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id="toc-Signature" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Signature"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.3</span> <span>Signature</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Signature-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Email_options" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Email_options"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.4</span> <span>Email options</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Email_options-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Newcomer_homepage" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Newcomer_homepage"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.5</span> <span>Newcomer homepage</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Newcomer_homepage-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Appearance" class="vector-toc-list-item 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class="vector-toc-numb">10</span> <span>Other tools</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Other_tools-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-See_also" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#See_also"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">11</span> <span>See also</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-See_also-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Notes" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Notes"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">12</span> <span>Notes</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Notes-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </nav> </div> </div> <div class="mw-content-container"> <main id="content" class="mw-body"> <header class="mw-body-header vector-page-titlebar"> <nav aria-label="Contents" class="vector-toc-landmark"> <div id="vector-page-titlebar-toc" class="vector-dropdown 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class="mw-page-title-namespace">Help</span><span class="mw-page-title-separator">:</span><span class="mw-page-title-main">Preferences</span></h1> <div id="p-lang-btn" class="vector-dropdown mw-portlet mw-portlet-lang" > <input type="checkbox" id="p-lang-btn-checkbox" role="button" aria-haspopup="true" data-event-name="ui.dropdown-p-lang-btn" class="vector-dropdown-checkbox mw-interlanguage-selector" aria-label="Go to an article in another language. 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interwiki-zh-min-nan mw-list-item"><a href="https://zh-min-nan.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pang-ch%C4%81n:I%C5%8Dng-chi%C3%A1_siat-t%C4%93ng" title="Pang-chān:Iōng-chiá siat-tēng – Minnan" lang="nan" hreflang="nan" data-title="Pang-chān:Iōng-chiá siat-tēng" data-language-autonym="閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú" data-language-local-name="Minnan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ba mw-list-item"><a href="https://ba.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BF%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%B8%D1%8F:%D0%9A%D3%A9%D0%B9%D0%BB%D3%99%D2%AF%D2%99%D3%99%D1%80_%D0%B1%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B5%D1%88%D0%BC%D3%99%D2%BB%D0%B5" title="Википедия:Көйләүҙәр белешмәһе – Bashkir" lang="ba" hreflang="ba" data-title="Википедия:Көйләүҙәр белешмәһе" data-language-autonym="Башҡортса" data-language-local-name="Bashkir" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Башҡортса</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A3%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BF%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%B8%D1%8F:%D0%9D%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B9%D0%BA%D0%B8" title="Уикипедия:Настройки – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Уикипедия:Настройки" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajuda:Prefer%C3%A8ncies" title="Ajuda:Preferències – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Ajuda:Preferències" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C3%A1pov%C4%9Bda:U%C5%BEivatelsk%C3%A9_nastaven%C3%AD" title="Nápověda:Uživatelské nastavení – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Nápověda:Uživatelské nastavení" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hj%C3%A6lp:Personlige_indstillinger" title="Hjælp:Personlige indstillinger – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Hjælp:Personlige indstillinger" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilfe:Einstellungen" title="Hilfe:Einstellungen – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Hilfe:Einstellungen" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%92%CE%BF%CE%AE%CE%B8%CE%B5%CE%B9%CE%B1:%CE%95%CF%80%CE%B9%CE%BB%CE%BF%CE%B3%CE%AD%CF%82_%CF%87%CF%81%CE%AE%CF%83%CF%84%CE%B7" title="Βοήθεια:Επιλογές χρήστη – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Βοήθεια:Επιλογές χρήστη" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aide:Pr%C3%A9f%C3%A9rences" title="Aide:Préférences – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Aide:Préférences" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ga mw-list-item"><a href="https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicip%C3%A9id:Cabhair_do_shocruithe_%C3%BAs%C3%A1ideora" title="Vicipéid:Cabhair do shocruithe úsáideora – Irish" lang="ga" hreflang="ga" data-title="Vicipéid:Cabhair do shocruithe úsáideora" data-language-autonym="Gaeilge" data-language-local-name="Irish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gaeilge</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axuda:Preferencias" title="Axuda:Preferencias – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Axuda:Preferencias" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%8F%84%EC%9B%80%EB%A7%90:%ED%99%98%EA%B2%BD_%EC%84%A4%EC%A0%95" title="도움말:환경 설정 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="도움말:환경 설정" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%8E%D5%AB%D6%84%D5%AB%D5%BA%D5%A5%D5%A4%D5%AB%D5%A1:%D5%86%D5%A1%D5%AD%D5%A8%D5%B6%D5%BF%D6%80%D5%B8%D6%82%D5%A9%D5%B5%D5%B8%D6%82%D5%B6%D5%B6%D5%A5%D6%80" title="Վիքիպեդիա:Նախընտրություններ – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Վիքիպեդիա:Նախընտրություններ" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hsb mw-list-item"><a href="https://hsb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomoc:Nastajenja" title="Pomoc:Nastajenja – Upper Sorbian" lang="hsb" hreflang="hsb" data-title="Pomoc:Nastajenja" data-language-autonym="Hornjoserbsce" data-language-local-name="Upper