WikiIndex:User preferences help: Difference between revisions

The [[wiki]] software allows even more versatility if you check the 'Raw signatures (without automatic link)' checkbox.  This prevents the software from automatically linking your signature, and allows you to specify how you'd like your signature linked instead.  So, for instance, you could add a link to your talk page by typing this into the nickname box: <small><tt><nowiki>[[User:Name|Name]] | [[User talk:Name|talk]]</nowiki></tt></small>.

You can also include images and [[:Category:Templates|templates]].  Note that changes in the images and templates are retroactive, which on one hand may be confusing, but on the other hand, to rectify annoying signatures, may be convenient.  To avoid retroactivity, use a new image or template name.

*if you show your [[username]] as an image, or with letters replaced by special characters, even if the name is still readable, searching a [[talk page]] for your username will fail;

*excessive signatures may clutter talk pages;

If you use the edit toolbar for signing, remember that it gives two dashes before the four tildes; (use three tildes to add your name, but not the time/date stamp).

O Vector</pre>

Previously, the default was the [[:Category:Monobook|Monobook skin]]; what was called Standard is here in the preferences called Classic (not to be confused with the even older [[:Category:Nostalgia|Nostalgia]], no longer available here on [[WikiIndex]]), but the system uses 'wikistandard' in the naming of CSS files.  As of 2017, the current default skin here on WikiIndex is [[:Category:Vector|Vector]].

*Enter number of hours your local time differs from server time (UTC).</pre>

*UTC -10 (DST -9) Hawaii and western Aleutian Islands.  (Hawaii-Aleutian Standard Time)

*UTC -9 (DST -8) All of Alaska, except for western Aleutian Islands.  (Alaska Standard Time)

*UTC -7 (DST -6) Colorado, Arizona (no DST except for Navajo Nation), and Alberta.  (Mountain Standard Time)

*UTC -4 (DST -3) Canada's Maritime Provinces, plus most of Labrador.  (Atlantic Time)

*UTC -3.5 (DST -2.5) Newfoundland.

*UTC -2 (DST -1) Mid-Atlantic.

*UTC -1 (DST 0) Azores, and Cape Verde Islands.

*UTC 0 (DST 0) Iceland (no DST), and Monrovia (no DST).

*UTC +2 (DST +3) Bucharest, Kiev, Cairo, Johannesburg (no DST), Finland, and Jerusalem.

*UTC +3 (DST +4) Moscow, Kuwait, Baghdad, Tehran, and Nairobi (no DST).

o Leave it as TeX (for text browsers)

o MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (experimental)</pre>

*'''Always render PNG''': always make a PNG image from the TeX code;<!--

*'''HTML if very simple or else PNG''': if the TeX code is very simple, like "x = 3", render it as HTML.  For more complex code, render as PNG;

□ Add pages you edit to your watchlist</pre>

*'''Show preview before edit box''' – if you select this option, the preview will be displayed above the exit box and not after it when you click the 'Show preview' button while editing a page;

*'''Add pages you edit to your watchlist''' – if this option is selected, any articles that you create or modify will be automatically added to your [[Special:Watchlist|watchlist]].

talk Help Help talk Category Category talk</pre>

*'''Hits to show per page''': you may choose the number of results returned on each page of search results.

*'''Characters of context per line''': the number of characters of context per occurrence; however, the context is anyway restricted to the 'line' (see above) it occurs in.  To get the whole line, put a large number like 5000.

*'''Search in these namespaces by default''':  shows a list of all [[namespace]]s (not the same in all projects; also a useful indicator what MediaWiki version is used), allowing one to select which ones are searched by default; see also Namespaces searched.

(for pages with more than 3 headings)

Disable page caching</pre>

*'''Underline links''':  normally, link text will be underlined.  Optionally, you may request that links not be underlined, although your browser may not respect this setting.  Normally links that are not underlined can still be recognized by color.  However, one can then not distinguish between two consecutive words being a single link or two links, without pointing at the words with the cursor.

*'''Format broken links <font color=CC2200><u>like this</u></font>''':  an internal link to a non-existing pages is automatically a link to the edit page.  By default the link label of <nowiki>[[b]]</nowiki> and <nowiki>[[a|b]]</nowiki> is 'b', just like for links to existing pages.  Alternatively the link label is a question mark inserted after 'b', like this: The weather in Paris[[The weather in Paris|?]].  The appearance of the link is further determined by the style specified for css selectors 'a.new' and 'a.new:hover' (the example on the preferences page wrongly uses class="internal" for the question mark).  Internal links to pages which do not yet exist currently appear on your browser like this: [[the weather in Paris]].  Normally, this is underlined and in red.  With the trailing question mark link one can then not distinguish between a single word being linked or a phrase of more than one word, without pointing at the question mark with the cursor.  Also, remember that the question mark does not mean that the information is uncertain.

==Browser preferences==

==Providing your own CSS==

==External links==

*{{Mw|Help:Preferences|MediaWiki Handbook – Help: Preferences}} — at [[MediaWiki.org]]

[[Category:Help|User preferences help]]

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