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The first is Recent Changes. It is a link available in the sidebar of pretty much every page on the site. It shows the last 50 changes to Wikipedia, and includes:
- Article title
- Change timestamp
- Who made the change
- Article section (if applicable)
- Size of change (in bytes)
- User-entered edit description
- Whether the change was
- minor
- done by a bot
- a new page
- And links to
- a diff with previous
- the page history
- the changer's
- user page
- discussion page
- change history
Looking at this is a great way to get a feel for what is going on, and what the hot topics are. It's also how editors focused on quality control keep an eye on things; see Wikipedia's Recent Changes Patrol for more info.
The other is My Watchlist. it's basically a user-specific version of Recent Changes. Any article you select can be put on your watchlist with one click, and any article you edit or comment on is automatically put on your watchlist. A serious Wikipedia editor checks their watchlist on a regular basis so that they can quickly stay on top of all the things that matter to them.
