Yiɣi chaŋ yɛligu maŋamaŋa puuni

List of NBA players born outside the United States

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National Basketball Association, boliŋmɛri shɛba bɛn dɔɣi tiŋdu'shɛŋa ka di pa United States ka bɛ booni ba tiŋduya boliŋmɛriba(international players). Boliŋmɛri shɛba bɛn daa dɔɣi U.S. overseas territories, kamani Puerto Rico mini U.S. Virgin Islands, nyɛla bɛn booni shɛba zaa tiŋduya boliŋmɛriba hali bɛ yi nyɛla U.S. bilichini nima.[1][2][3][4] So shɛŋa din dɔni kpɛri na U.S yɛltɔɣa shɛŋa, NBA nyɛla ban lihira baŋdi boliŋmɛri shɛba ban tu ni bɛ boli tiŋduya boliŋmɛriba.[1] Din pahira, boliŋmɛri shɛba beni ka nyɛ U.S. bilichini nima ka di nyɛla bɛ dɔɣi ba la amaa ka bɛ lahi bilichini nima zaŋti tiŋgbani shɛŋa bee ŋmɛri bolli n-tiri tiŋgbani shɛŋa international basketball competition. Yuya ŋɔ nyɛla boliŋmɛri shɛba ban mali kamani din boŋɔ zaɣa yini.

Boliŋmɛri shɛba ban bilichinsi nyɛla United States nyɛla bɛn daa dɔɣi shɛba tiŋdu'shɛŋa dabam amaa ka bɛ lee ŋmɛri international basketball tournament n-tiri ba. Boliŋmɛri shɛba bɛn daa dɔɣi tiŋdu'shɛŋa dabam ka di pa United States ka bɛ lamba nyɛ U.S. nima n-ti pahi boliŋmɛri shɛba ban be sunsuuni zaŋti U.S. zaa nyɛla ban be yaɣili ŋɔ.

Hank Biasatti, nyɛla bɛn daa dɔɣi so Italy amaa ka lee zooi Canada, n-daa nyɛ tuuli tiŋduya boliŋmɛri ŋun daa be league ŋɔ ni yuuni 1946.[5] Tiŋduya boliŋmɛriba ŋɔ kalinli daa pahiya league ŋɔ ni din daa niŋ ka be kpa Dream Team nyaaŋa saha shɛli bɛn daa ti NBA boliŋmɛriba soli ni bɛ pahi Olympic play din daa yɛn piligi yuuni 1992. Ninsali nim yurilim zaŋ chaŋ basketball daa nyɛla din pahi. Yuuni 1991–92 season bolli ŋɔ piligu, NBA daa mali la tiŋduya boliŋmɛriba pishi ni ata ka bɛ yina tiŋgbana pishi ayi ka ni.[6]Bɛn daa yɛn piligi bɛ daa mali la record-high 113 international players ka bɛ yina tiŋgbana pihinahi ni yini ni.[7] Bɛn daa yɛn piligi 2017–18 season, bɛ daa mali la tiŋduya boliŋmɛriba 108 ka bɛ yina tiŋgbana pihinahi ni ayi, n-ti pahi boliŋmɛriba anu shɛba ban daa dihi bɛ nuu gbana zuɣu n-ti two-way contract din daa na yoli piligi la.[8]

Country/Territory No. of Players Notes
 Nigeria30Including 17 foreign-born Nigerians
Tɛmplet:SEN12Including 1 U.S.-born Senegalese
Tɛmplet:CMR6Including 1 U.S.-born Cameroonian
Tɛmplet:COD5
Tɛmplet:SSD3Including 2 foreign-born South Sudanese
Tɛmplet:EGY[note 1]2
Tɛmplet:GAB2
Tɛmplet:GHA2
Tɛmplet:CIV2Including 2 U.S.-born Ivorians
Tɛmplet:LBY2Including 2 U.S.-born Libyans
Tɛmplet:MLI2
Tɛmplet:UGA2Including 2 U.S.-born Ugandans
Tɛmplet:ANG1
Tɛmplet:CPV1
Tɛmplet:GUI1
Tɛmplet:LBR1Including 1 U.S.-born Liberian
Tɛmplet:SUD1
Tɛmplet:TAN1
Tɛmplet:TUN1
Africa77Including 28 foreign or U.S.-born naturalized players
Country/Territory No. of Players Notes
Tɛmplet:CAN61Including 10 foreign-born Canadians
 Brazil18Including 1 U.S.-born Brazilian
Tɛmplet:PUR18Including 10 U.S.-born Puerto Ricans
 Argentina16
Tɛmplet:DOM12Including 4 U.S.-born Dominicans
Tɛmplet:JAM11Including 5 U.S.-born Jamaicans
Tɛmplet:BHS7Including 1 U.S.-born Bahamian
Tɛmplet:MEX6Including 2 U.S.-born Mexicans
Tɛmplet:VEN6Including 4 foreign-born Venezuelans
Tɛmplet:PAN4Including 2 U.S.-born Panamanians
Tɛmplet:ISV4Including 2 U.S.-born Virgin Islanders
Tɛmplet:BLZ3Including 3 U.S.-born Belizeans
Tɛmplet:HAI3
Tɛmplet:CUB2
Tɛmplet:GUY2
Tɛmplet:TRI2Including 1 U.S.-born Trinidadian
Tɛmplet:ATG1Including 1 U.S.-born Antiguan
Tɛmplet:BOL1Including 1 U.S.-born Bolivian
Tɛmplet:COL1
Tɛmplet:DMA1
 Uruguay1
Tɛmplet:Country data Americas179Including 46 foreign or U.S.-born naturalized players
Country/Territory No. of Players Notes
Tɛmplet:CHN7Including 1 U.S.-born Chinese
 Japan5Including 2 U.S.-born Japanese
Tɛmplet:LBN5Including 4 foreign-born Lebanese
 Philippines3Including 3 U.S.-born Filipinos
Tɛmplet:QAT2Including 2 U.S.-born Qataris
Tɛmplet:IDN1Including 1 U.S.-born Indonesian
Tɛmplet:IRN1
Tɛmplet:JOR1Including 1 U.S.-born Jordanian
Tɛmplet:KOR1
Asia26Including 14 foreign or U.S.-born naturalized players
Country/Territory No. of Players Notes
 France42Including 7 foreign-born French
Tɛmplet:SRB30Including 9 foreign-born Serbians
Tɛmplet:CRO23Including 8 foreign-born Croatians
Tɛmplet:ESP20Including 4 foreign-born Spaniards
 Germany19Including 2 U.S.-born Germans
Tɛmplet:LTU15Including 1 U.S.-born Lithuanian
Tɛmplet:GRC14Including 4 foreign-born Greeks
Tɛmplet:TUR[note 1]14Including 5 foreign-born Turks
 Italy13Including 4 U.S.-born Italians
Tɛmplet:RUS[note 1]13Including 4 foreign-born Russians
Tɛmplet:SVN13Including 2 foreign-born Slovenes
Tɛmplet:GBR12Including 3 foreign-born Britons
Tɛmplet:GEO[note 1]11Including 6 U.S.-born Georgians
Tɛmplet:MNE10Including 5 foreign-born Montenegrins
Tɛmplet:UKR9Including 2 foreign-born Ukrainians
Tɛmplet:BIH7Including 3 foreign-born Bosnians
Tɛmplet:LAT7
Tɛmplet:ISR[note 2]6Including 2 U.S.-born Israelis
Tɛmplet:CZE5
 Netherlands5
Tɛmplet:NMK5Including 3 U.S.-born Macedonians
Tɛmplet:POL5Including 2 U.S.-born Polish
Tɛmplet:BUL3Including 2 U.S.-born Bulgarians
Tɛmplet:FIN3Including 1 foreign-born Finn
Tɛmplet:IRL3Including 2 U.S.-born Irishmen
 Sweden2
Tɛmplet:SUI2
 Austria1
Tɛmplet:AZE[note 1]1Including 1 U.S.-born Azerbaijani
Tɛmplet:BLR1Including 1 U.S.-born Belarusian
 Belgium1Including 1 foreign-born Belgian
Tɛmplet:DEN1
Tɛmplet:EST1
Tɛmplet:HUN1
Tɛmplet:ISL1
Tɛmplet:LUX1
Tɛmplet:NOR1
 Portugal1
Tɛmplet:ROM1
Tɛmplet:SVK1
Tɛmplet:Country data Europe321Including 85 foreign or U.S.-born naturalized players
Country/Territory No. of Players Notes
Tɛmplet:AUS33Including 7 foreign-born Australians
Tɛmplet:NZL3
Tɛmplet:Country data Australasia36Including 7 foreign-born naturalized players

Note: This list is correct through the conclusion of the 2022–23 season.

