Help:Preferences
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Clicking on my preferences in the upper right while logged in shows your preferences and lets you change some of them. You will see your User profile with a set of tabs to change various types of settings.
User profile
User profile
- Username: Your user name. You can't change this directly.
- User ID: A number assigned to your account when you created it (for example, if your number is 42 you are the 42nd user to sign up at this particular wiki). Automatic; not changeable.
- Number of edits: How many edits you have made. Automatic; not changeable.
- Real name: If provided, this will be used for attribution (rather than using your username). Providing your real name is preferred but optional.
- E-mail: Your email address, if you have supplied one. You can also change or remove your address here. Please maintain a valid email address.
- Nickname: When you sign your name (using
~~~~), what you enter here will be used at the start instead of a simple link to your user page. By default, anything you enter here will be wrapped with[[ ]]; if you want to use special linking, check raw signature (without automatic link). - Language: This controls what language the interface is displayed in. PLN is designed for English-language users; most page text will not be translated.
Change 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. You must enable cookies to use this function; and if your cookie is cleared or expires you will no longer be remembered.
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.
- E-mail me when a page I'm watching is changed
- E-mail me when my user talk page is changed
- E-mail me also for minor edits of pages
- Enable e-mail from other users
- Send me copies of emails I send to other users
Skin
Here you can choose the skin you want to use (use Preview if you want to see a skin before you choose it). You can choose from the following skins:
- Chick
- Classic
- Cologne Blue
- Leader (default)
- MonoBook
- MySkin
- Nostalgia
- Simple
You can choose whatever skin you like, but sidebars and layout elements may not appear as intended in some skins. Generally speaking, sticking with the default skin ensures that you see pages as intended.
Files
Here you can determine how images will be displayed. Images displayed by directly entering a URL on a page will not be affected by this setting.
- Limit images on image description pages to: 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.
Date and time
The following is normally rendered depending on preferences:
[[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]])
With your current preference setting on this project the seven are rendered as follows:
- 2001-01-05 (2001-01-05)
- 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)
The user-specified date format may not always work.
You can also specify your local time zone here in the Offset box. For U.S. users, the values are normally:
- Eastern: -5
- Central: -6
- Mountain: -7
- Pacific: -8
If the time shown as Local time is off, it may be because of Daylight Savings Time or an incorrect Offset.
Editing
For most users, the default options will be most appropriate. Some of these options may not work properly.
Recent changes
- Days to show in recent changes: 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 in recent changes: Here you can specify how many edits should be displayed.
- Hide minor edits in recent changes: This enables you to hide edits marked as minor (see Help:Editing pages). Since some users will rapidly make a lot of tiny tweaks to update templates or fix spelling errors you may find enabling this to be useful. You can also turn this on temporarily from the recent changes page (see Help:Tracking changes).
- Enhanced recent changes (JavaScript): Enhanced recent changes condenses edits into a per-page list. As indicated, this requires JavaScript to be enabled. See Help:Tracking changes for more information on this feature.
Watchlist
You can control your watchlist with choices on this page. For most users, the default settings will work well.
Search
Settings on this tab determine the initial results when you enter a search within the PALINET Leadership Network. For almost all users, the default settings are appropriate, noting that you can modify your search within the results page.
Misc
This tab allows you to customize some display options. For example:
- If you like justified paragraphs, you can check Justify paragraphs--and uncheck it if you don't like the results!
- If you prefer numbered headings, you can check Auto-number headings.
- If you find the tables of contents (on pages with more than three headings) annoying, uncheck Show table of contents.
