Gadgets

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.

Default gadgets    [View source]

• Project specific logos  (View source | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-ProjectSpecificLogos.js
  Enabled for everyone by default.
• File pages redirect to Wikimedia Commons  (View source | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-direct-link-to-Commons.js
  Enabled for everyone by default.

User tools    [View source]

• Add an [edit] link for the introduction section of a page  (View source | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-edittop.js
• A clock in the personal toolbar that shows the current time in UTC, and provides a purge link.  (View source | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-UTCLiveClock.js
• PurgeTab: Adds a tab "purge" to purge the cache.  (View source | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-purgetab.js
• Hot Cat: easily add / remove / change a category on a page, with name suggestion [example]  (View source | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-HotCat.js
• Highlight redirects  (View source | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-HighlightRedirects.css
• wikEd, a full-featured integrated text editor for Firefox, Safari, and Google Chrome. Please read the help page for usage instructions.  (View source | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-wikEd.js
• Toolbox link to go to other protocol (http/https) of current page.  (View source | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-otherProtocol.js

Language support and internationalisation    [View source]

• Directional editing control script (authors Brion and Splarka).‎  (View source | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-BiDiEditing.js
• Detect the directionality of the edit box.  (View source | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-DetectDir.js
• ShortLink: This option is intended to remove long UTF-8 encoded titles from the « Permanent link » . (source)‎  (View source | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-ShortLink.js

Admin gadgets    [View source]

• 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 source | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-CleanDeleteReasons.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.  (View source | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-setuserrights.js
  

  Requires the following right:

  • Rename users
• A tool that adds a special page for mass deleting of pages. Note: You need to be an administrator, test-sysops please avoid using this tool as you might accidentally delete something that should not be. (Page: Special:MassDelete)  (View source | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-massdelete.js

Tools for Incubator tests    [View source]

• YourMainPage: Adds a link "My Main Page" in the "tests" section which goes to the page where "User:YourName/mainpage" redirects to.
  DEPRECATED: use instead the test wiki preference under "User profile > Internationalisation"  (View source | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-mainpage.js
• AddPrefix: Automatically adds prefixes to links when creating a page.  (View source | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-addprefix.js