Pos GGuard FForward CCenter
Yrs Number of seasons played in the NBA
^ Denotes player who has been elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame
* Denotes player who is still active in the NBA
Nationality[A] Birthplace[B] Player Pos. Career[C] Yrs Notes Ref.
Tɛmplet:ANG Bruno Fernando* C 2019–present4 [9]
Tɛmplet:ATG  United States Julius Hodge G 200520072 Born in the United States, became a naturalized Antiguan citizen, represented Antigua internationally during his playing career; though choosing to represent Antigua, he was also eligible to represent the U.S. Virgin Islands. [10]
 Argentina Leandro Bolmaro F/G 202120232 Also holds Italian citizenship.[11] [12]
 Argentina Nicolás Brussino G/F 201620172 Also holds Italian citizenship. [13]
 Argentina Facundo Campazzo G 202020223 [14]
 Argentina Gabriel Deck G 202120222 [15]
 Argentina Carlos Delfino G 20042008;
20092014
8 [16]
 Argentina Patricio Garino G 20171 Also holds Italian citizenship. [17]
 Argentina Manu Ginóbili^ G 2002201816 Also holds Italian citizenship. [18]
 Argentina Walter Herrmann F 200620093 [19]
 Argentina Nicolás Laprovíttola G 20161 [20]
 Argentina Andrés Nocioni F 200420128 [21]
 Argentina Fabricio Oberto F 200520106 [22]
 Argentina Pablo Prigioni G 201220164 [23]
 Argentina Pepe Sánchez G 2000–2001; 2002–20032 [24]
 Argentina Luis Scola F 2007201710 [25]
 Argentina Luca Vildoza G 20221 Also holds Italian citizenship. Only player whose career consists exclusively of playoff games. [26]
 Argentina Rubén Wolkowyski F 2000–2001; 2002–20032 Also holds Polish citizenship. [27]
Tɛmplet:AUS Tɛmplet:SUD
(now Tɛmplet:SSD)
Deng Adel F 20191 Born in Juba, Sudan (which is now a part of South Sudan), became a naturalized Australian citizen, represents Australia internationally during his playing career. [28]
Tɛmplet:AUS David Andersen F/C 200920112 Also holds Danish citizenship, but represents Australia internationally.[29] [30]
Tɛmplet:AUS Chris Anstey C 199720003 [31]
Tɛmplet:AUS Cameron Bairstow F/C 201420162 [32]
Tɛmplet:AUS Tɛmplet:NZL Aron Baynes C 201320219 Born in New Zealand, grew up in Australia, represents Australia internationally.[33] [34]
Tɛmplet:AUS Andrew Bogut C 20052018; 201914 [35]
Tɛmplet:AUS Jonah Bolden F 201820202 [36]
Tɛmplet:AUS Mark Bradtke C 1996–19971 [37]
Tɛmplet:AUS Ryan Broekhoff G 201820202 [38]
Tɛmplet:AUS Xavier Cooks* F 2023–present1 [39]
Tɛmplet:AUS Mitch Creek G 20191 [40]
Tɛmplet:AUS Dyson Daniels* G 2022–present1 [41]
Tɛmplet:AUS Matthew Dellavedova G 20132021;
20222023
9 [42]
Tɛmplet:AUS Dante Exum G 201420216 Born in Australia to an American father.[43] [44]
Tɛmplet:AUS Andrew Gaze G 1994; 19992 [45]
Tɛmplet:AUS Josh Giddey* G 2021–present2 [46]
Tɛmplet:AUS  United States Ricky Grace G 19931 Born in the United States, became a naturalized Australian citizen, represented Australia internationally during his playing career.[47] [48]
Tɛmplet:AUS Josh Green* G 2020–present3 [49]
Tɛmplet:AUS Shane Heal G 1996–1997;
2003
2 [50]
Tɛmplet:AUS Isaac Humphries F/C 20191 [51]
Tɛmplet:AUS Joe Ingles* F 2014–present9 [52]
Tɛmplet:AUS Nathan Jawai F/C 200820102 The first ever Indigenous Australian to play in the NBA. [53]
Tɛmplet:AUS Jock Landale* C 2021–present2 [54]
Tɛmplet:AUS Luc Longley C 1991200110 [55]
Tɛmplet:AUS Will Magnay C/F 20211 [56]
Tɛmplet:AUS Tɛmplet:SUD
(now Tɛmplet:SSD)
Thon Maker F/C 201620215 Born in Juba, Sudan (which is now a part of South Sudan), became a naturalized Australian citizen, represents Australia internationally during his playing career.[57] [58]
Tɛmplet:AUS Tɛmplet:SUD
(now Tɛmplet:SSD)
Mangok Mathiang F/C 2017–20181 Born in Juba, Sudan (which is now a part of South Sudan), became a naturalized Australian citizen, represents Australia internationally during his playing career.[57] [59]
Tɛmplet:AUS  United States Darnell Mee G 199319952 Born in the United States, became a naturalized Australian citizen, represented Australia internationally during his playing career.[60] [61]
Tɛmplet:AUS Patty Mills* G 2009–present14 [62]
Tɛmplet:AUS Luke Schenscher C 200620072 [63]
Tɛmplet:AUS Ben Simmons* F 2017–present6 Born in Australia to an American father.[64] [65]
Tɛmplet:AUS  United States Matisse Thybulle* G/F 2019–present4 Born in the United States, spent early childhood in Australia and became a naturalized Australian citizen, represents Australia internationally during his playing career.[66] [67]
Tɛmplet:AUS Jack White* F 2022–present1 [68]
 Austria Jakob Poeltl* C 2016–present7 [69]
Tɛmplet:AZE  United States Donta Hall F 202020212 Born in the United States, became a naturalized Azerbaijani citizen. [70] [71]
Tɛmplet:BHS Deandre Ayton* C 2018–present5 [72]
Tɛmplet:BHS Dexter Cambridge F 1992–19931 [73]
Tɛmplet:BHS Buddy Hield* G 2016–present7 [74]
Tɛmplet:BHS Kai Jones* C 2021–present2 Born in the Bahamas, grew up in the United States. [75]
Tɛmplet:BHS Ian Lockhart F 19901 [76]
Tɛmplet:BHS Mychal Thompson C/F 1978199112 First player born & raised in the Bahamas to make the NBA[77] [78]
Tɛmplet:BHS  United States Mychel Thompson F 2011–20121 Born in the United States by American parents [79]
Tɛmplet:BLR  United States Maalik Wayns G 201220142 Born in the United States, became a naturalized Belarusian citizen, represents Belarus internationally.[80] [81]
 Belgium  Zaire
(now Tɛmplet:COD)
D.J. Mbenga C 200420117 Born in Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo), became a naturalized Belgian citizen, represents Belgium internationally.[82] [83]
Tɛmplet:BIZ  United States Noel Felix F 20061 Born in the United States, represented Belize internationally.[84] [85]
Tɛmplet:BIZ  United States Marlon Garnett G 1998–19991 Born in the United States, represented Belize internationally.[84] [86]
Tɛmplet:BIZ  United States Milt Palacio G 199920067 Born in the United States, represented Belize internationally during his playing career.[87] [88]
Tɛmplet:BOL  United States Josh Reaves G/F 20201 Born in the United States to a Bolivian mother, represents Bolivia internationally.[89] [90]
Tɛmplet:BIH  United States J. R. Bremer G 200220042 Born in the United States, became a naturalized Bosnia and Herzegovina citizen, represents Bosnia and Herzegovina internationally.[91] [92]
Tɛmplet:BIH  United States Luka Garza* C 2021–present2 Born in the United States to a Bosnian mother, became a naturalized Bosnia and Herzegovina citizen, represents Bosnia and Herzegovina internationally.[93] [94]
Tɛmplet:BIH Džanan Musa F 201820202 [95]
Tɛmplet:BIH Tɛmplet:Country data Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina Jusuf Nurkić* C 2014–present9 Born when the official name of the country was the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina. [96]
Tɛmplet:BIH Tɛmplet:Country data SFR Yugoslavia
(now Tɛmplet:MNE)
Aleksandar Radojević C 1999–2000;
2004–2005
2 Born in SFR Yugoslavia,[D] represents Bosnia and Herzegovina internationally. [97]
Tɛmplet:BIH Tɛmplet:Country data SFR Yugoslavia
(now Tɛmplet:BIH)
Mirza Teletović F 201220186 Born in SFR Yugoslavia,[D], represents Bosnia and Herzegovina internationally. [98]
Tɛmplet:BIH Tɛmplet:Country data SFR Yugoslavia
(now Tɛmplet:BIH)
Ratko Varda C 2001–20021 Born in SFR Yugoslavia,[D], has represented FR Yugoslavia and Bosnia and Herzegovina internationally. [99]
 Brazil Rafael Araújo C 200420073 [100]
 Brazil Leandro Barbosa G 2003201714 [101]
 Brazil Bruno Caboclo F 201420217 [102]
 Brazil Vítor Faverani C 2013–20141 [103]
 Brazil Cristiano Felício F/C 201520216 [104]
 Brazil Rolando Ferreira C 1988–19891 [105]
 Brazil Alex Garcia G 200320042 [106]
 Brazil Marcelo Huertas G 201520172 [107][108]
 Brazil Didi Louzada F 202120222 [109]
 Brazil  United States Scott Machado G 2012–2013;
2019
2 Born in the United States to Brazilian parents, grew up in the United States, represents Brazil internationally.[110] [111]
 Brazil Fab Melo C 2012–20131 [112]
 Brazil Nenê F/C 2002202017 [113]
 Brazil Raul Neto* G 2015–present8 [114][115]
 Brazil Lucas Nogueira C 201420184 [116]
 Brazil Tiago Splitter C/F 201020177 [117]
 Brazil Anderson Varejão C/F 20042017;
2021
14 [118]
 Brazil João Vianna F 19911 [119]
 Brazil Marquinhos Vieira F 200620082 [120]
Tɛmplet:BGR Georgi Glouchkov F 1985–19861 Also holds Italian citizenship. A member of the Bulgaria men's national basketball team when he was signed, Glouchkov became the first product of Eastern European basketball to play in the NBA [121] [122]
Tɛmplet:BGR  United States Priest Lauderdale C 199619982 Born in the United States, became a naturalized Bulgarian citizen, represented Bulgaria internationally during his playing career.[123] [124]
Tɛmplet:BGR  United States Cedric Simmons A/C 200620093 Born in the United States, became a naturalized Bulgarian citizen, represents Bulgaria internationally.[125] [126]
Tɛmplet:CMR Ruben Boumtje-Boumtje C 200120043 [127]
Tɛmplet:CMR Joel Embiid* C 2016–present7 Also holds American and French citizenships.[128] [129]
Tɛmplet:CMR Christian Koloko* F/C 2022–present1 [130]
Tɛmplet:CMR Luc Mbah a Moute F 2008202012 [131]
Tɛmplet:CMR Pascal Siakam* PF 2016–present7 [132]
Tɛmplet:CMR  United States D. J. Strawberry G 200720081 Born in the United States, became a naturalized Cameroonian citizen, represents Cameroon internationally.[133] [134]
Tɛmplet:CAN Kyle Alexander F/C 20201 [135]
Tɛmplet:CAN Nickeil Alexander-Walker* G 2019–present4 [136]
Tɛmplet:CAN Joel Anthony C 2007201710 [137]
Tɛmplet:CAN Norm Baker G 1946–19471 [138]
Tɛmplet:CAN Dalano Banton* G 2021–present2 [139]
Tɛmplet:CAN RJ Barrett* G 2019–present4 [140]
Tɛmplet:CAN Anthony Bennett F/C 201320174 First Canadian drafted #1 overall in the NBA draft. Born in Canada by a Jamaican mother [141] [142]
Tɛmplet:CAN Sim Bhullar C 20151 Born in Canada to Indian parents; first player of Indian descent to play in the NBA. [143]
Tɛmplet:CAN Tɛmplet:Country data Kingdom of Italy Kingdom of Italy
(now  Italy)
Hank Biasatti G 19461 First international player in the league.[5] Born in the Kingdom of Italy, grew up in Canada, became a naturalized Canadian citizen.[144] [145]
Tɛmplet:CAN Khem Birch* C/F 2017–present6 [146]
Tɛmplet:CAN Tɛmplet:LCA Chris Boucher* F/C 2017–present6 Born in Saint Lucia, grew up in Canada, became a naturalized Canadian citizen, represents Canada internationally.[147] [148]
Tɛmplet:CAN Oshae Brissett* F/G 2019–present4 [149]
Tɛmplet:CAN Dillon Brooks* G 2017–present6 [150]
Tɛmplet:CAN Brandon Clarke* G 2019–present4 [151]
Tɛmplet:CAN Ron Crevier C 19851 [152]
Tɛmplet:CAN Tɛmplet:HAI Samuel Dalembert C 2001201514 Born in Haiti, grew up in Canada, became a naturalized Canadian citizen, represents Canada internationally.[153] [154]
Tɛmplet:CAN Nate Darling G 2020–20211 [155]
Tɛmplet:CAN Luguentz Dort* G/F 2019–present4 Born in Canada by Haitian parents.[156] [157]
Tɛmplet:CAN Tyler Ennis G 201420184 [158]
Tɛmplet:CAN Rick Fox F/G 1991200413 [159]
Tɛmplet:CAN Shai Gilgeous-Alexander* G 2018–present5 Born in Canada to Antiguan mother.[160] [161]
Tɛmplet:CAN Stewart Granger G 19831985;
1987
3 [162]
Tɛmplet:CAN Tɛmplet:DNK Lars Hansen C 1978–19791 Born in Denmark, grew up in Canada, became a naturalized Canadian citizen, represented Canada internationally during his playing career.[163] [164]
Tɛmplet:CAN Bob Houbregs^ C/F 195319585 Born in Canada, moved to the United States as a child. [165]
Tɛmplet:CAN Caleb Houstan* F 2022–present1 [166]
Tɛmplet:CAN Cory Joseph* G 2011–present12 [167]
Tɛmplet:CAN Kris Joseph F 2012–20131 [168]
Tɛmplet:CAN Mfiondu Kabengele* F 20192021;
2022–present
3 Born in Canada by Congolese parents.[169] [170]
Tɛmplet:CAN AJ Lawson* G 2022–present1 [171]
Tɛmplet:CAN Trey Lyles* F 2015–present8 Born in Canada, moved to the United States at the age of 7 and is also U.S. citizen. Has represented both the United States and Canada at youth level. Is eligible to represent the United States or Canada internationally.[172][173] [174]
Tɛmplet:CAN Todd MacCulloch C 199920034 [175]
Tɛmplet:CAN Jamaal Magloire C 2000201212 [176]
Tɛmplet:CAN Tɛmplet:SEN Karim Mané G 2020–20211 Born in Senegal, grew up in Canada.[177] [178]
Tɛmplet:CAN Bennedict Mathurin* G 2022–present1 [179]
Tɛmplet:CAN Naz Mitrou-Long G 201720203 Born in Canada to Canadian father (of Trinidad and Tobago descent) and Greek mother.[180] [181]
Tɛmplet:CAN Mychal Mulder G 202020223 [182]
Tɛmplet:CAN Jamal Murray* G 2016–present7 [183]
Tɛmplet:CAN Tɛmplet:ZAF Steve Nash^ G 1996201518 Born in South Africa to an English father and a Welsh mother, grew up in Canada, became a naturalized Canadian citizen, represented Canada internationally during his playing career.[184] Also holds a British passport.[185] [186]
Tɛmplet:CAN Andrew Nembhard* G 2022–present1 [187]
Tɛmplet:CAN Andrew Nicholson F 201220175 [188]
Tɛmplet:CAN Kelly Olynyk* C 2013–present10 [189]
Tɛmplet:CAN  Nigeria Eugene Omoruyi* F 2021–present2 Born in Nigeria, grew up in Canada. [190]
Tɛmplet:CAN Kevin Pangos G 2021–20221 Holds both Canadian and Slovenian passports. Represents Canada internationally. [191]
Tɛmplet:CAN Dwight Powell* C/F 2014–present9 [192]
Tɛmplet:CAN Joshua Primo G 202120222 [193]
Tɛmplet:CAN Xavier Rathan-Mayes G 20181 [194]
Tɛmplet:CAN  United States Andy Rautins G 2010–20111 Born in the United States to Canadian parents, represents Canada internationally.[195] [196]
Tɛmplet:CAN Leo Rautins F 198319842 [197]
Tɛmplet:CAN  United States Robert Sacre C 201220164 Born in the United States to an American father and Canadian mother, moved to Canada at age 7 and a dual citizen by birth;[198] represents Canada internationally.[199] [200]
Tɛmplet:CAN Shaedon Sharpe* G 2022–present1 [201]
Tɛmplet:CAN Marial Shayok G 2019–20201 Born in Canada by Sudanese parents.[202] [203]
Tɛmplet:CAN Mike Smrek C 198519927 [204]
Tɛmplet:CAN Gino Sovran F/G 1946–19471 [205]
Tɛmplet:CAN Nik Stauskas G 20142019; 20226 Holds both Canadian and Lithuanian passports. Represents Canada internationally.[206][207] [208]
Tɛmplet:CAN Tristan Thompson* F/C 2011–present12 [209]
Tɛmplet:CAN Ernie Vandeweghe F/G 194919567 Born in Canada, moved to the United States as a teenager, became a naturalized U.S. citizen. [210]
Tɛmplet:CAN Bill Wennington C 19851991; 1993200013 [211]
Tɛmplet:CAN Andrew Wiggins* G/F 2014–present9 Born in Canada to an American father and a naturalized Canadian mother, who was born in Barbados.[212] [213]
Tɛmplet:CAN Lindell Wigginton* G 2022–present2 [214]
Tɛmplet:CAN  United States Kyle Wiltjer F/C 2016–20171 Born in the United States to a Canadian father and American mother, represents Canada internationally. [215]
Tɛmplet:CAN Jim Zoet C 19821 [216]
Tɛmplet:CPV Edy Tavares C 201520172 [217]
Tɛmplet:CHN  United States Kyle Anderson* F 2014–present9 Born in the United States, obtained Chinese citizenship, represents China internationally. [218] [219]
Tɛmplet:CHN Mengke Bateer C 200220033 [220]
Tɛmplet:CHN Sun Yue G 2008–20091 [221]
Tɛmplet:CHN Wang Zhizhi C 200120055 [222]
Tɛmplet:CHN Yao Ming^ C 200220118 [223]
Tɛmplet:CHN Yi Jianlian F 200720125 [224]
Tɛmplet:CHN Zhou Qi C 201720182 [225]
Tɛmplet:COL Jaime Echenique C 20211 [226]
Tɛmplet:CRO Tɛmplet:FRG
(now Tɛmplet:DEU)
Dalibor Bagarić C 200020033 Born in West Germany,[G] represents Croatia internationally. [227]
Tɛmplet:CRO Tɛmplet:BIH Dragan Bender F/C 201620204 Born in Bosnia and Herzegovina, represents Croatia internationally.[228] [229]
Tɛmplet:CRO Tɛmplet:Country data SFR Yugoslavia
(now Tɛmplet:BIH)
Bojan Bogdanović* SF 2014–present9 Born in SFR Yugoslavia,[D] represents Croatia internationally. [230]
Tɛmplet:CRO Duje Dukan F 20161 Born in Croatia, moved to the United States at the age of 10 months and is also U.S. citizen. Represents Croatia internationally.[231][232] [233]
Tɛmplet:CRO Tɛmplet:Country data SFR Yugoslavia
(now Tɛmplet:CRO)
Gordan Giriček G/F 200220086 Born in SFR Yugoslavia,[D] represented Croatia internationally during his playing career. [234]
Tɛmplet:CRO  United States Justin Hamilton C 20142015;
2016–2017
3 Croatian ancestry on his mother side. Born in the United States, represents Croatia internationally. [235]
Tɛmplet:CRO Mario Hezonja G/F 201520205 [236]
Tɛmplet:CRO Tɛmplet:Country data SFR Yugoslavia
(now Tɛmplet:CRO)
Mario Kasun C 200420062 Born in SFR Yugoslavia,[D] represents Croatia internationally. [237]
Tɛmplet:CRO Tɛmplet:Country data SFR Yugoslavia
(now Tɛmplet:CRO)
Toni Kukoč^ F 1993200613 Born in SFR Yugoslavia,[D] represented SFR Yugoslavia and Croatia internationally during his playing career. [238]
Tɛmplet:CRO  United States Oliver Lafayette G 20101 Born in the United States, represents Croatia internationally. [235]
Tɛmplet:CRO Tɛmplet:Country data SFR Yugoslavia
(now Tɛmplet:BIH)
Damir Markota C 2006–20071 Born in SFR Yugoslavia,[D] grew up in Sweden, represents Croatia internationally.[239] [240]
Tɛmplet:CRO Tɛmplet:Country data SFR Yugoslavia
(now Tɛmplet:CRO)
Dražen Petrović^ G 198919934 Born in SFR Yugoslavia,[D] represented SFR Yugoslavia and Croatia internationally until his death in 1993. [241]
Tɛmplet:CRO Tɛmplet:Country data SFR Yugoslavia
(now Tɛmplet:BIH}
Zoran Planinić G 200320063 Born in SFR Yugoslavia,[D] represents Croatia internationally. [242]
Tɛmplet:CRO Tɛmplet:Country data SFR Yugoslavia
(now Tɛmplet:CRO)
Dino Rađa^ F/C 199319974 Born in SFR Yugoslavia,[D] represented SFR Yugoslavia and Croatia internationally during his playing career. [243]
Tɛmplet:CRO Tɛmplet:Country data SFR Yugoslavia
(now Tɛmplet:CRO)
Damjan Rudež F 201420173 Born in SFR Yugoslavia,[D] represents Croatia internationally. [244]
Tɛmplet:CRO Luka Šamanić* PF 20192021;
2023–present
3 [245]
Tɛmplet:CRO Dario Šarić* F 2016–present7 [246]
Tɛmplet:CRO Tɛmplet:Country data SFR Yugoslavia
(now Tɛmplet:CRO)
Bruno Šundov C 199820057 Born in SFR Yugoslavia,[D] has represented Croatia internationally. [247]
Tɛmplet:CRO Tɛmplet:Country data SFR Yugoslavia
(now Tɛmplet:CRO)
Žan Tabak C 19941998; 199920016 Born in SFR Yugoslavia,[D] represented SFR Yugoslavia and Croatia internationally during his playing career. [248]
Tɛmplet:CRO Tɛmplet:Country data SFR Yugoslavia
(now Tɛmplet:CRO)
Roko Ukić G 200820102 Born in SFR Yugoslavia,[D] represents Croatia internationally. [249]
Tɛmplet:CRO Tɛmplet:Country data SFR Yugoslavia
(now Tɛmplet:CRO)
Stojko Vranković C 19901992; 199619995 Born in SFR Yugoslavia,[D] represented SFR Yugoslavia and Croatia internationally during his playing career. [250]
Tɛmplet:CRO Ante Žižić C 201720203 [251]
Tɛmplet:CRO Tɛmplet:Country data Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina Ivica Zubac* C 2016–present7 Born in the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, represents Croatia internationally. [252]
Tɛmplet:CUB Lazaro Borrell F 1999–20001 [253]
Tɛmplet:CUB Andrés Guibert F/C 199419952 Born in Cuba, defected to Puerto Rico in 1993.[254] [255]
Tɛmplet:CZE Vít Krejčí* G 2021–present2 [256]
Tɛmplet:CZE Tɛmplet:CSK
(now Tɛmplet:CZE)
Tomáš Satoranský G 201620226 Born in Czechoslovakia,[E] represents Czech Republic internationally. [257]
Tɛmplet:CZE Tɛmplet:CSK
(now Tɛmplet:CZE)
Jan Veselý F 201120143 Born in Czechoslovakia,[E] represents Czech Republic internationally. [258]
Tɛmplet:CZE Tɛmplet:CSK
(now Tɛmplet:CZE)
Jiří Welsch G 200220064 Born in Czechoslovakia,[E] represents Czech Republic internationally. [259]
Tɛmplet:CZE Tɛmplet:CSK
(now Tɛmplet:CZE)
George Zídek C 199519983 Born in Czechoslovakia,[E] represented Czech Republic internationally during his playing career. Known in Europe as Jiří Zidek, Jr. [260]
Tɛmplet:COD  Zaire
(now Tɛmplet:COD)
Bismack Biyombo* C 2011–present12 Born in Zaire. [261]
Tɛmplet:COD  Zaire
(now Tɛmplet:COD)
Christian Eyenga G/F 201020122 Born in Zaire. [262]
Tɛmplet:COD Jonathan Kuminga* F 2021–present2 [263]
Tɛmplet:COD  Zaire
(now Tɛmplet:COD)
Emmanuel Mudiay F 20152020;
2022
6 Born in Zaire. [264]
Tɛmplet:COD Dikembe Mutombo^ C 1991200918 Born in the original Democratic Republic of the Congo, raised in Zaire throughout most of its existence. [265]
Tɛmplet:DEN Gabriel Lundberg G 20221 [266]
Tɛmplet:DMA Garth Joseph C 2000–20011 [267]
Tɛmplet:DOM Ángel Delgado C 2018–20191 [268]
Tɛmplet:DOM Chris Duarte* G 2021–present2 Born & raised in the Dominican Republic, father is Canadian. [269]
Tɛmplet:DOM Luis Flores G 2004–20051 [270]
Tɛmplet:DOM Francisco García F/G 2005201410 [271]
Tɛmplet:DOM Tito Horford C 19881990;
1993
3 [272]
Tɛmplet:DOM Al Horford* C 2007–present16 [273]
Tɛmplet:DOM Felipe López G 199820024 [274]
Tɛmplet:DOM  United States Justin Minaya* F 2023–present1 Born in the United States to Dominican parents, represents Dominican Republic internationally. [275]
Tɛmplet:DOM Luis Montero G 2015–2016;
2017–2018
2 [276]
Tɛmplet:DOM  United States Lester Quiñones* G 2023–present1 Born in the United States to Dominican parents, represents Dominican Republic internationally. [277]
Tɛmplet:DOM  United States Karl-Anthony Towns* C 2015–present8 Born in the United States to a Dominican mother, represents Dominican Republic internationally. [278]
Tɛmplet:DOM  United States Charlie Villanueva F 2005201611 Born in the United States to Dominican parents, previously represented the United States at youth level, now represents Dominican Republic internationally.[279] [280]
Tɛmplet:EGY Alaa Abdelnaby F/C 199019955 Born in Egypt, moved to the United States at the age of 2 and is also U.S. citizen.[281] [282]
Tɛmplet:EGY Abdel Nader F/G 201720225 Born in Egypt, moved to the United States at the age of 3 and is also U.S. citizen.[283] [284]
Tɛmplet:EST Martin Müürsepp F 199619982 Born in the Estonian SSR,[I] represented Estonia internationally during his playing career. [285]
Tɛmplet:FIN Lauri Markkanen* F/C 2017–present6 [286]
Tɛmplet:FIN Hanno Möttölä C 200020022 [287]
Tɛmplet:FIN  France Erik Murphy C 2013–20141 Born in France to an American father and Finnish mother. Holds both American and Finnish passports. Represents Finland internationally. [288]
 France Tariq Abdul-Wahad
(formerly Olivier Saint-Jean)
F 199720036 [289]
 France Alexis Ajinça F 20082011; 201320187 [290]
 France Joel Ayayi G 2021–20221 Born in France by Beninese parents [291]
 France Nicolas Batum* G 2008–present15 [292]
 France Tɛmplet:Country data Guadeloupe Guadeloupe Rodrigue Beaubois G 200920134 Born in Guadeloupe, an overseas region of France in the Caribbean. [293]
 France  United States Howard Carter G 198319842 Born in the United States, became a naturalized French citizen, represented France internationally during his playing career.[294] [295]
 France Petr Cornelie F 2021–20221 Born in France by Czech mother and French father [296]
 France Nando De Colo G 201220142 [297]
 France Moussa Diabaté* F 2022–present1 Born in France to Malian and Guinean parents. [298]
 France Boris Diaw F/C 2003201714 [299]
 France Yakhouba Diawara F 200620104 [300]
 France Ousmane Dieng* G 2022–present1 [301]
 France Tɛmplet:GUI Sekou Doumbouya F 201920223 Born in Guinea, grew up in France.[302] [303]
 France Evan Fournier* G/F 2012–present11 Born in France by an Algerian mother.[304] [305]
 France Tɛmplet:Country data Guadeloupe Guadeloupe Mickaël Gelabale F 20062008;
2013
3 Born in Guadeloupe, an overseas region of France in the Caribbean. [306]
 France Rudy Gobert* C 2013–present10 [307]
 France  United States Killian Hayes* G 2020–present3 Born in the United States to an American father and a French mother, grew up in France and represents France internationally.[308] [309]
 France Jaylen Hoard SF 201920223 Born in France by American father.[310] [311]
 France William Howard F 2019–20201 [312]
 France Tɛmplet:GUF Damien Inglis F 2015–20161 Born in French Guiana, an overseas region of France in South America. [313]
 France Joffrey Lauvergne F/C 201520184 [314]
 France Timothé Luwawu-Cabarrot G/F 201620226 [315]
 France Ian Mahinmi C 2007202012 [316]
 France Théo Maledon* G 2020–present3 [317]
 France Jérôme Moïso F 200020055 [318]
 France Adam Mokoka G 201920212 [319]
 France  United States Joakim Noah C 2007202013 Born in the United States to a French father and a Swedish mother, grew up in France and the United States, became a French citizen and represented France internationally during his playing career.[320] [321]
 France  Belgium Frank Ntilikina* G 2017–present6 Born in Belgium to Rwandan parents, grew up in France, represents France internationally.[322] [323]
 France Elie Okobo G 201820202 Born in France to a Congolese father and a French mother. [324]
 France  Belgium Tony Parker^ G 2001201918 Born in Belgium to an American father and a Dutch mother, grew up in France, represents France internationally.[325] [326]
 France Johan Petro C 200520138 [327]
 France Tɛmplet:Country data Guadeloupe Guadeloupe Mickaël Piétrus G/F 2003201310 Born in Guadeloupe, an overseas region of France in the Caribbean. [328]
 France Vincent Poirier C 201920212 [329]
 France Tɛmplet:HTI Yves Pons F 202120221 Born in Haiti, grew up in France, represents France internationally.[330] [331]
 France Antoine Rigaudeau G 20031 [332]
 France Olivier Sarr* C 2021–present2 Born in France, he is of Senegalese descent. [333]
 France Tɛmplet:GUF Kevin Séraphin F 201020177 Born in French Guiana, an overseas region of France in South America. [334]
 France Pape Sy F/G 2010–20111 [335]
 France Killian Tillie F/C 202020222 [336]
 France Axel Toupane F/G 20162017;
2021
3 [337]
 France Tɛmplet:MTQ Ronny Turiaf F 2006201410 Born in Martinique, an overseas region of France in the Caribbean. [338]
 France Guerschon Yabusele F 201720192 [339]
Tɛmplet:GAB Stéphane Lasme F 2007–20081 [340]
Tɛmplet:GAB Chris Silva F 201920234 [341]
Tɛmplet:GEO Goga Bitadze* C 2019–present4 [342]
Tɛmplet:GEO  United States Taurean Green G 2007–20081 Born in the United States, became a naturalized Georgian citizen, represents Georgia internationally.[343] [344]
Tɛmplet:GEO  United States Sandro Mamukelashvili* F/C 2021–present2 Born in the United States by Georgian parents, he grew up in Georgia. [345]
Tɛmplet:GEO Tɛmplet:URS
(now Tɛmplet:GEO)
Zaza Pachulia C 2003201916 Born in the Soviet Union,[F] represents Georgia internationally. Also holds a Turkish passport.[346] [347]
Tɛmplet:GEO  United States Jacob Pullen G 2017–20181 Born in the United States, became a naturalized Georgian citizen.[348] [349]
Tɛmplet:GEO  United States Melvin Sanders G/F 2005–20061 Born in the United States, became a naturalized Georgian citizen.[350] [351]
Tɛmplet:GEO Tornike Shengelia F 201220142 [352]
Tɛmplet:GEO Tɛmplet:URS
(now Tɛmplet:GEO)
Vladimir Stepania C 199820046 Born in the Soviet Union.[F] [353]
Tɛmplet:GEO Tɛmplet:URS
(now Tɛmplet:GEO)
Nikoloz Tskitishvili F 200220064 Born in the Soviet Union,[F] represents Georgia internationally [354]
Tɛmplet:GEO  United States Shammond Williams G 19982004; 2006–20077 Born in the United States, became a naturalized Georgian citizen, represented Georgia internationally during his playing career.[355] [356]
Tɛmplet:GEO  United States Luke Zeller G 2012–20131 Born in the United States, became a naturalized Georgian citizen.[357][358] [359]
 Germany Uwe Blab C 198519905 Born in West Germany.[G] [360]
 Germany Isaac Bonga G 201820224 [361]
 Germany Shawn Bradley C 1993200512 Born in West Germany[G] to American parents, grew up in the United States, represented Germany internationally during his playing career.[362] [363]
 Germany Frido Frey F 1946–19471 Born in the Weimar Republic,[G] grew up in the U.S.[364] [365]
 Germany Elias Harris F 20131 Born in West Germany.[G] [366]
 Germany  United States Isaiah Hartenstein* C 2018–present5 Born in the U.S. to German father and American mother, he moved to Germany at the age of 10 and he represents Germany internationally.[367] [368]
 Germany Charlie Hoefer F 194619482 Born in the Weimar Republic,[G] grew up in the U.S.[369] [370]
 Germany  United States Chris Kaman C 2003201613 German ancestry on his father side. Born in the United States, represents Germany internationally.[371] [372]
 Germany Maxi Kleber* F 2017–present6 [373]
 Germany Dirk Nowitzki^ F 1998201921 Born in West Germany.[G] [374]
 Germany Tim Ohlbrecht F/C 20131 Born in West Germany.[G] [375]
 Germany Tibor Pleiß C 2015–20161 Born in West Germany.[G] [376]
 Germany Detlef Schrempf F/C 1985200116 Born in West Germany.[G] [377]
 Germany Dennis Schröder* G 2013–present10 Born in Germany to Gambian mother. [378]
 Germany Daniel Theis* F/C 2017–present6 [379]
 Germany Franz Wagner* SF 2021–present2 [380]
 Germany Moritz Wagner* F/C 2018–present5 [381]
 Germany Chris Welp C 198719903 Born in West Germany.[G] [382]
 Germany Paul Zipser G/F 201620182 [383]
Tɛmplet:GHA Ben Bentil F 20171 [384]
Tɛmplet:GHA Amida Brimah C 20211 [385]
Tɛmplet:GBR2
 England
 United States John Amaechi C/F 1995–1996; 199920035 Born in the United States to a Nigerian father and a British mother, grew up in England, represented England internationally during his playing career.[386][387] [388]
Tɛmplet:GBR2
 England
OG Anunoby* SF 2017–present6 Born in England to Nigerian parents. Moved to the U.S. when he was four years old and learned to play basketball there.[389] [390]
Tɛmplet:GBR2
Tɛmplet:SCO
Robert Archibald F 200220042 [391]
Tɛmplet:GBR2
 England
Steve Bucknall G 1989–19901 First British player who actually grew up in his country of birth and learned to play basketball there.[392] [393]
Tɛmplet:GBR2
 England
Tɛmplet:SUD
(now Tɛmplet:SSD)
Luol Deng F 2004201915 Born in Sudan (now South Sudan),[H] grew up in England, became a naturalized British citizen, represents England and Great Britain internationally.[394] [395]
Tɛmplet:GBR2
 England
James Donaldson C 19801993; 199514 Born in England, grew up in the U.S. [396]
Tɛmplet:GBR2
 England
Ndudi Ebi F 200320052 Born in England to Nigerian parents, grew up in the United States.[387] [397]
Tɛmplet:GBR2
 England
Joel Freeland C 201220153 [398]
Tɛmplet:GBR2
 England
Ben Gordon G 2004201511 Born in England to Jamaican parents, grew up in the United States, represents Great Britain internationally.[399] [400]
Tɛmplet:GBR2
 England
Chris Harris G 1955–19561 Moved from Southampton, England to the U.S. when he was young. [401]
Tɛmplet:GBR2
 England
Pops Mensah-Bonsu F 2006–2007; 200920114 Born in England to Ghanaian parents, represented Great Britain internationally during his playing career.[402] [403]
Tɛmplet:GBR2
 England
 United States Byron Mullens C 200920145 Born in the United States to an American father and a British mother, grew up in the US, obtained British passport to be considered to represent Great Britain internationally.[404] [405]
Tɛmplet:GRE Giannis Antetokounmpo* F 2013–present10 Born in Greece to Nigerian parents, became a Greek citizen in May 2013. Represents Greece internationally.[406] [407]
Tɛmplet:GRE Kostas Antetokounmpo F 201820213 Born in Greece to Nigerian parents, became a Greek citizen in May 2016.[408] [409]
Tɛmplet:GRE Thanasis Antetokounmpo* F 2016;
2019–present
5 Born in Greece to Nigerian parents, became a Greek citizen in May 2013. [410]
Tɛmplet:GRE  United States Nick Calathes G 201320152 Born in the United States to Greek parents, represents Greece internationally. [411]
Tɛmplet:GRE  United States Tyler Dorsey G 20172019;
2022
3 Born in the United States to American father and Greek mother, represents Greece internationally.[412] [413]
Tɛmplet:GRE Antonis Fotsis F 2001–20021 [414]
Tɛmplet:GRE Andreas Glyniadakis C 2006–20071 [415]
Tɛmplet:GRE Georgios Kalaitzakis G/F 202120221 [416]
Tɛmplet:GRE  United States Kosta Koufos C 2008201911 Born in the United States to Greek parents, represents Greece internationally.[417] [418]
Tɛmplet:GRE Georgios Papagiannis C 201620182 [419]
Tɛmplet:GRE Kostas Papanikolaou F 201420162 [420]
Tɛmplet:GRE Efthimios Rentzias C 2002–20031 [421]
Tɛmplet:GRE Vassilis Spanoulis G 2006–20071 [422]
Tɛmplet:GRE Tɛmplet:URS
(now Tɛmplet:GEO)
Jake Tsakalidis C 200020077 Born in Soviet Union (now Georgia),[F] represented Greece internationally during his playing career.[423] [424]
Tɛmplet:GUI Mamadi Diakite* F 2020–present3 [425]
Tɛmplet:GUY Rawle Marshall G/F 200520072 [426]
Tɛmplet:GUY Jason Miskiri G 19991 [427]
Tɛmplet:HTI Yvon Joseph C 19851 [428]
Tɛmplet:HTI Skal Labissière C 201620204 [429]
Tɛmplet:HTI Olden Polynice C/F 19872001;
2003–2004
15 Born in Haiti, grew up in the United States.[430] [431]
Tɛmplet:HUN Kornél Dávid F 199920013 [432]
Tɛmplet:ISL Pétur Guðmundsson C 1981–1982;
19861989
5 First European NBA player who took up the game while growing up in his own homeland.[433] [434]
Tɛmplet:IDN  United States Marques Bolden C 201920212 Born in the United States, became a naturalized Indonesian citizen, represents Indonesia internationally.[435] [436]
Tɛmplet:IRI Hamed Haddadi C 200820135 [437]
Tɛmplet:IRL  United States Cal Bowdler F 199920023 Born in the United States, represented Ireland internationally during his playing career.[438] [439]
Tɛmplet:IRL Pat Burke C/F 2002–2003; 200520073 [440]
Tɛmplet:IRL  United States Marty Conlon F/C 199120009 Born in the United States, represented Ireland internationally during his playing career.[441] [442]
Tɛmplet:ISR Deni Avdija* F 2020–present3 Born in Israel by Serbian father.[443] [444]
Tɛmplet:ISR  United States Cory Carr G 19991 Born in the United States, became a naturalized Israeli citizen, represented Israel internationally.[445] [446]
Tɛmplet:ISR Omri Casspi F 2009201910 [447]
Tɛmplet:ISR T. J. Leaf F 201720214 Born in Israel to American-born/ Israeli-naturalized parents, previously represented the United States at youth level,[448] represents Israel internationally.[449] [450]
Tɛmplet:ISR Gal Mekel G 201320142 [451]
Tɛmplet:ISR  United States Chris Smith G 20131 Born in the United States, became a naturalized Israeli citizen. [452] [453]
 Italy  United States Ryan Arcidiacono G 201720236 Born in the United States, unofficially represents Italy internationally.[454] Does not hold Italian citizenship and cannot officially represent Italy in competition. [455]
 Italy Andrea Bargnani F 2006201610 First European drafted #1 overall in the NBA draft [456]
 Italy Marco Belinelli G 2007202013 [457]
 Italy  United States Mike D'Antoni G 197319774 Born in the United States, represented Italy internationally during his playing career. [458]
 Italy Gigi Datome F 201320152 [459]
 Italy  United States Travis Diener G 200520105 Born in the United States, represents Italy internationally.[460] [461]
 Italy Vincenzo Esposito G 1995–19961 [462]
 Italy Simone Fontecchio* F 2022–present1 [463]
 Italy Danilo Gallinari* F 2008–present14 [464]
 Italy Nico Mannion G 2020–20211 Born in Italy by Italian mother and American father.[465] [466]
 Italy Nicolò Melli F 201920212 Born in Italy by Italian father and American mother. [467]
 Italy  United States Brian Oliver PF/C 19901992;
1994;
1998
4 Born in the United States; naturalized Italian citizen.[468] [469]
 Italy Stefano Rusconi C/F 1995–19961 [470]
Tɛmplet:CIV  United States Matt Costello F/C 2017–20181 Born in the United States, became a naturalized Ivorian citizen, represents Ivory Coast internationally. [471]
Tɛmplet:CIV  United States Alex Poythress F 201720193 Born in the United States, became a naturalized Ivorian citizen, represents Ivory Coast internationally.[472] [473]
Tɛmplet:JAM  United States Patrick Ewing Jr. F 20111 Born in the United States to a Jamaican father and an American mother, represents Jamaica internationally.[474] [475]
Tɛmplet:JAM  United States Roy Hibbert C 200820179 Born in the United States to a Jamaican father and a Trinidadian mother, previously represented the United States at youth level, now represents Jamaica internationally.[476] [477]
Tɛmplet:JAM Omari Johnson F 20181 Born in Jamaica to American parents.[478] [479]
Tɛmplet:JAM Jerome Jordan C 2011–2012;
2014–2015
2 [480]
Tɛmplet:JAM  United States Josh Minott* F 2022–present1 Born in the United States, represents Jamaica internationally. [481]
Tɛmplet:JAM  United States Ryan Reid F 2011–20121 Born in the United States, became a naturalized Jamaican citizen. [482]
Tɛmplet:JAM Nick Richards* C 2020–present3 [483]
Tɛmplet:JAM Rumeal Robinson G 19901994;
1996-1997
6 [484]
Tɛmplet:JAM Samardo Samuels F 201020133 [485]
Tɛmplet:JAM Wayne Sappleton F 1984–19851 [486]
Tɛmplet:JAM  United States Gary Voce F 19891 Born in the United States, became a naturalized Jamaican citizen. [487]
 Japan  United States Nick Fazekas F/C 2007–20081 Born in the United States, became a naturalized Japanese citizen, represents Japan internationally.[488] [489]
 Japan Rui Hachimura* F 2019–present4 Born in Japan by Japanese mother and Beninese father.[490] [491]
 Japan  United States J. R. Sakuragi
(formerly J. R. Henderson)
F 1998–19991 Born in the United States, became a naturalized Japanese citizen, represents Japan internationally.[492] [493]
 Japan Yuta Tabuse G 20041 [494]
 Japan Yuta Watanabe* F 2018–present5 [495]
Tɛmplet:JOR  United States Rondae Hollis-Jefferson F 201520216 Born in the United States, became a naturalized Jordanian citizen, represents Jordan internationally. [496] [497]
Tɛmplet:LVA Dairis Bertāns G 20191 Born in the Latvian SSR,[I] represents Latvia internationally. [498]
Tɛmplet:LVA Dāvis Bertāns* F 2016–present7 [499]
Tɛmplet:LVA Andris Biedriņš C 2004201410 Born in the Latvian SSR,[I] represented Latvia internationally during his playing career. [500]
