List of NBA players born outside the United States

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. So shɛŋa din dɔni kpɛri na U.S yɛltɔɣa shɛŋa, NBA nyɛla ban lihira baŋdi boliŋmɛri shɛba ban tu ni bɛ boli tiŋduya boliŋmɛriba. 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. 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.Bɛn daa yɛn piligi bɛ daa mali la record-high 113 international players ka bɛ yina tiŋgbana pihinahi ni yini ni. 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.

Di jia ŋmaabu

Africa

Country/Territory	No. of Players	Notes
Nigeria	30	Including 17 foreign-born Nigerians
Tɛmplet:SEN	12	Including 1 U.S.-born Senegalese
Tɛmplet:CMR	6	Including 1 U.S.-born Cameroonian
Tɛmplet:COD	5
Tɛmplet:SSD	3	Including 2 foreign-born South Sudanese
Tɛmplet:EGY	2
Tɛmplet:GAB	2
Tɛmplet:GHA	2
Tɛmplet:CIV	2	Including 2 U.S.-born Ivorians
Tɛmplet:LBY	2	Including 2 U.S.-born Libyans
Tɛmplet:MLI	2
Tɛmplet:UGA	2	Including 2 U.S.-born Ugandans
Tɛmplet:ANG	1
Tɛmplet:CPV	1
Tɛmplet:GUI	1
Tɛmplet:LBR	1	Including 1 U.S.-born Liberian
Tɛmplet:SUD	1
Tɛmplet:TAN	1
Tɛmplet:TUN	1
Africa	77	Including 28 foreign or U.S.-born naturalized players

Americas

Country/Territory	No. of Players	Notes
Tɛmplet:CAN	61	Including 10 foreign-born Canadians
Brazil	18	Including 1 U.S.-born Brazilian
Tɛmplet:PUR	18	Including 10 U.S.-born Puerto Ricans
Argentina	16
Tɛmplet:DOM	12	Including 4 U.S.-born Dominicans
Tɛmplet:JAM	11	Including 5 U.S.-born Jamaicans
Tɛmplet:BHS	7	Including 1 U.S.-born Bahamian
Tɛmplet:MEX	6	Including 2 U.S.-born Mexicans
Tɛmplet:VEN	6	Including 4 foreign-born Venezuelans
Tɛmplet:PAN	4	Including 2 U.S.-born Panamanians
Tɛmplet:ISV	4	Including 2 U.S.-born Virgin Islanders
Tɛmplet:BLZ	3	Including 3 U.S.-born Belizeans
Tɛmplet:HAI	3
Tɛmplet:CUB	2
Tɛmplet:GUY	2
Tɛmplet:TRI	2	Including 1 U.S.-born Trinidadian
Tɛmplet:ATG	1	Including 1 U.S.-born Antiguan
Tɛmplet:BOL	1	Including 1 U.S.-born Bolivian
Tɛmplet:COL	1
Tɛmplet:DMA	1
Uruguay	1
Tɛmplet:Country data Americas	179	Including 46 foreign or U.S.-born naturalized players

Asia

Country/Territory	No. of Players	Notes
Tɛmplet:CHN	7	Including 1 U.S.-born Chinese
Japan	5	Including 2 U.S.-born Japanese
Tɛmplet:LBN	5	Including 4 foreign-born Lebanese
Philippines		3	Including 3 U.S.-born Filipinos
Tɛmplet:QAT	2	Including 2 U.S.-born Qataris
Tɛmplet:IDN	1	Including 1 U.S.-born Indonesian
Tɛmplet:IRN	1
Tɛmplet:JOR	1	Including 1 U.S.-born Jordanian
Tɛmplet:KOR	1
Asia	26	Including 14 foreign or U.S.-born naturalized players

Europe

Country/Territory	No. of Players	Notes
France	42	Including 7 foreign-born French
Tɛmplet:SRB	30	Including 9 foreign-born Serbians
Tɛmplet:CRO	23	Including 8 foreign-born Croatians
Tɛmplet:ESP	20	Including 4 foreign-born Spaniards
Germany	19	Including 2 U.S.-born Germans
Tɛmplet:LTU	15	Including 1 U.S.-born Lithuanian
Tɛmplet:GRC	14	Including 4 foreign-born Greeks
Tɛmplet:TUR	14	Including 5 foreign-born Turks
Italy	13	Including 4 U.S.-born Italians
Tɛmplet:RUS	13	Including 4 foreign-born Russians
Tɛmplet:SVN	13	Including 2 foreign-born Slovenes
Tɛmplet:GBR	12	Including 3 foreign-born Britons
Tɛmplet:GEO	11	Including 6 U.S.-born Georgians
Tɛmplet:MNE	10	Including 5 foreign-born Montenegrins
Tɛmplet:UKR	9	Including 2 foreign-born Ukrainians
Tɛmplet:BIH	7	Including 3 foreign-born Bosnians
Tɛmplet:LAT	7
Tɛmplet:ISR	6	Including 2 U.S.-born Israelis
Tɛmplet:CZE	5
Netherlands	5
Tɛmplet:NMK	5	Including 3 U.S.-born Macedonians
Tɛmplet:POL	5	Including 2 U.S.-born Polish
Tɛmplet:BUL	3	Including 2 U.S.-born Bulgarians
Tɛmplet:FIN	3	Including 1 foreign-born Finn
Tɛmplet:IRL	3	Including 2 U.S.-born Irishmen
Sweden	2
Tɛmplet:SUI	2
Austria	1
Tɛmplet:AZE	1	Including 1 U.S.-born Azerbaijani
Tɛmplet:BLR	1	Including 1 U.S.-born Belarusian
Belgium	1	Including 1 foreign-born Belgian
Tɛmplet:DEN	1
Tɛmplet:EST	1
Tɛmplet:HUN	1
Tɛmplet:ISL	1
Tɛmplet:LUX	1
Tɛmplet:NOR	1
Portugal	1
Tɛmplet:ROM	1
Tɛmplet:SVK	1
Tɛmplet:Country data Europe	321	Including 85 foreign or U.S.-born naturalized players

Oceania

Country/Territory	No. of Players	Notes
Tɛmplet:AUS	33	Including 7 foreign-born Australians
Tɛmplet:NZL	3
Tɛmplet:Country data Australasia	36	Including 7 foreign-born naturalized players

