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{{short description|List of tools and scripts for helping editors and readers}}
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{{see also|:Category:Wikipedia tools|Wikipedia:Tools/Optimum tool set{{!}}Optimum tool set}}
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{{nutshell|Listed below are various tools intended to simplify and increase efficiency of editing, and provide additional functionality to Wikipedians.}}
{{Editor tools}}

== Browsing and editing ==
{{See also|Wikipedia:Browser notes}}
[[File:WikEd screenshot.png|upright=1.6|thumb|[[User:Cacycle/wikEd|wikEd]] is a full-featured in-browser text editor for Wikipedia edit pages]]
* [[Wikipedia:Tools/Editing tools|Editing tools]], tools intended to provide enhanced editing functionality. Contains edit page tools, edit bots, spellcheckers, wikisyntax conversion utilities, etc.
* [[Wikipedia:Tools/Browser tools|Browser tools]], tools categorized by browser type
* [[Help:Citation tools|Citation tools]], tools for citing and referencing
* [[Wikipedia:Cleaning up vandalism/Tools|Anti-vandalism tools]], tools for patrolling and cleaning up Wikipedia
* [[Wikipedia:Tools/Alternative browsing|Alternative browsing]], alternatives to accessing Wikipedia through your web browser (mobile devices, desktop integration, alternate portals, etc.)
* [[Wikipedia:User scripts|User scripts]], a collection of JavaScript routines that add functionality to Wikipedia pages (e.g., regex search and replace, changing article formatting, and simplifying common tasks)
* [[User:Crazycomputers/WatchlistBot|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.
* [[Wikipedia:Tools/Navigation shortcuts|Navigation shortcuts]] offer the ability to add personal links to the sidebar, providing quick and easy access to favourite articles within Wikipedia.
* Finding duplicated references: a tool that will find references with the same URL on a page, with some false positives and missed items, is the [https://www.convertcsv.com/url-extractor.htm ''URL Extractor For Web Pages and Text'']. It is not a Wikipedia tool, and there may be other tools available for the purpose. Instructions on its use for Wikipedia are in [[WP:DUPREF]]. Such references can often usefully be merged, using <code><nowiki><ref name= xxx/></nowiki></code> for all except one.

== Searching ==
{{See also|Help:Searching#Custom search boxes|Category:Wikipedia search tools}}
* [https://vs.aka-online.de/globalwpsearch/ GlobalWPSearch], search across projects and show missing interlanguage links.
* [https://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/reference/wikipedia.html macOS Dashboard Widget] (deprecated)
* [[:toolforge:whichsub|whichsub]] finds transcluded templates of a given page which contain a given string.
* [https://edwardbetts.com/find_link/ Find Link Tool] Find links on Wikipedia. Tool created by Edward Betts.
* [[toolforge:global-search|Wikimedia Global Search]], perform [[Elasticsearch]]-based searches across the wikitext of all Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) wikis via [[Wikipedia:WMCS|WMCS]] [[Wikipedia:Toolforge|Toolforge]] and [[wikitech:CloudElastic|Cloud Elastic]] services. Due to potential for abuse of expensive long-running queries (e.g., [[denial-of-service attack|DoS attack]]), [[Wikipedia:SUL|SUL]] login is required.
* [[:toolforge:insource|Insource search]] is a handy tool that lets you find specific terms or regex patterns across all Wikimedia wikis. It generates a list of pages containing those terms, making it super useful for tasks like AWB/JWB and other search-related activities.

==Google tools==
:''Note: Google search results can be several days or even weeks out of date.''
* [https://citer.toolforge.org/ Citer for Google Books URL, DOI, ISBN, PMID, PMCID, OCLC] converts bare url into {{tl|cite book}} format. See also {{Section link|Help:Citation tools#Tools}}.
* [[WP:MIRROR|Mirrors of Wikimedia]] content can be filtered from Google search result pages in Firefox using the CustomizeGoogle extension.<ref>[http://customizegoogle.com CustomizeGoogle]</ref> See [[meta:Mirror filter]] for instructions and a filter list.

=== Google Slides ===
* [[meta:User:Tbayer (WMF)/Converting Google Slides to wikitext]] (tutorial)

=== Google Docs ===
* [[meta:User:Tbayer (WMF)/Converting Google Docs to wikitext]] (tutorial + Python script)

== Verification ==

* [https://verify.toolforge.org/ verify] Flags text that is potentially incorrect or uncited by comparing the information in the article to the text of its citations.