Tɛmplet:LVA Rodions Kurucs F 201820213 [501]
Tɛmplet:LVA Anžejs Pasečņiks C 201920212 [502]
Tɛmplet:LVA Kristaps Porziņģis* F/C 2015–present7 [503]
Tɛmplet:LVA Gundars Vētra F 1992–19931 Born in the Latvian SSR,[I] represented the Soviet Union internationally during his playing career. [504]
Tɛmplet:LBN  United States Matt Freije F 2004–2005; 20062 Born in the United States, became a naturalized Lebanese citizen, represents Lebanon internationally.[505] [506]
Tɛmplet:LBN Tɛmplet:ATG Norvel Pelle PF 201920223 Born in Antigua and Barbuda, he moved to the U.S. Virgin Islands and later to the USA, became a naturalized Lebanese citizen, represents Lebanon internationally.[507][508] He also holds U.S. citizenship. [509]
Tɛmplet:LBN Rony Seikaly C 1988199911 Born in Lebanon, initially represented the United States internationally during his playing career.[510][511] before receiving special permission from FIBA to switch to representing the Lebanese national team later in his career.[512] [513]
Tɛmplet:LBN  United States Jackson Vroman F/C 200420062 Born in the United States, became a naturalized Lebanese citizen, represented Lebanon internationally during his playing career.[505] [514]
Tɛmplet:LBN  United States Loren Woods C 20012006; 20086 Born in the United States, became a naturalized Lebanese citizen, represents Lebanon internationally.[505] [515]
Tɛmplet:LBR  United States Othello Hunter C 200820102 Born in the United States to Liberian parents, has both Liberian and American citizenship.[516] [517]
Tɛmplet:LBA  United States Hesham Salem
(formerly Hiram Fuller)
F 20041 Born in the United States, became a naturalized Libyan citizen, represents Libya internationally.[518][519] [520]
Tɛmplet:LBA  United States Raed Elhamali
(formerly Randy Holcomb)
F 20061 Born in the United States, became a naturalized Libyan citizen, represents Libya internationally.[518][521] [522]
Tɛmplet:LTU Martynas Andriuškevičius C 200520071 Born in the Lithuanian SSR,[I] represented Lithuania internationally during his playing career. [523]
Tɛmplet:LTU Ignas Brazdeikis F 201920223 Also has Canadian citizenship. Represented Canada in youth tournaments,[524] then received FIBA confirmation to switch to playing for Lithuania's senior team for the 2023 FIBA World Cup Qualifiers.[525] [526]
Tɛmplet:LTU Zydrunas Ilgauskas C 1996201113 Born in the Lithuanian SSR,[I] represented Lithuania internationally during his playing career. [527]
Tɛmplet:LTU Šarūnas Jasikevičius G 200520072 Born in the Lithuanian SSR,[I] represented Lithuania internationally during his playing career. [528]
Tɛmplet:LTU Linas Kleiza F 20052009; 201020137 Born in the Lithuanian SSR,[I] represented Lithuania internationally during his playing career. [529]
Tɛmplet:LTU Arnoldas Kulboka F 202120221 [530]
Tɛmplet:LTU Mindaugas Kuzminskas F 201620172 Born in the Lithuanian SSR,[I] represents Lithuania internationally. [531]
Tɛmplet:LTU Arvydas Macijauskas G 2005–20061 Born in the Lithuanian SSR,[I] represented Lithuania internationally during his playing career. [532]
Tɛmplet:LTU Šarūnas Marčiulionis^ G 198919978 Born in the Lithuanian SSR,[I] represented the Soviet Union and Lithuania internationally during his playing career. [533]
Tɛmplet:LTU Donatas Motiejūnas F/C 20122017;
2019
6 [534]
Tɛmplet:LTU Arvydas Sabonis^ C 19952001; 2002–20037 Born in the Lithuanian SSR,[I] represented the Soviet Union and Lithuania internationally during his playing career. [535]
Tɛmplet:LTU  United States Domantas Sabonis* C 2016–present7 Born in the United States to Lithuanian parents, represents Lithuania internationally. [536]
Tɛmplet:LTU Darius Songaila F 200320118 Born in the Lithuanian SSR,[I] represented Lithuania internationally during his playing career. [537]
Tɛmplet:LTU Deividas Sirvydis G/F 2020–20211 [538]
Tɛmplet:LTU Jonas Valančiūnas* C 2012–present11 [539]
Tɛmplet:LUX Alvin Jones F 2001–20021 Born in Luxembourg to an American father and Luxembourgish mother.[540] [541]
Tɛmplet:MLI Cheick Diallo F 20162020; 2021–20225 [542]
Tɛmplet:MLI Soumaila Samake C 2000–2001;
2002
2 [543]
Tɛmplet:MEX  United States Lance Allred C 20081 Born in the United States, represented Mexico internationally.[544] [545]
Tɛmplet:MEX Gustavo Ayón F 201120143 [546]
Tɛmplet:MEX Jorge Gutiérrez G 20142015;
2016
3 [547]
Tɛmplet:MEX Horacio Llamas C 199719982 [548]
Tɛmplet:MEX Eduardo Nájera F 2000201212 [549]
Tɛmplet:MEX  United States Juan Toscano-Anderson* F 2020–present4 Born in the United States to Mexican parents. [550]
Tɛmplet:MNE Tɛmplet:Country data SFR Yugoslavia
(now Tɛmplet:SRB)
Žarko Čabarkapa F 200320063 Born in SFR Yugoslavia,[D] represented FR Yugoslavia, Serbia and Montenegro, and Montenegro internationally during his playing career. [551]
Tɛmplet:MNE  United States Omar Cook G 200420052 Born in the United States, became a naturalized Montenegrin citizen, represents Montenegro internationally.[552] [553]
Tɛmplet:MNE  United States Quincy Douby G 200620093 Born in the United States, became a naturalized Montenegrin citizen, represents Montenegro internationally.[552] [554]
Tɛmplet:MNE Tɛmplet:Country data SFR Yugoslavia
(now Tɛmplet:MNE)
Predrag Drobnjak C 200120054 Born in SFR Yugoslavia,[D] represented FR Yugoslavia, Serbia and Montenegro, and Montenegro internationally during his playing career. [555]
Tɛmplet:MNE  United States Javonte Green* G 2019–present4 Born in the United States, became a naturalized Montenegrin citizen, represents Montenegro internationally.[556] [557]
Tɛmplet:MNE Tɛmplet:Country data SFR Yugoslavia
(now Tɛmplet:MNE)
Nikola Peković C 201020176 Born in SFR Yugoslavia,[D] represents Serbia and Montenegro and Montenegro internationally. [558]
Tɛmplet:MNE Tɛmplet:Country data SFR Yugoslavia
(now Tɛmplet:CRO)
Predrag Savović G 2002–20031 Born in SFR Yugoslavia.[D] Also has Spanish citizenship. [559]
Tɛmplet:MNE Tɛmplet:Country data FR Yugoslavia
(now Tɛmplet:MNE)
Marko Simonović F/C 202120232 Born in FR Yugoslavia,[D] represents Montenegro internationally. [560]
Tɛmplet:MNE Tɛmplet:Country data SFR Yugoslavia
(now Tɛmplet:MNE)
Slavko Vraneš C 20041 Born in SFR Yugoslavia,[D] represents Montenegro internationally. [561]
Tɛmplet:MNE  Switzerland Nikola Vučević* C 2011–present12 Born in Switzerland to Montenegrin parents, grew up in Belgium, represents Montenegro internationally.[562] [563]
Tɛmplet:NLD Francisco Elson C 200320129 [564]
Tɛmplet:NLD Dan Gadzuric C 20022011; 201210 [565]
Tɛmplet:NLD Geert Hammink C 199419963 [566]
Tɛmplet:NLD Swen Nater C 197619848 Born in the Netherlands, moved to the United States at the age of 9. [567]
Tɛmplet:NLD Rik Smits C 1988200012 [568]
Tɛmplet:NZL Steven Adams* C 2013–present10 [569]
Tɛmplet:NZL Sean Marks F/C 19982000; 20012003; 2004201111 [570]
Tɛmplet:NZL Kirk Penney G 200320052 [571]
 Nigeria Precious Achiuwa* F 2020–present3 [572]
 Nigeria  United States Josh Akognon G 20131 Born in the United States to Nigerian parents, represents Nigeria internationally.[573] [574]
 Nigeria Solomon Alabi C 201020122 [575]
 Nigeria  United States Al-Farouq Aminu F 2010202212 Born in the United States to Nigerian parents, represents Nigeria internationally.[576] [577]
 Nigeria Peter Aluma C 19991 [578]
 Nigeria Tɛmplet:GBR2
 England
Kelenna Azubuike G 20072011; 20125 Born in England to Nigerian parents, grew up in the United States, does not hold British citizenship.[579][580] [581]
 Nigeria Udoka Azubuike* C 2020–present3 [582]
 Nigeria Charles Bassey* F 2021–present2 [583]
 Nigeria Yinka Dare C 199419984 [584]
 Nigeria  United States Ike Diogu F 200520126 Born in the United States to Nigerian parents, represents Nigeria internationally.[576] [585]
 Nigeria Obinna Ekezie F/C 19992002;
2005
4 [586]
 Nigeria Festus Ezeli C 201220173 [587]
 Nigeria  United States Michael Gbinije F 2016–20171 Born and raised in the United States to an American mother and a Nigerian father, represents Nigeria internationally. [588]
 Nigeria  United States Gani Lawal F 2010–20111 Born and raised in the United States to an American mother and a Nigerian father, represents Nigeria internationally. [589]
 Nigeria  United States Chimezie Metu* F 2018–present5 Born in the United States to Nigerian parents, represents Nigeria internationally.[590] [591]
 Nigeria Chima Moneke F 20221 [592]
 Nigeria  United States Monte Morris* G 2017–present6 Born in the United States to Nigerian parents, represents Nigeria internationally. [593]
 Nigeria  United States Jordan Nwora* F 2020–present3 Born in the United States to Nigerian parents, represents Nigeria internationally. [594]
 Nigeria Julius Nwosu C 1994–19951 [595]
 Nigeria  United States Daniel Ochefu F 2016–20171 Born in the United States to Nigerian parents, represents Nigeria internationally.[596] [597]
 Nigeria  United States Jahlil Okafor C 201520216 Born in the United States to Nigerian father and American mother, represents Nigeria internationally. He previously represented U.S. youth national teams. [598]
 Nigeria Josh Okogie* F 2018–present5 Born in Nigeria, became a naturalized U.S citizen and represented U.S. youth before representing Nigeria internationally. [599]
 Nigeria  United States KZ Okpala F/G 201920234 Born in the United States to Nigerian parents, represents Nigeria internationally. [600]
 Nigeria Michael Olowokandi C 199820079 Born in Nigeria, grew up in England.[387] [601]
 Nigeria  United States Miye Oni G/F 201920223 Born in the United States to Nigerian parents, represents Nigeria internationally. [602]
 Nigeria Olumide Oyedeji C 200020033 [603]
 Nigeria  United States Ekpe Udoh F 20102015; 201720197 Born in the United States to Nigerian parents, represents Nigeria internationally.[590] [604]
 Nigeria  United States Ime Udoka F 2004; 200620117 Born in the United States, represented Nigeria internationally during his playing career.[605] [606]
 Nigeria  United States Ben Uzoh F 2010–2011; 20122 Born in the United States, represents Nigeria internationally.[590] [607]
 Nigeria  United States Gabe Vincent* F 2020–present4 Born in the United States, represents Nigeria internationally [608]
Tɛmplet:MKD Tɛmplet:Country data SFR Yugoslavia
(now Tɛmplet:MKD)
Pero Antić F/C 201320152 Born in SFR Yugoslavia,[D] has represented Macedonia internationally. [609]
Tɛmplet:MKD  United States Ryan Stack G 199820002 Born in the United States, became a naturalized Macedonian citizen, represented Macedonia internationally during his playing career.[610] [611]
Tɛmplet:MKD  United States Darius Washington G 20071 Born in the United States, became a naturalized Macedonian citizen, represents North Macedonia internationally.[612] [613]
Tɛmplet:MKD  United States Shayne Whittington G 201420162 Born in the United States, became a naturalized Macedonian citizen, represents North Macedonia internationally.[614] [615]
Tɛmplet:MKD  United States Jacob Wiley F/C 2017–20181 Born in the United States, became a naturalized Macedonian citizen, represents North Macedonia internationally. [616]
Tɛmplet:NOR Torgeir Bryn C 19891 [617]
Tɛmplet:PAN  United States Lorenzo Charles F 1985–19861 Born in the United States, represented Panama internationally during his playing career.[618] [619]
Tɛmplet:PAN Gary Forbes F 201020122 [620]
Tɛmplet:PAN Rubén Garcés F 2000–20011 [621]
Tɛmplet:PAN  United States Stuart Gray C/F 198419917 Born in the Panama Canal Zone (which was controlled by the United States), represented Panama internationally during his playing career.[618] [622]
 Philippines  United States Andray Blatche F/C 200520149 Born in the United States, became a naturalized Filipino citizen, represents the Philippines internationally. [623]
 Philippines  United States Jordan Clarkson* G 2014–present9 Born in the United States to an American father and a Filipino mother, represents the Philippines internationally.[624] [625]
 Philippines  United States Raymond Townsend G 19781980;
1981–1982
3 Born in the United States to an American father and a Filipino mother.[626] [627]
Tɛmplet:POL Marcin Gortat C/F 2007201912 [628]
Tɛmplet:POL Maciej Lampe F/C 200320063 Born in Poland, grew up in Sweden, represents Poland internationally.[239] [629]
Tɛmplet:POL  United States Jeff Nordgaard SF 1997–19981 Born in the United States, represented Poland internationally. [630]
Tɛmplet:POL  United States Jeremy Sochan* F 2022–present1 Born in the United States to a Polish mother and an American father. Has Polish, British, and American citizenship, represents Poland internationally.[631] [632]
Tɛmplet:POL Cezary Trybański C 200220042 [633]
 Portugal Neemias Queta* C 2021–present2 Born in Portugal to Bissau-Guinean parents. [634]
Tɛmplet:PUR  United States Jose Alvarado* G 2021–present2 Born on the United States mainland, represents Puerto Rico internationally.[635] [636]
Tɛmplet:PUR Carlos Arroyo G 20012008;
20092011
9 [637]
Tɛmplet:PUR  United States Renaldo Balkman F 200620126 Born on the United States mainland, represents Puerto Rico internationally.[638] [639]
Tɛmplet:PUR J. J. Barea G 2006202014 [640]
Tɛmplet:PUR Gian Clavell G 20171 [641]
Tɛmplet:PUR  United States Tyler Davis C 20181 Born on the United States mainland, represents Puerto Rico internationally.[642] [643]
Tɛmplet:PUR Guillermo Díaz G 20081 [644]
Tɛmplet:PUR  United States Moe Harkless F 2012202210 Born on the United States mainland, represents Puerto Rico internationally.[645][646] [647]
Tɛmplet:PUR  United States John Holland G 2016;
20172018
3 Born on the United States mainland, represents Puerto Rico internationally.[648] In the 2015–16 season, he played one game during the Playoffs, but not during the regular season.[649] [650]
Tɛmplet:PUR Butch Lee G 197819802 Born in Puerto Rico but moved to the U.S. as a child. Represented Puerto Rico as a player and coach. [651]
Tɛmplet:PUR  United States Shabazz Napier G 201420206 Born on the United States mainland, represents Puerto Rico internationally. [652]
Tɛmplet:PUR José Ortiz F 198819902 [653]
Tɛmplet:PUR  United States Jaysean Paige G 20221 Born on the United States mainland, represents Puerto Rico internationally. [654]
Tɛmplet:PUR Peter John Ramos C 2004–20051 [655]
Tɛmplet:PUR Ramón Rivas F/C 1988–19891 [656]
Tɛmplet:PUR  United States Daniel Santiago C 20002002; 200320054 Born on the United States mainland, represents Puerto Rico internationally.[638] [657]
Tɛmplet:PUR  United States Edwin Ubiles F/G 20121 Born on the United States mainland, represents Puerto Rico internationally.[658] [659]
Tɛmplet:PUR  United States Tremont Waters PG 201920223 Born on the United States mainland, represents Puerto Rico internationally. [660]
Tɛmplet:QAT  United States Jarvis Hayes F 200320107 Born in the United States, became a naturalized Qatari citizen, represents Qatar internationally.[661] [662]
Tɛmplet:QAT  United States Trey Johnson G 2009;
20102012
3 Born in the United States, became a naturalized Qatari citizen, represents Qatar internationally.[661] [663]
Tɛmplet:ROU Gheorghe Mureșan C 19931997; 199920006 [664]
Tɛmplet:RUS Tɛmplet:URS
(now Tɛmplet:RUS)
Sergei Bazarevich G 1994–19951 Born in the Soviet Union,[F] represented the Soviet Union and Russia internationally during his playing career. [665]
Tɛmplet:RUS Tɛmplet:UKR Joel Bolomboy F/C 201620182 Born in Ukraine to a Congolese father and a Russian mother, represents Russia internationally [666]
Tɛmplet:RUS  United States Travis Hansen G 2003–20041 Born in the United States, became a naturalized Russian citizen. [667]
Tɛmplet:RUS Sergey Karasev G/F 201320163 [668]
Tɛmplet:RUS Tɛmplet:URS
(now Tɛmplet:RUS)
Sasha Kaun C 2015–20161 Born in the Soviet Union,[F] represents Russia internationally. [669]
Tɛmplet:RUS Tɛmplet:URS
(now Tɛmplet:UKR)
Viktor Khryapa F 200420084 Born in the Soviet Union,[F] represents Russia internationally. [670]
Tɛmplet:RUS Tɛmplet:URS
(now Tɛmplet:RUS)
Andrei Kirilenko F 20012011; 2012201513 Born in the Soviet Union,[F] represented Russia internationally during his playing career. He also holds U.S. citizenship since 2010.[671] [672]
Tɛmplet:RUS Tɛmplet:URS
(now Tɛmplet:RUS)
Yaroslav Korolev F 200520072 Born in the Soviet Union.[F] [673]
Tɛmplet:RUS  United States Kelly McCarty G/F 1998–19991 Born in the United States, represented Russia internationally during his playing career. [674]
Tɛmplet:RUS Tɛmplet:URS
(now Tɛmplet:RUS)
Sergei Monia F 2005–20061 Born in the Soviet Union,[F] represents Russia internationally. [675]
Tɛmplet:RUS Tɛmplet:URS
(now Tɛmplet:RUS)
Timofey Mozgov F 201020188 Born in the Soviet Union,[F] represents Russia internationally. [676]
Tɛmplet:RUS Tɛmplet:URS
(now Tɛmplet:RUS)
Pavel Podkolzin C 200420062 Born in the Soviet Union,[F] represents Russia internationally. [677]
Tɛmplet:RUS Tɛmplet:URS
(now Tɛmplet:RUS)
Alexey Shved G 201220153 Born in the Soviet Union,[F] represents Russia internationally. [678]
Tɛmplet:SEN Gorgui Dieng* C 2013–present10 [679]
Tɛmplet:SEN DeSagana Diop C 2001201312 [680]
Tɛmplet:SEN Tacko Fall C 201920223 [681]
Tɛmplet:SEN Hamady N'Diaye C 20102012;
2013–2014
3 [682]
Tɛmplet:SEN Makhtar N'Diaye F 19991 [683]
Tɛmplet:SEN Mamadou N'Diaye C 200020055 [684]
Tɛmplet:SEN Boniface N'Dong C 2005–20061 Also has German citizenship. [685]
Tɛmplet:SEN Maurice Ndour SF 2016–20171 [686]
Tɛmplet:SEN  United States Georges Niang* F 2016–present7 Born in the United States to a Senegalese father and American mother, represents Senegal internationally.[687] [688]
Tɛmplet:SEN Cheikh Samb C 200720092 [689]
Tɛmplet:SEN Mouhamed Sene F 200620093 [690]
Tɛmplet:SEN Pape Sow F 200420073 [691]
Tɛmplet:SRB Tɛmplet:Country data SFR Yugoslavia
(now Tɛmplet:SRB)
Miloš Babić C/F 199019912 Born in SFR Yugoslavia.[D] [692]
Tɛmplet:SRB Tɛmplet:Country data SFR Yugoslavia
(now Tɛmplet:SRB)
Nemanja Bjelica F 201520227 Born in SFR Yugoslavia,[D] represents Serbia internationally. [693]
Tɛmplet:SRB Tɛmplet:Country data FR Yugoslavia FR Yugoslavia
(now Tɛmplet:SRB)
Bogdan Bogdanović* G 2017–present6 Born in FR Yugoslavia,[D] represents Serbia internationally. [694]
Tɛmplet:SRB Tɛmplet:Country data SFR Yugoslavia
(now Tɛmplet:SRB)
Radisav Ćurčić C 1992–19931 Born in SFR Yugoslavia,[D] represented SFR Yugoslavia internationally during his playing career. [695]
Tɛmplet:SRB Tɛmplet:Country data SFR Yugoslavia
(now Tɛmplet:SRB)
Rastko Cvetković C 1995–19961 Born in SFR Yugoslavia,[D] represented SFR Yugoslavia internationally during his playing career. [696]
Tɛmplet:SRB Tɛmplet:Country data SFR Yugoslavia
(now Tɛmplet:BIH)
Sasha Danilović G 199519972 Born in SFR Yugoslavia,[D] represented SFR Yugoslavia and FR Yugoslavia internationally during his playing career. [697]
Tɛmplet:SRB Tɛmplet:Country data SFR Yugoslavia
(now Tɛmplet:SRB)
Vlade Divac^ C 1989200516 Born in SFR Yugoslavia,[D] represented SFR Yugoslavia and FR Yugoslavia internationally during his playing career. [698]
Tɛmplet:SRB Tɛmplet:Country data SFR Yugoslavia
(now Tɛmplet:SRB)
Aleksandar Djordjevic G 19961 Born in SFR Yugoslavia,[D] represented SFR Yugoslavia and FR Yugoslavia internationally during his playing career. [699]
Tɛmplet:SRB Tɛmplet:Country data FR Yugoslavia
(now Tɛmplet:SRB)
Marko Gudurić G/F 2019–20201 Born in FR Yugoslavia,[D] represents Serbia internationally. [700]
Tɛmplet:SRB Tɛmplet:Country data SFR Yugoslavia
(now Tɛmplet:BIH)
Mile Ilić C 2006–20071 Born in SFR Yugoslavia,[D] has represented Serbia and Montenegro internationally.[701] [702]
Tɛmplet:SRB Tɛmplet:Country data SFR Yugoslavia
(now Tɛmplet:SRB)
Marko Jarić G 200220097 Born in SFR Yugoslavia,[D] has represented FR Yugoslavia, Serbia and Montenegro, and Serbia internationally. [703]
Tɛmplet:SRB Tɛmplet:Country data FR Yugoslavia
(now Tɛmplet:SRB)
Nikola Jokić* C 2015–present8 Born in FR Yugoslavia,[D] represents Serbia internationally. [704]
Tɛmplet:SRB Tɛmplet:GBR2
 England
Nikola Jović* F 2022–present1 Born in the U.K. to Serbian parents, represents Serbia internationally. [705]
Tɛmplet:SRB Tɛmplet:Country data SFR Yugoslavia
(now Tɛmplet:SRB)
Nenad Krstić C 200420117 Born in SFR Yugoslavia,[D] has represented FR Yugoslavia, Serbia and Montenegro, and Serbia internationally. [706]
Tɛmplet:SRB Tɛmplet:Country data SFR Yugoslavia
(now Tɛmplet:BIH)
Ognjen Kuzmić C 201320152 Born in SFR Yugoslavia,[D] represents Serbia internationally. [707]
Tɛmplet:SRB Tɛmplet:Country data SFR Yugoslavia
(now Tɛmplet:SRB)
Boban Marjanović* C 2015–present8 Born in SFR Yugoslavia,[D] represents Serbia internationally. [708]
Tɛmplet:SRB Tɛmplet:Country data SFR Yugoslavia
(now Tɛmplet:SRB)
Darko Miličić F/C 2003201210 Born in SFR Yugoslavia,[D] has represented FR Yugoslavia, Serbia and Montenegro, and Serbia internationally. [709]
Tɛmplet:SRB Tɛmplet:Country data SFR Yugoslavia
(now Tɛmplet:SRB)
Nemanja Nedović G 201320141 Born in SFR Yugoslavia,[D] represents Serbia internationally. [710]
Tɛmplet:SRB Tɛmplet:Country data SFR Yugoslavia
(now Tɛmplet:MNE)
Žarko Paspalj F 1989–19901 Born in SFR Yugoslavia,[D] represented SFR Yugoslavia and FR Yugoslavia internationally during his playing career. [711]
Tɛmplet:SRB Tɛmplet:Country data SFR Yugoslavia
(now Tɛmplet:MNE)
Sasha Pavlović G/F 2003201310 Born in SFR Yugoslavia,[D] has represented FR Yugoslavia, Serbia and Montenegro, and Serbia internationally. [712]
Tɛmplet:SRB Tɛmplet:Country data SFR Yugoslavia
(now Tɛmplet:CRO)
Kosta Perović C 2007–20081 Born in SFR Yugoslavia,[D] has represented FR Yugoslavia, Serbia and Montenegro, and Serbia internationally. [713]
Tɛmplet:SRB Tɛmplet:Country data FR Yugoslavia (now  Serbia) Aleksej Pokusevski* F 2020–present3 Born in FR Yugoslavia,[D] represents Serbia internationally. [714]
Tɛmplet:SRB Tɛmplet:Country data SFR Yugoslavia
(now Tɛmplet:BIH)
Vladimir Radmanović F 2001201312 Born in SFR Yugoslavia,[D] represented FR Yugoslavia, Serbia and Montenegro, and Serbia internationally during his playing career. [715]
Tɛmplet:SRB Tɛmplet:Country data SFR Yugoslavia
(now Tɛmplet:SRB)
Miroslav Raduljica C 201320152 Born in SFR Yugoslavia,[D] represents Serbia internationally. [716]
Tɛmplet:SRB Tɛmplet:Country data SFR Yugoslavia
(now Tɛmplet:SRB)
Igor Rakočević G 2002–20031 Born in SFR Yugoslavia,[D] represented FR Yugoslavia, Serbia and Montenegro, and Serbia internationally during his playing career. [717]
Tɛmplet:SRB Tɛmplet:Country data SFR Yugoslavia
(now Tɛmplet:SRB)
Željko Rebrača C 200120075 Born in SFR Yugoslavia,[D] represented SFR Yugoslavia, FR Yugoslavia, and Serbia and Montenegro internationally during his playing career. [718]
Tɛmplet:SRB Tɛmplet:Country data FR Yugoslavia FR Yugoslavia
(now Tɛmplet:SRB)
Alen Smailagić C 201920212 Born in FR Yugoslavia,[D] represents Serbia internationally. [719]
Tɛmplet:SRB Tɛmplet:Country data SFR Yugoslavia
(now Tɛmplet:CRO)
Peja Stojaković F/G 1998201113 Born in SFR Yugoslavia,[D] represented FR Yugoslavia, Serbia and Montenegro, and Serbia internationally during his playing career. [720]
Tɛmplet:SRB Tɛmplet:Country data SFR Yugoslavia
(now Tɛmplet:SRB)
Dragan Tarlać C 2000–20011 Born in SFR Yugoslavia,[D] represented FR Yugoslavia and Serbia and Montenegro internationally during his playing career. [721]
Tɛmplet:SRB Tɛmplet:Country data SFR Yugoslavia
(now Tɛmplet:SRB)
Miloš Teodosić G 201720192 Born in SFR Yugoslavia,[D] represents Serbia internationally. [722]
Tɛmplet:SVK Tɛmplet:CSK
(now Tɛmplet:SVK)
Richard Petruška C/F 1993–19941 Born in Czechoslovakia,[E] represented Czechoslovakia and Slovakia internationally during his playing career.[723] [724]
Tɛmplet:SVN Tɛmplet:Country data SFR Yugoslavia
(now Tɛmplet:SVN)
Primož Brezec C 20012008;
2009–2010
8 Born in SFR Yugoslavia,[D] represents Slovenia internationally. [725]
Tɛmplet:SVN Vlatko Čančar* F 2019–present4 [726]
Tɛmplet:SVN Luka Dončić* G/F 2018–present5 [727]
Tɛmplet:SVN Tɛmplet:Country data SFR Yugoslavia
(now Tɛmplet:SVN)
Goran Dragić* G 2008–present15 Born in SFR Yugoslavia,[D] represents Slovenia internationally. [728]
Tɛmplet:SVN Tɛmplet:Country data SFR Yugoslavia
(now Tɛmplet:SVN)
Zoran Dragić G 2014–20151 Born in SFR Yugoslavia,[D] represents Slovenia internationally. [729]
Tɛmplet:SVN Tɛmplet:Country data SFR Yugoslavia
(now Tɛmplet:SVN)
Marko Milič G/F 199719992 Born in SFR Yugoslavia,[D] represented Slovenia internationally during his playing career. [730]
Tɛmplet:SVN Tɛmplet:Country data SFR Yugoslavia
(now Tɛmplet:SVN)
Boštjan Nachbar F 200220086 Born in SFR Yugoslavia,[D] represents Slovenia internationally. [731]
Tɛmplet:SVN Tɛmplet:Country data SFR Yugoslavia
(now Tɛmplet:SVN)
Rasho Nesterović C 1998201012 Born in SFR Yugoslavia,[D] represented Slovenia internationally during his playing career. [732]
Tɛmplet:SVN Tɛmplet:FRG
(now Tɛmplet:DEU)
Anthony Randolph F 200820146 Born in West Germany[G] to American parents, grew up in the United States,[733] represents Slovenia internationally.[734][735] [736]
Tɛmplet:SVN Tɛmplet:Country data SFR Yugoslavia
(now Tɛmplet:SVN)
Uroš Slokar F 2006–20071 Born in SFR Yugoslavia,[D] represents Slovenia internationally. [737]
Tɛmplet:SVN  United States Mike Tobey C 2017 1 Born in the United States, became a naturalized Slovenian citizen, represents Slovenia internationally.[738] [739]
Tɛmplet:SVN Tɛmplet:Country data SFR Yugoslavia
(now Tɛmplet:SVN)
Beno Udrih G 2004201713 Born in SFR Yugoslavia,[D] represents Slovenia internationally. [740]
Tɛmplet:SVN Tɛmplet:Country data SFR Yugoslavia
(now Tɛmplet:SVN)
Sasha Vujačić G 20042011;
2014;
20152017
10 Born in SFR Yugoslavia,[D] represents Slovenia internationally. [741]
Tɛmplet:KOR Ha Seung-Jin C 200420062 [742]
Tɛmplet:SSD Tɛmplet:SDN Wenyen Gabriel* F 2019–present4 Born in Sudan, grew up in the United States. [743]
Tɛmplet:SSD Tɛmplet:SDN
(now Tɛmplet:SSD)
Deng Gai F 20051 Born in Sudan.[H] [744]
Tɛmplet:SSD  United States JT Thor* F 2021–present2 Born in the United States to South Sudanese parents, has committed to representing South Sudan internationally. [745] [746]
Tɛmplet:ESP Álex Abrines G/F 201620193 [747]
Tɛmplet:ESP Santi Aldama* F 2021–present2 [748]
Tɛmplet:ESP  United States Lorenzo Brown G 20132016;
20172019
5 Born in the United States, became a naturalized Spanish citizen, represents Spain internationally.[749] [750]
Tɛmplet:ESP José Calderón G 2005201914 [751]
Tɛmplet:ESP Victor Claver F 201220153 [752]
Tɛmplet:ESP Rudy Fernández G 200820124 [753]
Tɛmplet:ESP Jorge Garbajosa F 200620082 [754]
Tɛmplet:ESP Usman Garuba* F/C 2021–present2 Born in Spain by Nigerian parents. [755]
Tɛmplet:ESP Marc Gasol C 2008202113 [756]
Tɛmplet:ESP Pau Gasol^ F 2001201918 [757]
Tɛmplet:ESP Juancho Hernangómez F 201620237 [758]
Tɛmplet:ESP Willy Hernangómez C 201620237 [759]
Tɛmplet:ESP Tɛmplet:CGO Serge Ibaka F 2009202314 Born in the Republic of the Congo, obtained Spanish citizenship, represents Spain internationally.[760] [761]
Tɛmplet:ESP Raül López G 200220052 [762]
Tɛmplet:ESP Fernando Martín C 1986–19871 [763]
Tɛmplet:ESP Tɛmplet:Country data SFR Yugoslavia
(now Tɛmplet:MNE)
Nikola Mirotić F 201420195 Born in SFR Yugoslavia,[D] represents Spain internationally. [764]
Tɛmplet:ESP Juan Carlos Navarro G 2007–20081 [765]
Tɛmplet:ESP Sergio Rodríguez G 20062010; 2016–20175 [766]
Tɛmplet:ESP  United States Johnny Rogers F/C 198619882 Born in the United States, became a naturalized Spanish citizen, represented Spain internationally during his playing career. [767]
Tɛmplet:ESP Ricky Rubio* G 2011–present12 [768]
Tɛmplet:SDN Tɛmplet:SDN
(now Tɛmplet:SSD)[H]
Manute Bol C 1985199510 [769]
 Sweden Jonas Jerebko F 2009201910 [770]
 Sweden Jeff Taylor F 201220153 Born in Sweden to an American father and a Swedish mother; also a United States citizen by birth.[771] Represents Sweden internationally. [772]
 Switzerland Clint Capela* F 2014–present9 Born in Switzerland to an Angolan father and a Congolese mother [773]
 Switzerland Thabo Sefolosha G 2006202014 Born in Switzerland to a South African father and a Swiss mother [774]
Tɛmplet:TZA Hasheem Thabeet C 200920145 [775]
Tɛmplet:TTO  United States DeVaughn Akoon-Purcell G 20181 Born in the United States to American parents of Trinidadian descent.[776] [777]
Tɛmplet:TTO Ken Charles G 197319775 Born in Trinidad, moved to the U.S. as a child. [778]
Tɛmplet:TUN Salah Mejri C 201520194
Tɛmplet:TUR Furkan Aldemir F/C 2014–20151 [779]
Tɛmplet:TUR Ömer Aşık C/F 201020189 [780]
Tɛmplet:TUR Semih Erden C 201020122 [781]
Tɛmplet:TUR  Switzerland Enes Freedom F 2011202211 Born in Switzerland to Turkish parents.[782] [783]
Tɛmplet:TUR Ersan İlyasova F 2006–2007;
20092021
14 [784]
Tɛmplet:TUR Furkan Korkmaz G 2017–present6 [785]
Tɛmplet:TUR Ibo Kutluay G 2004–20051 [786]
Tɛmplet:TUR  United States Shane Larkin G 20132016
2017–2018
4 Born in the United States, became a naturalized Turkish citizen, represents Turkey internationally.[787] [788]
Tɛmplet:TUR Mehmet Okur F/C 2002201210 [789]
Tɛmplet:TUR Tɛmplet:MKD Cedi Osman* F 2017–present6 Born in FYROM to Turkish father and Bosnian mother, grew up in Bosnia and Herzegovina, represents Turkey internationally.[790] [791]
Tɛmplet:TUR Alperen Şengün* F 2021–present2 [792]
Tɛmplet:TUR Tɛmplet:Country data SFR Yugoslavia
(now Tɛmplet:SRB)
Mirsad Türkcan F 1999–20001 Born in SFR Yugoslavia,[D] represented Turkey internationally during his playing career. [793]
Tɛmplet:TUR Hedo Türkoğlu F 2000201515 [794]
Tɛmplet:TUR Tɛmplet:UZB Ömer Yurtseven* F 2021–present2 Born in Uzbekistan to Turkish parents. [795]
Tɛmplet:UGA  United States Brandon Davies F 201320152 Born in the United States, represents Uganda internationally. [796]
Tɛmplet:UGA  United States Ish Wainright* F 2021–present2 Born in the United States, represents Uganda internationally. [797]
Tɛmplet:UKR Tɛmplet:URS
(now Tɛmplet:UKR)
Kyrylo Fesenko C 200720125 Born in the Soviet Union.[F] represents Ukraine internationally. [798]
Tɛmplet:UKR  United States Pooh Jeter G 2010–20111 Born in the United States represents Ukraine internationally. [799]
Tɛmplet:UKR Tɛmplet:URS
(now Tɛmplet:UKR)
Viacheslav Kravtsov C 201220142 Born in the Soviet Union.[F] represents Ukraine internationally. [800]
Tɛmplet:UKR Alex Len* C 2013–present10 [801]
Tɛmplet:UKR Tɛmplet:URS
(now Tɛmplet:UKR)
Slava Medvedenko F 200020077 Born in the Soviet Union,[F] represented Ukraine internationally during his playing career. [802]
Tɛmplet:UKR Svi Mykhailiuk* F 2018–present5 [803]
Tɛmplet:UKR Tɛmplet:URS
(now Tɛmplet:UKR)
Oleksiy Pecherov C 200720103 Born in the Soviet Union,[F] represents Ukraine internationally. [804]
Tɛmplet:UKR Tɛmplet:URS
(now Tɛmplet:UKR)
Vitaly Potapenko C 1996200711 Born in the Soviet Union.[F] [805]
Tɛmplet:UKR Tɛmplet:URS
(now Tɛmplet:RUS)
Alexander Volkov F 198919923 Born in the Soviet Union,[F] represented Soviet Union and Ukraine internationally during his playing career.[806] [807]
 United States Tɛmplet:TWN Joe Alexander F 200820102 Born in Taiwan to American parents, moved to the United States at the age of 8.[808] [809]
 United States Tɛmplet:NLD Hank Beenders C/F 194619493 Born in the Netherlands, moved to the United States at the age of 8, became a naturalized U.S. citizen.[810] [811]
 United States Tɛmplet:PAN Rolando Blackman G 1981199413 Born in Panama, became a naturalized U.S. citizen, represented the United States internationally during his playing career.[812] [813]
 United States Tɛmplet:SDN Bol Bol* C 2019–present3 Born in Sudan, grew up in the United States. [814]
 United States Tɛmplet:FRG
(now Tɛmplet:DEU)
Carlos Boozer F/C 2002201513 Born in West Germany[G] to American parents, grew up in the United States, represents the United States internationally.[815] [816]
 United States Tɛmplet:FRG
(now Tɛmplet:DEU)
John Brown F 197319807 Born in West Germany[G] to American parents, grew up in the United States.[817] [818]
 United States Tɛmplet:ESP Wallace Bryant C 198319863 Born in Spain to American parents, grew up in the United States. [819]
 United States Tɛmplet:Country data VIR Tim Duncan^ F/C 1997201619 Born in U.S. Virgin Islands, represented the United States internationally before announcing his international retirement in 2004.[820] [821]
 United States Tɛmplet:FRG
(now Tɛmplet:DEU)
Kenton Edelin F 19851 Born in West Germany[G] to American parents. [822]
 United States Tɛmplet:FRG
(now Tɛmplet:DEU)
Jo Jo English G 199219953 Born in West Germany[G] to American parents. [823]
 United States Tɛmplet:JAM Patrick Ewing^ C/F 1985200217 Born in Jamaica, moved to the United States at the age of 11, became a naturalized U.S. citizen, represented the United States internationally during his playing career.[824] [825]
 United States Tɛmplet:MAR Mike Flynn G 197519783 Born in French Morocco to American parents, grew up in the United States [826]
 United States Tɛmplet:VCT Adonal Foyle C 1997200912 Born in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, moved to the United States, became a naturalized U.S. citizen.[827] [828]
 United States Tɛmplet:FRG
(now Tɛmplet:DEU)
Donté Greene F 200820124 Born in West Germany[G] to American parents, previously represented the United States at youth level.[829] [830]
 United States Tɛmplet:ROU Ernie Grunfeld G/F 197719869 Born in Romania, moved to the United States at the age of 9, became a naturalized U.S. citizen, represented the United States internationally during his playing career.[831] [832]
 United States  Belgium Xavier Henry G 201020145 Born in Belgium to American parents, grew up in the United States.[833] [834]
 United States Tɛmplet:AUS Kyrie Irving* G 2011–present12 Born in Australia to American parents, has dual U.S. and Australian citizenship, has represented the United States internationally at youth and senior level.[835] [836]
 United States  Italy Reggie Jackson* G 2011–present12 Born in Italy to American parents, grew up in the United States.[837] [838]
 United States Tɛmplet:LIB Steve Kerr G 1988200315 Born in Lebanon to the Lebanese-born American citizen Malcolm H. Kerr, represented the United States internationally during his playing career.[839] [840]
 United States  France Cozell McQueen F 19871 Born in France to American parents.[841] [842]
 United States Tɛmplet:Country data Manchukuo
(now Tɛmplet:CHN)
Tom Meschery
(formerly Tomislav Meshcheryakov)
F 1961197110 Born in Manchukuo (a puppet state of the Empire of Japan, now part of China) to Russian parents, moved to the United States at the age of 8, became a naturalized U.S. citizen.[843] [844]
 United States  Nigeria Hakeem Olajuwon^ C 1984200218 Born and raised in Nigeria, moved to the U.S. at the age of 17 (two years after playing basketball for the first time). Eventually became a naturalized U.S. citizen, represented the United States internationally during his playing career.[845] [846]
 United States Tɛmplet:GBR
 England
Admiral Schofield* F 2019–2020; 2021–present3 Born in England to American parents, grew up in the United States.[847] [848]
 United States  Sweden Miles Simon G 1998–19991 Born in Sweden to an American father and a Norwegian mother.[239] [849]
 United States  France Michael Stewart C 199720058 Born in France to American parents.[850] [851]
 United States Tɛmplet:ESP Wally Szczerbiak F 1999200910 Born in Spain to American parents, has represented the United States internationally.[852] [853]
 United States  Japan Cameron Thomas* F 2021–present2 Born in Japan to American parents, grew up in the United States.[854] [855]
 United States Tɛmplet:FRG
(now Tɛmplet:DEU)
Kiki Vandeweghe F 1980199313 Born in West Germany[G] to a Canadian father and 1952 Miss America pageant winner Colleen Kay Hutchins. Moved back to the U.S. as a child. Holds both American and Canadian passports. [856]
 United States Tɛmplet:FRG
(now Tɛmplet:DEU)
Duane Washington G 1988; 19932 Born in West Germany[G] to American parents. [857]
 United States Tɛmplet:DEU Duane Washington Jr.* G 2021–present2 Born in Germany to American parents, grew up in the United States. [858]
 United States  France Dominique Wilkins^ F/G 19821995; 1996–1997; 199915 Born in France to American parents, represented the United States internationally during his playing career.[859] [860]
Tɛmplet:Country data VIR Raja Bell G 2000201313 [861]
Tɛmplet:Country data VIR Charles Claxton G 19951 [862]
Tɛmplet:Country data VIR  United States Nic Claxton* F 2019–present4 Born on the United States mainland by U.S. Virgin Islands father, represents U.S. Virgin Islands internationally.[863] [864]
Tɛmplet:Country data VIR  United States David Vanterpool G 20011 Born on the United States mainland, represents U.S. Virgin Islands internationally.[865] [866]
Tɛmplet:URY Esteban Batista F/C 200520072 [867]
Tɛmplet:VEN Tɛmplet:TRI Carl Herrera F 199119998 Born in Trinidad and Tobago, represented Venezuela internationally during his playing career.[868] [869]
Tɛmplet:VEN  United States Askia Jones G 19941 Born in the United States, represented Venezuela internationally during his playing career.[870] [871]
Tɛmplet:VEN  United States Harold Keeling F 19861 Born in the United States, represented Venezuela internationally during his playing career. [872]
Tɛmplet:VEN  United States Donta Smith G 200420062 Born on the United States, represented Venezuela. [873]
Tɛmplet:VEN Óscar Torres F 200120022 [874]
Tɛmplet:VEN Greivis Vásquez G 201020167 [875]

