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To create a link to your contributions page, click on My Preferences. In the Signature heading, there is a checkbox labeled Treat the above as wiki markup. Check this box, and then type into the "Signature" field: [[User:(your name)|(your name)]] ([[User talk:(your name)|talk]]) ([[Special:Contributions/(your name)|contribs]]) and click "Save ...
Extremely long signatures with a lot of HTML/wiki markup make page editing and discussion more difficult for the following reasons: Signatures that take up more than two or three lines in the edit window clutter the page and make it harder to distinguish posts from signatures. Long signatures give undue prominence to a given user's contribution.
Signatures are the text that appears before the timestamp when you put ~~~~ on a page. Signatures are customised using "my preferences" under "User profile"; consider these guidelines when customising your signature. You can use any wikitext as your signature (simply check the "Treat the above as wiki markup" box).
Once at your Preferences page, you can control much of the Wikipedia user interface through the many feature settings provided by MediaWiki (the software of Wikipedia): skins, plug-ins, date formats, a signature, and more. For example, you can select to be prompted to enter an edit summary if you forget to.
List of file signatures. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. This is a list of file signatures, data used to identify or verify the content of a file. Such signatures are also known as magic numbers or Magic Bytes.
Account settings. Customize your Wikipedia experience. Change your preferences. Change your signature. Change your username. Confirm your email address. Delete your account. Log in (troubleshooting) User page help.
Open your preferences, and check the "Treat the above as wiki markup " checkbox - this allows you to fully customise your signature to your own liking. Read and go through WP:CUSTOMSIG to get started. Take your time and have fun with it. Be sure not to use excessive markup for accessibility reasons. You can use your sandbox to test markup as well.
If you're a registered editor, you have a My Preferences page, where you can change a number of settings that control how Wikipedia's pages look on your screen. The link to My Preferences is in your screen's upper-right corner, when you're logged in. The My Preferences page has 11 tabs, as shown in Figure 20-1.