Wikipedia:Tools
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- See also: Category:Wikipedia tools
The pages listed below contain various tools and tutorials intended to simplify, make more efficient, or provide additional functionality to Wikipedians.
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Browsing and editing
Image:Wikipedia Toolbar for Firefox.png
- Not English - Some tools need their descriptions translated from German; others are not available in English. Help translate if you can!
- Browser integration: tools intended to enhance browser functions as related to Wikipedia; contains bookmarklets, user scripts, browser extensions, etc.
- Alternative browsing - Alternatives to accessing Wikipedia through your web browser (mobile devices, desktop integration, alternate portals, etc.)
- Editing tools: tools intended to provide enhanced editing functionality; contains edit bots, spellcheckers, wikisyntax conversion utilities, etc.
- Wikipedia:Syndication (RSS feeds, etc.)
- User Scripts
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External programming interfaces
- Perl-Module that searches for and retrieves an article
- Python Wikipedia API, pywikiapi
- PHP plugin for programmers using the Eclipse development environment
- See Wikipedia:Bots for more
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Searching
- As the result of a partnership with the Wikimedia Foundation, Answers.com has produced the tools below:
- Search Wikipedia with Answers.com - Complements Wikipedia searches with additional encyclopedias, dictionaries, glossaries and atlases.
- Download and install 1-Click AnswersTM 2.0 Wikipedia Edition (beta)
- Search Wikipedia with Clusty - Clusters results on the fly
- Search Wikipedias with LuMriX: see Wikipedia:Searching#LuMriX
- WikiWax - A better way to search Wikipedia's alphabetical index
- GlobalWPSearch - search across projects and show missing interlanguage links.
- Konfabulator Widget
- Macintosh Dashboard Widget
- Wikimedia-Search search the realtime index for every project with suggest function
- www.qwika.com Qwika is a search engine designed specifically to search wikis. It aims to cover all sizeable wikis in all sizeable languages, translate them, make them easily findable in the shortest possible time.
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Page histories
- Dan Phiffer's Wikipedia Animate - history animation
- AniWiki, created by John Resig - history animation
- Colin Hill's BetterHistory history animation
- http://vs.aka-online.de/wppagehiststat/ - History statistics
- Article revision counter
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Edit counters
- Wikipedia:Kate's Tool (edit counter)
- Interiot's Edit Counter (enhanced version of Kate's Tool)
- Contribution tree
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IRC tools
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Google tools
- Mirrors of Wikimedia content can be filtered from Google search result pages in Firefox using the CustomizeGoogle extension. See meta:Mirror filter for instructions and a filter list.
- Placeopedia Provides a means by which Google map markers can be linked directly to Wikipedia articles.
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Conversion to other formats
- PDF tools are listed on Wikipedia:WikiReader.
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Internet Explorer alpha transparency
If you use an Internet Explorer version prior to IE 7.0 Beta, a bug in IE hurts IE's display of alpha transparency. This makes a lot of images with transparent backgrounds look bad. To fix this, copy and paste this code into Special:Mypage/monobook.js.
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Reporting
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See also
- m:Help:User style
- m:Toolserver
- m:Toolserver/Projects
- Wikipedia:Statistics
- Wikipedia:Template messages - Useful templates
- Wikipedia:Database download for code useful for dealing with offline dumps
- Wikipedia:Scripts
- Category:Wikipedia tools
- Meta:User:Duesentrieb/Tools
- Wikipedia:Starter toolsetde:Wikipedia:Helferlein
es:Wikipedia:Aplicaciones para la Wikipedia it:Wikipedia:Utilities ja:Wikipedia:Magic Button ru:Википедия:Инструменты sv:Externa hjälpmedel th:วิกิพีเดีย:เครื่องมือ zh:Wikipedia:維基工具