List

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

Pos	G	Guard	F	Forward	C	Center
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	Birthplace	Player	Pos.	Career	Yrs	Notes	Ref.
Tɛmplet:ANG	—	Bruno Fernando*	C	2019–present	4	—
Tɛmplet:ATG	United States	Julius Hodge	G	2005–2007	2	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.
Argentina	—	Leandro Bolmaro	F/G	2021–2023	2	Also holds Italian citizenship.
Argentina	—	Nicolás Brussino	G/F	2016–2017	2	Also holds Italian citizenship.
Argentina	—	Facundo Campazzo	G	2020–2022	3	—
Argentina	—	Gabriel Deck	G	2021–2022	2	—
Argentina	—	Carlos Delfino	G	2004–2008; 2009–2014	8	—
Argentina	—	Patricio Garino	G	2017	1	Also holds Italian citizenship.
Argentina	—	Manu Ginóbili^	G	2002–2018	16	Also holds Italian citizenship.
Argentina	—	Walter Herrmann	F	2006–2009	3	—
Argentina	—	Nicolás Laprovíttola	G	2016	1	—
Argentina	—	Andrés Nocioni	F	2004–2012	8	—
Argentina	—	Fabricio Oberto	F	2005–2010	6	—
Argentina	—	Pablo Prigioni	G	2012–2016	4	—
Argentina	—	Pepe Sánchez	G	2000–2001; 2002–2003	2	—
Argentina	—	Luis Scola	F	2007–2017	10	—
Argentina	—	Luca Vildoza	G	2022	1	Also holds Italian citizenship. Only player whose career consists exclusively of playoff games.
Argentina	—	Rubén Wolkowyski	F	2000–2001; 2002–2003	2	Also holds Polish citizenship.
Tɛmplet:AUS	Tɛmplet:SUD (now Tɛmplet:SSD)	Deng Adel	F	2019	1	Born in Juba, Sudan (which is now a part of South Sudan), became a naturalized Australian citizen, represents Australia internationally during his playing career.
Tɛmplet:AUS	—	David Andersen	F/C	2009–2011	2	Also holds Danish citizenship, but represents Australia internationally.
Tɛmplet:AUS	—	Chris Anstey	C	1997–2000	3	—
Tɛmplet:AUS	—	Cameron Bairstow	F/C	2014–2016	2	—
Tɛmplet:AUS	Tɛmplet:NZL	Aron Baynes	C	2013–2021	9	Born in New Zealand, grew up in Australia, represents Australia internationally.
Tɛmplet:AUS	—	Andrew Bogut	C	2005–2018; 2019	14	—
Tɛmplet:AUS	—	Jonah Bolden	F	2018–2020	2	—
Tɛmplet:AUS	—	Mark Bradtke	C	1996–1997	1	—
Tɛmplet:AUS	—	Ryan Broekhoff	G	2018–2020	2	—
Tɛmplet:AUS	—	Xavier Cooks*	F	2023–present	1	—
Tɛmplet:AUS	—	Mitch Creek	G	2019	1	—
Tɛmplet:AUS	—	Dyson Daniels*	G	2022–present	1	—
Tɛmplet:AUS	—	Matthew Dellavedova	G	2013–2021; 2022–2023	9	—
Tɛmplet:AUS	—	Dante Exum	G	2014–2021	6	Born in Australia to an American father.
Tɛmplet:AUS	—	Andrew Gaze	G	1994; 1999	2	—
Tɛmplet:AUS	—	Josh Giddey*	G	2021–present	2	—
Tɛmplet:AUS	United States	Ricky Grace	G	1993	1	Born in the United States, became a naturalized Australian citizen, represented Australia internationally during his playing career.
Tɛmplet:AUS	—	Josh Green*	G	2020–present	3	—
Tɛmplet:AUS	—	Shane Heal	G	1996–1997; 2003	2	—
Tɛmplet:AUS	—	Isaac Humphries	F/C	2019	1	—
Tɛmplet:AUS	—	Joe Ingles*	F	2014–present	9	—
Tɛmplet:AUS	—	Nathan Jawai	F/C	2008–2010	2	The first ever Indigenous Australian to play in the NBA.
Tɛmplet:AUS	—	Jock Landale*	C	2021–present	2	—
Tɛmplet:AUS	—	Luc Longley	C	1991–2001	10	—
Tɛmplet:AUS	—	Will Magnay	C/F	2021	1	—
Tɛmplet:AUS	Tɛmplet:SUD (now Tɛmplet:SSD)	Thon Maker	F/C	2016–2021	5	Born in Juba, Sudan (which is now a part of South Sudan), became a naturalized Australian citizen, represents Australia internationally during his playing career.
Tɛmplet:AUS	Tɛmplet:SUD (now Tɛmplet:SSD)	Mangok Mathiang	F/C	2017–2018	1	Born in Juba, Sudan (which is now a part of South Sudan), became a naturalized Australian citizen, represents Australia internationally during his playing career.
Tɛmplet:AUS	United States	Darnell Mee	G	1993–1995	2	Born in the United States, became a naturalized Australian citizen, represented Australia internationally during his playing career.
Tɛmplet:AUS	—	Patty Mills*	G	2009–present	14	—
Tɛmplet:AUS	—	Luke Schenscher	C	2006–2007	2	—
Tɛmplet:AUS	—	Ben Simmons*	F	2017–present	6	Born in Australia to an American father.
Tɛmplet:AUS	United States	Matisse Thybulle*	G/F	2019–present	4	Born in the United States, spent early childhood in Australia and became a naturalized Australian citizen, represents Australia internationally during his playing career.
Tɛmplet:AUS	—	Jack White*	F	2022–present	1	—
Austria	—	Jakob Poeltl*	C	2016–present	7	—
Tɛmplet:AZE	United States	Donta Hall	F	2020–2021	2	Born in the United States, became a naturalized Azerbaijani citizen.
Tɛmplet:BHS	—	Deandre Ayton*	C	2018–present	5	—
Tɛmplet:BHS	—	Dexter Cambridge	F	1992–1993	1	—
Tɛmplet:BHS	—	Buddy Hield*	G	2016–present	7	—
Tɛmplet:BHS	—	Kai Jones*	C	2021–present	2	Born in the Bahamas, grew up in the United States.
Tɛmplet:BHS	—	Ian Lockhart	F	1990	1	—
Tɛmplet:BHS	—	Mychal Thompson	C/F	1978–1991	12	First player born & raised in the Bahamas to make the NBA
Tɛmplet:BHS	United States	Mychel Thompson	F	2011–2012	1	Born in the United States by American parents
Tɛmplet:BLR	United States	Maalik Wayns	G	2012–2014	2	Born in the United States, became a naturalized Belarusian citizen, represents Belarus internationally.
Belgium	Zaire (now Tɛmplet:COD)	D.J. Mbenga	C	2004–2011	7	Born in Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo), became a naturalized Belgian citizen, represents Belgium internationally.
Tɛmplet:BIZ	United States	Noel Felix	F	2006	1	Born in the United States, represented Belize internationally.
Tɛmplet:BIZ	United States	Marlon Garnett	G	1998–1999	1	Born in the United States, represented Belize internationally.
Tɛmplet:BIZ	United States	Milt Palacio	G	1999–2006	7	Born in the United States, represented Belize internationally during his playing career.
Tɛmplet:BOL	United States	Josh Reaves	G/F	2020	1	Born in the United States to a Bolivian mother, represents Bolivia internationally.
Tɛmplet:BIH	United States	J. R. Bremer	G	2002–2004	2	Born in the United States, became a naturalized Bosnia and Herzegovina citizen, represents Bosnia and Herzegovina internationally.
Tɛmplet:BIH	United States	Luka Garza*	C	2021–present	2	Born in the United States to a Bosnian mother, became a naturalized Bosnia and Herzegovina citizen, represents Bosnia and Herzegovina internationally.
Tɛmplet:BIH	—	Džanan Musa	F	2018–2020	2	—
Tɛmplet:BIH	Tɛmplet:Country data Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina	Jusuf Nurkić*	C	2014–present	9	Born when the official name of the country was the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Tɛmplet:BIH	Tɛmplet:Country data SFR Yugoslavia (now Tɛmplet:MNE)	Aleksandar Radojević	C	1999–2000; 2004–2005	2	Born in SFR Yugoslavia, represents Bosnia and Herzegovina internationally.
Tɛmplet:BIH	Tɛmplet:Country data SFR Yugoslavia (now Tɛmplet:BIH)	Mirza Teletović	F	2012–2018	6	Born in SFR Yugoslavia,, represents Bosnia and Herzegovina internationally.
Tɛmplet:BIH	Tɛmplet:Country data SFR Yugoslavia (now Tɛmplet:BIH)	Ratko Varda	C	2001–2002	1	Born in SFR Yugoslavia,, has represented FR Yugoslavia and Bosnia and Herzegovina internationally.
Brazil	—	Rafael Araújo	C	2004–2007	3	—
Brazil	—	Leandro Barbosa	G	2003–2017	14	—
Brazil	—	Bruno Caboclo	F	2014–2021	7	—
Brazil	—	Vítor Faverani	C	2013–2014	1	—
Brazil	—	Cristiano Felício	F/C	2015–2021	6	—
Brazil	—	Rolando Ferreira	C	1988–1989	1	—
Brazil	—	Alex Garcia	G	2003–2004	2	—
Brazil	—	Marcelo Huertas	G	2015–2017	2	—
Brazil	—	Didi Louzada	F	2021–2022	2	—
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.
Brazil	—	Fab Melo	C	2012–2013	1	—
Brazil	—	Nenê	F/C	2002–2020	17	—
Brazil	—	Raul Neto*	G	2015–present	8	—
Brazil	—	Lucas Nogueira	C	2014–2018	4	—
Brazil	—	Tiago Splitter	C/F	2010–2017	7	—
Brazil	—	Anderson Varejão	C/F	2004–2017; 2021	14	—
Brazil	—	João Vianna	F	1991	1	—
Brazil	—	Marquinhos Vieira	F	2006–2008	2	—
Tɛmplet:BGR	—	Georgi Glouchkov	F	1985–1986	1	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
Tɛmplet:BGR	United States	Priest Lauderdale	C	1996–1998	2	Born in the United States, became a naturalized Bulgarian citizen, represented Bulgaria internationally during his playing career.
Tɛmplet:BGR	United States	Cedric Simmons	A/C	2006–2009	3	Born in the United States, became a naturalized Bulgarian citizen, represents Bulgaria internationally.
Tɛmplet:CMR	—	Ruben Boumtje-Boumtje	C	2001–2004	3	—
Tɛmplet:CMR	—	Joel Embiid*	C	2016–present	7	Also holds American and French citizenships.
Tɛmplet:CMR	—	Christian Koloko*	F/C	2022–present	1	—
Tɛmplet:CMR	—	Luc Mbah a Moute	F	2008–2020	12	—
Tɛmplet:CMR	—	Pascal Siakam*	PF	2016–present	7	—
Tɛmplet:CMR	United States	D. J. Strawberry	G	2007–2008	1	Born in the United States, became a naturalized Cameroonian citizen, represents Cameroon internationally.
Tɛmplet:CAN	—	Kyle Alexander	F/C	2020	1	—
Tɛmplet:CAN	—	Nickeil Alexander-Walker*	G	2019–present	4	—
Tɛmplet:CAN	—	Joel Anthony	C	2007–2017	10	—
Tɛmplet:CAN	—	Norm Baker	G	1946–1947	1	—
Tɛmplet:CAN	—	Dalano Banton*	G	2021–present	2	—
Tɛmplet:CAN	—	RJ Barrett*	G	2019–present	4	—
Tɛmplet:CAN	—	Anthony Bennett	F/C	2013–2017	4	First Canadian drafted #1 overall in the NBA draft. Born in Canada by a Jamaican mother
Tɛmplet:CAN	—	Sim Bhullar	C	2015	1	Born in Canada to Indian parents; first player of Indian descent to play in the NBA.
Tɛmplet:CAN	Tɛmplet:Country data Kingdom of Italy Kingdom of Italy (now Italy)	Hank Biasatti	G	1946	1	First international player in the league. Born in the Kingdom of Italy, grew up in Canada, became a naturalized Canadian citizen.
Tɛmplet:CAN	—	Khem Birch*	C/F	2017–present	6	—
Tɛmplet:CAN	Tɛmplet:LCA	Chris Boucher*	F/C	2017–present	6	Born in Saint Lucia, grew up in Canada, became a naturalized Canadian citizen, represents Canada internationally.
Tɛmplet:CAN	—	Oshae Brissett*	F/G	2019–present	4	—
Tɛmplet:CAN	—	Dillon Brooks*	G	2017–present	6	—
Tɛmplet:CAN	—	Brandon Clarke*	G	2019–present	4	—
Tɛmplet:CAN	—	Ron Crevier	C	1985	1	—
Tɛmplet:CAN	Tɛmplet:HAI	Samuel Dalembert	C	2001–2015	14	Born in Haiti, grew up in Canada, became a naturalized Canadian citizen, represents Canada internationally.
Tɛmplet:CAN	—	Nate Darling	G	2020–2021	1	—
Tɛmplet:CAN	—	Luguentz Dort*	G/F	2019–present	4	Born in Canada by Haitian parents.
Tɛmplet:CAN	—	Tyler Ennis	G	2014–2018	4	—
Tɛmplet:CAN	—	Rick Fox	F/G	1991–2004	13	—
Tɛmplet:CAN	—	Shai Gilgeous-Alexander*	G	2018–present	5	Born in Canada to Antiguan mother.
Tɛmplet:CAN	—	Stewart Granger	G	1983–1985; 1987	3	—
Tɛmplet:CAN	Tɛmplet:DNK	Lars Hansen	C	1978–1979	1	Born in Denmark, grew up in Canada, became a naturalized Canadian citizen, represented Canada internationally during his playing career.
Tɛmplet:CAN	—	Bob Houbregs^	C/F	1953–1958	5	Born in Canada, moved to the United States as a child.
Tɛmplet:CAN	—	Caleb Houstan*	F	2022–present	1	—
Tɛmplet:CAN	—	Cory Joseph*	G	2011–present	12	—
Tɛmplet:CAN	—	Kris Joseph	F	2012–2013	1	—
Tɛmplet:CAN	—	Mfiondu Kabengele*	F	2019–2021; 2022–present	3	Born in Canada by Congolese parents.
Tɛmplet:CAN	—	AJ Lawson*	G	2022–present	1	—
Tɛmplet:CAN	—	Trey Lyles*	F	2015–present	8	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.
Tɛmplet:CAN	—	Todd MacCulloch	C	1999–2003	4	—
Tɛmplet:CAN	—	Jamaal Magloire	C	2000–2012	12	—
Tɛmplet:CAN	Tɛmplet:SEN	Karim Mané	G	2020–2021	1	Born in Senegal, grew up in Canada.
Tɛmplet:CAN	—	Bennedict Mathurin*	G	2022–present	1	—
Tɛmplet:CAN	—	Naz Mitrou-Long	G	2017–2020	3	Born in Canada to Canadian father (of Trinidad and Tobago descent) and Greek mother.
Tɛmplet:CAN	—	Mychal Mulder	G	2020–2022	3	—
Tɛmplet:CAN	—	Jamal Murray*	G	2016–present	7	—
Tɛmplet:CAN	Tɛmplet:ZAF	Steve Nash^	G	1996–2015	18	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. Also holds a British passport.
Tɛmplet:CAN	—	Andrew Nembhard*	G	2022–present	1	—
Tɛmplet:CAN	—	Andrew Nicholson	F	2012–2017	5	—
