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

==User profile==

===Basic Information===

====Changing your password====

To change your password, enter your old password in the first box and your new password in the last two. If you want this site to remember your login, check ''Remember my login on this computer''. Note that this function requires you to have cookies enabled in your browser, and if your cookie is cleared or expires you will no longer be remembered.

===Email Options===

If you have supplied an email address, you will need to click the ''verify address'' button in order to use these functions. You will receive an email; simply open it and follow the link to enable the following functions.

* Email confirmation
* Enable email other users
* Send me copies of emails I send to others
* Email me when a page or file on my watchlist is changed
* Email me on replies to a thread I am watching

==Appearance==

===Skin===

Here you can choose the skin you want to use. You can preview the available skins before choosing them, by clicking on the "skin preview" link next to each skin. Please refer to {{Help:Skins}} for more details.

===Date and format and time offset===

The following is normally rendered depending on preferences:

<pre>
[[2001-01-05]] (or [[2001]]-[[01-05]]) (with leading zeros)
[[2001]] [[January 5]] ([[2001]] [[January 05]])
[[January 5]], [[2001]] ([[January 05]], [[2001]])
[[5 January]] [[2001]] ([[05 January]] [[2001]])
[[January 5]] ([[January 05]])
[[5 January]] ([[05 January]])
</pre>

===Files===

Here you can determine how images will be displayed. Images displayed by direct pasting of a URL (if the wiki has it enabled) will not be affected by this setting.

* ''Image size limit (for file description pages):'' This setting lets you choose how big image previews will be on the Image: pages. If you know what your current screen resolution is you may like to set this to one or two sizes smaller than your own screen. If you have a slow connection (such as dial-up) you may want to limit them to 320×240.
* ''Thumbnail size:'' Define how big you want thumbnails to appear. This setting will not affect thumbnails with dimensions determined by an editor, nor can it increase images beyond their original dimensions.
* ''Use Media Viewer:'' this setting (on by default) determines whether the Media Viewer should be used to provide a smoother image viewing experience.

==Editing==

These are the settings to control editing pages, including whether to automatically watch pages that you have edited or created.

* General options
* Editor
* Preview

==Recent changes==

===Display options===

* ''Days to show in recent changes:'' Here you can specify how far back the recent changes pages will go. Note that the list will stop prematurely if the number of edits is exceeded (see below).
* ''Number of edits to show by default:'' Here you can specify how many edits should be displayed.

==Watchlist==

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

==Search==

Default settings for searches including how many results to display and how much context to show for each result. Check the boxes next to the namespaces which you want to show up, the first time that you search for something. You can override this when doing an actual search, by checking or unchecking the boxes at the bottom of the search results screen.

[[Category:Help]]

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