User:TheJosh/Scripts/Recent Change Patroller

See also Wikipedia:Recent changes patrol

Adds a box in the sidebar that uses AJAX to update a list of recent changes every 5 seconds.

You can enable or disable it using the provided link. The default is for the box to be disabled. The setting is stored in a session cookie (setting is lost when you close your browser). The cookie is called 'rcp_show_box'.

This works really well with WP:TW which has tabs for things like reversion.

It's almost an exact clone of NewPagePatroller. View the source. It's probably rather shocking... User:TheJosh/Scripts/RecentChangesPatrol.js

If you click on a link it now goes to the most recent diff rather than the page itself. Much more useful.

Installation

To install, add the following to your skin.js page:

importScript('User:TheJosh/Scripts/RecentChangesPatrol.js');

Settings

This box has three settings. To use a setting, place the setting variable underneath the importScript line.

rcp_enabled

The default behavior of the box (enabled or disabled) if no cookie is set

Default: true

Possible values: true or false

Example: rcp_enabled = false; To make the box not show by default

rcp_num_pages

The number of pages to show in the box

Default: 10

Possible values: Any number between 1 and 50

Example: rcp_num_pages = 5; To make the box show 5 links at a time

rcp_refresh

The refresh rate of the box, in seconds. Decimals allowed

Default: 5

Possible values: Any number above 2 (to not put too much strain on the servers)

Example: rcp_refresh = 10; To make the box refresh every 10 seconds.

Compatibility

This script has been known to work on:

• Firefox 2
• Internet Exploiter 6
• Camino 1.5.1 (or any other Gecko browser for that matter)

Other versions of these browsers, or in fact other browsers may work, as long as the browser supports AJAX.

I have only tested it on the default Monobook skin.

Thanks to jonny-mt for the Camino test.