Tɛmplet:CAN	—	Kelly Olynyk*	C	2013–present	10	—
Tɛmplet:CAN	Nigeria	Eugene Omoruyi*	F	2021–present	2	Born in Nigeria, grew up in Canada.
Tɛmplet:CAN	—	Kevin Pangos	G	2021–2022	1	Holds both Canadian and Slovenian passports. Represents Canada internationally.
Tɛmplet:CAN	—	Dwight Powell*	C/F	2014–present	9	—
Tɛmplet:CAN	—	Joshua Primo	G	2021–2022	2	—
Tɛmplet:CAN	—	Xavier Rathan-Mayes	G	2018	1	—
Tɛmplet:CAN	United States	Andy Rautins	G	2010–2011	1	Born in the United States to Canadian parents, represents Canada internationally.
Tɛmplet:CAN	—	Leo Rautins	F	1983–1984	2	—
Tɛmplet:CAN	United States	Robert Sacre	C	2012–2016	4	Born in the United States to an American father and Canadian mother, moved to Canada at age 7 and a dual citizen by birth; represents Canada internationally.
Tɛmplet:CAN	—	Shaedon Sharpe*	G	2022–present	1	—
Tɛmplet:CAN	—	Marial Shayok	G	2019–2020	1	Born in Canada by Sudanese parents.
Tɛmplet:CAN	—	Mike Smrek	C	1985–1992	7	—
Tɛmplet:CAN	—	Gino Sovran	F/G	1946–1947	1	—
Tɛmplet:CAN	—	Nik Stauskas	G	2014–2019; 2022	6	Holds both Canadian and Lithuanian passports. Represents Canada internationally.
Tɛmplet:CAN	—	Tristan Thompson*	F/C	2011–present	12	—
Tɛmplet:CAN	—	Ernie Vandeweghe	F/G	1949–1956	7	Born in Canada, moved to the United States as a teenager, became a naturalized U.S. citizen.
Tɛmplet:CAN	—	Bill Wennington	C	1985–1991; 1993–2000	13	—
Tɛmplet:CAN	—	Andrew Wiggins*	G/F	2014–present	9	Born in Canada to an American father and a naturalized Canadian mother, who was born in Barbados.
Tɛmplet:CAN	—	Lindell Wigginton*	G	2022–present	2	—
Tɛmplet:CAN	United States	Kyle Wiltjer	F/C	2016–2017	1	Born in the United States to a Canadian father and American mother, represents Canada internationally.
Tɛmplet:CAN	—	Jim Zoet	C	1982	1	—
Tɛmplet:CPV	—	Edy Tavares	C	2015–2017	2	—
Tɛmplet:CHN	United States	Kyle Anderson*	F	2014–present	9	Born in the United States, obtained Chinese citizenship, represents China internationally.
Tɛmplet:CHN	—	Mengke Bateer	C	2002–2003	3	—
Tɛmplet:CHN	—	Sun Yue	G	2008–2009	1	—
Tɛmplet:CHN	—	Wang Zhizhi	C	2001–2005	5	—
Tɛmplet:CHN	—	Yao Ming^	C	2002–2011	8	—
Tɛmplet:CHN	—	Yi Jianlian	F	2007–2012	5	—
Tɛmplet:CHN	—	Zhou Qi	C	2017–2018	2	—
Tɛmplet:COL	—	Jaime Echenique	C	2021	1	—
Tɛmplet:CRO	Tɛmplet:FRG (now Tɛmplet:DEU)	Dalibor Bagarić	C	2000–2003	3	Born in West Germany, represents Croatia internationally.
Tɛmplet:CRO	Tɛmplet:BIH	Dragan Bender	F/C	2016–2020	4	Born in Bosnia and Herzegovina, represents Croatia internationally.
Tɛmplet:CRO	Tɛmplet:Country data SFR Yugoslavia (now Tɛmplet:BIH)	Bojan Bogdanović*	SF	2014–present	9	Born in SFR Yugoslavia, represents Croatia internationally.
Tɛmplet:CRO	—	Duje Dukan	F	2016	1	Born in Croatia, moved to the United States at the age of 10 months and is also U.S. citizen. Represents Croatia internationally.
Tɛmplet:CRO	Tɛmplet:Country data SFR Yugoslavia (now Tɛmplet:CRO)	Gordan Giriček	G/F	2002–2008	6	Born in SFR Yugoslavia, represented Croatia internationally during his playing career.
Tɛmplet:CRO	United States	Justin Hamilton	C	2014–2015; 2016–2017	3	Croatian ancestry on his mother side. Born in the United States, represents Croatia internationally.
Tɛmplet:CRO	—	Mario Hezonja	G/F	2015–2020	5	—
Tɛmplet:CRO	Tɛmplet:Country data SFR Yugoslavia (now Tɛmplet:CRO)	Mario Kasun	C	2004–2006	2	Born in SFR Yugoslavia, represents Croatia internationally.
Tɛmplet:CRO	Tɛmplet:Country data SFR Yugoslavia (now Tɛmplet:CRO)	Toni Kukoč^	F	1993–2006	13	Born in SFR Yugoslavia, represented SFR Yugoslavia and Croatia internationally during his playing career.
Tɛmplet:CRO	United States	Oliver Lafayette	G	2010	1	Born in the United States, represents Croatia internationally.
Tɛmplet:CRO	Tɛmplet:Country data SFR Yugoslavia (now Tɛmplet:BIH)	Damir Markota	C	2006–2007	1	Born in SFR Yugoslavia, grew up in Sweden, represents Croatia internationally.
Tɛmplet:CRO	Tɛmplet:Country data SFR Yugoslavia (now Tɛmplet:CRO)	Dražen Petrović^	G	1989–1993	4	Born in SFR Yugoslavia, represented SFR Yugoslavia and Croatia internationally until his death in 1993.
Tɛmplet:CRO	Tɛmplet:Country data SFR Yugoslavia (now Tɛmplet:BIH}	Zoran Planinić	G	2003–2006	3	Born in SFR Yugoslavia, represents Croatia internationally.
Tɛmplet:CRO	Tɛmplet:Country data SFR Yugoslavia (now Tɛmplet:CRO)	Dino Rađa^	F/C	1993–1997	4	Born in SFR Yugoslavia, represented SFR Yugoslavia and Croatia internationally during his playing career.
Tɛmplet:CRO	Tɛmplet:Country data SFR Yugoslavia (now Tɛmplet:CRO)	Damjan Rudež	F	2014–2017	3	Born in SFR Yugoslavia, represents Croatia internationally.
Tɛmplet:CRO	—	Luka Šamanić*	PF	2019–2021; 2023–present	3	—
Tɛmplet:CRO	—	Dario Šarić*	F	2016–present	7	—
Tɛmplet:CRO	Tɛmplet:Country data SFR Yugoslavia (now Tɛmplet:CRO)	Bruno Šundov	C	1998–2005	7	Born in SFR Yugoslavia, has represented Croatia internationally.
Tɛmplet:CRO	Tɛmplet:Country data SFR Yugoslavia (now Tɛmplet:CRO)	Žan Tabak	C	1994–1998; 1999–2001	6	Born in SFR Yugoslavia, represented SFR Yugoslavia and Croatia internationally during his playing career.
Tɛmplet:CRO	Tɛmplet:Country data SFR Yugoslavia (now Tɛmplet:CRO)	Roko Ukić	G	2008–2010	2	Born in SFR Yugoslavia, represents Croatia internationally.
Tɛmplet:CRO	Tɛmplet:Country data SFR Yugoslavia (now Tɛmplet:CRO)	Stojko Vranković	C	1990–1992; 1996–1999	5	Born in SFR Yugoslavia, represented SFR Yugoslavia and Croatia internationally during his playing career.
Tɛmplet:CRO	—	Ante Žižić	C	2017–2020	3	—
Tɛmplet:CRO	Tɛmplet:Country data Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina	Ivica Zubac*	C	2016–present	7	Born in the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, represents Croatia internationally.
Tɛmplet:CUB	—	Lazaro Borrell	F	1999–2000	1	—
Tɛmplet:CUB	—	Andrés Guibert	F/C	1994–1995	2	Born in Cuba, defected to Puerto Rico in 1993.
Tɛmplet:CZE	—	Vít Krejčí*	G	2021–present	2	—
Tɛmplet:CZE	Tɛmplet:CSK (now Tɛmplet:CZE)	Tomáš Satoranský	G	2016–2022	6	Born in Czechoslovakia, represents Czech Republic internationally.
Tɛmplet:CZE	Tɛmplet:CSK (now Tɛmplet:CZE)	Jan Veselý	F	2011–2014	3	Born in Czechoslovakia, represents Czech Republic internationally.
Tɛmplet:CZE	Tɛmplet:CSK (now Tɛmplet:CZE)	Jiří Welsch	G	2002–2006	4	Born in Czechoslovakia, represents Czech Republic internationally.
Tɛmplet:CZE	Tɛmplet:CSK (now Tɛmplet:CZE)	George Zídek	C	1995–1998	3	Born in Czechoslovakia, represented Czech Republic internationally during his playing career. Known in Europe as Jiří Zidek, Jr.
Tɛmplet:COD	Zaire (now Tɛmplet:COD)	Bismack Biyombo*	C	2011–present	12	Born in Zaire.
Tɛmplet:COD	Zaire (now Tɛmplet:COD)	Christian Eyenga	G/F	2010–2012	2	Born in Zaire.
Tɛmplet:COD	—	Jonathan Kuminga*	F	2021–present	2	—
Tɛmplet:COD	Zaire (now Tɛmplet:COD)	Emmanuel Mudiay	F	2015–2020; 2022	6	Born in Zaire.
Tɛmplet:COD	—	Dikembe Mutombo^	C	1991–2009	18	Born in the original Democratic Republic of the Congo, raised in Zaire throughout most of its existence.
Tɛmplet:DEN	—	Gabriel Lundberg	G	2022	1	—
Tɛmplet:DMA	—	Garth Joseph	C	2000–2001	1	—
Tɛmplet:DOM	—	Ángel Delgado	C	2018–2019	1	—
Tɛmplet:DOM	—	Chris Duarte*	G	2021–present	2	Born & raised in the Dominican Republic, father is Canadian.
Tɛmplet:DOM	—	Luis Flores	G	2004–2005	1	—
Tɛmplet:DOM	—	Francisco García	F/G	2005–2014	10	—
Tɛmplet:DOM	—	Tito Horford	C	1988–1990; 1993	3	—
Tɛmplet:DOM	—	Al Horford*	C	2007–present	16	—
Tɛmplet:DOM	—	Felipe López	G	1998–2002	4	—
Tɛmplet:DOM	United States	Justin Minaya*	F	2023–present	1	Born in the United States to Dominican parents, represents Dominican Republic internationally.
Tɛmplet:DOM	—	Luis Montero	G	2015–2016; 2017–2018	2	—
Tɛmplet:DOM	United States	Lester Quiñones*	G	2023–present	1	Born in the United States to Dominican parents, represents Dominican Republic internationally.
Tɛmplet:DOM	United States	Karl-Anthony Towns*	C	2015–present	8	Born in the United States to a Dominican mother, represents Dominican Republic internationally.
Tɛmplet:DOM	United States	Charlie Villanueva	F	2005–2016	11	Born in the United States to Dominican parents, previously represented the United States at youth level, now represents Dominican Republic internationally.
Tɛmplet:EGY	—	Alaa Abdelnaby	F/C	1990–1995	5	Born in Egypt, moved to the United States at the age of 2 and is also U.S. citizen.
Tɛmplet:EGY	—	Abdel Nader	F/G	2017–2022	5	Born in Egypt, moved to the United States at the age of 3 and is also U.S. citizen.
Tɛmplet:EST	—	Martin Müürsepp	F	1996–1998	2	Born in the Estonian SSR, represented Estonia internationally during his playing career.
Tɛmplet:FIN	—	Lauri Markkanen*	F/C	2017–present	6	—
Tɛmplet:FIN	—	Hanno Möttölä	C	2000–2002	2	—
Tɛmplet:FIN	France	Erik Murphy	C	2013–2014	1	Born in France to an American father and Finnish mother. Holds both American and Finnish passports. Represents Finland internationally.
France	—	Tariq Abdul-Wahad (formerly Olivier Saint-Jean)	F	1997–2003	6	—
France	—	Alexis Ajinça	F	2008–2011; 2013–2018	7	—
France	—	Joel Ayayi	G	2021–2022	1	Born in France by Beninese parents
France	—	Nicolas Batum*	G	2008–present	15	—
France	Tɛmplet:Country data Guadeloupe Guadeloupe	Rodrigue Beaubois	G	2009–2013	4	Born in Guadeloupe, an overseas region of France in the Caribbean.
France	United States	Howard Carter	G	1983–1984	2	Born in the United States, became a naturalized French citizen, represented France internationally during his playing career.
France	—	Petr Cornelie	F	2021–2022	1	Born in France by Czech mother and French father
France	—	Nando De Colo	G	2012–2014	2	—
France	—	Moussa Diabaté*	F	2022–present	1	Born in France to Malian and Guinean parents.
France	—	Boris Diaw	F/C	2003–2017	14	—
France	—	Yakhouba Diawara	F	2006–2010	4	—
France	—	Ousmane Dieng*	G	2022–present	1	—
France	Tɛmplet:GUI	Sekou Doumbouya	F	2019–2022	3	Born in Guinea, grew up in France.
France	—	Evan Fournier*	G/F	2012–present	11	Born in France by an Algerian mother.
France	Tɛmplet:Country data Guadeloupe Guadeloupe	Mickaël Gelabale	F	2006–2008; 2013	3	Born in Guadeloupe, an overseas region of France in the Caribbean.
France	—	Rudy Gobert*	C	2013–present	10	—
France	United States	Killian Hayes*	G	2020–present	3	Born in the United States to an American father and a French mother, grew up in France and represents France internationally.
France	—	Jaylen Hoard	SF	2019–2022	3	Born in France by American father.
France	—	William Howard	F	2019–2020	1	—
France	Tɛmplet:GUF	Damien Inglis	F	2015–2016	1	Born in French Guiana, an overseas region of France in South America.
France	—	Joffrey Lauvergne	F/C	2015–2018	4	—
France	—	Timothé Luwawu-Cabarrot	G/F	2016–2022	6	—
France	—	Ian Mahinmi	C	2007–2020	12	—
France	—	Théo Maledon*	G	2020–present	3	—
France	—	Jérôme Moïso	F	2000–2005	5	—
France	—	Adam Mokoka	G	2019–2021	2	—
France	United States	Joakim Noah	C	2007–2020	13	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.
France	Belgium	Frank Ntilikina*	G	2017–present	6	Born in Belgium to Rwandan parents, grew up in France, represents France internationally.
France	—	Elie Okobo	G	2018–2020	2	Born in France to a Congolese father and a French mother.
France	Belgium	Tony Parker^	G	2001–2019	18	Born in Belgium to an American father and a Dutch mother, grew up in France, represents France internationally.
France	—	Johan Petro	C	2005–2013	8	—
France	Tɛmplet:Country data Guadeloupe Guadeloupe	Mickaël Piétrus	G/F	2003–2013	10	Born in Guadeloupe, an overseas region of France in the Caribbean.
France	—	Vincent Poirier	C	2019–2021	2	—
France	Tɛmplet:HTI	Yves Pons	F	2021–2022	1	Born in Haiti, grew up in France, represents France internationally.
