Twinkle is a very useful tool used for clean up, anti-vandalism and many more tasks. We will go over them later on in the lesson.
Installation edit
To install Twinkle. Please make sure that you are an autoconfirmed user first.
Step 1: Go to My Preferences and click Gadgets. Or simply click this link. Then scroll down and find Twinkle. Check the box.
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Step 2: Scroll to the very bottom and find the Save button. Click the button.
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Step 3: Scroll up. It should say that your preferences are saved.
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Step 4: Just to clarify, go to any article and look at the top right corner. It should be a box saying TW
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Use edit
Twinkle has a lot of different uses. Here are the uses. Most of the features below are very obvious. The below is optional to read
Article edit
The most common features are in the article namespace. Note, this goes for all articles without a prefix.
CSD edit
CSD or Speedy Deletion is an option in Twinkle. To use it, just click on CSD. A menu should pop up and you choose which speedy deletion criteria it matches. Speedy deletion is only used if it matches the strict criteria for speedy deletion. For example: a hoax.
PROD edit
Twinkle has 3 deletion options, the 2nd being Proposed deletion. Proposed deletion is a way to suggest an article for uncontroversial deletion. It is a shortcut to the normal deletion review process (AfD), and a fallback for deletion proposals that do not meet the strict criteria for speedy deletion.
XFD edit
The third deletion option, Anything for deletion. This can be used for anything. For example (Categories, Templates, Redirects and the usual article).
RPP edit
Requesting Page protection is a feature in Twinkle to request page protection of course! Once you click on it. Enter the type of protection and reason. See WP:PP. There, you can choose how to mark it. You can do it by requesting page protection to the Administrator Noticeboard(usually faster) or tagging the page.
Tag edit
This is one of the most used features in Twinkle. Once you click on it, there are several tags involving Cleanup tags, Content issues tags, or merge tags. Some of the tags require you to enter a reason. You can also choose to group the tags inside {{Multiple Issues}}.
Last edit
This feature allows you to see the last two differences in the History of the article.
Unlink edit
This feature unlinks every link pointing to the article. You can then select the articles you don't want to get linked from. Be sure to explain the reason as this is rarely used.
User Talk edit
ARV edit
Using this feature will automatically warn the user to administrators. Only use this in severe cases.
Warn edit
You can use this tool to warn the user about an edit. Choose the warning level and then the type of warning. We'll go through this stuff later here.
Wel edit
This tool is for welcoming users to the English Wikipedia. Open it up and select the type of welcome message you would like to give.
TB edit
Leave a talkback! If you are replying to his messages on a separate talk page. You can just leave a talkback stating that he has new messages. You can test this feature in my test account User:TheQ Tester.
Revisions edit
When viewing Revisions, there are some Twinkle options to go along with it.
Revert edit
There are 3 4 types of reverting options.
- Restore this revision- Restores the selected revision
- Rollback (vandal)- used to revert the selected revision and mark it as vandalism
- Rollback (AGF)- used to revert the selected revision and mark it as good faith.
- Rollback - used to revert the selected revision and mark it as neither.
Since edit
Shows revision of the last diff and the revision made by the previous user.
Since Mine edit
Shows revision of the last diff and your revision.
Current edit
Shows difference to current revision.
Preferences edit
After you install Twinkle, you can go to Wikipedia:Twinkle/Preferences change your preferences. I didn't switch my Preferences, you can do it to configure your default settings, that's all.