Reading & appearance
Reader settings
Preferences come in two homes — site settings (how the whole site looks) and wiki settings (how articles read):
| Home | Group | Options | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| Site settings | Theme | White · Paper · Desert | White |
| Wiki settings | Wikilinks | Blue · Gray | Blue |
| Wiki settings | View | Notes · References | Notes on · References off |
Where to find them:
- On wide screens (≥1300px), articles carry two round buttons docked at the article’s right edge — sliders for wiki settings, a sun for site settings. Click one and its panel opens beside it.
- On narrower screens, the sliders button sits at the right end of the article title (wiki settings), and the sun button lives in the navbar (site settings).
Rows grey out when they can’t affect the current page — Wikilinks on a page with no links, References on a page with no sources.
Preferences are stored in your browser (per device), take effect instantly, and don’t need an account.
References are off by default. Articles read as clean prose; switch
References on to see the [1] markers and the source list at the bottom of
each page. Notes ([note 1] hover asides) are on by default. See
References & notes.
Navigating a page
- Contents — on wide screens (≥1300px) a table of contents runs alongside the article; its header jumps back to the top. On narrower screens, the ☰ button in the corner opens the same contents as a popover.
- Collapsible sections — click any section heading (or its chevron) to fold that section away; click again to reopen.
- Hover previews — rest on a wikilink and, if the target page declares a
<description>, a one-line preview appears. Reference and note markers show their content the same way. - Times are yours — every timestamp on the site (history, changes, uploads) is shown in your local timezone.
Search
The navbar search (and the home page’s big search box) understands:
- plain words, with English stemming —
emperorsfinds “emperor” "exact phrases"in quotes-wordto exclude,ORbetween alternatives
Title matches rank well above body matches. If nothing matches at all, the wiki suggests a near-miss title — “Did you mean …?”.
The home page
Search, plus two live lists: Freshly edited (recently touched pages) and Recent changes (the latest edits site-wide, with a link to the full changes feed).