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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
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.
A free open source tool to convert from CSV and Excel files to wiki table format: csv2other; Spreadsheet-to-MediaWiki-table-Converter This class constructs a MediaWiki-format table from an Excel/GoogleDoc copy & paste. It provides a variety of methods to modify the style. It defaults to a Wikipedia styling with first column header. [2]
The visual editor helps users format, insert, and edit sources by simply providing a DOI, URL, ISBN etc., see WP:REFVISUAL. The citation generation tool of the Visual Editor (WP:REFVISUAL) can also be used when editing the article source, for users who have enabled the 2017 wikitext editor in their preferences.
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 ...
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:
The References segregator tool can automatically convert all references to the list-defined format.; Use a regular expression search-and-replace operation to replace uses of <ref> tags with the {{}} template.
Many office suites, such as Microsoft Office and LibreOffice, are equipped with spelling and grammar checkers that are on by default.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.