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.

Interface

• Logs Filter: Allows regex-based filtering of Special:Log. While this originally was intended for areas such as Special:Log/rights it now allows filtering of almost any page that has <li> on it.  (Export)
  Uses: Gadget-rightsfilter.js
• A clock in the personal toolbar that shows the current time in UTC, and provides a purge link.‎  (Export)
  Uses: Gadget-UTCLiveClock.js
• Contributions Range: Allow /16,/24-/32 CIDR ranges on Special:Contributions forms (uses API), as well as wildcard Prefix searches, eg: Splark*  (Export)
  Uses: Gadget-contribsrange.js
• Change the difference view highlighting to green and blue colors (instead of yellow/green)  (Export)
  Uses: Gadget-diffGreenBlue.css
• Add an [edit] link for the lead section of a page. (A side-effect is that MediaWiki:Tagline with id siteSub can no longer be hidden.)  (Export)
  Uses: Gadget-edittop.js
• Add a "*" tab to the top of the page which lets you purge the cache of the page.  (Export)
  Uses: Gadget-purgetab.js
• Dynamic menus: Removes all the menus from the left column, making them drop-down menus in the top of the page instead. (More info).
  Note: Requires the skin Modern and any other browser than Internet Explorer!  (Export)
  Uses: Gadget-dynamic-menus.css
• Wiktionary Hover: Double click a word, and get the definition in a tooltip. (click anywhere else on screen to get rid of it). (More info).  (Export)
  Uses: Gadget-dictionaryLookupHover.js
• Strike out links to blocked users  (Export)
  Uses: Gadget-markblocked.js
• wikEd, a full-featured integrated text editor for Firefox, Safari, and Google Chrome. Please read the help page for usage instructions.  (Export)
  Uses: Gadget-wikEd.js
• Makes patrol links execute within the page. See AjaxPatrolLinks help for more info  (Export)
  Uses: Gadget-AjaxPatrolLinks.js

Administrators

• EnhancedUndelete: Administrative tool to select all checkboxes or invert your selection to make it easier to selectively undelete pages.  (Export)
  Uses: Gadget-EnhancedUndelete.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.  (Export)
  Uses: Gadget-CleanDeleteReasons.js
• Autodelete links: This script is for administrators only, and will fail if your account does not have sysop privileges. Makes speedy deletion faster and easier. Once you install it, Special:Contributions, Special:Newpages, Special:Log and any viewed or preview page will have an autodelete tab. By clicking that, you will be prompted for a summary. Once you click OK after the summary, all links will autodelete when clicked. If you leave the delete reason blank, the default is "per WM:CSD."  (Export)
  Uses: Gadget-autodel.js
• Quick Blocking Tools: This tool can be used by administrators to block many IPs quickly from Special:Massblock, and gives handy tabs on Special:Block for common block settings. Stewards get comparable features on Special:Globalmassblock and Special:GlobalBlock.  (Export)
  Uses: Gadget-massblock.js, Gadget-blockoptions.js, Gadget-globalblockoptions.js, Gadget-globalmassblock.js
• SBHandler: Tool to help dealing with the Spam blacklist and requests to add/remove URLs. (More info).  (Export)
  Uses: Gadget-SBHandler.js
• Adds a tab to block users from their user and user talk pages.  (Export)
  Uses: Gadget-blocktab.js
• Forces all links to open the "edit" window.  (Export)
  Uses: Gadget-ForceEditLinks.js

Categories

• Hot Cat: easily add / remove / change a category on an image, with name suggestion.  (Export)
  Uses: Gadget-HotCat.js

Stewards' gadgets

• Global hideuser: Adds an option to Special:CentralAuth to oversight all local usernames (see bug 14476); requires secure login. This will hide local accounts even if they have edits.  (Export)
  Uses: Gadget-hideuser.js
  

  Requires the following right:

  • Suppress global account

Browsing gadgets

• Navigation popups, article previews and editing functions popup when hovering over links.  (Export)
  Uses: Gadget-popups.js, Gadget-navpop.css
• Modify rollback: After using rollback, this script automatically forwards you to the user's contributions page to look for other edits to revert. Be careful, since this means you won't see if there's an error message after clicking rollback.  (Export)
  Uses: Gadget-modrollback.js

Language support

• Directional editing control script (authors Brion and Splarka).‎  (Export)
  Uses: Gadget-BiDiEditing.js
• ShortLink: This option is intended to remove long UTF-8 encoded titles from the « Permanent link » . (source)‎  (Export)
  Uses: Gadget-ShortLink.js
• EoMagicalConversion: Option which adds the Esperanto magical conversion to the editor. (source 1 → source 2)‎  (Export)
  Uses: Gadget-EoMagicalConversion.js