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Help:Watchlist

2011-11-07T14:33:08Z

Dan Bolser: adding the template

{{PD Help Page}}
{{Special page}}

Your '''watchlist''' is a display for [[Help:Tracking changes|tracking changes]], similar to the “{{int:recentchanges}}” display, but limited to showing changes only across your set of “watched” pages. You can see the watchlist display by clicking “{{lcfirst:{{int:mywatchlist}}}}” link in the top right, however this is only available to users who have registered and logged in.

Before you see anything interesting here, you must add some pages to your watchlist. Do this by navigating to a page which interests you, and clicking the '''star icon''' or ''' “{{lcfirst:{{int:watch}}}}” tab'''.

The watchlist feature is mainly useful on a very busy wiki where the “{{int:recentchanges}}” display becomes too “high traffic.” On a typical low traffic wiki, you can normally see all of the editing activity across the whole wiki without feeling overwhelmed. On a more busy wiki you will find that many edits are taking place on pages which you personally find less interesting. To help track changes which are more interesting, start watching pages!

Typically you would watch pages related to your interest areas, and also pages where your care most about the content. If you make a significant edit to a page, you might chose to watch the page, to see if there are any follow-up edits for example. Note that there is a “{{int:watchthis}}” tickbox provided on the editing screen for this purpose.

On the watchlist display, some page names appear in bold. This indicates whether or not you have visited the page to see the change. It's a bit like read/unread emails in an email inbox. The “{{int:recentchanges}}” display will also have some new bold highlighting, but for a different reason. Here bold is just indicating edits to pages on your watchlist.

See also [[Help:Tracking changes]].

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[[Category:Help|Watchlist]]

Help:Random page

2011-11-07T14:31:55Z

Dan Bolser: adding he template

{{PD Help Page}}
{{Special page}}

[[Image:M-en-sidebar.png|framed|right|The default sidebar on the left, see the fifth link from top]]
The '''random page''' feature allows users to view a wiki page at random. The default, and most convenient use is to show a random page in the main namespace, and is accessed through the [[Special:Random]] page. Users will be redirected to the selection.

[[Special:Randompage]] is an alias for the feature and works in the same manner.

== Namespace selection ==

Users can also opt to view a random page in a namespace of their choice. This is achieved by specifying a namespace as a parameter to the page, i.e. [[Special:Random/Help]] will select a random page in the Help namespace; [[Special:Random/Category]] will show the contents of a random category, etc.

==Settings==
* {{mediawiki|Manual:$wgContentNamespaces}} - this will set what namespaces should be counted as article content and included in [[Special:Random]] function
* {{mediawiki|Manual:$wgExtraRandompageSQL}} - this settings allows for filtering of content from the [[Special:Random]] function

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[[Category:Help|{{PAGENAME}}]]
[[Category:Random page|{{PAGENAME}}]]

Template:Special page

2011-11-07T14:31:00Z

Dan Bolser: Tidying up the +cat code.

<noinclude>A template to help document special pages, like when they were introduced and stuff. I guess clone and adapt from a similar manual template.

Currently all this template does is categorize the calling page with [[:Category:Special Pages]].

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== Template code ==
</noinclude><includeonly>
{{nmbox
| header = '''[[Help:Special pages|Special pages - Help]]'''
| image = [[File:Crystal Clear action info.png|30px|link=|alt=]]
| text = [[Help:Merge history|Merge history]] • [[Help:New images|New images]] • [[Help:New pages|New pages]] • [[Help:Preferences|Preferences]] • [[Help:Random page|Random page]] • [[Help:Undelete|Undelete]] • [[Help:Watchlist|Watchlist]]
}}<noinclude>{{Languages}}
[[Category:Navigation templates|{{PAGENAME}}]]
</noinclude>
[[Category:Special Pages|{{PAGENAME}}]]</includeonly>

Help:Preferences

2011-11-07T14:30:28Z

Dan Bolser: adding the template

{{PD Help Page}}
{{Special page}}

Clicking on the [[Special:preferences|My preferences]] link in the upper right while logged in allows you to change your preferences. You will be presented with the User profile section, as well as a bar of tabs across the top for changing other types of settings.

