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![]() | This page in a nutshell: Listed below are various tools intended to simplify, make more efficient, or provide additional functionality to Wikipedians. |
- See also Category:Wikipedia tools and Task-oriented tool list. For selection of tools, see the Directory NG. To look for a tool, use the Hay's tools searching page. Good tooling.
Editor tools |
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Editing aids |
Things to review |
Customisation |
Browsing and editing
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wikEd is a full-featured in-browser text editor for Wikipedia edit pages
- 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 Wikipedia
- Alternative browsing, alternatives to accessing Wikipedia through your web browser (mobile devices, desktop integration, alternate portals, etc.)
- User scripts, a collection of JavaScript routines that add functionality to Wikipedia pages (e.g., regex search and replace, changing article formatting, and simplifying common tasks)
- WatchlistBot is a bot that delivers realtime alerts via instant message (XMPP) when watched articles are edited or when watched users or IP networks edit.
- Navigation shortcuts offer the ability to add personal links to the sidebar, providing quick and easy access to favourite articles within Wikipedia.
- Finding duplicated references: a tool that will find references with the same URL on a page, with some false positives and missed items, is the URL Extractor For Web Pages and Text. It is not a Wikipedia tool, and there may be other tools available for the purpose. Instructions on its use for Wikipedia are in WP:DUPREF. Such references can often usefully be merged, using
<ref name= xxx/>
for all except one.
Searching
- GlobalWPSearch, search across projects and show missing interlanguage links.
- macOS Dashboard Widget (deprecated)
- whichsub finds transcluded templates of a given page which contain a given string.
- Find Link Tool Find links on Wikipedia tool created by Edward Betts.
- Wikimedia Global Search, perform Elasticsearch-based searches across the wikitext of all Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) wikis via WMCS Toolforge and Cloud Elastic services. Due to potential for abuse of expensive long-running queries (e.g., DoS attack), SUL login is required.
Downloading
- WP-Download[dead link], Download and import Wikipedia SQL dump
Google tools
- Note: Google search results can be several days or even weeks out of date.
- Google book tool Converts bare url into {{cite book}} format
- Mirrors of Wikimedia content can be filtered from Google search result pages in Firefox using the CustomizeGoogle extension.[1] See meta:Mirror filter for instructions and a filter list.
- Wikipediavision (designed by László Kozma) visualizes recent anonymous edits using Google Maps.
Page histories
General
- User:Ixfd64/revision sizes, R program for visualizing revision sizes over time
- Wikipedia:Wiki2VCS, script that loads histories onto one's computer, so that they can be quickly diffed and searched
- XTools Page History Page statistics and visualization, provides sortable and exportable list of all contributors with number of edits and amount of added text. Provides also results of syntax and grammar checks and latest assessment history.
Finding the responsible user
- WikiBlame, searches for given text in versions of article
- whoCOLOR, browser script for Grease/Tampermonkey, highlights original authors directly in the article, gets data from a publicly accessible API
- XTools Blame, find edits that added the given wikitext
User edit counts and analysis
- User contribution search, finds all the edits by a user to a single page
- Wikipedia Page History Statistics Page history statistics by User:aka, builds an edit history overview page
- afdstats Analyse AfD !votes against the result
- XTools Pages Created – lists all pages created by a user (including deleted ones)
Edit counters
- XTools Edit Counter A powerful and full-featured editor analysis tool.
- Administrator Statistics for the English Wikipedia (updated hourly)
- User contributions (Luxo), find contributions on enwiki and other Wikimedia sites
- XTools AdminStats Shows statistics of admin actions, broken down into individual actions, arbitrary period selectable
User interaction analysis
- Editor Interaction Analyzer compares the edits of two to three specified editors to see which articles overlap, sorted by minimum time between edits by both users. Only works on the English Wikipedia. Speed: slow.
- Intersect Contribs, compares the edits of two to eight editors at any WMF wiki to see which articles overlap. Speed: fast.
- Intertwined contributions, merges the contributions of two editors at any WMF wiki into a single list. Speed: fast.
- Interaction Timeline a chronological history of two users' across pages where they both made edits.
Visualization
- Wiki Replay, see m:Grants:IEG/Replay Edits and wm2014:Submissions/Replay Edits for more details.
- de:Benutzer:Atlasowa/edit history visualization
Importing (converting) content to Wikipedia (MediaWiki) format
Google Docs Spreadsheet
- MediaWiki Table Utility or this updated version This class constructs a MediaWiki-format table from an Excel/GoogleDoc copy&paste. It provides a variety of methods to modify the style. It defaults to a Wikipedia styling with first column header.[2]
Microsoft Office
Word
2007 and later
- Microsoft Office Word Add‑in For MediaWiki. For Microsoft Word 2007 or 2010. (Not Supported from Version Word 2013)
Prior versions
- For other Macro, see mw:Word macros, Visual Basic macros to use within Microsoft Word to prepare content to be pasted into a Wikipedia page.
