Gadgets

From Wikimedia Incubator

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

User tools     [Edit]

• Add an [edit] link for the introduction section of a page     [Edit]
  Uses: Gadget-edittop.js
• A clock in the personal toolbar that shows the current time in UTC, and provides a purge link.     [Edit]
  Uses: Gadget-UTCLiveClock.js
• PurgeTab: Adds a tab "purge" to purge the cache.     [Edit]
  Uses: Gadget-purgetab.js
• 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.     [Edit]
  Uses: Gadget-CleanDeleteReasons.js
• Hot Cat: easily add / remove / change a category on a page, with name suggestions [documentation / example]     [Edit]
  Uses: Gadget-HotCat.js
• Set User Rights: adds a tab on userpages to change the user rights (used to give a user translator rights)
  Note: You have to be a bureaucrat.     [Edit]
  Uses: Gadget-setuserrights.js

Language support and internationalisation     [Edit]

• If your language preference is set to an RTL language (right-to-left languages like Arabic, ...), use this to support the actual right-to-left interface.     [Edit]
  Uses: Gadget-rtl.css
• Directional editing control script (authors Brion and Splarka).‎     [Edit]
  Uses: Gadget-BiDiEditing.js
• ShortLink: This option is intended to remove long UTF-8 encoded titles from the « Permanent link » . (source)‎     [Edit]
  Uses: Gadget-ShortLink.js

Tools for Incubator tests     [Edit]

• YourMainPage: Adds a link "My Main Page" in the "tests" section which goes to the page where "User:YourName/mainpage" redirects to.     [Edit]
  Uses: Gadget-mainpage.js
• AddPrefix: Automatically add prefix to links when creating a page     [Edit]
  Uses: Gadget-addprefix.js