Clicking on the Preferences link in the upper right while logged in allows you to change your preferences. You will be presented with the User profile section, as well as a bar of tabs across the top for changing other types of settings.
Note that some of the preferences discussed here are added by extensions and are not a part of MediaWiki core.
Basic information Username: Your user name. Only trusted users can change your username. Member of groups: A list of the user groups you are in. Connected apps: On Wikimedia wikis, this link allows you to manage external applications that are permitted to access your account. See Help:OAuth for more information. Number of edits: How many edits you have made. Not all wikis will have this. See Help:User contributions#Number of edits Registration time: The time your account was registered. Change password see below Global account: see below Global account: Provides a link to Special:CentralAuth, displaying statistics about your user account across all Wikimedia wikis. Two-factor authentication: Manage two factor authentication. Global preferences: Manage global preferences. Change passwordTo change your password, enter your old password in the first box and your new password in the last two. If you want this site to remember your login, check Remember my login on this computer. Note that this function requires you to have cookies enabled in your browser, and if your cookie is cleared or expires you will no longer be remembered.
Global account InternationalisationFrom your preferences you can select what language you would like the interface to be in. Only the buttons like 'edit' and 'talk', in addition to a few pages in the sidebar, will be affected. The main text of the pages will not be changed by this for the vast majority of pages, although there are a few pages where it will, like some in the Wikimedia Meta Wiki.
Registered users can customize their signature (the part between the two hyphens and the timestamp, that is, the text displayed on the link pointing to your username) by changing the field "New signature:" in their preferences . By default, anything you enter there will be wrapped with [[ ]]. To use a special linking (without this automatic link), you have to enable “Treat as wikitext”. Then you can add Wiki markup and also HTML (as far as allowed on the wiki) as you like, but the maximum length is 255 characters. Please note that striking signatures are often disliked by other users.
Note that if you customize your signature, you should avoid displaying the identity of another unrelated user account, unless you also own this account or are explicitly authorized by this user: the link should unambiguously point to your effective user page or talk page on the local wiki. However, changing your signature will not override the username that is recorded in page histories. Some wikis may also have defined a restricting policy about the usage of external links or images in signatures. Look at the policies documented and on enforced your local wiki about user accounts and identities.
If you enable Treat as wikitext but don't add any customized signature string, you'll sign with your unlinked username.
The most common Treat as wikitext customizations are the following:
If you have supplied an email address, you will need to click the verify address button in order to use these functions. You will receive an email; simply open it and follow the link to enable the following functions.
Email confirmation This shows the date and time your email address was confirmed. Allow other users to email me This allows other registered users to send you an email using "Email this user" link on the sidebar of your user page. Emails are sent using a web interface, and your email address is not revealed to a sender until you reply by email. Allow emails from brand-new users This allows users without the autoconfirmed permissions to send you emails. Send me copies of emails I send to other users This option will have all of your emails you send to others be copied into your inbox. Prohibit these users from emailing me: This option allows you to specify which users will not be able to send you direct emails. They will not see the "Email this user" link on the sidebar of your user page. Email me when a page or a file on my watchlist is changed Causes you to be automatically sent an email when a pages on your watchlist is edited. May not be available on some large wikis. Email me also for minor edits of pages and files Same thing except for minor edits . May not be available on some large wikis. Email me on replies to a thread I am watching Same thing except for Liquid Threads discussions, Only available if that extension is installed. Appearance SkinHere you can choose the skin you want to use. You can preview the available skins before choosing them, by clicking on the "Preview" link next to each skin. Please refer to Help:Skins for more details. Also includes a link to your skin-specific CSS and JavaScript for that skin.
Date format and time offsetDetermines the date format and timezone that the interface of pages such as recent changes or your watchlist display. Any dates that appear in Wikitext will not be automatically reformatted. In particular, this includes signatures, so if you set a timezone other than the wiki default times shown in the interface won't match those in signatures.