Preferences are the seventy or so user options for browsing, editing, searching, notifications, and more. A link to your Preferences page is available at the top of every Wikipedia page when you have an account, alongside links to your other account services such as your Contributions. Another way to get there is by navigating to the Special:Preferences page.

Once at your Preferences page, you can control much of the Wikipedia user interface through the many feature settings provided by MediaWiki (the software of Wikipedia): skins, plug-ins, date formats, a signature, and more. For example, you can select to be prompted to enter an edit summary if you forget to. The Preferences page also presents a link to customize your CSS to adjust your page style details.

Plus, there are hundreds of user tools to explore, many listed at Wikipedia:Tools § Browsing and editing, that can override or tweak preferences provided by MediaWiki. Each account has its own Custom JavaScript page where the tools install themselves, and where you can help develop them.

At their site, MediaWiki maintains a browser compatibility matrix. The time you spend in getting an account, setting your preferences, finding tools and testing your browser (before you ever lose an edit) will pay off.

Feature requests can be made, and bugs reported, as described at Wikipedia:Phabricator. The current set of preferences are largely the result of issues raised by newcomers at places such as the Village pump, and driven by regulars who hold long discussions and collectively drive issues.

Preferences page

The Preferences page is accessible when you are logged-in, but you must have JavaScript enabled in your browser, since the page and all its tabs are an extensive JavaScript application.

You do not need to click Save on every tab on the Preferences page, as the Save button affects all changes on all Preferences tabs.[876] You can go from tab to tab setting all your preferences before saving, because Save remembers your changes on the other tabs. To forget unsaved changes, simply leave the page without saving. If you wish to undo your saved changes, you will need to reset them manually.

Clicking Restore all default settings will harmlessly load another page, which will then offer the button to reset all preferences in every tab to their default values. This includes a few items that are stored as a preference, but that aren't directly editable in Special:Preferences. If you do reset your preferences, you can restore your custom signature from the wikitext of a history page, update your custom CSS or JavaScript from Wikipedia:Tools § Browsing and editing, and then re-select and save your preferences.

The default settings are aimed at newcomers editing articles. Intermediate editors tend to activate more features, such as "warn me if I forgot an edit summary", and advanced editors and administrators use the special settings, gadgets, and editors for their tasks.

You have the same username and password on sister projects such as Wiktionary, at MediaWiki.org itself, and on the Wikipedia of other languages. Each of your account's preferences are independent because each wiki is a website, with their own administration (namespaces, settings, accounts, etc.). Even the word "Preferences" on the top may be set differently! On the Simple English Wikipedia, it says "My settings".

User profile

Preferences User profile → Details = meta:Help:Preferences#User profile

Basic information

  • Lists your account details and the number of edits you have made.
  • Allows you to view/manage your global account info.
  • Provides a link to change your password.

Internationalisation

  • Change the language of user-interface messages. It does not affect articles and other pages made by editors. Note that many interface messages have been customized at the English Wikipedia but usually only for the default "en - English" which may for example add links to relevant help pages, processes and policies. Editors are discouraged from selecting "en-GB - British English" or "en-CA - Canadian English", which make a few spelling changes but omit many useful customizations.[877] Foreign languages also omit customizations but may be preferred by users with poor English abilities.
  • Specify your preferred pronoun in order for the software to grammatically refer to you correctly. This is also visible to other users via certain tools, such as the they template and Navigation popups.
  • More language settings: allows you to set the language in which Wikipedia menus and fonts are displayed; additionally, an option to set the language you edit in (input tools must be enabled).

Signature

  • Displays the signature that will appear when you sign talk pages.
  • Allows you to edit the signature, either using wiki markup (the option must be checked), or just plain text.

Email options

  • An option to provide an email address. Although this is optional, please read the warning about losing your password and not having an email address on file.
  • Options about use of your email address: enabling email from other users, sending copies of emails you send to other users, and receiving email when a page or file on your watchlist is changed.
  • Before using email you must confirm your email address. See Help:Email confirmation
  • "Email me when a page or file on my watchlist is changed", see Help:Email notification

Newcomer homepage

See Wikipedia:Growth Team features § Newcomer homepage

Appearance

Preferences Appearance → Details = meta:Help:Preferences#Appearance

Change the web browser experience.

Skin

Skin Preferences

  • Choose the "skin", or "theme" of how Wikipedia is displayed.
  • Access your Custom CSS or Custom JavaScript for individual skins and for global settings that apply to all skins. If the links are blue, you have created these special pages and this is a quick way to access and edit them. If the links are red, clicking the link will create the special page. You can also access your cross-wiki CSS and JavaScript pages from this section, but the color of the links will always be that of external links.

Reading Preferences

Date format

  • Option to set your date and time preferences; this is how dates will appear in article History pages, logs, etc. If set to "No preference", the format is HH:MM, DD MMMM YYYY (UTC), for example: 09:40, 19 Silimin gɔli December 2024 (UTC).

Time offset

  • Shows the server time (UTC) and the local time based on the optional Time zone setting. You may opt to use the server time (UTC), have the offset calculated by the clock in your computer, or specify an offset from UTC in hours or by location.
  • This does not affect times saved in editable pages, such as timestamps in signatures. For that, see Wikipedia:Comments in Local Time.

Files

  • The images in an article are just a thumbnail (a preview). These will always be one of eight possible Thumbnail sizes. For the larger screen sizes choose the maximum, and for the smaller screen sizes choose the minimum thumbnail size. The default 220px is a midrange thumbnail-size. Have you changed your font size? Then you should match that font size to your chosen thumbnail size to increase caption readability.
  • While viewing an article, if you click a thumbnail you will activate Media Viewer. Media Viewer is JavaScript, and it uses processing resources. It loads all the images in the article at high resolution, and this uses networking resources. This is the default. You can turn off Media Viewer to save resources: 1) to control all image sizing, 2) to navigate directly to a file page (instead) when you click on a thumbnail.
  • You can target the Image size limit of the file page main image, (displayed in the front matter). On a faster network choose a larger size, and on a slower network choose a smaller Image size limit. The default 800×600px is a midrange Image size limit. File pages are on Commons wiki, and if logged in there, going there overrides your settings here.
  • Note that you can both turn off Media Viewer and set a small Image size limit, and yet you will not limit your ability to avail yourself of any high resolution images listed at the bottom of that file page, when wanted. Doing so you can get full manual control of any unwanted, automatic bogging-down of your surfing speed caused by automated choices concerning File namespace interactions initiated by clicking on an image.

Diffs

  • Option to not show page content below the diffs; checking this will suppress the page preview of the difference you're viewing.
  • Option to omit a diff after performing a rollback

Advanced options

  • Choose to display hyperlinks with underlines in your browser window always, never, or by browser or Wikipedia-skin default.
  • Format links as stub links when the article they link to is smaller than the threshold you set on file size. Stub link formatting changes the link color to the dark brown displayed in this option's text. This option can help you see links to small articles (more likely to be stubs) so that you might expand them. It is also useful for spotting links to disambiguation pages, which are also relatively small. They are usually linked to in error, but often contain on their list a link to the correct article, making this error easy to fix.
  • Show hidden categories.

Math

Languages

Editing

Preferences Editing → Details = meta:Help:Preferences#Editing

Concerning the edit page, its initiation, and look and feel, Wikipedia offers a high number of options. Some of them are:

  • "Teemi ma n yi ti bi sabi lahabali jia (bee din pun ku bɛni ka labisim lahabali ji' maa)" into the database. (Habit-forming.)
  • "Enable VisualEditor". Get a word processor interface. No markup language at all.
  • "Wuhimi johi lihi amaa ka di pa a lan yɛn labimi yooi". Get a dynamic web page. Browser reloading now gives a glimpse at the live original without having to leave the edit page. And there is no longer any need to create an entirely new page for each preview requested; live preview just reloads parts of its page, and so it offers no browser history backwards, but disturbs no history forward either. Saves some network bandwidth and lots of browser cache. Just save your edits before disabling JavaScript.[878] (First-time users should perform a simple compatibility test.[879])

The font size for the edit box can be set in Wikipedia editing preferences or in the browser. In Firefox, there are two font-size settings at Options → Content → "Default font" Advanced…, one for the edit box, and one for the rest of the page. If you just want uniformity, check to see if it allows Wikipedia to choose its own font; then you set Wikipedia's "Edit Area Font Style" to "Serif" or "Sans Serif", and the font size in the edit box will match the rest of the page.

The number of rows in the edit box is no longer set in preferences. For a temporary change, when the edit box is displayed, drag up or down the small square in the bottom right corner of the edit box. Alternatively, make the change stick by adding this line to your CSS file (in Preferences, Appearance), usually Special:MyPage/common.css:

#wpTextbox1 {height: 25em;}

where 25em is an example (and typical), height.

Two editing toolbars are offered that will span the top of the edit box. (Wikipedia:Reftoolbar shows versions.)

To use more of your favorite text editor instead of just the edit box and toolbars, see Wikipedia:Text editor support. Also see the Gadgets tab.

Recent changes

Preferences Recent changes → Display options & Advanced options = meta:Help:Preferences#Recent changes

Recent changes refer to changes of pages in the database. Every time a wiki page is edited, and changes were actually made, a record is kept of the difference. For example, a page history shows the revisions for that particular page. But recent changes can report on more than just the revisions of a page, or an entire wiki, they can also report on the recent changes of an editor (their contributions). The user preferences for recent changes are the style in which these lists of revisions will appear:

  • Length of the list
  • Time window of the list
  • Grouping methods of the list

The watchlist has even more finely tuned preferences, because like the edit window, it is often a core tool for editors.

More information about these various histories can be found at the following places. For global changes to Wikipedia pages, see Help:Recent changes. For user contributions, see Help:User contributions. For page histories, see Help:Page history. For other types of logs see Help:Log.

Pending changes

Preferences Recent changes → Pending changes = meta:Help:Preferences#Pending changes/Edit review

These settings are for advanced editors who have a detailed understanding of the five pillars and of the templates used to mark judgments on the page. Pending changes refers to the style of the presentation of

  • new page "curation" tools: curation toolbar and new pages feed, and
  • how recent changes appear on the page history of certain pages that have been configured for protection by reviewing any changes before they are applied to the public version of the page.

For an example of a page history showing the pending changes feature, click on the history of a page listed at Special:PendingChanges.

Watchlist

Preferences Watchlist → Details = meta:Help:Preferences#Watchlist

The watchlist options include which pages, and what "recent" means to you. If your Preferences has "Email me when a page or file on my watchlist is changed" set (at the bottom of the "User profile" tab), then only by visiting a page will you actually set its email notification flag. Once you miss the email for a particular page change or don't visit the page (or ignore the email), you will not receive any more emails for that page. You can still dutifully monitor that page by its watchlist edit-summaries, but its particular email notification flag will remain unset until you visit it. This facilitates monitoring a large watchlist while preventing potentially useless emails to you.

In case you want to set all email notifications anyway, you can at any time mark all pages "visited". If your Preferences Gadgets has "Display pages on your watchlist that have changed since your last visit in bold", then your watchlist will have a button labeled "Mark all pages visited". That button will effectively set all of your email notification flags.

Notifications

Preferences Notifications

These settings alter the Special:Notifications tool. The options for Notifications were first added in May 2013. See Wikipedia Signpost topic "English-language Wikipedia to be first to receive Echo deployment" for a brief overview.

For a full explanation of the specific preferences, see Wikipedia:Notifications § Preferences and settings.

Email options
  • Choose whether to opt-in or opt-out of email notifications (you must confirm your email address on your Preferences User profile → Email options). You can also choose how often to receive email notifications, from single emails for each event to daily or weekly digests.
  • Choose whether to receive plain text or HTML email.
Notify me about these events

You can enable (or disable) individual types of notifications by checking (or unchecking) the boxes next to it. You can enable (or disable) notifications on the web or by email for most notification types (note that some notifications cannot be disabled, such as changes to your user rights or new talk page messages: these notifications are too important to be dismissed).

Wikipedia:Notifications § Types of notifications has a general list of the types of notifications. Special:DisplayNotificationsConfiguration lists all notification types available and how they are configured.

Muted users

You can mute on-site notifications from individual users by enter their username into the box. You will still receive notifications if a muted user writes on your user talk page or reviews a page you have created. The muted user will still receive a successful mention notification, if they've enabled that preference.

Muting pages

You can mute "page linked" notifications for specific pages by typing each page's name into the box.

Gadgets

Preferences Gadgets → Details = Wikipedia:Gadget#Currently installed gadgets

Gadgets are the software contributed by users, not the software that runs Wikipedia, and so you'll see the group names Editing and Appearance are the same as the tab names on the preferences page. If you see tabs on the preferences page your web-browsers already has JavaScript enabled. The gadgets go through an authoritative process before they appear on the list. There are gadgets for, browsing, editing, appearance and for compatibility. A general overview of the select gadgetry available there is as follows.

Browsing
  • Language translating
  • Media files, search results, and diffs
  • Twinkle admin tools for the advancing editor
  • Teahouse for the new editor question
  • Mousing over or hovering over an inline citation to read it
Editing
  • Citation modifying/expediting/proving
  • Colorizing wikitext; Character toolsets
  • Categorizing; Reviewing new articles; Filing disputes
  • The Wiki Editor, WikEd, and WikEdDiff
Appearance
  • Editing the introductory section.
  • Admin tools; Changing and adding to page layouts and controls
  • Displaying diffs, or animations, or your very own local time on all timestamps
  • Enabling an external search engine for searching Wikipedia
  • Show the assessed class of an article, Featured, A, B, C, etc.
  • Justifying paragraphs
Compatibility
  • Font and JavaScript support
Advanced
  • Regular expression tools
  • Tracking software bugs
  • Patrolling recent changes

See much more customization available in the pages in the See also section, such as a search and replace dialog that understands JavaScript regular expressions.

Beta features

Preferences Beta features → Details = mw:Beta Features

Beta Features is a way for users to test new features on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia sites before they are released for everyone.

Other tools

The MediaWiki preferences page offers a set of options for the generic user. If you discover a special role on Wikipedia, there is probably a powerful tool for it at Wikipedia:Tools § Browsing and editing.

Operating an account with a tool may carry side effects, such as popups, toolbars and frame objects on your browsing or editing page space that are sometimes burdensome, yet sometimes powerfully necessary. Rather than uninstalling, it is possible to just switch skins, because there are four skins, each with a pair of customizations. 1) Custom JavaScript has the tools. 2) Custom CSS can carry over your preferred fonts, colors, and frame borders to each skin, no matter what tools that skin may also be loaded with.

See also

Notes

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  17. Patricio Garino Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
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  19. Walter Herrmann Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  20. Nicolas Laprovittola Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  21. Andres Nocioni Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  22. Fabricio Oberto Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
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  25. Luis Scola Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  26. Luca Vildoza Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  27. Ruben Wolkowyski Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  28. Deng Adel Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
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  30. David Andersen Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
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  32. Cameron Bairstow Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
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  34. Aron Baynes Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
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  37. Mark Bradtke Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
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  42. Matthew Dellavedova Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
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  44. Dante Exum Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
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  51. Isaac Humphries Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  52. Joe Ingles Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  53. Nathan Jawai Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  54. Jock Landale Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  55. Luc Longley Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  56. Will Magnay Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
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  58. Thon Maker Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  59. Mangok Mathiang Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
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  63. Luke Schenscher Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
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  65. Ben Simmons Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
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  67. Matisse Thybulle Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  68. Jack White Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  69. Jakob Poeltl Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
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  71. Donta Hall Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
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  74. Buddy Hield Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  75. Kai Jones Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  76. Ian Lockhart Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
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  78. Mychal Thompson Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  79. Mychel Thompson Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
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  81. Maalik Wayns Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
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  83. Didier Ilunga-Mbenga Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  84. 1 2 Belize 2009 National Team. Belize Basketball.
  85. Noel Felix Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  86. Marlon Garnett Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
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  88. Milt Palacio Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  89. Joshua Reaves [BOL profile].
  90. Josh Reaves Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
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  92. J.R. Bremer Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  93. Coach Bećiragić announces the list of players for the European Championship. BH Basket (July 18, 2022).
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  95. Džanan Musa Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  96. Jusuf Nurkic Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  97. Aleksandar Radojevic Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  98. Mirza Telerovic Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  99. Ratko Varda Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  100. Rafael Araujo Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  101. Leandro Barbosa Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  102. Bruno Caboclo Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  103. Vitor Faverani Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  104. Cristiano Felicio Statistics. basketball-reference.com.
  105. Rolando Ferreira Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  106. Alex Garcia Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  107. Marcelo Huertas Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
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  109. Didi Louzada Statistics. basketball-reference.com.
  110. Entrevista – Armador Scott Machado. Confederação Brasileira de Basketball (July 31, 2013).
  111. Scott Machado Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  112. Fab Melo Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  113. Nene Hilario Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  114. Raul Neto Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  115. Jazz Sign Raul Neto to Multi-Year Contract. NBA.com (July 9, 2015).
  116. Lucas Nogueira Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  117. Tiago Splitter Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  118. Anderson Varejao Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  119. Joao Vianna Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  120. Marcus Vinicius Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  121. Hey There, Georgi Boy : Bulgarian Center Georgi Glouchkov is the Newest Thing Under the NBA Sun (November 1985).
  122. Georgi Glouchkov Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  123. Bulgarians To Meet On July 2. FIBA Europe (June 23, 2008).
  124. Priest Lauderdale Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
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  126. Cedric Simmons Statistics.
  127. Ruben Boumtje-Boumtje Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  128. France confident Joel Embiid will play for its national team after U.S. citizenship. NBC Sports. NBC Universal (November 9, 2022).
  129. Joel Embiid Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  130. Christian Koloko Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  131. Luc Mbah a Moute Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  132. Pascal Siakam Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
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  134. D.J. Strawberry Statistics. basketball-reference/com. Sports Reference LLC.
  135. Kyle Alexander Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  136. Nickeil Alexander-Walker Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  137. Joel Anthony Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  138. Norm Baker Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  139. Dalano Banton Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  140. RJ Barrett Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  141. Cavaliers select Canadian Bennett with first overall pick.
  142. Anthony Bennett Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  143. Sim Bhullar Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  144. Hank Biasatti '49 Athlete – Assumption Era, Coach/Administrator. University of Windsor.
  145. Hank Biasatti Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  146. Khem Birch Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
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  151. Brandon Clarke Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  152. Ron Crevier Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
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  154. Samuel Dalembert Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  155. Nate Darling Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  156. Canadian Dort doing his part in putting Montreal on world map.
  157. Luguentz Dort Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  158. Tyler Ennis Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  159. Rick Fox Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
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  164. Lars Hansen Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  165. Bob Houbregs Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  166. Caleb Houstan Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  167. Cory Joseph Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  168. Kris Joseph Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  169. L.A. Clippers Acquire Draft Rights to Mfiondu Kabengele. nba.com.
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  190. Eugene Omoruyi Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  191. Kevin Pangos Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  192. Dwight Powell Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  193. Joshua Primo Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  194. Xavier Rathan-Mayes Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
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  201. Shaedon Sharpe Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
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  203. Marial Shayok Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  204. Mike Smrek Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  205. Gino Sovran Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  206. Fiba Americas.
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  209. Tristan Thompson Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  210. Ernie Vandeweghe Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  211. Bill Wennington Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  212. Wiggins' parents produced winning genetic, competitive pedigree (2014-12-09).
  213. Andrew Wiggins Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  214. Lindell Wigginton Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  215. Kyle Wiltjer Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  216. Jim Zoet Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  217. Walter Tavares Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  218. Timberwolves' Kyle Anderson to play for China in FIBA World Cup (July 24, 2023).
  219. Kyle Anderson Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  220. Mengke Bateer Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  221. Sun Yue Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  222. Wang Zhizhi Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
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  224. Yi Jianlian Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  225. Zhou Qi Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
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  248. Zan Tabak Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  249. Roko Ukic Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  250. Stojko Vrankovic Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  251. Ante Žižić Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
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  259. Jiri Welsch Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  260. George Zidek Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  261. Bismack Biyombo Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
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  263. Jonathan Kuminga Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
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  265. Dikembe Mutombo Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  266. Iffe Lundberg Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  267. Garth Joseph Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  268. Ángel Delgado Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
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  270. Luis Flores Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  271. Francisco Garcia Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  272. Tito Horford Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  273. Al Horford Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
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  276. Luis Montero Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
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  291. Joël Ayayi Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
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  317. Théo Maledon Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
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  658. Lee, Michael (March 20, 2012). "Wizards want extended look at Edwin Ubiles". The Washington Post. https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wizards-insider/post/wizards-want-extended-look-at-edwin-ubiles/2012/03/20/gIQAozYePS_blog.html.
  659. Edwin Ubiles Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  660. Tremont Waters Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  661. 1 2 FIBAASIA: QAT – Hayes belongs to the same Class of 2003 as Lebron did!.
  662. Jarvis Hayes Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  663. Trey Johnson Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  664. Gheorghe Muresan Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  665. Sergey Bazarevich Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  666. Joel Bolomboy Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  667. Travis Hansen Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  668. Sergey Karasev Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  669. Alexander Kaun Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  670. Viktor Khryapa Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  671. Sorensen, Mike (January 11, 2011). Utah Jazz: Andrei Kirilenko becomes U.S. citizen. Deseret News.
  672. Andrei Kirilenko Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  673. Yaroslav Korolev Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  674. Kelly McCarty Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  675. Sergei Monia Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  676. Timofey Mozgov Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  677. Pavel Podkolzin Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  678. Alexey Shved Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  679. Gorgui Dieng Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  680. DeSagana Diop Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  681. Tacko Fall Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  682. Hamady Ndiaye Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  683. Makhtar N'Diaye Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  684. Mamadou N'Diaye Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  685. Boniface N'Dong Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  686. Maurice Ndour Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  687. Draft NBA: Georges Niang choisi par Indiana, Mamadou Ndiaye et Youssoupha Fall recalés. seneweb.com.
  688. Georges Niang Statistics.
  689. Cheikh Samb Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  690. Mouhamed Sene Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  691. Pape Sow Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  692. Milos Babic Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  693. Nemanja Bjelica Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  694. Bogdan Bogdanovic Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  695. Radisav Curcic Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  696. Rastko Cvetkovic Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  697. Sasha Danilovic Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  698. Vlade Divac Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  699. Aleksandar Djordjevic Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  700. Marko Guduric Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  701. Mile Ilic Prospect Profile. NBA.com. Turner Sports Interactive, Inc.
  702. Mile Ilic Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
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  704. Nikola Jokic Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  705. Nikola Jovic Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  706. Nenad Krstic Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  707. Ognjen Kuzmić Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  708. Boban Marjanovic Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  709. Darko Milicic Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  710. Nemanja Nedovic Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  711. Zarko Paspalj Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  712. Sasha Pavlovic Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  713. Kosta Perovic Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  714. Aleksej Pokuševski Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  715. Vladimir Radmanovic Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  716. Miroslav Raduljica Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  717. Igor Rakocevic Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
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  723. Drooz, Alan (August 30, 1990). Loyola Recruits 6–10 Player From Czech National Team. Los Angeles Times.
  724. Richard Petruska Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
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  726. Vlatko Čančar Statistics.
  727. Luka Doncic Statistics.
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  741. Sasha Vujacic Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  742. Ha Seung-Jin Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  743. Wenyen Gabriel Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  744. Deng Gai Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
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  746. JT Thor Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  747. Alex Abrines Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  748. Santi Aldama Statistics.
  749. Lorenzo Brown honored to join Spain. eurohoops.net (August 2, 2022).
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  751. Jose Calderon Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  752. Victor Claver Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  753. Rudy Fernandez Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  754. Jorge Garbajosa Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  755. Usman Garuba Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  756. Marc Gasol Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  757. Pau Gasol Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
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  759. Willy Hernangomez Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
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  764. Nikola Mirotic Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  765. Juan Carlos Navarro Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  766. Sergio Rodríguez Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  767. Johnny Rogers Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  768. Ricky Rubio Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  769. Manute Bol Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  770. Jonas Jerebko Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  771. New hoops recruit ready to get started at Vandy. Nashville City Paper (April 22, 2008).
  772. Jeffery Taylor Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  773. Clint Capela Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  774. Thabo Sefolosha Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  775. Hasheem Thabeet Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  776. Bears profile lost the people who turned him into a basketball player | Basketball (da-DK) (November 14, 2016).
  777. DeVaughn Akoon-Purcell Statistics.
  778. Ken Charles Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  779. Furkan Aldemir Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
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  781. Semih Erden Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  782. Allen, Percy (November 24, 2009). "Turkish big man commits to UW basketball team". The Seattle Times.
  783. Enes Kanter Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  784. Ersan Ilyasova Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  785. Furkan Korkmaz Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  786. Ibo Kutluay Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  787. Shane Larkin'in Türkiye Cumhuriyeti Vatandaşlık İşlemleri Tamamlandı (tr). Turkish Basketball Federation (February 7, 2020).
  788. Shane Larkin Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  789. Mehmet Okur Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
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  792. Alperen Şengün Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  793. Mirsad Turkcan Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  794. Hedo Turkoglu Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  795. Ömer Yurtseven Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  796. Brandon Davies Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  797. Ishmail Wainright Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  798. Kyrylo Fesenko Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  799. Pooh Jeter Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  800. Vyacheslav Kravtsov Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  801. Alex Len Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  802. Stanislav Medvedenko Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  803. Sviatoslav Mykhailiuk Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
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  805. Vitaly Potapenko Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
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  808. Joe Alexander Draft 2008 Profile. NBA.com. Turner Sports Interactive, Inc.
  809. Joe Alexander Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
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  811. Hank Beenders Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
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  817. John Brown - Missouri Legends.
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  820. Games of the XXVIIIth Olympiad – 2004. USA Basketball.
  821. Tim Duncan Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  822. Kenton Edelin Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  823. Jo Jo English Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  824. Patrick Ewing Bio. NBA.com. Turner Sports Interactive, Inc.
  825. Patrick Ewing Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  826. Mike Flynn Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  827. Warriors' Foyle naturalized as U.S. citizen. San Francisco Chronicle (March 13, 2007).
  828. Adonal Foyle Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  829. Lidz, Franz (January 22, 2007). "Greener Pastures". Sports Illustrated. Time Warner Company. Archived from the original on February 1, 2010. Retrieved October 17, 2010.
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  837. Freshman Focus: Meet Reggie Jackson. BC Athletics.
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  844. Tom Meschery Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  845. Hakeem Olajuwon Bio. NBA.com. Turner Sports Interactive, Inc.
  846. Hakeem Olajuwon Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  847. 2018–19 Men's Basketball Roster: Admiral Schofield. Tennessee Volunteers.
  848. Admiral Schofield Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
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  876. It is true that each tab will create a URL in the browser history, but these URLs do not represent historical differences in the JavaScript instance that loaded with the Preferences page itself. The per-tab URLs only purpose is to serve the browser's back- and forward-navigation.
  877. Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)/Archive 184#Discourage en-xx UI variants
  878. If you disable JavaScript for any page on MediaWiki.org or Wikipedia.org, you will lose all unsaved edits in all tabs; yet disabling JavaScript is a common troubleshooting technique when diagnosing some preference-related browser behaviors.
  879. The danger in using Live preview is on first use with an incompatible browser. Try a simple test: make a change to the edit box, then reload the page.
  880. Compiled by the Mozilla Contributors.

