Tools

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

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

[edit] 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 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)
• Wikirage—What's hot in Wikipedia—This site lists the pages in Wikipedia that are receiving the most edits per unique editor over various periods of time
• Igor—A wikiproject management tool. Allows a user to view and change the importance and class of articles tagged as part of a particular project. Development halted on Java version, and started on an online version.

[edit] Searching

• Intropedia - iGoogle gadget for searching & viewing the introduction of wikipedia articles within the Google homepage
• 1-Click Answers 2.0, Wikipedia 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 Wikipedia. In Cleeki with one click you can grab keywords anywhere on your screen from virtually any applications and get multiple relevant Wikipedia results immediately.
• Wikiseek – Search Wikipedia and external links
• WikiProjects – WikiBrowse for Windows
• Search Wikipedia with Clusty – Clusters results on the fly
• Search Wikipedia – Multilingual search, image search and external links search
• Search Wikipedia from Keybreeze – Press a hotkey on your keyboard to search Wikipedia from a toolbar.
• WikiWax – Search Wikipedia's alphabetical index with word completion suggestions
• GlobalWPSearch – search across projects and show missing interlanguage links.
• Gnosis – semantic tagging of Wikipedia as you browse with hyperlinks to Wikipedia articles, current news and other items.
• Wikipedia Mash from MashLogic provides semantic tags to Wikpedia articles when you browse to pages outside Wikipedia.
• Konfabulator Widget
• Wikipedi – Article search, image search and external links search in different languages
• 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.
• Wikipedia search is desktop search engine. Depends on SuperKaramba.
• Wikipedia Gateway – Multilingual search in Wikipedia (44 languages)
• Wiki-Surf – Surf Wikipedia in English
• Yahoo widget - Yahoo Wikipedia-Wiktionary search widget
• Smart Wiki Search - Similarity search engine

[edit] Downloading

• WP-Download - Download and import Wikipedia SQL dumps

[edit] Google tools

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

• Wikipedia and other Wikimedia sites on your iGoogle startpage Wikipedia 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 Wikipedia articles.
• Google Web Accelerator should not be used for Wikipedia (that is, it should be disabled for the wikipedia.org domain. For details, see Wikipedia:Google Web Accelerator.
• {{Cite}} format generator – Google Scholar search with {{cite}} filler
• Wikipediavision (designed by László Kozma) visualizes recent anonymous edits using Google Maps.

[edit] Page histories

General:

• Wikipedia: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)
• Wikipedia: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
• User:Ixfd64/revision sizes - revision size visualizer written in R

Diffs:

• User:Superm401/Compare link.js – makes the "compare selected versions" button into a link (diffs can be in new windows, tabs, etc.)
• Wikipedia: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/Archive 4#Better rendering for .diffchange in diffs
• 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:

• Contributors – lists edits, similar to page history, but can be sorted by contributor; easy to exclude different groups
• Per-page contributions – finds all the edits by a user to a single page
• Page history statistics by user:aka – builds an edit history overview page
• Wikistalk - compares the edits of two editors to see which articles overlap

Visualization:

• IBM History Flow tool History Flow Visualization Application
• Wikipedia Animate – user script; shows the evolution of a page, like a webcast
• WikiEditsGraph - user script; shows two graphs: edits/time & edits/user in a graphical overlay

[edit] Edit counters

• X!'s new edit counter Works on editors with over 750000 edits. Also replicates the months graph of Interiot's tool.
• 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
• Administrator Statistics for the English Wikipedia (updated daily)
• User contributions (Luxo) – find contributions on enwiki and other Wikimedia sites
• dbswithuser – user data with edit counts (including deleted edits) of a user name in all replicated wikis of the Toolserver

[edit] IRC

• IRC channel scripts
• m:IRC channel cloaks
• Wikipedia IRC help channel – a login page (requires Java)

[edit] Importing (converting) content to Wikipedia (MediaWiki) format

Microsoft Word:

• mw:Extension:Word2MediaWikiPlus – a tool that converts Microsoft Word documents to MediaWiki
• 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
• meta:Word_macros – Visual Basic macros to use within Microsoft Word to prepare content to be pasted into a Wikipedia page
• OpenOffice 2.3 can open Word files and export to MediaWiki format.

Microsoft Excel:

• Copy & Paste Excel-to-Wiki Converter
• de:Wikipedia: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
• de:Benutzer:Duesentrieb/csv2wp_(en) or CSV Converter: Converts many types of spreadsheet tables, including CSV, tab-separated, etc., to MediaWiki or HTML

OpenOffice 2:

• OpenOffice2MediaWiki: Export filter for converting from ODT format to MediaWiki
• Odt2Wiki: Another export filter.
• Writer2MediaWiki: OpenOffice macro for converting to MediaWiki format
• OpenOffice 2.3 can export to MediaWiki format.

HTML:

• HTML to wiki converter
• Table2wiki.py part of the Pywikipedia bot framework, web port

PDF:

• Appropedia:Help:Porting PDF files to MediaWiki – the most effective method found so far requires Adobe Acrobat (paid version).

LaTeX:

• User:Jmath666/latex2wiki – LaTeX to Wikicode translation tool

BibTeX:

• BibTeX converter – transforms BibTeX entries into {{Cite}} format

Citations:

• Import citations in any format at the Universal Reference Formatter.

[edit] Export: Conversion to other formats

• Help:Export
• Special:Export
• PDF: Wikipedia:WikiReader#Resources
• mw:Alternative parsers – programs and projects to translate MediaWiki's text markup syntax into something else, such as HTML

[edit] Geotagging related tools

• GeoLocator – Wikipedia compatible geotagging metadata generator and coordinate editor

[edit] Other

• Syndication – RSS feeds, etc.
• Researching Wikipedia: Tools for data analysis
• Six Degrees of Wikipedia – 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
• Checklinks – Check all external links and helps resolve HTTP redirects
• 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
• User:MisterWiki/Tools – Magnus Manske tools mirror

[edit] Sources for code for new tools

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 Wikipedia – Perl module that searches for and retrieves an article

[edit] See also

• m:Help:User style
• m:Toolserver
• m:Toolserver/Projects
• Wikipedia:Database download for code useful for dealing with offline dumps
• Wikipedia:Scripts
• Meta:User:Duesentrieb/Tools
• Wikipedia:Tools/Optimum tool set (Firefox optimization)
• Meta:Open Source Toolset
• Wikipedia:Cleaning up vandalism/Tools