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The pages listed below contain various tools and tutorials intended to simplify, make more efficient, or provide additional functionality to Wikipedians. See also Category:Misplaced Pages tools, Browser tools, and Task-oriented tool list. For toolserver, see Misplaced Pages:Toolserver. For other useful directories, see the navigation bar above.

wikEd is a full-featured in-browser text editor for Misplaced Pages edit pages

Browsing and editing

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Misplaced Pages Toolbar for Firefox - see Misplaced Pages toolbar or the homepage for details
  • 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
  • Alternative browsing, alternatives to accessing Misplaced Pages through your web browser (mobile devices, desktop integration, alternate portals, etc.)
  • Syndication, RSS feeds, etc.
  • User Scripts, a collection of JavaScript routines that add functionality to Misplaced Pages pages (e.g. regex search and replace, changing article formatting, or simplifying common tasks)
  • 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!

External programming interfaces

Searching

It has been suggested that this page be merged into Searching. (Discuss)
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WikiProjects - WikiBrowse for Windows
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Whiteglobe - Misplaced Pages browser with many features

Page histories

Edit counters

See also: Misplaced Pages:WikiProject edit counters

Researching

See Misplaced Pages:Researching_Wikipedia#Category:Wikipedia_tools.

IRC tools

See Misplaced Pages:IRC channels & Misplaced Pages:Scripts#IRC channel scripts

Google tools

Note: Google search results can be several days or even weeks out of date.
  • 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.
  • Placeopedia Provides a means by which Google map markers can be linked directly to Misplaced Pages articles.
  • Google Accelerator now has a bug which stops people being able to log onto forums and other websites.

Import: Conversion from other formats

Microsoft Word

  • wikEd is a full-featured in-browser text editor for Misplaced Pages edit pages that converts text and tables pasted from MS-Word with a button click
  • Word macros: Convert MS-Word into wiki format.

Microsoft EXCEL

OpenOffice 2

BibTeX

Export: Conversion to other formats

Internet Explorer alpha transparency

If you use an Internet Explorer version prior to IE 7.0, a bug in IE causes the display of alpha transparency to render incorrectly. This makes a lot of images with transparent backgrounds look bad. To fix this, copy and paste this code into your monobook skin.

Reporting

See also

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