Wikipedia:Tools

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• Wikipedia programs
• Bots
• Extensions
• Gadgets
• Scripts
o User scripts
o Script requests
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This page in a nutshell: Listed below are various tools and
tutorials intended to simplify, make more efficient, or provide
additional functionality to Wikipedians. • WP:TOOL

• WP:TOOLS
"WP:TOOLS" redirects here. For Toolforge, see Wikipedia:Toolforge. For the former Toolserver,
see Wikipedia:Toolserver.
See also Category:Wikipedia tools and Task-oriented tool list. For selection of tools, see
the Directory NG. To look for a tool, use the Hay's tools searching page. Good tooling.
Editor tools

Editing aids

• Alt text

• Biomedical cite

• Citation bot

• Copyvio detector

• Dab solver

• Disambig links

• Dup detector

• GoogleBook cite

• NYtimes cite

• DOI cite

• MakeRef

• Peer review

• PubMed cite

• Redirect check

• Refill
 • Reflinks

• WayBack

• WebCite

Things to review

• Copyvios'

• New pages

• New files

• Recent changes

• New editors

• IP edits

• Discussions

Customisation

Contents

• 1Browsing and editing

• 2Searching
• 3Downloading
• 4Google tools
• 5Page histories
o 5.1General
o 5.2Diffs
o 5.3Finding the responsible user
o 5.4User edit counts and analysis
▪ 5.4.1Edit counters
▪ 5.4.2User interaction analysis
o 5.5Visualization
• 6Importing (converting) content to Wikipedia (MediaWiki) format
o 6.1Google Docs Spreadsheet
o 6.2Microsoft Office
▪ 6.2.1Word
▪ 6.2.1.12007 and later
▪ 6.2.1.2Prior versions
▪ 6.2.2Excel
o 6.3OpenOffice/LibreOffice
o 6.4HTML
o 6.5Python
o 6.6LaTeX
o 6.7CSV
o 6.8Google Slides
o 6.9Google Docs
o 6.10Many formats
• 7Export: Conversion to other formats
o 7.1PDF, EPub, Odt and LaTeX
 ▪ 7.1.1HTML for Wordpress blogs
• 8Geotagging related tools
• 9Other
• 10Sources for code for new tools
• 11See also
• 12References

Browsing and editing

wikEd is a full-featured in-browser text editor for Wikipedia edit pages

See also: Wikipedia:Browser notes

• 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 Wikipedia
• Alternative browsing, alternatives to accessing Wikipedia through your web browser
(mobile devices, desktop integration, alternate portals, etc.)
• 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)
• 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.
• Navigation shortcuts offer the ability to add personal links to the sidebar, providing quick
and easy access to favourite articles within Wikipedia.

Searching
See also: Wikipedia:Searching

• GlobalWPSearch, search across projects and show missing interlanguage links.

• macOS Dashboard Widget
• whichsub finds transcluded templates of a given page which contain a given string.
• Find Link Tool Find links on Wikipedia tool created by Edward Betts.

Downloading
• WP-Download[dead link], Download and import Wikipedia SQL dump
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
• Mirrors of Wikimedia content can be filtered from Google search result pages in
Firefox using the CustomizeGoogle extension.[1] See meta:Mirror filter for instructions
and a filter list.
• Wikipediavision (designed by László Kozma) visualizes recent anonymous edits
using Google Maps.

Page histories
General

• Wikipedia: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)
• Wikipedia: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
• Wikipedia:Wiki2VCS, script that loads histories onto one's computer, so that they
can be quickly diffed and searched
• 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.
Diffs

• User:Mattflaschen/Compare link.js, makes the "compare selected versions" button

into a link (diffs can be in new windows, tabs, etc.)
• 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
Finding the responsible user

• WikiBlame, searches for given text in versions of article

• User:AmiDaniel/WhodunitQuery, Windows application that identifies the edit and
user who added a specific word or phrase
• whoCOLOR, browser script for Grease/Tampermonkey, highlights original authors
directly in the article, gets data from a publicly accessible API
User edit counts and analysis

• userhist, user script, adds interface elements for isolating a user's changes to a
page.
superseded by XTools Top Edits

• User contribution search, finds all the edits by a user to a single page
• Wikipedia Page History Statistics Page history statistics by User:aka, builds an
edit history overview page
• afdstats Analyse AfD !votes against the result
• Contribution Surveyor – surveys a users contributions and orders edited articles
by the total text contributed.
• Pages Created – lists all pages created by a user (including deleted ones)
Edit counters
See also: Wikipedia:WikiProject edit counters

• XTools Edit Counter A powerful and full-featured editor analysis tool.

