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Not to be confused with Wikipedia:Toolserver, as WP:TOOLS redirects here. 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. For a searchable index of a selection of tools, see the tool directory or Directory NG. Browsing and editing wikEd is a full-featured in-browser text editor for Wikipedia edit pages 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) 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. Navigation shortcuts offer the ability to add personal links to the sidebar, providing quick and easy access to favourite articles within Wikipedia. WikiGalaxy - explore Wikipedia in 3D Searching See also: Wikipedia:Searching 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). See also 1-Click Answers. Axon - a Firefox search add-on. Double-click a word or select text to open the Wordnik dictionary definition or a Wikipedia article in any language of your choosing. Cleeki – Cleeki is a Windows-based program for generic search purpose, but particularly optimized for Wikipedia. It allows one click keyword grabs from anywhere on the screen and returns Wikipedia results for them. WikiProjects – WikiBrowse for Windows Search Wikipedia from Keybreeze – Press a hotkey on your keyboard to search Wikipedia from a toolbar. GlobalWPSearch – search across projects and show missing interlanguage links. Konfabulator Widget Macintosh Dashboard Widget www.qwika.com Qwika is a search engine designed specifically to search wikis. Wikipedia search is desktop search engine. Depends on SuperKaramba. 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 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. 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 Wikipedia:Wiki2VCS - script that loads histories onto one's computer, so that they can be quickly diffed and searched X!'s Page History Page statistics and visualization, provides sortable and exportable list of all contributors with number of edits and amount of added text. Provides also results of syntax and grammar checks and latest assessment history. Diffs User:Mattflaschen/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 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 user WikiBlame – searches for given text in versions of article Article Blamer – similar to WikiBlame, identifies revisions that added given text (originally from Soxred93) User:AmiDaniel/WhodunitQuery – Windows application that identifies the edit and user who added a specific word or phrase User 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 superseded by X!'s Page History 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 Edit counters See also: Wikipedia:WikiProject edit counters X!'s Edit Counter - since 2008, renewed with edit summary evaluation, SUL editcounts, timecard, latest global edits User Analysis Tool 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 Wikimedia sites X!'s AdminStats Shows statistics of admin actions, broken down into individual actions, arbitrary period selectable User interaction analysis Editor Interaction Analyzer – compares the edits of specified editors to see which articles overlap, sorted by minimum time between edits by both users. Only works on the English Wikipedia. Wikistalk – similar, but also compares the edits of specified editors in any Wikimedia Foundation wiki to see which articles overlap; also allows namespace selection("404 - Not Found" as of 1 August 2014) Intersect Contribs – compares the edits of two editors in any Wikimedia Foundation wiki to see which articles overlap Visualization Wiki Replay, see m:Grants:IEG/Replay Edits and wm2014:Submissions/Replay Edits for more details. IBM History Flow tool History Flow Visualization Application (archive.org) Wikipedia Animate – (screenshot) - user script; shows the evolution of a page, like a webcast Aniwiki - (screenshot) - Like Wikipedia Animate. See WP:Wikipedia Signpost/2005-06-27/Animation contest for details on both. WikiEditsGraph – user script; shows two graphs: edits/time & edits/user in a graphical overlay de:Benutzer:Atlasowa/edit history visualization See also Tools, part 2: Internal links and page histories (part of a Signpost series) 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. 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: Copy & Paste Excel-to-Wiki Converter (also: Wikipedia-friendly version without table template) de:Wikipedia:Technik/Text/Basic/EXCEL-Tabellenumwandlung/en: 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. wiki2csv can convert wikitables to CSV and back. Useful to edit wikitables in Excel (or OpenOffice). OpenOffice/LibreOffice: 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. Also available for LibreOffice Writer2MediaWiki: OpenOffice macro for converting to MediaWiki format. For OpenOffice version 3.1 or higher HTML: Html2Wiki is an extension for MediaWiki that imports HTML Python: 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 (no longer maintained). CSV: CSVLoader is an AutoWikiBrowser plug-in that allows creating and updating articles using CSV data files. Google Slides: meta:User:Tbayer_(WMF)/Converting Google Slides to wikitext (tutorial) Google Docs: meta:User:Tbayer (WMF)/Converting Google Docs to wikitext (tutorial + Python script) Etherpad: https://github.com/tbayer/wikibrs (tiny Python script to add line breaks to a text file before posting it as a wiki page) Many formats pandoc is an universal document converter 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 wikitables 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. mw:Extension:TextExtracts (API function to convert into cleaned up HTML or plain text; without links) meta:User:Tbayer (WMF)/Converting wiki pages to plaintext emails LaTeX or PDF MediaWiki to LaTeX Convert from Wiki to LaTeX or PDF format. HTML for Wordpress blogs Convert HTML to Wordpress Converting wiki pages to blog posts Python script (used on blog.wikimedia.org), also available online at https://tools.wmflabs.org/blogconverter/ WordPress - Wiki Embed Plugin 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 (broken) 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 CategoryWatchlistBot – Watch category and/or template additions/removals, supports partial name matches and subcategories 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 User:SuggestBot for suggested articles you might like to edit WikipediaVision a site that shows in semi-realtime where anonymous edits to Wikipedia are originating from RAMP editor: can generate enhanced authority records for creators of archival collections XEcho Shows your global cross-wiki notifications from 800+ wikis at a glance Sources for code for new tools 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 meta:Help:User style meta:Toolserver meta: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 References External links Wikimedia Tool Labs