Wikipedia:User page design guide/Navigation aids

When you are logged in to Wikipedia, a link to your user page is displayed at the top of every page.

That makes your user page one of the most easily accessible pages to you on Wikipedia, making it a powerful tool.

One of the things you can use your user page for is navigation. It is the perfect place for bookmarks and navbars/navboxes, to get you where you need to go on Wikipedia and related destinations fast.

Navigation bars are templates which have an assortment of links usually based around a theme. They are designed to stretch across a page, usually at the top. Here are some examples you can clone and stylize for your user page:

Humanities

Science

Mathematics

Computing/IT

Language

Miscellaneous

Archives

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WP:IUP

Here's a useful tools menu from Diannaa's user page:

	Coordinates lookup		New Reflinks "Refill"		Duplication detector
	Catscan		Dispenser's Checklinks		My cite templates
	Range contributions alternate		X's tools: automated edits, more		My template collection
	Range block calculator IPv6 range block		T. Paris article blamer		Intersect contribs alternate
	Autoblock finder		Wikichecker user activity		Σ's Editor Interact Tool
	Page history statistics		Buttons and gizmos		User Contribution Search
	All pages with prefix		Special:ComparePages		Wiki ViewStats

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