Thread:Fossiliferous/@comment-26384327-20150726165520/@comment-24668482-20150726181617

Do you mean when a message is edited? It isn't that common, and from what I have seen most people just edit their own typos when they use the edit feature. But there will always be a note at the end of the post saying that it was edited, and you can always see the changes (and original) in the thread history.

For example, if you go this thread. The last message by anonymous seeker had that problem that occassionaly crops up here where a large portion of the text goes into an embedded box as one long sentence and you have to use the side scroll to read it. It is caused by an extra space at the beginning of the sentence in source mode. I removed the space to make the whole message visible again. So you will see at the end of the message 'edited by fossiliferous'.

You can access the history for that thread and see what I did from any message in that thread (including the top post that created thread). History is located under 'more' which is beside quote on the bottom right hand of every message. The history of that thread (I am hoping these action links willl work for you, but you can navigate to the history from the link to the thread above if not) shows the 6 posts to the thread (numbered 1-6) and the last action in the list is my edit:

Fossiliferous edited 154.20.150.146's message #6 (diff)

You can see the change i made by clicking on the (diff) link. This will bring you to a page that displays the original version of that message and highlights the changes made to it. The original is on the left and the newest version is on the right. This probably isn't a very good example since all I did was remove the extra space before the "I'm wondering" but larger edits, such as words added or removed, would be highlighted in red. If a message had been deleted, you can also view the deleted message from the history.

The same is true of all pages on the wiki, they all have a history that will show all previous versions of the article and what changes were and who made them.

Of course, using the history button is only useful one thread/page at a time if you are just interested in the changes that had been made to them. If what you want is a way to track all changes made site wide to try and keep up with what's going on since you were last here, then you can use wiki activity (I leave this open in one tab and use it to navigate to new threads or to pages that have been edited or where comments have been left). Wiki avctivityis in chronological order from newest to oldest and just shows the last message left on a thread. If you want a more detailed look at edits (showing each one, including things that are kept off wiki activity for neatness) you can use recent changes instead. Recent changes shows everything, but might be too detailed if all you want to do is keep up with conversations that are going on.