Preferences

Important!A job queue processes changes to user preferences. There may therefore be a delay before changes to the settings take effect.

Preferences control personal settings for the account, including the user profile, appearance, editing, recent changes, watchlist, search, and notifications.

Accessing preferences

1. Open the user menu.
2. Select Preferences.
3. Change the required settings and select Save.
   

Alternatively, open Special:Enhanced_Preferances directly.

NoteThe Reset to default preferences button restores the default preference settings and deletes notification subscriptions.

User profile

Basic information

• Connected apps: Select Manage connected applications to manage applications connected to the account.
• Real name: The real name is optional. If provided, it may be used to give attribution for work in the wiki.
• Password: Select Change password to change the account password. This option is only available if the wiki is not connected to a central authentication provider.
• Access account data: Select My account data from this project to access account data from the wiki.
• Profile image: Select View profile to open the profile page, where the profile image can be uploaded or changed.
• Two-factor authentication: Shows the current two-factor authentication status. Select Manage to configure two-factor authentication. For more information, see 2-Factor-Authentication.

Internationalisation

• Language: Sets the language used for the wiki interface, including menus and other interface elements.
• How do you prefer to be described?: Sets the grammatical gender used by the software when addressing or mentioning the user. This preference is optional. The selected information is public.

Available options include:

• They edit wiki pages
• She edits wiki pages
• He edits wiki pages

Email options

• Email: Shows the email address associated with the account.
• Show my email address to other users: Makes the email address visible to other users.
  

If the wiki is connected to a central authentication provider, the email address may be managed by that system and cannot be changed in the wiki.

Privacy

The following settings control acceptance of the site's privacy policy and terms of service:

• I accept the privacy policy of this site
• I accept the terms of service of this site
  

Both settings must remain active to use the wiki. If either setting is deactivated, it must be accepted again during the next login.

Appearance

Skin

If multiple skins are available, select a skin for the personal view of the wiki. The selected skin affects only the current user.

Date format

Select the format used to display timestamps throughout the wiki, for example, on discussion pages.

Time offset

• Server time: Shows the time of the wiki server.
• Local time: Shows the time based on the selected time zone.
• Time zone: Sets the time zone used to calculate the local time.

Advanced options

Link underlining

Controls whether links in the content area are underlined.

• Skin or browser default: Uses the link styling defined by the skin.
• Always: Always underlines links in the content area.
• Never: Never underlines links in the content area.
  

The table of contents is not affected by this setting.

Context menu

Open context menu by (not for mobile): Defines how the page context menu is opened.

• Click on right mouse button and pressing CTRL: Opens the BlueSpice context menu with a right-click while holding CTRL. A normal right-click opens the browser context menu.
• Click on right mouse button: Opens the BlueSpice context menu with a right-click. Holding CTRL opens the browser context menu.
  

The context menu provides actions for a linked page without opening that page first.

Context menu for a page link

Preview

• Show preview for links: Shows a preview of the linked page when the pointer is moved over the link or when the link receives keyboard focus.

Editing

General options

• Enable section editing by right clicking on section titles: Allows a section to be opened directly in edit mode by right-clicking its heading.
• Edit pages on double click: Opens a page in edit mode when the text area of the page is double-clicked.

Editor

• Mark all edits minor by default: Marks edits as minor by default when saving a page.
• Prompt me when entering a blank edit summary (or the default undo summary): Displays a prompt when an edit is saved without a custom edit summary.
• Prompt to lock page when starting editing: Prompts to lock the page when editing starts. The page can also be locked later from the page menu.

Accessibility

• Enable colorblind-friendly scheme for syntax highlighting when editing wikitext: Uses a colorblind-friendly color scheme for syntax highlighting when editing wikitext.

NoteIf a gadget provides syntax highlighting, this preference does not affect its color scheme.

Recent changes

Display options

• Days to show in recent changes: Sets the number of days included in the default view of Recent changes. The maximum is 90 days.
• Number of edits to show in recent changes, page histories, and in logs, by default: Sets the default number of edits displayed in Recent changes, page histories, and logs. The maximum is 1000.

Advanced options

• Group changes by page in recent changes and watchlist: Groups changes to the same page into a collapsible view.

Changes shown

• Hide minor edits from recent changes: Hides edits marked as minor from the default Recent changes view.

Watchlist

Edit watchlist

The following options open pages for managing watchlist entries:

• View and remove titles on your watchlist: Opens the page for viewing and removing titles from the watchlist.
• Edit raw watchlist: Opens a text-based interface for removing pages from the watchlist.
• Clear your watchlist: Removes all pages from the watchlist.

Display options

• Days to show in watchlist: Sets the default period for which changes are displayed on the watchlist. The maximum is 90 days.
• Maximum number of changes to show in watchlist: Sets the maximum number of changes displayed on the watchlist. The maximum is 1000.

Advanced options

• Expand watchlist to show all changes, not just the most recent: Displays all changes to a watched page within the selected period instead of only the most recent change. This option is enabled by default.
• Add direct unwatch/watch markers (×/+) to watched pages with changes (JavaScript required for toggle functionality): Adds markers to changed watched pages for quickly adding or removing the page from the watchlist.

Direct watch and unwatch markers

Changes shown

These settings define the default filters for changes displayed on the watchlist:

• Hide minor edits from the watchlist
• Hide bot edits from the watchlist
• Hide my edits from the watchlist
• Hide edits by anonymous users from the watchlist
• Hide edits by logged in users from the watchlist

Watched pages

These settings determine which pages and files are automatically added to the watchlist.

• Add pages and files I edit to my watchlist
• Add pages and files I move to my watchlist
• Add pages I create and files I upload to my watchlist
• Add pages where I have performed a rollback to my watchlist
• Add new files I upload to my watchlist: enabled by default.
• Add pages and files I delete to my watchlist
  

When a corresponding dialog provides a Watch this page checkbox, these preferences determine whether the checkbox is selected by default. If no dialog is available, the page or file is added to the watchlist automatically according to the preference.

Preselected Watch this page checkbox

Token

• Watchlist token: Provides a secret key for accessing the watchlist through a web feed. The token can be viewed and reset.

SecurityAnyone who knows the watchlist token can read the watchlist. Do not share the token.

Extended search

Search areas

Preferred namespaces: Defines the namespaces that receive a higher priority in search results.

Search settings

• Enable search using a keyboard shortcut: Enables the keyboard shortcut Shift + 7 for opening the search.

Notifications

Notification preferences control which subscribed notifications are delivered through the wiki and, where configured, by email.

Notification subscriptions

Subscriptions can be configured for different types of events.
Page lifecycle events:

• Page created
• Page moved
• Page deleted
  

Recent activity:

• Page edited
• A new comment has been added to a page to which the user has subscribed via preferences
• Another user replied to a comment that the user has created or is watching

Page quality:

• Page approved

Some system notifications are sent regardless of notification subscriptions. For example, a notification is sent when a task is assigned to a user.
Notifications for watched pages are different: they depend on the notification subscriptions configured for the watchlist.

Notification channels

Notifications are always available in the wiki. Additional delivery channels can be configured where available.
Email settings include the frequency of email notifications:

• Instant
• Daily
• Weekly

An email address must be available in the user profile to receive email notifications.