlist{display:inline-block;border-bottom:1px solid var(--border-color-base,#a2a9b1);margin-bottom:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .module-shortcutboxplain ul{font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .module-shortcutanchordiv{position:relative;top:-3em}.mw-parser-output li .module-shortcutanchordiv{float:right}.mw-parser-output .mbox-imageright .module-shortcutboxplain{padding:0.4em 1em 0.4em 1em;line-height:1.3;margin:0}</style><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="H:W"></span><span id="WP:W"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcuts</a></div><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=H:W&redirect=no">H:W</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:W&redirect=no">WP:W</a></span></li></ul></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Wikipedia_watchlist.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/09/Wikipedia_watchlist.png/350px-Wikipedia_watchlist.png" decoding="async" width="350" height="263" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/09/Wikipedia_watchlist.png/525px-Wikipedia_watchlist.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/09/Wikipedia_watchlist.png/700px-Wikipedia_watchlist.png 2x" data-file-width="2260" data-file-height="1696"/></a><figcaption>Example of a watchlist</figcaption></figure> <p>A <b>watchlist</b> is a page that allows any <a href="/wiki/Help:Logging_in" title="Help:Logging in">logged-in</a> user to maintain a list of "watched" pages and to generate a list of recent changes made to those pages (and their associated talk pages). In this way you can keep track of, and react to, what's happening to pages you have created or are otherwise interested in. </p><p>By default, pages are kept permanently on a user's watchlist until such time as they choose to 'unwatch' them. However, various options also exist for temporarily watching pages, from periods between one week and one year. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc"/> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Effects_of_watchlisting_a_page" data-mw-thread-id="h-Effects_of_watchlisting_a_page"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Effects_of_watchlisting_a_page"></span>Effects of watchlisting a page<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Effects_of_watchlisting_a_page"></span></h2></div> <p>Watching a page means that the recent changes made to it will show up on your watchlist (<a href="/wiki/Special:Watchlist" title="Special:Watchlist">Special:Watchlist</a>), as well as changes to its associated talk page. Actions affecting watched pages (page <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Moving_a_page" title="Wikipedia:Moving a page">moves</a>, page creations and deletions, protection) also appear in the watchlist. For example, if you watch a page that does not yet have a talk page, you will see on your watchlist when someone creates that talk page. If you watch a User: page, you will be notified on your watchlist if that user is blocked or has <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:PERM" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:PERM">user permissions</a> added or removed. </p><p>If a page you have watched is moved to a new title, the new title will be automatically added to your watchlist. Even if the page is later moved back (and even if the page at the new title is deleted), the new title will remain in your watchlist along with the old one. If you notice mysterious nonexistent pages appearing on your <a href="/wiki/Special:Watchlist/edit" title="Special:Watchlist/edit">list of watched pages</a>, this is the most likely explanation. </p><p>When you view <a href="/wiki/Help:Recent_changes" title="Help:Recent changes">Recent Changes</a>, <a href="/wiki/Help:Enhanced_recent_changes" title="Help:Enhanced recent changes">Enhanced Recent Changes</a> or <a href="/wiki/Help:Related_changes" title="Help:Related changes">Related Changes</a>, entries relating to pages you are watching appear in <b>bold text</b>. This means that it may be beneficial to mark pages as "watched" even if you do not intend on viewing the <a href="/wiki/Special:Watchlist" title="Special:Watchlist">Special:Watchlist</a> page. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Privacy" data-mw-thread-id="h-Privacy-Effects_of_watchlisting_a_page"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Privacy-Effects_of_watchlisting_a_page"></span>Privacy<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Privacy-Effects_of_watchlisting_a_page"></span></h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Privacy_policy" class="extiw" title="wikimedia:Privacy policy">Wikimedia:Privacy policy</a></div> <p>No other user, not even <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators" title="Wikipedia:Administrators">administrators</a>, can tell what is in your watchlist, or who is watching any particular page. <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download" title="Wikipedia:Database download">Publicly available database dumps</a> do not include this information either. However, <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developers" class="extiw" title="mw:Developers">developers</a> who have access to the servers that hold the Wikipedia database can obtain this information. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Number_of_watchers" data-mw-thread-id="h-Number_of_watchers-Effects_of_watchlisting_a_page"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Number_of_watchers-Effects_of_watchlisting_a_page"></span>Number of watchers<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Number_of_watchers-Effects_of_watchlisting_a_page"></span></h3></div> <p><span class="anchor" id="watchers"></span> For any particular page, it is possible to discover how many users have it on their watchlist. Under the Tools menu, click on <a href="/wiki/Help:Page_information" title="Help:Page information">Page information</a>. Scroll down about two-thirds of the way through the first ("Basic information") section. You may see two related lines, like this: </p> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <td>Number of page watchers </td> <td>312 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Number of page watchers who visited in the last 30 days </td> <td>23 </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The first line gives the number of accounts in the database that presently include this page. The second tells you how many users not only put the page on their watchlists, but also visited that page at least once during the last 30 days. Particularly for older pages, the first number does not give an accurate understanding of how many editors might review edits to the page, as most accounts are inactive.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>If the first number is less than 30, the exact number is displayed only to administrators. For all other users, the first will say "Fewer than 30 watchers", and the second line will be omitted. If displayed at all, the second line shows the exact number to all users, or says "There may or may not be a watching user visiting recent edits" if none of the editors with that particular page on their watchlists has visited that page during the last 30 days. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Email_notification" data-mw-thread-id="h-Email_notification-Effects_of_watchlisting_a_page"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Email_notification-Effects_of_watchlisting_a_page"></span>Email notification<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Email_notification-Effects_of_watchlisting_a_page"></span></h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main page: <a href="/wiki/Help:Email_notification" title="Help:Email notification">Help:Email notification</a></div> <p>Watching a page allows you to receive email notification of changes to it. To enable this feature, select "Email me when a page or file on my watchlist is changed" at the bottom of the <b>User Profile</b> tab in <a href="/wiki/Special:Preferences" title="Special:Preferences">Special:Preferences</a>. (Currently, it is not possible to limit email notifications by page, so you will receive notification when <i>any</i> page on your watchlist is changed.) </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="RSS_feed" data-mw-thread-id="h-RSS_feed-Effects_of_watchlisting_a_page"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-RSS_feed-Effects_of_watchlisting_a_page"></span>RSS feed<span data-mw-comment-end="h-RSS_feed-Effects_of_watchlisting_a_page"></span></h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main page: <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Syndication" title="Wikipedia:Syndication">Wikipedia:Syndication</a></div> <p>You can also monitor your watchlist via <a href="/wiki/RSS" title="RSS">RSS</a> (<a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=feedwatchlist">RSS feed when logged in</a>). You can also monitor your watchlist via RSS when logged out – see <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Syndication#Watchlist_feed_with_token" title="Wikipedia:Syndication">Wikipedia:Syndication § Watchlist feed with token</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Controlling_which_pages_are_watched" data-mw-thread-id="h-Controlling_which_pages_are_watched"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Controlling_which_pages_are_watched"></span>Controlling which pages are watched<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Controlling_which_pages_are_watched"></span></h2></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Unwatched_page_in_Vector.