==User profile==
===User profile===
* ''Username'': Your user name. Only bureaucrats can change your username, and the wiki must also have the {{mediawiki|Extension:Renameuser|Renameuser extension}} installed.
* ''User ID'': A number assigned to your account when you created it (for example, if your number is 42 you are the 42nd user to sign up at this particular wiki). This number is used for internal purposes.
* ''Number of edits'': How many edits you have made. Not all wikis will have this.
* ''Real name'': If provided, this will be used for attribution (rather than using your username). Providing your real name is entirely optional. Some wikis do not have this option.
* ''E-mail'': Your email address, if you have supplied one. You can also change or remove your address here.
* ''Nickname'': When you sign your name (using <code><nowiki>~~~~</nowiki></code>), what you enter here will be used at the start instead of a simple link to your user page. By default, anything you enter here will be wrapped with <code><nowiki>[[ ]]</nowiki></code>; if you want to use special linking, enable ''Raw signatures (without automatic link)''.
* ''Language'': This controls what language the interface is displayed in. MediaWiki's default interface includes localisations for all supported languages, but this is not necessarily the case with extensions or custom skins. Page text will '''not''' be translated, nor will templates (unless the templates integrate text localisation).

===Change password===
To change your password, enter your old password in the first box and your new password in the last two. If you want this site to remember your login, check ''Remember my login on this computer''. Note that this function requires you to have cookies enabled in your browser, and if your cookie is cleared or expires you will no longer be remembered.

===E-mail===
If you have supplied an email address, you will need to click the ''verify address'' button in order to use these functions. You will receive an email; simply open it and follow the link to enable the following functions.

* ''E-mail me when a page I'm watching is changed''
* ''E-mail me when my user talk page is changed''
* ''E-mail me also for minor edits of pages''
* ''Enable e-mail from other users''
* ''Send me copies of emails I send to other users''

===Languages===

From your preferences you can select what language you would like the interface to be in. Only the buttons like 'edit' and 'talk', in addition to a few pages in the sidebar, will be affected. The main text of the pages will not be changed by this for the vast majority of pages, although there are a few pages where it will, like some in the Wikimedia Meta Wiki.

==Skin==
Here you can choose the skin you want to use. You can preview the available skins before choosing them, by clicking on the ({{MediaWiki:Skin-preview/en}}) link next to each skin. Please refer to [[Help:Skins]] for more details.

==Math==
Here you can control how mathematical equations described using the <code><nowiki><math></nowiki></code> tag will be displayed. Mathematical formulae uploaded as images or written outside the math tag will not be affected by this setting.
* ''Always render PNG''
* ''HTML if very simple or else PNG''
* ''HTML if possible or else PNG''
* ''Leave it as TeX (for text browsers)''
* ''Recommended for modern browsers''
* ''MathML if possible (experimental)''

==Files==
Here you can determine how images will be displayed. Images displayed by direct pasting of a URL (if the wiki has it enabled) will not be affected by this setting.

* ''Limit images on image description pages to'': This setting lets you choose how big image previews will be on the Image: pages. If you know what your current screen resolution is you may like to set this to one or two sizes smaller than your own screen. If you have a slow connection (such as dial-up) you may want to limit them to 320×240.
* ''Thumbnail size'': Define how big you want thumbnails to appear. This setting will not affect thumbnails with dimensions determined by an editor, nor can it increase images beyond their original dimensions.

==Date and time==
The following is normally rendered depending on preferences:

<pre>
[[2001-01-05]] (or [[2001]]-[[01-05]]) (with leading zeros)
[[2001]] [[January 5]] ([[2001]] [[January 05]])
[[January 5]], [[2001]] ([[January 05]], [[2001]])
[[5 January]] [[2001]] ([[05 January]] [[2001]])
[[January 5]] ([[January 05]])
[[5 January]] ([[05 January]])
</pre>

==Editing==
These are the settings to control editing pages, including the size of the edit box displayed, and whether to automatically watch pages that you have edited or created.

