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

Browsing and editing

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Misplaced Pages Toolbar for Firefox - see Misplaced Pages toolbar or the homepage for details

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
Alternative browsing, alternatives to accessing Misplaced Pages through your web browser (mobile devices, desktop integration, alternate portals, etc.)
Syndication, RSS feeds, etc.
User Scripts, a collection of JavaScript routines that add functionality to Misplaced Pages pages (e.g. regex search and replace, changing article formatting, or simplifying common tasks)
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!

External programming interfaces

WikiProjects - WikiBrowse for Windows to develop plugins for Misplaced Pages and other media-wikis
Perl-Module that searches for and retrieves an article
Python Misplaced Pages API, pywikiapi (nothing available yet)
PHP plugin for programmers using the Eclipse development environment
See Misplaced Pages:Bots for more

Searching

It has been suggested that this page be merged into Searching. (Discuss)

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WikiProjects - WikiBrowse for Windows

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Whiteglobe - Misplaced Pages browser with many features

1-Click Answers 2.0, Misplaced Pages 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)
Wikiseek - Search Misplaced Pages and external links
Wikiseek Firefox Extension for Misplaced Pages - Enhance Misplaced Pages's search
WikiProjects - WikiBrowse for Windows
Search Misplaced Pages with Clusty - Clusters results on the fly
Search Wikipedias with LuMriX: see Misplaced Pages:Searching#LuMriX
Search Misplaced Pages from Keybreeze - Press a hotkey on your keyboard to search Misplaced Pages from a toolbar.
WikiWax - Search Misplaced Pages's alphabetical index with word completion suggestions
GlobalWPSearch - search across projects and show missing interlanguage links.
Gnosis - semantic tagging of Misplaced Pages as you browse with hyperlinks to Misplaced Pages articles, current news and other items.
Konfabulator Widget
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.
Misplaced Pages search is desktop search engine. Depends on SuperKaramba.
Whiteglobe - Misplaced Pages browser with many features

Page histories

Dan Phiffer's Misplaced Pages Animate - history animation (doesn't work anymore)
AniWiki, created by John Resig - history animation (doesn't work anymore)
- History statistics
Article revision counter

Edit counters

See also: Misplaced Pages:WikiProject edit counters

Mike's tool Similar to Essjay's, but working. Currently only working for <5000 edits
Nubio is a repository for frequently asked questions. Also contains an edit counter, and a tracker of user registrations.
Interiot's 'Wannabe Kate' Edit Counter - Only works for <45000 edits. Note this is different from Interiot's other edit counter (below) which is currently non-functional
Misplaced Pages:Kate's Tool (edit counter)
Interiot's Edit Counter (enhanced version of Kate's Tool)
Contribution tree

Researching

See Misplaced Pages:Researching_Wikipedia#Category:Wikipedia_tools.

IRC tools

See Misplaced Pages:IRC channels & Misplaced Pages:Scripts#IRC channel scripts

Web-based javaclient (autojoin#wikipedia, #wikipedia-bootcamp or #wikipedia-en)

Google tools

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

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 Misplaced Pages articles.
Google Accelerator now has a bug which stops people being able to log onto forums and other websites.

Import: Conversion from other formats

Microsoft Word

wikEd is a full-featured in-browser text editor for Misplaced Pages edit pages that converts text and tables pasted from MS-Word with a button click
Word macros: Convert MS-Word into wiki format.

Microsoft EXCEL

de:Misplaced Pages: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.

OpenOffice 2

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

BibTeX

BibTeX translater: Transforms BibTeX entries into {{Cite}} format.

Export: Conversion to other formats

PDF tools are listed on Misplaced Pages:WikiReader.

Internet Explorer alpha transparency

If you use an Internet Explorer version prior to IE 7.0, a bug in IE causes the display of alpha transparency to render incorrectly. This makes a lot of images with transparent backgrounds look bad. To fix this, copy and paste this code into your monobook skin.