Gadgets

Below is a list of special gadgets users can enable on their preferences page, as defined by the definitions. This overview provides easy access to the system message pages that define each gadget's description and code.

User interface gadgets[View description]

• Site: General utilities needed by the templates and portals of this wiki.  (View description | Export)
  Uses: site-styles, Gadget-site.js, Gadget-site-tpl-copy.js, Gadget-site-tpl-copy.css
  Enabled for everyone by default.
• Site (styles): General utilities needed by templates and portals of this wiki (including box styles from en.wikipedia.org)  (View description | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-site.css
  Enabled for everyone by default.
• Add an [edit] link for the lead section of a page  (View description | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-edittop.js
• A clock in the personal toolbar that shows the current time in UTC and also provides a link to purge the current page  (View description | Export)
  Uses: UTCLiveClock-pagestyles, Gadget-UTCLiveClock.js, Gadget-UTCLiveClock.css
• Styles for UTCLiveClock  (View description | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-UTCLiveClock-pagestyles.css
  Available for the following skins: Vector legacy (2010), MonoBook.
• Real-Time Recent Changes: Monitor and patrol recent changes in real-time (documentation).  (View description | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-rtrc.js, Gadget-rtrc.css
• Ajax paginated Recent Changes module, utilizing the API.  (View description | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-ajaxrecentchanges.js
• Navigation popups, article previews and editing functions popup when hovering over links  (View description | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-popups.js, Gadget-navpop.css
• Checked revisions export for CodeReview: Experimental gadget to export a list of revision IDs based on checked table rows in the list view of the CodeReview extension.  (View description | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-CodeReview checkedRevsExport.js
• Allow /16 and /24 – /32 CIDR ranges on Special:Contributions forms (uses API), as well as wildcard prefix searches, e.g., "Splark*". (Please report any issues.)  (View description | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-contribsrange.js
• Numerakri: Convert numerals from Arabic to Devanagari.  (View description | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-Numerakri.js, Gadget-Numerakri.css
• External Search: Add a selector to the search page allowing to use the Wikimedia technical search (those searches are processed using Google CustomSearch, subject to Google's Privacy Policy).  (View description | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-externalsearch.js
• Small dropdown in the search bar to use the Wikimedia technical search.  (View description | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-externalsearch-bar.js
• Heading Anchor: Adds section anchors to each wiki page heading. They become visible on hover. (Vector skin only)  (View description | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-vector-headanchor.js, Gadget-vector-headanchor.css
• Enable tracking bugs on Phabricator using the {{Tracked }} template.  (View description | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-BugStatusUpdate.js
• Add a "Purge" tab to the top of the page which lets you purge the cache of the page.  (View description | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-purgetab.js
• Different colors for links to other projects.  (View description | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-Coloredlinks.css
• AutoLink in diffs and edit summaries [[wiki-links]], [external links] and {{templates}}.  (View description | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-autolink.js
• Show some predefined messages to add the edit summary with a single click.  (View description | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-predefined-summaries.js
• Display notification count in the window title  (View description | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-NotifCountTitle.js
• Responsive content styles  (View description | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-responsiveContentBase.css
  Available for the Vector legacy (2010) skin.
• Improved appearance for mobile, narrow and wide screens. Documentation  (View description | Export)
  Uses: responsiveContentBase, Gadget-responsiveContent.js
  Available for the Vector legacy (2010) skin.
• Mobile styles for Vector legacy skin (Vector 2010)  (View description | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-mobileVectorBase.css
  Available for the Vector legacy (2010) skin.
• Enhancements for mobile views with Vector skin  (View description | Export)
  Uses: mobileVectorBase, Gadget-mobileVector.js
  Available for the Vector legacy (2010) skin.
• Embeds an OOUI tabbed window on all pages in the API namespace on MediaWiki.org. Each tab of the window contains sample code in a programming language (PHP, JavaScript, Python, etc.) demonstrating the use of the MediaWiki Action API.  (View description | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-tabbedwindow.js
  Enabled for everyone by default.
• Auto-number headings: Adds hierarchical outline-style numbering to headers in articles (documentation)  (View description | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-autonum.js, Gadget-autonum.css

Editing gadgets[View description]

• Syntax highlighter, make syntax stand out colorfully in the edit box. Works best in Firefox and works almost all of the time in Chrome and Opera.  (View description | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-DotsSyntaxHighlighter.js
  Limited to the "edit" page action.
• Edittools: Enhance the edittools section (grouping into section with a dropdown menu and converting static links to buttons)  (View description | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-Edittools.js
  Limited to the "edit" page action.
  Enabled for everyone by default.
• HotCat, easily add / remove / change a category on a page, with name suggestion [example]  (View description | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-HotCat.js
• TabOverride, allows to input tab characters on the editing area by pressing the tab key on the keyboard  (View description | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-TabOverride.js
  Limited to the "edit" page action.
• Remove VisualEditor from the user interface  (View description | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-oldeditor.js
• Style the insertion menu below the wiki editor as buttons (documentation)  (View description | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-CharInsertButtons.css
  Limited to the "edit" page action.
  Enabled for everyone by default.
• ProveIt: Smart and simple reference manager.  (View description | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-ProveIt.js, Gadget-ProveIt.css

Tools for authorized users[View description]

• Clean Delete Reasons: This script will remove the automatic deletion reasons to keep the delete logs cleaner. It will not affect the reason that come from the URL.  (View description | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-CleanDeleteReasons.js
  Requires the following right: delete.
• Adds a tab to block users from their user and user talk pages  (View description | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-blocktab.js
  Requires the following right: block.
• botRollback: Mark rolled-back edits as bot edits  (View description | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-botRollback.js
  Requires the following right: markbotedits.

Experimental[View description]

• FormWizard: A wizard for creating and expanding project pages.  (View description | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-formWizard.js
• AddMe: a gadget for endorsing/joining/voting by adding yourself to some list  (View description | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-addMe.js, Gadget-addMe.css
• Beta version of the AddMe gadget (for developing when the original is heavily used)  (View description | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-addMe-beta.js, Gadget-addMe.css
• chessDemo  (View description | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-chessDemo.js, Gadget-chessDemo.css
• WhoIsActive: Adds an indicator beside user page links to show whether the user has been active recently  (View description | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-whoisactive.js, Gadget-whoisactive.css

Template gadgets[View description]

• Interacts with Template:Vivarium to produce an interactive instance of Conway's Game of Life  (View description | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-Vivarium.js, Gadget-Vivarium.css
  Limited to category Vivarium.js.
  Enabled for everyone by default.
• Interacts with Template:Formicarium to produce an interactive instance of Langton's ant  (View description | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-Formicarium.js, Gadget-Formicarium.css
  Limited to category Formicarium.js.
  Enabled for everyone by default.
• Interacts with Template:Search to search the wiki and display the results inline  (View description | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-Search.js
  Limited to category Search.js.
  Enabled for everyone by default.
• Interacts with Template:Excerpt tree to navigate excerpt trees  (View description | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-ExcerptTree.js
  Limited to category ExcerptTree.js.
  Enabled for everyone by default.
• Load Synchronizer  (View description | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-Synchronizer.js
  Limited to category Synchronizer.js.
  Enabled for everyone by default.
• Interacts with Template:Form to create forms that create pages or add content to pages  (View description | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-WikiForm.js
  Limited to category WikiForm.js.
  Enabled for everyone by default.