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To set Wikipedia as the default search engine, click on the dropdown menu under "Default Search Engine" and select Wikipedia. To trigger the keyword search: Type the '@' key into the search bar. Type the keyword for Wikipedia (by default it's '@wikipedia')
Below are some alternatives to Wikipedia's Main Page.Some serve a special need, while the rest provide a change in style. To use these instead of the default Main Page, access them from here, set one as your web browser's home page or set one or more up as links on your browser's toolbar.
Occasionally this caching scheme goes awry (e.g. the browser insists on showing out-of-date content) making it necessary to bypass the cache, thus forcing your browser to re-download a web page's complete, up-to-date content. This is sometimes referred to as a "hard refresh", "cache refresh", or "uncached reload".
If the page has recently been deleted: the deletion report (who deleted it, when and why). If the page was deleted after 23 December 2004 (the date of the MediaWiki 1.4 upgrade), all deletions and restorations will appear. If the page has not been restored yet: the deleted page history. To undelete all revisions, simply press the Restore button.
Every time a wiki page is edited, and changes were actually made, a record is kept of the difference. For example, a page history shows the revisions for that particular page. But recent changes can report on more than just the revisions of a page, or an entire wiki, they can also report on the recent changes of an editor (their contributions).
Using a different page to carry out dedicated searches, such as Special:Search, which has the cursor in the search box, or , which has the cursor in the search box and should default to the English-language Wikipedia if that is the browser's preferred language; Adding Wikipedia to a web browser, if it has a search bar. Readers using Firefox ...
If the link on the "Activation Page" does not restore default access to the Wikipedia Mobile Web Interface (Mobile View), delete Wikipedia's cookies to restore default access by completing the following steps on an iPhone: Close any Wikipedia pages you may have open in the web browser (you may also need to force Safari closed)
Wikiwand - browser extension for Google Chrome and Firefox. Kiwix - offline reader for Wikipedia and its other Wikimedia sister projects. Available for Android, Linux, iOS, Mac OS X, Windows. GoldenDict - multiplatform dictionary browser with native support for Wikipedia, Wiktionary, the Wikimedia projects, and any MediaWiki-based website.