Preferences

Clicking on the Special:Preferences link in the upper right while logged in allows you to change your preferences. You will be presented with the User profile section, as well as a bar of tabs across the top for changing other types of settings.


 * Preferences marked with the small global are applicable across all wikis. Those without the globe icon can be changed on a per-wiki basis.


 *  - Your user name.
 *  - This will list the usergroups that you are a part of on the wiki.
 *  - How many edits you have made. Not all wikis will have this.
 *  - The date that you registered.
 *  - If provided, this will be used for attribution (rather than using your username). Providing your real name is entirely optional.
 *  - Your email address, if you have supplied one. You can also change or remove your address here.


 *  - Whether you wish to use the Gamepedia (enhanced) profiles, or the old-style MediaWiki (standard) user pages.
 *  - Whether you wish to use the Gamepedia enhanced user comments, or the old-style MediaWiki (standard) user talk pages.
 *  - Your favorite wiki (this will appear on your curse profile, if selected).
 *  - The text that will appear on your curse profile (if selected).
 *  - Gamepedia uses Gravatar to display an avatar based on your email address. Visit gravatar.com to change your avatar. Please note that the avatar must be rated "G" or it will not appear.


 *  - Your location which appears on your Gamepedia profile (if specified).

These fields are entirely optional, but if you decide to fill them out, please provide direct links to your profiles or the user name of your profile.

You can select which language you would like the interface to be in. Only the buttons like  and , in addition to a few pages in the sidebar, will be affected. The main text of the pages will not be changed by this for the vast majority of pages, although special pages will appear in that language as well.
 *  - The language you wish the wiki interface to appear in.


 *  - Your signature as it currently appears when you use ~ . If this is blank, you have not created a signature.
 *  - Use this field to customize your signature. The checkbox below – "" should be used if you use wikitext as part of your signature.

Depending on whether or not certain extensions are enabled on your wiki, this may be the second, or third tab.


 *  - Email address is optional, but is needed for password resets, should you forget your password. You can also choose to let others contact you by email through a link on your user or talk page. Your email address is not revealed when other users contact you. This email address is pulled from your Gamepedia or Twitch account.
 *  (for example)
 * (checkbox to) (or not)
 * (checkbox to) (or not)
 * (checkbox to) (or not)
 * (checkbox to) (or not)

Choice of either "" or ""


 * (checkbox to) (or not)

Depending on whether or not certain extensions are enabled on your wiki, this may be the second, or third tab.

Depending on your wiki, you will likely only see one skin listed here, Hydra or Hydradark. However, wikis can have more than one skin available. In the case where a wiki has more than one skin, both will be listed here.


 *  - While not a particularly informative title, this section allows you to choose to create a Custom CSS or Custom JavaScript page which will only affect your view of the wiki.

The following are the available options :
 * 19:38, 25, 2019
 * 19:38, 25 2019
 * 19:38, 2019 25
 * 2019-07-25T19:38:20
 * 2019-07-25T19:38:20

The time offset is used to display time and dates in your current timezone.
 *  - Displays the time on the server on which the wiki resides
 *  - Displays the time in the time zone you specify below
 *  - This is a drop-down list of all time zones from which you can select the most appropriate for yourself

The following offer drop-down lists of options.
 *  (for file description pages)
 * There is also a checkbox to enable Media Viewer if that extension is enabled on your wiki.
 * There is also a checkbox to enable Media Viewer if that extension is enabled on your wiki.

This section deals with examining changes made to wiki pages. There are two or three check boxes, depending on installed extensions:
 *  – This option is only available is the RevisionSlider extension is enabled on your wiki.
 *  – This option is only available is the RevisionSlider extension is enabled on your wiki.
 *  – This option is only available is the RevisionSlider extension is enabled on your wiki.


 *  - Whether you wish links to be more visible being underlined, or using the default skins options.
 *  - The default value is disabled, but users can select 50, 100, 500, 1000, 2000, 5000 or 10000 bytes as their preferred threshold.
 * There are also four check boxes for:

These options only appear if the Math extension is enabled on your wiki. You can choose how mathematical formulas are rendered by clicking one of the two radio buttons:

These are the settings to control editing pages, including the size of the edit box displayed, and whether to automatically watch pages that you have edited or created. All options in this section are global.


 *  - drop-down list which includes Mono-spaced font, Sans-serif font or Serif font

This option only appears if the Drafts extension is installed on your wiki.


 *  - Here you can specify how far back the recent changes pages will go. Note that the list will stop prematurely if the number of edits is exceeded (see below).


 *  Whether you want the recent changes to appear in a smaller view format and cause dropdowns for the same page edits, or actions.
 *  - This enables you to hide edits marked as minor (see Editing pages). Since some users will rapidly make a lot of tiny tweaks to update templates or fix spelling errors you may find enabling this to be useful. You can also turn this on temporarily from the recent changes page (see Tracking changes).
 *  - This enables you to hide edits marked as minor (see Editing pages). Since some users will rapidly make a lot of tiny tweaks to update templates or fix spelling errors you may find enabling this to be useful. You can also turn this on temporarily from the recent changes page (see Tracking changes).

These are the settings to control the behaviour of the watchlist (See Watchlist). Most of these options are also available on the watchlist display itself, but by setting them in your preferences, you control the default behaviour of the watchlist i.e., it will perform the same actions every time you visit the page.


 *  - a 40-character alphanumeric string
 * This is the secret key to the web feed of your watchlist. Anyone who knows it will be able to read your watchlist, so do not share it. If you need to, you can reset it.


 *  - Whether you want a popup to appear when you save a page or not.

If the Gadgets extension is enabled on your wiki, this section lists the available gadgets and allows you to opt in or out of them.