First question: What is your $wgRCMaxAge set to?
By default changes are only kept in the recentchanges table for 7 days.
See http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgRCMaxAge
Second question: Have you recently changed any settings on your wiki or run any of the maintenance scripts?
Otherwise I would suggest checking your server logs.
Regards, Daniel
-----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Bill Taylor Sent: 09 January 2010 04:15 To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: [Mediawiki-l] Recent Changes shows nothing!
When I click on Recent Changes as of this morning, I see only today's activity. a new user added joined the wiki, and a page was updated. No matter what I do to look back in time, I don't see anything, even when I tell it to look back 300 days and 500 edits. There should be a full year worth of edits there. I could see them yesterday, but not today.
I am running Mediawiki 1.15.1, PHP 5.2.6, and MySQL 4.1.16
Did the new user hack me somehow, or what? He looks like a spammer, but a very mild one.
Bill Taylor
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At 12:52 1/9/2010 +0000, Daniel Bishop wrote:
First question: What is your $wgRCMaxAge set to?
By default changes are only kept in the recentchanges table for 7 days.
It isn't set on my wiki. So I suppose the default should be in place. But the data was there up until day before yesterday. And the older data was accessible by directly editing the numbers in the URL.
Plus, I have a second wiki with essentially similar settings. It still has the old data. But that second wiki has much less activity and much fewer users than the first.
Second question: Have you recently changed any settings on your wiki or run any of the maintenance scripts?
No. No changes since the 1.15.1 upgrade. Definitely nothing in the past week, unless my ISP did something.
Otherwise I would suggest checking your server logs.
Yes, I may need to call in support.
thanks
Bill Taylor
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