Wikipedia Recent Changes

The latest edits and new articles on a Wikipedia language edition, read live from Wikipedia's official API. Filter by size, title and editor type.

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Fields returned

The table shows the main columns. The JSON download and the API include these fields.

wiki, title, namespace, pageId, url: The wiki, the article title and a link to it.
diffUrl, revisionId, parentRevisionId: A link to the edit (or the first revision of a new article) and the revision IDs.
timestamp, type: When the change was saved (UTC) and whether it was an edit or a new article.
bytesBefore, bytesAfter, bytesChanged: Article size before and after, and the difference (negative when text was removed).
user, userUrl, anonymous, temporaryAccount: Who made the change. Anonymous covers IP editors and temporary accounts.
minor, bot, tags: Flags and change tags such as mobile edit or visualeditor.
comment: The edit summary as written. The table shows it with section markers and links simplified.

Data comes live from Wikipedia's official API, newest first. Only articles are included, not talk or user pages.
Bot edits are left out unless you tick the box.
Anonymous means an IP address or a temporary account: Wikipedia now gives logged-out editors temporary account names such as ~2026-12345-67.
The free version returns 20 changes per search, with 5 free searches a day across the site. The minimum size and title filters look at the most recent 1,500 changes.