
200 GOOGLE APPS HACKS
To track Wikipedia changes to an article outside of Google Reader, use the Wikipedia watchlist feature. First,
make sure you’re logged in to Wikipedia (click the “Log in/create account” link at the top of any Wikipedia
page). Above most articles, you will now nd a tab that reads Watch. Click it to add the article to your watchlist.
You can view this watchlist by clicking the “my watchlist” link on top. (If you want to unsubscribe from a
watched item, either click “unwatch” on top of the article in question, or—and this works better if you want
to unsubscribe from multiple items—follow the link “View and edit watchlist” or “Edit raw watchlist” shown
on your watchlist page.) As for your privacy, note that although—according to Wikipedia’s help les—normal
users won’t see which pages you’ve added to the watchlist, developers who have access to the servers holding
the Wikipedia database may see that list.
For a way to keep track of changes on any web page—not just Wikipedia—check out web page change
detection services
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HaCK 83:
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