Help:Preferences
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Logged-in users can customize Hortipedia in great detail by altering their preferences on Special:Preferences. |
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User profile
This contains basic information relating to your accout.
- Username: the name of your account (cannot be changed).
- User ID: your internal account number on Hortipedia
- Member of groups: the names of the user groups you belong to. These provide you with certain "rights" (powers to carry out certain actions).
- Number of edits: the total number of edits you have made on Hortipedia.
- E-mail: entering an e-mail address is optional. It can be very helpful, however, if you forget your password.
- E-mail: allows you to specify if and when you want to be notified about changes to certain pages. Also, you can choose to allow other registered users to send you e-mails.
Skin
Here you can choose which the style of page display you like best. Use "Preview" to look at the different styles before saving one.
Files
Specifiy the maximum size of images on their description page. This if especially helpful if you have a slow internet connection. Also you can define the size of thumnail pictures displayed in articles.
Date and time
On this tab, you can control the appearance of some dates and times, and you can select your time zone.
- Date format: this setting affects the appearance of timestamps on all special pages, including page histories (as listed below). They appear just like shown here, except in Recent Changes and your watchlist, where date and time are shown in different places. Note that the last option, although rather arcane, provides the only way to see seconds.
Time zone: "Offset" is the number of hours to be added or subtracted from UTC to find your time zone. It may become temporarily incorrect from time to time if you observe Daylight Saving Time -- don't forget to update it to match your local time, because the wiki doesn't know where you are or precisely when you observe DST.
Editing
- Rows and Columns (characters across): defines the size of the textbox used for editing (default setting is 25 rows and 80 columns)
- Enable section editing via [edit] links: will show beside each sub-heading on a page to allow editing of that subsection only.
- Enable section editing by right clicking on section titles: in compatible browsers, if this option is checked, a right-click on the section title will bring up the edit box for that section only, just as if you had clicked the small [edit] link beside the heading.
- Edit box has full width: will always display edit box as wide as possible.
- Show edit toolbar: show or hide the toolbar with editing buttons.
- Show preview on first edit: when pressing the edit button or otherwise following a link to an edit page, a preview will appear, just like after pressing "Show preview".
- Show preview before edit box: if you select this option, the edit preview will be displayed above the edit box when you click the "Show preview" button while editing a page.
- Mark all edits minor by default: this option automatically selects the "This is a minor edit" checkbox when you edit pages.
- Use external editor by default: this feature allows you to edit pages in an external program, rather than using the wiki editing form in your web browser. It requires a special set-up on your computer (see MediaWiki.
- User external diff by default: this is an advanced feature that requires a special set-up on your computer (see link above).
- Prompt me when entering a blank edit summary: if selected, the editor will display a warning message when no edit summary is provided. This can help you remember to provide edit summaries, as they help other editors greatly.
Recent changes
In this tab you can choose which information you want displayed on Special:RecentChanges. Specifiy how many days and number of edits you want covered on that page. You can also choose to hide minor edits and group recent changes per day by article, display the titles of the changed articles in order from new to old latest change, or in the case of hiding minor edits, latest major change. This feature applies also to Related Changes, and, in the case that "Expand watchlist to show all applicable changes" has been selected, to the watchlist. It requires a browser with JavaScript enabled.
Watchlist
Choose how many days and number of changes you want displayed. The rest of the preferences should be pretty self-explanatory.
Search
- Hits per page: choose the number of results you want displayed on each page of search results.
- Lines per hit: here you can specify how many lines of text you want to see in the "preview" area underneath a search result. The default is 5. Context per line: defines the number of characters of context per occurrence; however, the context is anyway restricted to the paragraph it occurs in. To get the whole line, put a large number like 5000. The default is 50.
- Namespaces: defines a search to any given namespace by default.