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Preferences are the seventy or so user options for browsing, editing, searching, notifications, and more. A link to your Preferences page is available at the top of every Wikipedia page when you have an account, alongside links to your other account services such as your Contributions. Another way to get there is by navigating to the Special:Preferences page.

Once at your Preferences page, you can control much of the Wikipedia user interface through the many feature settings provided by MediaWiki (the software of Wikipedia): skins, plug-ins, date formats, a signature, and more. For example, you can select to be prompted to enter an edit summary if you forget to. The Preferences page also presents a link to customize your CSS to adjust your page style details.

Plus, there are hundreds of user tools to explore, many listed at Wikipedia:Tools § Browsing and editing, that can override or tweak preferences provided by MediaWiki. Each account has its own Custom JavaScript page where the tools install themselves, and where you can help develop them.

At their site, MediaWiki maintains a browser compatibility matrix. The time you spend in getting an account, setting your preferences, finding tools and testing your browser (before you ever lose an edit) will pay off.

Feature requests can be made, and bugs reported, as described at Wikipedia:Phabricator. The current set of preferences are largely the result of issues raised by newcomers at places such as the Village pump, and driven by regulars who hold long discussions and collectively drive issues.

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The Preferences page is accessible when you are logged-in, but you must have JavaScript enabled in your browser, since the page and all its tabs are an extensive JavaScript application.

You do not need to click Save on every tab on the Preferences page, as the Save button affects all changes on all Preferences tabs.[1] You can go from tab to tab setting all your preferences before saving, because Save remembers your changes on the other tabs. To forget unsaved changes, simply leave the page without saving. If you wish to undo your saved changes, you will need to reset them manually.

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The default settings are aimed at newcomers editing articles. Intermediate editors tend to activate more features, such as "warn me if I forgot an edit summary", and advanced editors and administrators use the special settings, gadgets, and editors for their tasks.

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User profile

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Basic information

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Internationalisation

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Signature

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Email options

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Newcomer homepage

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Appearance

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Change the web browser experience.

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Skin Preferences

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Reading Preferences

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Time offset

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Files

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Editing

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Concerning the edit page, its initiation, and look and feel, Wikipedia offers a high number of options. Some of them are:

  • "Teemi ma n yi ti bi sabi lahabali jia (bee din pun ku bɛni ka labisim lahabali ji' maa)" into the database. (Habit-forming.)
  • "Enable VisualEditor". Get a word processor interface. No markup language at all.
  • "Wuhimi johi lihi amaa ka di pa a lan yɛn labimi yooi". Get a dynamic web page. Browser reloading now gives a glimpse at the live original without having to leave the edit page. And there is no longer any need to create an entirely new page for each preview requested; live preview just reloads parts of its page, and so it offers no browser history backwards, but disturbs no history forward either. Saves some network bandwidth and lots of browser cache. Just save your edits before disabling JavaScript.[3] (First-time users should perform a simple compatibility test.[4])

The font size for the edit box can be set in Wikipedia editing preferences or in the browser. In Firefox, there are two font-size settings at Options → Content → "Default font" Advanced…, one for the edit box, and one for the rest of the page. If you just want uniformity, check to see if it allows Wikipedia to choose its own font; then you set Wikipedia's "Edit Area Font Style" to "Serif" or "Sans Serif", and the font size in the edit box will match the rest of the page.

The number of rows in the edit box is no longer set in preferences. For a temporary change, when the edit box is displayed, drag up or down the small square in the bottom right corner of the edit box. Alternatively, make the change stick by adding this line to your CSS file (in Preferences, Appearance), usually Special:MyPage/common.css:

#wpTextbox1 {height: 25em;}

where 25em is an example (and typical), height.

Two editing toolbars are offered that will span the top of the edit box. (Wikipedia:Reftoolbar shows versions.)

To use more of your favorite text editor instead of just the edit box and toolbars, see Wikipedia:Text editor support. Also see the Gadgets tab.

Recent changes

Preferences Recent changes → Display options & Advanced options = meta:Help:Preferences#Recent changes

Recent changes refer to changes of pages in the database. Every time a wiki page is edited, and changes were actually made, a record is kept of the difference. For example, a page history shows the revisions for that particular page. But recent changes can report on more than just the revisions of a page, or an entire wiki, they can also report on the recent changes of an editor (their contributions). The user preferences for recent changes are the style in which these lists of revisions will appear:

  • Length of the list
  • Time window of the list
  • Grouping methods of the list

The watchlist has even more finely tuned preferences, because like the edit window, it is often a core tool for editors.

More information about these various histories can be found at the following places. For global changes to Wikipedia pages, see Help:Recent changes. For user contributions, see Help:User contributions. For page histories, see Help:Page history. For other types of logs see Help:Log.

Pending changes

Preferences Recent changes → Pending changes = meta:Help:Preferences#Pending changes/Edit review

These settings are for advanced editors who have a detailed understanding of the five pillars and of the templates used to mark judgments on the page. Pending changes refers to the style of the presentation of

  • new page "curation" tools: curation toolbar and new pages feed, and
  • how recent changes appear on the page history of certain pages that have been configured for protection by reviewing any changes before they are applied to the public version of the page.

For an example of a page history showing the pending changes feature, click on the history of a page listed at Special:PendingChanges.

Watchlist

Preferences Watchlist → Details = meta:Help:Preferences#Watchlist

The watchlist options include which pages, and what "recent" means to you. If your Preferences has "Email me when a page or file on my watchlist is changed" set (at the bottom of the "User profile" tab), then only by visiting a page will you actually set its email notification flag. Once you miss the email for a particular page change or don't visit the page (or ignore the email), you will not receive any more emails for that page. You can still dutifully monitor that page by its watchlist edit-summaries, but its particular email notification flag will remain unset until you visit it. This facilitates monitoring a large watchlist while preventing potentially useless emails to you.

In case you want to set all email notifications anyway, you can at any time mark all pages "visited". If your Preferences Gadgets has "Display pages on your watchlist that have changed since your last visit in bold", then your watchlist will have a button labeled "Mark all pages visited". That button will effectively set all of your email notification flags.

Notifications

Preferences Notifications

These settings alter the Special:Notifications tool. The options for Notifications were first added in May 2013. See Wikipedia Signpost topic "English-language Wikipedia to be first to receive Echo deployment" for a brief overview.

For a full explanation of the specific preferences, see Wikipedia:Notifications § Preferences and settings.

Email options
  • Choose whether to opt-in or opt-out of email notifications (you must confirm your email address on your Preferences User profile → Email options). You can also choose how often to receive email notifications, from single emails for each event to daily or weekly digests.
  • Choose whether to receive plain text or HTML email.
Notify me about these events

You can enable (or disable) individual types of notifications by checking (or unchecking) the boxes next to it. You can enable (or disable) notifications on the web or by email for most notification types (note that some notifications cannot be disabled, such as changes to your user rights or new talk page messages: these notifications are too important to be dismissed).

Wikipedia:Notifications § Types of notifications has a general list of the types of notifications. Special:DisplayNotificationsConfiguration lists all notification types available and how they are configured.

Muted users

You can mute on-site notifications from individual users by enter their username into the box. You will still receive notifications if a muted user writes on your user talk page or reviews a page you have created. The muted user will still receive a successful mention notification, if they've enabled that preference.

Muting pages

You can mute "page linked" notifications for specific pages by typing each page's name into the box.

Gadgets

Preferences Gadgets → Details = Wikipedia:Gadget#Currently installed gadgets

Gadgets are the software contributed by users, not the software that runs Wikipedia, and so you'll see the group names Editing and Appearance are the same as the tab names on the preferences page. If you see tabs on the preferences page your web-browsers already has JavaScript enabled. The gadgets go through an authoritative process before they appear on the list. There are gadgets for, browsing, editing, appearance and for compatibility. A general overview of the select gadgetry available there is as follows.

Browsing
  • Language translating
  • Media files, search results, and diffs
  • Twinkle admin tools for the advancing editor
  • Teahouse for the new editor question
  • Mousing over or hovering over an inline citation to read it
Editing
  • Citation modifying/expediting/proving
  • Colorizing wikitext; Character toolsets
  • Categorizing; Reviewing new articles; Filing disputes
  • The Wiki Editor, WikEd, and WikEdDiff
Appearance
  • Editing the introductory section.
  • Admin tools; Changing and adding to page layouts and controls
  • Displaying diffs, or animations, or your very own local time on all timestamps
  • Enabling an external search engine for searching Wikipedia
  • Show the assessed class of an article, Featured, A, B, C, etc.
  • Justifying paragraphs
Compatibility
  • Font and JavaScript support
Advanced
  • Regular expression tools
  • Tracking software bugs
  • Patrolling recent changes

See much more customization available in the pages in the See also section, such as a search and replace dialog that understands JavaScript regular expressions.

Beta features

Preferences Beta features → Details = mw:Beta Features

Beta Features is a way for users to test new features on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia sites before they are released for everyone.

Other tools

The MediaWiki preferences page offers a set of options for the generic user. If you discover a special role on Wikipedia, there is probably a powerful tool for it at Wikipedia:Tools § Browsing and editing.

Operating an account with a tool may carry side effects, such as popups, toolbars and frame objects on your browsing or editing page space that are sometimes burdensome, yet sometimes powerfully necessary. Rather than uninstalling, it is possible to just switch skins, because there are four skins, each with a pair of customizations. 1) Custom JavaScript has the tools. 2) Custom CSS can carry over your preferred fonts, colors, and frame borders to each skin, no matter what tools that skin may also be loaded with.

See also

Notes

  1. It is true that each tab will create a URL in the browser history, but these URLs do not represent historical differences in the JavaScript instance that loaded with the Preferences page itself. The per-tab URLs only purpose is to serve the browser's back- and forward-navigation.
  2. Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)/Archive 184#Discourage en-xx UI variants
  3. If you disable JavaScript for any page on MediaWiki.org or Wikipedia.org, you will lose all unsaved edits in all tabs; yet disabling JavaScript is a common troubleshooting technique when diagnosing some preference-related browser behaviors.
  4. The danger in using Live preview is on first use with an incompatible browser. Try a simple test: make a change to the edit box, then reload the page.
  5. Compiled by the Mozilla Contributors.

! Birthplace indicates a player's country of birth. A blank column indicates that the player's birth country is the same to his nationality.

Preferences are the seventy or so user options for browsing, editing, searching, notifications, and more. A link to your Preferences page is available at the top of every Wikipedia page when you have an account, alongside links to your other account services such as your Contributions. Another way to get there is by navigating to the Special:Preferences page.

Once at your Preferences page, you can control much of the Wikipedia user interface through the many feature settings provided by MediaWiki (the software of Wikipedia): skins, plug-ins, date formats, a signature, and more. For example, you can select to be prompted to enter an edit summary if you forget to. The Preferences page also presents a link to customize your CSS to adjust your page style details.

Plus, there are hundreds of user tools to explore, many listed at Wikipedia:Tools § Browsing and editing, that can override or tweak preferences provided by MediaWiki. Each account has its own Custom JavaScript page where the tools install themselves, and where you can help develop them.

At their site, MediaWiki maintains a browser compatibility matrix. The time you spend in getting an account, setting your preferences, finding tools and testing your browser (before you ever lose an edit) will pay off.

Feature requests can be made, and bugs reported, as described at Wikipedia:Phabricator. The current set of preferences are largely the result of issues raised by newcomers at places such as the Village pump, and driven by regulars who hold long discussions and collectively drive issues.

Preferences page

The Preferences page is accessible when you are logged-in, but you must have JavaScript enabled in your browser, since the page and all its tabs are an extensive JavaScript application.

You do not need to click Save on every tab on the Preferences page, as the Save button affects all changes on all Preferences tabs.[1] You can go from tab to tab setting all your preferences before saving, because Save remembers your changes on the other tabs. To forget unsaved changes, simply leave the page without saving. If you wish to undo your saved changes, you will need to reset them manually.

Clicking Restore all default settings will harmlessly load another page, which will then offer the button to reset all preferences in every tab to their default values. This includes a few items that are stored as a preference, but that aren't directly editable in Special:Preferences. If you do reset your preferences, you can restore your custom signature from the wikitext of a history page, update your custom CSS or JavaScript from Wikipedia:Tools § Browsing and editing, and then re-select and save your preferences.

The default settings are aimed at newcomers editing articles. Intermediate editors tend to activate more features, such as "warn me if I forgot an edit summary", and advanced editors and administrators use the special settings, gadgets, and editors for their tasks.

You have the same username and password on sister projects such as Wiktionary, at MediaWiki.org itself, and on the Wikipedia of other languages. Each of your account's preferences are independent because each wiki is a website, with their own administration (namespaces, settings, accounts, etc.). Even the word "Preferences" on the top may be set differently! On the Simple English Wikipedia, it says "My settings".

User profile

Preferences User profile → Details = meta:Help:Preferences#User profile

Basic information

  • Lists your account details and the number of edits you have made.
  • Allows you to view/manage your global account info.
  • Provides a link to change your password.

Internationalisation

  • Change the language of user-interface messages. It does not affect articles and other pages made by editors. Note that many interface messages have been customized at the English Wikipedia but usually only for the default "en - English" which may for example add links to relevant help pages, processes and policies. Editors are discouraged from selecting "en-GB - British English" or "en-CA - Canadian English", which make a few spelling changes but omit many useful customizations.[2] Foreign languages also omit customizations but may be preferred by users with poor English abilities.
  • Specify your preferred pronoun in order for the software to grammatically refer to you correctly. This is also visible to other users via certain tools, such as the they template and Navigation popups.
  • More language settings: allows you to set the language in which Wikipedia menus and fonts are displayed; additionally, an option to set the language you edit in (input tools must be enabled).

Signature

  • Displays the signature that will appear when you sign talk pages.
  • Allows you to edit the signature, either using wiki markup (the option must be checked), or just plain text.

Email options

  • An option to provide an email address. Although this is optional, please read the warning about losing your password and not having an email address on file.
  • Options about use of your email address: enabling email from other users, sending copies of emails you send to other users, and receiving email when a page or file on your watchlist is changed.
  • Before using email you must confirm your email address. See Help:Email confirmation
  • "Email me when a page or file on my watchlist is changed", see Help:Email notification

Newcomer homepage

See Wikipedia:Growth Team features § Newcomer homepage

Appearance

Preferences Appearance → Details = meta:Help:Preferences#Appearance

Change the web browser experience.

Skin

Skin Preferences

  • Choose the "skin", or "theme" of how Wikipedia is displayed.
  • Access your Custom CSS or Custom JavaScript for individual skins and for global settings that apply to all skins. If the links are blue, you have created these special pages and this is a quick way to access and edit them. If the links are red, clicking the link will create the special page. You can also access your cross-wiki CSS and JavaScript pages from this section, but the color of the links will always be that of external links.

Reading Preferences

Date format

  • Option to set your date and time preferences; this is how dates will appear in article History pages, logs, etc. If set to "No preference", the format is HH:MM, DD MMMM YYYY (UTC), for example: 09:40, 19 Silimin gɔli December 2024 (UTC).

Time offset

  • Shows the server time (UTC) and the local time based on the optional Time zone setting. You may opt to use the server time (UTC), have the offset calculated by the clock in your computer, or specify an offset from UTC in hours or by location.
  • This does not affect times saved in editable pages, such as timestamps in signatures. For that, see Wikipedia:Comments in Local Time.

Files

  • The images in an article are just a thumbnail (a preview). These will always be one of eight possible Thumbnail sizes. For the larger screen sizes choose the maximum, and for the smaller screen sizes choose the minimum thumbnail size. The default 220px is a midrange thumbnail-size. Have you changed your font size? Then you should match that font size to your chosen thumbnail size to increase caption readability.
  • While viewing an article, if you click a thumbnail you will activate Media Viewer. Media Viewer is JavaScript, and it uses processing resources. It loads all the images in the article at high resolution, and this uses networking resources. This is the default. You can turn off Media Viewer to save resources: 1) to control all image sizing, 2) to navigate directly to a file page (instead) when you click on a thumbnail.
  • You can target the Image size limit of the file page main image, (displayed in the front matter). On a faster network choose a larger size, and on a slower network choose a smaller Image size limit. The default 800×600px is a midrange Image size limit. File pages are on Commons wiki, and if logged in there, going there overrides your settings here.
  • Note that you can both turn off Media Viewer and set a small Image size limit, and yet you will not limit your ability to avail yourself of any high resolution images listed at the bottom of that file page, when wanted. Doing so you can get full manual control of any unwanted, automatic bogging-down of your surfing speed caused by automated choices concerning File namespace interactions initiated by clicking on an image.

Diffs

  • Option to not show page content below the diffs; checking this will suppress the page preview of the difference you're viewing.
  • Option to omit a diff after performing a rollback

Advanced options

  • Choose to display hyperlinks with underlines in your browser window always, never, or by browser or Wikipedia-skin default.
  • Format links as stub links when the article they link to is smaller than the threshold you set on file size. Stub link formatting changes the link color to the dark brown displayed in this option's text. This option can help you see links to small articles (more likely to be stubs) so that you might expand them. It is also useful for spotting links to disambiguation pages, which are also relatively small. They are usually linked to in error, but often contain on their list a link to the correct article, making this error easy to fix.
  • Show hidden categories.

Math

Languages

Editing

Preferences Editing → Details = meta:Help:Preferences#Editing

Concerning the edit page, its initiation, and look and feel, Wikipedia offers a high number of options. Some of them are:

  • "Teemi ma n yi ti bi sabi lahabali jia (bee din pun ku bɛni ka labisim lahabali ji' maa)" into the database. (Habit-forming.)
  • "Enable VisualEditor". Get a word processor interface. No markup language at all.
  • "Wuhimi johi lihi amaa ka di pa a lan yɛn labimi yooi". Get a dynamic web page. Browser reloading now gives a glimpse at the live original without having to leave the edit page. And there is no longer any need to create an entirely new page for each preview requested; live preview just reloads parts of its page, and so it offers no browser history backwards, but disturbs no history forward either. Saves some network bandwidth and lots of browser cache. Just save your edits before disabling JavaScript.[3] (First-time users should perform a simple compatibility test.[4])

The font size for the edit box can be set in Wikipedia editing preferences or in the browser. In Firefox, there are two font-size settings at Options → Content → "Default font" Advanced…, one for the edit box, and one for the rest of the page. If you just want uniformity, check to see if it allows Wikipedia to choose its own font; then you set Wikipedia's "Edit Area Font Style" to "Serif" or "Sans Serif", and the font size in the edit box will match the rest of the page.

The number of rows in the edit box is no longer set in preferences. For a temporary change, when the edit box is displayed, drag up or down the small square in the bottom right corner of the edit box. Alternatively, make the change stick by adding this line to your CSS file (in Preferences, Appearance), usually Special:MyPage/common.css:

#wpTextbox1 {height: 25em;}

where 25em is an example (and typical), height.

Two editing toolbars are offered that will span the top of the edit box. (Wikipedia:Reftoolbar shows versions.)

To use more of your favorite text editor instead of just the edit box and toolbars, see Wikipedia:Text editor support. Also see the Gadgets tab.

Recent changes

Preferences Recent changes → Display options & Advanced options = meta:Help:Preferences#Recent changes

Recent changes refer to changes of pages in the database. Every time a wiki page is edited, and changes were actually made, a record is kept of the difference. For example, a page history shows the revisions for that particular page. But recent changes can report on more than just the revisions of a page, or an entire wiki, they can also report on the recent changes of an editor (their contributions). The user preferences for recent changes are the style in which these lists of revisions will appear:

  • Length of the list
  • Time window of the list
  • Grouping methods of the list

The watchlist has even more finely tuned preferences, because like the edit window, it is often a core tool for editors.

More information about these various histories can be found at the following places. For global changes to Wikipedia pages, see Help:Recent changes. For user contributions, see Help:User contributions. For page histories, see Help:Page history. For other types of logs see Help:Log.

Pending changes

Preferences Recent changes → Pending changes = meta:Help:Preferences#Pending changes/Edit review

These settings are for advanced editors who have a detailed understanding of the five pillars and of the templates used to mark judgments on the page. Pending changes refers to the style of the presentation of

  • new page "curation" tools: curation toolbar and new pages feed, and
  • how recent changes appear on the page history of certain pages that have been configured for protection by reviewing any changes before they are applied to the public version of the page.

For an example of a page history showing the pending changes feature, click on the history of a page listed at Special:PendingChanges.

Watchlist

Preferences Watchlist → Details = meta:Help:Preferences#Watchlist

The watchlist options include which pages, and what "recent" means to you. If your Preferences has "Email me when a page or file on my watchlist is changed" set (at the bottom of the "User profile" tab), then only by visiting a page will you actually set its email notification flag. Once you miss the email for a particular page change or don't visit the page (or ignore the email), you will not receive any more emails for that page. You can still dutifully monitor that page by its watchlist edit-summaries, but its particular email notification flag will remain unset until you visit it. This facilitates monitoring a large watchlist while preventing potentially useless emails to you.

In case you want to set all email notifications anyway, you can at any time mark all pages "visited". If your Preferences Gadgets has "Display pages on your watchlist that have changed since your last visit in bold", then your watchlist will have a button labeled "Mark all pages visited". That button will effectively set all of your email notification flags.

Notifications

Preferences Notifications

These settings alter the Special:Notifications tool. The options for Notifications were first added in May 2013. See Wikipedia Signpost topic "English-language Wikipedia to be first to receive Echo deployment" for a brief overview.

For a full explanation of the specific preferences, see Wikipedia:Notifications § Preferences and settings.

Email options
  • Choose whether to opt-in or opt-out of email notifications (you must confirm your email address on your Preferences User profile → Email options). You can also choose how often to receive email notifications, from single emails for each event to daily or weekly digests.
  • Choose whether to receive plain text or HTML email.
Notify me about these events

You can enable (or disable) individual types of notifications by checking (or unchecking) the boxes next to it. You can enable (or disable) notifications on the web or by email for most notification types (note that some notifications cannot be disabled, such as changes to your user rights or new talk page messages: these notifications are too important to be dismissed).

Wikipedia:Notifications § Types of notifications has a general list of the types of notifications. Special:DisplayNotificationsConfiguration lists all notification types available and how they are configured.

Muted users

You can mute on-site notifications from individual users by enter their username into the box. You will still receive notifications if a muted user writes on your user talk page or reviews a page you have created. The muted user will still receive a successful mention notification, if they've enabled that preference.

Muting pages

You can mute "page linked" notifications for specific pages by typing each page's name into the box.

Gadgets

Preferences Gadgets → Details = Wikipedia:Gadget#Currently installed gadgets

Gadgets are the software contributed by users, not the software that runs Wikipedia, and so you'll see the group names Editing and Appearance are the same as the tab names on the preferences page. If you see tabs on the preferences page your web-browsers already has JavaScript enabled. The gadgets go through an authoritative process before they appear on the list. There are gadgets for, browsing, editing, appearance and for compatibility. A general overview of the select gadgetry available there is as follows.

Browsing
  • Language translating
  • Media files, search results, and diffs
  • Twinkle admin tools for the advancing editor
  • Teahouse for the new editor question
  • Mousing over or hovering over an inline citation to read it
Editing
  • Citation modifying/expediting/proving
  • Colorizing wikitext; Character toolsets
  • Categorizing; Reviewing new articles; Filing disputes
  • The Wiki Editor, WikEd, and WikEdDiff
Appearance
  • Editing the introductory section.
  • Admin tools; Changing and adding to page layouts and controls
  • Displaying diffs, or animations, or your very own local time on all timestamps
  • Enabling an external search engine for searching Wikipedia
  • Show the assessed class of an article, Featured, A, B, C, etc.
  • Justifying paragraphs
Compatibility
  • Font and JavaScript support
Advanced
  • Regular expression tools
  • Tracking software bugs
  • Patrolling recent changes

See much more customization available in the pages in the See also section, such as a search and replace dialog that understands JavaScript regular expressions.

Beta features

Preferences Beta features → Details = mw:Beta Features

Beta Features is a way for users to test new features on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia sites before they are released for everyone.

Other tools

The MediaWiki preferences page offers a set of options for the generic user. If you discover a special role on Wikipedia, there is probably a powerful tool for it at Wikipedia:Tools § Browsing and editing.

Operating an account with a tool may carry side effects, such as popups, toolbars and frame objects on your browsing or editing page space that are sometimes burdensome, yet sometimes powerfully necessary. Rather than uninstalling, it is possible to just switch skins, because there are four skins, each with a pair of customizations. 1) Custom JavaScript has the tools. 2) Custom CSS can carry over your preferred fonts, colors, and frame borders to each skin, no matter what tools that skin may also be loaded with.

See also

Notes

  1. It is true that each tab will create a URL in the browser history, but these URLs do not represent historical differences in the JavaScript instance that loaded with the Preferences page itself. The per-tab URLs only purpose is to serve the browser's back- and forward-navigation.
  2. Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)/Archive 184#Discourage en-xx UI variants
  3. If you disable JavaScript for any page on MediaWiki.org or Wikipedia.org, you will lose all unsaved edits in all tabs; yet disabling JavaScript is a common troubleshooting technique when diagnosing some preference-related browser behaviors.
  4. The danger in using Live preview is on first use with an incompatible browser. Try a simple test: make a change to the edit box, then reload the page.
  5. Compiled by the Mozilla Contributors.

! Career in the NBA

Preferences are the seventy or so user options for browsing, editing, searching, notifications, and more. A link to your Preferences page is available at the top of every Wikipedia page when you have an account, alongside links to your other account services such as your Contributions. Another way to get there is by navigating to the Special:Preferences page.

Once at your Preferences page, you can control much of the Wikipedia user interface through the many feature settings provided by MediaWiki (the software of Wikipedia): skins, plug-ins, date formats, a signature, and more. For example, you can select to be prompted to enter an edit summary if you forget to. The Preferences page also presents a link to customize your CSS to adjust your page style details.

Plus, there are hundreds of user tools to explore, many listed at Wikipedia:Tools § Browsing and editing, that can override or tweak preferences provided by MediaWiki. Each account has its own Custom JavaScript page where the tools install themselves, and where you can help develop them.

At their site, MediaWiki maintains a browser compatibility matrix. The time you spend in getting an account, setting your preferences, finding tools and testing your browser (before you ever lose an edit) will pay off.

Feature requests can be made, and bugs reported, as described at Wikipedia:Phabricator. The current set of preferences are largely the result of issues raised by newcomers at places such as the Village pump, and driven by regulars who hold long discussions and collectively drive issues.

Preferences page

The Preferences page is accessible when you are logged-in, but you must have JavaScript enabled in your browser, since the page and all its tabs are an extensive JavaScript application.