France	—	Antoine Rigaudeau	G	2003	1	—
France	—	Olivier Sarr*	C	2021–present	2	Born in France, he is of Senegalese descent.
France	Tɛmplet:GUF	Kevin Séraphin	F	2010–2017	7	Born in French Guiana, an overseas region of France in South America.
France	—	Pape Sy	F/G	2010–2011	1	—
France	—	Killian Tillie	F/C	2020–2022	2	—
France	—	Axel Toupane	F/G	2016–2017; 2021	3	—
France	Tɛmplet:MTQ	Ronny Turiaf	F	2006–2014	10	Born in Martinique, an overseas region of France in the Caribbean.
France	—	Guerschon Yabusele	F	2017–2019	2	—
Tɛmplet:GAB	—	Stéphane Lasme	F	2007–2008	1	—
Tɛmplet:GAB	—	Chris Silva	F	2019–2023	4	—
Tɛmplet:GEO	—	Goga Bitadze*	C	2019–present	4	—
Tɛmplet:GEO	United States	Taurean Green	G	2007–2008	1	Born in the United States, became a naturalized Georgian citizen, represents Georgia internationally.
Tɛmplet:GEO	United States	Sandro Mamukelashvili*	F/C	2021–present	2	Born in the United States by Georgian parents, he grew up in Georgia.
Tɛmplet:GEO	Tɛmplet:URS (now Tɛmplet:GEO)	Zaza Pachulia	C	2003–2019	16	Born in the Soviet Union, represents Georgia internationally. Also holds a Turkish passport.
Tɛmplet:GEO	United States	Jacob Pullen	G	2017–2018	1	Born in the United States, became a naturalized Georgian citizen.
Tɛmplet:GEO	United States	Melvin Sanders	G/F	2005–2006	1	Born in the United States, became a naturalized Georgian citizen.
Tɛmplet:GEO	—	Tornike Shengelia	F	2012–2014	2	—
Tɛmplet:GEO	Tɛmplet:URS (now Tɛmplet:GEO)	Vladimir Stepania	C	1998–2004	6	Born in the Soviet Union.
Tɛmplet:GEO	Tɛmplet:URS (now Tɛmplet:GEO)	Nikoloz Tskitishvili	F	2002–2006	4	Born in the Soviet Union, represents Georgia internationally
Tɛmplet:GEO	United States	Shammond Williams	G	1998–2004; 2006–2007	7	Born in the United States, became a naturalized Georgian citizen, represented Georgia internationally during his playing career.
Tɛmplet:GEO	United States	Luke Zeller	G	2012–2013	1	Born in the United States, became a naturalized Georgian citizen.
Germany	—	Uwe Blab	C	1985–1990	5	Born in West Germany.
Germany	—	Isaac Bonga	G	2018–2022	4	—
Germany	—	Shawn Bradley	C	1993–2005	12	Born in West Germany to American parents, grew up in the United States, represented Germany internationally during his playing career.
Germany	—	Frido Frey	F	1946–1947	1	Born in the Weimar Republic, grew up in the U.S.
Germany	—	Elias Harris	F	2013	1	Born in West Germany.
Germany	United States	Isaiah Hartenstein*	C	2018–present	5	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.
Germany	—	Charlie Hoefer	F	1946–1948	2	Born in the Weimar Republic, grew up in the U.S.
Germany	United States	Chris Kaman	C	2003–2016	13	German ancestry on his father side. Born in the United States, represents Germany internationally.
Germany	—	Maxi Kleber*	F	2017–present	6	—
Germany	—	Dirk Nowitzki^	F	1998–2019	21	Born in West Germany.
Germany	—	Tim Ohlbrecht	F/C	2013	1	Born in West Germany.
Germany	—	Tibor Pleiß	C	2015–2016	1	Born in West Germany.
Germany	—	Detlef Schrempf	F/C	1985–2001	16	Born in West Germany.
Germany	—	Dennis Schröder*	G	2013–present	10	Born in Germany to Gambian mother.
Germany	—	Daniel Theis*	F/C	2017–present	6	—
Germany	—	Franz Wagner*	SF	2021–present	2	—
Germany	—	Moritz Wagner*	F/C	2018–present	5	—
Germany	—	Chris Welp	C	1987–1990	3	Born in West Germany.
Germany	—	Paul Zipser	G/F	2016–2018	2	—
Tɛmplet:GHA	—	Ben Bentil	F	2017	1	—
Tɛmplet:GHA	—	Amida Brimah	C	2021	1	—
Tɛmplet:GBR2 England	United States	John Amaechi	C/F	1995–1996; 1999–2003	5	Born in the United States to a Nigerian father and a British mother, grew up in England, represented England internationally during his playing career.
Tɛmplet:GBR2 England	—	OG Anunoby*	SF	2017–present	6	Born in England to Nigerian parents. Moved to the U.S. when he was four years old and learned to play basketball there.
Tɛmplet:GBR2 Tɛmplet:SCO	—	Robert Archibald	F	2002–2004	2	—
Tɛmplet:GBR2 England	—	Steve Bucknall	G	1989–1990	1	First British player who actually grew up in his country of birth and learned to play basketball there.
Tɛmplet:GBR2 England	Tɛmplet:SUD (now Tɛmplet:SSD)	Luol Deng	F	2004–2019	15	Born in Sudan (now South Sudan), grew up in England, became a naturalized British citizen, represents England and Great Britain internationally.
Tɛmplet:GBR2 England	—	James Donaldson	C	1980–1993; 1995	14	Born in England, grew up in the U.S.
Tɛmplet:GBR2 England	—	Ndudi Ebi	F	2003–2005	2	Born in England to Nigerian parents, grew up in the United States.
Tɛmplet:GBR2 England	—	Joel Freeland	C	2012–2015	3	—
Tɛmplet:GBR2 England	—	Ben Gordon	G	2004–2015	11	Born in England to Jamaican parents, grew up in the United States, represents Great Britain internationally.
Tɛmplet:GBR2 England	—	Chris Harris	G	1955–1956	1	Moved from Southampton, England to the U.S. when he was young.
Tɛmplet:GBR2 England	—	Pops Mensah-Bonsu	F	2006–2007; 2009–2011	4	Born in England to Ghanaian parents, represented Great Britain internationally during his playing career.
Tɛmplet:GBR2 England	United States	Byron Mullens	C	2009–2014	5	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.
Tɛmplet:GRE	—	Giannis Antetokounmpo*	F	2013–present	10	Born in Greece to Nigerian parents, became a Greek citizen in May 2013. Represents Greece internationally.
Tɛmplet:GRE	—	Kostas Antetokounmpo	F	2018–2021	3	Born in Greece to Nigerian parents, became a Greek citizen in May 2016.
Tɛmplet:GRE	—	Thanasis Antetokounmpo*	F	2016; 2019–present	5	Born in Greece to Nigerian parents, became a Greek citizen in May 2013.
Tɛmplet:GRE	United States	Nick Calathes	G	2013–2015	2	Born in the United States to Greek parents, represents Greece internationally.
Tɛmplet:GRE	United States	Tyler Dorsey	G	2017–2019; 2022	3	Born in the United States to American father and Greek mother, represents Greece internationally.
Tɛmplet:GRE	—	Antonis Fotsis	F	2001–2002	1	—
Tɛmplet:GRE	—	Andreas Glyniadakis	C	2006–2007	1	—
Tɛmplet:GRE	—	Georgios Kalaitzakis	G/F	2021–2022	1	—
Tɛmplet:GRE	United States	Kosta Koufos	C	2008–2019	11	Born in the United States to Greek parents, represents Greece internationally.
Tɛmplet:GRE	—	Georgios Papagiannis	C	2016–2018	2	—
Tɛmplet:GRE	—	Kostas Papanikolaou	F	2014–2016	2	—
Tɛmplet:GRE	—	Efthimios Rentzias	C	2002–2003	1	—
Tɛmplet:GRE	—	Vassilis Spanoulis	G	2006–2007	1	—
Tɛmplet:GRE	Tɛmplet:URS (now Tɛmplet:GEO)	Jake Tsakalidis	C	2000–2007	7	Born in Soviet Union (now Georgia), represented Greece internationally during his playing career.
Tɛmplet:GUI	—	Mamadi Diakite*	F	2020–present	3	—
Tɛmplet:GUY	—	Rawle Marshall	G/F	2005–2007	2	—
Tɛmplet:GUY	—	Jason Miskiri	G	1999	1	—
Tɛmplet:HTI	—	Yvon Joseph	C	1985	1	—
Tɛmplet:HTI	—	Skal Labissière	C	2016–2020	4	—
Tɛmplet:HTI	—	Olden Polynice	C/F	1987–2001; 2003–2004	15	Born in Haiti, grew up in the United States.
Tɛmplet:HUN	—	Kornél Dávid	F	1999–2001	3	—
Tɛmplet:ISL	—	Pétur Guðmundsson	C	1981–1982; 1986–1989	5	First European NBA player who took up the game while growing up in his own homeland.
Tɛmplet:IDN	United States	Marques Bolden	C	2019–2021	2	Born in the United States, became a naturalized Indonesian citizen, represents Indonesia internationally.
Tɛmplet:IRI	—	Hamed Haddadi	C	2008–2013	5	—
Tɛmplet:IRL	United States	Cal Bowdler	F	1999–2002	3	Born in the United States, represented Ireland internationally during his playing career.
Tɛmplet:IRL	—	Pat Burke	C/F	2002–2003; 2005–2007	3	—
Tɛmplet:IRL	United States	Marty Conlon	F/C	1991–2000	9	Born in the United States, represented Ireland internationally during his playing career.
Tɛmplet:ISR	—	Deni Avdija*	F	2020–present	3	Born in Israel by Serbian father.
Tɛmplet:ISR	United States	Cory Carr	G	1999	1	Born in the United States, became a naturalized Israeli citizen, represented Israel internationally.
Tɛmplet:ISR	—	Omri Casspi	F	2009–2019	10	—
Tɛmplet:ISR	—	T. J. Leaf	F	2017–2021	4	Born in Israel to American-born/ Israeli-naturalized parents, previously represented the United States at youth level, represents Israel internationally.
Tɛmplet:ISR	—	Gal Mekel	G	2013–2014	2	—
Tɛmplet:ISR	United States	Chris Smith	G	2013	1	Born in the United States, became a naturalized Israeli citizen.
Italy	United States	Ryan Arcidiacono	G	2017–2023	6	Born in the United States, unofficially represents Italy internationally. Does not hold Italian citizenship and cannot officially represent Italy in competition.
Italy	—	Andrea Bargnani	F	2006–2016	10	First European drafted #1 overall in the NBA draft
Italy	—	Marco Belinelli	G	2007–2020	13	—
Italy	United States	Mike D'Antoni	G	1973–1977	4	Born in the United States, represented Italy internationally during his playing career.
Italy	—	Gigi Datome	F	2013–2015	2	—
Italy	United States	Travis Diener	G	2005–2010	5	Born in the United States, represents Italy internationally.
Italy	—	Vincenzo Esposito	G	1995–1996	1	—
Italy	—	Simone Fontecchio*	F	2022–present	1	—
Italy	—	Danilo Gallinari*	F	2008–present	14	—
Italy	—	Nico Mannion	G	2020–2021	1	Born in Italy by Italian mother and American father.
Italy	—	Nicolò Melli	F	2019–2021	2	Born in Italy by Italian father and American mother.
Italy	United States	Brian Oliver	PF/C	1990–1992; 1994; 1998	4	Born in the United States; naturalized Italian citizen.
Italy	—	Stefano Rusconi	C/F	1995–1996	1	—
Tɛmplet:CIV	United States	Matt Costello	F/C	2017–2018	1	Born in the United States, became a naturalized Ivorian citizen, represents Ivory Coast internationally.
Tɛmplet:CIV	United States	Alex Poythress	F	2017–2019	3	Born in the United States, became a naturalized Ivorian citizen, represents Ivory Coast internationally.
Tɛmplet:JAM	United States	Patrick Ewing Jr.	F	2011	1	Born in the United States to a Jamaican father and an American mother, represents Jamaica internationally.
Tɛmplet:JAM	United States	Roy Hibbert	C	2008–2017	9	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.
Tɛmplet:JAM	—	Omari Johnson	F	2018	1	Born in Jamaica to American parents.
Tɛmplet:JAM	—	Jerome Jordan	C	2011–2012; 2014–2015	2	—
Tɛmplet:JAM	United States	Josh Minott*	F	2022–present	1	Born in the United States, represents Jamaica internationally.
Tɛmplet:JAM	United States	Ryan Reid	F	2011–2012	1	Born in the United States, became a naturalized Jamaican citizen.
Tɛmplet:JAM	—	Nick Richards*	C	2020–present	3	—
Tɛmplet:JAM	—	Rumeal Robinson	G	1990–1994; 1996-1997	6	—
Tɛmplet:JAM	—	Samardo Samuels	F	2010–2013	3	—
Tɛmplet:JAM	—	Wayne Sappleton	F	1984–1985	1	—
Tɛmplet:JAM	United States	Gary Voce	F	1989	1	Born in the United States, became a naturalized Jamaican citizen.
Japan	United States	Nick Fazekas	F/C	2007–2008	1	Born in the United States, became a naturalized Japanese citizen, represents Japan internationally.
Japan	—	Rui Hachimura*	F	2019–present	4	Born in Japan by Japanese mother and Beninese father.
Japan	United States	J. R. Sakuragi (formerly J. R. Henderson)	F	1998–1999	1	Born in the United States, became a naturalized Japanese citizen, represents Japan internationally.
Japan	—	Yuta Tabuse	G	2004	1	—
Japan	—	Yuta Watanabe*	F	2018–present	5	—
Tɛmplet:JOR	United States	Rondae Hollis-Jefferson	F	2015–2021	6	Born in the United States, became a naturalized Jordanian citizen, represents Jordan internationally.
Tɛmplet:LVA	—	Dairis Bertāns	G	2019	1	Born in the Latvian SSR, represents Latvia internationally.
Tɛmplet:LVA	—	Dāvis Bertāns*	F	2016–present	7	—
Tɛmplet:LVA	—	Andris Biedriņš	C	2004–2014	10	Born in the Latvian SSR, represented Latvia internationally during his playing career.
Tɛmplet:LVA	—	Rodions Kurucs	F	2018–2021	3	—
Tɛmplet:LVA	—	Anžejs Pasečņiks	C	2019–2021	2	—
Tɛmplet:LVA	—	Kristaps Porziņģis*	F/C	2015–present	7	—
