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A good stand-alone spell checker for English Wikipedia pages is Inspyder InSite. (The free version is good enough for fixing Wikipedia articles.) The macOS universal spell checker is available in Wikipedia's "edit this page" mode while using Safari and in theory any other Cocoa-based browser.
Find Link Tool Find links on Wikipedia. Tool created by Edward Betts. Wikimedia Global Search, perform Elasticsearch-based searches across the wikitext of all Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) wikis via WMCS Toolforge and Cloud Elastic services. Due to potential for abuse of expensive long-running queries (e.g., DoS attack), SUL login is required.
Tools have become more versatile, and there are more tools to choose from to do all kinds of things that can make your time on Wikipedia (and beyond) more productive. This collection of tools is not intended to be comprehensive, but serves as a guide to some of the most useful tools, whether they happen to be programs, extensions, userscripts ...
Editing Wikipedia articles using a full-fledged text editor is often more convenient than a web browser's standard text area. Text editors provide facilities that are very useful for writing and editing articles (especially long articles), such as spell checking, search and replace, macros, syntax highlighting, and alphabetic sorting.
Wikipedia:HTML 5 – information page on technical details of updating WP code to HTML 5 + CSS3, including how to replace deprecated HTML 4.01 markup; includes automated searches for obsolete markup Wikipedia:Linter – MediaWiki extension to identify broken and problematic markup which cannot be fixed automatically by the server
Open the Wikipedia article, select "edit" from the menu atop the page or section, select and copy the article source, paste it into a Word or Writer document, follow the red (spelling) and green (grammar) markers, and correct mistakes as necessary. To enable spellchecking in Microsoft Word, go to the Tools menu and enable "Grammar and ...
TeX is the math typesetting software (mostly) installed on the wikipedia. Even if you don't edit math, the math font can be used to greatly improve the legibility of Greek text which us non-Greeks find hard to read in san-serif, with all the little shapely clues removed.
Check the box labelled "Citation expander: automatically expand and format citations using Citation bot" The gadget will add missing data to citations using citation templates, and makes corrections to their formatting using the logic of Citation bot. The tool is activated on whichever page you are viewing, via one of two methods: