Wikipedia:Tools

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)
• 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.
• Help:Customizing toolbars offers the ability to add personal links to the sidebar, providing quick and easy access to favourite articles and tools 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.
• Insource search is a handy tool that lets you find specific terms or regex patterns across all Wikimedia wikis. It generates a list of pages containing those terms, making it super useful for tasks like AWB/JWB and other search-related activities.

Google tools

Note: Google search results can be several days or even weeks out of date.

• Citer for Google Books URL, DOI, ISBN, PMID, PMCID, OCLC converts bare url into {{cite book}} format. See also Help:Citation tools § 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.

Verification

• verify Flags text that is potentially incorrect or uncited by comparing the information in the article to the text of its citations.

Page histories

User edit counts and analysis

• User contribution search, finds all the edits by a user to a single page
• Edit summary search, find all the edits by a user such that their edit summary contains the specified string
• XTools Pages Created – lists all pages created by a user (including deleted ones)
• afdstats Analyse AfD !votes against the result
• Articles for Creation Review History. This tool shows a list of a user's WP:AfC reviews.
• User-level gender statistics for Wikipedia : gender statistics about the list of created articles.
• Look at your list of created articles through Wikidata.
• Look at your list of created articles with the Xtools Page Prose API
• Map your list of created articles through Wikidata.
• Wiki streaks, look up a user's edit streak: how many consecutive days they've made an edit

Importing (converting) content to Wikipedia (MediaWiki) format

Export: Conversion to other formats

• Help:Export, Special:Export – XML
• Special:Book – PDF
• mw:Alternative parsers – various, including HTML and XML
• wikitable2csv – CSV
• mw:Extension:TextExtracts – HTML or plain text; without links
• meta:User:Tbayer (WMF)/Converting wiki pages to plaintext emails – text
• MediaWiki to LaTeX – PDF, EPub, Odt or LaTeX
• Wiki Embed Plugin – WordPress

Geotagging-related tools

• GeoLocator, Wikipedia compatible geotagging metadata generator and coordinate editor

Gadget developers

Tools for gadget devs:

• Wikiblame – use for searching when some function or option was introduced.
• Wiki-to-Git – download JS/CSS history to Git which you can then use for gadget development as well as use git blame and other standard development tools.
• Wikiploy – use to deploy gadgets to Wikipedia, Meta and other MediaWiki sites.
• Global Search – use to check global usage of gadgets, functions etc.
• Browser tools:
  • Firefox DevTools User Docs – JS debugger, CSS editor etc...
  • Chrome DevTools.

Contrast checking tools

• Tools are available to help check whether the color contrast is sufficient, see Help:COLORTOOLS.

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.
• 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

References