Sorbian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hornjoserbsce</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedija:Postavke" title="Wikipedija:Postavke – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Wikipedija:Postavke" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hrvatski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aiuto:Preferenze" title="Aiuto:Preferenze – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Aiuto:Preferenze" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A2%D7%96%D7%A8%D7%94:%D7%94%D7%A2%D7%93%D7%A4%D7%95%D7%AA" title="עזרה:העדפות – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="עזרה:העדפות" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kk mw-list-item"><a href="https://kk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A3%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BF%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%B8%D1%8F:%D0%91%D0%B0%D0%BF%D1%82%D0%B0%D1%83%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%80" title="Уикипедия:Баптаулар – Kazakh" lang="kk" hreflang="kk" data-title="Уикипедия:Баптаулар" data-language-autonym="Қазақша" data-language-local-name="Kazakh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Қазақша</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pagalba:Nustatymai" title="Pagalba:Nustatymai – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Pagalba:Nustatymai" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lietuvių</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Be%C3%A1ll%C3%ADt%C3%A1sok" title="Wikipédia:Beállítások – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Wikipédia:Beállítások" data-language-autonym="Magyar" 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It is not one of <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Policies_and_guidelines" title="Wikipedia:Policies and guidelines">Wikipedia's policies or guidelines</a>, and may reflect varying levels of <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Consensus" title="Wikipedia:Consensus">consensus</a>.</div></div></td><td class="mbox-imageright"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1252059228">.mw-parser-output .module-shortcutboxplain{float:right;margin:0 0 0 1em;border:1px solid var(--border-color-base,#a2a9b1);background-color:var(--background-color-base,#fff);padding:0.3em 0.6em 0.2em 0.6em;text-align:center;font-size:85%}.mw-parser-output .module-shortcutboxleft{float:left;margin:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .module-shortcutlist{display:inline-block;border-bottom:1px solid var(--border-color-base,#a2a9b1);margin-bottom:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .module-shortcutboxplain ul{font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .module-shortcutanchordiv{position:relative;top:-3em}.mw-parser-output li .module-shortcutanchordiv{float:right}.mw-parser-output .mbox-imageright .module-shortcutboxplain{padding:0.4em 1em 0.4em 1em;line-height:1.3;margin:0}</style><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="H:P"></span><span id="WP:PREF"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcuts</a></div><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=H:P&redirect=no">H:P</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:PREF&redirect=no">WP:PREF</a></span></li></ul></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Preferences</b> are the seventy or so user options for browsing, editing, searching, notifications, and more. A link to your Preferences page is available at the top of every Wikipedia page when you <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:ACCOUNT" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:ACCOUNT">have an account</a>, alongside links to your other account services such as your Contributions. Another way to get there is by navigating to the <i><a href="/wiki/Special:Preferences" title="Special:Preferences">Special:Preferences</a></i> page. </p><p>Once at your Preferences page, you can control much of the Wikipedia user interface through the many feature settings provided by <a href="/wiki/MediaWiki" title="MediaWiki">MediaWiki</a> (the software of Wikipedia): <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Skin" title="Wikipedia:Skin">skins</a>, <a href="/wiki/Plug-in_(computing)" title="Plug-in (computing)">plug-ins</a>, date formats, a signature, and more. For example, you can select to be prompted to enter an edit summary if you forget to. The Preferences page also presents a link to customize your CSS to <a href="/wiki/Help:Cascading_Style_Sheets" title="Help:Cascading Style Sheets">adjust your page style details</a>. </p><p>Plus, there are hundreds of <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedian" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Wikipedian">user</a> tools to explore, many listed at <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Tools#Browsing_and_editing" title="Wikipedia:Tools">Wikipedia:Tools § Browsing and editing</a>, that can override or tweak preferences provided by MediaWiki. Each account has its own Custom JavaScript page where the tools install themselves, and where you can help develop them. </p><p>At their site, MediaWiki maintains a <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Compatibility#Browsers" class="extiw" title="mw:Compatibility">browser compatibility matrix</a>. The time you spend in getting an account, setting your preferences, finding tools and testing your browser (before you ever lose an edit) will pay off. </p><p>Feature requests can be made, and bugs reported, as described at <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Phabricator" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Phabricator">Wikipedia:Phabricator</a>. The current set of preferences are largely the result of issues raised by newcomers at places such as the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump" title="Wikipedia:Village pump">Village pump</a>, and driven by regulars who hold long discussions and collectively drive issues. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc"/> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Preferences_page" data-mw-thread-id="h-Preferences_page"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Preferences_page"></span>Preferences page<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Preferences_page"></span></h2></div> <p>The Preferences page is accessible when you are <a href="/wiki/Help:Logging_in" title="Help:Logging in">logged-in</a>, but you must have JavaScript enabled in your browser, since the page and all its tabs are an extensive JavaScript application. </p><p>You do not need to click <kbd class="nowrap button" title="This is not a clickable button; it illustrates the button one should find." style="padding:.2em .6em; border:1px solid; border-color:var(--border-color-base, #a2a9b1) var(--border-color-interactive, #72777d) var(--border-color-interactive, #72777d) var(--border-color-base, #a2a9b1); border-radius:3px; background-color: #F2F2F2; color: inherit; background-image: linear-gradient(to bottom, var(--background-color-interactive-subtle, #f8f9fa), var(--background-color-interactive, #eaecf0)); font-family:sans-serif;">Save</kbd> on every tab on the Preferences page, as the Save button affects all changes on all Preferences tabs.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> You can go from tab to tab setting all your preferences before saving, because Save remembers your changes on the other tabs. To forget unsaved changes, simply leave the page without saving. If you wish to undo your saved changes, you will need to reset them manually. </p><p>Clicking Restore all default settings will harmlessly load another page, which will <i>then</i> offer the button to reset <i>all</i> preferences in every tab to their default values. This includes a few items that are stored as a preference, but that aren't directly editable in Special:Preferences. If you do reset your preferences, you can restore your custom signature from the wikitext of a history page, update your custom CSS or JavaScript from <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Tools#Browsing_and_editing" title="Wikipedia:Tools">Wikipedia:Tools § Browsing and editing</a>, and then re-select and save your preferences. </p><p>The default settings are aimed at newcomers editing <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Articles">articles</a>. Intermediate editors tend to activate more features, such as "warn me if I forgot an edit summary", and advanced editors and administrators use the special settings, gadgets, and editors for <i>their</i> tasks. </p><p>You have the same username and password on <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Sister" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Sister">sister</a> projects such as Wiktionary, at MediaWiki.org itself, and on the Wikipedia of other languages. Each of your account's preferences are independent because each wiki is a website, with their own administration (namespaces, settings, accounts, etc.). Even the word "Preferences" on the top may be set differently! On the <a href="/wiki/Simple_English_Wikipedia" title="Simple English Wikipedia">Simple English Wikipedia</a>, it says "My settings". </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="User_profile" data-mw-thread-id="h-User_profile"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-User_profile"></span>User profile<span data-mw-comment-end="h-User_profile"></span></h2></div> <dl><dd><span class="example" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><a href="/wiki/Special:Preferences" title="Special:Preferences">Preferences</a> → <a href="/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-personal" title="Special:Preferences">User profile</a> → Details = <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Preferences#User_profile" class="extiw" title="mw:Help:Preferences">mw:Help:Preferences#User profile</a></span></dd></dl> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Basic_information" data-mw-thread-id="h-Basic_information-User_profile"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Basic_information-User_profile"></span>Basic information<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Basic_information-User_profile"></span></h3></div> <ul><li>Lists your account details and the number of edits you have made.</li> <li>Allows you to view/manage your global account info.</li> <li>Provides a link to change your password.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Internationalisation" data-mw-thread-id="h-Internationalisation-User_profile"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Internationalisation-User_profile"></span>Internationalisation<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Internationalisation-User_profile"></span></h3></div> <ul><li>Change the language of user-interface messages. It does not affect articles and other pages made by editors. Note that many interface messages have been customized at the English Wikipedia but usually only for the default "en - English" which may for example add links to relevant help pages, processes and policies. Editors are discouraged from selecting "en-GB - British English" or "en-CA - Canadian English", which make a few spelling changes but omit many useful customizations.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Foreign languages also omit customizations but may be preferred by users with poor English abilities.</li> <li>Specify your preferred pronoun in order for the software to grammatically refer to you correctly. This is also visible to other users via certain tools, such as template <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:They" title="Template:They">they</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span>, and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Tools/Navigation_popups" title="Wikipedia:Tools/Navigation popups">Navigation popups</a>.</li> <li>More language settings: allows you to set the language in which Wikipedia menus and fonts are displayed; additionally, an option to set the language you edit in (input tools must be enabled).</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Signature" data-mw-thread-id="h-Signature-User_profile"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Signature-User_profile"></span>Signature<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Signature-User_profile"></span></h3></div> <ul><li>Displays the signature that will appear when you sign talk pages.</li> <li>Allows you to edit the signature, either using wiki markup (the option must be checked), or just plain text.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Email_options" data-mw-thread-id="h-Email_options-User_profile"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Email_options-User_profile"></span>Email options<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Email_options-User_profile"></span></h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Emailing_users" title="Wikipedia:Emailing users">Wikipedia:Emailing users</a></div> <ul><li>An option to provide an email address. Although this is optional, please read the warning about losing your password and <i>not</i> having an email address on file.