Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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 .
A Wikipedia Toolbar Button is also available for the Google Toolbar for Internet browsers (Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox) allowing direct searches from the search box or from highlighting any text on any page. It also displays the most recent pages added in a menu.
Do not provide your email address or any other contact information. Answers will be provided on this page only. If your question is about a Wikipedia article, draft article, or other page on Wikipedia, tell us what it is! Check back on this page to see if your question has been answered. For real-time help, use our IRC help channel, #wikipedia ...
Wikipedia gets own server, running English Wikipedia and after a bit meta, with rewritten PHP software. Runs both the database and the web server on one machine. One of Bomis's servers continues to host some of the other languages on UseModWiki, but most of the active ones are gradually moved over to the other server during this period.
Wikipedia Toolbar is an add-on (extension) for Mozilla Firefox. It speeds up Wikipedia navigation by making the most common Wikipedia page functions always accessible from a fixed location in your browser window. This eliminates the need to scroll around the pages themselves in order to find and click on navigational links.
Connect to a different internet or network connection (such as your mobile device's LTE or data service, or a different WiFi connection). If you're currently on a work, public, school, or shared internet connection that may be behind a proxy filter, use your home or other internet connection that is open and not behind a proxy server [ notes 1 ] .
Type the '@' key into the search bar. Type the keyword for Wikipedia (by default it's '@wikipedia') Press tab once the box to the left of the search bar automatically fills with the Wikipedia logo and "Wikipedia." You should now have one search on Wikipedia through the search bar by means of they keyword.
Two editing toolbars are offered that will span the top of the edit box. (Wikipedia:Reftoolbar shows versions.) "Show edit toolbar" is the legacy 1.0 version that gives a row of buttons. (See m:help:Edit toolbar for details.) "Enable enhanced editing toolbar" gives a frame with icons. It is a default feature that can be turned off.