Become a Wikipedia master by accessing special pages and other handy tricks

Tuesday, February 11, 2020 - 16:10 in Mathematics & Economics

Just a normal weekend: chillin' on the couch, surfin' the ol' Wiki. (Valuavitaly via Depositphotos/)Wikipedia now boasts more than 5.5 million English-language articles on everything from the 19th century Uruguayan War to the final episode of Game of Thrones. It’s a hugely useful resource, but you’ll get even more out of it if you know a few tricks that will help you get around the site faster.Use Wikipedia’s special pagesWikipedia built its reputation on allowing users to maintain its vast hoard of information, but it also has special pages that, for the most part, are full of automatically generated content that can’t be edited. These can serve up a random article for you, show you pages with recent changes, or give you pages on topics related to your current location. You can also see the most linked-to pages across the whole of Wikipedia, and much more.Read Wikipedia with WikiwandWikiwand makes...

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