Here you can digest how to use Wikipedia in bite-sized morsels. The tips listed below were created for the Tip of the day project, or the Styletips project, but are listed here by title and organized by subject area for your convenience.
Wikipedia's servers record activity based on Coordinated Universal Time (UTC for short). You can set your user preferences to display time for the time zone you are in.
If you do this, Wikipedia will show all times in Recent changes, page histories, and contribution histories based on your local time zone. However, when you sign a talk page with ~~~~, the timestamp is created in text, so it has to be displayed in UTC. Automated logs such as image file uploads are also shown in server time (UTC).
To show other users what time zone you are in, you could even add a time userbox to your own user page.
If you would like to be able to right click on subheadings to open them up in the Wikipedia edit box, do the following:
Click the Preferences link at the top of the page. Then click the Editing tab. Then check the box next to Enable section editing by right-clicking on section titles (JavaScript). And finally, click the Save button.
This only works with browsers that support Javascript (but all of the latest versions of all of the major web browsers do).
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