Wikipedia:Keyboard shortcuts

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The Monobook skin, which is the default on Wikipedia, contains many keyboard shortcuts. You can use them to access certain features of Wikipedia more quickly.

Depending on your browser, you should

Mozilla Firefox 1.5: hold Alt, press access key
Mozilla Firefox 2: hold Alt-Shift, press access key
Internet Explorer: hold Alt, press access key, then press Enter
Opera (all platforms): press Shift-Esc, then press access key
Mac OS: Control and a key

See access keys for more information on this concept.

Key	Command	Description
+	Start a new discussion	Allows you to add a new section (talk pages only)
. (period)	My user page	Opens your user page if logged in
=	Protect	Allows you to protect the current page (sysops only)
=	Unprotect	Allows you to unprotect the current page (sysops only)
c	Content page	Shows the content page associated with the current article
d	Delete	Allows you to delete the current page (sysops only)
d	Undelete	Allows you to undelete the current page (sysops only)
e	Edit this page	Allows you to edit the current page (non-protected pages)
e	View source	Shows the source of the current page (protected pages)
f	Search	Allows you to search Wikipedia
h	History	Shows the current page's history
j	What links here	Shows all of the pages that link to the current one
k	Related changes	Shows recent changes in pages linked to the current one
l	My watchlist	Opens your watchlist (logged-in users only)
m	Move	Allows you to move the current page and its talk page (non-move-protected pages only)
n	My talk	Opens your user's or IP's talk page
p	Show preview	Shows a preview of your changes (on edit pages)
q	Special pages	Shows a list of all special pages
r	Recent changes	Shows a list of recent changes to the Wikipedia
s	Save page	Saves the changes that you have made (on edit pages)
t	Discussion	Opens the current article's talk page
u	Upload file	Allows you to upload images or media files
v	Show changes	Shows what changes you made to the text (on edit pages)
w	Watch	Adds the current page to your watchlist (logged-in users only)
x	Random article	Loads a random article
y	My contributions	Opens a list of your user's or IP's contributions
z	Main Page	Goes to the Main Page

Visual display of access keys

The following entry in your user CSS file (e.g., User:Example/monobook.css) will display accesskeys before links that have them.

This does not work in Internet Explorer, since it doesn't support the :before CSS selector. In Safari, this will not work on initially loading a page, but will show up when you mouse-over the menus, go back to a page, or press Home, End, Page Up, or Page Down.

a[accesskey]:before {
    content: " " attr(accesskey) " ";
    text-transform: uppercase;
    white-space: pre;
    border: thin solid;
    font-family: sans-serif;
    text-decoration: underline overline;
    margin-right: 0.5ex;
}

Changing and disabling access keys

Most of the access keys and tooltips are now defined in Mediawiki software, some are added by JavaScript in MediaWiki:Common.js. You can easily customize them by adding some code to your monobook.js file.

For example, this will change accesskey to '0':

ta['ca-nstab-main'] = new Array('0','View the content page');

To disable certain access keys can use the example above but specify some other access key (see this example)

Also you can use removeAccessKeys script.

Wikipedia:Keyboard shortcuts

Visual display of access keys

Changing and disabling access keys

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