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Therecent changes pageis accessed from the Interaction Menu on Wikipedia's sidebar (displayed on the left side of the screen). It lists the most recent edits made to pages onWikipedia.Using this page, you can monitor andreviewthe latest contributions, to discover and correct mistakes and to spot and revertvandalism.
Options can be set to filter and display recent changes according to the preferred criteria (present at the top of the recent changes page, containing three sections: "This page", "Utilities" and "About us" ). The available filters arefeatured articles,good articles,living people,new editors' contribs, IPs' contribs, mobile contribs and bynamespace.It can also be filtered according totagsby typing in the specific one, such as "Visual edit", "large plot addition" or "blanking", etc.
Most (although not all)bot editsshould be marked with thebot flagand be hidden by default (if enabled, they will be marked with abin the recent changes logs and inwatchlists). If you see a bot edit that shouldn't appear in the recent change logs or your watchlist, please report it to the bot operator perWP:BOTISSUE.
For a more detailed description, see therecent changes help pageonMediaWiki.