Extension:AddThis

The AddThis extension adds an AddThis widget to the sidebar and the upper right corner of articles - just below the article's title and the site's tagline. This allows you to have things like Facebook's "Like" or "Recommend" button, a button for Tweeting, Google +'ing, etc. AddThis was a service provided by Oracle until May 2023, and is no longer operating.

Usage
By default, the sidebar is set to appear on all pages.

By default, the toolbar will appear in the header of all articles in a content namespace.

Using the tag, you can:


 * Display the toolbar on pages in non-content namespaces
 * Display the toolbar when it has been disabled in LocalSettings.php
 * Display the toolbar on places other than the page header

Configuration
You can disable the article header toolbar by adding this to :

While it does not appear to be required, it is highly recommended that you register an AddThis account and enter your user/profile id number to :

Configuration parameters
If needed, CSS can also be used to hide the entire widget for specific users (see Manual:$wgAllowUserCss), skins or platforms (MediaWiki:Mobile.css).

Release notes

 * 1.1.1 :
 * 1.0.1 : Support for AddThis Address Bar Sharing
 * Additional code clean-up
 * Switched from reddit as a preferred service to digg
 * Will not be making these often as wikis should set their own preferred services - but we will make tweaks based on AddThis service trends and your feedback


 * 1.0: Stable release
 * 1.0f : Moved to Wikimedia Subversion server
 * Switched to using arrays per feedback - ty Johnduhart!
 * Numerous code cleanup and enhancements by Johnduhart - again, thank you!


 * 1.0e : Setting ($wgAddThisMain) to disable appearance on main page (default is set to display on main page)
 * Cleaned up code and moved closer to matching MW's coding conventions


 * 1.0d : Addition of tag () for displaying article header toolbar widget on page outside of the main article namespace or for use on wikis with the header toolbar otherwise disabled
 * Improved localization - toolbar now uses language file as well


 * 1.0c : Enable/disable settings for both the sidebar ($wgAddThisSidebar) and article header toolbar ($wgAddThisHeader) widgets
 * 1.0b : Use of ResourceLoader for css rather than loading within extension - fixes bug reported on MW1.18
 * Addition of Russian language to language file - thank you Unikum111!


 * 1.0a : Initial release

Planned features

 * Pinterest "Pin-it" button on file pages
 * Your requests and ideas are welcome

Wish list

 * Your requests and ideas are welcome.
 * Ability to disallow the extension on certain pages (for example it's not needed on templates and other housekeeping pages). <<--- Yes to this please.
 * Ability to move the header box anywhere on the page with CSS, preferably to be on the RHS across from the Page Title.
 * Option to load on click as I don't want my users to get watched all the time (just in case they really want to and wish to share something). Example here.
 * Ability to control which namespaces contain or do not contain the extension, or to default to all namespaces if desired.
 * Load JavaScript for AddThis asynchronously. Adding the  attribute will help wikipages to load faster by loading the JavaScript at the same time as the page content, instead of delaying the page load until after the JavaScript is loaded.
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Ideas being considered
Time will be spent on these if folks show interest on the wish list or talk page


 * Setting to change default namespaces to display page header toolbar on
 * Setting via LocalSetting.php and tag to change toolbar display from the right side to the left

Requests by developer

 * Add any wishes to wish list or request on talk page
 * Please test on wikis and report back via talk page
 * Requires at least MW1.17 due to use of ResourceLoader
 * Suggestions from developers are especially welcome! Contributions included will be credited as co-authors
 * Language translations will be credited