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

  • User settings See your user settings page if you are logged in.
    • Side bar A bar on the left or right of the screen with useful system functions.
    • Skins Currently, only a single demo skin (Star Trek).
  • Special Functions Accessible form the "Special Pages" link on every page, or from the side bar if that has been switched on.
    • File upload feature allows to upload graphics or sound files, see special:Upload
    • Watchlist Every page has a link "Watch this article for me". Use special:Watchlist to track changes on the articles you'd like to watch.
    • Various Lists of new pages, of logged in users, and other statistics.
  • Namespaces Used prior to the page name. This very page is within the wikipedia namespace.
    • Normal namespaces Currently, there are the "blank" namespace (for normal articles), wikipedia, user (for user pages), special (for system pages like RecentChanges), and log (automatically generated log pages)
    • Talk namespaces All namespaces have their own Talk namespace, to use instead of a /Talk page. Empty Talk pages are red, existing ones are green.
  • Other stuff
    • Automatic signature Just type three times ~ when you edit, and on saving the page, it will be replaced with your user name and a link to your user page.
    • User contributions On top of each user page, there is a link to display a list of all articles the user has worked on, according to the database.
    • Counter on every page (see bottom).
    • Unsuccessful searches are listed on the Recent Changes page, and also logged in
  • No longer supported
    • Subpages Every page with a slash (/) in its title is treated like any other page; there are no special subpages anymore.
    • CamelCase By using a word with MixedCase, you don't automatically create a link anymore.