Wikipedia:Tools

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See also: Category:Wikipedia tools

The pages listed below contain various tools and tutorials intended to simplify, make more efficient, or provide additional functionality to Wikipedians.

Browsing and editing

File:Wikipedia Toolbar for Firefox.png

Wikipedia Toolbar for Firefox - see /Browser integration#... or the homepage for details

Not English - Some tools need their descriptions translated from German; others are not available in English. Help translate if you can!
Browser integration: tools intended to enhance browser functions as related to Wikipedia; contains bookmarklets, user scripts, browser extensions, etc.
Alternative browsing - Alternatives to accessing Wikipedia through your web browser (mobile devices, desktop integration, alternate portals, etc.)
Editing tools: tools intended to provide enhanced editing functionality; contains edit bots, spellcheckers, wikisyntax conversion utilities, etc.
Wikipedia:Syndication (RSS feeds, etc.)
User Scripts

External programming interfaces

Perl-Module that searches for and retrieves an article
Python Wikipedia API, pywikiapi
PHP plugin for programmers using the Eclipse development environment
See Wikipedia:Bots for more

Searching

As the result of a partnership with the Wikimedia Foundation, Answers.com has produced the tools below:
- Search Wikipedia with Answers.com - Complements Wikipedia searches with additional encyclopedias, dictionaries, glossaries and atlases.
- Download and install 1-Click Answers^TM 2.0 Wikipedia Edition
Search Wikipedia with Clusty - Clusters results on the fly
Search Wikipedias with LuMriX: see Wikipedia:Searching#LuMriX
WikiWax - A better way to search Wikipedia's alphabetical index
GlobalWPSearch - search across projects and show missing interlanguage links.
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.

Page histories

Dan Phiffer's Wikipedia Animate - history animation
AniWiki, created by John Resig - history animation
Colin Hill's BetterHistory history animation
http://vs.aka-online.de/wppagehiststat/ - History statistics
Article revision counter

Edit counters

See also: Wikipedia:WikiProject edit counters

Wikipedia:Kate's Tool (edit counter)
Interiot's Edit Counter (enhanced version of Kate's Tool)
Contribution tree

IRC tools

See Wikipedia:IRC channels.

Web-based javaclient (only connects to #wikipedia-bootcamp)

Google tools

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 Wikipedia articles.

Conversion to other formats

PDF tools are listed on Wikipedia:WikiReader.

Internet Explorer alpha transparency

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