</li> <li>Options about use of your email address: enabling email from other users, sending copies of emails you send to other users, and receiving email when a page or file on your watchlist is changed.</li> <li>Before using email you must confirm your email address. See <a href="/wiki/Help:Email_confirmation" title="Help:Email confirmation">Help:Email confirmation</a></li> <li>"Email me when a page or file on my watchlist is changed", see <a href="/wiki/Help:Email_notification" title="Help:Email notification">Help:Email notification</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Newcomer_homepage" data-mw-thread-id="h-Newcomer_homepage-User_profile"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Newcomer_homepage-User_profile"></span>Newcomer homepage<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Newcomer_homepage-User_profile"></span></h3></div> <dl><dd><i>See <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Growth_Team_features#Newcomer_homepage" title="Wikipedia:Growth Team features">Wikipedia:Growth Team features § Newcomer homepage</a></i></dd></dl> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Appearance" data-mw-thread-id="h-Appearance"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Appearance"></span>Appearance<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Appearance"></span></h2></div> <dl><dd><span class="example" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><a href="/wiki/Special:Preferences" title="Special:Preferences">Preferences</a> → <a href="/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-rendering" title="Special:Preferences">Appearance</a> → Details = <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Preferences#Appearance" class="extiw" title="mw:Help:Preferences">mw:Help:Preferences#Appearance</a></span></dd></dl> <p>Change the web browser experience. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Skin" data-mw-thread-id="h-Skin-Appearance"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Skin-Appearance"></span>Skin<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Skin-Appearance"></span></h3></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Skin_Preferences" data-mw-thread-id="h-Skin_Preferences-Appearance"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Skin_Preferences-Appearance"></span>Skin Preferences<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Skin_Preferences-Appearance"></span></h3></div> <ul><li>Choose the "skin", or "theme" of how Wikipedia is displayed.</li> <li>Access your <span style="color:#CC2200">Custom CSS</span> or <span style="color:#CC2200">Custom JavaScript</span> for individual skins and for global settings that apply to all skins. If the links are blue, you have created these special pages and this is a quick way to access and edit them. If the links are red, clicking the link will create the special page. You can also access your cross-wiki CSS and JavaScript pages from this section, but the color of the links will always be that of external links.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Reading_Preferences" data-mw-thread-id="h-Reading_Preferences-Appearance"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Reading_Preferences-Appearance"></span>Reading Preferences<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Reading_Preferences-Appearance"></span></h3></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Date_format" data-mw-thread-id="h-Date_format-Appearance"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Date_format-Appearance"></span>Date format<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Date_format-Appearance"></span></h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Preferences#Date_format/Time_offset" class="extiw" title="mw:Help:Preferences">mw:Help:Preferences § Date format/Time offset</a></div> <ul><li>Option to set your date and time preferences; this is how dates will appear in article History pages, logs, etc. If set to "No preference", the format is HH:MM, DD MMMM YYYY (<a href="/wiki/UTC" class="mw-redirect" title="UTC">UTC</a>), for example: 16:03, 13 February 2025 (UTC).</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Time_offset" data-mw-thread-id="h-Time_offset-Appearance"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Time_offset-Appearance"></span>Time offset<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Time_offset-Appearance"></span></h3></div> <ul><li>Shows the server time (UTC) and the local time based on the optional Time zone setting. You may opt to use the server time (UTC), have the offset calculated by the clock in your computer, or specify an offset from UTC in hours or by location.</li> <li>This does not affect times saved in editable pages, such as timestamps in signatures. For that, see <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Comments_in_Local_Time" title="Wikipedia:Comments in Local Time">Wikipedia:Comments in Local Time</a>.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Files" data-mw-thread-id="h-Files-Appearance"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Files-Appearance"></span>Files<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Files-Appearance"></span></h3></div> <ul><li>The images in an article are just a <b>thumbnail</b> (a preview). These will always be one of eight possible <i><a href="/wiki/Help:Files#Using_files" title="Help:Files">Thumbnail</a> sizes</i>. For the larger screen sizes choose the maximum, and for the smaller screen sizes choose the minimum thumbnail size. The default 220px is a midrange thumbnail-size. Have you changed your font size? Then you should match that font size to your chosen thumbnail size to increase caption readability.</li></ul> <ul><li>While viewing an article, if you click a thumbnail you will activate <i><b>Media Viewer</b></i>. <i>Media Viewer</i> is JavaScript, and it uses processing resources. It loads all the images in the article at high resolution, and this uses networking resources. This is the default. You can turn off <i>Media Viewer</i> to save resources: 1) to control all image sizing, 2) to navigate directly to a file page (instead) when you click on a thumbnail.</li></ul> <ul><li>You can target the <i><b>Image size limit</b></i> of the <i>file page</i> main image, (displayed in the front matter). On a faster network choose a larger size, and on a slower network choose a smaller <i>Image size limit</i>. The default 800×600px is a midrange <i>Image size limit</i>. <i>File pages</i> are on Commons wiki, and if logged in there, going there overrides your settings here.