Encyclopedia Dramatica:User Preferences Help

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User Data

Real Name

You should have learnt this a long time ago.

Email

Teh place that internets message come directed to you.

Nickname

What you sign comments with, you can make this more interesting a basic mod would be something like [[Username]] [[User Talk:Username|Talk]] which gives "Username Talk 14:20, 12 June 2006 (UTC)" when you sign a comment on a talk page. Check raw signatures or you will be b0rked under the new MediaWiki.

Language

This wiki is in the american language, if you do not speak it GTFO.

Change Password

Type your password in the first box, and penis in the other two. "Remember across sessions" means you don't have to type it in every time you go on Encyclopædia Dramatica.

Email

You must verify your email to use these options.

Choose when to get email from ED, if you select to receive email notification of every single minor edit, you are a fucktard.

Skin

MonoBook

The default, what the wiki looks like.

Simple

Does your browser suck? Use this.

Everything else

Crap, don't bother.

Files

Choose how large you want images to display, default works fine.

Date format

If you pick anything other than "no preference" then you are too picky and will never get a girlfriend.

Time zone

Click the "Fill in from browser" and recent changes will have the correct time for you

Editing

TL;DR. Important options:

Enable section editing via [edit] links

They get in the way, but are handy.

Show edit toolbar

Little buttons for quick access to stuff.

Add pages you edit to your watchlist

Keep track of stuff you have done... every single thing. This is pointless because if you make enough minor corrections you will have 8,196 articles on your watchlist

Recent changes & stubs

Don't spam Recent Changes, kthxplz.

Don't bitch about Recent Changes, kthxplz.

Go to Special:Preferences, click on "Recent changes and stub display", and check the "Enhanced Recent Changes" box. Works in Mozilla, IE and Opera.

Search

Doesn't work anyway.

Misc

Underline links

Just go browser default, why? Why not?

Broken links

Uncheck this if you are hate the colour red.

Justify paragraphs

Make everything straight when you read articles.

Auto-number headings

Put little numbers everywhere.

Show table of contents

Hmmm... well... this... shows... the... um... table... of... errr... contents.

Disable page caching

Stops pages from caching, kinda obvious.