• Administrator Statistics for the English Wikipedia (updated hourly)
• User contributions (Luxo), find contributions on enwiki and other Wikimedia sites
• 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

• Editor Interaction Analyzer compares the edits of two to three

specified editors to see which articles overlap, sorted by minimum time between
edits by both users. Only works on the English Wikipedia. Speed: slow.
• Intersect Contribs, compares the edits of two to eight editors at any WMF wiki to
see which articles overlap. Speed: fast.
• Intertwined contributions, merges the contributions of two editors at any WMF
wiki into a single list. Speed: fast.
• Interaction Timeline a chronological history of two users' across pages where
they both made edits.
Visualization

• 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,
and Help:Table § Converting spreadsheets and database tables to wikitable format

Google Docs Spreadsheet

• 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.[2]
Microsoft Office
Word
2007 and later

• Microsoft Office Word Add-in For MediaWiki. For Microsoft Word 2007 or
higher.
Prior versions

• For other Macro, see mw:Word macros, Visual Basic macros to use within
Microsoft Word to prepare content to be pasted into a Wikipedia page.
• 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

• excel2wiki: Copy & Paste Excel-to-Wiki Converter

• 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
• csv2other: a free open source tool, in .net, to convert CSV and EXCEL files to
wiki table format
• Mediawiki CSV Import tool: 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.
• wiki2csv: a commmand line tool that can convert wikitables to CSV and back.
Useful to edit wikitables in Excel (or OpenOffice).
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:Convert tables and charts to wiki code or
image files. And: Help:Table and the section on spreadsheets and the Visual
Editor.
HTML

• Html2Wiki is an extension for MediaWiki that imports HTML

Python

• Table2wiki.py part of the Pywikipedia bot framework, web port

LaTeX

• User:Jmath666/latex2wiki, LaTeX to Wikicode translation tool

CSV

• CSVLoader is an AutoWikiBrowser plug-in that allows creating and updating

articles using CSV data files.
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)
Many formats
• Pandoc is a universal document converter

Export: Conversion to other formats

• Help:Export, Special:Export (XML)
• PDF: Special:Book
• mw:Alternative parsers, programs and projects to translate MediaWiki's text
markup syntax into something else, such as HTML
• wikitable2csv is a web tool that extracts wikitables from a given page and
converts them to CSV.
• 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.
• mw:Extension:TextExtracts (API function to convert into cleaned up HTML or
plain text; without links)
• meta:User:Tbayer (WMF)/Converting wiki pages to plaintext emails
PDF, EPub, Odt and LaTeX

• MediaWiki to LaTeX Convert from Wiki to PDF, EPub, Odt and LaTeX formats.
HTML for Wordpress blogs

• Convert HTML to Wordpress

• WordPress – Wiki Embed Plugin

Geotagging related tools

See also: Wikipedia:Obtaining geographic coordinates

• GeoLocator, Wikipedia compatible geotagging metadata generator and

coordinate editor

Other
• Syndication, RSS feeds, etc.
• Researching Wikipedia: Tools for data analysis
• 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!
o Note: Checkinks is buggy use with caution. Consider using instead Internet
Archive Bot which can be found in the History tab of any page: "Fix dead
links" – login does not require a password.
• 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
• CategoryWatchlistBot, Watch category and/or template additions/removals,
supports partial name matches and subcategories
• PetScan (manual), searches categories recursively. will find subcategories that
overlap with other categories, templates, etc.
• User:SuggestBot for suggested articles you might like to edit
• RAMP editor: can generate enhanced authority records for creators of archival
collections
• XEcho Shows your global cross-wiki notifications from 800+ wikis at a glance
• quarry:, a place to run queries on databases of Wikimedia projects
• MTC!, A tool that makes it easy to transfer files to Commons en masse.
• New page patrol browser – browse and search content of newly created pages,
with associated metadata
• Wiki Editor Plugin for Notepad++ 32-bit (x86) – a free source code editor.

Sources for code for new tools

• Automated interface to the Wikipedia, Perl module that searches for and
retrieves an article

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:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts § Installing (How to install user
scripts)
• {{Editor tools}}
• meta:Help:User style
• Toolforge
• meta:Toolserver/Projects
• meta:Open Source Toolset
• meta:User:Duesentrieb/Tools
• Commons:Convert tables and charts to wiki code or image files

References
1. ^ CustomizeGoogle
2. ^ Enhanced Spreadsheet to WikiMedia table Converter proposed