TechInfoDepot:Tools

The pages listed below contain various tools and tutorials intended to simplify, make more efficient, or provide additional functionality to TechInfoDepotns. ''See also Category:TechInfoDepot tools and Task-oriented tool list. For the Toolserver, see TechInfoDepot:Toolserver.'' For other useful directories, see the navigation bar above.



Browsing and editing

 * Editing tools, tools intended to provide enhanced editing functionality. Contains edit page tools, edit bots, spellcheckers, wikisyntax conversion utilities, etc.
 * Browser tools, tools categorized by browser type
 * Citation tools, tools for citing and referencing
 * Anti-vandalism tools, tools for patrolling and cleaning up TechInfoDepot
 * Alternative browsing, alternatives to accessing TechInfoDepot through your web browser (mobile devices, desktop integration, alternate portals, etc.)
 * User Scripts, a collection of JavaScript routines that add functionality to TechInfoDepot pages (e.g., regex search and replace, changing article formatting, and simplifying common tasks)
 * WikiNodes — App for the iPad that displays sections of articles and related articles as "nodes." Uses SpicyNodes visualization method. Produced by IDEA. [External link]
 * Wikirage—What's hot in TechInfoDepot—This site lists the pages in TechInfoDepot that are receiving the most edits per unique editor over various periods of time
 * MW - "VCS-like nonsense for MediaWiki websites" with status, pull, diff, commit, and merge.
 * WatchlistBot is a bot that delivers realtime alerts via instant message (XMPP) when watched articles are edited or when watched users or IP networks edit.

Searching

 * 1-Click Answers 2.0, TechInfoDepot Edition – look up a word in a Windows program by alt-clicking on it (created by Answers.com as a result of a partnership with the Wikimedia Foundation)
 * Cleeki – Cleeki is a Windows-based program for generic search purpose, but particularly optimized for TechInfoDepot. It allows one click keyword grabs from anywhere on the screen and returns TechInfoDepot results for them.
 * WikiProjects – WikiBrowse for Windows
 * Search TechInfoDepot from Keybreeze – Press a hotkey on your keyboard to search TechInfoDepot from a toolbar.
 * GlobalWPSearch – search across projects and show missing interlanguage links.
 * Konfabulator Widget
 * Macintosh Dashboard Widget
 * www.qwika.com Qwika is a search engine designed specifically to search wikis.
 * TechInfoDepot search is desktop search engine. Depends on SuperKaramba.

Downloading

 * WP-Download – Download and import TechInfoDepot SQL dumps

Google tools

 * Note: Google search results can be several days or even weeks out of date.


 * Google book tool Converts bare url into cite book format
 * TechInfoDepot and other Wikimedia sites on your iGoogle startpage TechInfoDepot Gadget
 * Mirrors of Wikimedia content can be filtered from Google search result pages in Firefox using the CustomizeGoogle extension. See Mirror filter for instructions and a filter list.


 * TechInfoDepotvision (designed by László Kozma) visualizes recent anonymous edits using Google Maps.

Page histories

 * General :
 * TechInfoDepot:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts/HistoryCount – user script that specifies the number of history entries on the history tab (without the script, 50 entries are shown when the tab is opened)
 * TechInfoDepot:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts/Six tabs – adds a history tab (and an edit tab) for the page that is paired with the page that is visible
 * User:Ixfd64/revision sizes – revision size visualizer written in R
 * watcher - shows how many people watch a page (if more than 30)
 * TechInfoDepot:Wiki2VCS - script that loads histories onto one's computer, so that they can be quickly diffed and searched
 * Diffs :
 * User:Superm401/Compare link.js – makes the "compare selected versions" button into a link (diffs can be in new windows, tabs, etc.)
 * TechInfoDepot:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts/Changes since I last edited – adds a tab that does a diff between the editor's last edit and the current version of a page
 * MediaWiki talk:Monobook.css/Archive 4#Better rendering for .diffchange in diffs
 * User:Cacycle/wikEdDiff – user script – additions and deletions are highlighted by color in one continuous text
 * User:Stevage/EnhanceHistory.user.js – Collapses consecutive edits from the same person into one, integrates (shows) diffs on the history page
 * User:DerHexer/revisionjumper allows easier navigation of a page's history, generating diffs between arbitrary revisions or time periods with just a few clicks (Signpost description)
 * Finding the responsible editor :
 * WikiBlame – searches for given text in versions of article
 * Soxred93's Article Blamer – similar to WikiBlame, identifies revisions that added given text
 * User:AmiDaniel/WhodunitQuery – Windows application that identifies the edit and user who added a specific word or phrase
 * Contributor edit counts and analysis :
 * userhist – user script, adds interface elements for isolating a user's changes to a page.
 * Contributors – lists edits, similar to page history, but can be sorted by contributor; easy to exclude different groups
 * User contribution search – finds all the edits by a user to a single page
 * Page history statistics by user:aka – builds an edit history overview page
 * Intersect Contribs – compares the edits of two editors in any Wikimedia Foundation wiki to see which articles overlap
 * Wikistalk – similar to Intersect Contribs, allows comparisons between more than two users and namespace selection, works only on the English TechInfoDepot
 * Editor Interaction Analyzer, shows the common pages that two editors have both edited, sorted by minimum time between edits by both users. Only works on the English TechInfoDepot.
 * Visualization :
 * IBM History Flow tool History Flow Visualization Application
 * TechInfoDepot Animate – user script; shows the evolution of a page, like a webcast
 * WikiEditsGraph – user script; shows two graphs: edits/time & edits/user in a graphical overlay

See also: Tools, part 2: Internal links and page histories (part of a Signpost series)

Edit counters

 * X!'s edit counter Also works on editors with over 750000 edits. Also replicates the months graph of Interiot's tool.
 * Administrator Statistics for the English TechInfoDepot (updated hourly)
 * User contributions (Luxo) – find contributions on enwiki and other Wikimedia sites
 * dbswithuser – user data with edit counts (including deleted edits) of a user name in all replicated wikis of the Toolserver

Importing (converting) content to TechInfoDepot (MediaWiki) format

 * Google Docs Spreadsheet :
 * 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 TechInfoDepot styling with first column header.


