Tools

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

Browsing and editing

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  • 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)
  • Wikirage—What's hot in Wikipedia—This site lists the pages in Wikipedia that are receiving the most edits per unique editor over various periods of time
  • Igor—A wikiproject management tool. Allows a user to view and change the importance and class of articles tagged as part of a particular project.

Searching

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Google tools

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Note: Google search results can be several days or even weeks out of date.

Page histories

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General:
Diffs:
Finding the responsible editor:
Contributor edit counts and analysis:
Visualization:

Edit counters

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Importing (converting) content from other formats to Wikipedia (MediaWiki) format

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Microsoft Word:
  • mw:Extension:Word2MediaWikiPlus – a tool that converts Microsoft Word documents to MediaWiki
  • 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
  • meta:Word_macros – Visual Basic macros to use within Microsoft Word to prepare content to be pasted into a Wikipedia page
  • OpenOffice 2.3 can open Word files and export to MediaWiki format.
Microsoft Excel:
OpenOffice 2:
HTML:
PDF:
LaTeX:
BibTeX:
Citations:

Export: Conversion to other formats

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  • GeoLocator – Wikipedia compatible geotagging metadata generator and coordinate editor

Other

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Sources for code for new tools

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The following are places where code is available:

See also

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