Tɛmplet:LVA	—	Gundars Vētra	F	1992–1993	1	Born in the Latvian SSR, represented the Soviet Union internationally during his playing career.
Tɛmplet:LBN	United States	Matt Freije	F	2004–2005; 2006	2	Born in the United States, became a naturalized Lebanese citizen, represents Lebanon internationally.
Tɛmplet:LBN	Tɛmplet:ATG	Norvel Pelle	PF	2019–2022	3	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. He also holds U.S. citizenship.
Tɛmplet:LBN	—	Rony Seikaly	C	1988–1999	11	Born in Lebanon, initially represented the United States internationally during his playing career. before receiving special permission from FIBA to switch to representing the Lebanese national team later in his career.
Tɛmplet:LBN	United States	Jackson Vroman	F/C	2004–2006	2	Born in the United States, became a naturalized Lebanese citizen, represented Lebanon internationally during his playing career.
Tɛmplet:LBN	United States	Loren Woods	C	2001–2006; 2008	6	Born in the United States, became a naturalized Lebanese citizen, represents Lebanon internationally.
Tɛmplet:LBR	United States	Othello Hunter	C	2008–2010	2	Born in the United States to Liberian parents, has both Liberian and American citizenship.
Tɛmplet:LBA	United States	Hesham Salem (formerly Hiram Fuller)	F	2004	1	Born in the United States, became a naturalized Libyan citizen, represents Libya internationally.
Tɛmplet:LBA	United States	Raed Elhamali (formerly Randy Holcomb)	F	2006	1	Born in the United States, became a naturalized Libyan citizen, represents Libya internationally.
Tɛmplet:LTU	—	Martynas Andriuškevičius	C	2005–2007	1	Born in the Lithuanian SSR, represented Lithuania internationally during his playing career.
Tɛmplet:LTU	—	Ignas Brazdeikis	F	2019–2022	3	Also has Canadian citizenship. Represented Canada in youth tournaments, then received FIBA confirmation to switch to playing for Lithuania's senior team for the 2023 FIBA World Cup Qualifiers.
Tɛmplet:LTU	—	Zydrunas Ilgauskas	C	1996–2011	13	Born in the Lithuanian SSR, represented Lithuania internationally during his playing career.
Tɛmplet:LTU	—	Šarūnas Jasikevičius	G	2005–2007	2	Born in the Lithuanian SSR, represented Lithuania internationally during his playing career.
Tɛmplet:LTU	—	Linas Kleiza	F	2005–2009; 2010–2013	7	Born in the Lithuanian SSR, represented Lithuania internationally during his playing career.
Tɛmplet:LTU	—	Arnoldas Kulboka	F	2021–2022	1	—
Tɛmplet:LTU	—	Mindaugas Kuzminskas	F	2016–2017	2	Born in the Lithuanian SSR, represents Lithuania internationally.
Tɛmplet:LTU	—	Arvydas Macijauskas	G	2005–2006	1	Born in the Lithuanian SSR, represented Lithuania internationally during his playing career.
Tɛmplet:LTU	—	Šarūnas Marčiulionis^	G	1989–1997	8	Born in the Lithuanian SSR, represented the Soviet Union and Lithuania internationally during his playing career.
Tɛmplet:LTU	—	Donatas Motiejūnas	F/C	2012–2017; 2019	6	—
Tɛmplet:LTU	—	Arvydas Sabonis^	C	1995–2001; 2002–2003	7	Born in the Lithuanian SSR, represented the Soviet Union and Lithuania internationally during his playing career.
Tɛmplet:LTU	United States	Domantas Sabonis*	C	2016–present	7	Born in the United States to Lithuanian parents, represents Lithuania internationally.
Tɛmplet:LTU	—	Darius Songaila	F	2003–2011	8	Born in the Lithuanian SSR, represented Lithuania internationally during his playing career.
Tɛmplet:LTU	—	Deividas Sirvydis	G/F	2020–2021	1	—
Tɛmplet:LTU	—	Jonas Valančiūnas*	C	2012–present	11	—
Tɛmplet:LUX	—	Alvin Jones	F	2001–2002	1	Born in Luxembourg to an American father and Luxembourgish mother.
Tɛmplet:MLI	—	Cheick Diallo	F	2016–2020; 2021–2022	5	—
Tɛmplet:MLI	—	Soumaila Samake	C	2000–2001; 2002	2	—
Tɛmplet:MEX	United States	Lance Allred	C	2008	1	Born in the United States, represented Mexico internationally.
Tɛmplet:MEX	—	Gustavo Ayón	F	2011–2014	3	—
Tɛmplet:MEX	—	Jorge Gutiérrez	G	2014–2015; 2016	3	—
Tɛmplet:MEX	—	Horacio Llamas	C	1997–1998	2	—
Tɛmplet:MEX	—	Eduardo Nájera	F	2000–2012	12	—
Tɛmplet:MEX	United States	Juan Toscano-Anderson*	F	2020–present	4	Born in the United States to Mexican parents.
Tɛmplet:MNE	Tɛmplet:Country data SFR Yugoslavia (now Tɛmplet:SRB)	Žarko Čabarkapa	F	2003–2006	3	Born in SFR Yugoslavia, represented FR Yugoslavia, Serbia and Montenegro, and Montenegro internationally during his playing career.
Tɛmplet:MNE	United States	Omar Cook	G	2004–2005	2	Born in the United States, became a naturalized Montenegrin citizen, represents Montenegro internationally.
Tɛmplet:MNE	United States	Quincy Douby	G	2006–2009	3	Born in the United States, became a naturalized Montenegrin citizen, represents Montenegro internationally.
Tɛmplet:MNE	Tɛmplet:Country data SFR Yugoslavia (now Tɛmplet:MNE)	Predrag Drobnjak	C	2001–2005	4	Born in SFR Yugoslavia, represented FR Yugoslavia, Serbia and Montenegro, and Montenegro internationally during his playing career.
Tɛmplet:MNE	United States	Javonte Green*	G	2019–present	4	Born in the United States, became a naturalized Montenegrin citizen, represents Montenegro internationally.
Tɛmplet:MNE	Tɛmplet:Country data SFR Yugoslavia (now Tɛmplet:MNE)	Nikola Peković	C	2010–2017	6	Born in SFR Yugoslavia, represents Serbia and Montenegro and Montenegro internationally.
Tɛmplet:MNE	Tɛmplet:Country data SFR Yugoslavia (now Tɛmplet:CRO)	Predrag Savović	G	2002–2003	1	Born in SFR Yugoslavia. Also has Spanish citizenship.
Tɛmplet:MNE	Tɛmplet:Country data FR Yugoslavia (now Tɛmplet:MNE)	Marko Simonović	F/C	2021–2023	2	Born in FR Yugoslavia, represents Montenegro internationally.
Tɛmplet:MNE	Tɛmplet:Country data SFR Yugoslavia (now Tɛmplet:MNE)	Slavko Vraneš	C	2004	1	Born in SFR Yugoslavia, represents Montenegro internationally.
Tɛmplet:MNE	Switzerland	Nikola Vučević*	C	2011–present	12	Born in Switzerland to Montenegrin parents, grew up in Belgium, represents Montenegro internationally.
Tɛmplet:NLD	—	Francisco Elson	C	2003–2012	9	—
Tɛmplet:NLD	—	Dan Gadzuric	C	2002–2011; 2012	10	—
Tɛmplet:NLD	—	Geert Hammink	C	1994–1996	3	—
Tɛmplet:NLD	—	Swen Nater	C	1976–1984	8	Born in the Netherlands, moved to the United States at the age of 9.
Tɛmplet:NLD	—	Rik Smits	C	1988–2000	12	—
Tɛmplet:NZL	—	Steven Adams*	C	2013–present	10	—
Tɛmplet:NZL	—	Sean Marks	F/C	1998–2000; 2001–2003; 2004–2011	11	—
Tɛmplet:NZL	—	Kirk Penney	G	2003–2005	2	—
Nigeria	—	Precious Achiuwa*	F	2020–present	3	—
Nigeria	United States	Josh Akognon	G	2013	1	Born in the United States to Nigerian parents, represents Nigeria internationally.
Nigeria	—	Solomon Alabi	C	2010–2012	2	—
Nigeria	United States	Al-Farouq Aminu	F	2010–2022	12	Born in the United States to Nigerian parents, represents Nigeria internationally.
Nigeria	—	Peter Aluma	C	1999	1	—
Nigeria	Tɛmplet:GBR2 England	Kelenna Azubuike	G	2007–2011; 2012	5	Born in England to Nigerian parents, grew up in the United States, does not hold British citizenship.
Nigeria	—	Udoka Azubuike*	C	2020–present	3	—
Nigeria	—	Charles Bassey*	F	2021–present	2	—
Nigeria	—	Yinka Dare	C	1994–1998	4	—
Nigeria	United States	Ike Diogu	F	2005–2012	6	Born in the United States to Nigerian parents, represents Nigeria internationally.
Nigeria	—	Obinna Ekezie	F/C	1999–2002; 2005	4	—
Nigeria	—	Festus Ezeli	C	2012–2017	3	—
Nigeria	United States	Michael Gbinije	F	2016–2017	1	Born and raised in the United States to an American mother and a Nigerian father, represents Nigeria internationally.
Nigeria	United States	Gani Lawal	F	2010–2011	1	Born and raised in the United States to an American mother and a Nigerian father, represents Nigeria internationally.
Nigeria	United States	Chimezie Metu*	F	2018–present	5	Born in the United States to Nigerian parents, represents Nigeria internationally.
Nigeria	—	Chima Moneke	F	2022	1	—
Nigeria	United States	Monte Morris*	G	2017–present	6	Born in the United States to Nigerian parents, represents Nigeria internationally.
Nigeria	United States	Jordan Nwora*	F	2020–present	3	Born in the United States to Nigerian parents, represents Nigeria internationally.
Nigeria	—	Julius Nwosu	C	1994–1995	1	—
Nigeria	United States	Daniel Ochefu	F	2016–2017	1	Born in the United States to Nigerian parents, represents Nigeria internationally.
Nigeria	United States	Jahlil Okafor	C	2015–2021	6	Born in the United States to Nigerian father and American mother, represents Nigeria internationally. He previously represented U.S. youth national teams.
Nigeria	—	Josh Okogie*	F	2018–present	5	Born in Nigeria, became a naturalized U.S citizen and represented U.S. youth before representing Nigeria internationally.
Nigeria	United States	KZ Okpala	F/G	2019–2023	4	Born in the United States to Nigerian parents, represents Nigeria internationally.
Nigeria	—	Michael Olowokandi	C	1998–2007	9	Born in Nigeria, grew up in England.
Nigeria	United States	Miye Oni	G/F	2019–2022	3	Born in the United States to Nigerian parents, represents Nigeria internationally.
Nigeria	—	Olumide Oyedeji	C	2000–2003	3	—
Nigeria	United States	Ekpe Udoh	F	2010–2015; 2017–2019	7	Born in the United States to Nigerian parents, represents Nigeria internationally.
Nigeria	United States	Ime Udoka	F	2004; 2006–2011	7	Born in the United States, represented Nigeria internationally during his playing career.
Nigeria	United States	Ben Uzoh	F	2010–2011; 2012	2	Born in the United States, represents Nigeria internationally.
Nigeria	United States	Gabe Vincent*	F	2020–present	4	Born in the United States, represents Nigeria internationally
Tɛmplet:MKD	Tɛmplet:Country data SFR Yugoslavia (now Tɛmplet:MKD)	Pero Antić	F/C	2013–2015	2	Born in SFR Yugoslavia, has represented Macedonia internationally.
Tɛmplet:MKD	United States	Ryan Stack	G	1998–2000	2	Born in the United States, became a naturalized Macedonian citizen, represented Macedonia internationally during his playing career.
Tɛmplet:MKD	United States	Darius Washington	G	2007	1	Born in the United States, became a naturalized Macedonian citizen, represents North Macedonia internationally.
Tɛmplet:MKD	United States	Shayne Whittington	G	2014–2016	2	Born in the United States, became a naturalized Macedonian citizen, represents North Macedonia internationally.
Tɛmplet:MKD	United States	Jacob Wiley	F/C	2017–2018	1	Born in the United States, became a naturalized Macedonian citizen, represents North Macedonia internationally.
Tɛmplet:NOR	—	Torgeir Bryn	C	1989	1	—
Tɛmplet:PAN	United States	Lorenzo Charles	F	1985–1986	1	Born in the United States, represented Panama internationally during his playing career.
Tɛmplet:PAN	—	Gary Forbes	F	2010–2012	2	—
Tɛmplet:PAN	—	Rubén Garcés	F	2000–2001	1	—
Tɛmplet:PAN	United States	Stuart Gray	C/F	1984–1991	7	Born in the Panama Canal Zone (which was controlled by the United States), represented Panama internationally during his playing career.
Philippines		United States	Andray Blatche	F/C	2005–2014	9	Born in the United States, became a naturalized Filipino citizen, represents the Philippines internationally.
Philippines		United States	Jordan Clarkson*	G	2014–present	9	Born in the United States to an American father and a Filipino mother, represents the Philippines internationally.
Philippines		United States	Raymond Townsend	G	1978–1980; 1981–1982	3	Born in the United States to an American father and a Filipino mother.
Tɛmplet:POL	—	Marcin Gortat	C/F	2007–2019	12	—
Tɛmplet:POL	—	Maciej Lampe	F/C	2003–2006	3	Born in Poland, grew up in Sweden, represents Poland internationally.
Tɛmplet:POL	United States	Jeff Nordgaard	SF	1997–1998	1	Born in the United States, represented Poland internationally.
