Enable users to view recent changes to subpages of a given page
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	Nov 28 2009, 7:33 PM

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Provide a way to filter [[Special:RecentChanges]] to subpages of a given page. It could be useful for example to see recent changes to articles for deletion discussions and for other processes relying on subpages of a main page. There are also some projects heavily using subpages for content which could benefit from this.

It can be only a url option if it can't be neatly included in the interface - we can always link to it.

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A few top-of-mind ideas from mostly English Wikipedia administrators.

Sockpuppet investigations are all subpages of one page
Articles for Deletion discussions are all subpages of one page
Monitoring requests for comment on Meta Wiki, which should all be subpages of https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment
Wikisource and Wikibooks projects would likely find this useful for changes to a given book

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Reference: bz21674

Related Changes in Gerrit:

	Subject	Author	Repo	Branch	Lines +/-
	rcfilters: Display/dismiss UI for subpageof filters	Tim Starling	mediawiki/core	master	+75 -53
	Add "subpageof" parameter to changes list special pages	Tim Starling	mediawiki/core	master	+103 -2

Customize query in gerrit

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Mentioned In: T307328: Scalability issues of recentchanges table
Mentioned Here: T23675: Filter Special:NewPages to subpages of a given page
T401743: List recent wishlist talk page activity in one place in CommunityRequests extension

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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Low.Nov 21 2014, 10:54 PM

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Cenarium created this task.Nov 28 2009, 7:33 PM

The same concerns from bug 21675 comment #1 apply here, except that sorting by title instead of by timestamp kind of defeats the purpose of Recentchanges (it's not so bad for Newpages because each page only has one entry there).

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Bugreporter mentioned this in T307328: Scalability issues of recentchanges table.May 11 2022, 7:16 PM

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In T23674#257996, @Catrope wrote:

The same concerns from bug 21675 comment #1 apply here, except that sorting by title instead of by timestamp kind of defeats the purpose of Recentchanges (it's not so bad for Newpages because each page only has one entry there).

Better than abusing RCL to search the same set of pages (see T401743). Either way it's a filesort, it's just that RCL is a join whereas the prefix search can be done with recentchanges alone.

If the time range is short enough then the DB can choose to use the timestamp index instead.

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Change #1179771 had a related patch set uploaded (by Tim Starling; author: Tim Starling):

[mediawiki/core@master] Add "subpageof" parameter to changes list special pages

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1179771

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Aug 19 2025, 2:27 AM

Change #1179771 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/core@master] Add "subpageof" parameter to changes list special pages

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1179771

Maintenance_bot removed a project: Patch-For-Review.Aug 19 2025, 7:31 AM

Samwalton9-WMF moved this task from Inbox to Triaged on the Moderator-Tools-Team board.Aug 19 2025, 11:36 AM

Krinkle updated the task description. (Show Details)Aug 19 2025, 5:31 PM

I'm working on a patch to the rcfilters app which will display the filter in the list of active filters, with a functioning "x" button, so that the filter can be shown and removed, although it can't be re-added once it's removed. Also it will be sufficiently integrated with the model such that the rcfilters app will not strip the URL parameter by accident.

Change #1180699 had a related patch set uploaded (by Tim Starling; author: Tim Starling):

[mediawiki/core@master] Display/dismiss UI for subpageof filters

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1180699

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Aug 21 2025, 3:53 AM

Bugreporter2 awarded a token.Aug 21 2025, 10:44 AM

I have documented the new subpageof parameter at https://www.mediawiki.org/?diff=7840984. That help page was still advertising the pre-MW 1.19 syntax, so I changed that, too.

I hope to have r1180699 reviewed by the end of the week.

• Scardenasmolinar edited projects, added: Moderator-Tools-Team (Kanban); removed: Moderator-Tools-Team.Sep 25 2025, 4:16 PM

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Samwalton9-WMF renamed this task from Filter RecentChanges to subpages of a given page to Enable users to view recent changes to subpages of a given page.Sep 26 2025, 11:57 AM

Samwalton9-WMF updated the task description. (Show Details)

jsn.sherman edited projects, added: Moderator-Tools-Team; removed: Moderator-Tools-Team (Kanban).Sep 30 2025, 4:14 PM

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Change #1180699 abandoned by Tim Starling:

[mediawiki/core@master] rcfilters: Display/dismiss UI for subpageof filters