</li></ul> <ul><li>Note that you can both turn off <i>Media Viewer</i> and set a small <i>Image size limit</i>, and yet you will not limit your ability to avail yourself of any high resolution images listed at the bottom of that file page, when wanted. Doing so you can get full manual control of any unwanted, automatic bogging-down of your surfing speed caused by automated choices concerning <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Ns" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Ns"><b>File</b> namespace</a> interactions initiated by clicking on an image.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Diffs" data-mw-thread-id="h-Diffs-Appearance"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Diffs-Appearance"></span>Diffs<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Diffs-Appearance"></span></h3></div> <ul><li>Option to not show page content below the diffs; checking this will suppress the page preview of the difference you're viewing.</li> <li>Option to omit a diff after performing a rollback</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Advanced_options" data-mw-thread-id="h-Advanced_options-Appearance"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Advanced_options-Appearance"></span>Advanced options<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Advanced_options-Appearance"></span></h3></div> <ul><li>Choose to display hyperlinks with underlines in your browser window always, never, or by browser or Wikipedia-skin default.</li> <li>Format links as stub links when the article they link to is smaller than the threshold you set on file size. Stub link formatting changes the link color to the dark brown displayed in this option's text. This option can help you see links to small articles (more likely to be stubs) so that you might expand them. It is also useful for spotting links to <a href="/wiki/Help:Disambiguation_pages" class="mw-redirect" title="Help:Disambiguation pages">disambiguation pages</a>, which are also relatively small. They are usually linked to in error, but often contain on their list a link to the correct article, making this error easy to fix.</li> <li>Show hidden categories.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Math" data-mw-thread-id="h-Math-Appearance"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Math-Appearance"></span>Math<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Math-Appearance"></span></h3></div> <ul><li>Choose <a href="/wiki/Help:Math" class="mw-redirect" title="Help:Math">TeX, or MathJax</a> for displaying mathematical formulas.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Languages" data-mw-thread-id="h-Languages-Appearance"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Languages-Appearance"></span>Languages<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Languages-Appearance"></span></h3></div> <ul><li>Choose to display a more compacted language list.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Editing" data-mw-thread-id="h-Editing"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Editing"></span>Editing<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Editing"></span></h2></div> <dl><dd><span class="example" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><a href="/wiki/Special:Preferences" title="Special:Preferences">Preferences</a> → <a href="/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing" title="Special:Preferences">Editing</a> → Details = <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Preferences#Editing" class="extiw" title="mw:Help:Preferences">mw:Help:Preferences#Editing</a></span></dd></dl> <p>Concerning the edit page, its initiation, and look and feel, Wikipedia offers a high number of options. Some of them are: </p> <ul><li>"Prompt me when entering a blank edit summary (or the default undo summary)" into the database. (Habit-forming. Note: this prompt does not appear when you edit your own User or User talk page.)</li> <li>"Enable VisualEditor". Get a <a href="/wiki/Word_processor" title="Word processor">word processor</a> interface. No markup language at all.</li> <li>"Show preview without reloading the page". Get a <a href="/wiki/Dynamic_web_page" title="Dynamic web page">dynamic web page</a>. <i>Browser reloading</i> now gives a glimpse at the <i>live</i> original without having to leave the edit page. And there is no longer any need to create an entirely new page for each preview requested; <i>live preview</i> just reloads parts of its page, and so it offers no browser history backwards, but disturbs no history forward either. Saves some network bandwidth and lots of browser cache. Just save your edits before disabling JavaScript.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (First-time users should perform a simple compatibility test.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>)</li></ul> <p>The font size for the edit box can be set in Wikipedia editing preferences or in the browser. In Firefox, there are two font-size settings at <kbd><span class="nowrap">Options → Content → "Default font"</span></kbd> <kbd class="nowrap button" title="This is not a clickable button; it illustrates the button one should find." style="padding:.2em .6em; border:1px solid; border-color:var(--border-color-base, #a2a9b1) var(--border-color-interactive, #72777d) var(--border-color-interactive, #72777d) var(--border-color-base, #a2a9b1); border-radius:3px; background-color: #F2F2F2; color: inherit; background-image: linear-gradient(to bottom, var(--background-color-interactive-subtle, #f8f9fa), var(--background-color-interactive, #eaecf0)); font-family:sans-serif;">Advanced…</kbd>, one for the edit box, and one for the rest of the page. If you just want uniformity, check to see if it allows Wikipedia to choose its own font; then you set Wikipedia's "Edit Area Font Style" to "Serif" or "Sans Serif", and the font size in the edit box will match the rest of the page. </p><p>The number of rows in the edit box is no longer set in preferences. For a temporary change, when the edit box is displayed, drag up or down the small square in the bottom right corner of the edit box. Alternatively, make the change stick by adding this line to your CSS file (in Preferences, Appearance), usually <a href="/wiki/Special:MyPage/common.css" title="Special:MyPage/common.css">Special:MyPage/common.css</a>: </p> <div class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-css mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><pre><span></span><span class="p">#</span><span class="nn">wpTextbox1</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p">{</span><span class="k">height</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="mi">25</span><span class="kt">em</span><span class="p">;}</span> </pre></div> <p>where <code>25em</code> is an example (and typical), height. </p><p>Two editing toolbars are offered that will span the top of the edit box. (<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Reftoolbar" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Reftoolbar">Wikipedia:Reftoolbar</a></i> shows versions.) </p> <ul><li>"Show edit toolbar" is the legacy 1.0 version that gives a row of buttons. (See <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/help:Edit_toolbar" class="extiw" title="m:help:Edit toolbar">m:help:Edit toolbar</a> for details.)