Tɛmplet:POL	United States	Jeremy Sochan*	F	2022–present	1	Born in the United States to a Polish mother and an American father. Has Polish, British, and American citizenship, represents Poland internationally.
Tɛmplet:POL	—	Cezary Trybański	C	2002–2004	2	—
Portugal	—	Neemias Queta*	C	2021–present	2	Born in Portugal to Bissau-Guinean parents.
Tɛmplet:PUR	United States	Jose Alvarado*	G	2021–present	2	Born on the United States mainland, represents Puerto Rico internationally.
Tɛmplet:PUR	—	Carlos Arroyo	G	2001–2008; 2009–2011	9	—
Tɛmplet:PUR	United States	Renaldo Balkman	F	2006–2012	6	Born on the United States mainland, represents Puerto Rico internationally.
Tɛmplet:PUR	—	J. J. Barea	G	2006–2020	14	—
Tɛmplet:PUR	—	Gian Clavell	G	2017	1	—
Tɛmplet:PUR	United States	Tyler Davis	C	2018	1	Born on the United States mainland, represents Puerto Rico internationally.
Tɛmplet:PUR	—	Guillermo Díaz	G	2008	1	—
Tɛmplet:PUR	United States	Moe Harkless	F	2012–2022	10	Born on the United States mainland, represents Puerto Rico internationally.
Tɛmplet:PUR	United States	John Holland	G	2016; 2017–2018	3	Born on the United States mainland, represents Puerto Rico internationally. In the 2015–16 season, he played one game during the Playoffs, but not during the regular season.
Tɛmplet:PUR	—	Butch Lee	G	1978–1980	2	Born in Puerto Rico but moved to the U.S. as a child. Represented Puerto Rico as a player and coach.
Tɛmplet:PUR	United States	Shabazz Napier	G	2014–2020	6	Born on the United States mainland, represents Puerto Rico internationally.
Tɛmplet:PUR	—	José Ortiz	F	1988–1990	2	—
Tɛmplet:PUR	United States	Jaysean Paige	G	2022	1	Born on the United States mainland, represents Puerto Rico internationally.
Tɛmplet:PUR	—	Peter John Ramos	C	2004–2005	1	—
Tɛmplet:PUR	—	Ramón Rivas	F/C	1988–1989	1	—
Tɛmplet:PUR	United States	Daniel Santiago	C	2000–2002; 2003–2005	4	Born on the United States mainland, represents Puerto Rico internationally.
Tɛmplet:PUR	United States	Edwin Ubiles	F/G	2012	1	Born on the United States mainland, represents Puerto Rico internationally.
Tɛmplet:PUR	United States	Tremont Waters	PG	2019–2022	3	Born on the United States mainland, represents Puerto Rico internationally.
Tɛmplet:QAT	United States	Jarvis Hayes	F	2003–2010	7	Born in the United States, became a naturalized Qatari citizen, represents Qatar internationally.
Tɛmplet:QAT	United States	Trey Johnson	G	2009; 2010–2012	3	Born in the United States, became a naturalized Qatari citizen, represents Qatar internationally.
Tɛmplet:ROU	—	Gheorghe Mureșan	C	1993–1997; 1999–2000	6	—
Tɛmplet:RUS	Tɛmplet:URS (now Tɛmplet:RUS)	Sergei Bazarevich	G	1994–1995	1	Born in the Soviet Union, represented the Soviet Union and Russia internationally during his playing career.
Tɛmplet:RUS	Tɛmplet:UKR	Joel Bolomboy	F/C	2016–2018	2	Born in Ukraine to a Congolese father and a Russian mother, represents Russia internationally
Tɛmplet:RUS	United States	Travis Hansen	G	2003–2004	1	Born in the United States, became a naturalized Russian citizen.
Tɛmplet:RUS	—	Sergey Karasev	G/F	2013–2016	3	—
Tɛmplet:RUS	Tɛmplet:URS (now Tɛmplet:RUS)	Sasha Kaun	C	2015–2016	1	Born in the Soviet Union, represents Russia internationally.
Tɛmplet:RUS	Tɛmplet:URS (now Tɛmplet:UKR)	Viktor Khryapa	F	2004–2008	4	Born in the Soviet Union, represents Russia internationally.
Tɛmplet:RUS	Tɛmplet:URS (now Tɛmplet:RUS)	Andrei Kirilenko	F	2001–2011; 2012–2015	13	Born in the Soviet Union, represented Russia internationally during his playing career. He also holds U.S. citizenship since 2010.
Tɛmplet:RUS	Tɛmplet:URS (now Tɛmplet:RUS)	Yaroslav Korolev	F	2005–2007	2	Born in the Soviet Union.
Tɛmplet:RUS	United States	Kelly McCarty	G/F	1998–1999	1	Born in the United States, represented Russia internationally during his playing career.
Tɛmplet:RUS	Tɛmplet:URS (now Tɛmplet:RUS)	Sergei Monia	F	2005–2006	1	Born in the Soviet Union, represents Russia internationally.
Tɛmplet:RUS	Tɛmplet:URS (now Tɛmplet:RUS)	Timofey Mozgov	F	2010–2018	8	Born in the Soviet Union, represents Russia internationally.
Tɛmplet:RUS	Tɛmplet:URS (now Tɛmplet:RUS)	Pavel Podkolzin	C	2004–2006	2	Born in the Soviet Union, represents Russia internationally.
Tɛmplet:RUS	Tɛmplet:URS (now Tɛmplet:RUS)	Alexey Shved	G	2012–2015	3	Born in the Soviet Union, represents Russia internationally.
Tɛmplet:SEN	—	Gorgui Dieng*	C	2013–present	10	—
Tɛmplet:SEN	—	DeSagana Diop	C	2001–2013	12	—
Tɛmplet:SEN	—	Tacko Fall	C	2019–2022	3	—
Tɛmplet:SEN	—	Hamady N'Diaye	C	2010–2012; 2013–2014	3	—
Tɛmplet:SEN	—	Makhtar N'Diaye	F	1999	1	—
Tɛmplet:SEN	—	Mamadou N'Diaye	C	2000–2005	5	—
Tɛmplet:SEN	—	Boniface N'Dong	C	2005–2006	1	Also has German citizenship.
Tɛmplet:SEN	—	Maurice Ndour	SF	2016–2017	1	—
Tɛmplet:SEN	United States	Georges Niang*	F	2016–present	7	Born in the United States to a Senegalese father and American mother, represents Senegal internationally.
Tɛmplet:SEN	—	Cheikh Samb	C	2007–2009	2	—
Tɛmplet:SEN	—	Mouhamed Sene	F	2006–2009	3	—
Tɛmplet:SEN	—	Pape Sow	F	2004–2007	3	—
Tɛmplet:SRB	Tɛmplet:Country data SFR Yugoslavia (now Tɛmplet:SRB)	Miloš Babić	C/F	1990–1991	2	Born in SFR Yugoslavia.
Tɛmplet:SRB	Tɛmplet:Country data SFR Yugoslavia (now Tɛmplet:SRB)	Nemanja Bjelica	F	2015–2022	7	Born in SFR Yugoslavia, represents Serbia internationally.
Tɛmplet:SRB	Tɛmplet:Country data FR Yugoslavia FR Yugoslavia (now Tɛmplet:SRB)	Bogdan Bogdanović*	G	2017–present	6	Born in FR Yugoslavia, represents Serbia internationally.
Tɛmplet:SRB	Tɛmplet:Country data SFR Yugoslavia (now Tɛmplet:SRB)	Radisav Ćurčić	C	1992–1993	1	Born in SFR Yugoslavia, represented SFR Yugoslavia internationally during his playing career.
Tɛmplet:SRB	Tɛmplet:Country data SFR Yugoslavia (now Tɛmplet:SRB)	Rastko Cvetković	C	1995–1996	1	Born in SFR Yugoslavia, represented SFR Yugoslavia internationally during his playing career.
Tɛmplet:SRB	Tɛmplet:Country data SFR Yugoslavia (now Tɛmplet:BIH)	Sasha Danilović	G	1995–1997	2	Born in SFR Yugoslavia, represented SFR Yugoslavia and FR Yugoslavia internationally during his playing career.
Tɛmplet:SRB	Tɛmplet:Country data SFR Yugoslavia (now Tɛmplet:SRB)	Vlade Divac^	C	1989–2005	16	Born in SFR Yugoslavia, represented SFR Yugoslavia and FR Yugoslavia internationally during his playing career.
Tɛmplet:SRB	Tɛmplet:Country data SFR Yugoslavia (now Tɛmplet:SRB)	Aleksandar Djordjevic	G	1996	1	Born in SFR Yugoslavia, represented SFR Yugoslavia and FR Yugoslavia internationally during his playing career.
Tɛmplet:SRB	Tɛmplet:Country data FR Yugoslavia (now Tɛmplet:SRB)	Marko Gudurić	G/F	2019–2020	1	Born in FR Yugoslavia, represents Serbia internationally.
Tɛmplet:SRB	Tɛmplet:Country data SFR Yugoslavia (now Tɛmplet:BIH)	Mile Ilić	C	2006–2007	1	Born in SFR Yugoslavia, has represented Serbia and Montenegro internationally.
Tɛmplet:SRB	Tɛmplet:Country data SFR Yugoslavia (now Tɛmplet:SRB)	Marko Jarić	G	2002–2009	7	Born in SFR Yugoslavia, has represented FR Yugoslavia, Serbia and Montenegro, and Serbia internationally.
Tɛmplet:SRB	Tɛmplet:Country data FR Yugoslavia (now Tɛmplet:SRB)	Nikola Jokić*	C	2015–present	8	Born in FR Yugoslavia, represents Serbia internationally.
Tɛmplet:SRB	Tɛmplet:GBR2 England	Nikola Jović*	F	2022–present	1	Born in the U.K. to Serbian parents, represents Serbia internationally.
Tɛmplet:SRB	Tɛmplet:Country data SFR Yugoslavia (now Tɛmplet:SRB)	Nenad Krstić	C	2004–2011	7	Born in SFR Yugoslavia, has represented FR Yugoslavia, Serbia and Montenegro, and Serbia internationally.
Tɛmplet:SRB	Tɛmplet:Country data SFR Yugoslavia (now Tɛmplet:BIH)	Ognjen Kuzmić	C	2013–2015	2	Born in SFR Yugoslavia, represents Serbia internationally.
Tɛmplet:SRB	Tɛmplet:Country data SFR Yugoslavia (now Tɛmplet:SRB)	Boban Marjanović*	C	2015–present	8	Born in SFR Yugoslavia, represents Serbia internationally.
Tɛmplet:SRB	Tɛmplet:Country data SFR Yugoslavia (now Tɛmplet:SRB)	Darko Miličić	F/C	2003–2012	10	Born in SFR Yugoslavia, has represented FR Yugoslavia, Serbia and Montenegro, and Serbia internationally.
Tɛmplet:SRB	Tɛmplet:Country data SFR Yugoslavia (now Tɛmplet:SRB)	Nemanja Nedović	G	2013–2014	1	Born in SFR Yugoslavia, represents Serbia internationally.
Tɛmplet:SRB	Tɛmplet:Country data SFR Yugoslavia (now Tɛmplet:MNE)	Žarko Paspalj	F	1989–1990	1	Born in SFR Yugoslavia, represented SFR Yugoslavia and FR Yugoslavia internationally during his playing career.
Tɛmplet:SRB	Tɛmplet:Country data SFR Yugoslavia (now Tɛmplet:MNE)	Sasha Pavlović	G/F	2003–2013	10	Born in SFR Yugoslavia, has represented FR Yugoslavia, Serbia and Montenegro, and Serbia internationally.
Tɛmplet:SRB	Tɛmplet:Country data SFR Yugoslavia (now Tɛmplet:CRO)	Kosta Perović	C	2007–2008	1	Born in SFR Yugoslavia, has represented FR Yugoslavia, Serbia and Montenegro, and Serbia internationally.
Tɛmplet:SRB	Tɛmplet:Country data FR Yugoslavia (now Serbia)	Aleksej Pokusevski*	F	2020–present	3	Born in FR Yugoslavia, represents Serbia internationally.
Tɛmplet:SRB	Tɛmplet:Country data SFR Yugoslavia (now Tɛmplet:BIH)	Vladimir Radmanović	F	2001–2013	12	Born in SFR Yugoslavia, represented FR Yugoslavia, Serbia and Montenegro, and Serbia internationally during his playing career.
Tɛmplet:SRB	Tɛmplet:Country data SFR Yugoslavia (now Tɛmplet:SRB)	Miroslav Raduljica	C	2013–2015	2	Born in SFR Yugoslavia, represents Serbia internationally.
Tɛmplet:SRB	Tɛmplet:Country data SFR Yugoslavia (now Tɛmplet:SRB)	Igor Rakočević	G	2002–2003	1	Born in SFR Yugoslavia, represented FR Yugoslavia, Serbia and Montenegro, and Serbia internationally during his playing career.
Tɛmplet:SRB	Tɛmplet:Country data SFR Yugoslavia (now Tɛmplet:SRB)	Željko Rebrača	C	2001–2007	5	Born in SFR Yugoslavia, represented SFR Yugoslavia, FR Yugoslavia, and Serbia and Montenegro internationally during his playing career.
Tɛmplet:SRB	Tɛmplet:Country data FR Yugoslavia FR Yugoslavia (now Tɛmplet:SRB)	Alen Smailagić	C	2019–2021	2	Born in FR Yugoslavia, represents Serbia internationally.
Tɛmplet:SRB	Tɛmplet:Country data SFR Yugoslavia (now Tɛmplet:CRO)	Peja Stojaković	F/G	1998–2011	13	Born in SFR Yugoslavia, represented FR Yugoslavia, Serbia and Montenegro, and Serbia internationally during his playing career.
Tɛmplet:SRB	Tɛmplet:Country data SFR Yugoslavia (now Tɛmplet:SRB)	Dragan Tarlać	C	2000–2001	1	Born in SFR Yugoslavia, represented FR Yugoslavia and Serbia and Montenegro internationally during his playing career.
Tɛmplet:SRB	Tɛmplet:Country data SFR Yugoslavia (now Tɛmplet:SRB)	Miloš Teodosić	G	2017–2019	2	Born in SFR Yugoslavia, represents Serbia internationally.
Tɛmplet:SVK	Tɛmplet:CSK (now Tɛmplet:SVK)	Richard Petruška	C/F	1993–1994	1	Born in Czechoslovakia, represented Czechoslovakia and Slovakia internationally during his playing career.
Tɛmplet:SVN	Tɛmplet:Country data SFR Yugoslavia (now Tɛmplet:SVN)	Primož Brezec	C	2001–2008; 2009–2010	8	Born in SFR Yugoslavia, represents Slovenia internationally.
Tɛmplet:SVN	—	Vlatko Čančar*	F	2019–present	4	—
Tɛmplet:SVN	—	Luka Dončić*	G/F	2018–present	5	—
Tɛmplet:SVN	Tɛmplet:Country data SFR Yugoslavia (now Tɛmplet:SVN)	Goran Dragić*	G	2008–present	15	Born in SFR Yugoslavia, represents Slovenia internationally.
Tɛmplet:SVN	Tɛmplet:Country data SFR Yugoslavia (now Tɛmplet:SVN)	Zoran Dragić	G	2014–2015	1	Born in SFR Yugoslavia, represents Slovenia internationally.
Tɛmplet:SVN	Tɛmplet:Country data SFR Yugoslavia (now Tɛmplet:SVN)	Marko Milič	G/F	1997–1999	2	Born in SFR Yugoslavia, represented Slovenia internationally during his playing career.
Tɛmplet:SVN	Tɛmplet:Country data SFR Yugoslavia (now Tɛmplet:SVN)	Boštjan Nachbar	F	2002–2008	6	Born in SFR Yugoslavia, represents Slovenia internationally.
