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The purpose of this page is to help users of Wikipedia solve problems they may encounter when browsing or editing. Note: If you're trying to get help for a specific technical problem that isn't answered by the FAQs, try asking at Wikipedia:Troubleshooting or at the Village pump.
Click on "Clear browsing data…" (Shortcut: Ctrl+⇧ Shift+Del). Select the types of data you want to clear, and include "Cached images and files" option. If you would like to keep the data in your cache but test Wikipedia without using it, you can use the private browsing option. To disable the cache:
There are basically two type of pictures (images, files, pics, etc.) that are used here on Wikipedia: Free images; Non-free images; A free image is an image that can be freely used anywhere on Wikipedia. A free image may be either public domain, or released under a free license, such as CC-BY-SA. Free images can be used in any article where ...
in the Image namespace (Image description pages): the image itself, the image history and the list of pages linking to the image; in the Category namespace: the lists of subcategories and pages in the category. Information in the wikitext but not in the webpage: comments (even though HTML also allows comments) See also XML export.
XOWA is a free, open-source application that helps download Wikipedia to a computer. Access all of Wikipedia offline, without an internet connection! It is currently in the beta stage of development, but is functional. It is available for download here.
Wikipedia search can now be accessed by entering your shortcut in the address bar followed by space then your search word(s). Using the example above, typing wiki followed by space followed by main page and then the enter / return key will cause Edge to perform a search for Main Page on wikipedia.org and take you to that page.
See Wikipedia:Database download. Note that downloading the database dumps is much preferred over trying to spider the entire site. Spidering the site will take you much longer, and puts a lot of load on the server (especially if you ignore our robots.txt and spider over billions of combinations of diffs and whatnot). Heavy spidering can lead to ...
Most images in Wikipedia articles are scaled down thumbnails. A reader of an article can click on the thumbnail, or on the small double-rectangle icon (if present) next to the caption, to see the corresponding file page and the image at a larger size. From the file description page, click the image again to see it at maximum size.