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{{hatnote|This page is '''a selective overview''' of user preferences. For full details see '''[[mw:Help:Preferences]]'''.}}
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=== Internationalisation ===
* Change the language of user-interface messages. It does not affect articles and other pages made by editors. Note that many interface messages have been customized at the English Wikipedia but usually only for the default "en - English" which may for example add links to relevant help pages, processes and policies. Editors are discouraged from selecting "en-GB - British English" or "en-CA - Canadian English", which make a few spelling changes but omit many useful customizations.<ref>[[Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)/Archive 184#Discourage en-xx UI variants]]</ref> Foreign languages also omit customizations but may be preferred by users with poor English abilities.
* Specify your preferred pronoun in order for the software to grammatically refer to you correctly. This is also visible to other users via certain tools, such as
* More language settings: allows you to set the language in which Wikipedia menus and fonts are displayed; additionally, an option to set the language you edit in (input tools must be enabled).
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=== Reading Preferences ===
{{expand section|reason=This lists what they are, but details are needed, and perhaps images, too.|date=July 2025}}
* Enable page previews (get quick previews of a topic while reading a page)
* Enable reference previews (get quick previews of a reference while reading a page)
=== Date format ===
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:{{myprefs|Editing|Details|[[mw:Help:Preferences#Editing]]}}
Concerning the edit page, its initiation, and look and feel, Wikipedia offers a high number of options. Some of them are:
* "{{int:tog-forceeditsummary}}" into the database. (Habit-forming. Note: this prompt does not appear when you edit your own User or User talk page.)
* "Enable VisualEditor". Get a [[word processor]] interface. No markup language at all.
* "{{int:tog-uselivepreview}}". Get a [[dynamic web page]]. ''Browser reloading'' now gives a glimpse at the ''live'' original without having to leave the edit page. And there is no longer any need to create an entirely new page for each preview requested; ''live preview'' just reloads parts of its page, and so it offers no browser history backwards, but disturbs no history forward either. Saves some network bandwidth and lots of browser cache. Just save your edits before disabling JavaScript.<ref>If you disable JavaScript ''for any page on [[MW:main|MediaWiki.org]] or Wikipedia.org'', you will lose all unsaved edits in all tabs; yet disabling JavaScript is a common troubleshooting technique when diagnosing some preference-related browser behaviors.</ref> (First-time users should perform a simple compatibility test.<ref>The danger in using Live preview is on first use with an incompatible browser. Try a simple test: make a change to the edit box, then reload the page.</ref>)
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