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You do not need to click Save on every tab on the Preferences page, as the Save button affects all changes on all Preferences tabs. [1] You can go from tab to tab setting all your preferences before saving, because Save remembers your changes on the other tabs. To forget unsaved changes, simply leave the page without saving.
Customize your Wikipedia experience Change your preferences Change your signature Change your username Confirm your email address Delete your account Log in (troubleshooting) User page help User page design Customizing your display with CSS (advanced web design knowledge required)
Wikipedia has a surprising number of ways that you can modify its appearance when you view it. If you're a registered editor, you have a My Preferences page, where you can change a number of settings that control how Wikipedia's pages look on your screen. The link to My Preferences is in your screen's upper-right corner, when you're logged in.
To prevent the browser from remembering your username and suggesting it to the next user of the computer, remember to delete the Wikipedia cookies in your browser's privacy settings. Especially if you are using a public computer, you may want to delete all of the browser's recent history ( Ctrl + ⇧ Shift + Del in Firefox ).
When Firefox displays a menu bar, from the "Edit" or "Tools" menu, choose "Preferences" or "Options". Select the "Advanced" section, and go to the "Network" tab. Click the button called "Clear Now". Then click "OK". In SeaMonkey and later versions of Netscape, choose Edit Preferences…, expand the
On the default skin, the button to restore default settings changes doesn't look like a button. On first glance, it looks like a warning explaining that the Save button will restore all settings to default! Adding a thin border around the button would make it far clearer that it's actually a separate button.
There is the Help Menu and Help Directory for a listing of help related pages. Wikipedia:Directory: a descriptive list of Wikipedia's directories and indexes. Wikipedia:FAQ: a list of Frequently Asked Questions. Wikipedia:Questions: discusses how to ask questions on Wikipedia. Wikipedia:Tips: how to use Wikipedia in bite-sized morsels.
You can edit Wikipedia articles to your heart's content—for the rest of your life even—without ever registering with Wikipedia. But the sooner you register (that is, get a user name), the sooner you'll have the benefits of a user account—like being able to create entirely new articles and to monitor changes to articles.