Help:Preferences

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  2. Preferences

The preferences dialog allows you to personalize some aspects of the wiki. They will apply only when you are logged in.

Contents

User data

  • Real Name: (Optional) - if you choose to provide it this will be used for giving you attribution for your work
  • E-mail: (Optional - Recommended) This will enable you to reset your password by clicking the "Mail me a new password" box on the log in screen if you forget it. Additionally, it will enable the wiki to e-mail you when changes occur to your watched pages.
  • Nickname: (Optional) Your nickname is used for when you enter your signature with ~~~ or ~~~~.
  • Raw signatures: However, there is even more versatility. You can use any text as your nickname.
  • Password: To change your password, enter your old password, the new password, and the new password a second time. (If you're merely changing the other preferences, you do not need to enter your password.)
  • Remember password across sessions: Enabling this feature will place an HTTP cookie in your browser's cache, which will allow MediaWiki to recognize you each time you visit the page. You will not have to log in each time you visit.

If you want to use remember my password you have to change your password if it was generated by Mediawiki and emailed to you. This is a security feature but very often causes trouble for new users.

  • 'Email: If you have registered your e-mail address you can opt to have the wiki e-mail you page changes:casino virtuel

Skin

A MediaWiki skin is a style of page display. There are differences in the HTML code the system produces (but probably not in the page body), and also different style sheets are used.

For support reasons it is reccommeded that you use the default (monobook) skin.


Files

Limit images on image description pages to:  320x240
                                             640x480
                                             800x600
                                            1024x768
                                           1280x1024
                                         10000x10000

One can specify a limit on the size of images on image description pages.

The large limit 10000x10000 means that one gets the full image.

With a slow connection it is not practical to have to load a large image just to read image info. Also, it may be practical if a large image at first is made to fit on the screen, in the case that the browser does not do that itself. If the image has been reduced there is a link to the full image.

The default thumbnail width can be set in the preferences; this can be overridden by an image width specified in the image tag; the latter is typically not advisable, in order to respect the users' preferences.


Date format

Determines the format of the date in your signature. i.e. when you type ~~~~

Time zone

Time zone
Server time is now: 06:34
Local time display: 08:34
Offset*: 
* Enter number of hours your local time differs from server time (UTC).
  • Time diff. This is the number of hours to be added or subtracted from UTC to find your time zone. This time zone is used when calculating displayed page update timestamps, and may become temporarily incorrect from time to time if you observe daylight saving time -- don't forget to update it to match your local time, because the Wiki doesn't know where you are or precisely when you celebrate DST.

The time is displayed in local time, according to the set preferences, in:

  • Recent changes
  • Related changes
  • Page history, Image history
  • User contributions
  • Special:Newpages
  • "This page was last modified" at the bottom of pages
  • Special:Imagelist

The UTC time is applicable:

  • In the signing of Talk pages
  • In the Upload log
  • In referring to non-localized events, including things that happen on the wiki.

Keep this in mind when copying an excerpt from Recent Changes, a revision history listing, etc. to a Talk page. Convert manually to UTC or temporarily set the preferences to a zero offset before producing the revision history etc. to be copied.

Editing

Editing
Rows:           Columns:  
o Enable section Editing via edit links
o Enable section Editing by right clicking on section titles (JavaScript)
o Edit pages on double click (javaScript)
o Edit box has full width
o Show Edit toolbar (JavaScript)
o Show preview on first edit
o Show preview before edit box
o Add pages you edit to your watchlist
o Mark all edits minor by default
o Use external editor by default
o Use external diff by default
  • Rows, Columns. Here you can set up your preferred dimensions for the textbox used for editing page text.
  • Enable section Editing via edit links Adds an [edit] link on the right hand side of each section header - on clicking the link that section is put into edit mode.
  • Enable section Editing via right clicking on section titles (JavaScript) Enables editing of section by right clicking on the section titles.
  • Edit pagepages on double click (javaScript) Enables page editing by double clicking on the page.
  • Edit box has full width. If this box is checked, the edit box (when you click "Edit this page") will be the width of the browser window, minus the quickbar width.
  • Show edit toolbar. In compatible browsers, a toolbar with editing buttons can be displayed.
  • Show preview on first edit - when pressing the edit button or otherwise following a link to an edit page, show not only the edit box but also the rendered page, just like after pressing "Show preview". This is especially useful when viewing a template, because even just viewing, not editing, typically requires both.
  • Show preview before edit box. If you select this option, the preview will be displayed above the edit box when you click the "Show preview" button while editing a page.
  • Add pages you edit to your watchlist. If this option is selected, any pages that you create or modify will be automatically added to your watchlist.
  • Mark all edits minor by default. This option automatically selects the "This is a minor edit" checkbox when you edit pages.
  • Use external editor by default. Changes editing from online version to external program. See External editors.
  • Use external diff by default. Changes diffing from online version to external program. See External editors.

