Help:Keyboard shortcuts
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The MediaWiki software employs a series of keyboard shortcuts in order to enable users to perform most of the common editing operations without using alternate input devices (i.e. by only using the keyboard).
This article documents the default (English) shortcuts, and also tries to suggest a workflow for the localized Wikipedias in the pursuit for more appropriate, intuitive shortcuts for their users. Hold [alt] then select the shortcut.
[edit] Default Shortcuts
This is the list of default shortcuts. The first column should be self-explanatory in most situations. If you find that it isn't, please feel free to edit this section for future users. Please note these do not work on Firefox 2 although most of them did on the previous version. It looks as tho the key combination is now alt+shift and the keys below but this will be checked.
| Shortcut key | What it does | Comments | Named Operation |
|---|---|---|---|
| + | adds new section | addsection | |
| n | Goes to talk page | goes to user talk whether anon or not | anontalk |
| . | Goes to user page | goes to user page whether anon or not | anonuser |
| a | article | ||
| v | Compares selected version | compareselectedversions | |
| ? | contributions | ||
| ? | currentevents | ||
| d | Admin only function | delete | |
| e | edits current page | edit | |
| ? | emailuser | ||
| h | goes to history | emailuser | |
| ? | help | ||
| o | login | it's a "toggle" see next item | login |
| o | logout | it's a "toggle" see previous item | logout |
| z | goes to main page | mainpage | |
| i | marks edit as minor | and is a toggle too | minoredit |
| m | moves page | goes to dialogue box | move |
| y | My contribution | mycontribs | |
| n | goes to "my" talk page | mytalk | |
| ? | portal | portal | |
| ? | preferences | preferences | |
| p | preview | preview | |
| = | protect | Admin only function | protect |
| x | random page | goes to random page | randompage |
| r | recent changes | recent changes | |
| c | recent changes linked | ?? | recentchangeslinked |
| s | save | saves page | save |
| f | search | search | |
| ? | site support | ?? | site support |
| ? | special page | ?? | specialpage |
| q | special pages | specialpages | |
| t | talk | goes to article talk page | talk |
| d | undelete | Admin only function | undelete |
| w | unwatch | toggle - see below | unwatch |
| u | upload | goes to upload page | upload |
| . | user page | goes to user page | userpage |
| e | view source | goes to edit actually | viewsource |
| w | watch | toggle - see above | watch |
| l | watch list | goes to watch list | watchlist |
| b | what links here | goes to what links here | whatlinkshere |