== Page histories ==

=== General ===
* [[User:Ixfd64/revision sizes]], [[R (programming language)|R]] program for visualizing revision sizes over time
* [[Wikipedia:Wiki2VCS]], script that loads histories onto one's computer, so that they can be quickly diffed and searched
* [https://xtools.wmflabs.org/articleinfo XTools Page History] Page statistics and visualization, provides sortable and exportable list of all contributors with number of edits and amount of added text. Provides also results of syntax and grammar checks and latest assessment history.

=== Finding the responsible user ===
* [http://wikipedia.ramselehof.de/wikiblame.php WikiBlame], searches for given text in versions of article
* [http://f-squared.org/whovisual/#color whoCOLOR], browser script for Grease/Tampermonkey, highlights original authors directly in the article, gets data from a publicly accessible API
* [https://xtools.wmflabs.org/blame XTools Blame], find edits that added the given wikitext
* [[mw:Who_Wrote_That%3F|Who Wrote That?]], browser extension for Chrome and Firefox, shows editor information for text as a user moves mouse over article text.

== User edit counts and analysis ==
{{see also|Category:Wikipedia contributor analysis tools}}
* [[:toolforge:sigma/usersearch.py|User contribution search]], finds all the edits by a user to a single page
* [[:toolforge:sigma/summary.py|Edit summary search]], find all the edits by a user such that their edit summary contains the specified string
* [http://vs.aka-online.de/cgi-bin/wppagehiststat.pl?lang=en.wikipedia Wikipedia Page History Statistics] Page history statistics by [[User:aka]], builds an edit history overview page
* [https://xtools.wmflabs.org/pages XTools Pages Created] – lists all pages created by a user (including deleted ones)
* [[:toolforge:afdstats|afdstats]] Analyse AfD !votes against the result
* [https://apersonbot.toolforge.org/afchistory/ Articles for Creation Review History].  This tool shows a list of a user's [[WP:AfC]] reviews.
* [https://observablehq.com/@pac02/user-level-gender-statistics-for-wikipedia?collection=@pac02/pages-created User-level gender statistics for Wikipedia] : gender statistics about the list of created articles. 
* [https://observablehq.com/@pac02/look-at-your-list-of-created-articles-through-wikidata?collection=@pac02/pages-created Look at your list of created articles through Wikidata.] 
* [https://observablehq.com/@pac02/look-at-your-list-of-created-articles-with-the-xtools-page-ap?collection=@pac02/pages-created Look at your list of created articles with the Xtools Page Prose API] 
* [https://observablehq.com/@pac02/map-your-created-articles Map your list of created articles through Wikidata.] 
* [https://streaks.toolforge.org/ Wiki streaks], look up a user's edit streak: how many consecutive days they've made an edit

==== Edit counters ====
{{See also|Wikipedia:WikiProject edit counters}}
* [https://xtools.wmflabs.org/ec XTools Edit Counter] A powerful and full-featured editor analysis tool.
* [[User:JamesR/AdminStats|Administrator Statistics for the English Wikipedia]] (updated daily)
* [[luxo:|User contributions]] ([[:de:Benutzer:Luxo|Luxo]]), find contributions on enwiki and other Wikimedia sites
* [https://xtools.wmflabs.org/adminstats XTools AdminStats] Shows statistics of admin actions, broken down into individual actions, arbitrary period selectable

==== User interaction analysis ====
{{See also|Wikipedia:Tools/User interaction investigations}}
* [[:toolforge:sigma/editorinteract.py|Editor Interaction Analyzer]] compares the edits of two to three specified [[Wikipedia:Editors|editors]] to see which articles overlap, sorted by minimum time between edits by both users. Only works on the English Wikipedia.  Speed: slow.
* [[:toolforge:intersect-contribs|Intersect Contribs]], compares the edits of two to eight editors at any WMF wiki to see which articles overlap.  Speed: fast.
* [[:toolforge:ptools/intertwined.php|Intertwined contributions]], merges the contributions of two editors at any WMF wiki into a single list.  Speed: fast. (Currently not working: error connecting to database.)
* [[:toolforge:interaction-timeline|Interaction Timeline]] a chronological history of two users' across pages where they both made edits.

