Editing Help:Preferences (section)

== Recent changes ==
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Recent changes refer to changes of pages in the database. Every time a wiki page is edited, and changes were actually made, a record is kept of the difference. For example, a page history shows the revisions for that particular page. But recent changes can report on more than just the revisions of a page, or an entire wiki, they can also report on the recent changes of an editor (their contributions). The user preferences for ''recent changes'' are the style in which these lists of revisions will appear:
* Length of the list
* Time window of the list
* Grouping methods of the list
The watchlist has even more finely tuned preferences because, like the edit window, it is often a core tool for editors. 

More information about these various histories can be found at the following places. For global changes to Wikipedia pages, see [[Help:Recent changes]]. For user contributions, see [[Help:User contributions]]. For page histories, see [[Help:Page history]]. For other types of logs see [[Help:Log]].

=== Pending changes ===
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These settings are for advanced editors who have a detailed understanding of the ''[[WP:PILLARS|five pillars]]'' and of the templates used to mark judgments on the page. ''Pending changes'' refers to the style of the presentation of
* new page "curation" tools: [[WP:CURATION|curation toolbar and new pages feed]], and
* how recent changes appear on the page history of [[Special:StablePages|certain pages]] that have been configured for protection by reviewing any changes before they are applied to the public version of the page.
For an example of a page history showing the pending changes feature, click on the history of a page listed at [[Special:PendingChanges]].