Wikipedia:PHP script new features

This is an incomplete list of the features the new wikipedia software has to offer. See also Wikipedia:Bug reports for "features" that shouldn't be in the script.. Some additional features, added in July 2002, are listed in Software Phase III.

• User settings See your user settings page if you are logged in.
  • Side bar A bar on the left or right of the screen with useful system functions.
  • Skins Different ways to present the site. Check out the promising "Cologne Blue".
  • Minor edit presentation You can chose whether you want to see minor edits on the RecentChanges page.
• Special Functions Accessible form the "Special Pages" link on every page, or from the side bar if that has been switched on.
  • File upload feature allows to upload graphics or sound files, see special:Upload. Uploaded files are listed on RecentChanges and they are also logged on log:Uploads.
  • Watchlist Every page has a link "Watch this article for me". Use special:Watchlist to track changes on the articles you declared an interest in.
  • Voting You can vote for a page to be removed, rewritten or recommended for article-of-the-day. The votes are recorded on pages which are also accessible from the voting page.
  • Various Lists of new pages, of "orphaned" pages which no other page links to, of pages which are linked to but don't yet exist, of long and short pages, of the pages with the highest number of page-views, of user pages, and other statistics.
• Namespaces Separated from the page name with a colon. This very page is within the wikipedia namespace.
  • Normal namespaces Currently, there are the "blank" namespace (for normal articles), wikipedia (for articles about Wikipedia), user (for user pages), special (for system pages like RecentChanges), and log (automatically generated log pages)
  • Talk namespaces All namespaces have their own Talk namespace ("Talk", "Wikipedia Talk", "User Talk"), to use instead of a /Talk page. Listed at the bottom of every page, empty Talk pages are red, existing ones are green.
• Other stuff
  • Automatic signature Just type three times ~ when you edit, and on saving the page, it will be replaced with your user name and a link to your user page. If you use four tildes, the current date will be added as well. Mainly intended for Talk pages.
  • Word-extension linking If you include a link of the form [[war]]s, or [[war]]time, the system will automatically display it as if you had typed [[war|wars]] or [[war|wartime]], respectively, saving some typing.
  • User contributions At the top of each user page, there is a link to display a list of all articles the user has worked on, according to the database. The list currently only includes articles for which the user has made a non-minor edit since the change of software.
  • Counter on every page (see bottom) for the number of times the page has been viewed.
  • Search Searches are now always based on the most current version of all articles. Boolean search ("and", "or", "not") is possible. By default, "and" is used, meaning that only articles matching all the search terms are returned. Search terms shorter than four letters always cause the search to fail and should be avoided. See wikipedia:Searching for details.
  • Unsuccessful searches are listed on the Recent Changes page and are also logged by the system on pages of the form wikipedia:Unsuccessful searches (2002-03). (Adjust month if necessary.)
• No longer supported
  • Subpages A page with a slash (/) in its title is treated like any other page; there are no special subpage features anymore.
  • CamelCase By using a word with MixedCase, you don't automatically create a link anymore.
  • ISBN ISBN numbers continue to automatically link to pricescan.com, but don't point to any book sellers.
  • Auto-wikification If this is enabled, you will get an additional button on the edit screen which allows you to perform certain common tasks on the edited text.