</li> <li>"Enable enhanced editing toolbar" gives a <a href="/wiki/Frame_(GUI)" title="Frame (GUI)">frame</a> with icons. It is a default feature that can be turned off. <ul><li><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Vector_toolbar_search-replace_button.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b6/Vector_toolbar_search-replace_button.png" decoding="async" width="28" height="28" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="28" data-file-height="28"/></a></span> is a search and replace dialog that can accept <a href="/wiki/Regular_expressions" class="mw-redirect" title="Regular expressions">regular expressions</a> as a search target for replacement text. (See <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/JavaScript/Guide/Regular_Expressions?redirectlocale=en-US&redirectslug=Core_JavaScript_1.5_Guide%2FRegular_Expressions">a list of regular expression symbols</a><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>)</li></ul></li></ul> <p>To use more of your favorite <a href="/wiki/Text_editor" title="Text editor">text editor</a> instead of just the edit box and toolbars, see <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_editor_support" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Text editor support">Wikipedia:Text editor support</a>. Also see the Gadgets tab. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Recent_changes" data-mw-thread-id="h-Recent_changes"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Recent_changes"></span>Recent changes<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Recent_changes"></span></h2></div> <dl><dd><span class="example" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><a href="/wiki/Special:Preferences" title="Special:Preferences">Preferences</a> → <a href="/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-rc" title="Special:Preferences">Recent changes</a> → Display options & Advanced options = <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Preferences#Recent_changes" class="extiw" title="mw:Help:Preferences">mw:Help:Preferences#Recent changes</a></span></dd></dl> <p>Recent changes refer to changes of pages in the database. Every time a wiki page is edited, and changes were actually made, a record is kept of the difference. For example, a page history shows the revisions for that particular page. But recent changes can report on more than just the revisions of a page, or an entire wiki, they can also report on the recent changes of an editor (their contributions). The user preferences for <i>recent changes</i> are the style in which these lists of revisions will appear: </p> <ul><li>Length of the list</li> <li>Time window of the list</li> <li>Grouping methods of the list</li></ul> <p>The watchlist has even more finely tuned preferences because, like the edit window, it is often a core tool for editors. </p><p>More information about these various histories can be found at the following places. For global changes to Wikipedia pages, see <a href="/wiki/Help:Recent_changes" title="Help:Recent changes">Help:Recent changes</a>. For user contributions, see <a href="/wiki/Help:User_contributions" title="Help:User contributions">Help:User contributions</a>. For page histories, see <a href="/wiki/Help:Page_history" title="Help:Page history">Help:Page history</a>. For other types of logs see <a href="/wiki/Help:Log" title="Help:Log">Help:Log</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Pending_changes" data-mw-thread-id="h-Pending_changes-Recent_changes"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Pending_changes-Recent_changes"></span>Pending changes<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Pending_changes-Recent_changes"></span></h3></div> <dl><dd><span class="example" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><a href="/wiki/Special:Preferences" title="Special:Preferences">Preferences</a> → <a href="/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-rc" title="Special:Preferences">Recent changes</a> → <a href="/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-rc-flaggedrevs-ui" title="Special:Preferences">Pending changes</a> = <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Preferences#Pending_changes/Edit_review" class="extiw" title="mw:Help:Preferences">mw:Help:Preferences#Pending changes/Edit review</a></span></dd></dl> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">For an explanation of what <i>pending changes</i> are, see <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Pending_changes" title="Wikipedia:Pending changes">Wikipedia:Pending changes</a>.</div> <p>These settings are for advanced editors who have a detailed understanding of the <i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:PILLARS" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:PILLARS">five pillars</a></i> and of the templates used to mark judgments on the page. <i>Pending changes</i> refers to the style of the presentation of </p> <ul><li>new page "curation" tools: <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:CURATION" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:CURATION">curation toolbar and new pages feed</a>, and</li> <li>how recent changes appear on the page history of <a href="/wiki/Special:StablePages" title="Special:StablePages">certain pages</a> that have been configured for protection by reviewing any changes before they are applied to the public version of the page.