Change Detector

Change Detector shows high editing activity in Wikipedia on a certain day and compares Wikipedias in different language versions. It enables the user to identify outdated articles in certain languages. The results are presented as a table. If a certain article was modified in almost every language version, but one or two languages were left out, you would be advised to have a closer look at the article. It could be outdated.

Settings

To start the Change Detector you have to enter some information.

• Date: Select a day for the Change Detector search. Yesterday is set as default.
• Language group: For which group of languages you want to detect changes. You can choose between european languages only and all languages in the Change Detector.
• Reference language: Choose for which language the results are sorted and the display language of the articles found.

In addition, further adjustments can be set to modify the results.

• More than a half changes: If checked only articles are shown for which more than a half of the languages of the language group was changed. If not checked, articles are shown with changes for less languages in addition (to a minimum of 3 changed languages).
• Sorting: The results are sorted by default, with articles at first position for which the reference language is not changed, but changes in a maximum of the other languages appears. The option NEWS sorts the result by the maximum of changes without considering for the reference language.
• Filter: To take not only the bare number of changes into account, you can select three filter. All are checked by default.
  • Many editors: Are more than a half of the changes from only one editor, then is the article marked as not changed.
  • No bot edits: The edits from Wikipedia-Bots are not counted.
  • Only major edits: Edits, that are marked as minor, are weighted lower.

Results

The table shows all article found by the Change Detector in the rows. The columns are headed by the languages with the reference language in the first column.

• a green cell means that this article in this language are notably changed in comparison with the last 50 days
• the red no change means that no or less changes were found, or that in the last 50 days more changes are made in this article
• cells with no article means, that there is no accordant article in this language

Uses

The Change Detector shows for the reference language, if an article probably needs an update. If you want to find out the changes for an special article, view the history of a changed language version of that article. Select and compare the first revisions of the chosen day and the next day.