Last modified: 2014-11-02 13:45:31 UTC
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Patroller is a great way to patroll through recent changes. It is no more maintained and should be added to core. It uses standard cxode so it shouldn't be much effort to keep it alive.
I guess someone importing it into git, and bringing it up to date would be a good start...
[Title does not describe a bug but a solution or feature / new functionality. Hence setting priority to enhancement.] Not sure whether to mark this as blocking bug 26751 or not.
Since this exention I no more use Special:Recentchanges I also pimped it a bit to display the current page view at the bottom.
This would also be a comfortable way to (additionally) browse a user's contributions.