Help:Preferences: Difference between revisions

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== User profile ==

:{{myprefs|User profile|Details|[[metamw:Help:Preferences#User profile]]}}

=== Basic information ===

* Lists your account details and the number of edits you have made.

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== Appearance ==

:{{myprefs|Appearance|Details|[[metamw:Help:Preferences#Appearance]]}}

Change the web browser experience.

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=== Date format ===

{{See|metamw:Help:Preferences#Date format/Time offset}}

* Option to set your date and time preferences; this is how dates will appear in article History pages, logs, etc. If set to "No preference", the format is HH:MM, DD MMMM YYYY ([[UTC]]), for example: {{CURRENTTIME}}, {{CURRENTDAY}} {{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{CURRENTYEAR}} (UTC).

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== Editing ==

:{{myprefs|Editing|Details|[[metamw: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.)

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== Recent changes ==

:{{myprefs|Recent changes|Display options & Advanced options|[[metamw:Help:Preferences#Recent changes]]}}

Recent changes refer to changes of pages in the database. Every time a wiki page is edited, and changes were actually made, a record is kept of the difference. For example, a page history shows the revisions for that particular page. But recent changes can report on more than just the revisions of a page, or an entire wiki, they can also report on the recent changes of an editor (their contributions). The user preferences for ''recent changes'' are the style in which these lists of revisions will appear:

* Length of the list

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=== Pending changes ===

:{{myprefs|Recent changes|Pending changes|[[metamw:Help:Preferences#Pending changes/Edit review]]}}

{{for|an explanation of what ''pending changes'' are|Wikipedia:Pending changes}}

These settings are for advanced editors who have a detailed understanding of the ''[[WP:PILLARS|five pillars]]'' and of the templates used to mark judgments on the page. ''Pending changes'' refers to the style of the presentation of

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== Watchlist ==

:{{myprefs|Watchlist|Details|[[metamw:Help:Preferences#Watchlist]]}}

The watchlist options include which pages, and what "recent" means to you. If your {{myprefs}} has "'''Email me when a page or file on my watchlist is changed'''" set (at the bottom of the "User profile" tab), then only by visiting a page will you actually set its email notification flag.<section begin="email" /> Once you miss the email for a particular page change or don't visit the page (or ignore the email), ''you will not receive any more emails for that page''. You can still dutifully monitor that page by its watchlist edit-summaries, but its particular email notification flag will remain unset until you visit it. This facilitates monitoring a large watchlist while preventing potentially useless emails to you.

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== See also ==

* [[:metamw:Help:Preferences]]

* [[Wikipedia:Skin]]

* [[Wikipedia:Customisation]]