User:Sbirdsong/sandbox/Preferences (general)

What are preferences

 * Preferences have to do with how the Wiki works for you.
 * It controls what things you want to see and what you do not want to see.
 * The default settings for most people are okay as is, but for support missionaries changing some of the settings may make the job easier.
 * Click on your My Preference link in the Personal Tools and you will see a list of eight items. We will go over them one at a time:

User profile
Basic information about the user. A little information on what others see when they communicate with you.

Appearance
How the pages will appear on your monitor.

Date and time

 * How time is displayed, whether military or civilian.
 * What time zone Is displayed for the edits (your local time zone or the time the server uses-Greenwich Mean Time).

Editing

 * Regulates the features you want in place to edit in the Wiki. This will be discussed in more detail during the lesson on how to edit the Wiki.

Recent changes
Regulates how recent changes are displayed when on the recent change page. For example, you can regulate how many changes you want to see at a time. This will be discussed in more detail during the lesson on patrolling.

Watchlist
Regulates what items are on your watch list and how they are added to it.

Search options
Regulates what will be displayed when you make a search entry. You can select to see only pages in certain areas instead of seeing all pages that might meet your search criteria.

Misc
Miscellaneous adjustments in minor areas and how they will be displayed.

Default Settings
As mentioned above, the default settings will work for most editors. However, since there are so many options to chose from, if would be difficult in a single article to go into detail on each one. Therefore, we encourage you change items that pique your interest and see what happens.

Restore settings
If you have made changes but decide to change back to the former setting, and cannot remember what you changed, click on "Restore all default settings" at the bottom of each page next to "Save" button. This will restore all original settings for the page you are on that were in place when you first came to the Wiki. This will, of course, remove any changes you want to keep.