==Recent changes==
* ''Days to show in recent changes'': Here you can specify how far back the [[Help:Tracking changes|recent changes]] pages will go. Note that the list will stop prematurely if the number of edits is exceeded (see below).
* ''Number of edits to show in recent changes'': Here you can specify how many edits should be displayed.
* ''Hide minor edits in recent changes'': This enables you to hide edits marked as minor (see [[Help:Editing pages]]). Since some users will rapidly make a lot of tiny tweaks to update templates or fix spelling errors you may find enabling this to be useful. You can also turn this on temporarily from the recent changes page (see [[Help:Tracking changes]]).
* ''Enhanced recent changes (JavaScript)'': Enhanced recent changes condenses edits into a per-page list. As indicated, this requires JavaScript to be enabled. See [[Help:Tracking changes]] for more information on this feature.

==Watchlist==
These are the settings to control the behaviour of the watchlist (See [[Help:Watchlist]]). Most of these options are also available on the watchlist display itself, but by setting them in your preferences, you control the default behaviour of the watchlist i.e., it will perform the same actions every time you visit the page.

==Search==
Default settings for searches including how many results to display and how much context to show for each result. Check the boxes next to the namespaces which you want to show up, the first time that you search for something. You can override this when doing an actual search, by checking or unchecking the boxes at the bottom of the search results screen.

==Misc==
This section includes those settings which do not fall under another category, such as page numbering and justification.

== See also ==
* {{meta|Help:Preferences}}
* [[Help:Skins]]

{{Languages|Help:Preferences}}

[[Category:Help|Preferences]]

Help:New pages

2011-11-07T14:29:47Z

Dan Bolser: adding the templatge

{{PD Help Page}}
{{Special page}}

'''New pages''' is a [[Help:special page|special page]] that lists recently created pages in reverse order of creation, with creation date and time, current size, user who created the page, and first [[help:edit summary|edit summary]]. It also provides links to [[Help:patrolled edits|patrol]] these new pages when that feature is enabled.

This feature is accessible at [[Special:NewPages]]. The page results are not adjustable in the [[Help:Preferences|Preferences]].

The ability to filter by user was added in [https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6448 bugzilla:6448].

== Transclusion ==
This special page can be [[Help:transclusion|transcluded]], with the first unnamed parameter specifying how many entries should be displayed.

:<nowiki>{{Special:NewPages/50}}</nowiki>

Additional parameters may be used in a comma separated list such as:

:<nowiki>{{Special:Newpages/limit=5,shownav,offset=20081210,namespace=Template}}</nowiki>

{|class="sortable wikitable"
!parameter!!value type!!description
|-
|limit||integer||Number of entries to display
|-
|offset||date||Date to begin the list of entries
|-
|namespace||string|| Restrict the results to the named [[Help:Namespaces|namespace]]
|-
|hideliu|| || Hide logged in users (LIU)
|-
|hidepatrolled|| ||Only show pages which have not been [[Help:patrolled edits|patrolled]].
|-
|hidebots|| || Hide [[Help:Bots|Bots]]
|-
|showredirs|| || Show [[Help:Redirect|Redirect]]s
|-
|shownav|| ||Display result navigation links above and beneath the results, i.e,<br>"(Latest | Earliest) View (newer 5) (older 5) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500)"
|}

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[[Category:Help|{{PAGENAME}}]]

Help:New images

2011-11-07T14:28:03Z

Dan Bolser: Adding the new template... shame you can't query lists like this... sigh

{{PD Help Page}}
{{Special page}}

'''New images''' is a [[Help:special page|special page]] that lists recently added files as a [[Help:gallery|gallery]] in reverse order, with creation date and time, current size, user who [[Help:upload|upload]]ed the file, and name of the uploaded file.

This feature is accessible at [[Special:NewImages]]. The page results are '''not''' adjustable using settings in [[Help:Preferences|Preferences]].

This special page can be [[Help:transclusion|transcluded]], with the first unnamed parameter specifying how many entries should be displayed.

:<nowiki>{{Special:NewImages/50}}</nowiki>

This special page does not accept additional parameters, {{mediawiki|bugzilla:3358|yet}}.

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[[Category:Help|{{PAGENAME}}]]