Tɛmplet:SVN	Tɛmplet:Country data SFR Yugoslavia (now Tɛmplet:SVN)	Rasho Nesterović	C	1998–2010	12	Born in SFR Yugoslavia, represented Slovenia internationally during his playing career.
Tɛmplet:SVN	Tɛmplet:FRG (now Tɛmplet:DEU)	Anthony Randolph	F	2008–2014	6	Born in West Germany to American parents, grew up in the United States, represents Slovenia internationally.
Tɛmplet:SVN	Tɛmplet:Country data SFR Yugoslavia (now Tɛmplet:SVN)	Uroš Slokar	F	2006–2007	1	Born in SFR Yugoslavia, represents Slovenia internationally.
Tɛmplet:SVN	United States	Mike Tobey	C	2017	1	Born in the United States, became a naturalized Slovenian citizen, represents Slovenia internationally.
Tɛmplet:SVN	Tɛmplet:Country data SFR Yugoslavia (now Tɛmplet:SVN)	Beno Udrih	G	2004–2017	13	Born in SFR Yugoslavia, represents Slovenia internationally.
Tɛmplet:SVN	Tɛmplet:Country data SFR Yugoslavia (now Tɛmplet:SVN)	Sasha Vujačić	G	2004–2011; 2014; 2015–2017	10	Born in SFR Yugoslavia, represents Slovenia internationally.
Tɛmplet:KOR	—	Ha Seung-Jin	C	2004–2006	2	—
Tɛmplet:SSD	Tɛmplet:SDN	Wenyen Gabriel*	F	2019–present	4	Born in Sudan, grew up in the United States.
Tɛmplet:SSD	Tɛmplet:SDN (now Tɛmplet:SSD)	Deng Gai	F	2005	1	Born in Sudan.
Tɛmplet:SSD	United States	JT Thor*	F	2021–present	2	Born in the United States to South Sudanese parents, has committed to representing South Sudan internationally.
Tɛmplet:ESP	—	Álex Abrines	G/F	2016–2019	3	—
Tɛmplet:ESP	—	Santi Aldama*	F	2021–present	2	—
Tɛmplet:ESP	United States	Lorenzo Brown	G	2013–2016; 2017–2019	5	Born in the United States, became a naturalized Spanish citizen, represents Spain internationally.
Tɛmplet:ESP	—	José Calderón	G	2005–2019	14	—
Tɛmplet:ESP	—	Victor Claver	F	2012–2015	3	—
Tɛmplet:ESP	—	Rudy Fernández	G	2008–2012	4	—
Tɛmplet:ESP	—	Jorge Garbajosa	F	2006–2008	2	—
Tɛmplet:ESP	—	Usman Garuba*	F/C	2021–present	2	Born in Spain by Nigerian parents.
Tɛmplet:ESP	—	Marc Gasol	C	2008–2021	13	—
Tɛmplet:ESP	—	Pau Gasol^	F	2001–2019	18	—
Tɛmplet:ESP	—	Juancho Hernangómez	F	2016–2023	7	—
Tɛmplet:ESP	—	Willy Hernangómez	C	2016–2023	7	—
Tɛmplet:ESP	Tɛmplet:CGO	Serge Ibaka	F	2009–2023	14	Born in the Republic of the Congo, obtained Spanish citizenship, represents Spain internationally.
Tɛmplet:ESP	—	Raül López	G	2002–2005	2	—
Tɛmplet:ESP	—	Fernando Martín	C	1986–1987	1	—
Tɛmplet:ESP	Tɛmplet:Country data SFR Yugoslavia (now Tɛmplet:MNE)	Nikola Mirotić	F	2014–2019	5	Born in SFR Yugoslavia, represents Spain internationally.
Tɛmplet:ESP	—	Juan Carlos Navarro	G	2007–2008	1	—
Tɛmplet:ESP	—	Sergio Rodríguez	G	2006–2010; 2016–2017	5	—
Tɛmplet:ESP	United States	Johnny Rogers	F/C	1986–1988	2	Born in the United States, became a naturalized Spanish citizen, represented Spain internationally during his playing career.
Tɛmplet:ESP	—	Ricky Rubio*	G	2011–present	12	—
Tɛmplet:SDN	Tɛmplet:SDN (now Tɛmplet:SSD)	Manute Bol	C	1985–1995	10	—
Sweden	—	Jonas Jerebko	F	2009–2019	10	—
Sweden	—	Jeff Taylor	F	2012–2015	3	Born in Sweden to an American father and a Swedish mother; also a United States citizen by birth. Represents Sweden internationally.
Switzerland	—	Clint Capela*	F	2014–present	9	Born in Switzerland to an Angolan father and a Congolese mother
Switzerland	—	Thabo Sefolosha	G	2006–2020	14	Born in Switzerland to a South African father and a Swiss mother
Tɛmplet:TZA	—	Hasheem Thabeet	C	2009–2014	5	—
Tɛmplet:TTO	United States	DeVaughn Akoon-Purcell	G	2018	1	Born in the United States to American parents of Trinidadian descent.
Tɛmplet:TTO	—	Ken Charles	G	1973–1977	5	Born in Trinidad, moved to the U.S. as a child.
Tɛmplet:TUN	—	Salah Mejri	C	2015–2019	4	—
Tɛmplet:TUR	—	Furkan Aldemir	F/C	2014–2015	1	—
Tɛmplet:TUR	—	Ömer Aşık	C/F	2010–2018	9	—
Tɛmplet:TUR	—	Semih Erden	C	2010–2012	2	—
Tɛmplet:TUR	Switzerland	Enes Freedom	F	2011–2022	11	Born in Switzerland to Turkish parents.
Tɛmplet:TUR	—	Ersan İlyasova	F	2006–2007; 2009–2021	14	—
Tɛmplet:TUR	—	Furkan Korkmaz	G	2017–present	6	—
Tɛmplet:TUR	—	Ibo Kutluay	G	2004–2005	1	—
Tɛmplet:TUR	United States	Shane Larkin	G	2013–2016 2017–2018	4	Born in the United States, became a naturalized Turkish citizen, represents Turkey internationally.
Tɛmplet:TUR	—	Mehmet Okur	F/C	2002–2012	10	—
Tɛmplet:TUR	Tɛmplet:MKD	Cedi Osman*	F	2017–present	6	Born in FYROM to Turkish father and Bosnian mother, grew up in Bosnia and Herzegovina, represents Turkey internationally.
Tɛmplet:TUR	—	Alperen Şengün*	F	2021–present	2	—
Tɛmplet:TUR	Tɛmplet:Country data SFR Yugoslavia (now Tɛmplet:SRB)	Mirsad Türkcan	F	1999–2000	1	Born in SFR Yugoslavia, represented Turkey internationally during his playing career.
Tɛmplet:TUR	—	Hedo Türkoğlu	F	2000–2015	15	—
Tɛmplet:TUR	Tɛmplet:UZB	Ömer Yurtseven*	F	2021–present	2	Born in Uzbekistan to Turkish parents.
Tɛmplet:UGA	United States	Brandon Davies	F	2013–2015	2	Born in the United States, represents Uganda internationally.
Tɛmplet:UGA	United States	Ish Wainright*	F	2021–present	2	Born in the United States, represents Uganda internationally.
Tɛmplet:UKR	Tɛmplet:URS (now Tɛmplet:UKR)	Kyrylo Fesenko	C	2007–2012	5	Born in the Soviet Union. represents Ukraine internationally.
Tɛmplet:UKR	United States	Pooh Jeter	G	2010–2011	1	Born in the United States represents Ukraine internationally.
Tɛmplet:UKR	Tɛmplet:URS (now Tɛmplet:UKR)	Viacheslav Kravtsov	C	2012–2014	2	Born in the Soviet Union. represents Ukraine internationally.
Tɛmplet:UKR	—	Alex Len*	C	2013–present	10	—
Tɛmplet:UKR	Tɛmplet:URS (now Tɛmplet:UKR)	Slava Medvedenko	F	2000–2007	7	Born in the Soviet Union, represented Ukraine internationally during his playing career.
Tɛmplet:UKR	—	Svi Mykhailiuk*	F	2018–present	5	—
Tɛmplet:UKR	Tɛmplet:URS (now Tɛmplet:UKR)	Oleksiy Pecherov	C	2007–2010	3	Born in the Soviet Union, represents Ukraine internationally.
Tɛmplet:UKR	Tɛmplet:URS (now Tɛmplet:UKR)	Vitaly Potapenko	C	1996–2007	11	Born in the Soviet Union.
Tɛmplet:UKR	Tɛmplet:URS (now Tɛmplet:RUS)	Alexander Volkov	F	1989–1992	3	Born in the Soviet Union, represented Soviet Union and Ukraine internationally during his playing career.
United States	Tɛmplet:TWN	Joe Alexander	F	2008–2010	2	Born in Taiwan to American parents, moved to the United States at the age of 8.
United States	Tɛmplet:NLD	Hank Beenders	C/F	1946–1949	3	Born in the Netherlands, moved to the United States at the age of 8, became a naturalized U.S. citizen.
United States	Tɛmplet:PAN	Rolando Blackman	G	1981–1994	13	Born in Panama, became a naturalized U.S. citizen, represented the United States internationally during his playing career.
United States	Tɛmplet:SDN	Bol Bol*	C	2019–present	3	Born in Sudan, grew up in the United States.
United States	Tɛmplet:FRG (now Tɛmplet:DEU)	Carlos Boozer	F/C	2002–2015	13	Born in West Germany to American parents, grew up in the United States, represents the United States internationally.
United States	Tɛmplet:FRG (now Tɛmplet:DEU)	John Brown	F	1973–1980	7	Born in West Germany to American parents, grew up in the United States.
United States	Tɛmplet:ESP	Wallace Bryant	C	1983–1986	3	Born in Spain to American parents, grew up in the United States.
United States	Tɛmplet:Country data VIR	Tim Duncan^	F/C	1997–2016	19	Born in U.S. Virgin Islands, represented the United States internationally before announcing his international retirement in 2004.
United States	Tɛmplet:FRG (now Tɛmplet:DEU)	Kenton Edelin	F	1985	1	Born in West Germany to American parents.
United States	Tɛmplet:FRG (now Tɛmplet:DEU)	Jo Jo English	G	1992–1995	3	Born in West Germany to American parents.
United States	Tɛmplet:JAM	Patrick Ewing^	C/F	1985–2002	17	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.
United States	Tɛmplet:MAR	Mike Flynn	G	1975–1978	3	Born in French Morocco to American parents, grew up in the United States
United States	Tɛmplet:VCT	Adonal Foyle	C	1997–2009	12	Born in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, moved to the United States, became a naturalized U.S. citizen.
United States	Tɛmplet:FRG (now Tɛmplet:DEU)	Donté Greene	F	2008–2012	4	Born in West Germany to American parents, previously represented the United States at youth level.
United States	Tɛmplet:ROU	Ernie Grunfeld	G/F	1977–1986	9	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.
United States	Belgium	Xavier Henry	G	2010–2014	5	Born in Belgium to American parents, grew up in the United States.
United States	Tɛmplet:AUS	Kyrie Irving*	G	2011–present	12	Born in Australia to American parents, has dual U.S. and Australian citizenship, has represented the United States internationally at youth and senior level.
United States	Italy	Reggie Jackson*	G	2011–present	12	Born in Italy to American parents, grew up in the United States.
United States	Tɛmplet:LIB	Steve Kerr	G	1988–2003	15	Born in Lebanon to the Lebanese-born American citizen Malcolm H. Kerr, represented the United States internationally during his playing career.
United States	France	Cozell McQueen	F	1987	1	Born in France to American parents.
United States	Tɛmplet:Country data Manchukuo (now Tɛmplet:CHN)	Tom Meschery (formerly Tomislav Meshcheryakov)	F	1961–1971	10	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.
United States	Nigeria	Hakeem Olajuwon^	C	1984–2002	18	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.
United States	Tɛmplet:GBR England	Admiral Schofield*	F	2019–2020; 2021–present	3	Born in England to American parents, grew up in the United States.
United States	Sweden	Miles Simon	G	1998–1999	1	Born in Sweden to an American father and a Norwegian mother.
United States	France	Michael Stewart	C	1997–2005	8	Born in France to American parents.
United States	Tɛmplet:ESP	Wally Szczerbiak	F	1999–2009	10	Born in Spain to American parents, has represented the United States internationally.
United States	Japan	Cameron Thomas*	F	2021–present	2	Born in Japan to American parents, grew up in the United States.
United States	Tɛmplet:FRG (now Tɛmplet:DEU)	Kiki Vandeweghe	F	1980–1993	13	Born in West Germany 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.
United States	Tɛmplet:FRG (now Tɛmplet:DEU)	Duane Washington	G	1988; 1993	2	Born in West Germany to American parents.
United States	Tɛmplet:DEU	Duane Washington Jr.*	G	2021–present	2	Born in Germany to American parents, grew up in the United States.
United States	France	Dominique Wilkins^	F/G	1982–1995; 1996–1997; 1999	15	Born in France to American parents, represented the United States internationally during his playing career.
Tɛmplet:Country data VIR	—	Raja Bell	G	2000–2013	13	—
Tɛmplet:Country data VIR	—	Charles Claxton	G	1995	1	—
Tɛmplet:Country data VIR	United States	Nic Claxton*	F	2019–present	4	Born on the United States mainland by U.S. Virgin Islands father, represents U.S. Virgin Islands internationally.
Tɛmplet:Country data VIR	United States	David Vanterpool	G	2001	1	Born on the United States mainland, represents U.S. Virgin Islands internationally.
Tɛmplet:URY	—	Esteban Batista	F/C	2005–2007	2	—
Tɛmplet:VEN	Tɛmplet:TRI	Carl Herrera	F	1991–1999	8	Born in Trinidad and Tobago, represented Venezuela internationally during his playing career.
Tɛmplet:VEN	United States	Askia Jones	G	1994	1	Born in the United States, represented Venezuela internationally during his playing career.
Tɛmplet:VEN	United States	Harold Keeling	F	1986	1	Born in the United States, represented Venezuela internationally during his playing career.
Tɛmplet:VEN	United States	Donta Smith	G	2004–2006	2	Born on the United States, represented Venezuela.
Tɛmplet:VEN	—	Óscar Torres	F	2001–2002	2	—
Tɛmplet:VEN	—	Greivis Vásquez	G	2010–2016	7	—