You do not need to click Save on every tab on the Preferences page, as the Save button affects all changes on all Preferences tabs.[1] You can go from tab to tab setting all your preferences before saving, because Save remembers your changes on the other tabs. To forget unsaved changes, simply leave the page without saving. If you wish to undo your saved changes, you will need to reset them manually.

Clicking Restore all default settings will harmlessly load another page, which will then offer the button to reset all preferences in every tab to their default values. This includes a few items that are stored as a preference, but that aren't directly editable in Special:Preferences. If you do reset your preferences, you can restore your custom signature from the wikitext of a history page, update your custom CSS or JavaScript from Wikipedia:Tools § Browsing and editing, and then re-select and save your preferences.

The default settings are aimed at newcomers editing articles. Intermediate editors tend to activate more features, such as "warn me if I forgot an edit summary", and advanced editors and administrators use the special settings, gadgets, and editors for their tasks.

You have the same username and password on sister projects such as Wiktionary, at MediaWiki.org itself, and on the Wikipedia of other languages. Each of your account's preferences are independent because each wiki is a website, with their own administration (namespaces, settings, accounts, etc.). Even the word "Preferences" on the top may be set differently! On the Simple English Wikipedia, it says "My settings".

User profile

Preferences User profile → Details = meta:Help:Preferences#User profile

Basic information

  • Lists your account details and the number of edits you have made.
  • Allows you to view/manage your global account info.
  • Provides a link to change your password.

Internationalisation

  • Change the language of user-interface messages. It does not affect articles and other pages made by editors. Note that many interface messages have been customized at the English Wikipedia but usually only for the default "en - English" which may for example add links to relevant help pages, processes and policies. Editors are discouraged from selecting "en-GB - British English" or "en-CA - Canadian English", which make a few spelling changes but omit many useful customizations.[2] Foreign languages also omit customizations but may be preferred by users with poor English abilities.
  • Specify your preferred pronoun in order for the software to grammatically refer to you correctly. This is also visible to other users via certain tools, such as the they template and Navigation popups.
  • More language settings: allows you to set the language in which Wikipedia menus and fonts are displayed; additionally, an option to set the language you edit in (input tools must be enabled).

Signature

  • Displays the signature that will appear when you sign talk pages.
  • Allows you to edit the signature, either using wiki markup (the option must be checked), or just plain text.

Email options

  • An option to provide an email address. Although this is optional, please read the warning about losing your password and not having an email address on file.
  • Options about use of your email address: enabling email from other users, sending copies of emails you send to other users, and receiving email when a page or file on your watchlist is changed.
  • Before using email you must confirm your email address. See Help:Email confirmation
  • "Email me when a page or file on my watchlist is changed", see Help:Email notification

Newcomer homepage

See Wikipedia:Growth Team features § Newcomer homepage

Appearance

Preferences Appearance → Details = meta:Help:Preferences#Appearance

Change the web browser experience.

Skin

Skin Preferences

  • Choose the "skin", or "theme" of how Wikipedia is displayed.
  • Access your Custom CSS or Custom JavaScript for individual skins and for global settings that apply to all skins. If the links are blue, you have created these special pages and this is a quick way to access and edit them. If the links are red, clicking the link will create the special page. You can also access your cross-wiki CSS and JavaScript pages from this section, but the color of the links will always be that of external links.

Reading Preferences

Date format

  • Option to set your date and time preferences; this is how dates will appear in article History pages, logs, etc. If set to "No preference", the format is HH:MM, DD MMMM YYYY (UTC), for example: 09:40, 19 Silimin gɔli December 2024 (UTC).

Time offset

  • Shows the server time (UTC) and the local time based on the optional Time zone setting. You may opt to use the server time (UTC), have the offset calculated by the clock in your computer, or specify an offset from UTC in hours or by location.
  • This does not affect times saved in editable pages, such as timestamps in signatures. For that, see Wikipedia:Comments in Local Time.

Files

  • The images in an article are just a thumbnail (a preview). These will always be one of eight possible Thumbnail sizes. For the larger screen sizes choose the maximum, and for the smaller screen sizes choose the minimum thumbnail size. The default 220px is a midrange thumbnail-size. Have you changed your font size? Then you should match that font size to your chosen thumbnail size to increase caption readability.
  • While viewing an article, if you click a thumbnail you will activate Media Viewer. Media Viewer is JavaScript, and it uses processing resources. It loads all the images in the article at high resolution, and this uses networking resources. This is the default. You can turn off Media Viewer to save resources: 1) to control all image sizing, 2) to navigate directly to a file page (instead) when you click on a thumbnail.
  • You can target the Image size limit of the file page main image, (displayed in the front matter). On a faster network choose a larger size, and on a slower network choose a smaller Image size limit. The default 800×600px is a midrange Image size limit. File pages are on Commons wiki, and if logged in there, going there overrides your settings here.
  • Note that you can both turn off Media Viewer and set a small Image size limit, and yet you will not limit your ability to avail yourself of any high resolution images listed at the bottom of that file page, when wanted. Doing so you can get full manual control of any unwanted, automatic bogging-down of your surfing speed caused by automated choices concerning File namespace interactions initiated by clicking on an image.

Diffs

  • Option to not show page content below the diffs; checking this will suppress the page preview of the difference you're viewing.
  • Option to omit a diff after performing a rollback

Advanced options

  • Choose to display hyperlinks with underlines in your browser window always, never, or by browser or Wikipedia-skin default.
  • Format links as stub links when the article they link to is smaller than the threshold you set on file size. Stub link formatting changes the link color to the dark brown displayed in this option's text. This option can help you see links to small articles (more likely to be stubs) so that you might expand them. It is also useful for spotting links to disambiguation pages, which are also relatively small. They are usually linked to in error, but often contain on their list a link to the correct article, making this error easy to fix.
  • Show hidden categories.

Math

Languages

Editing

Preferences Editing → Details = meta:Help:Preferences#Editing

Concerning the edit page, its initiation, and look and feel, Wikipedia offers a high number of options. Some of them are:

  • "Teemi ma n yi ti bi sabi lahabali jia (bee din pun ku bɛni ka labisim lahabali ji' maa)" into the database. (Habit-forming.)
  • "Enable VisualEditor". Get a word processor interface. No markup language at all.
  • "Wuhimi johi lihi amaa ka di pa a lan yɛn labimi yooi". Get a dynamic web page. Browser reloading now gives a glimpse at the live original without having to leave the edit page. And there is no longer any need to create an entirely new page for each preview requested; live preview just reloads parts of its page, and so it offers no browser history backwards, but disturbs no history forward either. Saves some network bandwidth and lots of browser cache. Just save your edits before disabling JavaScript.[3] (First-time users should perform a simple compatibility test.[4])

The font size for the edit box can be set in Wikipedia editing preferences or in the browser. In Firefox, there are two font-size settings at Options → Content → "Default font" Advanced…, one for the edit box, and one for the rest of the page. If you just want uniformity, check to see if it allows Wikipedia to choose its own font; then you set Wikipedia's "Edit Area Font Style" to "Serif" or "Sans Serif", and the font size in the edit box will match the rest of the page.

The number of rows in the edit box is no longer set in preferences. For a temporary change, when the edit box is displayed, drag up or down the small square in the bottom right corner of the edit box. Alternatively, make the change stick by adding this line to your CSS file (in Preferences, Appearance), usually Special:MyPage/common.css:

#wpTextbox1 {height: 25em;}

where 25em is an example (and typical), height.

Two editing toolbars are offered that will span the top of the edit box. (Wikipedia:Reftoolbar shows versions.)

To use more of your favorite text editor instead of just the edit box and toolbars, see Wikipedia:Text editor support. Also see the Gadgets tab.

Recent changes

Preferences Recent changes → Display options & Advanced options = meta:Help:Preferences#Recent changes

Recent changes refer to changes of pages in the database. Every time a wiki page is edited, and changes were actually made, a record is kept of the difference. For example, a page history shows the revisions for that particular page. But recent changes can report on more than just the revisions of a page, or an entire wiki, they can also report on the recent changes of an editor (their contributions). The user preferences for recent changes are the style in which these lists of revisions will appear:

  • Length of the list
  • Time window of the list
  • Grouping methods of the list

The watchlist has even more finely tuned preferences, because like the edit window, it is often a core tool for editors.

More information about these various histories can be found at the following places. For global changes to Wikipedia pages, see Help:Recent changes. For user contributions, see Help:User contributions. For page histories, see Help:Page history. For other types of logs see Help:Log.

Pending changes

Preferences Recent changes → Pending changes = meta:Help:Preferences#Pending changes/Edit review

These settings are for advanced editors who have a detailed understanding of the five pillars and of the templates used to mark judgments on the page. Pending changes refers to the style of the presentation of

  • new page "curation" tools: curation toolbar and new pages feed, and
  • how recent changes appear on the page history of certain pages that have been configured for protection by reviewing any changes before they are applied to the public version of the page.

For an example of a page history showing the pending changes feature, click on the history of a page listed at Special:PendingChanges.

Watchlist

Preferences Watchlist → Details = meta:Help:Preferences#Watchlist

The watchlist options include which pages, and what "recent" means to you. If your Preferences has "Email me when a page or file on my watchlist is changed" set (at the bottom of the "User profile" tab), then only by visiting a page will you actually set its email notification flag. Once you miss the email for a particular page change or don't visit the page (or ignore the email), you will not receive any more emails for that page. You can still dutifully monitor that page by its watchlist edit-summaries, but its particular email notification flag will remain unset until you visit it. This facilitates monitoring a large watchlist while preventing potentially useless emails to you.

In case you want to set all email notifications anyway, you can at any time mark all pages "visited". If your Preferences Gadgets has "Display pages on your watchlist that have changed since your last visit in bold", then your watchlist will have a button labeled "Mark all pages visited". That button will effectively set all of your email notification flags.

Notifications

Preferences Notifications

These settings alter the Special:Notifications tool. The options for Notifications were first added in May 2013. See Wikipedia Signpost topic "English-language Wikipedia to be first to receive Echo deployment" for a brief overview.

For a full explanation of the specific preferences, see Wikipedia:Notifications § Preferences and settings.

Email options
  • Choose whether to opt-in or opt-out of email notifications (you must confirm your email address on your Preferences User profile → Email options). You can also choose how often to receive email notifications, from single emails for each event to daily or weekly digests.
  • Choose whether to receive plain text or HTML email.
Notify me about these events

You can enable (or disable) individual types of notifications by checking (or unchecking) the boxes next to it. You can enable (or disable) notifications on the web or by email for most notification types (note that some notifications cannot be disabled, such as changes to your user rights or new talk page messages: these notifications are too important to be dismissed).

Wikipedia:Notifications § Types of notifications has a general list of the types of notifications. Special:DisplayNotificationsConfiguration lists all notification types available and how they are configured.

Muted users

You can mute on-site notifications from individual users by enter their username into the box. You will still receive notifications if a muted user writes on your user talk page or reviews a page you have created. The muted user will still receive a successful mention notification, if they've enabled that preference.

Muting pages

You can mute "page linked" notifications for specific pages by typing each page's name into the box.

Gadgets

Preferences Gadgets → Details = Wikipedia:Gadget#Currently installed gadgets

Gadgets are the software contributed by users, not the software that runs Wikipedia, and so you'll see the group names Editing and Appearance are the same as the tab names on the preferences page. If you see tabs on the preferences page your web-browsers already has JavaScript enabled. The gadgets go through an authoritative process before they appear on the list. There are gadgets for, browsing, editing, appearance and for compatibility. A general overview of the select gadgetry available there is as follows.

Browsing
  • Language translating
  • Media files, search results, and diffs
  • Twinkle admin tools for the advancing editor
  • Teahouse for the new editor question
  • Mousing over or hovering over an inline citation to read it
Editing
  • Citation modifying/expediting/proving
  • Colorizing wikitext; Character toolsets
  • Categorizing; Reviewing new articles; Filing disputes
  • The Wiki Editor, WikEd, and WikEdDiff
Appearance
  • Editing the introductory section.
  • Admin tools; Changing and adding to page layouts and controls
  • Displaying diffs, or animations, or your very own local time on all timestamps
  • Enabling an external search engine for searching Wikipedia
  • Show the assessed class of an article, Featured, A, B, C, etc.
  • Justifying paragraphs
Compatibility
  • Font and JavaScript support
Advanced
  • Regular expression tools
  • Tracking software bugs
  • Patrolling recent changes

See much more customization available in the pages in the See also section, such as a search and replace dialog that understands JavaScript regular expressions.

Beta features

Preferences Beta features → Details = mw:Beta Features

Beta Features is a way for users to test new features on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia sites before they are released for everyone.

Other tools

The MediaWiki preferences page offers a set of options for the generic user. If you discover a special role on Wikipedia, there is probably a powerful tool for it at Wikipedia:Tools § Browsing and editing.

Operating an account with a tool may carry side effects, such as popups, toolbars and frame objects on your browsing or editing page space that are sometimes burdensome, yet sometimes powerfully necessary. Rather than uninstalling, it is possible to just switch skins, because there are four skins, each with a pair of customizations. 1) Custom JavaScript has the tools. 2) Custom CSS can carry over your preferred fonts, colors, and frame borders to each skin, no matter what tools that skin may also be loaded with.

See also

Notes

  1. It is true that each tab will create a URL in the browser history, but these URLs do not represent historical differences in the JavaScript instance that loaded with the Preferences page itself. The per-tab URLs only purpose is to serve the browser's back- and forward-navigation.
  2. Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)/Archive 184#Discourage en-xx UI variants
  3. If you disable JavaScript for any page on MediaWiki.org or Wikipedia.org, you will lose all unsaved edits in all tabs; yet disabling JavaScript is a common troubleshooting technique when diagnosing some preference-related browser behaviors.
  4. The danger in using Live preview is on first use with an incompatible browser. Try a simple test: make a change to the edit box, then reload the page.
  5. Compiled by the Mozilla Contributors.

! SFR Yugoslavia dissolved in 1992 into five independent countries, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, the Republic of Macedonia, Slovenia, and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. FR Yugoslavia was later renamed into Serbia and Montenegro in February 2003 and dissolved in June 2006 into two independent countries, Montenegro and Serbia. In 2019, Macedonia was officially renamed North Macedonia.

Preferences are the seventy or so user options for browsing, editing, searching, notifications, and more. A link to your Preferences page is available at the top of every Wikipedia page when you have an account, alongside links to your other account services such as your Contributions. Another way to get there is by navigating to the Special:Preferences page.

Once at your Preferences page, you can control much of the Wikipedia user interface through the many feature settings provided by MediaWiki (the software of Wikipedia): skins, plug-ins, date formats, a signature, and more. For example, you can select to be prompted to enter an edit summary if you forget to. The Preferences page also presents a link to customize your CSS to adjust your page style details.

Plus, there are hundreds of user tools to explore, many listed at Wikipedia:Tools § Browsing and editing, that can override or tweak preferences provided by MediaWiki. Each account has its own Custom JavaScript page where the tools install themselves, and where you can help develop them.

At their site, MediaWiki maintains a browser compatibility matrix. The time you spend in getting an account, setting your preferences, finding tools and testing your browser (before you ever lose an edit) will pay off.

Feature requests can be made, and bugs reported, as described at Wikipedia:Phabricator. The current set of preferences are largely the result of issues raised by newcomers at places such as the Village pump, and driven by regulars who hold long discussions and collectively drive issues.

Preferences page

The Preferences page is accessible when you are logged-in, but you must have JavaScript enabled in your browser, since the page and all its tabs are an extensive JavaScript application.

You do not need to click Save on every tab on the Preferences page, as the Save button affects all changes on all Preferences tabs.[1] You can go from tab to tab setting all your preferences before saving, because Save remembers your changes on the other tabs. To forget unsaved changes, simply leave the page without saving. If you wish to undo your saved changes, you will need to reset them manually.

Clicking Restore all default settings will harmlessly load another page, which will then offer the button to reset all preferences in every tab to their default values. This includes a few items that are stored as a preference, but that aren't directly editable in Special:Preferences. If you do reset your preferences, you can restore your custom signature from the wikitext of a history page, update your custom CSS or JavaScript from Wikipedia:Tools § Browsing and editing, and then re-select and save your preferences.

The default settings are aimed at newcomers editing articles. Intermediate editors tend to activate more features, such as "warn me if I forgot an edit summary", and advanced editors and administrators use the special settings, gadgets, and editors for their tasks.

You have the same username and password on sister projects such as Wiktionary, at MediaWiki.org itself, and on the Wikipedia of other languages. Each of your account's preferences are independent because each wiki is a website, with their own administration (namespaces, settings, accounts, etc.). Even the word "Preferences" on the top may be set differently! On the Simple English Wikipedia, it says "My settings".

User profile

Preferences User profile → Details = meta:Help:Preferences#User profile

Basic information

  • Lists your account details and the number of edits you have made.
  • Allows you to view/manage your global account info.
  • Provides a link to change your password.

Internationalisation

  • Change the language of user-interface messages. It does not affect articles and other pages made by editors. Note that many interface messages have been customized at the English Wikipedia but usually only for the default "en - English" which may for example add links to relevant help pages, processes and policies. Editors are discouraged from selecting "en-GB - British English" or "en-CA - Canadian English", which make a few spelling changes but omit many useful customizations.[2] Foreign languages also omit customizations but may be preferred by users with poor English abilities.
  • Specify your preferred pronoun in order for the software to grammatically refer to you correctly. This is also visible to other users via certain tools, such as the they template and Navigation popups.
  • More language settings: allows you to set the language in which Wikipedia menus and fonts are displayed; additionally, an option to set the language you edit in (input tools must be enabled).

Signature

  • Displays the signature that will appear when you sign talk pages.
  • Allows you to edit the signature, either using wiki markup (the option must be checked), or just plain text.

Email options

  • An option to provide an email address. Although this is optional, please read the warning about losing your password and not having an email address on file.
  • Options about use of your email address: enabling email from other users, sending copies of emails you send to other users, and receiving email when a page or file on your watchlist is changed.
  • Before using email you must confirm your email address. See Help:Email confirmation
  • "Email me when a page or file on my watchlist is changed", see Help:Email notification

Newcomer homepage

See Wikipedia:Growth Team features § Newcomer homepage

Appearance

Preferences Appearance → Details = meta:Help:Preferences#Appearance

Change the web browser experience.

Skin

Skin Preferences

  • Choose the "skin", or "theme" of how Wikipedia is displayed.
  • Access your Custom CSS or Custom JavaScript for individual skins and for global settings that apply to all skins. If the links are blue, you have created these special pages and this is a quick way to access and edit them. If the links are red, clicking the link will create the special page. You can also access your cross-wiki CSS and JavaScript pages from this section, but the color of the links will always be that of external links.

Reading Preferences

Date format

  • Option to set your date and time preferences; this is how dates will appear in article History pages, logs, etc. If set to "No preference", the format is HH:MM, DD MMMM YYYY (UTC), for example: 09:40, 19 Silimin gɔli December 2024 (UTC).

Time offset

  • Shows the server time (UTC) and the local time based on the optional Time zone setting. You may opt to use the server time (UTC), have the offset calculated by the clock in your computer, or specify an offset from UTC in hours or by location.
  • This does not affect times saved in editable pages, such as timestamps in signatures. For that, see Wikipedia:Comments in Local Time.

Files

  • The images in an article are just a thumbnail (a preview). These will always be one of eight possible Thumbnail sizes. For the larger screen sizes choose the maximum, and for the smaller screen sizes choose the minimum thumbnail size. The default 220px is a midrange thumbnail-size. Have you changed your font size? Then you should match that font size to your chosen thumbnail size to increase caption readability.
  • While viewing an article, if you click a thumbnail you will activate Media Viewer. Media Viewer is JavaScript, and it uses processing resources. It loads all the images in the article at high resolution, and this uses networking resources. This is the default. You can turn off Media Viewer to save resources: 1) to control all image sizing, 2) to navigate directly to a file page (instead) when you click on a thumbnail.
  • You can target the Image size limit of the file page main image, (displayed in the front matter). On a faster network choose a larger size, and on a slower network choose a smaller Image size limit. The default 800×600px is a midrange Image size limit. File pages are on Commons wiki, and if logged in there, going there overrides your settings here.
  • Note that you can both turn off Media Viewer and set a small Image size limit, and yet you will not limit your ability to avail yourself of any high resolution images listed at the bottom of that file page, when wanted. Doing so you can get full manual control of any unwanted, automatic bogging-down of your surfing speed caused by automated choices concerning File namespace interactions initiated by clicking on an image.

Diffs

  • Option to not show page content below the diffs; checking this will suppress the page preview of the difference you're viewing.
  • Option to omit a diff after performing a rollback

Advanced options

  • Choose to display hyperlinks with underlines in your browser window always, never, or by browser or Wikipedia-skin default.
  • Format links as stub links when the article they link to is smaller than the threshold you set on file size. Stub link formatting changes the link color to the dark brown displayed in this option's text. This option can help you see links to small articles (more likely to be stubs) so that you might expand them. It is also useful for spotting links to disambiguation pages, which are also relatively small. They are usually linked to in error, but often contain on their list a link to the correct article, making this error easy to fix.
  • Show hidden categories.

Math

Languages

Editing

Preferences Editing → Details = meta:Help:Preferences#Editing

Concerning the edit page, its initiation, and look and feel, Wikipedia offers a high number of options. Some of them are:

  • "Teemi ma n yi ti bi sabi lahabali jia (bee din pun ku bɛni ka labisim lahabali ji' maa)" into the database. (Habit-forming.)
  • "Enable VisualEditor". Get a word processor interface. No markup language at all.
  • "Wuhimi johi lihi amaa ka di pa a lan yɛn labimi yooi". Get a dynamic web page. Browser reloading now gives a glimpse at the live original without having to leave the edit page. And there is no longer any need to create an entirely new page for each preview requested; live preview just reloads parts of its page, and so it offers no browser history backwards, but disturbs no history forward either. Saves some network bandwidth and lots of browser cache. Just save your edits before disabling JavaScript.[3] (First-time users should perform a simple compatibility test.[4])

The font size for the edit box can be set in Wikipedia editing preferences or in the browser. In Firefox, there are two font-size settings at Options → Content → "Default font" Advanced…, one for the edit box, and one for the rest of the page. If you just want uniformity, check to see if it allows Wikipedia to choose its own font; then you set Wikipedia's "Edit Area Font Style" to "Serif" or "Sans Serif", and the font size in the edit box will match the rest of the page.

The number of rows in the edit box is no longer set in preferences. For a temporary change, when the edit box is displayed, drag up or down the small square in the bottom right corner of the edit box. Alternatively, make the change stick by adding this line to your CSS file (in Preferences, Appearance), usually Special:MyPage/common.css:

#wpTextbox1 {height: 25em;}

where 25em is an example (and typical), height.

Two editing toolbars are offered that will span the top of the edit box. (Wikipedia:Reftoolbar shows versions.)

To use more of your favorite text editor instead of just the edit box and toolbars, see Wikipedia:Text editor support. Also see the Gadgets tab.

Recent changes

Preferences Recent changes → Display options & Advanced options = meta:Help:Preferences#Recent changes

Recent changes refer to changes of pages in the database. Every time a wiki page is edited, and changes were actually made, a record is kept of the difference. For example, a page history shows the revisions for that particular page. But recent changes can report on more than just the revisions of a page, or an entire wiki, they can also report on the recent changes of an editor (their contributions). The user preferences for recent changes are the style in which these lists of revisions will appear:

  • Length of the list
  • Time window of the list
  • Grouping methods of the list

The watchlist has even more finely tuned preferences, because like the edit window, it is often a core tool for editors.

More information about these various histories can be found at the following places. For global changes to Wikipedia pages, see Help:Recent changes. For user contributions, see Help:User contributions. For page histories, see Help:Page history. For other types of logs see Help:Log.

Pending changes

Preferences Recent changes → Pending changes = meta:Help:Preferences#Pending changes/Edit review

These settings are for advanced editors who have a detailed understanding of the five pillars and of the templates used to mark judgments on the page. Pending changes refers to the style of the presentation of

  • new page "curation" tools: curation toolbar and new pages feed, and
  • how recent changes appear on the page history of certain pages that have been configured for protection by reviewing any changes before they are applied to the public version of the page.

For an example of a page history showing the pending changes feature, click on the history of a page listed at Special:PendingChanges.

Watchlist

Preferences Watchlist → Details = meta:Help:Preferences#Watchlist

The watchlist options include which pages, and what "recent" means to you. If your Preferences has "Email me when a page or file on my watchlist is changed" set (at the bottom of the "User profile" tab), then only by visiting a page will you actually set its email notification flag. Once you miss the email for a particular page change or don't visit the page (or ignore the email), you will not receive any more emails for that page. You can still dutifully monitor that page by its watchlist edit-summaries, but its particular email notification flag will remain unset until you visit it. This facilitates monitoring a large watchlist while preventing potentially useless emails to you.

In case you want to set all email notifications anyway, you can at any time mark all pages "visited". If your Preferences Gadgets has "Display pages on your watchlist that have changed since your last visit in bold", then your watchlist will have a button labeled "Mark all pages visited". That button will effectively set all of your email notification flags.

Notifications

Preferences Notifications

These settings alter the Special:Notifications tool. The options for Notifications were first added in May 2013. See Wikipedia Signpost topic "English-language Wikipedia to be first to receive Echo deployment" for a brief overview.

For a full explanation of the specific preferences, see Wikipedia:Notifications § Preferences and settings.

Email options
  • Choose whether to opt-in or opt-out of email notifications (you must confirm your email address on your Preferences User profile → Email options). You can also choose how often to receive email notifications, from single emails for each event to daily or weekly digests.
  • Choose whether to receive plain text or HTML email.
Notify me about these events

You can enable (or disable) individual types of notifications by checking (or unchecking) the boxes next to it. You can enable (or disable) notifications on the web or by email for most notification types (note that some notifications cannot be disabled, such as changes to your user rights or new talk page messages: these notifications are too important to be dismissed).

Wikipedia:Notifications § Types of notifications has a general list of the types of notifications. Special:DisplayNotificationsConfiguration lists all notification types available and how they are configured.

Muted users

You can mute on-site notifications from individual users by enter their username into the box. You will still receive notifications if a muted user writes on your user talk page or reviews a page you have created. The muted user will still receive a successful mention notification, if they've enabled that preference.

Muting pages

You can mute "page linked" notifications for specific pages by typing each page's name into the box.

Gadgets

Preferences Gadgets → Details = Wikipedia:Gadget#Currently installed gadgets

Gadgets are the software contributed by users, not the software that runs Wikipedia, and so you'll see the group names Editing and Appearance are the same as the tab names on the preferences page. If you see tabs on the preferences page your web-browsers already has JavaScript enabled. The gadgets go through an authoritative process before they appear on the list. There are gadgets for, browsing, editing, appearance and for compatibility. A general overview of the select gadgetry available there is as follows.

Browsing
  • Language translating
  • Media files, search results, and diffs
  • Twinkle admin tools for the advancing editor
  • Teahouse for the new editor question
  • Mousing over or hovering over an inline citation to read it
Editing
  • Citation modifying/expediting/proving
  • Colorizing wikitext; Character toolsets
  • Categorizing; Reviewing new articles; Filing disputes
  • The Wiki Editor, WikEd, and WikEdDiff
Appearance
  • Editing the introductory section.
  • Admin tools; Changing and adding to page layouts and controls
  • Displaying diffs, or animations, or your very own local time on all timestamps
  • Enabling an external search engine for searching Wikipedia
  • Show the assessed class of an article, Featured, A, B, C, etc.
  • Justifying paragraphs
Compatibility
  • Font and JavaScript support
Advanced
  • Regular expression tools
  • Tracking software bugs
  • Patrolling recent changes

See much more customization available in the pages in the See also section, such as a search and replace dialog that understands JavaScript regular expressions.

Beta features

Preferences Beta features → Details = mw:Beta Features

Beta Features is a way for users to test new features on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia sites before they are released for everyone.

Other tools

The MediaWiki preferences page offers a set of options for the generic user. If you discover a special role on Wikipedia, there is probably a powerful tool for it at Wikipedia:Tools § Browsing and editing.

Operating an account with a tool may carry side effects, such as popups, toolbars and frame objects on your browsing or editing page space that are sometimes burdensome, yet sometimes powerfully necessary. Rather than uninstalling, it is possible to just switch skins, because there are four skins, each with a pair of customizations. 1) Custom JavaScript has the tools. 2) Custom CSS can carry over your preferred fonts, colors, and frame borders to each skin, no matter what tools that skin may also be loaded with.

See also

Notes

  1. It is true that each tab will create a URL in the browser history, but these URLs do not represent historical differences in the JavaScript instance that loaded with the Preferences page itself. The per-tab URLs only purpose is to serve the browser's back- and forward-navigation.
  2. Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)/Archive 184#Discourage en-xx UI variants
  3. If you disable JavaScript for any page on MediaWiki.org or Wikipedia.org, you will lose all unsaved edits in all tabs; yet disabling JavaScript is a common troubleshooting technique when diagnosing some preference-related browser behaviors.
  4. The danger in using Live preview is on first use with an incompatible browser. Try a simple test: make a change to the edit box, then reload the page.
  5. Compiled by the Mozilla Contributors.

! Czechoslovakia dissolved on January 1, 1993 into two independent countries, the Czech Republic and Slovakia.In 2016, the Czech Republic officially began to use its geographical name Czechia.

Preferences are the seventy or so user options for browsing, editing, searching, notifications, and more. A link to your Preferences page is available at the top of every Wikipedia page when you have an account, alongside links to your other account services such as your Contributions. Another way to get there is by navigating to the Special:Preferences page.

Once at your Preferences page, you can control much of the Wikipedia user interface through the many feature settings provided by MediaWiki (the software of Wikipedia): skins, plug-ins, date formats, a signature, and more. For example, you can select to be prompted to enter an edit summary if you forget to. The Preferences page also presents a link to customize your CSS to adjust your page style details.

Plus, there are hundreds of user tools to explore, many listed at Wikipedia:Tools § Browsing and editing, that can override or tweak preferences provided by MediaWiki. Each account has its own Custom JavaScript page where the tools install themselves, and where you can help develop them.

