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The pages listed below contain various tools and tutorials intended to simplify, make more efficient, or provide additional functionality to Wikipedians. See also ವರ್ಗ:Wikipedia tools and Task-oriented tool list. For the Toolserver, see Wikipedia:Toolserver. For other useful directories, see the navigation bar above.

Browsing and editing

Tools
wikEd is a full-featured in-browser text editor for Wikipedia edit pages
  • Editing tools, tools intended to provide enhanced editing functionality. Contains edit page tools, edit bots, spellcheckers, wikisyntax conversion utilities, etc.
  • Browser tools, tools categorized by browser type
  • Citation tools, tools for citing and referencing
  • Anti-vandalism tools, tools for patrolling and cleaning up Wikipedia
  • Alternative browsing, alternatives to accessing Wikipedia through your web browser (mobile devices, desktop integration, alternate portals, etc.)
  • User Scripts, a collection of JavaScript routines that add functionality to Wikipedia pages (e.g., regex search and replace, changing article formatting, and simplifying common tasks)
  • WikiNodes — App for the iPad that displays sections of articles and related articles as "nodes." Uses SpicyNodes visualization method. Produced by IDEA. [External link]
  • MW - "VCS-like nonsense for MediaWiki websites" with status, pull, diff, commit, and merge.
  • WatchlistBot is a bot that delivers realtime alerts via instant message (XMPP) when watched articles are edited or when watched users or IP networks edit.

Searching

Downloading

  • WP-Download – Download and import Wikipedia SQL dumps

Google tools

    Note: Google search results can be several days or even weeks out of date.
  • Google book tool Converts bare url into {{Cite book}} format
  • Wiki and other Wiki sites on your iGoogle startpage Wiki Gadget
  • Mirrors of Wiki 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.
  • Wikivision (designed by László Kozma) visualizes recent anonymous edits using Google Maps.

Page histories

    General:
  • Wiki: WikiProject User scripts/Scripts/HistoryCount – user script that specifies the number of history entries on the history tab (without the script, 50 entries are shown when the tab is opened)
  • Wiki: WikiProject User scripts/Scripts/Six tabs – adds a history tab (and an edit tab) for the page that is paired with the page that is visible
  • User:Ixfd64/revision sizes – revision size visualizer written in R
  • Wiki: Wiki2VCS - script that loads histories onto one's computer, so that they can be quickly diffed and searched
    Diffs:
  • User:Superm401/Compare link.js – makes the "compare selected versions" button into a link (diffs can be in new windows, tabs, etc.)
  • Wiki: WikiProject User scripts/Scripts/Changes since I last edited – adds a tab that does a diff between the editor's last edit and the current version of a page
  • MediaWiki talk:Monobook.css/Archive 4#Better rendering for .diffchange in diffs
  • User:Cacycle/wikEdDiff – user script – additions and deletions are highlighted by color in one continuous text
  • User:Stevage/EnhanceHistory.user.js – Collapses consecutive edits from the same person into one, integrates (shows) diffs on the history page
  • User:DerHexer/revisionjumper allows easier navigation of a page's history, generating diffs between arbitrary revisions or time periods with just a few clicks (Signpost description)
    Finding the responsible editor:
  • WikiBlame – searches for given text in versions of article
  • Soxred93's Article Blamer – similar to WikiBlame, identifies revisions that added given text
  • User:AmiDaniel/WhodunitQuery – Windows application that identifies the edit and user who added a specific word or phrase
    Contributor edit counts and analysis:
  • userhist – user script, adds interface elements for isolating a user's changes to a page.
  • Contributors – lists edits, similar to page history, but can be sorted by contributor; easy to exclude different groups
  • User contribution search – finds all the edits by a user to a single page
  • Page history statistics by user:aka – builds an edit history overview page
  • Intersect Contribs – compares the edits of two editors in any Wiki Foundation wiki to see which articles overlap
  • Wikistalk – similar to Intersect Contribs, allows comparisons between more than two users and namespace selection, works only on the English Wikipedia
  • Editor Interaction Analyzer, shows the common pages that two editors have both edited, sorted by minimum time between edits by both users. Only works on the English Wiki ಕನ್ನಡ.
    Visualization:

See also: Tools, part 2: Internal links and page histories (part of a Signpost series)

Edit counters

  • X!'s edit counter Also works on editors with over 750000 edits and replicates the months graph of Interiot's tool.
  • Administrator Statistics for the English Wikipedia (updated hourly)
  • User contributions (Luxo) – find contributions on enwiki and other Wiki sites
  • dbswithuser – user data with edit counts (including deleted edits) of a user name in all replicated wikis of the Toolserver

Importing (converting) content to Wikipedia (MediaWiki) format

    Google Docs Spreadsheet:
  • Spreadsheet-to-MediaWiki-table-Converter This class constructs a MediaWiki-format table from an Excel/GoogleDoc copy&paste. It provides a variety of methods to modify the style. It defaults to a Wikipedia styling with first column header.
    Microsoft Word:
  • mw:Extension:Word2MediaWikiPlus – a tool that converts Microsoft Word documents to MediaWiki. For Ms Word 2000 or 2003. "Support for Word 2007 and a bunch of other fixes, but it needs to be installed by hand".
  • For other Macro, see mw:Word_macros – Visual Basic macros to use within Microsoft Word to prepare content to be pasted into a Wikipedia page.
  • MSOffice add-on. For Microsoft Word 2007 or higher.
  • wikEd – a full-featured in-browser text editor for Wikipedia edit pages that can convert text and tables pasted from Microsoft Word with a button click
    Microsoft Excel:
    OpenOffice:
  • Sun Wiki Publisher - an OpenOffice extension that allows exporting documents as MediaWiki source text via the File → Export → File Format drop down menu. Since OpenOffice.org can open all Microsoft Office files, one can open files created in Microsoft Word and export them to the MediaWiki format. Compatible with: OpenOffice.org 3.0 | StarOffice 9 or higher.
  • Writer2MediaWiki: OpenOffice macro for converting to MediaWiki format. For OpenOffice version 3.1 or higher
    HTML:
    PDF:
    LaTeX:
  • User:Jmath666/latex2wiki – LaTeX to Wikicode translation tool
    BibTeX:
    Citations:
  • Import citations in any format at the Universal Reference Formatter.
    CSV:
  • CSVLoader is an AutoWikiBrowser plug-in that allows creating and updating articles using CSV data files.

Export: Conversion to other formats

  • Help:Export, Special:Export (XML)
  • PDF: Wikipedia:WikiReader#Resources
  • mw:Alternative parsers – programs and projects to translate MediaWiki's text markup syntax into something else, such as HTML
  • wiki2csv is a command line tool that can convert wikitable table-responsive s into comma separated value files that can be edited by Excel or LibreOffice. The result can be converted back retaining most of the original formatting.
LaTeX
HTML for Wordpress blogs
  • GeoLocator compatible geotagging metadata generator and coordinate editor

Other

  • Syndication – RSS feeds, etc.
  • Researching Wikipedia: Tools for data analysis
  • Six Degrees of Wiki – finding the shortest path via wikilinks between two articles
  • Not English – tools that have not yet been translated completely into English. Some need their descriptions translated from German, others are not available in English. Help translate if you can!
  • WikiFORJA – Rankings and tools
  • Checklinks – Check all external links and helps resolve HTTP redirects
  • WikiBiff – To alert users when they have new messages waiting on their talk pages
  • Desktop Watchlist – Enhanced watchlist for Windows
  • Category Watchlist – Watching additions and removals to categories
  • Watchlistr – Consolidates watchlists across multiple wikis
  • CatScan – Find pages by intersection of categories and other conditions
  • CatScan2 manual {{Catscan2}} – searches categories recursively. will find subcategories that overlap with other categories, templates, etc.
  • Shorturl: generating shorturl for Wikipedia articles
  • Yanker: creates list of the following: (1) pages in a category or (2) page titles matching a particular pattern

Sources for code for new tools

See also

References

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