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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.
Browsing gadgets[View description]
- Interactive dialog tools interface gadget. (View description | Export)
Uses: Gadget-wikidialog.js
Enabled for everyone by default. - Experimental version of interactive dialog tools interface gadget. (View description | Export)
Uses: Gadget-wikidialog-x.js - Lupin's famous navigational pop-ups. (View description | Export)
Uses: Gadget-navpop.js, Gadget-navpop.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 ] (View description | Export)
Uses: Gadget-dictionaryLookupHover.js - Secure all links: When browsing from the old secure site, makes sure all interwiki links continue to be on the secure site. Note that HTTPS everywhere is a better, browser-based solution (View description | Export)
Uses: Gadget-secureAllLinks.js - Suppress display of the fundraiser banner. (View description | Export)
Uses: Gadget-HideFundraisingNotice.css
Editing gadgets[View description]
- Hot Cat: easily add / remove / change a category on a media file, with name suggestion [example] (View description | Export)
Uses: Gadget-HotCat.js
Requires the following right:edit. - Add an [edit] link for the lead section of a page (View description | Export)
Uses: Gadget-edittop.js - WikEd — Syntax highlighting in the edit box to make editing more straightforward. [Only works in Mozilla based (aka Firefox) browsers] (View description | Export)
Uses: Gadget-wikied.js - Autosight: Add a "review this revision checkbox" on pages already sighted. (like controllable auto-sight). Does not work for rollback. [must be a reviewer to work] (View description | Export)
Uses: Gadget-butMommyILoveItMyAutosight.js
Requires the following right:review. - Bracket Matcher: enable a basic syntax highlighter to ease the pain of esoteric templates (View description | Export)
Uses: Gadget-bracketmatch.js
Reviewing articles[View description]
- ReviewAlert (formerly RedayAlert) - Become notified when an article is tagged with {{review}} or the stable version of a published article becomes outdated (In a way similar to what happens upon an edit to your talk page) (View description | Export)
Uses: Gadget-readyAlert.js - Review progress – Progressively change the wikinews logo to red depending on how many articles are waiting to be reviewed. (Only works on monobook and vector.) (View description | Export)
Uses: Gadget-progress-review.js - Char Count Add a button to the toolbox to get the character count of the current page (not including formatting characters). (View description | Export)
Uses: Gadget-articleCharacterCount.js - On screen edit: Allows person to highlight, strikeout, delete text in a WYSIWYG type editor (not a real editor; no save). Meant to help reviewers to keep track of what they've reviewed by allowing them to mark sections of the text. Once enabled, adds line to toolbar at bottom of left column. (View description | Export)
Uses: Gadget-onScreenEdit.js
User interface gadgets[View description]
- Open links to external sites in a new window (View description | Export)
Uses: Gadget-extlinks.js - UTCLiveClock: add a clock in the personal toolbar that shows the current time in UTC, and provides a purge link. (View description | Export)
Uses: Gadget-UTCLiveClock.js - Add a "*" tab to the top of the page which lets you purge the cache of the page. (View description | Export)
Uses: Gadget-purgetab.js - Add a little box after you do a quiz, to automatically post your score. [Warning: very much still testing; has bugs, but works] (View description | Export)
Uses: Gadget-quizScorePost.js - Button to convert °C↔°F on pages using {{temp label}} (Weather maps) (View description | Export)
Uses: Gadget-weatherConvert.js - Change the "new section" tab text to instead display the much narrower "+". (View description | Export)
Uses: Gadget-addsection-plus.js - Disable scrolling news tickers (like {{ticker}}). Some people might find them a waste of cpu cycles. (View description | Export)
Uses: Gadget-disableTicker.js - User Messages: This semiautomagically adds many many template messages to user talk pages. Please be careful that you know what the template will say before using a given option, and that you do not spam user talk pages. (View description | Export)
Uses: Gadget-UserMessages.js - tab-blinker Change the notification for new messages from the You have new messages box into making the My talk link in the upper-left corner blink. [Firefox and Opera only] (View description | Export)
Uses: Gadget-talkblinker.js - remove the automatic deletion reasons to keep Special:Log/delete uncluttered (reasons specified in the URL will be unaffected). (View description | Export)
Uses: Gadget-CleanDeleteReasons.js
Requires the following right:delete. - Add a button in the drop-down menu to tag pages for speedy deletion (View description | Export)
Uses: Gadget-pseudodelete.js - Display access key shortcuts next to links that have them. Note that different browsers require different modifier keys, see the article for help. (View description | Export)
Uses: Gadget-showAccessKeys.css - Change the colour of links to Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects. Might not work on all browsers. (View description | Export)
Uses: Gadget-underlinePedia.css - Change links unwelcomed user talk pages to preload {{howdy}} (View description | Export)
Uses: Gadget-welcomer.js - Underline in green categorizable {{w}} links (View description | Export)
Uses: Gadget-whighlighter.css - Highlight your name on pages (View description | Export)
Uses: Gadget-userhighlight.js, Gadget-userhighlight.css - Hide {{votings}} entries marked as zero (View description | Export)
Uses: Gadget-hidevotings.css - HackPad integration – Edit articles collaboratively using HackPad. (experimental) (View description | Export)
Uses: Gadget-hackpad.js - make distinctive changes to the interface when you have the flood flag enabled (View description | Export)
Uses: Gadget-floodstyle.js
Opinion/comment namespace[View description]
- Automatically add the opinion page of an article you watch to your watchlist. (View description | Export)
Uses: Gadget-CommentWatch.js - Separate different comments on talk and opinion pages (Stolen from fr:) (View description | Export)
Uses: Gadget-talkSeperate.css - retro comment pages - Are you one of those LQT haters? This makes comment pages look more like normal talk pages. A little anyways. (View description | Export)
Uses: Gadget-liquidnormtalk.js, Gadget-liquidnormtalk.css