Recent changes and stub display

Recent Changes and Stubs: 
o Theshold for stub display 0
o Titles in recent changes
o Hide minor edits in recent changes
o Enhanced recent changes (Javascript)
  • Threshold for stub display: see Stub feature.
  • Titles in recent changes: You may select the number of changes which will be shown by default on the Recent Changes and Watchlist page. Once on those pages, links are provided for other options.
  • Hide minor edits in recent changes. Registered users may choose to mark edits as being minor (meaning fixes too trivial for trusting users to check up on). It applies to Recent Changes and Enhanced Recent Changes, but not to the Watchlist. It also affects Related changes, but currently in an odd way: if the last edit of a page linking to the current page was minor, then neither that nor the last major change is shown.
  • Enhanced recent changes (not for all browsers). Group recent changes per day by article, display the titles of the changed articles in order from new to old latest change, or in the case of hiding minor edits, latest major change. This feature applies also to Related Changes, but not to the watchlist.

Search

Hits to per page: 
Lines per hit: 
Context per line: 
Search in these namespaces by default:(Main) Talk User User talk NuGOwiki
NuGOwiki talk Image Image talk MediaWiki MediaWiki talk Template Template
talk Help Help talk Category Category talk Hilfe Hilfe Diskussion Aide
  • Hits to show per page: You may choose the number of results returned on each page of search results.
  • Lines to show per hit is somewhat cryptic; specifying a number n means: "do not show any context if the search term occurs beyond line n in the page"; here a paragraph, as well as the blank line between two paragraphs, each count as one "line"; line breaks in the source, even when not affecting the lay-out of the page (and even when not directly visible in the edit box of the article), affect the line count. Setting the parameter to 5000 or more gives context for every occurrence.
  • Characters of context per line: the number of characters of context per occurrence; however, the context is anyway restricted to the "line" (see above) it occurs in. To get the whole line, put a large number like 5000.
  • Search in these namespaces by default: shows a list of all namespaces allowing one to select which ones are searched by default.

Misc settings 

Underline Links
Format broken links like this (alternative: like this?).
Justify paragraphs
Auto-number headings
Show table of contents (for pages with more than 3 headings)
Disable page caching
  • Underline links. Normally, link text will be underlined. Optionally, you may request that links not be underlined, although your browser may not respect this setting. Normally links that are not underlined can still be recognized by color. However, one can then not distinguish between two consecutive words being a single link or two links, without pointing at the words with the cursor.
  • Format broken links like this. An internal link to a non-existing pages is automatically a link to the edit page. By default the link label of [[b]] and [[a|b]] is "b", just like for links to existing pages. Alternatively the link label is a question mark inserted after "b", like this: The weather in London?. Internal links to pages which do not yet exist currently appear on your browser like this: the weather in London. Normally, this is underlined and in red. With the trailing question mark link one can then not distinguish between a single word being linked or a phrase of more than one word, without pointing at the question mark with the cursor. Also, remember that the question mark does not mean that the information is uncertain.
  • Justify paragraphs. If set, article paragraphs will be formatted to avoid jagged line endings. If unset, the paragraphs will be formatted as-is.
  • Auto-number headings. This adds hierarchical outline-style numbering to headers in articles.
  • Show table of contents (for articles with more than 3 headings) A table of contents is automatically created if a page has more than 3 headings - This can be disabled by adding __NOTOC__ to the page. The position of the table can be changed by adding __TOC__ to the desired position within the page.
  • Disable page caching. This turns off page caching. This is useful if you're experiencing problems of seeing outdated versions of pages, but this comes at a cost of longer loading times.


Browser preferences

Browsers usually also allow you to specify preferences, e.g. font size and font type. The standard skin is compatible with your browser setting of font size and font type. The Cologne Blue skin has most text in a fixed font size, ignoring your browser setting. Some browsers, e.g. IE, allow you to specify that font size specified in the web page is ignored. In that case the font size in Cologne Blue is as specified in the browser, but with the line height not adjusted accordingly. Therefore a large font gives a messy result.

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