Manual talk:$wgRCMaxAge

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Is this setting realy maintained?

In my little (low traffic) wikis, Iwould loe to keep the change history for a year or forever. However, when I change the setting to e.g.

$wgRCMaxAge = 31536000;

or

$wgRCMaxAge = 9536000;

I do not see any changes in the "Recent Changes" page.

I don't really know much about the inner workings of recent changes, but my understanding is that it is generated from a dedicated table, and that $wgRCMaxAge tells MW how long to keep the data in that table. If that is true, then increasing this value won't have any immediate effect, but you should find that the list gets longer as the days go by, until ultimately the length of the list reflects the value set here. --HappyDog 00:57, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

Is there a way to add data to the table from before this variable was changed? 71.178.128.211 17:00, 23 November 2007 (UTC)