[OSM-newbies] My watchlist interpretation

[Craig Wallace]

On 07/11/2009 19:59, Randy wrote:
> Can someone tell me where the documentation to "My Watchlist" is? Or if
> there is none, just help me interpret a few things. Most are obvious, but,
>    
I'm not sure if the documentation is on the OSM site anywhere. But its a 
fairly standard MediaWiki setup, so you can look at the help for that.
Specifically: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Watchlist and 
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Tracking_changes

But to answer those questions anyway:
> The blue triangle is usually beside an entry, but sometimes not. What are
> the conditions?
>    
The blue triangle means there's been several recent edits to that page. 
If you click on the triangle, it will expand them to show them all.

> An "N" to the left of the entry. What does it mean. Are there other letter
> qualifiers that I haven't seen yet?
>    
N means new page. ie that edit was the one that created that page.
Other letters: 'm' is a minor edit.
Also 'b' for a bot edit (though I don't know if there's any bots on the 
OSM wiki anyway).

> I assume that the number in parentheses indicates the number of bytes (or
> characters) that have been added or removed from the page by that edit.
> Correct?
>    
Yes, correct.

Craig