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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 Category:Wikipedia tools and Task-oriented tool list. For the Toolserver, see Wikipedia:Toolserver. For other useful directories, see the navigation bar above. wikEd is a full-featured in-browser text editor for Wikipedia edit pages Browsing and editing Monobook-Suite, a tool originated in the Spanish Wikipedia by Axxgreazz. See also: Wikipedia:Browser notes 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] 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 Monobook-Suite, a tool originated in the Spanish Wikipedia by Axxgreazz. 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. 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. Development halted on Java version, and started on an online version, but web site is dead. Searching See also: Wikipedia:Searching Wikipedia Visual Search, An Internet Explorer "search provider" addon for searching Wikipedia. Intropedia – iGoogle gadget for searching & viewing the introduction of wikipedia articles within the Google homepage 1-Click Answers 2.0, Wikipedia Edition – look up a word in a Windows program by alt-clicking on it (created by Answers.com as a result of a partnership with the Wikimedia Foundation) Cleeki – Cleeki is a Windows-based program for generic search purpose, but particularly optimized for Wikipedia. In Cleeki with one click you can grab keywords anywhere on your screen from virtually any applications and get multiple relevant Wikipedia results immediately. Wikiseek – Search Wikipedia and external links WikiProjects – WikiBrowse for Windows Search Wikipedia with Clusty – Clusters results on the fly Search Wikipedia – Multilingual search, image search and external links search Search Wikipedia from Keybreeze – Press a hotkey on your keyboard to search Wikipedia from a toolbar. WikiWax – Search Wikipedia's alphabetical index with word completion suggestions GlobalWPSearch – search across projects and show missing interlanguage links. Gnosis – semantic tagging of Wikipedia as you browse with hyperlinks to Wikipedia articles, current news and other items. Wikipedia Mash from MashLogic provides semantic tags to Wikpedia articles when you browse to pages outside Wikipedia. Konfabulator Widget Macintosh Dashboard Widget Wikimedia-Search search the realtime index for every project with suggest function www.qwika.com Qwika is a search engine designed specifically to search wikis. It aims to cover all sizeable wikis in all sizeable languages, translate them, make them easily findable in the shortest possible time. Wikipedia search is desktop search engine. Depends on SuperKaramba. Wikipedia Gateway – Multilingual search in Wikipedia (44 languages) Yahoo widget – Yahoo Wikipedia-Wiktionary search widget Smart Wiki Search – Similarity search engine 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 Wikipedia and other Wikimedia sites on your iGoogle startpage Wikipedia Gadget Mirrors of Wikimedia 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. Placeopedia (dead link as of Mars 2011) Provides a means by which Google map markers can be linked directly to Wikipedia articles. Google Web Accelerator should not be used for Wikipedia (that is, it should be disabled for the wikipedia.org domain. For details, see Wikipedia:Google Web Accelerator. {{Cite}} format generator – Google Scholar search with {{cite}} filler (dead link, May 2011) Wikipediavision (designed by László Kozma) visualizes recent anonymous edits using Google Maps. Page histories General: Wikipedia: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) Wikipedia: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 [1] - shows how many people watch a page (if more than 30) Gadget HistoryNumDiff shows the number of characters added or removed, rather than the size of the revision. [Illustration] See also Bug 25199. Diffs: User:Superm401/Compare link.js – makes the "compare selected versions" button into a link (diffs can be in new windows, tabs, etc.) Wikipedia: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 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 Wikimedia 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 Visualization: IBM History Flow tool History Flow Visualization Application Wikipedia Animate – user script; shows the evolution of a page, like a webcast WikiEditsGraph – user script; shows two graphs: edits/time & edits/user in a graphical overlay Edit counters See also: Wikipedia:WikiProject edit counters X!'s edit counter Also works on editors with over 750000 edits. Also 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 Wikimedia sites dbswithuser – user data with edit counts (including deleted edits) of a user name in all replicated wikis of the Toolserver Nubio is a repository for frequently asked questions. Also contains an edit counter, and a tracker of user registrations. (potentially broken: 403 error encountered: "User account expired") Efficient Query API based edit counter (broken?) IRC See also: Wikipedia:IRC channels IRC channel scripts m:IRC channel cloaks Wikipedia IRC help channel – a login page (requires Java) Wikipedia:Mumble (voice chat) Importing (converting) content to Wikipedia (MediaWiki) format See also: Wikipedia:How to import articles, commons:Commons:Chart and graph resources, and Wikipedia:Tools/Editing tools#Wikisyntax conversion utilities 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: See also: Help:WordToWiki 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. MSOffice add-on Microsoft Excel: Copy & Paste Excel-to-Wiki Converter (also: Wikipedia-friendly version without table template) de:Wikipedia:Helferlein/VBA-Macro for EXCEL tableconversion: Convert EXCEL-Table with most formatting like background- and fontcolor, fontstyle(bold/italic), columnheight, -width, etc. to Wiki-tableformat de:Benutzer:Duesentrieb/csv2wp_(en) or CSV Converter: Converts many types of spreadsheet tables, including CSV, tab-separated, etc., to MediaWiki or HTML A free open source tool, in .net to convert CSV and EXCEL files to wiki table format: csv2other. A proprietary, commercial, tool to create mass Mediawiki pages using CSV datasource and variable based templates. Results merged into a valid Mediawiki XML Import file. Mediawiki CSV Import tool. 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. OpenOffice2MediaWiki: Export filter for converting from ODT format to MediaWiki Odt2Wiki: Another export filter. Writer2MediaWiki: OpenOffice macro for converting to MediaWiki format HTML: HTML to wiki converter Table2wiki.py part of the Pywikipedia bot framework, web port PDF: Appropedia:Help:Porting PDF files to MediaWiki – the most effective method found so far requires Adobe Acrobat (paid version). LaTeX: User:Jmath666/latex2wiki – LaTeX to Wikicode translation tool BibTeX: BibTeX converter – transforms BibTeX entries into {{Cite}} format Citations: Import citations in any format at the Universal Reference Formatter. Export: Conversion to other formats Help:Export Special:Export PDF: Wikipedia:WikiReader#Resources mw:Alternative parsers – programs and projects to translate MediaWiki's text markup syntax into something else, such as HTML LaTeX MediaWiki to LaTeX Geotagging related tools See also: Wikipedia:Obtaining geographic coordinates GeoLocator – Wikipedia compatible geotagging metadata generator and coordinate editor Other Syndication – RSS feeds, etc. Researching Wikipedia: Tools for data analysis Six Degrees of Wikipedia – 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 Shorturl: generating shorturl for Wikipedia articles Sources for code for new tools See also: Wikipedia:Bots and Wikipedia:Creating a bot The following are places where code is available: SourceForge.net; projects include: WikiProjects – WikiBrowse for Windows – collection of open source tools; collaborative project PHP plugin for programmers using the Eclipse development environment Automated interface to the Wikipedia – Perl module that searches for and retrieves an article See also m:Help:User style m:Toolserver m:Toolserver/Projects Wikipedia:Database download for code useful for dealing with offline dumps Wikipedia:Scripts Meta:User:Duesentrieb/Tools Wikipedia:Tools/Optimum tool set (Firefox optimization) Meta:Open Source Toolset Wikipedia:Cleaning up vandalism/Tools Wikipedia:Link rot#Tools How to install User scripts Wikipedia:Proposed tools