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c8/Unwatched_page_in_Vector.png" decoding="async" width="320" height="86" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="320" data-file-height="86"/></a><figcaption>This screenshot shows a page that is not on the watchlist of the user. Clicking on the star will add it to the watchlist.</figcaption></figure> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Watched_page_in_Vector.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e3/Watched_page_in_Vector.png" decoding="async" width="321" height="86" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="321" data-file-height="86"/></a><figcaption>The star on this page is blue to indicate that it is on the watchlist of the user.</figcaption></figure> <p>There are four ways to control which pages you have on your watchlist: </p> <ol><li><b>Tab at top of page</b>: When viewing a page, click the star symbol <span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:MediaWiki_Vector_skin_white_star_watchlist_icon.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/MediaWiki_Vector_skin_white_star_watchlist_icon.svg/16px-MediaWiki_Vector_skin_white_star_watchlist_icon.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/MediaWiki_Vector_skin_white_star_watchlist_icon.svg/24px-MediaWiki_Vector_skin_white_star_watchlist_icon.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/MediaWiki_Vector_skin_white_star_watchlist_icon.svg/32px-MediaWiki_Vector_skin_white_star_watchlist_icon.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="16" data-file-height="16"/></a></span> between the 'View history' tab and the search box at the very top of the page, to respectively add or remove the page from your watchlist.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Note that the star symbol is available in the default website design ("skin"); in other skins, the tab says "watch" or "unwatch". <ul><li><b>Watching pages that don't exist</b>: You can watch a page even if neither the content page nor the talk page exists, enabling you to be alerted if either the content page or the talk page is created. To do that, go to the page's URL, either by typing the URL directly or following a (broken) link, and then press "Watch" (depending on the skin you may have to press Cancel first).</li></ul></li> <li><b>Option at bottom of edit box</b>: When editing a page, check or uncheck "Watch this page" before saving (above the 'Show preview' button).</li> <li><b>Edit entire watchlist</b>: Click "Edit your list of watched pages" button at the top of the watchlist page to view or alter the list of watched pages directly. The first option takes you to <a href="/wiki/Special:Watchlist/edit" title="Special:Watchlist/edit">Special:Watchlist/edit</a>, where the watched pages are listed with checkboxes that can be used to remove items. The second takes you to <a href="/wiki/Special:Watchlist/raw" title="Special:Watchlist/raw">Special:Watchlist/raw</a>, which has a text area with a list of watched pages, one title per line, sorted by <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Namespace" title="Wikipedia:Namespace">namespace</a> number and then <a href="/wiki/Help:Alphabetical_order" title="Help:Alphabetical order">alphabetically</a>. You can edit the list directly, copy it to an external editor or replace it with a list created elsewhere. Duplicates are automatically removed on saving. <i>In the list, redlinked (non-existent) pages are still watched, as are their talk pages, and this applies to subpages and their talk pages. When you click watch (star) on, for example, a <code>User Talk:</code> page, the link is <a href="/wiki/Canonicalization" title="Canonicalization">canonicalized</a> to <code>User:</code> in the list.</i></li> <li><b>Popups gadget</b>: If you have the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Tools/Navigation_popups" title="Wikipedia:Tools/Navigation popups">popups</a> gadget enabled, you can use it to watch or unwatch a linked page without having to view it.</li></ol> <p>If you check "Add pages I edit to my watchlist" on <a href="/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-watchlist" title="Special:Preferences">the "Watchlist" tab of your user preferences</a>, then the "Watch this page" checkbox will always be checked by default when you edit pages. Other similar options are "Add pages I create to my watchlist", "Add pages I move to my watchlist", and (for <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators" title="Wikipedia:Administrators">administrators</a>) "Add pages I delete to my watchlist". </p><p><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:TWINKLE" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:TWINKLE">Twinkle</a> has the option to automatically add articles it's used on to your watchlist (including <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:PROD" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:PROD">PROD</a> nominations, <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:XFD" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:XFD">XfD</a> nominations and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:ROLLBACK" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:ROLLBACK">reverts</a>). To change these settings, go to <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Twinkle/Preferences" title="Wikipedia:Twinkle/Preferences">Wikipedia:Twinkle/Preferences</a>. </p><p>It should also be noted that: </p> <ul><li>Because no one owns any article, there is no requirement to watch articles you have created or contributed to, so you are not expected to check to see whether the content has been vandalised, challenged (e.g., for lack of sources), discussed on the article's talk page, and so forth. The only page you are expected to keep an eye on is your own talk page.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Using_talk_pages" class="mw-redirect" title="Help:Using talk pages">Talk pages</a> are not listed at <a href="/wiki/Special:Watchlist/edit" title="Special:Watchlist/edit">Special:Watchlist/edit</a> or <a href="/wiki/Special:Watchlist/raw" title="Special:Watchlist/raw">Special:Watchlist/raw</a>, but they are automatically watched whenever their corresponding non-talk pages are watched.</li> <li>Additional page titles may sometimes appear on your watchlist as a result of page moves.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Temporarily_watching_pages" data-mw-thread-id="h-Temporarily_watching_pages-Controlling_which_pages_are_watched"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Temporarily_watching_pages-Controlling_which_pages_are_watched"></span>Temporarily watching pages<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Temporarily_watching_pages-Controlling_which_pages_are_watched"></span></h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Watchlist_expiry" class="extiw" title="mw:Help:Watchlist expiry">mw:Help:Watchlist expiry</a></div> <p>A new watchlist feature (Watchlist Expiry) was introduced in 2020. It enables users to optionally select to watch a page only for a limited period of time. (1 week, 1, 3 or 6 months, or 1 year). This is done by clicking the hollow blue star icon and selecting the preferred time period in the dropdown, which then appears. Once the chosen watch period has expired, the page is automatically removed from your watchlist. You can alter the watch period at any time, including switching from temporary to permanent watching, or unwatching completely at any time. Temporarily watched pages are usually represented by a half-filled blue star icon (as opposed to a fully-filled blue star, which represents a permanently watched page). </p><p>If you simply want to permanently watch a page as usual, you do not need to change any of your current processes. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Clearing_the_watchlist" data-mw-thread-id="h-Clearing_the_watchlist-Controlling_which_pages_are_watched"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Clearing_the_watchlist-Controlling_which_pages_are_watched"></span>Clearing the watchlist<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Clearing_the_watchlist-Controlling_which_pages_are_watched"></span></h3></div> <p>To remove all entries in the watchlist click on <a href="/wiki/Special:EditWatchlist/clear" title="Special:EditWatchlist/clear"><b>Clear the watchlist</b></a>. You will be prompted to confirm your selection. Once confirmed, all entries will be removed from your watchlist. <u>There is no way to reverse this action.</u> You may want to back up your watchlist locally by copying all of the lines from the <a href="/wiki/Special:EditWatchlist/raw" title="Special:EditWatchlist/raw">raw watchlist</a> to a file before clearing. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Limitations" data-mw-thread-id="h-Limitations-Controlling_which_pages_are_watched"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Limitations-Controlling_which_pages_are_watched"></span>Limitations<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Limitations-Controlling_which_pages_are_watched"></span></h3></div> <ul><li><b>Special pages</b>: It is not possible to watch automatically generated pages, such as <a href="/wiki/Help:Special_page" title="Help:Special page">Special pages</a>.</li> <li><span class="anchor" id="page_categorization"></span><b>Category membership</b>: Watching a <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Categorization" title="Wikipedia:Categorization">category</a> page will pick up changes to the text of the category page itself. If "Hide categorization of pages" is disabled at <a href="/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-watchlist" title="Special:Preferences">Special:Preferences § mw-prefsection-watchlist</a>, or "page categorization" is unchecked after "Hide:" on the watchlist, then it will also show pages being added or removed from the category. However, it will not report changes to subcategories or member pages contained in the category.</li> <li><b>Transcluded text</b>: When a watched page contains transcluded text, such as <a href="/wiki/Help:Template" title="Help:Template">templates</a>, the form of the page may change as a result of changes to the transcluded pages. These changes will not show up on your watchlist unless you are watching the transcluded pages as well.</li> <li><b>Sections</b>: It is not possible to watch just a part or section of a page. However, for talk pages, it is possible, though not through the watchlist, to subscribe to receive <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Talk_pages_project#Notifications_for_topic_subscriptions" title="Wikipedia:Talk pages project">notifications for changes to sections</a>.</li> <li><b>Other wikis</b>: It is not possible to receive watchlist notices on the English Wikipedia for changes made to pages watchlisted on other Wikipedia languages or Wikimedia wikis. See <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Global_watchlist" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Global watchlist">Wikipedia:Global watchlist</a> for work on this.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="How_to_read_a_watchlist_(or_recent_changes)" data-mw-thread-id="h-How_to_read_a_watchlist_(or_recent_changes)"><span id="How_to_read_a_watchlist_.28or_recent_changes.29"></span><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-How_to_read_a_watchlist_(or_recent_changes)"></span>How to read a watchlist (or recent changes)<span data-mw-comment-end="h-How_to_read_a_watchlist_(or_recent_changes)"></span></h2></div> <p><span class="anchor" id="How_to_read_a_watchlist"></span><span class="anchor" id="How_to_read_a_watchlist_(or_Recent_Changes)"></span> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1224211176">.mw-parser-output .quotebox{background-color:#F9F9F9;border:1px solid #aaa;box-sizing:border-box;padding:10px;font-size:88%;max-width:100%}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatleft{margin:.5em 1.4em .8em 0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatright{margin:.5em 0 .8em 1.4em}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.centered{overflow:hidden;position:relative;margin:.5em auto .8em auto}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatleft span,.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatright span{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output .quotebox>blockquote{margin:0;padding:0;border-left:0;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-title{text-align:center;font-size:110%;font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote>:first-child{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote:last-child>:last-child{margin-bottom:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote.quoted:before{font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-weight:bold;font-size:large;color:gray;content:" “ ";vertical-align:-45%;line-height:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote.quoted:after{font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-weight:bold;font-size:large;color:gray;content:" ” ";line-height:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .left-aligned{text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .right-aligned{text-align:right}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .center-aligned{text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .quote-title,.mw-parser-output .quotebox .quotebox-quote{display:block}.mw-parser-output .quotebox cite{display:block;font-style:normal}@media screen and (max-width:640px){.mw-parser-output .quotebox{width:100%!important;margin:0 0 .8em!important;float:none!important}}</style><div class="quotebox pullquote floatright" style="border-width: 0; color: #202122;background-color: transparent;"> <blockquote class="quotebox-quote left-aligned" style=""> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1224211176"><div class="quotebox pullquote" style=";"> <blockquote class="quotebox-quote left-aligned" style=""> <div class="poem"> <p><b>Legend (<a class="mw-selflink-fragment" href="#How_to_read_a_watchlist_(or_Recent_Changes)">help</a>):</b><br/> <span class="wikibase-edit"><b>D</b></span> Edit made at Wiki<em style="font-style:normal; text-decoration:underline;">d</em>ata<br/> <span class="ores-damaging"><b>r</b></span> Edit flagged by <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/ORES_review_tool" class="extiw" title="mw:Special:MyLanguage/ORES review tool">O<u>R</u>ES</a><br/> <span class="newpage">N</span> <a href="/wiki/Special:NewPages" title="Special:NewPages"><span style="text-decoration:underline;">N</span>ew page</a><br/> <span class="minoredit">m</span> <span id="minoredit_helplink"><a href="/wiki/Help:Minor_edit" title="Help:Minor edit"><span style="text-decoration:underline;">M</span>inor edit</a></span><br/> <span class="botedit">b</span> <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Bots" title="Wikipedia:Bots"><span style="text-decoration:underline;">B</span>ot edit</a><br/> <span class="mw-plusminus-pos"><b>(±123)</b></span> <span class="mw-changeslist-legend-plusminus">Page byte size change</span> </p> </div> </blockquote> </div> <p> The legend shows at the top right of the watchlist </p> </blockquote> </div> <p>When you are <a href="/wiki/Help:Logging_in" title="Help:Logging in">logged in</a> to Wikipedia, a link, <i>Watchlist</i>, appears at the top of every page. This links to the special page <a href="/wiki/Special:Watchlist" title="Special:Watchlist">Special:Watchlist</a>, reporting recent changes to your watched pages. It is a list separated by days, ordered backwards according to the time of the edit. </p><p>Each line of a Watchlist (or Recent Changes page) shows details of each edit: whether <a href="/wiki/Help:Minor_edit" title="Help:Minor edit">minor</a> (<b>m</b>), whether made by a <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Bots" title="Wikipedia:Bots">bot</a> (<b>b</b>), if a new page was created (<b>N</b>), if the edit was at an associated <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikidata" title="Wikipedia:Wikidata">Wikidata</a> page (<b>D</b>), the time, a link to the page, a link to the difference ("<a href="/wiki/Help:Diff" title="Help:Diff">diff</a>") made by the edit in question, a link to the page history ("<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Page_history" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Page history">hist</a>"), the editor's user name or IP address, the increase (green) or decrease (red) in the number of <a href="/wiki/Bytes" class="mw-redirect" title="Bytes">bytes</a>, e.g. <span class="mw-plusminus-pos">(+76)</span>, <span class="mw-plusminus-neg">(-490)</span> and, if over 500, in bold: <strong class="mw-plusminus-pos">(+794)</strong>, <strong class="mw-plusminus-neg">(-2,412)</strong>, an arrow with a URL link to the specific section that was edited, and the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Edit_summary" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Edit summary">edit summary</a>. <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Added_or_removed_characters" title="Wikipedia:Added or removed characters">Wikipedia:Added or removed characters</a> has more about the green and red numbers. </p><p>In August 2016 the English Wikipedia got <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ORES_review_tool" class="extiw" title="mw:ORES review tool">ORES</a>. When enabled, it displays a red <span style="color:red"><b>r</b></span> at edits that were flagged by the ORES system as potentially damaging. When disabled, the legend says <b>r</b> but no edits are marked. </p><p>Technically, the watchlist is just a way to filter <a href="/wiki/Help:Recent_changes" title="Help:Recent changes">recent changes</a> to the wiki, and therefore has the same technical limitation of only showing changes made in the last 30 days.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Pages that have been changed since you last visited them are shown with a green marker. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Options" data-mw-thread-id="h-Options-How_to_read_a_watchlist_(or_recent_changes)"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Options-How_to_read_a_watchlist_(or_recent_changes)"></span>Options<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Options-How_to_read_a_watchlist_(or_recent_changes)"></span></h3></div> <p>There are various options available to control how the list of changes is displayed: </p> <ul><li><b>Show/hide different types of edit</b>: You may choose to hide or show minor edits, bot edits, one's own edits, edits by logged-out users, edits by logged-in users, <a href="#page_categorization">page categorization</a> and edits made at a <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikidata" title="Wikipedia:Wikidata">Wikidata</a> page associated with a watched page. Links for this purpose appear at the top of the watchlist page. Initially the default behavior for all of these is "show", except for Wikidata and page categorization. The Wikidata option is omitted if you enable "Group changes by page" at <a href="/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-rc" title="Special:Preferences">Special:Preferences § mw-prefsection-rc</a>. It does not work with this feature. <ul><li>The defaults can be changed using the options available on <a href="/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-watchlist" title="Special:Preferences">the "Watchlist" tab of your user preferences</a>.</li> <li>If the most recent edit to a page is hidden and "Expand watchlist to show all changes, not just the most recent" is not enabled in preferences then the page will not appear on the watchlist. An earlier edit is not shown instead.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul></li> <li><b>Time period covered</b>: You can choose how many hours or days you want the list of changes to go back, using the links at the top of the watchlist. For the maximum (30 days), select "all". For non-standard values, select one of the available links and then edit the value after "days=" in the <a href="/wiki/URL" title="URL">URL</a>. <ul><li>The default value, which must be a number of days not greater than 7, is set on <a href="/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-watchlist" title="Special:Preferences">the "Watchlist" tab of your user preferences</a>. Note that there may be a later cut-off due to the limit on the number of displayed changes, described below.</li></ul></li> <li><b>Restrict by namespace</b>: You can restrict the list to changes in a specified <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Namespace" title="Wikipedia:Namespace">namespace</a>, using the "Namespace" drop-down box (check "Invert selection" to <i>exclude</i> the specified namespace).</li> <li><b>Enhanced watchlist</b>: <ul><li>You can elect to display only the last edit to each watched page ("Simple watchlist"). This is currently the default, but can produce misleading results (for example, if the last edit to a page was minor, then there is no indication that a previous non-minor edit occurred). <b>To ensure that all changes are displayed, check the "Expand watchlist..." option on <a href="/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-watchlist" title="Special:Preferences">the "Watchlist" tab of your user preferences</a>.</b></li> <li>Having selected the expanded watchlist, you can choose "<a href="/wiki/Help:Enhanced_recent_changes" title="Help:Enhanced recent changes">enhanced</a>" display mode, which groups together all changes made to each page on a given day. Click on the blue arrows to the left of the list to expand or collapse each group. This option applies to both the watchlist and recent changes, and for this reason appears on <a href="/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-rc" title="Special:Preferences">the "Recent changes" tab of user preferences</a>, not the "Watchlist" tab.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>You may choose to set the "Maximum number of changes to show in expanded watchlist" (on the "Watchlist" tab of user preferences). The maximum possible number of changes to display is currently 1000. If this causes a later time cutoff than you desired, you can see earlier changes by filtering by type or namespace, as described above.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Customizing_watchlists" data-mw-thread-id="h-Customizing_watchlists"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Customizing_watchlists"></span>Customizing watchlists<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Customizing_watchlists"></span></h2></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main page: <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Customizing_watchlists" title="Wikipedia:Customizing watchlists">Wikipedia:Customizing watchlists</a></div> <p>It is possible to go beyond the standard options available in <a href="/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-watchlist" title="Special:Preferences">the "Watchlist" tab of your user preferences</a> (see <a href="#Options">§ Options</a> section above). In particular, you can customize your watchlist using <a href="/wiki/CSS" title="CSS">CSS</a>, by editing <a href="/wiki/Special:MyPage/skin.css" title="Special:MyPage/skin.css">your skin.css page</a>. See <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Customizing_watchlists" title="Wikipedia:Customizing watchlists">Wikipedia:Customizing watchlists</a> for details. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Hiding_pages_from_a_watchlist" data-mw-thread-id="h-Hiding_pages_from_a_watchlist-Customizing_watchlists"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Hiding_pages_from_a_watchlist-Customizing_watchlists"></span>Hiding pages from a watchlist<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Hiding_pages_from_a_watchlist-Customizing_watchlists"></span></h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main page: <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Hide_Pages_in_Watchlist" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Hide Pages in Watchlist">Wikipedia:Hide Pages in Watchlist</a></div> <p>It is possible to watch a page without watching its associated <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Talk_page" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Talk page">talk page</a>; it is also possible to watch only a talk page. More information can be found at <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Hide_Pages_in_Watchlist" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Hide Pages in Watchlist">Wikipedia:Hide Pages in Watchlist</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Alternatives_to_watchlists" data-mw-thread-id="h-Alternatives_to_watchlists"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Alternatives_to_watchlists"></span>Alternatives to watchlists<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Alternatives_to_watchlists"></span></h2></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main page: <a href="/wiki/Help:Public_watchlist" title="Help:Public watchlist">Help:Public watchlist</a></div> <p>By default, an account can have only one watchlist. However, it is possible to set up watchlist-like functionality using the "<a href="/wiki/Help:Related_changes" title="Help:Related changes">Related changes</a>" feature, in a way that effectively enables a user to achieve multiple watchlists. These are visible to anyone. To do this, create a page (normally in your own <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:User_space" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:User space">user space</a>) containing links to the pages you wish to watch. Changes to those pages can then be monitored by going to the user page and clicking "Related changes". Note that in this case the talk pages corresponding to "watched" pages are <i>not</i> automatically included, and that changes to the user page itself will not be picked up. </p><p>Related Changes can also be used to monitor changes to pages belonging to a <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Category" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Category">category</a>, including the addition of pages to the category. However, the removal of pages from the category is <i>not</i> detected. </p><p>Custom tools are available to change the behavior of the watchlist, including <a href="/wiki/User:MusikAnimal/customWatchlists" title="User:MusikAnimal/customWatchlists">User:MusikAnimal/customWatchlists</a>, which allows watchlist entries to be categorized. </p><p>The template <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Delmon" title="Template:Delmon">delmon</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span> may be used to generate a watchlist-like page that indicates the status of pages with respect to the various <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Deletion_process" title="Wikipedia:Deletion process">deletion processes</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Watchlist_notices" data-mw-thread-id="h-Watchlist_notices"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Watchlist_notices"></span>Watchlist notices<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Watchlist_notices"></span></h2></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main page: <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Watchlist_notices" title="Wikipedia:Watchlist notices">Wikipedia:Watchlist notices</a></div> <p>Watchlist notices are messages that are posted at the top of all users' watchlists, for example to publicize changes or discussions that are of importance for the whole editing community. Users are able to dismiss these messages when they have read them, or <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Watchlist_notices#How_to_hide_the_notices" title="Wikipedia:Watchlist notices">hide all notices</a>. The messages are placed via the message page <a href="/wiki/MediaWiki:Watchlist-messages" title="MediaWiki:Watchlist-messages">MediaWiki:Watchlist-messages</a> (editable by <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:ADMIN" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:ADMIN">administrators</a> only). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Reporting_technical_issues" data-mw-thread-id="h-Reporting_technical_issues"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Reporting_technical_issues"></span>Reporting technical issues<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Reporting_technical_issues"></span></h2></div> <p>If you are experiencing a technical issue with your watchlist, such as the watchlist not updating after an edit has been made to one of your watched articles, the issue can be reported on <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)" title="Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)">Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="See_also" data-mw-thread-id="h-See_also"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-See_also"></span>See also<span data-mw-comment-end="h-See_also"></span></h2></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1235681985">.mw-parser-output .side-box{margin:4px 0;box-sizing:border-box;border:1px solid #aaa;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em;background-color:var(--background-color-interactive-subtle,#f8f9fa);display:flow-root}.mw-parser-output .side-box-abovebelow,.mw-parser-output .side-box-text{padding:0.25em 0.9em}.mw-parser-output .side-box-image{padding:2px 0 2px 0.9em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .side-box-imageright{padding:2px 0.9em 2px 0;text-align:center}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .side-box-flex{display:flex;align-items:center}.mw-parser-output .side-box-text{flex:1;min-width:0}}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .side-box{width:238px}.mw-parser-output .side-box-right{clear:right;float:right;margin-left:1em}.mw-parser-output .side-box-left{margin-right:1em}}</style><div class="side-box metadata side-box-right plainlinks"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"> <div class="side-box-flex"> <div class="side-box-text plainlist">This page is referenced in the <span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Glossary" title="Wikipedia:Glossary">Wikipedia Glossary</a></span>.</div> <div class="side-box-imageright"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Wiki_letter_w.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/6c/Wiki_letter_w.svg/44px-Wiki_letter_w.svg.png" decoding="async" width="44" height="44" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/6c/Wiki_letter_w.svg/66px-Wiki_letter_w.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/6c/Wiki_letter_w.svg/88px-Wiki_letter_w.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="44" data-file-height="44"/></a></span></div></div> </div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Change_detection_and_notification" title="Change detection and notification">Change detection and notification</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Don%27t_overload_your_watchlist!" title="Wikipedia:Don't overload your watchlist!">Wikipedia:Don't overload your watchlist!</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_WikiProject_watchlists_(topical)" title="Wikipedia:List of WikiProject watchlists (topical)">Wikipedia:List of WikiProject watchlists (topical)</a> <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_WikiProject_watchlists_(alphabetical)" title="Wikipedia:List of WikiProject watchlists (alphabetical)">(alphabetical)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Wikipedia:_The_Missing_Manual/Editing,_creating,_and_maintaining_articles/Monitoring_changes" title="Help:Wikipedia: The Missing Manual/Editing, creating, and maintaining articles/Monitoring changes">The Missing Manual: Monitoring changes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:User_scripts/List#Watchlist" title="Wikipedia:User scripts/List">Watchlist user scripts</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/User:UncleDouggie/smart_watchlist.js" title="User:UncleDouggie/smart watchlist.js">User:UncleDouggie/smart watchlist.js</a> – Custom script, provides ability to selectively hide and/or highlight changes in a user's watchlist display</li> <li><a href="/wiki/User:Evad37/Watchlist-openUnread" title="User:Evad37/Watchlist-openUnread">User:Evad37/Watchlist-openUnread</a> – Custom script, allows you to open multiple unread diffs of your watchlist at once and thereby to manage large watchlists.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/User:Aaron_Liu/Watchlyst_Greybar_Unsin" title="User:Aaron Liu/Watchlyst Greybar Unsin">User:Aaron Liu/Watchlyst Greybar Unsin</a>: Adds a site-wide subtitle that displays the contents of new watchlist items.