- wikEd, a full-featured in-browser text editor for Wikipedia edit pages that can convert text and tables pasted from Microsoft Word with a button click
Excel
- excel2wiki: Copy & Paste Excel-to-Wiki Converter
- tab2wiki: Converts tables (tab-delimited, e.g. copied from Excel) to Wikitext tables
- de:Wikipedia:Technik/Text/Basic/EXCEL-Tabellenumwandlung/en: Convert EXCEL-Table with most formatting like background- and fontcolor, fontstyle(bold/italic), columnheight, -width, etc. to Wiki-tableformat
- de:Benutzer:Duesentrieb/csv2wp (en) or CSV Converter: Converts many types of spreadsheet tables, including CSV, tab-separated, etc., to MediaWiki or HTML
- csv2other: a free open source tool, in .net, to convert CSV and EXCEL files to wiki table format
- Mediawiki CSV Import tool: A proprietary, commercial, tool to create mass Mediawiki pages using CSV datasource and variable based templates. Results merged into a valid Mediawiki XML Import file.
- wiki2csv: a commmand line tool that can convert wikitables to CSV and back. Useful to edit wikitables in Excel (or OpenOffice).
OpenOffice/LibreOffice
- LibreOffice Writer is free. It can open almost any file format. It can export to Mediawiki: File menu > export > save as type > MediaWiki. It will save the file as a .txt file which can be opened with any text editor. Copy the wiki code from the text file. You can save any web page as an HTML file, and then open it in LibreOffice Writer. Edit as needed. Remove the parts you don't want. Keep only tables for example. Then export to MediaWiki. Tables can be further edited in LibreOffice Calc. See: Commons:Convert tables and charts to wiki code or image files. And: Help:Table and the section on spreadsheets and the Visual Editor.
HTML
- Html2Wiki is an extension for MediaWiki that imports HTML
Python
- Table2wiki.py part of the Pywikipedia bot framework, web port
LaTeX
- User:Jmath666/latex2wiki, LaTeX to Wikicode translation tool
CSV
- CSVLoader is an AutoWikiBrowser plug-in that allows creating and updating articles using CSV data files.
Google Slides
Google Docs
- meta:User:Tbayer (WMF)/Converting Google Docs to wikitext (tutorial + Python script)
Many formats
- Pandoc is a universal document converter
Export: Conversion to other formats
- Help:Export, Special:Export (XML)
- PDF: Special:Book
- mw:Alternative parsers, programs and projects to translate MediaWiki's text markup syntax into something else, such as HTML
- wikitable2csv is a web tool that extracts wikitables from a given page and converts them to CSV.
- wiki2csv is a command line tool that can convert wikitables into comma separated value files that can be edited by Excel or LibreOffice. The result can be converted back retaining most of the original formatting.
- mw:Extension:TextExtracts (API function to convert into cleaned up HTML or plain text; without links)
- meta:User:Tbayer (WMF)/Converting wiki pages to plaintext emails
PDF, EPub, Odt and LaTeX
- MediaWiki to LaTeX Convert from Wiki to PDF, EPub, Odt and LaTeX formats.
HTML for Wordpress blogs
- GeoLocator, Wikipedia compatible geotagging metadata generator and coordinate editor
Other
- Syndication, RSS feeds, etc.
- Researching Wikipedia: Tools for data analysis
- 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!
- Note: Checkinks is buggy use with caution. Consider using instead Internet Archive Bot which can be found in the History tab of any page: "Fix dead links" – login does not require a password.
- WikiBiff, To alert users when they have new messages waiting on their talk pages
- Desktop Watchlist, Enhanced watchlist for Windows
- Category Watchlist, Watching additions and removals to categories
- CategoryWatchlistBot, Watch category and/or template additions/removals, supports partial name matches and subcategories
- PetScan (manual), searches categories recursively. Will find subcategories that overlap with other categories, templates, etc.
- User:SuggestBot for suggested articles you might like to edit
- RAMP editor: can generate enhanced authority records for creators of archival collections
- XEcho Shows your global cross-wiki notifications from 800+ wikis at a glance
- quarry:, a place to run queries on databases of Wikimedia projects
- MTC!, A tool that makes it easy to transfer files to Commons en masse.
- Wiki Editor Plugin for Notepad++ 32-bit (x86) – a free source code editor.
- MediaWiker Plugin for Sublime Text. MediaWiki syntax highlighting and editing capabilities.
- MediaWiki Tables Generator (online)
- Wikipedia:Get my IP address
See also
- Wikipedia:Database download (for code useful for dealing with offline dumps)
- Wikipedia:Scripts
- Wikipedia:Tools/Optimum tool set (Firefox optimization)
- Wikipedia:Cleaning up vandalism/Tools
- Wikipedia:Link rot § Tools
- Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts § Installing (How to install user scripts)
- Help:Text editor support
- {{Editor tools}}
- meta:Help:User style
- Toolforge
- meta:Toolserver/Projects
- meta:Open Source Toolset
- meta:User:Duesentrieb/Tools
- Commons:Convert tables and charts to wiki code or image files