=== Visualization ===
* [//cosmiclattes.github.io/wikireplay/player Wiki Replay], see [[m:Grants:IEG/Replay Edits]] and [[wm2014:Submissions/Replay Edits]] for more details.
* [[:de:Benutzer:Atlasowa/edit history visualization]]

== Importing (converting) content to Wikipedia (MediaWiki) format ==
{{See also|Wikipedia:How to import articles|commons:Commons:Chart and graph resources|Wikipedia:Tools/Editing tools#Wikisyntax conversion utilities|Help:Table#Converting spreadsheets and database tables to wikitable format}}

=== Google Docs Spreadsheet ===
* [//marianogappa.github.io/mediawiki-table-utility/ MediaWiki Table Utility] or this updated version 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 Wikipedia styling with first column header.<ref>[http://article.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/55686 Enhanced Spreadsheet to WikiMedia table Converter proposed]</ref>

=== Microsoft Office ===

==== Word ====

===== 2007 and later =====
* [//www.microsoft.com/download/details.aspx?id=12298 Microsoft Office Word Add‑in For MediaWiki]. For '''Microsoft Word 2007 or 2010'''. (Not Supported from Version Word 2013)

===== Prior versions =====
* For other Macros, see [[mw:Word macros]], Visual Basic macros to use within Microsoft Word to prepare content to be pasted into a Wikipedia page.
* [[User:Cacycle/wikEd|wikEd]], a full-featured in-browser text editor for Wikipedia edit pages that can convert text and tables pasted from Microsoft Word with a button click

==== Excel ====
* [[:toollabs:excel2wiki|excel2wiki]]: Copy & Paste Excel-to-Wiki Converter
* [[:toollabs:magnustools/tab2wiki.php|tab2wiki]]: Converts tables (tab-delimited, e.g. copied from Excel) to Wikitext tables
* [[:de:Wikipedia:Technik/Text/Basic/EXCEL-Tabellenumwandlung/en]]: 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
* [[SourceForge:projects/csv2other/|csv2other]]: a free open source tool, in .net, to convert CSV and EXCEL files to wiki table format

=== OpenOffice/LibreOffice ===
*[[LibreOffice Writer]] is free. It can open almost any file format. It can export to Mediawiki: '''File menu > export > save as type > MediaWiki.''' It will save the file as a .txt file which can be opened with any text editor. Copy the wiki code from the text file. You can save any web page as an HTML file, and then open it in LibreOffice Writer. Edit as needed. Remove the parts you don't want. Keep only tables for example. Then export to MediaWiki. Tables can be further edited in [[LibreOffice Calc]]. See: [[commons:Commons:Convert tables and charts to wiki code or image files|Commons:Convert tables and charts to wiki code or image files]]. And: [[Help:Table]] and the section on spreadsheets and the Visual Editor.

=== HTML ===
* [[mw:Extension:Html2Wiki|Html2Wiki]] is an extension for MediaWiki that imports HTML

=== Python ===
* [[mw:Manual:Pywikipediabot/table2wiki.py|Table2wiki.py]] part of the Pywikipedia bot framework, [[tools:~dispenser/view/Pywikipedia|web port]]

=== LaTeX ===
* [[User:Jmath666/latex2wiki]], LaTeX to Wikicode translation tool

=== CSV ===
* [[Wikipedia:CSVLoader|CSVLoader]] is an [[WP:AWB|AutoWikiBrowser]] plug-in that allows creating and updating articles using [[Comma-separated values|CSV data files]].

