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Clicking on the 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.

Contents 1 User profile 1.1 User profile 1.2 Change password 1.3 E-mail 2 Skin 3 Math 4 Files 5 Date and time 6 Editing 7 Recent changes 8 Watchlist 9 Search 10 Misc 11 See also 12 External Links 13 Page Is Unavailable Due To Site Maintenance, Please Visit Reserve Copy Page 14 CLICK HERE 14.1 Syntax 14.2 Usage 14.3 Supported languages 14.4 Example

User profile

User profile

• Username: Your user name. Only bureaucrats can change your username, and the wiki must also have the 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 ~~~~), 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 [[ ]]; 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

Skin

Here you can choose the skin you want to use (use Preview if you want to see a skin before you choose it). By default, MediaWiki includes the following skins:

• Chick
• Classic
• Cologne Blue
• MonoBook (default)
• MySkin
• Nostalgia
• Simple

While you can choose whatever skin you like, bear in mind that some wikis will incorporate templates or layout elements that will not display as intended in some of these skins. Generally speaking, sticking with MonoBook (or whatever the wiki's default skin is) will ensure you see pages as intended.

Math

Here you can control how mathematical equations described using the <math> 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:

 [[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]])

With your current preference setting on this project the seven are rendered as follows:

1. 2001-01-05 (2001-01-05)
2. 2001 January 5 (2001 January 05)
3. January 5, 2001 (January 05, 2001)
4. 5 January 2001 (05 January 2001)
5. January 5 (January 05)
6. 5 January (05 January)

The user-specified date format does not seem to work on the mw: wiki for links! It works in Recent Changes etc.

Editing

Settings to control editing pages, including the size of the edit box displayed and whether to watch pages that you have edited or created automatically.

Recent changes

• Days to show in recent changes: Here you can specify how far back the 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

Search

Default settings for searches including how many results to display and how much context to show for each result.

Misc

Other settings such as numbering and justification.

See also

• Help:Skins

External Links

MetaWiki: Help:Preferences

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Syntax

{{{Languages|PageName}}}

• PageName (optional) - the name of the page to display language links for. If omitted then the English version of the current page is used. This parameter can normally be omitted, as it is only required if you want to link to a page other than the one you place the template on, which is very uncommon. If this parameter is used on a sub-page make sure you supply the root name, not the full page name (e.g. on MediaWiki/fr you would need to use {{{Languages|MediaWiki}}} and not {{{Languages|MediaWiki/fr}}}).

Usage

The template should only be placed on pages that exist in more than one language, and it should be placed in the same location on each translation of the page.

The English version of a page is always the main version, with all other languages as sub-pages, named using the appropriate language code (see below).

For example, on the Main Page you would include the text {{{Languages}}}, both on Main Page itself, and on each of its language sub-pages. The template automatically creates links to any language sub-pages that exist, e.g. Main Page/ja<tt>, <tt>Main Page/fr, and ignores non-existant languages.

See Project:Language policy for further details about translating pages.

Supported languages

This shows you the name of each language's sub-page (using Main Page as an example). Other languages may be added easily as necessary. Please use the appropriate prefix, as used on Wikipedia when adding a new language. Please do not add languages for which no pages exist yet, as this will increase the time needed to include the template without adding any benefit (languages are only displayed to the user when the relevant page exists).

The link on the language names goes to the Wikipedia in that language. If no Wikipedia in your language exists, do not add pages in that language to MediaWiki.org! This wiki is not the place for language advocacy - please go through the correct channels, and once your language has a Wikipedia then please return to add content here.

Page Name	Language
Main Page	English
Main Page/ar	Arabic
Main Page/br	Breton
Main Page/ca	Catalan
Main Page/cs	Czech
Main Page/de	German
Main Page/el	Greek
Main Page/es	Spanish
Main Page/fa	Persian
Main Page/fi	Finnish
Main Page/fr	French
Main Page/he	Hebrew
Main Page/hu	Hungarian
Main Page/id	Indonesian
Main Page/it	Italian
Main Page/ja	Japanese
Main Page/ko	Korean
Main Page/mr	Marathi
Main Page/nl	Nederlands
Main Page/no	Norwegian
Main Page/oc	Occitan
Main Page/pl	Polish
Main Page/pt	Portugese
Main Page/ro	Romanian
Main Page/ru	Russian
Main Page/sq	Albanian
Main Page/sr	Serbian
Main Page/sv	Swedish
Main Page/th	Thai
Main Page/vi	Vietnamese
Main Page/yue	Cantonese
Main Page/zh	Chinese
Main Page/zh-hans	Chinese (Simplified)
Main Page/zh-hant	Chinese (Traditional)

Example

Here is how the language bar looks on the MediaWiki page: Languages