</li></ul></li> <li><a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Watching_pages" class="extiw" title="mw:Help:Watching pages">mw:Help:Watching pages</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/watchlist_table" class="extiw" title="mw:watchlist table">Watchlist table (MediaWiki technical documentation)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_reports/Most-watched_pages" title="Wikipedia:Database reports/Most-watched pages">Wikipedia:Database reports/Most-watched pages</a> <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_reports/Most-watched_pages_by_namespace" title="Wikipedia:Database reports/Most-watched pages by namespace">(by namespace)</a> <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_reports/Most-watched_users" title="Wikipedia:Database reports/Most-watched users">(users)</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="References" data-mw-thread-id="h-References"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-References"></span>References<span data-mw-comment-end="h-References"></span></h2></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output 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href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">As of 2024, <a href="/wiki/Template:Registered_editors_by_edit_count" title="Template:Registered editors by edit count">about 42 million accounts</a> have been registered, and about 14 million of them made at least one edit (ever). About one-sixth of those 14.1 million editors made one edit during the year of 2023, and most of those only made one or two edits during the entire year.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">When the star (or in other appearances "watch" or "unwatch") is clicked, the <span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion lx"><a href="/wiki/MediaWiki:Addedwatchtext" title="MediaWiki:Addedwatchtext">MediaWiki:Addedwatchtext</a> <span style="font-size:90%;">(<a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Addedwatchtext&action=edit">edit</a> | <a href="/wiki/MediaWiki_talk:Addedwatchtext" title="MediaWiki talk:Addedwatchtext">talk</a> | <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Addedwatchtext&action=history">history</a> | <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Whatlinkshere/MediaWiki:Addedwatchtext">links</a> | <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Addedwatchtext&action=watch">watch</a> | <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&page=MediaWiki%3AAddedwatchtext">logs</a>)</span></span> or <span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion lx"><a href="/wiki/MediaWiki:Removedwatchtext" title="MediaWiki:Removedwatchtext">MediaWiki:Removedwatchtext</a> <span style="font-size:90%;">(<a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Removedwatchtext&action=edit">edit</a> | <a href="/wiki/MediaWiki_talk:Removedwatchtext" class="mw-redirect" title="MediaWiki talk:Removedwatchtext">talk</a> | <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Removedwatchtext&action=history">history</a> | <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Whatlinkshere/MediaWiki:Removedwatchtext">links</a> | <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Removedwatchtext&action=watch">watch</a> | <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&page=MediaWiki%3ARemovedwatchtext">logs</a>)</span></span> message is shown above the page, and "Watch" is changed to Unwatch or conversely. Depending on the browser this is done without reloading the whole page, using <a href="/wiki/Ajax_(programming)" title="Ajax (programming)">AJAX</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">The entries come from the <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/recentchanges_table" class="extiw" title="mw:recentchanges table">recentchanges table</a> and are therefore restricted to edits not older than 30 days (the current value of the <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgRCMaxAge" class="extiw" title="mw:Manual:$wgRCMaxAge">$wgRCMaxAge</a> variable for Wikipedia).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9790" class="extiw" title="bugzilla:9790">Bug 9790</a>: Watchlist doesn't show earlier normal edits when hiding bot edits or minor edits.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35768" class="extiw" title="bugzilla:35768">Bug 35768</a>: Current positioning of the "Enhanced watchlist" preference is confusing.</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="External_links" data-mw-thread-id="h-External_links"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-External_links"></span>External links<span data-mw-comment-end="h-External_links"></span></h2></div> <ul><li><a class="external text" href="https://wikistream.toolforge.org/">Wiki Stream</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.lkozma.net/wpv/index.html">WikipediaVision</a> (archived 2023)</li> <li><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqwZf_G9dlU">"Wikipedia editing basics: Watchlists"</a>. <i>YouTube</i>. 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don'ts">Links</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:List_dos_and_don%27ts" title="Wikipedia:List dos and don'ts">Lists</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:References_dos_and_don%27ts" title="Wikipedia:References dos and don'ts">References</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Table_dos_and_don%27ts" title="Wikipedia:Table dos and don'ts">Tables</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Article_title_dos_and_don%27ts" title="Wikipedia:Article title dos and don'ts">Titles (of articles)</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-align:center;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_how-to" title="Category:Wikipedia how-to">How-to pages</a> and<br/><a href="/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_information_pages" title="Category:Wikipedia information pages">information pages</a> <abbr title="Topic specific informative and instructional pages">(?)</abbr></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Guide_to_appealing_blocks" title="Wikipedia:Guide to appealing blocks">Appealing blocks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Guide_to_deletion" title="Wikipedia:Guide to deletion">Article deletion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Category" title="Help:Category">Categories</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Citations_quick_reference" title="Help:Citations quick reference">Citations/references</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Help:Referencing_for_beginners" title="Help:Referencing for beginners">Referencing for beginners</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Citation_Style_1" title="Help:Citation Style 1">Citation Style 1</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Cite_errors" title="Help:Cite errors">Cite errors</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:References_and_page_numbers" title="Help:References and page numbers">References and page numbers</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Convert" title="Help:Convert">Convert</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Diff" title="Help:Diff">Diff</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Editing" title="Help:Editing">Editing</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Help:Minor_edit" title="Help:Minor edit">Minor edit</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Edit_toolbar" title="Help:Edit toolbar">toolbar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Edit_conflict" title="Help:Edit conflict">edit conflict</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Find_sources" title="Help:Find sources">Find sources</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Files" title="Help:Files">Files</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Footnotes" title="Help:Footnotes">Footnotes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Guide_to_image_deletion" title="Wikipedia:Guide to image deletion">Image deletion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Infobox" title="Help:Infobox">Infoboxes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Link" title="Help:Link">Linking</a> (<a href="/wiki/Help:Link_color" title="Help:Link color">link color</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Logging_in" title="Help:Logging in">Logging in</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Merging" title="Wikipedia:Merging">Merging</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Page_name" title="Help:Page name">Page name</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Help:How_to_move_a_page" title="Help:How to move a page">Renaming pages</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Redirect" title="Help:Redirect">Redirect</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Reset_password" title="Help:Reset password">Passwords</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Help:Email_confirmation" title="Help:Email confirmation">Email confirmation</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Reverting" title="Help:Reverting">Reverting</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Help:Simple_guide_to_vandalism_cleanup" title="Help:Simple guide to vandalism cleanup">Simple vandalism cleanup</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Talk_pages" title="Help:Talk pages">Talk pages</a> (<a href="/wiki/Help:Archiving_a_talk_page" title="Help:Archiving a talk page">archiving</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Archiving_(plain_and_simple)" title="Help:Archiving (plain and simple)">simple archiving</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:User_contributions" title="Help:User contributions">User contributions</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:WP_search_protocol" title="Help:WP search protocol">WP search protocol</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-align:center;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Wiki_markup" class="mw-redirect" title="Wiki markup">Coding</a> <abbr title="Wikitext information consists of the syntax used to format a page">(?)