Help:Special:Preferences

Special:Preferences is a special page which ables registered users the access of profile settings seperated into nine chapters viewed as page-tabs.

General Information
The user preferences page holds many settings for site individual customization by registered users of any user group. It ables the user choosing the following settings categories:
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Every section has got one or several sub-topics marked with surrounding group boxes. Their name is written in it. Each setting has its own description (left row) and their setting tool (roght row). The setting tool variates from option to option: Input boxes, radio buttons and check boxes make the most part of them.

The  -section includes several options to change some account data. The most important setting of this category is the choice of an interface language. It also ables the edit of the personal user signature which is used on discussion pages to sign idividual posts and lets the user modify personal information, such as a personal name, an email adress (which needs to be confirmed to use additional features), and a gender. Another possible setting is the possibility to stay logged into (not recomented on public computers). The page also shows the user his/her personal statistics on the site, as i.e. the number of your contributions and the date/time of registration.

The  -tab changes the content of the page and lets the user choose a custom skin for the site, where MySkin is the custom user skin. Skins can be edited in CSS and JS via user subpages. This section also ables the display settings for images in articles and and in file description pages. TeX -settings (math formulas) can be set on this page, too, even if this feature is not used often on this site. The advanced options give some additional possibillities to costumize the site. There, the user can toogle the underlining of links on pages, the link formatting of small pages, change the visibillity of the TOC and switch many more options to change the appearance.

 is one of the smaller pages on the preferences page. It ables the choice of the user's time zone to improve the history visualization of interface texts. The user can define a custom offset from GMT (Default: 00:00 hours), if he/she wishes to have it got. The format of date and time can be customized to adapt it to the users common one.