Want page like Wikipedia's "Recent Changes" and "My Watchlist" topic

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A problem with any large collaborative effort is knowing what is going on. Wikipedia has two features that help with that. I think both of these features are important for Freebase to implement early on, as they help draw people into involvement and then help keep them involved. 

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.

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Created by william Mar 14, 2007
Last edited by william Mar 14, 2007
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Should be easy...

"For the record, this query shows you the latest new links, which corresponds to recent changes: [{..."

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Now we just need an interface

"Yep! The query's there. It just needs some interface on top of it. :-) "

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