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To speed things up and conserve communications bandwidth, browsers attempt to keep local copies of pages, images, and other content you've visited, so that it need not be downloaded again later. 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 ...
There are basically two type of pictures (images, files, pics, etc.) that are used here on Wikipedia: Free images; Non-free images; A free image is an image that can be freely used anywhere on Wikipedia. A free image may be either public domain, or released under a free license, such as CC-BY-SA. Free images can be used in any article where ...
To get Wikipedia search results while on any web page, you can temporarily set your browser's (web-based) search box to interface the Wikipedia search engine and land on Wikipedia's search results page. This trick removes the need to first navigate to Wikipedia from a web page, and then do the search or navigation. It is a temporary change, and ...
To view or search images previously uploaded directly to English Wikipedia, go to the list of uploaded images. Uploads and deletions are logged on the upload log. Many images can be categorized in one of the subcategories of Category:Wikipedia images by subject or its parent category Category:Wikipedia images. You may want to check there to see ...
In the Wikipedia database, each page is assigned a "random index", which is a random floating point number uniformly distributed between 0 (inclusive) and 1 (exclusive). The "random article" feature (Special:Random) chooses a random double-precision floating-point number , and returns the next article whose random index is greater than the ...
To reveal and display an individual image on a Wikipedia page, simply click on the checkerboard pattern. You can simply reload the page in order to re-hide the images. To turn this entire feature off, simply undo the changes you made when you followed the instructions above.
Select any page in the list to go to that page. Or, select the "Search" button, or press ↵ Enter, to go to a full search result. For advanced searches, see Help:Searching. There are other ways to browse and explore Wikipedia articles; many can be found at Wikipedia:Contents. See our disclaimer for cautions about Wikipedia's limitations.