At their site, MediaWiki maintains a browser compatibility matrix. The time you spend in getting an account, setting your preferences, finding tools and testing your browser (before you ever lose an edit) will pay off.

Feature requests can be made, and bugs reported, as described at Wikipedia:Phabricator. The current set of preferences are largely the result of issues raised by newcomers at places such as the Village pump, and driven by regulars who hold long discussions and collectively drive issues.

Preferences page

The Preferences page is accessible when you are logged-in, but you must have JavaScript enabled in your browser, since the page and all its tabs are an extensive JavaScript application.

You do not need to click Save on every tab on the Preferences page, as the Save button affects all changes on all Preferences tabs.[1] You can go from tab to tab setting all your preferences before saving, because Save remembers your changes on the other tabs. To forget unsaved changes, simply leave the page without saving. If you wish to undo your saved changes, you will need to reset them manually.

Clicking Restore all default settings will harmlessly load another page, which will then offer the button to reset all preferences in every tab to their default values. This includes a few items that are stored as a preference, but that aren't directly editable in Special:Preferences. If you do reset your preferences, you can restore your custom signature from the wikitext of a history page, update your custom CSS or JavaScript from Wikipedia:Tools § Browsing and editing, and then re-select and save your preferences.

The default settings are aimed at newcomers editing articles. Intermediate editors tend to activate more features, such as "warn me if I forgot an edit summary", and advanced editors and administrators use the special settings, gadgets, and editors for their tasks.

You have the same username and password on sister projects such as Wiktionary, at MediaWiki.org itself, and on the Wikipedia of other languages. Each of your account's preferences are independent because each wiki is a website, with their own administration (namespaces, settings, accounts, etc.). Even the word "Preferences" on the top may be set differently! On the Simple English Wikipedia, it says "My settings".

User profile

Preferences User profile → Details = meta:Help:Preferences#User profile

Basic information

  • Lists your account details and the number of edits you have made.
  • Allows you to view/manage your global account info.
  • Provides a link to change your password.

Internationalisation

  • Change the language of user-interface messages. It does not affect articles and other pages made by editors. Note that many interface messages have been customized at the English Wikipedia but usually only for the default "en - English" which may for example add links to relevant help pages, processes and policies. Editors are discouraged from selecting "en-GB - British English" or "en-CA - Canadian English", which make a few spelling changes but omit many useful customizations.[2] Foreign languages also omit customizations but may be preferred by users with poor English abilities.
  • Specify your preferred pronoun in order for the software to grammatically refer to you correctly. This is also visible to other users via certain tools, such as the they template and Navigation popups.
  • More language settings: allows you to set the language in which Wikipedia menus and fonts are displayed; additionally, an option to set the language you edit in (input tools must be enabled).

Signature

  • Displays the signature that will appear when you sign talk pages.
  • Allows you to edit the signature, either using wiki markup (the option must be checked), or just plain text.

Email options

  • An option to provide an email address. Although this is optional, please read the warning about losing your password and not having an email address on file.
  • Options about use of your email address: enabling email from other users, sending copies of emails you send to other users, and receiving email when a page or file on your watchlist is changed.
  • Before using email you must confirm your email address. See Help:Email confirmation
  • "Email me when a page or file on my watchlist is changed", see Help:Email notification

Newcomer homepage

See Wikipedia:Growth Team features § Newcomer homepage

Appearance

Preferences Appearance → Details = meta:Help:Preferences#Appearance

Change the web browser experience.

Skin

Skin Preferences

  • Choose the "skin", or "theme" of how Wikipedia is displayed.
  • Access your Custom CSS or Custom JavaScript for individual skins and for global settings that apply to all skins. If the links are blue, you have created these special pages and this is a quick way to access and edit them. If the links are red, clicking the link will create the special page. You can also access your cross-wiki CSS and JavaScript pages from this section, but the color of the links will always be that of external links.

Reading Preferences

Date format

  • Option to set your date and time preferences; this is how dates will appear in article History pages, logs, etc. If set to "No preference", the format is HH:MM, DD MMMM YYYY (UTC), for example: 09:40, 19 Silimin gɔli December 2024 (UTC).

Time offset

  • Shows the server time (UTC) and the local time based on the optional Time zone setting. You may opt to use the server time (UTC), have the offset calculated by the clock in your computer, or specify an offset from UTC in hours or by location.
  • This does not affect times saved in editable pages, such as timestamps in signatures. For that, see Wikipedia:Comments in Local Time.

Files

  • The images in an article are just a thumbnail (a preview). These will always be one of eight possible Thumbnail sizes. For the larger screen sizes choose the maximum, and for the smaller screen sizes choose the minimum thumbnail size. The default 220px is a midrange thumbnail-size. Have you changed your font size? Then you should match that font size to your chosen thumbnail size to increase caption readability.
  • While viewing an article, if you click a thumbnail you will activate Media Viewer. Media Viewer is JavaScript, and it uses processing resources. It loads all the images in the article at high resolution, and this uses networking resources. This is the default. You can turn off Media Viewer to save resources: 1) to control all image sizing, 2) to navigate directly to a file page (instead) when you click on a thumbnail.
  • You can target the Image size limit of the file page main image, (displayed in the front matter). On a faster network choose a larger size, and on a slower network choose a smaller Image size limit. The default 800×600px is a midrange Image size limit. File pages are on Commons wiki, and if logged in there, going there overrides your settings here.
  • Note that you can both turn off Media Viewer and set a small Image size limit, and yet you will not limit your ability to avail yourself of any high resolution images listed at the bottom of that file page, when wanted. Doing so you can get full manual control of any unwanted, automatic bogging-down of your surfing speed caused by automated choices concerning File namespace interactions initiated by clicking on an image.

Diffs

  • Option to not show page content below the diffs; checking this will suppress the page preview of the difference you're viewing.
  • Option to omit a diff after performing a rollback

Advanced options

  • Choose to display hyperlinks with underlines in your browser window always, never, or by browser or Wikipedia-skin default.
  • Format links as stub links when the article they link to is smaller than the threshold you set on file size. Stub link formatting changes the link color to the dark brown displayed in this option's text. This option can help you see links to small articles (more likely to be stubs) so that you might expand them. It is also useful for spotting links to disambiguation pages, which are also relatively small. They are usually linked to in error, but often contain on their list a link to the correct article, making this error easy to fix.
  • Show hidden categories.

Math

Languages

Editing

Preferences Editing → Details = meta:Help:Preferences#Editing

Concerning the edit page, its initiation, and look and feel, Wikipedia offers a high number of options. Some of them are:

  • "Teemi ma n yi ti bi sabi lahabali jia (bee din pun ku bɛni ka labisim lahabali ji' maa)" into the database. (Habit-forming.)
  • "Enable VisualEditor". Get a word processor interface. No markup language at all.
  • "Wuhimi johi lihi amaa ka di pa a lan yɛn labimi yooi". Get a dynamic web page. Browser reloading now gives a glimpse at the live original without having to leave the edit page. And there is no longer any need to create an entirely new page for each preview requested; live preview just reloads parts of its page, and so it offers no browser history backwards, but disturbs no history forward either. Saves some network bandwidth and lots of browser cache. Just save your edits before disabling JavaScript.[3] (First-time users should perform a simple compatibility test.[4])

The font size for the edit box can be set in Wikipedia editing preferences or in the browser. In Firefox, there are two font-size settings at Options → Content → "Default font" Advanced…, one for the edit box, and one for the rest of the page. If you just want uniformity, check to see if it allows Wikipedia to choose its own font; then you set Wikipedia's "Edit Area Font Style" to "Serif" or "Sans Serif", and the font size in the edit box will match the rest of the page.

The number of rows in the edit box is no longer set in preferences. For a temporary change, when the edit box is displayed, drag up or down the small square in the bottom right corner of the edit box. Alternatively, make the change stick by adding this line to your CSS file (in Preferences, Appearance), usually Special:MyPage/common.css:

#wpTextbox1 {height: 25em;}

where 25em is an example (and typical), height.

Two editing toolbars are offered that will span the top of the edit box. (Wikipedia:Reftoolbar shows versions.)

To use more of your favorite text editor instead of just the edit box and toolbars, see Wikipedia:Text editor support. Also see the Gadgets tab.

Recent changes

Preferences Recent changes → Display options & Advanced options = meta:Help:Preferences#Recent changes

Recent changes refer to changes of pages in the database. Every time a wiki page is edited, and changes were actually made, a record is kept of the difference. For example, a page history shows the revisions for that particular page. But recent changes can report on more than just the revisions of a page, or an entire wiki, they can also report on the recent changes of an editor (their contributions). The user preferences for recent changes are the style in which these lists of revisions will appear:

  • Length of the list
  • Time window of the list
  • Grouping methods of the list

The watchlist has even more finely tuned preferences, because like the edit window, it is often a core tool for editors.

More information about these various histories can be found at the following places. For global changes to Wikipedia pages, see Help:Recent changes. For user contributions, see Help:User contributions. For page histories, see Help:Page history. For other types of logs see Help:Log.

Pending changes

Preferences Recent changes → Pending changes = meta:Help:Preferences#Pending changes/Edit review

These settings are for advanced editors who have a detailed understanding of the five pillars and of the templates used to mark judgments on the page. Pending changes refers to the style of the presentation of

  • new page "curation" tools: curation toolbar and new pages feed, and
  • how recent changes appear on the page history of certain pages that have been configured for protection by reviewing any changes before they are applied to the public version of the page.

For an example of a page history showing the pending changes feature, click on the history of a page listed at Special:PendingChanges.

Watchlist

Preferences Watchlist → Details = meta:Help:Preferences#Watchlist

The watchlist options include which pages, and what "recent" means to you. If your Preferences has "Email me when a page or file on my watchlist is changed" set (at the bottom of the "User profile" tab), then only by visiting a page will you actually set its email notification flag. Once you miss the email for a particular page change or don't visit the page (or ignore the email), you will not receive any more emails for that page. You can still dutifully monitor that page by its watchlist edit-summaries, but its particular email notification flag will remain unset until you visit it. This facilitates monitoring a large watchlist while preventing potentially useless emails to you.

In case you want to set all email notifications anyway, you can at any time mark all pages "visited". If your Preferences Gadgets has "Display pages on your watchlist that have changed since your last visit in bold", then your watchlist will have a button labeled "Mark all pages visited". That button will effectively set all of your email notification flags.

Notifications

Preferences Notifications

These settings alter the Special:Notifications tool. The options for Notifications were first added in May 2013. See Wikipedia Signpost topic "English-language Wikipedia to be first to receive Echo deployment" for a brief overview.

For a full explanation of the specific preferences, see Wikipedia:Notifications § Preferences and settings.

Email options
  • Choose whether to opt-in or opt-out of email notifications (you must confirm your email address on your Preferences User profile → Email options). You can also choose how often to receive email notifications, from single emails for each event to daily or weekly digests.
  • Choose whether to receive plain text or HTML email.
Notify me about these events

You can enable (or disable) individual types of notifications by checking (or unchecking) the boxes next to it. You can enable (or disable) notifications on the web or by email for most notification types (note that some notifications cannot be disabled, such as changes to your user rights or new talk page messages: these notifications are too important to be dismissed).

Wikipedia:Notifications § Types of notifications has a general list of the types of notifications. Special:DisplayNotificationsConfiguration lists all notification types available and how they are configured.

Muted users

You can mute on-site notifications from individual users by enter their username into the box. You will still receive notifications if a muted user writes on your user talk page or reviews a page you have created. The muted user will still receive a successful mention notification, if they've enabled that preference.

Muting pages

You can mute "page linked" notifications for specific pages by typing each page's name into the box.

Gadgets

Preferences Gadgets → Details = Wikipedia:Gadget#Currently installed gadgets

Gadgets are the software contributed by users, not the software that runs Wikipedia, and so you'll see the group names Editing and Appearance are the same as the tab names on the preferences page. If you see tabs on the preferences page your web-browsers already has JavaScript enabled. The gadgets go through an authoritative process before they appear on the list. There are gadgets for, browsing, editing, appearance and for compatibility. A general overview of the select gadgetry available there is as follows.

Browsing
  • Language translating
  • Media files, search results, and diffs
  • Twinkle admin tools for the advancing editor
  • Teahouse for the new editor question
  • Mousing over or hovering over an inline citation to read it
Editing
  • Citation modifying/expediting/proving
  • Colorizing wikitext; Character toolsets
  • Categorizing; Reviewing new articles; Filing disputes
  • The Wiki Editor, WikEd, and WikEdDiff
Appearance
  • Editing the introductory section.
  • Admin tools; Changing and adding to page layouts and controls
  • Displaying diffs, or animations, or your very own local time on all timestamps
  • Enabling an external search engine for searching Wikipedia
  • Show the assessed class of an article, Featured, A, B, C, etc.
  • Justifying paragraphs
Compatibility
  • Font and JavaScript support
Advanced
  • Regular expression tools
  • Tracking software bugs
  • Patrolling recent changes

See much more customization available in the pages in the See also section, such as a search and replace dialog that understands JavaScript regular expressions.

Beta features

Preferences Beta features → Details = mw:Beta Features

Beta Features is a way for users to test new features on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia sites before they are released for everyone.

Other tools

The MediaWiki preferences page offers a set of options for the generic user. If you discover a special role on Wikipedia, there is probably a powerful tool for it at Wikipedia:Tools § Browsing and editing.

Operating an account with a tool may carry side effects, such as popups, toolbars and frame objects on your browsing or editing page space that are sometimes burdensome, yet sometimes powerfully necessary. Rather than uninstalling, it is possible to just switch skins, because there are four skins, each with a pair of customizations. 1) Custom JavaScript has the tools. 2) Custom CSS can carry over your preferred fonts, colors, and frame borders to each skin, no matter what tools that skin may also be loaded with.

See also

Notes

  1. It is true that each tab will create a URL in the browser history, but these URLs do not represent historical differences in the JavaScript instance that loaded with the Preferences page itself. The per-tab URLs only purpose is to serve the browser's back- and forward-navigation.
  2. Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)/Archive 184#Discourage en-xx UI variants
  3. If you disable JavaScript for any page on MediaWiki.org or Wikipedia.org, you will lose all unsaved edits in all tabs; yet disabling JavaScript is a common troubleshooting technique when diagnosing some preference-related browser behaviors.
  4. The danger in using Live preview is on first use with an incompatible browser. Try a simple test: make a change to the edit box, then reload the page.
  5. Compiled by the Mozilla Contributors.

! Soviet Union dissolved in December 1991.

Preferences are the seventy or so user options for browsing, editing, searching, notifications, and more. A link to your Preferences page is available at the top of every Wikipedia page when you have an account, alongside links to your other account services such as your Contributions. Another way to get there is by navigating to the Special:Preferences page.

Once at your Preferences page, you can control much of the Wikipedia user interface through the many feature settings provided by MediaWiki (the software of Wikipedia): skins, plug-ins, date formats, a signature, and more. For example, you can select to be prompted to enter an edit summary if you forget to. The Preferences page also presents a link to customize your CSS to adjust your page style details.

Plus, there are hundreds of user tools to explore, many listed at Wikipedia:Tools § Browsing and editing, that can override or tweak preferences provided by MediaWiki. Each account has its own Custom JavaScript page where the tools install themselves, and where you can help develop them.

At their site, MediaWiki maintains a browser compatibility matrix. The time you spend in getting an account, setting your preferences, finding tools and testing your browser (before you ever lose an edit) will pay off.

Feature requests can be made, and bugs reported, as described at Wikipedia:Phabricator. The current set of preferences are largely the result of issues raised by newcomers at places such as the Village pump, and driven by regulars who hold long discussions and collectively drive issues.

Preferences page

The Preferences page is accessible when you are logged-in, but you must have JavaScript enabled in your browser, since the page and all its tabs are an extensive JavaScript application.

You do not need to click Save on every tab on the Preferences page, as the Save button affects all changes on all Preferences tabs.[1] You can go from tab to tab setting all your preferences before saving, because Save remembers your changes on the other tabs. To forget unsaved changes, simply leave the page without saving. If you wish to undo your saved changes, you will need to reset them manually.

Clicking Restore all default settings will harmlessly load another page, which will then offer the button to reset all preferences in every tab to their default values. This includes a few items that are stored as a preference, but that aren't directly editable in Special:Preferences. If you do reset your preferences, you can restore your custom signature from the wikitext of a history page, update your custom CSS or JavaScript from Wikipedia:Tools § Browsing and editing, and then re-select and save your preferences.

The default settings are aimed at newcomers editing articles. Intermediate editors tend to activate more features, such as "warn me if I forgot an edit summary", and advanced editors and administrators use the special settings, gadgets, and editors for their tasks.

You have the same username and password on sister projects such as Wiktionary, at MediaWiki.org itself, and on the Wikipedia of other languages. Each of your account's preferences are independent because each wiki is a website, with their own administration (namespaces, settings, accounts, etc.). Even the word "Preferences" on the top may be set differently! On the Simple English Wikipedia, it says "My settings".

User profile

Preferences User profile → Details = meta:Help:Preferences#User profile

Basic information

  • Lists your account details and the number of edits you have made.
  • Allows you to view/manage your global account info.
  • Provides a link to change your password.

Internationalisation

  • Change the language of user-interface messages. It does not affect articles and other pages made by editors. Note that many interface messages have been customized at the English Wikipedia but usually only for the default "en - English" which may for example add links to relevant help pages, processes and policies. Editors are discouraged from selecting "en-GB - British English" or "en-CA - Canadian English", which make a few spelling changes but omit many useful customizations.[2] Foreign languages also omit customizations but may be preferred by users with poor English abilities.
  • Specify your preferred pronoun in order for the software to grammatically refer to you correctly. This is also visible to other users via certain tools, such as the they template and Navigation popups.
  • More language settings: allows you to set the language in which Wikipedia menus and fonts are displayed; additionally, an option to set the language you edit in (input tools must be enabled).

Signature

  • Displays the signature that will appear when you sign talk pages.
  • Allows you to edit the signature, either using wiki markup (the option must be checked), or just plain text.

Email options

  • An option to provide an email address. Although this is optional, please read the warning about losing your password and not having an email address on file.
  • Options about use of your email address: enabling email from other users, sending copies of emails you send to other users, and receiving email when a page or file on your watchlist is changed.
  • Before using email you must confirm your email address. See Help:Email confirmation
  • "Email me when a page or file on my watchlist is changed", see Help:Email notification

Newcomer homepage

See Wikipedia:Growth Team features § Newcomer homepage

Appearance

Preferences Appearance → Details = meta:Help:Preferences#Appearance

Change the web browser experience.

Skin

Skin Preferences

  • Choose the "skin", or "theme" of how Wikipedia is displayed.
  • Access your Custom CSS or Custom JavaScript for individual skins and for global settings that apply to all skins. If the links are blue, you have created these special pages and this is a quick way to access and edit them. If the links are red, clicking the link will create the special page. You can also access your cross-wiki CSS and JavaScript pages from this section, but the color of the links will always be that of external links.

Reading Preferences

Date format

  • Option to set your date and time preferences; this is how dates will appear in article History pages, logs, etc. If set to "No preference", the format is HH:MM, DD MMMM YYYY (UTC), for example: 09:40, 19 Silimin gɔli December 2024 (UTC).

Time offset

  • Shows the server time (UTC) and the local time based on the optional Time zone setting. You may opt to use the server time (UTC), have the offset calculated by the clock in your computer, or specify an offset from UTC in hours or by location.
  • This does not affect times saved in editable pages, such as timestamps in signatures. For that, see Wikipedia:Comments in Local Time.

Files

  • The images in an article are just a thumbnail (a preview). These will always be one of eight possible Thumbnail sizes. For the larger screen sizes choose the maximum, and for the smaller screen sizes choose the minimum thumbnail size. The default 220px is a midrange thumbnail-size. Have you changed your font size? Then you should match that font size to your chosen thumbnail size to increase caption readability.
  • While viewing an article, if you click a thumbnail you will activate Media Viewer. Media Viewer is JavaScript, and it uses processing resources. It loads all the images in the article at high resolution, and this uses networking resources. This is the default. You can turn off Media Viewer to save resources: 1) to control all image sizing, 2) to navigate directly to a file page (instead) when you click on a thumbnail.
  • You can target the Image size limit of the file page main image, (displayed in the front matter). On a faster network choose a larger size, and on a slower network choose a smaller Image size limit. The default 800×600px is a midrange Image size limit. File pages are on Commons wiki, and if logged in there, going there overrides your settings here.
  • Note that you can both turn off Media Viewer and set a small Image size limit, and yet you will not limit your ability to avail yourself of any high resolution images listed at the bottom of that file page, when wanted. Doing so you can get full manual control of any unwanted, automatic bogging-down of your surfing speed caused by automated choices concerning File namespace interactions initiated by clicking on an image.

Diffs

  • Option to not show page content below the diffs; checking this will suppress the page preview of the difference you're viewing.
  • Option to omit a diff after performing a rollback

Advanced options

  • Choose to display hyperlinks with underlines in your browser window always, never, or by browser or Wikipedia-skin default.
  • Format links as stub links when the article they link to is smaller than the threshold you set on file size. Stub link formatting changes the link color to the dark brown displayed in this option's text. This option can help you see links to small articles (more likely to be stubs) so that you might expand them. It is also useful for spotting links to disambiguation pages, which are also relatively small. They are usually linked to in error, but often contain on their list a link to the correct article, making this error easy to fix.
  • Show hidden categories.

Math

Languages

Editing

Preferences Editing → Details = meta:Help:Preferences#Editing

Concerning the edit page, its initiation, and look and feel, Wikipedia offers a high number of options. Some of them are:

  • "Teemi ma n yi ti bi sabi lahabali jia (bee din pun ku bɛni ka labisim lahabali ji' maa)" into the database. (Habit-forming.)
  • "Enable VisualEditor". Get a word processor interface. No markup language at all.
  • "Wuhimi johi lihi amaa ka di pa a lan yɛn labimi yooi". Get a dynamic web page. Browser reloading now gives a glimpse at the live original without having to leave the edit page. And there is no longer any need to create an entirely new page for each preview requested; live preview just reloads parts of its page, and so it offers no browser history backwards, but disturbs no history forward either. Saves some network bandwidth and lots of browser cache. Just save your edits before disabling JavaScript.[3] (First-time users should perform a simple compatibility test.[4])

The font size for the edit box can be set in Wikipedia editing preferences or in the browser. In Firefox, there are two font-size settings at Options → Content → "Default font" Advanced…, one for the edit box, and one for the rest of the page. If you just want uniformity, check to see if it allows Wikipedia to choose its own font; then you set Wikipedia's "Edit Area Font Style" to "Serif" or "Sans Serif", and the font size in the edit box will match the rest of the page.

The number of rows in the edit box is no longer set in preferences. For a temporary change, when the edit box is displayed, drag up or down the small square in the bottom right corner of the edit box. Alternatively, make the change stick by adding this line to your CSS file (in Preferences, Appearance), usually Special:MyPage/common.css:

#wpTextbox1 {height: 25em;}

where 25em is an example (and typical), height.

Two editing toolbars are offered that will span the top of the edit box. (Wikipedia:Reftoolbar shows versions.)

To use more of your favorite text editor instead of just the edit box and toolbars, see Wikipedia:Text editor support. Also see the Gadgets tab.

Recent changes

Preferences Recent changes → Display options & Advanced options = meta:Help:Preferences#Recent changes

Recent changes refer to changes of pages in the database. Every time a wiki page is edited, and changes were actually made, a record is kept of the difference. For example, a page history shows the revisions for that particular page. But recent changes can report on more than just the revisions of a page, or an entire wiki, they can also report on the recent changes of an editor (their contributions). The user preferences for recent changes are the style in which these lists of revisions will appear:

  • Length of the list
  • Time window of the list
  • Grouping methods of the list

The watchlist has even more finely tuned preferences, because like the edit window, it is often a core tool for editors.

More information about these various histories can be found at the following places. For global changes to Wikipedia pages, see Help:Recent changes. For user contributions, see Help:User contributions. For page histories, see Help:Page history. For other types of logs see Help:Log.

Pending changes

Preferences Recent changes → Pending changes = meta:Help:Preferences#Pending changes/Edit review

These settings are for advanced editors who have a detailed understanding of the five pillars and of the templates used to mark judgments on the page. Pending changes refers to the style of the presentation of

  • new page "curation" tools: curation toolbar and new pages feed, and
  • how recent changes appear on the page history of certain pages that have been configured for protection by reviewing any changes before they are applied to the public version of the page.

For an example of a page history showing the pending changes feature, click on the history of a page listed at Special:PendingChanges.

Watchlist

Preferences Watchlist → Details = meta:Help:Preferences#Watchlist

The watchlist options include which pages, and what "recent" means to you. If your Preferences has "Email me when a page or file on my watchlist is changed" set (at the bottom of the "User profile" tab), then only by visiting a page will you actually set its email notification flag. Once you miss the email for a particular page change or don't visit the page (or ignore the email), you will not receive any more emails for that page. You can still dutifully monitor that page by its watchlist edit-summaries, but its particular email notification flag will remain unset until you visit it. This facilitates monitoring a large watchlist while preventing potentially useless emails to you.

In case you want to set all email notifications anyway, you can at any time mark all pages "visited". If your Preferences Gadgets has "Display pages on your watchlist that have changed since your last visit in bold", then your watchlist will have a button labeled "Mark all pages visited". That button will effectively set all of your email notification flags.

Notifications

Preferences Notifications

These settings alter the Special:Notifications tool. The options for Notifications were first added in May 2013. See Wikipedia Signpost topic "English-language Wikipedia to be first to receive Echo deployment" for a brief overview.

For a full explanation of the specific preferences, see Wikipedia:Notifications § Preferences and settings.

Email options
  • Choose whether to opt-in or opt-out of email notifications (you must confirm your email address on your Preferences User profile → Email options). You can also choose how often to receive email notifications, from single emails for each event to daily or weekly digests.
  • Choose whether to receive plain text or HTML email.
Notify me about these events

You can enable (or disable) individual types of notifications by checking (or unchecking) the boxes next to it. You can enable (or disable) notifications on the web or by email for most notification types (note that some notifications cannot be disabled, such as changes to your user rights or new talk page messages: these notifications are too important to be dismissed).

Wikipedia:Notifications § Types of notifications has a general list of the types of notifications. Special:DisplayNotificationsConfiguration lists all notification types available and how they are configured.

Muted users

You can mute on-site notifications from individual users by enter their username into the box. You will still receive notifications if a muted user writes on your user talk page or reviews a page you have created. The muted user will still receive a successful mention notification, if they've enabled that preference.

Muting pages

You can mute "page linked" notifications for specific pages by typing each page's name into the box.

Gadgets

Preferences Gadgets → Details = Wikipedia:Gadget#Currently installed gadgets

Gadgets are the software contributed by users, not the software that runs Wikipedia, and so you'll see the group names Editing and Appearance are the same as the tab names on the preferences page. If you see tabs on the preferences page your web-browsers already has JavaScript enabled. The gadgets go through an authoritative process before they appear on the list. There are gadgets for, browsing, editing, appearance and for compatibility. A general overview of the select gadgetry available there is as follows.

Browsing
  • Language translating
  • Media files, search results, and diffs
  • Twinkle admin tools for the advancing editor
  • Teahouse for the new editor question
  • Mousing over or hovering over an inline citation to read it
Editing
  • Citation modifying/expediting/proving
  • Colorizing wikitext; Character toolsets
  • Categorizing; Reviewing new articles; Filing disputes
  • The Wiki Editor, WikEd, and WikEdDiff
Appearance
  • Editing the introductory section.
  • Admin tools; Changing and adding to page layouts and controls
  • Displaying diffs, or animations, or your very own local time on all timestamps
  • Enabling an external search engine for searching Wikipedia
  • Show the assessed class of an article, Featured, A, B, C, etc.
  • Justifying paragraphs
Compatibility
  • Font and JavaScript support
Advanced
  • Regular expression tools
  • Tracking software bugs
  • Patrolling recent changes

See much more customization available in the pages in the See also section, such as a search and replace dialog that understands JavaScript regular expressions.

Beta features

Preferences Beta features → Details = mw:Beta Features

Beta Features is a way for users to test new features on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia sites before they are released for everyone.

Other tools

The MediaWiki preferences page offers a set of options for the generic user. If you discover a special role on Wikipedia, there is probably a powerful tool for it at Wikipedia:Tools § Browsing and editing.

Operating an account with a tool may carry side effects, such as popups, toolbars and frame objects on your browsing or editing page space that are sometimes burdensome, yet sometimes powerfully necessary. Rather than uninstalling, it is possible to just switch skins, because there are four skins, each with a pair of customizations. 1) Custom JavaScript has the tools. 2) Custom CSS can carry over your preferred fonts, colors, and frame borders to each skin, no matter what tools that skin may also be loaded with.

See also

Notes

  1. It is true that each tab will create a URL in the browser history, but these URLs do not represent historical differences in the JavaScript instance that loaded with the Preferences page itself. The per-tab URLs only purpose is to serve the browser's back- and forward-navigation.
  2. Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)/Archive 184#Discourage en-xx UI variants
  3. If you disable JavaScript for any page on MediaWiki.org or Wikipedia.org, you will lose all unsaved edits in all tabs; yet disabling JavaScript is a common troubleshooting technique when diagnosing some preference-related browser behaviors.
  4. The danger in using Live preview is on first use with an incompatible browser. Try a simple test: make a change to the edit box, then reload the page.
  5. Compiled by the Mozilla Contributors.

! Germany was previously divided into two independent countries, the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) and German Democratic Republic (East Germany), from 1949 to 1990. Before that, however, it was formerly known as the Weimar Republic from after World War I ended in 1918 until 1933 once Adolf Hitler was elected as chancellor and produced the Enabling Act of 1933 shortly after.

Preferences are the seventy or so user options for browsing, editing, searching, notifications, and more. A link to your Preferences page is available at the top of every Wikipedia page when you have an account, alongside links to your other account services such as your Contributions. Another way to get there is by navigating to the Special:Preferences page.

