Editing Help:Edit summary (section)

===Places where the edit summary appears===
The edit summary appears in black italics in the following places:
* [[Help:Page history|Page history]]&nbsp;– list of changes to the page you edited
* [[Help:User contributions|User contributions]]&nbsp;– list of all your edits
* [[Help:Watchlist|Watchlist]]<ref group="note">Use the enhanced watchlist to see all recent changes in the watched pages, not just the last change in each page.</ref>&nbsp;– list of recent changes to watched pages ([[Help: Logging in|logged-in]] users only)
* [[Help:Diff|Diff page]]&nbsp;– shows the difference between two edits
* [[Help:Permanent link|Permanent link]]&nbsp;– shows an old version of a page
* [[Help:Recent changes|Recent changes]]&nbsp;– list of all recent edits
* [[Wikipedia:IRC|Wikipedia IRC channels]]&nbsp;– real-time list of all edits
* [[Help:Related changes|Related changes]]&nbsp;– list of recent changes to pages linked to the page you edited
* [[Special:NewPages|List of new pages]]&nbsp;– shows the edit summary of the creation.

The source text of the edit summary can be seen at <span class="plainlinks">[https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=revisions&rvprop=comment&revids= en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=revisions&rvprop=comment&revids=]</span>''id'', where ''id'' is the revision number. For example, [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Help:Edit_summary&diff=845523983&oldid=842809539] says <code>diff=845523983</code> in the url so <span class="plainlinks">[https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=revisions&rvprop=comment&revids=845523983 revids=845523983]</span> shows the edit summary source. The link uses [[:mw:API:Revisions]], which is mainly intended for programs.

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