Help:How do I know if someone else has made changes to a page I start?

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For logged-in users (if you have made an account), at the top right you'll see several links. One of them is my watchlist. This links to a list of all the pages you have previously edited, or on which you have clicked the "watch" button at the top. When you click on "my watchlist", you'll see the most recent changes that have been made. If you click on "diff" in front of the page you are interested in, you will be taken to a page that shows the differences between the current version and the previous version of the page. "hist" on the watchlist page, or "history" at the top of any page, will show you all the changes that have ever been made to that page. You can look at any one of them, or compare them to the current version.

Example of one line from Dick's watchlist, after Irene made a change to the page Copper 31 E. :

(diff) (hist) . . Copper 31 E.; 17:41 . . Irene (Talk | contribs ) (31 E. Copper added content)

This tells me that at 17:41 (the date is at the top of all the changes for that date), Irene added content to the page (she typed 31 E. Copper added content in the edit summary box). If I click on "diff", the page will show me the changes between Irene's addition and the previous version, with her additions and subtractions in different colors.

If you want to see what's been going on lately (including pages not on your watchlist), click on "Recent changes" in the navigation box at the left of every page. And you can add any page to your watchlist - automatically if you edit that page, or manually by clicking the "watch" tab at the top.

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