</abbr></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Help:Wikitext" title="Help:Wikitext">Wiki markup</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Barchart" title="Help:Barchart">Barcharts</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Calculation" title="Help:Calculation">Calculations</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Special_characters" title="Help:Special characters">Characters</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Columns" title="Help:Columns">Columns</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Elevation" title="Help:Elevation">Elevation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Hidden_text" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Hidden text">Hidden text</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:HTML_in_wikitext" title="Help:HTML in wikitext">HTML</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:List" title="Help:List">Lists</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Magic_words" title="Help:Magic words">Magic words</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Musical_symbols" title="Help:Musical symbols">Music symbols</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Section" title="Help:Section">Sections</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Sound_file_markup" title="Help:Sound file markup">Sounds</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Table" title="Help:Table">Tables</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Template" title="Help:Template">Templates</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Transclusion" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Transclusion">Transclusion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:URL" title="Help:URL">URL</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Visual_file_markup" title="Help:Visual file markup">Visual files</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-align:center;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Directories_and_indexes" title="Wikipedia:Directories and indexes">Directories</a> <abbr title="Wikipedia's directories and indexes">(?)</abbr></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_abbreviations" title="Wikipedia:Wikipedia abbreviations">Abbreviations</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Contents" title="Wikipedia:Contents">Contents</a> <small>(Encyclopedia proper)</small></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Department_directory" title="Wikipedia:Department directory">Departments</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Editor%27s_index_to_Wikipedia" title="Wikipedia:Editor's index to Wikipedia">Editor's index</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Essay_directory" title="Wikipedia:Essay directory">Essays</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:FAQ/Index" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:FAQ/Index">FAQs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Glossary" title="Wikipedia:Glossary">Glossary</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_guidelines" title="Wikipedia:List of guidelines">Guidelines</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Contents" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Contents">Manual of Style </a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_policies" title="Wikipedia:List of policies">Policies</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Maintenance" title="Wikipedia:Maintenance">Tasks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Tips" title="Wikipedia:Tips">Tips</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Tools" title="Wikipedia:Tools">Tools</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2" style="text-align:center;"><div><b> <a href="/wiki/Help:Wikipedia:_The_Missing_Manual" title="Help:Wikipedia: The Missing Manual">Missing Manual</a></b> <hr/> <span class="noprint plainlinks" title="Edit Special:MyTalk"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:MyTalk&action=edit&section=new&preload=Help:Contents/helpmepreload&preloadtitle=Help+me%21"><b>Ask for help on your talk page</b></a></span> <b><abbr title="If you need help, you can use this link to ask a question on your talk page; a volunteer will visit you there shortly!">(?)</abbr></b></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Wikipedia_technical_help" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks hlist mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2" style="text-align: center;"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231"><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:Wikipedia_technical_help" title="Template:Wikipedia technical help"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Wikipedia_technical_help" title="Template talk:Wikipedia technical help"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:Wikipedia_technical_help" title="Special:EditPage/Template:Wikipedia technical help"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div><div id="Wikipedia_technical_help" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/Help:Directory#Technical_help" title="Help:Directory">Wikipedia technical help</a></div></th></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2" style="text-align: center;"><div><b>Get personal technical help at <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Teahouse" title="Wikipedia:Teahouse">the Teahouse</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Help_desk" title="Wikipedia:Help desk">help desk</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)" title="Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)">village pump (technical)</a>, <a href="/wiki/Help:Introduction_to_talk_pages/1" title="Help:Introduction to talk pages/1">talk pages</a> or <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:IRC" title="Wikipedia:IRC">IRC</a>.</b></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-align: center;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:FAQ/Technical" title="Wikipedia:FAQ/Technical">General<br/>technical help</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Browser_notes" title="Wikipedia:Browser notes">Browser notes</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Bypass_your_cache" title="Wikipedia:Bypass your cache">Bypass cache</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Keyboard_shortcuts" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Keyboard shortcuts">Keyboard shortcuts</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Editing" title="Help:Editing">Editing</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Help:CharInsert" title="Help:CharInsert">CharInsert</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Edit_conflict" title="Help:Edit conflict">Edit conflict</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Edit_toolbar" title="Help:Edit toolbar">Edit toolbar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Reverting" title="Help:Reverting">Reverting</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_create_a_page" title="Wikipedia:How to create a page">How to create a page</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:IRC" title="Wikipedia:IRC">IRC</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:IRC/Tutorial" title="Wikipedia:IRC/Tutorial">Tutorial</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Mobile_access" title="Help:Mobile access">Mobile