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This is an incomplete list of the features the new wikipedia software has to offer.

  • 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 Currently, only a single demo skin (Star Trek).
  • 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
    • 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.
    • 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 logged in users, 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.
    • 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.
    • Counter on every page (see bottom).
    • Search Searches are now always based on the most current version of all articles. Only articles which match all search terms are returned.
    • Unsuccessful searches are listed on the Recent Changes page
  • 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 no longer automatically turn into links.
    • Lots of broken links now appear on previously well-done pages. This stinks. If you want to go through with removing old functionality, at least make sure that it has as little impact as possible.
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