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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')
Paste the following code into your common.js page and the main page will be changed to the Classic 2006 main page alternative. You have to be logged on for this to work. If you would like a different main page alternative instead, simply change the page title in the code to that of the main page alternative you desire.
Open page history in browser — Opens the page history in the default browser. Open text selection in browser — Allows the selected text to be opened as an page, as if it were a wikilink; Replace text with last edit — If page saving fails, for example because of a timeout, use this option when the page has reloaded to restore the edit box ...
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).
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. (Experimental Kiwix zim support is in git master.) Distracted Reader – Browser extension for Firefox and Chrome for fast search and exploration.
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".
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 ...
I'm not sure what's causing your difficulties. What are the circumstances (browser versus mobile app, etc.)? — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼 02:26, 8 July 2024 (UTC) I'm using Google Chrome on PC (Windows 10), settings should all be default (as I use Wikipedia in incognito so any cookies reset every day and every time I close the browser).