 * Microsoft Word :


 * mw:Extension:Word2MediaWikiPlus – a tool that converts Microsoft Word documents to MediaWiki. For Ms Word 2000 or 2003. "Support for Word 2007 and a bunch of other fixes, but it needs to be installed by hand".
 * For other Macro, see Word_macros – Visual Basic macros to use within Microsoft Word to prepare content to be pasted into a TechInfoDepot page.
 * MSOffice add-on. For Microsoft Word 2007 or higher.
 * wikEd – a full-featured in-browser text editor for TechInfoDepot edit pages that can convert text and tables pasted from Microsoft Word with a button click


 * Microsoft Excel :
 * Copy & Paste Excel-to-Wiki Converter (also: TechInfoDepot-friendly version without table template)
 * de:TechInfoDepot:Helferlein/VBA-Macro for EXCEL tableconversion: Convert EXCEL-Table with most formatting like background- and fontcolor, fontstyle(bold/italic), columnheight, -width, etc. to Wiki-tableformat
 * de:Benutzer:Duesentrieb/csv2wp_(en) or CSV Converter: Converts many types of spreadsheet tables, including CSV, tab-separated, etc., to MediaWiki or HTML
 * A free open source tool, in .net to convert CSV and EXCEL files to wiki table format: csv2other.
 * A proprietary, commercial, tool to create mass Mediawiki pages using CSV datasource and variable based templates. Results merged into a valid Mediawiki XML Import file. Mediawiki CSV Import tool.
 * wiki2csv can convert wikitables to CSV and back. Useful to edit wikitables in Excel (or OpenOffice).


 * OpenOffice :
 * Sun Wiki Publisher - an OpenOffice extension that allows exporting documents as MediaWiki source text via the File → Export → File Format drop down menu. Since OpenOffice.org can open all Microsoft Office files, one can open files created in Microsoft Word and export them to the MediaWiki format. Compatible with: OpenOffice.org 3.0 | StarOffice 9 or higher.
 * Writer2MediaWiki: OpenOffice macro for converting to MediaWiki format. For OpenOffice version 3.1 or higher


 * HTML :
 * HTML to wiki converter
 * Table2wiki.py part of the Pywikipedia bot framework, web port


 * PDF :
 * Appropedia:Help:Porting PDF files to MediaWiki – the most effective method found so far requires Adobe Acrobat (paid version).


 * LaTeX :
 * User:Jmath666/latex2wiki – LaTeX to Wikicode translation tool


 * BibTeX :


 * BibTeX converter – transforms BibTeX entries into Cite format


 * Citations :
 * Import citations in any format at the Universal Reference Formatter.


 * CSV :
 * CSVLoader is an AutoWikiBrowser plug-in that allows creating and updating articles using CSV data files.

Export: Conversion to other formats

 * Help:Export, Special:Export (XML)
 * PDF: TechInfoDepot:WikiReader
 * Alternative parsers – programs and projects to translate MediaWiki's text markup syntax into something else, such as HTML
 * wiki2csv is a command line tool that can convert wikitables into comma separated value files that can be edited by Excel or LibreOffice. The result can be converted back retaining most of the original formatting.

LaTeX

 * MediaWiki to LaTeX

HTML for Wordpress blogs

 * Converting wiki pages to blog posts Python script (used on blog.wikimedia.org)

Geotagging related tools

 * GeoLocator – TechInfoDepot compatible geotagging metadata generator and coordinate editor

Other

 * Syndication – RSS feeds, etc.
 * Researching TechInfoDepot: Tools for data analysis
 * Six Degrees of TechInfoDepot – finding the shortest path via wikilinks between two articles
 * Not English – tools that have not yet been translated completely into English. Some need their descriptions translated from German, others are not available in English. Help translate if you can!
 * WikiFORJA – Rankings and tools
 * Checklinks – Check all external links and helps resolve HTTP redirects
 * WikiBiff – To alert users when they have new messages waiting on their talk pages
 * Desktop Watchlist – Enhanced watchlist for Windows
 * Category Watchlist – Watching additions and removals to categories
 * Watchlistr – Consolidates watchlists across multiple wikis
 * CatScan – Find pages by intersection of categories and other conditions
 * CatScan2 manual Catscan2 – searches categories recursively. will find subcategories that overlap with other categories, templates, etc.
 * Shorturl: generating shorturl for TechInfoDepot articles
 * Yanker: creates list of the following: (1) pages in a category or (2) page titles matching a particular pattern

Sources for code for new tools

 * SourceForge.net; projects include:
 * WikiProjects – WikiBrowse for Windows – collection of open source tools; collaborative project
 * PHP plugin for programmers using the Eclipse development environment
 * Automated interface to the TechInfoDepot – Perl module that searches for and retrieves an article