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Watching pages allows you to keep a list of "watched" pages and to generate a list of recent changes made to those pages. This way you can keep track of and react to what's happening to pages you have created or are otherwise interested in. The two easiest ways to add pages to your watchlist are:The star is Blueblue [sic]. indicating this page is now included in the usersuser’s [sic] Watchlist.

1. When viewing a page, click the star sign between the 'View history' tab and the search box at the very top of the page. The star will turn blue meaning your chosen article is now listed on your Watchlist.

2. When editing a page, check or uncheck "Watch this page" before saving (above the 'Show preview' button)

To view your Watchlist click on the My Watchlist tab that appears at the top right corner of your screen when logged in. Any recent changes made to the articles you are watching will be shown. Each line shows details of each edit: whether minor (m), whether made by a bot (b), if a new page was created (N), the time, a link to the page, a link to the difference ("diff") made by the edit in question, a link to the page history ("hist"), the editor's user name or IP address, the increase (green) or decrease (red) in the number of bytes (the computer file size of the article)

To view the list of the articles you are watching or to edit the list and remove an article from your watch list click View and Edit Watchlist below the Watchlist title (see below).

More detailed information on My Watchlist can be found through Wikipedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:My_watchlist

2.3–My Contributions

Similar to My Watchlist except this list focuses only on the pages you have worked on, edited or created. It allows you to find out whether there have been any subsequent edits. This can be a useful alternative to accessing your watchlist, particularly if your watchlist contains a large number of pages.

More detailed information on My Contributions can be found through Wikipedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:My_contributions Wikipedia Training Manual