access</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Multilingual_support" title="Help:Multilingual support">Multilingual support</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Page_history" title="Help:Page history">Page history</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Page_information" title="Help:Page information">Page information</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Page_name" title="Wikipedia:Page name">Page name</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Help:Page_name" title="Help:Page name">Help</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Printing" title="Help:Printing">Printing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Software_notices" title="Wikipedia:Software notices">Software notices</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Editnotice" title="Wikipedia:Editnotice">Editnotice</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Special_characters" title="Help:Special characters">Special Characters</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Help:Entering_special_characters" title="Help:Entering special characters">Entering</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:User_access_levels" title="Wikipedia:User access levels">User access levels</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:VisualEditor" title="Wikipedia:VisualEditor">VisualEditor</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Help:VisualEditor" title="Help:VisualEditor">Help</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-align: center;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Special:SpecialPages" title="Special:SpecialPages">Special<br/>page</a>-related</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Help:Special_page" title="Help:Special page">Special page help</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:AllPages" title="Help:AllPages">AllPages</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Edit_filter" title="Wikipedia:Edit filter">Edit filter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Emailing_users" title="Wikipedia:Emailing users">Emailing users</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Logging_in" title="Help:Logging in">Logging in</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Help:Reset_password" title="Help:Reset password">Reset passwords</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Log" title="Help:Log">Logs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Moving_a_page" title="Wikipedia:Moving a page">Moving a page</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:History_merging" title="Wikipedia:History merging">History merging</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:When_to_place_technical_requests_in_%22Administrator_needed%22" title="Help:When to place technical requests in "Administrator needed"">Non-admin and admin-only page moves</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Notifications" title="Help:Notifications">Notifications/Echo</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Help:Notifications/FAQ" title="Help:Notifications/FAQ">FAQ</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Page_Curation/Help" title="Wikipedia:Page Curation/Help">Page Curation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Import" title="Help:Import">Page import</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Pending_changes" title="Wikipedia:Pending changes">Pending changes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Random" title="Wikipedia:Random">Random pages</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Recent_changes" title="Help:Recent changes">Recent changes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Related_changes" title="Help:Related changes">Related changes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Searching" title="Help:Searching">Searching</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Help:Linksearch" title="Help:Linksearch">Linksearch</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Tags" title="Wikipedia:Tags">Tags</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:User_contributions" title="Help:User contributions">User contributions</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Watchlist</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:What_links_here" title="Help:What links here">What links here</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-align: center;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Help:Wikitext" title="Help:Wikitext">Wikitext</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Help:Wikitext" title="Help:Wikitext">Wikitext</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Help:Cheatsheet" title="Help:Cheatsheet">Cheatsheet</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Columns" title="Help:Columns">Columns</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Line-break_handling" title="Help:Line-break handling">Line-break handling</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:List" title="Help:List">Lists</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Magic_words" title="Help:Magic words">Magic words</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Help:Magic_words_for_beginners" title="Help:Magic words for beginners">For beginners</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Conditional_expressions" title="Help:Conditional expressions">Conditional expressions</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Switch_parser_function" title="Help:Switch parser function">Switch parser function</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Time_function" title="Help:Time function">Time function</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Redirect" title="Help:Redirect">Redirects</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Section" title="Help:Section">Sections and TOCs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Table" title="Help:Table">Tables</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Help:Introduction_to_tables_with_Wiki_Markup/1" title="Help:Introduction to tables with Wiki Markup/1">Introduction</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Basic_table_markup" title="Help:Basic table markup">Basics</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Advanced_table_formatting" title="Help:Advanced table formatting">Advanced table formatting</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Collapsing" class="mw-redirect" title="Help:Collapsing">Collapsing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Conditional_tables" title="Help:Conditional tables">Conditional tables</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Sortable_tables" title="Help:Sortable tables">Sortable tables</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Using_colours" title="Help:Using colours">Using colours</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-align: center;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Help:Link" title="Help:Link">Links</a> and <a href="/wiki/Help:Diff" title="Help:Diff">diffs</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Help:Link" title="Help:Link">Links</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Help:Interlanguage_links" title="Help:Interlanguage links">Interlanguage</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Interwiki_linking" title="Help:Interwiki linking">Interwiki</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Permanent_link" title="Help:Permanent link">Permanent</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Diff" title="Help:Diff">Diffs</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Simplest_diff_guide" title="Wikipedia:Simplest diff guide">Simplest diff guide</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Simple_diff_and_link_guide" title="Wikipedia:Simple diff and link guide">Simple diff and link guide</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Complete_diff_and_link_guide" title="Wikipedia:Complete diff and link guide">Complete diff and link guide</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Colon_trick" title="Help:Colon trick">Colon trick</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Link_color" title="Help:Link color">Link color</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Pipe_trick" title="Help:Pipe trick">Pipe trick</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:URL" title="Help:URL">URLs</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-align: center;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Media" class="mw-disambig" title="Wikipedia:Media">Media</a> files: 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