Notes

This page is a selective overview of user preferences. For full details see mw:Help:Preferences.

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. 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. 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

Further information: Wikipedia:Emailing users

• 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 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.

Date format

Further information: meta:Help:Preferences § Date format/Time offset

• 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: 14:46, 28 Silimin gɔli April 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

• Choose TeX, or MathJax for displaying mathematical formulas.

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. (First-time users should perform a simple compatibility test.)

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.)

• "Show edit toolbar" is the legacy 1.0 version that gives a row of buttons. (See m:help:Edit toolbar for details.)
• "Enable enhanced editing toolbar" gives a frame with icons. It is a default feature that can be turned off.
  • is a search and replace dialog that can accept regular expressions as a search target for replacement text. (See a list of regular expression symbols)

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

For an explanation of what pending changes are, see Wikipedia:Pending changes.

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

Main pages: Wikipedia:Notifications and Wikipedia:Notifications/FAQ

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

• meta:Help:Preferences
• Wikipedia:Skin
• Wikipedia:Customisation
• Wikipedia:Scripts
• Wikipedia:Tools
• Wikipedia:Database reports/User preferences

Notes

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This page is a selective overview of user preferences. For full details see mw:Help:Preferences.

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. 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. 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

Further information: Wikipedia:Emailing users

• 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 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.

Date format

Further information: meta:Help:Preferences § Date format/Time offset

• 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: 14:46, 28 Silimin gɔli April 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

• Choose TeX, or MathJax for displaying mathematical formulas.

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. (First-time users should perform a simple compatibility test.)

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.)

• "Show edit toolbar" is the legacy 1.0 version that gives a row of buttons. (See m:help:Edit toolbar for details.)
• "Enable enhanced editing toolbar" gives a frame with icons. It is a default feature that can be turned off.
  • is a search and replace dialog that can accept regular expressions as a search target for replacement text. (See a list of regular expression symbols)

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

For an explanation of what pending changes are, see Wikipedia:Pending changes.

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

Main pages: Wikipedia:Notifications and Wikipedia:Notifications/FAQ

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

• meta:Help:Preferences
• Wikipedia:Skin
• Wikipedia:Customisation
• Wikipedia:Scripts
• Wikipedia:Tools
• Wikipedia:Database reports/User preferences

Notes

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

This page is a selective overview of user preferences. For full details see mw:Help:Preferences.

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. 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. 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

Further information: Wikipedia:Emailing users

• 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 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.

Date format

Further information: meta:Help:Preferences § Date format/Time offset

• 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: 14:46, 28 Silimin gɔli April 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

• Choose TeX, or MathJax for displaying mathematical formulas.

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. (First-time users should perform a simple compatibility test.)

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.)

• "Show edit toolbar" is the legacy 1.0 version that gives a row of buttons. (See m:help:Edit toolbar for details.)
• "Enable enhanced editing toolbar" gives a frame with icons. It is a default feature that can be turned off.
  • is a search and replace dialog that can accept regular expressions as a search target for replacement text. (See a list of regular expression symbols)

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

For an explanation of what pending changes are, see Wikipedia:Pending changes.

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

Main pages: Wikipedia:Notifications and Wikipedia:Notifications/FAQ

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

• meta:Help:Preferences
• Wikipedia:Skin
• Wikipedia:Customisation
• Wikipedia:Scripts
• Wikipedia:Tools
• Wikipedia:Database reports/User preferences

Notes

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This page is a selective overview of user preferences. For full details see mw:Help:Preferences.

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. 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. 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

Further information: Wikipedia:Emailing users

• 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 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.

Date format

Further information: meta:Help:Preferences § Date format/Time offset

• 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: 14:46, 28 Silimin gɔli April 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

• Choose TeX, or MathJax for displaying mathematical formulas.

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. (First-time users should perform a simple compatibility test.)

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.)

• "Show edit toolbar" is the legacy 1.0 version that gives a row of buttons. (See m:help:Edit toolbar for details.)
• "Enable enhanced editing toolbar" gives a frame with icons. It is a default feature that can be turned off.
  • is a search and replace dialog that can accept regular expressions as a search target for replacement text. (See a list of regular expression symbols)

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

For an explanation of what pending changes are, see Wikipedia:Pending changes.

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

Main pages: Wikipedia:Notifications and Wikipedia:Notifications/FAQ

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

• meta:Help:Preferences
• Wikipedia:Skin
• Wikipedia:Customisation
• Wikipedia:Scripts
• Wikipedia:Tools
• Wikipedia:Database reports/User preferences

Notes

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! 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.

This page is a selective overview of user preferences. For full details see mw:Help:Preferences.

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. 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. 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

Further information: Wikipedia:Emailing users

• 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 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.

Date format

Further information: meta:Help:Preferences § Date format/Time offset

• 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: 14:46, 28 Silimin gɔli April 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

• Choose TeX, or MathJax for displaying mathematical formulas.

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. (First-time users should perform a simple compatibility test.)

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.)

• "Show edit toolbar" is the legacy 1.0 version that gives a row of buttons. (See m:help:Edit toolbar for details.)
• "Enable enhanced editing toolbar" gives a frame with icons. It is a default feature that can be turned off.
  • is a search and replace dialog that can accept regular expressions as a search target for replacement text. (See a list of regular expression symbols)

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

For an explanation of what pending changes are, see Wikipedia:Pending changes.

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

Main pages: Wikipedia:Notifications and Wikipedia:Notifications/FAQ

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

• meta:Help:Preferences
• Wikipedia:Skin
• Wikipedia:Customisation
• Wikipedia:Scripts
• Wikipedia:Tools
• Wikipedia:Database reports/User preferences

Notes

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This page is a selective overview of user preferences. For full details see mw:Help:Preferences.

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. 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. 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

Further information: Wikipedia:Emailing users

• 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 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.

Date format

Further information: meta:Help:Preferences § Date format/Time offset

• 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: 14:46, 28 Silimin gɔli April 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

• Choose TeX, or MathJax for displaying mathematical formulas.

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. (First-time users should perform a simple compatibility test.)

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.)

• "Show edit toolbar" is the legacy 1.0 version that gives a row of buttons. (See m:help:Edit toolbar for details.)
• "Enable enhanced editing toolbar" gives a frame with icons. It is a default feature that can be turned off.
  • is a search and replace dialog that can accept regular expressions as a search target for replacement text. (See a list of regular expression symbols)

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

For an explanation of what pending changes are, see Wikipedia:Pending changes.

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

Main pages: Wikipedia:Notifications and Wikipedia:Notifications/FAQ

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

• meta:Help:Preferences
• Wikipedia:Skin
• Wikipedia:Customisation
• Wikipedia:Scripts
• Wikipedia:Tools
• Wikipedia:Database reports/User preferences

Notes

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Find this page confusing? ; a volunteer will visit you there shortly!

! Soviet Union dissolved in December 1991.

This page is a selective overview of user preferences. For full details see mw:Help:Preferences.

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. 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. 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

Further information: Wikipedia:Emailing users

• 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 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.

Date format

Further information: meta:Help:Preferences § Date format/Time offset

• 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: 14:46, 28 Silimin gɔli April 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

• Choose TeX, or MathJax for displaying mathematical formulas.

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. (First-time users should perform a simple compatibility test.)

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.)

• "Show edit toolbar" is the legacy 1.0 version that gives a row of buttons. (See m:help:Edit toolbar for details.)
• "Enable enhanced editing toolbar" gives a frame with icons. It is a default feature that can be turned off.
  • is a search and replace dialog that can accept regular expressions as a search target for replacement text. (See a list of regular expression symbols)

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

For an explanation of what pending changes are, see Wikipedia:Pending changes.

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

Main pages: Wikipedia:Notifications and Wikipedia:Notifications/FAQ

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

• meta:Help:Preferences
• Wikipedia:Skin
• Wikipedia:Customisation
• Wikipedia:Scripts
• Wikipedia:Tools
• Wikipedia:Database reports/User preferences

Notes

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This page is a selective overview of user preferences. For full details see mw:Help:Preferences.

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. 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. 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

Further information: Wikipedia:Emailing users

• 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 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.

Date format

Further information: meta:Help:Preferences § Date format/Time offset

• 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: 14:46, 28 Silimin gɔli April 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

• Choose TeX, or MathJax for displaying mathematical formulas.

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. (First-time users should perform a simple compatibility test.)

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.)

• "Show edit toolbar" is the legacy 1.0 version that gives a row of buttons. (See m:help:Edit toolbar for details.)
• "Enable enhanced editing toolbar" gives a frame with icons. It is a default feature that can be turned off.
  • is a search and replace dialog that can accept regular expressions as a search target for replacement text. (See a list of regular expression symbols)

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

For an explanation of what pending changes are, see Wikipedia:Pending changes.

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

Main pages: Wikipedia:Notifications and Wikipedia:Notifications/FAQ

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

• meta:Help:Preferences
• Wikipedia:Skin
• Wikipedia:Customisation
• Wikipedia:Scripts
• Wikipedia:Tools
• Wikipedia:Database reports/User preferences

Notes

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This page is a selective overview of user preferences. For full details see mw:Help:Preferences.

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. 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. 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

Further information: Wikipedia:Emailing users

• 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 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.

Date format

Further information: meta:Help:Preferences § Date format/Time offset

• 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: 14:46, 28 Silimin gɔli April 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

• Choose TeX, or MathJax for displaying mathematical formulas.

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. (First-time users should perform a simple compatibility test.)

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.)

• "Show edit toolbar" is the legacy 1.0 version that gives a row of buttons. (See m:help:Edit toolbar for details.)
• "Enable enhanced editing toolbar" gives a frame with icons. It is a default feature that can be turned off.
  • is a search and replace dialog that can accept regular expressions as a search target for replacement text. (See a list of regular expression symbols)

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

For an explanation of what pending changes are, see Wikipedia:Pending changes.

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

Main pages: Wikipedia:Notifications and Wikipedia:Notifications/FAQ

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

• meta:Help:Preferences
• Wikipedia:Skin
• Wikipedia:Customisation
• Wikipedia:Scripts
• Wikipedia:Tools
• Wikipedia:Database reports/User preferences

Notes

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NBA

• List of foreign NBA coaches
• Lists of NBA players
  • List of current NBA players
• List of NBA players by country:
  • List of Australian NBA players
  • List of Canadian NBA players
  • List of Croatian NBA players
  • List of French NBA players
  • List of Greek NBA players
  • List of Italian NBA players
  • List of Lithuanian NBA players
  • List of Montenegrin NBA players
  • List of Serbian NBA players
  • List of Turkish NBA players
• Race and ethnicity in the NBA

Other leagues

• List of foreign basketball players in Serbia
• Foreign players in the National Football League
• List of foreign WNBA players
• List of NHL statistical leaders by country
• List of countries with their first Major League Baseball player
• List of current Major League Baseball players by nationality

External links

• NBA.com: 2008–09 International Players
• NBA.com: 2009–10 International Players
• NBA.com: 2010–11 International Players
• NBA Foreign Players From Small Countries