From: Lady <redacted>
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2023 19:53:58 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: Clarify the meaning of “recently changed”
X-Git-Url: https://git.ladys.computer/Wiki/commitdiff_plain/699aba005091ce2c5a8fdacfe1db936e36d28734?ds=sidebyside;hp=83d22b367686c9a559d6f8c143276b1b2b79040c

Clarify the meaning of “recently changed”
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diff --git a/Sources/Special/RecentlyChanged.djot b/Sources/Special/RecentlyChanged.djot
index 0d9c96b..37f9339 100644
--- a/Sources/Special/RecentlyChanged.djot
+++ b/Sources/Special/RecentlyChanged.djot
@@ -1,8 +1,18 @@
 {v-short="recently changed"}
 # recently changed pages
 
-The files listed on this page were modified somewhat recently.
+The files listed on this page were modified somewhat recently (within a
+  week of the latest change).
 
-If you really care about following every change posted to this wiki,
-  try subscribing to [the Atom feed for the Git repository powering
-  this site](https://git.ladys.computer/Wiki/atom).
+Only the past seven or so commits are actually queried for dates (it’s
+  a separate command for each one), so files which were edited less
+  recently are collected at the end.
+This number could be increased at some point depending on wiki activity
+  (or according to some hueristic, like “query for at least all the
+  commits in the past day”).
+But because [Lady’s Gitweb instance][Computer/Gitweb]{title="Lady’s
+  Gitweb"} provides an [the Atom feed for the Git repository powering
+  this site](https://git.ladys.computer/Wiki/atom), having a full
+  changelog is less necessary.
+
+[Computer/Gitweb]: https://git.ladys.computer/