Exclude pages from Mediawiki recent changes

Does anyone know how to exclude pages from the Recent Changes page in mediawiki? I have a testing page where users can play wit开发者_JAVA百科h syntax and formatting etc. but don't want every little change to show up on the recent changes page.

thanks

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You can use the SpecialRecentChangesQuery hook to exclude the specific page by title, like this:

$wgHooks['SpecialRecentChangesQuery'][] = 'rcExcludeSandbox';

function rcExcludeSandbox( $conds ) {
    $dbr = wfGetDB( DB_SLAVE );
    $conds[] = 'rc_title != ' . $dbr->addQuotes( 'Sandbox' );
    return true;
}

This will prevent all changes on the page "Sandbox" from appearing in Special:RecentChanges.

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If you don't mind writing some PHP, consider using the http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Hooks/OldChangesListRecentChangesLine hook. If you set $s to an empty string for a given page, then those edits shouldn't appear in Special:RecentChanges.

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Easiest would be to put your page in a different namespace, and not search it by default. Unfortunately that functionality isn't in the current version of Mediawiki.

I think you have to use Namespace Manager, It doesn't look like it is finished, but you could give it a shot. It seems like the plan is to add it to a future version.

You could just make a page named Sandbox, and then allow users to edit that page. If you use Enhanced Recent Changes all those edits will appear together, so it won't bother you too much.

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My solution is a separate wiki instance. It is not that hard to set up and then you can also test functional changes in isolation as well.