Wiktionary:Preferences

On this page, you can set your browser-specific English Wiktionary preferences.

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Page layout Hide the Wiktionary site logo
Hide the site notice
Translate sidebar interwiki links to English
Indent “See also” with extra je ne sais quoi
Float the table of contents to the right of entries
Show native-language interwiki links below language headings
Hide {{wikipedia}} sister project box
Hide Project Gutenberg {{rank}} and TV {{?}} ranking
Display inflections in boxes (interferes with HTML layout)
Hide horizontal rules between language sections
Use a smaller font in the Recent Changes Options box in Special:RecentChanges

Translations sections
Collapsed (default) Expanded Hidden
Put the show/hide control on the left

Text format

Parentheses
Hide the maximal amount of parentheses. (overrides other parenthesis settings and creates ungrammatical sentences)
Hide the parentheses around list item qualifiers.
Italicize the punctuation (parentheses and colon) around italic text.
Hide parentheses around transliterations and glosses.
Hide parentheses around glosses.
Show parenthesized plain (non-italic) transliterations.

“Form of” definitions
Plain (only wikilinked) lemma. (Default is with a bold lemma.)
Italic definition (“qualifier”) and plain (only wikilinked) lemma. (Default is with a bold lemma.)
Italic lemma. (Default is with a bold lemma.)
Italic definition (“qualifier”) and bold lemma. (Default is with a bold lemma.)

Hide “transitive” and “intransitive” qualifiers in definitions (causes context tags to display oddly)
Show other Latin (Roman) script mentions in bold. (Default is in italics.)
Show English glosses for mentioned terms in single quotes. (Default is in double quotes.)
Make red-links on some inflection tables look black.
(Experimental) Color links orange instead of blue, if target language is missing (translation tables only.)
(Experimental) Use Conrad Irwin’s Paper view & language button view alternate (buggy today)
Turn on the Connel “reformat.js” to reformat certain parts of a Wiktionary entry semi-automatically; It then loads the preview page with the changes for you. Do not use this unless you are very confident of your formatting conventions knowledge, and even then, use only with caution (does not inflect properly)

Tools Disable automatic redirect
Show the special character picker for the search box
Add a “Check Spelling” button (buggy)
Use w:User:Lupin/popups.js – Originally for Wikipedia – now has Wiktionary-specific class overrides
Filter out your own contributions from Special:Contributions
Automatically look up words that are double-clicked on (in main namespace only)
Make red-links to some form-ofs fill out entries automatically (Accelerated).

Personal tools
Show IRC link
Show the date and time
Use UTC
Live clock

Administrators Replace text in deletion log comment
Patrolling enhancements – add a (mark) next to (diff) to mark as patrolled without leaving Special:RecentChanges. Use popups above, to hover over (diff) links, then click (mark).
Patrol in “expert mode” with no alerts – all whitelisted users’ edits are quietly marked, bottom to top.
Refresh Special:RecentChanges every 5 minutes
Adds a CIDR Range Contributions check to Special:Contributions
Add a box to the top of user-related pages if the user is blocked from editing.