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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 and Task-oriented tool list. For toolserver, see Misplaced Pages:Toolserver. For other useful directories, see the navigation bar above.

Browsing and editing

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
Citation tools, tools for citing and referencing
Anti-vandalism tools, tools for patrolling and cleaning up Misplaced Pages
Alternative browsing, alternatives to accessing Misplaced Pages through your web browser (mobile devices, desktop integration, alternate portals, etc.)
User Scripts, a collection of JavaScript routines that add functionality to Misplaced Pages pages (e.g. regex search and replace, changing article formatting, and simplifying common tasks)
Wikirage - What's hot in Misplaced Pages - This site lists the pages in Misplaced Pages which are receiving the most edits per unique editor over various periods of time
CGP's To-do tool - A list of pages in need to be edited, so no second goes to waste!

Searching

See also Misplaced Pages:Searching

1-Click Answers 2.0, Misplaced Pages Edition - look up a word in a Windows program by alt-clicking on it (created by Answers.com as a result of a partnership with the Wikimedia Foundation)
Cleeki - Cleeki is a Windows-based program for generic search purpose, but particularly optimized for Misplaced Pages. In Cleeki with one click you can grab keywords anywhere on your screen from virtually any applications and get multiple relevant Misplaced Pages results immediately.
Wikiseek - Search Misplaced Pages and external links
Wikiseek Firefox extension for Misplaced Pages - Enhance Misplaced Pages's search
WikiProjects - WikiBrowse for Windows
Search Misplaced Pages with Clusty - Clusters results on the fly
Search Misplaced Pages - Multilingual search, image search and external links search
Search Misplaced Pages from Keybreeze - Press a hotkey on your keyboard to search Misplaced Pages from a toolbar.
WikiWax - Search Misplaced Pages's alphabetical index with word completion suggestions
GlobalWPSearch - search across projects and show missing interlanguage links.
Gnosis - semantic tagging of Misplaced Pages as you browse with hyperlinks to Misplaced Pages articles, current news and other items.
Konfabulator Widget
Macintosh Dashboard Widget
Wikimedia-Search search the realtime index for every project with suggest function
www.qwika.com Qwika is a search engine designed specifically to search wikis. It aims to cover all sizeable wikis in all sizeable languages, translate them, make them easily findable in the shortest possible time.
Misplaced Pages search is desktop search engine. Depends on SuperKaramba.
Misplaced Pages Gateway - Multilingual search in Misplaced Pages (44 languages)

Google tools

Note: Google search results can be several days or even weeks out of date.

Misplaced Pages and other Wikimedia sites on your iGoogle startpage Misplaced Pages Gadget
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 Web Accelerator should not be used for Misplaced Pages (that is, it should be disabled for the wikipedia.org domain. For details, see Misplaced Pages:Google Web Accelerator.

Page histories

General:

Misplaced Pages:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts/HistoryCount - user script that specifies the number of history entries on the history tab (without the script, 50 entries are shown when the tab is opened)
Misplaced Pages:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts/Six tabs - adds a history tab (and an edit tab) for the page that is paired with the page that is visible

Diffs:

Misplaced Pages:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts/Compare link - makes the "compare selected versions" button into a link (diffs can be in new windows, tabs, etc.)
Misplaced Pages:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts/Changes since I last edited - adds a tab that does a diff between the editor's last edit and the current version of a page
MediaWiki talk:Monobook.css#Better rendering for .diffchange in diff's...
User:Cacycle/wikEdDiff - user script - additions and deletions are highlighted by color in one continuous text
User:Stevage/EnhanceHistory.user.js - Collapses consecutive edits from the same person into one, integrates (shows) diffs on the history page

Finding the responsible editor:

WikiBlame - searches for given text in versions of article
User:AmiDaniel/WhodunitQuery - Windows application that identifies the edit and user who added a specific word or phrase

Contributor edit counts and analysis:

Revision counter - counts revisions (edits)
Contributors - lists edits, similar to page history, but can be sorted by contributor; easy to exclude different groups
Page history statistics by user:aka - builds an edit history overview page
Article Contribution Counter (beta) - tool that identifies major contributors to an article (a similar feature request is here)

Visualization:

IBM History Flow tool History Flow Visualization Application
Misplaced Pages Animate - user script; shows the evolution of a page, like a webcast

Edit counters

See also: Misplaced Pages:WikiProject edit counters

Interiot's 'Wannabe Kate' Edit Counter - Only works for <45000 edits. Note this is different from Interiot's other edit counter on the toolserver which is currently non-functional
Mike's tool Similar to Essjay's, but working. Currently only working for <5000 edits
Nubio is a repository for frequently asked questions. Also contains an edit counter, and a tracker of user registrations.
Efficient Query API based edit counter
Semi-updated action counts for administrators
User contributions (Luxo) - find contributions on enwiki and other Wikimedia sites
WikiFORJA Counter

IRC

See also Misplaced Pages:IRC channels

IRC channel scripts
m:IRC channel cloaks
Misplaced Pages IRC help channel - a login page (requires Java)

Importing (converting) content from other formats to Misplaced Pages (MediaWiki) format

See also: Misplaced Pages:How to import articles

Microsoft Word:: See also Help:WordToWiki

mw:Extension:Word2MediaWikiPlus - a tool that converts Microsoft Word documents to MediaWiki
wikEd - a full-featured in-browser text editor for Misplaced Pages edit pages that can convert text and tables pasted from Microsoft Word with a button click
meta:Word_macros - Visual Basic macros to use within Microsoft Word to prepare content to be pasted into a Misplaced Pages page

Microsoft Excel:

de:Misplaced Pages:Helferlein/VBA-Macro for EXCEL tableconversion: Convert EXCEL-Table with most formatting like background- and fontcolor, fontstyle(bold/italic), columnheight, -width, etc. to Wiki-tableformat
Copy & Paste Excel-to-Wiki Converter

OpenOffice 2:

OpenOffice2MediaWiki: Export filter for converting from ODT format to MediaWiki
Odt2Wiki: Another export filter.
Writer2MediaWiki: OpenOffice macro for converting to MediaWiki format

HTML:

HTML to Wiki converter

LaTeX:

User:Jmath666/latex2wiki - LaTeX to Wikicode translation tool

BibTeX:

BibTeX translater - transforms BibTeX entries into {{Cite}} format

Export: Conversion to other formats

Help:Export
Special:Export
PDF: Misplaced Pages:WikiReader#Resources
m:Alternative parsers - programs and projects to translate MediaWiki's text markup syntax into something else, such as HTML

Other

Syndication - RSS feeds, etc.
Researching Misplaced Pages: Tools for data analysis
Six degrees of Misplaced Pages - finding the shortest path via wikilinks between two articles
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!
WikiFORJA - Rankings and tools

Sources for code for new tools

See also Misplaced Pages:Bots

The following are places where code is available:

SourceForge.net; projects include:
- WikiProjects - WikiBrowse for Windows - collection of open source tools; collaborative project
- PHP plugin for programmers using the Eclipse development environment
Automated interface to the Misplaced Pages - Perl module that searches for and retrieves an article