</li></ul> <p>For an example of a page history showing the pending changes feature, click on the history of a page listed at <a href="/wiki/Special:PendingChanges" title="Special:PendingChanges">Special:PendingChanges</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Watchlist" data-mw-thread-id="h-Watchlist"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Watchlist"></span>Watchlist<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Watchlist"></span></h2></div> <dl><dd><span class="example" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><a href="/wiki/Special:Preferences" title="Special:Preferences">Preferences</a> → <a href="/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-watchlist" title="Special:Preferences">Watchlist</a> → Details = <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Preferences#Watchlist" class="extiw" title="mw:Help:Preferences">mw:Help:Preferences#Watchlist</a></span></dd></dl> <p>The watchlist options include which pages, and what "recent" means to you. If your <span class="example" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><a href="/wiki/Special:Preferences" title="Special:Preferences">Preferences</a></span> has "<b>Email me when a page or file on my watchlist is changed</b>" set (at the bottom of the "User profile" tab), then only by visiting a page will you actually set its email notification flag. Once you miss the email for a particular page change or don't visit the page (or ignore the email), <i>you will not receive any more emails for that page</i>. You can still dutifully monitor that page by its watchlist edit-summaries, but its particular email notification flag will remain unset until you visit it. This facilitates monitoring a large watchlist while preventing potentially useless emails to you. </p><p>In case you want to set <i>all</i> email notifications anyway, you can at any time mark all pages "visited". If your <span class="example" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><a href="/wiki/Special:Preferences" title="Special:Preferences">Preferences</a> → <a href="/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-gadgets" title="Special:Preferences">Gadgets</a></span> has "<b>Display pages on your watchlist that have changed since your last visit in bold</b>", then your watchlist will have a button labeled "Mark all pages visited". That button will effectively set all of your email notification flags. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Notifications" data-mw-thread-id="h-Notifications"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Notifications"></span>Notifications<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Notifications"></span></h2></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="H:PN"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcut</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=H:PN&redirect=no">H:PN</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <dl><dd><span class="example" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><a href="/wiki/Special:Preferences" title="Special:Preferences">Preferences</a> → <a href="/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-echo" title="Special:Preferences">Notifications</a></span></dd></dl> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main pages: <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Notifications" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Notifications">Wikipedia:Notifications</a> and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Notifications/FAQ" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Notifications/FAQ">Wikipedia:Notifications/FAQ</a></div> <p>These settings alter the <a href="/wiki/Special:Notifications" title="Special:Notifications">Special:Notifications</a> tool. The options for Notifications were first added in May 2013. See <i>Wikipedia Signpost</i> topic "<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-04-22/Technology_report#English-language_Wikipedia_to_be_first_to_receive_Echo_deployment" title="Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2013-04-22/Technology report">English-language Wikipedia to be first to receive Echo deployment</a>" for a brief overview. </p><p>For a full explanation of the specific preferences, see <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Notifications#Preferences_and_settings" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Notifications">Wikipedia:Notifications § Preferences and settings</a>. </p> <dl><dt>Email options</dt></dl> <ul><li>Choose whether to opt-in or opt-out of email notifications (you must <a href="/wiki/Help:Email_confirmation" title="Help:Email confirmation">confirm your email address</a> on your <span class="example" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><a href="/wiki/Special:Preferences" title="Special:Preferences">Preferences</a> → <a href="/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-personal" title="Special:Preferences">User profile</a> → <a href="/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-personal-email" title="Special:Preferences">Email options</a></span>). You can also choose how often to receive email notifications, from single emails for each event to daily or weekly digests.</li> <li>Choose whether to receive plain text or <a href="/wiki/HTML_email" title="HTML email">HTML email</a>.</li></ul> <dl><dt>Notify me about these events</dt></dl> <p>You can enable (or disable) individual types of notifications by checking (or unchecking) the boxes next to it. You can enable (or disable) notifications on the web or by email for most notification types (note that some notifications cannot be disabled, such as changes to your user rights or new talk page messages: these notifications are too important to be dismissed). </p><p><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Notifications#Types_of_notifications" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Notifications">Wikipedia:Notifications § Types of notifications</a> has a general list of the types of notifications. <a href="/wiki/Special:DisplayNotificationsConfiguration" title="Special:DisplayNotificationsConfiguration">Special:DisplayNotificationsConfiguration</a> lists all notification types available and how they are configured. </p> <dl><dt>Muted users</dt></dl> <p>You can mute on-site notifications from individual users by enter their username into the box. You will still receive notifications if a muted user writes on your user talk page or reviews a page you have created. The muted user will still receive a successful mention notification, if they've enabled that preference. </p> <dl><dt>Muting pages</dt></dl> <p>You can mute "page linked" notifications for specific pages by typing each page's name into the box. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Gadgets" data-mw-thread-id="h-Gadgets"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Gadgets"></span>Gadgets<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Gadgets"></span></h2></div> <dl><dd><span class="example" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><a href="/wiki/Special:Preferences" title="Special:Preferences">Preferences</a> → <a href="/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-gadgets" title="Special:Preferences">Gadgets</a> → Details = <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Gadget#Currently_installed_gadgets" title="Wikipedia:Gadget">Wikipedia:Gadget#Currently installed gadgets</a></span></dd></dl> <p>Gadgets are the software contributed by users, not the software that runs Wikipedia, and so you'll see the group names <i>Editing</i> and <i>Appearance</i> are the same as the tab names on the preferences page. If you see tabs on the preferences page your web-browsers already has JavaScript enabled. The gadgets go through an authoritative process before they appear on the list. There are gadgets for, browsing, editing, appearance and for compatibility. A general overview of the select gadgetry available there is as follows. </p> <dl><dt>Browsing</dt></dl> <ul><li>Language translating</li> <li>Media files, search results, and diffs</li> <li>Twinkle admin tools for the advancing editor</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Teahouse" title="Wikipedia:Teahouse">Teahouse</a> for the new editor question</li> <li>Mousing over or hovering over an inline citation to read it</li></ul> <dl><dt>Editing</dt></dl> <ul><li>Citation modifying/expediting/proving</li> <li>Colorizing wikitext; Character toolsets</li> <li>Categorizing; Reviewing new articles; Filing disputes</li> <li>The Wiki Editor, WikEd, and WikEdDiff</li></ul> <dl><dt>Appearance</dt></dl> <ul><li>Editing the introductory section.</li> <li>Admin tools; Changing and adding to page layouts and controls</li> <li>Displaying diffs, or animations, or your very own local time on all timestamps</li> <li>Enabling an external search engine for searching Wikipedia</li> <li>Show the assessed class of an article, <i>Featured</i>, <i>A, B, C</i>, etc.</li> <li>Justifying paragraphs</li></ul> <dl><dt>Compatibility</dt></dl> <ul><li>Font and JavaScript support</li></ul> <dl><dt>Advanced</dt></dl> <ul><li>Regular expression tools</li> <li>Tracking software bugs</li> <li>Patrolling recent changes</li></ul> <p>See much more customization available in the pages in the <i><a href="#See_also">See also</a></i> section, such as a <i>search and replace</i> dialog that understands JavaScript regular expressions. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Beta_features" data-mw-thread-id="h-Beta_features"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Beta_features"></span>Beta features<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Beta_features"></span></h2></div> <dl><dd><span class="example" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><a href="/wiki/Special:Preferences" title="Special:Preferences">Preferences</a> → <a href="/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatures" title="Special:Preferences">Beta features</a> → Details = <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Beta_Features" class="extiw" title="mw:Beta Features">mw:Beta Features</a></span></dd></dl> <p>Beta Features is a way for users to test new features on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia sites before they are released for everyone. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Other_tools" data-mw-thread-id="h-Other_tools"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Other_tools"></span>Other tools<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Other_tools"></span></h2></div> <p>The MediaWiki preferences page offers a set of options for the generic user. If you discover a special role on Wikipedia, there is probably a powerful tool for it at <i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Tools#Browsing_and_editing" title="Wikipedia:Tools">Wikipedia:Tools § Browsing and editing</a></i>. </p><p>Operating an account with a <i>tool</i> may carry side effects, such as popups, toolbars and frame objects on your browsing or editing page space that are sometimes burdensome, yet sometimes powerfully necessary. Rather than uninstalling, it is possible to just switch skins, because there are four skins, each with a <i>pair</i> of customizations. 1) <i>Custom JavaScript</i> has the tools. 2) <i>Custom CSS</i> can carry over your preferred fonts, colors, and frame borders to each skin, no matter what tools that skin may also be loaded with. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="See_also" data-mw-thread-id="h-See_also"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-See_also"></span>See also<span data-mw-comment-end="h-See_also"></span></h2></div> <ul><li><a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Preferences" class="extiw" title="mw:Help:Preferences">mw:Help:Preferences</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Skin" title="Wikipedia:Skin">Wikipedia:Skin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Customisation" title="Wikipedia:Customisation">Wikipedia:Customisation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Scripts" title="Wikipedia:Scripts">Wikipedia:Scripts</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Tools" title="Wikipedia:Tools">Wikipedia:Tools</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_reports/User_preferences" title="Wikipedia:Database reports/User preferences">Wikipedia:Database reports/User preferences</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Notes" data-mw-thread-id="h-Notes"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Notes"></span>Notes<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Notes"></span></h2></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">It is true that each tab will create a URL in the browser history, but these URLs do not represent historical differences in the JavaScript instance that loaded with the Preferences page itself. The per-tab URLs only purpose is to serve the browser's back- and forward-navigation.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)/Archive_184#Discourage_en-xx_UI_variants" title="Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)/Archive 184">Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)/Archive 184#Discourage en-xx UI variants</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">If you disable JavaScript <i>for any page on <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/main" class="extiw" title="mw:main">MediaWiki.org</a> or Wikipedia.org</i>, you will lose all unsaved edits in all tabs; yet disabling JavaScript is a common troubleshooting technique when diagnosing some preference-related browser behaviors.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">The danger in using Live preview is on first use with an incompatible browser. 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