=== Many formats ===
* [[Pandoc]] is a universal document converter

== Export: Conversion to other formats ==
* [[Help:Export]], [[Special:Export]] – XML
* [[Special:Book]] – PDF
* [[mw:Alternative parsers]] – various, including HTML and XML
* [http://wikitable2csv.ggor.de wikitable2csv] – CSV
* [[mw:Extension:TextExtracts]] – HTML or plain text; without links
* [[meta:User:Tbayer (WMF)/Converting wiki pages to plaintext emails]] – text
* [http://mediawiki2latex.wmcloud.org/ MediaWiki to LaTeX] – PDF, EPub, Odt or LaTeX
* [//wordpress.org/plugins/wiki-embed/ Wiki Embed Plugin] – WordPress

== Geotagging-related tools ==

{{See also|Wikipedia:Obtaining geographic coordinates}}
* [[:User:Teslaton/Tools/GeoLocator|GeoLocator]], Wikipedia compatible geotagging metadata generator and coordinate editor

== Gadget developers ==

Tools for gadget devs:
* [http://wikipedia.ramselehof.de/wikiblame.php Wikiblame] – use for searching when some function or option was introduced.
* [[Wikipedia:Wiki-to-Git|Wiki-to-Git]] – download JS/CSS history to Git which you can then use for gadget development as well as use git blame and other standard development tools.
* [[Wikipedia:Wikiploy|Wikiploy]] – use to deploy gadgets to Wikipedia, Meta and other MediaWiki sites.
* [https://global-search.toolforge.org/ Global Search] – use to check global usage of gadgets, functions etc.
* Browser tools:
** [https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/devtools-user/ Firefox DevTools User Docs] – JS debugger, CSS editor etc...
** [https://developer.chrome.com/docs/devtools/ Chrome DevTools].

== Other ==
* [[Wikipedia:Syndication|Syndication]], RSS feeds, etc.
* Researching Wikipedia: [[Wikipedia:Researching Wikipedia#Category:Wikipedia tools|Tools for data analysis]]
* [[Wikipedia:Tools/Not English|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!
** Note: Checkinks is buggy use with caution. Consider using instead Internet Archive Bot which can be found in the History tab of any page: [https://iabot.wmcloud.org/iabot/index.php?page=runbotsingle&pagesearch=Wikipedia:Tools "Fix dead links"] – login does not require a password.
* [[WP:WikiBiff|WikiBiff]], To alert users when they have new messages waiting on their talk pages
* [[User:Svick/DW|Desktop Watchlist]], Enhanced watchlist for Windows
* [[User:Svick/CW|Category Watchlist]], Watching additions and removals to categories
* [[User:CategoryWatchlistBot|CategoryWatchlistBot]], Watch category and/or template additions/removals, supports partial name matches and subcategories
* [//petscan.wmflabs.org/ PetScan] ([//meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/PetScan/en manual]), searches categories recursively. Will find subcategories that overlap with other categories, templates, etc.
* [[User:SuggestBot]] for suggested articles you might like to edit
* [[Wikipedia:Tools/RAMP editor|RAMP editor]]: can generate enhanced [[Authority control|authority records]] for creators of archival collections
* [[:toolforge:xtools/echo|XEcho]] Shows your global cross-wiki notifications from 800+ wikis at a glance
* [[quarry:]], a place to run queries on databases of Wikimedia projects
* [[Wikipedia:MTC!|MTC!]], A tool that makes it easy to transfer files to Commons ''en&nbsp;masse''.
* [http://www.cab.i24.cc/projects/wikieditor/ Wiki Editor Plugin] for [[Notepad++]] 32-bit (x86) – a free source code editor.
* [https://packagecontrol.io/packages/Mediawiker MediaWiker Plugin] for [[Sublime Text]]. MediaWiki syntax highlighting and editing capabilities.
* [https://www.tablesgenerator.com/mediawiki_tables MediaWiki Tables Generator (online)]
* [[Wikipedia:Get my IP address]]

== See also ==
* [[Wikipedia:Database download]] (for code useful for dealing with offline dumps)
* [[Wikipedia:Scripts]]
* [[Wikipedia:Tools/Optimum tool set]] (Firefox optimization)
* [[Wikipedia:Cleaning up vandalism/Tools]]
* [[Wikipedia:Link rot#Tools|Wikipedia:Link rot §&nbsp;Tools]]
* [[Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts#Installing|Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts §&nbsp;Installing]] (How to install user scripts)
* [[Help:Text editor support]]
*{{tl|Editor tools}}
* [[meta:Help:User style]]
* [[toolforge:|Toolforge]]
* [[meta:Toolserver/Projects]]
* [[meta:Open Source Toolset]]
* [[meta:User:Duesentrieb/Tools]]
* [[commons:Commons:Convert tables and charts to wiki code or image files|Commons:Convert tables and charts to wiki code or image files]]

== References ==
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