PESWiki:Tools

From PESWiki

See also Category:PESWiki tools and Browser tools

The pages listed below contain various PESWiki tools and tutorials intended to simplify, make more efficient, or provide additional functionality to PESWikins.

Browsing and editing

Browser tools

Tools intended to enhance browser functions as related to PESWiki; contains bookmarklets, user scripts, browser extensions, etc.

• Wiki Toolbar http://wikipedia.mozdev.org/
  • The extension (version 0.8.* or higher) works with all websites that use the MediaWiki software.

Editing tools

Tools intended to provide enhanced editing functionality; contains edit bots, spellcheckers, wikisyntax conversion utilities, etc.

For the more technically inclined, Wiki markup is a simple way of formatting a wiki page; it works. However, many would-be users of MediaWiki are put off by what looks to them—rightly—to be code of any sort. These users are adjusted to publishing and editing in a more visually straightforward WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) environment. The metaphor WYSIWYG is most often used, but in case of mediawiki false, you can never get exactly what you see, since what you get depends on your browser, screen resolution, fonts, your mediawiki skin and so on. WYSIWYM (What You See Is What You Mean) is more precise but rare.

PESWiki:Syndication

RSS feeds, etc.

RSS

• Recent changes (RSS Feeds)
• New Pages (RSS Feeds)

Atom

• Recent changes (Atom (1.0))
• New Pages (Atom (1.0))

User Scripts

Not English

Some tools need their descriptions translated from German; others are not available in English. Help translate if you can!

External interfaces

See PESWiki:Bots for more

Searching

The quickest way to find information here is to look it up directly. On the left-hand side of your screen there is a Search box with two buttons under it labeled "Go" and "Search". It's possible, due to a different skin or unusual display device, that the search box will not be on the left. Just look around a bit, you'll find it. Just type something into the box, like Testatika, and press enter or click the Go button. This will take you directly to PESWiki article on Testatika. There you will most likely find answers to every question you ever had about this electrostatic machines, and quite a few you didn't. If you have any problems, the rest of this article suggests ways to solve them.

Page histories

Edit counters

See WikiProject edit counters

Google tools

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

• Mirrors of PESWiki 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.

Import: Conversion from other formats

Microsoft Word

• Word2MediaWikiPlus: Converts text, tables and pictures into wiki format.

Microsoft EXCEL

• Helferlein/VBA-Macro_for_EXCEL_tableconversion: Convert EXCEL-Table with most formatting like background- abd fontcolor, fontstyle(bold/italic), columnheight, -width, etc. to Wiki-tableformat.

Export: Conversion to other formats

• PDF tools are listed on WikiReader.

Internet Explorer alpha transparency

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

See also

• Help:User style
• PESWiki:Toolserver
• PESWiki:Toolserver/Projects
• PESWiki:Statistics
• PESWiki:Template messages - Useful templates
• PESWiki:Database download for code useful for dealing with offline dumps
• PESWiki:Scripts
• PESWiki:User Tools
• PESWiki:Starter toolset
• PESWiki:Firefox Tools (Firefox optimization)