Longtime Wikipedia fan, occasional editor
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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Longtime Wikipedia fan, occasional editor
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.
About Wikipedia | |||||
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Readers' FAQ | |||||
Introductions to contributing | |||||
Pillars, policies and guidelines | |||||
Getting help | |||||
Wikipedia community | |||||
Sourcing and referencing |
| ||||
How-to guides | |||||
Wiki markup | |||||
Directories and glossaries |
|
Wikipedia key
policies and guidelines (?) | |||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Content (?) |
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Conduct (?) |
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Deletion (?) |
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Enforcement (?) |
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Editing (?) |
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Project content (?) |
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WMF (?) |
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Administration pages |
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Encyclopedia proper |
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About Wikipedia (?) | |
Help for readers (?) | |
Contributing to Wikipedia (?) | |
Getting started (?) | |
Dos and don'ts (?) | |
How-to pages and information pages (?) | |
Coding (?) | |
Directories (?) |
|
Get personal technical help at
the Teahouse,
help desk,
village pump (technical),
talk pages or
IRC. | |
General technical help | |
Special page-related | |
Wikitext | |
Links and diffs | |
Media files: images, videos and sounds | |
Other graphics | |
Templates and Lua modules | |
Data structure | |
HTML and CSS | |
Customisation and tools | |
Automated editing | |
|
For a listing of current collaborations, tasks, and news, see the
Community portal. For a listing of ongoing discussions and current requests, see the Dashboard. | |
General community topics | |
Contents and grading | |
WikiProjects and collaborations | |
Awards and feedback | |
Maintenance tasks | |
Administrators and noticeboards | |
Content dispute resolution | |
Other noticeboards and assistance | |
Deletion discussions | |
Elections and votings | |
Directories, indexes, and summaries | |
Wikipedia's centralized
discussion, request, and help venues. For a listing of ongoing discussions and current requests, see the
dashboard. For a related set of forums which do not function as noticeboards see
formal review processes. | |
General | |
Articles and content | |
Page handling | |
User conduct | |
Other | |
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