FilesHere you can determine how images will be displayed. Images displayed by direct pasting of a URL (if the wiki has it enabled) will not be affected by this setting.
File: pages. If you know what your current screen resolution is you may like to set this to one or two sizes smaller than your own screen. If you have a slow connection (such as dial-up) you may want to limit them to 320×240. Defaults to: 800×600px220pxSome extensions also add their own preferences related to diffs. One such extension is Extension:RevisionSlider , which can be disabled in preferences using the "Don't show the revision slider" preference in that section.
Advanced optionsHere you can control how mathematical equations described using the <math> tag will be displayed. Mathematical formulae uploaded as images or written outside the math tag will not be affected by this setting. Note the math preferences will only be visible if Extension:Math is installed.
These are the settings to control editing pages, including whether to automatically watch pages that you have edited or created.
General optionsSome extensions, such as WikiLove , TwoColConflict , FlaggedRevs , and ProofreadPage also add their own preferences to this section.
EditorSome of these preferences impact Special:RelatedChanges and Special:RecentChangesLinked as well as Special:RecentChanges. See Help:Tracking changes for more information.
Display optionsThese are the settings to control the behavior of the watchlist (See Help:Watchlist ). Most of these options are also available on the watchlist display itself, but by setting them in your preferences, you control the default behavior of the watchlist i.e., it will perform the same actions every time you visit the page.
Edit watchlistProvides a set of links to view and edit the pages on your watchlist, either as a formatted list of links with checkboxes to remove them (View and remove titles on your watchlist), a raw list of page titles in a text box (Edit raw watchlist). The final option is to clear your watchlist entirely (Clear your watchlist).
Display optionsThese preferences control the Completion Suggester used to provide suggestions of article titles when you type a search query, including possibly correcting any typos.
This section of your preferences allows you to enable or disable any gadgets that have been set up by your wiki's interface administrators to improve browsing experience.
Beta featuresOn Wikimedia wikis, the Beta features tab allows you to enable experimental features before they are made available to everyone. If you choose to turn on any of these features, you should be prepared to encounter bugs and problems, and you may see sudden changes in the way the feature looks or works as development continues.
Each feature has a "discussion" link next to it, so you can offer your suggestions or report any problems.
The following Beta Features are available:
These features are only available on some wikis:
These features are beta features on some wikis while enabled for everyone on all others:
This section of your preferences allows you to control what notifications you receive and how you receive them.
Opt-in and opt-outIf you opt-out of any type of notifications, then these notifications generated while you were opted-out are not generated for you and not stored in databases. Opt-in will not display them afterwards. The only notifications that may be displayed are the ones that existed before the opt-out.
Notifications by email or on wikiTo turn notifications on or off for any category, simply check (or uncheck) the box next to it in your Preferences. You can enable (or disable) notifications on the web or by email for most categories. (Some notifications cannot be disabled, such as changes to your user rights or new talk page messages: these notifications are too important to be dismissed.) You can also control how often to receive email notifications, from single emails for each event to daily or weekly digests. When you're done, be sure to click the "Save" button at the bottom of the page to update your preferences.
Muting usersYou can mute on-site notifications from individual users, by typing their username into the box at the bottom of the notifications preferences. When you start typing the usernames will autocomplete. Users without JavaScript should type one username per line, without any wikitext or prefix.
You will still receive notifications if a muted user writes or participates on your user talk page. Watchlist behavior and emails are not affected by the mute list.
The muted user will still receive a successful mention notification, if they've enabled that preference. A user's mute list is private from all other users on the wiki, including administrators or any other functionary.
Muting pagesMuting pages is possible for "page linked" notifications.
You can mute "page linked" notifications for a page by typing the page name into the box at the bottom of the notifications preferences.
When you start typing the page titles will autocomplete.
Users without JavaScript should type one page title per line, without any wikitext or prefix.
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