Magic words are words surrounded by brackets or underscores which most often insert or display the current value of what they are called. These include parser functions, variables and behavior switches and are features of . They are interpreted by the Metawiki software and are often used in templates so that they show different information depending on which page they are on and many other conditions.
Guided tours are interactive tours of a part of Wikipedia. They are meant to complement help pages, by showing users directly how to do something in a step-by-step way. The software framework for guided tours is provided by the MediaWiki extension GuidedTour; , the release status of this extension is "beta", which means "stable but not fully tested". You may therefore encounter some bugs.
Cascading Style Sheets allow for flexible formatting of a page. They should be used instead of tables for non-tabular content whenever possible, because they can be manipulated by the reader or overridden by an author if your CSS is embedded in another page via a template.
The user can customize fonts, colors, positions of links in the margins, and many other things! This is done through custom Cascading Style Sheets stored in subpage of the user's "User" page.
Wikipedia has its own search engine (for "wikisearching") as represented by the search box and the search results page. The search box has an activator magnifying-glass icon in it. A list of matching page names drops down as you type the query. The search box will navigate directly to those, but to get search results instead: choose Search, or choose "" from the drop down list, or add the tilde ~ character to the query.
By adding a prefix to another project, internal link style ("prefixed internal link style") can be used to link to a page of another project. A system of short-handed link labels is used to refer to different projects, in the context of interproject linking, as seen within the actual source text. For example, refers to the English Wikipedia. This is seen in , which produces a link to the English Wikipedia article "Apple". Interwiki links which link different language Wikipedias are known as Interlanguage l..
Magic words (which include parser functions, variables and behavior switches) are features of wiki markup that enable various instructions to be given to the MediaWiki software. For example, the magic words may be used to suppress or position the table of contents, or to produce other variable outputs, as is often required in .
