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Setting Wikipedia time to your time zone

Wikipedia's servers record activity based on Coordinated Universal Time (UTC for short). You can set your user preferences to display time for the time zone you are in.

If you do this, Wikipedia will show all times in Recent changes, page histories, and contribution histories based on your local time zone. However, when you sign a talk page with ~~~~, the timestamp is created in text, so it has to be displayed in UTC. Automated logs such as image file uploads are also shown in server time (UTC).

To show other users what time zone you are in, you could even add a time userbox to your own user page.

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To add this auto-randomizing template to your user page, use {{totd-random}}
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Quotations: allowable typographical changes


Although the requirement of minimal change in direct quotations is strict, a few purely typographical elements of quoted text should be conformed to English Wikipedia's conventions without comment. These include the following:

  • Use the style chosen for the article: unspaced em dash or spaced en dash.
  • Set apostrophes and quotation marks straight, not curly.
  • Remove spaces before punctuation such as periods, colons, and %.
  • When integrating the quotation into the grammar of a larger sentence, downcase the first letter of a quotation that is in upper case purely because it starts a sentence in the source (It turned out to be true that "a penny saved is a penny earned").

But generally preserve bold and italic face, and the variety of English.


Add this to your user page by typing in {{Styletips}}

Userboxes

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GEThis Wikipedian is a gentle editor and respects both the letter and spirit of NPA.


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This user has witnessed the light turn off inside their refrigerator.
This user absolutely detests small flies that attempt to enter ears.
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This user can get online. Did you know that?
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This user enjoys something, but will not tell you.
This user is editing Wikipedia from under their blanket.
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This user hates Bullies.



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This user is forgetful,
please ping them.
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Tries!This user tries to be kind to you, and prefers you do the same. If I didn't, I'm sorry.


This user believes deletion is a hammer best wielded lightly.



This user clicks the "Show preview" button to avoid making useless mistakes...


This user feels physical pain when hearing others refer to Wikipedia as "Wiki".


Oh no: this user has way too many userboxes.
This user often makes mistakes while typing, and would like to take this oppurtunity to aoplogiae.
This user has been to the end of Wikipedia. Have you?
This user made a wrong turn and ended up at the other end of Wikipedia.
Roses are #FF0000, Violets are #0000FF, If you understood that, Then you're a nerd too!
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This user is a fan of userboxes, as well as creating them.
~~~~This user signs her posts and thinks you should too!


This user clicks on Random article way too often.


This user loves Wikipedia and isn't afraid to show it with this userbox.


IAThis user uses the Internet Archive


This user likes cats.
This user is a cat lover.
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This user loves cats.
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Meow! 🐈


This user loves cats. Meow!


This user likes cats.
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?-0This person does not understand where this userbox goes and why.
"So many userboxes, so little space."
TeddyBearRocker123
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What I would look like if I were animated
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PronounsShe/her
HandednessRight-handed
Blood typeO+
SexualityHeterosexual
IQ143
Personality typeIntp-j
AlignmentNeutral good


Hi! I'm TeddyBearRocker123, but you can call me TB. Or not, since no one really does. People call me TeddyBearRocker though.

I mainly edit on my mobile device, but if I have to, I use my computer. It's not really that hard, but I guess it's because I don't use the computer as much as I use my mobile device.[1]

I use SUL, so if you see me on another wiki, it may not be because I edit there; it might just be because I logged in there.

I'm bad at typing[2] , but luckily I have autocorrect. Although it is sometimes very annoying.[3]

I love userboxes, in case you didn't notice.[4] Also, I lingered around this site for a long time before making my account. [5]

My TWA Badges

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What I Do

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I don't really have a preference of the topic when editing articles. I just see an article that needs improvement, and I improve it.[6] I might edit an article about an island one day, and an article about a plant disease the next. That doesn't mean I know a lot about islands or plant diseases; I just improve what I know I can improve.

I classify myself as a mesopedian, gravitating toward exopedianism.[7] It's not that I hate interacting with other users; rather, I like working on articles, making small, uncontrovesial changes, and occasionally talking to other users about articles and such. However, I will probably gravitate more to metapedianism in the future.

Sometimes I won't edit for a while.[8] When this happens, I'm usually just reading Wikipedia policies/guidelines/essays.[9]

When I do edit, it's mainly copyediting, with a dash of capitalization correction.[10] I also add short descriptions; since I'm on mobile, it's easy for me to do it without any scripts.[11]

I've read a lot of the policies and guidelines so far, but if I miss something, or I do something wrong, please tell me.

Notes

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  1. ^ Also since I'm on mobile, a lot don't work for me. I can't see topicons, and many scripts aren't compatible with my mobile device (I actually do use one script, though; it's User:BrandonXLF/TodoList). Some pages look weird, and I have to scroll sideways. I still edit with this device though, because if I didn't, I would never get anything done.
  2. ^ It's not always my fault. Sometimes my phone changes ' ' to 'x
  3. ^ Like when it corrects gibberish to hard.
  4. ^ I have, like, a bunch of userboxes I should have probably put on my userpage but never got around to.
  5. ^ There was a point where I never edited, just read and read and read...
  6. ^ Well, more like I look through categories... or click random buttons... or type random words into the search bar...
  7. ^ Basically, I work on articles and interact with users, but I work on articles more.
  8. ^ And by a while, I mean a day or two.
  9. ^ Especially the essays. They have a lot of different opinions; it's good to know all the possible ones.
  10. ^ Per MOS, of course.
  11. ^ I try, when I'm not just reading Wikipedia stuff, to do at least 1 copyedit and add at least 1 short description.