Once at your Preferences page, you can control much of the Wikipedia user interface through the many feature settings provided by MediaWiki (the software of Wikipedia): skins, plug-ins, date formats, a signature, and more. For example, you can select to be prompted to enter an edit summary if you forget to. The Preferences page also presents a link to customize your CSS to adjust your page style details.

Plus, there are hundreds of user tools to explore, many listed at Wikipedia:Tools § Browsing and editing, that can override or tweak preferences provided by MediaWiki. Each account has its own Custom JavaScript page where the tools install themselves, and where you can help develop them.

At their site, MediaWiki maintains a browser compatibility matrix. The time you spend in getting an account, setting your preferences, finding tools and testing your browser (before you ever lose an edit) will pay off.

Feature requests can be made, and bugs reported, as described at Wikipedia:Phabricator. The current set of preferences are largely the result of issues raised by newcomers at places such as the Village pump, and driven by regulars who hold long discussions and collectively drive issues.

Preferences page

The Preferences page is accessible when you are logged-in, but you must have JavaScript enabled in your browser, since the page and all its tabs are an extensive JavaScript application.

You do not need to click Save on every tab on the Preferences page, as the Save button affects all changes on all Preferences tabs.[1] You can go from tab to tab setting all your preferences before saving, because Save remembers your changes on the other tabs. To forget unsaved changes, simply leave the page without saving. If you wish to undo your saved changes, you will need to reset them manually.

Clicking Restore all default settings will harmlessly load another page, which will then offer the button to reset all preferences in every tab to their default values. This includes a few items that are stored as a preference, but that aren't directly editable in Special:Preferences. If you do reset your preferences, you can restore your custom signature from the wikitext of a history page, update your custom CSS or JavaScript from Wikipedia:Tools § Browsing and editing, and then re-select and save your preferences.

The default settings are aimed at newcomers editing articles. Intermediate editors tend to activate more features, such as "warn me if I forgot an edit summary", and advanced editors and administrators use the special settings, gadgets, and editors for their tasks.

You have the same username and password on sister projects such as Wiktionary, at MediaWiki.org itself, and on the Wikipedia of other languages. Each of your account's preferences are independent because each wiki is a website, with their own administration (namespaces, settings, accounts, etc.). Even the word "Preferences" on the top may be set differently! On the Simple English Wikipedia, it says "My settings".

User profile

Preferences User profile → Details = meta:Help:Preferences#User profile

Basic information

  • Lists your account details and the number of edits you have made.
  • Allows you to view/manage your global account info.
  • Provides a link to change your password.

Internationalisation

  • Change the language of user-interface messages. It does not affect articles and other pages made by editors. Note that many interface messages have been customized at the English Wikipedia but usually only for the default "en - English" which may for example add links to relevant help pages, processes and policies. Editors are discouraged from selecting "en-GB - British English" or "en-CA - Canadian English", which make a few spelling changes but omit many useful customizations.[2] Foreign languages also omit customizations but may be preferred by users with poor English abilities.
  • Specify your preferred pronoun in order for the software to grammatically refer to you correctly. This is also visible to other users via certain tools, such as the they template and Navigation popups.
  • More language settings: allows you to set the language in which Wikipedia menus and fonts are displayed; additionally, an option to set the language you edit in (input tools must be enabled).

Signature

  • Displays the signature that will appear when you sign talk pages.
  • Allows you to edit the signature, either using wiki markup (the option must be checked), or just plain text.

Email options

  • An option to provide an email address. Although this is optional, please read the warning about losing your password and not having an email address on file.
  • Options about use of your email address: enabling email from other users, sending copies of emails you send to other users, and receiving email when a page or file on your watchlist is changed.
  • Before using email you must confirm your email address. See Help:Email confirmation
  • "Email me when a page or file on my watchlist is changed", see Help:Email notification

Newcomer homepage

See Wikipedia:Growth Team features § Newcomer homepage

Appearance

Preferences Appearance → Details = meta:Help:Preferences#Appearance

Change the web browser experience.

Skin

Skin Preferences

  • Choose the "skin", or "theme" of how Wikipedia is displayed.
  • Access your Custom CSS or Custom JavaScript for individual skins and for global settings that apply to all skins. If the links are blue, you have created these special pages and this is a quick way to access and edit them. If the links are red, clicking the link will create the special page. You can also access your cross-wiki CSS and JavaScript pages from this section, but the color of the links will always be that of external links.

Reading Preferences

Date format

  • Option to set your date and time preferences; this is how dates will appear in article History pages, logs, etc. If set to "No preference", the format is HH:MM, DD MMMM YYYY (UTC), for example: 09:40, 19 Silimin gɔli December 2024 (UTC).

Time offset

  • Shows the server time (UTC) and the local time based on the optional Time zone setting. You may opt to use the server time (UTC), have the offset calculated by the clock in your computer, or specify an offset from UTC in hours or by location.
  • This does not affect times saved in editable pages, such as timestamps in signatures. For that, see Wikipedia:Comments in Local Time.

Files

  • The images in an article are just a thumbnail (a preview). These will always be one of eight possible Thumbnail sizes. For the larger screen sizes choose the maximum, and for the smaller screen sizes choose the minimum thumbnail size. The default 220px is a midrange thumbnail-size. Have you changed your font size? Then you should match that font size to your chosen thumbnail size to increase caption readability.
  • While viewing an article, if you click a thumbnail you will activate Media Viewer. Media Viewer is JavaScript, and it uses processing resources. It loads all the images in the article at high resolution, and this uses networking resources. This is the default. You can turn off Media Viewer to save resources: 1) to control all image sizing, 2) to navigate directly to a file page (instead) when you click on a thumbnail.
  • You can target the Image size limit of the file page main image, (displayed in the front matter). On a faster network choose a larger size, and on a slower network choose a smaller Image size limit. The default 800×600px is a midrange Image size limit. File pages are on Commons wiki, and if logged in there, going there overrides your settings here.
  • Note that you can both turn off Media Viewer and set a small Image size limit, and yet you will not limit your ability to avail yourself of any high resolution images listed at the bottom of that file page, when wanted. Doing so you can get full manual control of any unwanted, automatic bogging-down of your surfing speed caused by automated choices concerning File namespace interactions initiated by clicking on an image.

Diffs

  • Option to not show page content below the diffs; checking this will suppress the page preview of the difference you're viewing.
  • Option to omit a diff after performing a rollback

Advanced options

  • Choose to display hyperlinks with underlines in your browser window always, never, or by browser or Wikipedia-skin default.
  • Format links as stub links when the article they link to is smaller than the threshold you set on file size. Stub link formatting changes the link color to the dark brown displayed in this option's text. This option can help you see links to small articles (more likely to be stubs) so that you might expand them. It is also useful for spotting links to disambiguation pages, which are also relatively small. They are usually linked to in error, but often contain on their list a link to the correct article, making this error easy to fix.
  • Show hidden categories.

Math

Languages

Editing

Preferences Editing → Details = meta:Help:Preferences#Editing

Concerning the edit page, its initiation, and look and feel, Wikipedia offers a high number of options. Some of them are:

  • "Teemi ma n yi ti bi sabi lahabali jia (bee din pun ku bɛni ka labisim lahabali ji' maa)" into the database. (Habit-forming.)
  • "Enable VisualEditor". Get a word processor interface. No markup language at all.
  • "Wuhimi johi lihi amaa ka di pa a lan yɛn labimi yooi". Get a dynamic web page. Browser reloading now gives a glimpse at the live original without having to leave the edit page. And there is no longer any need to create an entirely new page for each preview requested; live preview just reloads parts of its page, and so it offers no browser history backwards, but disturbs no history forward either. Saves some network bandwidth and lots of browser cache. Just save your edits before disabling JavaScript.[3] (First-time users should perform a simple compatibility test.[4])

The font size for the edit box can be set in Wikipedia editing preferences or in the browser. In Firefox, there are two font-size settings at Options → Content → "Default font" Advanced…, one for the edit box, and one for the rest of the page. If you just want uniformity, check to see if it allows Wikipedia to choose its own font; then you set Wikipedia's "Edit Area Font Style" to "Serif" or "Sans Serif", and the font size in the edit box will match the rest of the page.

The number of rows in the edit box is no longer set in preferences. For a temporary change, when the edit box is displayed, drag up or down the small square in the bottom right corner of the edit box. Alternatively, make the change stick by adding this line to your CSS file (in Preferences, Appearance), usually Special:MyPage/common.css:

#wpTextbox1 {height: 25em;}

where 25em is an example (and typical), height.

Two editing toolbars are offered that will span the top of the edit box. (Wikipedia:Reftoolbar shows versions.)

To use more of your favorite text editor instead of just the edit box and toolbars, see Wikipedia:Text editor support. Also see the Gadgets tab.

Recent changes

Preferences Recent changes → Display options & Advanced options = meta:Help:Preferences#Recent changes

Recent changes refer to changes of pages in the database. Every time a wiki page is edited, and changes were actually made, a record is kept of the difference. For example, a page history shows the revisions for that particular page. But recent changes can report on more than just the revisions of a page, or an entire wiki, they can also report on the recent changes of an editor (their contributions). The user preferences for recent changes are the style in which these lists of revisions will appear:

  • Length of the list
  • Time window of the list
  • Grouping methods of the list

The watchlist has even more finely tuned preferences, because like the edit window, it is often a core tool for editors.

More information about these various histories can be found at the following places. For global changes to Wikipedia pages, see Help:Recent changes. For user contributions, see Help:User contributions. For page histories, see Help:Page history. For other types of logs see Help:Log.

Pending changes

Preferences Recent changes → Pending changes = meta:Help:Preferences#Pending changes/Edit review

These settings are for advanced editors who have a detailed understanding of the five pillars and of the templates used to mark judgments on the page. Pending changes refers to the style of the presentation of

  • new page "curation" tools: curation toolbar and new pages feed, and
  • how recent changes appear on the page history of certain pages that have been configured for protection by reviewing any changes before they are applied to the public version of the page.

For an example of a page history showing the pending changes feature, click on the history of a page listed at Special:PendingChanges.

Watchlist

Preferences Watchlist → Details = meta:Help:Preferences#Watchlist

The watchlist options include which pages, and what "recent" means to you. If your Preferences has "Email me when a page or file on my watchlist is changed" set (at the bottom of the "User profile" tab), then only by visiting a page will you actually set its email notification flag. Once you miss the email for a particular page change or don't visit the page (or ignore the email), you will not receive any more emails for that page. You can still dutifully monitor that page by its watchlist edit-summaries, but its particular email notification flag will remain unset until you visit it. This facilitates monitoring a large watchlist while preventing potentially useless emails to you.

In case you want to set all email notifications anyway, you can at any time mark all pages "visited". If your Preferences Gadgets has "Display pages on your watchlist that have changed since your last visit in bold", then your watchlist will have a button labeled "Mark all pages visited". That button will effectively set all of your email notification flags.

Notifications

Preferences Notifications

These settings alter the Special:Notifications tool. The options for Notifications were first added in May 2013. See Wikipedia Signpost topic "English-language Wikipedia to be first to receive Echo deployment" for a brief overview.

For a full explanation of the specific preferences, see Wikipedia:Notifications § Preferences and settings.

Email options
  • Choose whether to opt-in or opt-out of email notifications (you must confirm your email address on your Preferences User profile → Email options). You can also choose how often to receive email notifications, from single emails for each event to daily or weekly digests.
  • Choose whether to receive plain text or HTML email.
Notify me about these events

You can enable (or disable) individual types of notifications by checking (or unchecking) the boxes next to it. You can enable (or disable) notifications on the web or by email for most notification types (note that some notifications cannot be disabled, such as changes to your user rights or new talk page messages: these notifications are too important to be dismissed).

Wikipedia:Notifications § Types of notifications has a general list of the types of notifications. Special:DisplayNotificationsConfiguration lists all notification types available and how they are configured.

Muted users

You can mute on-site notifications from individual users by enter their username into the box. You will still receive notifications if a muted user writes on your user talk page or reviews a page you have created. The muted user will still receive a successful mention notification, if they've enabled that preference.

Muting pages

You can mute "page linked" notifications for specific pages by typing each page's name into the box.

Gadgets

Preferences Gadgets → Details = Wikipedia:Gadget#Currently installed gadgets

Gadgets are the software contributed by users, not the software that runs Wikipedia, and so you'll see the group names Editing and Appearance are the same as the tab names on the preferences page. If you see tabs on the preferences page your web-browsers already has JavaScript enabled. The gadgets go through an authoritative process before they appear on the list. There are gadgets for, browsing, editing, appearance and for compatibility. A general overview of the select gadgetry available there is as follows.

Browsing
  • Language translating
  • Media files, search results, and diffs
  • Twinkle admin tools for the advancing editor
  • Teahouse for the new editor question
  • Mousing over or hovering over an inline citation to read it
Editing
  • Citation modifying/expediting/proving
  • Colorizing wikitext; Character toolsets
  • Categorizing; Reviewing new articles; Filing disputes
  • The Wiki Editor, WikEd, and WikEdDiff
Appearance
  • Editing the introductory section.
  • Admin tools; Changing and adding to page layouts and controls
  • Displaying diffs, or animations, or your very own local time on all timestamps
  • Enabling an external search engine for searching Wikipedia
  • Show the assessed class of an article, Featured, A, B, C, etc.
  • Justifying paragraphs
Compatibility
  • Font and JavaScript support
Advanced
  • Regular expression tools
  • Tracking software bugs
  • Patrolling recent changes

See much more customization available in the pages in the See also section, such as a search and replace dialog that understands JavaScript regular expressions.

Beta features

Preferences Beta features → Details = mw:Beta Features

Beta Features is a way for users to test new features on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia sites before they are released for everyone.

Other tools

The MediaWiki preferences page offers a set of options for the generic user. If you discover a special role on Wikipedia, there is probably a powerful tool for it at Wikipedia:Tools § Browsing and editing.

Operating an account with a tool may carry side effects, such as popups, toolbars and frame objects on your browsing or editing page space that are sometimes burdensome, yet sometimes powerfully necessary. Rather than uninstalling, it is possible to just switch skins, because there are four skins, each with a pair of customizations. 1) Custom JavaScript has the tools. 2) Custom CSS can carry over your preferred fonts, colors, and frame borders to each skin, no matter what tools that skin may also be loaded with.

See also

Notes

  1. It is true that each tab will create a URL in the browser history, but these URLs do not represent historical differences in the JavaScript instance that loaded with the Preferences page itself. The per-tab URLs only purpose is to serve the browser's back- and forward-navigation.
  2. Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)/Archive 184#Discourage en-xx UI variants
  3. If you disable JavaScript for any page on MediaWiki.org or Wikipedia.org, you will lose all unsaved edits in all tabs; yet disabling JavaScript is a common troubleshooting technique when diagnosing some preference-related browser behaviors.
  4. The danger in using Live preview is on first use with an incompatible browser. Try a simple test: make a change to the edit box, then reload the page.
  5. Compiled by the Mozilla Contributors.

! On July 9, 2011, South Sudan became independent from Sudan, following a vote for independence in a January 2011 referendum.

Preferences are the seventy or so user options for browsing, editing, searching, notifications, and more. A link to your Preferences page is available at the top of every Wikipedia page when you have an account, alongside links to your other account services such as your Contributions. Another way to get there is by navigating to the Special:Preferences page.

Once at your Preferences page, you can control much of the Wikipedia user interface through the many feature settings provided by MediaWiki (the software of Wikipedia): skins, plug-ins, date formats, a signature, and more. For example, you can select to be prompted to enter an edit summary if you forget to. The Preferences page also presents a link to customize your CSS to adjust your page style details.

Plus, there are hundreds of user tools to explore, many listed at Wikipedia:Tools § Browsing and editing, that can override or tweak preferences provided by MediaWiki. Each account has its own Custom JavaScript page where the tools install themselves, and where you can help develop them.

At their site, MediaWiki maintains a browser compatibility matrix. The time you spend in getting an account, setting your preferences, finding tools and testing your browser (before you ever lose an edit) will pay off.

Feature requests can be made, and bugs reported, as described at Wikipedia:Phabricator. The current set of preferences are largely the result of issues raised by newcomers at places such as the Village pump, and driven by regulars who hold long discussions and collectively drive issues.

Preferences page

The Preferences page is accessible when you are logged-in, but you must have JavaScript enabled in your browser, since the page and all its tabs are an extensive JavaScript application.

You do not need to click Save on every tab on the Preferences page, as the Save button affects all changes on all Preferences tabs.[1] You can go from tab to tab setting all your preferences before saving, because Save remembers your changes on the other tabs. To forget unsaved changes, simply leave the page without saving. If you wish to undo your saved changes, you will need to reset them manually.

Clicking Restore all default settings will harmlessly load another page, which will then offer the button to reset all preferences in every tab to their default values. This includes a few items that are stored as a preference, but that aren't directly editable in Special:Preferences. If you do reset your preferences, you can restore your custom signature from the wikitext of a history page, update your custom CSS or JavaScript from Wikipedia:Tools § Browsing and editing, and then re-select and save your preferences.

The default settings are aimed at newcomers editing articles. Intermediate editors tend to activate more features, such as "warn me if I forgot an edit summary", and advanced editors and administrators use the special settings, gadgets, and editors for their tasks.

You have the same username and password on sister projects such as Wiktionary, at MediaWiki.org itself, and on the Wikipedia of other languages. Each of your account's preferences are independent because each wiki is a website, with their own administration (namespaces, settings, accounts, etc.). Even the word "Preferences" on the top may be set differently! On the Simple English Wikipedia, it says "My settings".

User profile

Preferences User profile → Details = meta:Help:Preferences#User profile

Basic information

  • Lists your account details and the number of edits you have made.
  • Allows you to view/manage your global account info.
  • Provides a link to change your password.

Internationalisation

  • Change the language of user-interface messages. It does not affect articles and other pages made by editors. Note that many interface messages have been customized at the English Wikipedia but usually only for the default "en - English" which may for example add links to relevant help pages, processes and policies. Editors are discouraged from selecting "en-GB - British English" or "en-CA - Canadian English", which make a few spelling changes but omit many useful customizations.[2] Foreign languages also omit customizations but may be preferred by users with poor English abilities.
  • Specify your preferred pronoun in order for the software to grammatically refer to you correctly. This is also visible to other users via certain tools, such as the they template and Navigation popups.
  • More language settings: allows you to set the language in which Wikipedia menus and fonts are displayed; additionally, an option to set the language you edit in (input tools must be enabled).

Signature

  • Displays the signature that will appear when you sign talk pages.
  • Allows you to edit the signature, either using wiki markup (the option must be checked), or just plain text.

Email options

  • An option to provide an email address. Although this is optional, please read the warning about losing your password and not having an email address on file.
  • Options about use of your email address: enabling email from other users, sending copies of emails you send to other users, and receiving email when a page or file on your watchlist is changed.
  • Before using email you must confirm your email address. See Help:Email confirmation
  • "Email me when a page or file on my watchlist is changed", see Help:Email notification

Newcomer homepage

See Wikipedia:Growth Team features § Newcomer homepage

Appearance

Preferences Appearance → Details = meta:Help:Preferences#Appearance

Change the web browser experience.

Skin

Skin Preferences

  • Choose the "skin", or "theme" of how Wikipedia is displayed.
  • Access your Custom CSS or Custom JavaScript for individual skins and for global settings that apply to all skins. If the links are blue, you have created these special pages and this is a quick way to access and edit them. If the links are red, clicking the link will create the special page. You can also access your cross-wiki CSS and JavaScript pages from this section, but the color of the links will always be that of external links.

Reading Preferences

Date format

  • Option to set your date and time preferences; this is how dates will appear in article History pages, logs, etc. If set to "No preference", the format is HH:MM, DD MMMM YYYY (UTC), for example: 09:40, 19 Silimin gɔli December 2024 (UTC).

Time offset

  • Shows the server time (UTC) and the local time based on the optional Time zone setting. You may opt to use the server time (UTC), have the offset calculated by the clock in your computer, or specify an offset from UTC in hours or by location.
  • This does not affect times saved in editable pages, such as timestamps in signatures. For that, see Wikipedia:Comments in Local Time.

Files

  • The images in an article are just a thumbnail (a preview). These will always be one of eight possible Thumbnail sizes. For the larger screen sizes choose the maximum, and for the smaller screen sizes choose the minimum thumbnail size. The default 220px is a midrange thumbnail-size. Have you changed your font size? Then you should match that font size to your chosen thumbnail size to increase caption readability.
  • While viewing an article, if you click a thumbnail you will activate Media Viewer. Media Viewer is JavaScript, and it uses processing resources. It loads all the images in the article at high resolution, and this uses networking resources. This is the default. You can turn off Media Viewer to save resources: 1) to control all image sizing, 2) to navigate directly to a file page (instead) when you click on a thumbnail.
  • You can target the Image size limit of the file page main image, (displayed in the front matter). On a faster network choose a larger size, and on a slower network choose a smaller Image size limit. The default 800×600px is a midrange Image size limit. File pages are on Commons wiki, and if logged in there, going there overrides your settings here.
  • Note that you can both turn off Media Viewer and set a small Image size limit, and yet you will not limit your ability to avail yourself of any high resolution images listed at the bottom of that file page, when wanted. Doing so you can get full manual control of any unwanted, automatic bogging-down of your surfing speed caused by automated choices concerning File namespace interactions initiated by clicking on an image.

Diffs

  • Option to not show page content below the diffs; checking this will suppress the page preview of the difference you're viewing.
  • Option to omit a diff after performing a rollback

Advanced options

  • Choose to display hyperlinks with underlines in your browser window always, never, or by browser or Wikipedia-skin default.
  • Format links as stub links when the article they link to is smaller than the threshold you set on file size. Stub link formatting changes the link color to the dark brown displayed in this option's text. This option can help you see links to small articles (more likely to be stubs) so that you might expand them. It is also useful for spotting links to disambiguation pages, which are also relatively small. They are usually linked to in error, but often contain on their list a link to the correct article, making this error easy to fix.
  • Show hidden categories.

Math

Languages

Editing

Preferences Editing → Details = meta:Help:Preferences#Editing

Concerning the edit page, its initiation, and look and feel, Wikipedia offers a high number of options. Some of them are:

  • "Teemi ma n yi ti bi sabi lahabali jia (bee din pun ku bɛni ka labisim lahabali ji' maa)" into the database. (Habit-forming.)
  • "Enable VisualEditor". Get a word processor interface. No markup language at all.
  • "Wuhimi johi lihi amaa ka di pa a lan yɛn labimi yooi". Get a dynamic web page. Browser reloading now gives a glimpse at the live original without having to leave the edit page. And there is no longer any need to create an entirely new page for each preview requested; live preview just reloads parts of its page, and so it offers no browser history backwards, but disturbs no history forward either. Saves some network bandwidth and lots of browser cache. Just save your edits before disabling JavaScript.[3] (First-time users should perform a simple compatibility test.[4])

The font size for the edit box can be set in Wikipedia editing preferences or in the browser. In Firefox, there are two font-size settings at Options → Content → "Default font" Advanced…, one for the edit box, and one for the rest of the page. If you just want uniformity, check to see if it allows Wikipedia to choose its own font; then you set Wikipedia's "Edit Area Font Style" to "Serif" or "Sans Serif", and the font size in the edit box will match the rest of the page.

The number of rows in the edit box is no longer set in preferences. For a temporary change, when the edit box is displayed, drag up or down the small square in the bottom right corner of the edit box. Alternatively, make the change stick by adding this line to your CSS file (in Preferences, Appearance), usually Special:MyPage/common.css:

#wpTextbox1 {height: 25em;}

where 25em is an example (and typical), height.

Two editing toolbars are offered that will span the top of the edit box. (Wikipedia:Reftoolbar shows versions.)

To use more of your favorite text editor instead of just the edit box and toolbars, see Wikipedia:Text editor support. Also see the Gadgets tab.

Recent changes

Preferences Recent changes → Display options & Advanced options = meta:Help:Preferences#Recent changes

Recent changes refer to changes of pages in the database. Every time a wiki page is edited, and changes were actually made, a record is kept of the difference. For example, a page history shows the revisions for that particular page. But recent changes can report on more than just the revisions of a page, or an entire wiki, they can also report on the recent changes of an editor (their contributions). The user preferences for recent changes are the style in which these lists of revisions will appear:

  • Length of the list
  • Time window of the list
  • Grouping methods of the list

The watchlist has even more finely tuned preferences, because like the edit window, it is often a core tool for editors.

More information about these various histories can be found at the following places. For global changes to Wikipedia pages, see Help:Recent changes. For user contributions, see Help:User contributions. For page histories, see Help:Page history. For other types of logs see Help:Log.

Pending changes

Preferences Recent changes → Pending changes = meta:Help:Preferences#Pending changes/Edit review

These settings are for advanced editors who have a detailed understanding of the five pillars and of the templates used to mark judgments on the page. Pending changes refers to the style of the presentation of

  • new page "curation" tools: curation toolbar and new pages feed, and
  • how recent changes appear on the page history of certain pages that have been configured for protection by reviewing any changes before they are applied to the public version of the page.

For an example of a page history showing the pending changes feature, click on the history of a page listed at Special:PendingChanges.

Watchlist

Preferences Watchlist → Details = meta:Help:Preferences#Watchlist

The watchlist options include which pages, and what "recent" means to you. If your Preferences has "Email me when a page or file on my watchlist is changed" set (at the bottom of the "User profile" tab), then only by visiting a page will you actually set its email notification flag. Once you miss the email for a particular page change or don't visit the page (or ignore the email), you will not receive any more emails for that page. You can still dutifully monitor that page by its watchlist edit-summaries, but its particular email notification flag will remain unset until you visit it. This facilitates monitoring a large watchlist while preventing potentially useless emails to you.

In case you want to set all email notifications anyway, you can at any time mark all pages "visited". If your Preferences Gadgets has "Display pages on your watchlist that have changed since your last visit in bold", then your watchlist will have a button labeled "Mark all pages visited". That button will effectively set all of your email notification flags.

Notifications

Preferences Notifications

These settings alter the Special:Notifications tool. The options for Notifications were first added in May 2013. See Wikipedia Signpost topic "English-language Wikipedia to be first to receive Echo deployment" for a brief overview.

For a full explanation of the specific preferences, see Wikipedia:Notifications § Preferences and settings.

Email options
  • Choose whether to opt-in or opt-out of email notifications (you must confirm your email address on your Preferences User profile → Email options). You can also choose how often to receive email notifications, from single emails for each event to daily or weekly digests.
  • Choose whether to receive plain text or HTML email.
Notify me about these events

You can enable (or disable) individual types of notifications by checking (or unchecking) the boxes next to it. You can enable (or disable) notifications on the web or by email for most notification types (note that some notifications cannot be disabled, such as changes to your user rights or new talk page messages: these notifications are too important to be dismissed).

Wikipedia:Notifications § Types of notifications has a general list of the types of notifications. Special:DisplayNotificationsConfiguration lists all notification types available and how they are configured.

Muted users

You can mute on-site notifications from individual users by enter their username into the box. You will still receive notifications if a muted user writes on your user talk page or reviews a page you have created. The muted user will still receive a successful mention notification, if they've enabled that preference.

Muting pages

You can mute "page linked" notifications for specific pages by typing each page's name into the box.

Gadgets

Preferences Gadgets → Details = Wikipedia:Gadget#Currently installed gadgets

Gadgets are the software contributed by users, not the software that runs Wikipedia, and so you'll see the group names Editing and Appearance are the same as the tab names on the preferences page. If you see tabs on the preferences page your web-browsers already has JavaScript enabled. The gadgets go through an authoritative process before they appear on the list. There are gadgets for, browsing, editing, appearance and for compatibility. A general overview of the select gadgetry available there is as follows.

Browsing
  • Language translating
  • Media files, search results, and diffs
  • Twinkle admin tools for the advancing editor
  • Teahouse for the new editor question
  • Mousing over or hovering over an inline citation to read it
Editing
  • Citation modifying/expediting/proving
  • Colorizing wikitext; Character toolsets
  • Categorizing; Reviewing new articles; Filing disputes
  • The Wiki Editor, WikEd, and WikEdDiff
Appearance
  • Editing the introductory section.
  • Admin tools; Changing and adding to page layouts and controls
  • Displaying diffs, or animations, or your very own local time on all timestamps
  • Enabling an external search engine for searching Wikipedia
  • Show the assessed class of an article, Featured, A, B, C, etc.
  • Justifying paragraphs
Compatibility
  • Font and JavaScript support
Advanced
  • Regular expression tools
  • Tracking software bugs
  • Patrolling recent changes

See much more customization available in the pages in the See also section, such as a search and replace dialog that understands JavaScript regular expressions.

Beta features

Preferences Beta features → Details = mw:Beta Features

Beta Features is a way for users to test new features on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia sites before they are released for everyone.

Other tools

The MediaWiki preferences page offers a set of options for the generic user. If you discover a special role on Wikipedia, there is probably a powerful tool for it at Wikipedia:Tools § Browsing and editing.

Operating an account with a tool may carry side effects, such as popups, toolbars and frame objects on your browsing or editing page space that are sometimes burdensome, yet sometimes powerfully necessary. Rather than uninstalling, it is possible to just switch skins, because there are four skins, each with a pair of customizations. 1) Custom JavaScript has the tools. 2) Custom CSS can carry over your preferred fonts, colors, and frame borders to each skin, no matter what tools that skin may also be loaded with.

See also

Notes

  1. It is true that each tab will create a URL in the browser history, but these URLs do not represent historical differences in the JavaScript instance that loaded with the Preferences page itself. The per-tab URLs only purpose is to serve the browser's back- and forward-navigation.
  2. Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)/Archive 184#Discourage en-xx UI variants
  3. If you disable JavaScript for any page on MediaWiki.org or Wikipedia.org, you will lose all unsaved edits in all tabs; yet disabling JavaScript is a common troubleshooting technique when diagnosing some preference-related browser behaviors.
  4. The danger in using Live preview is on first use with an incompatible browser. Try a simple test: make a change to the edit box, then reload the page.
  5. Compiled by the Mozilla Contributors.

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