Wikipedia:PHP script new features: Difference between revisions

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**'''Minor edit presentation''' You can chose whether you want to see minor edits on the RecentChanges page.

*'''Special Functions''' Accessible form the "[[special:Special pages|Special Pages]]" link on every page, or from the side bar if that has been switched on.

**'''File upload feature''' allows logged in users to upload graphics or sound files, in order to use them in their articles. Seesee [[special:Upload]].

**'''Watchlist''' For logged in users, everyEvery page has a link "Watch this article for me". Use [[special:Watchlist]] to track changes on the articles you declared an interest in.

**'''Various''' Lists of new pages, of "orphaned" pages which no other page links to, of pages which are linked to but don't yet exist, of logged in users, and other statistics.

*'''Namespaces''' Separated from the page name with a colon. This very page is within the ''wikipedia'' namespace.

** '''Normal namespaces''' Currently, there are the "blank" namespace (for normal articles), ''wikipedia'' (for articles about Wikipedia), ''user'' (for user pages), ''special'' (for system pages like RecentChanges), and ''log'' (automatically generated log pages)

** '''Talk namespaces''' All namespaces have their own ''Talk'' namespace ("Talk", "Wikipedia Talk", "User Talk"), to use instead of a /Talk page. Listed at the bottom of every page, empty ''Talk'' pages are red, existing ones are bluegreen.

*'''Other stuff'''

**'''Automatic signature''' Just type three times ~ when you edit, and on saving the page, it will be replaced with your user name and a link to your user page. (In preview, however, it will display as ~~~.)

**'''Word-extension linking''' If you include a link of the form <nowiki>[[war]]s</nowiki>, or <nowiki>[[war]]time</nowiki>, the system will automatically display it as if you had typed <nowiki>[[war|wars]]</nowiki> or <nowiki>[[war|wartime]]</nowiki>, respectively, saving some typing.

**'''User contributions''' At the top of each user page, there is a link to display a list of all articles the user has worked on, according to the database. The list includes only those articles for which the last edit on the page was by that user, was not a minor edit, and occurred after the change of software.

**'''Counter''' on every page (see bottom).

**'''Search''' Searches are now always based on the most current version of all articles. Boolean search ("and", "or", "not") is possible. By default, "and" is used, meaning that only articles matching ''all'' the search terms are returned. Search terms shorter than four letters always cause the search to fail and should be avoided. See [[wikipedia:Searching]] for details.

**'''Unsuccessful searches''' are listed on the Recent Changes page and are also logged by the system on pages of the form [[wikipedia:Unsuccessful searches (2002-03)]]. (Adjust month if necessary.)

*'''No longer supported'''

**'''Subpages''' A page with a slash (/) in its title is treated like any other page; there are no special subpage features anymore.