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.

Browsing gadgets    [View source]

• Navigation popups, article previews and editing functions popup when hovering over links  (View source | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-popups.js, Gadget-navpop.css

WIGO tweaks    [View source]

• Hide the vote distribution bar below the arrows.  (View source | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-hidedistrib.css
• Hide the neutral button (orange rectangle).  (View source | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-hidezero.css
• Draw a box around entries (screenshot).  (View source | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-wigobox.css
• Replaces the voting bars (only the bars) with colors that are more distinct to colorblind people.  (View source | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-colorblindwigo.js

Editing gadgets    [View source]

• HotCat, easily add / remove / change a category on a page, with name suggestion  (View source | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-HotCat.js
• 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
• AutoWIGO: Add a toolbar button and a link in the edit tools box that inserts a vote tag with the poll id automatically calculated.  (View source | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-autowigo.js
  Gadget is not loaded. Please migrate to ResourceLoader. (Learn more)
• HotLicense: Easily add a license to an existing file using a drop-down list.  (View source | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-HotLicense.js
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• Add a smiley list to the edit tools.  (View source | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-smileylist.js
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• Add a smiley toolbar.  (View source | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-smileybox.js
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• Add an [edit] link for the lead section of a page  (View source | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-edittop.js
• Place a "rate" tab next to the "edit" tab, letting you easily rate an article. See RationalWiki:Article rating and Template:Rated for background information.  (View source | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-HotArticleRate.js, Gadget-HotArticleRate.css
  Gadget is not loaded. Please migrate to ResourceLoader. (Learn more)
• MoreMenu: add Page and User dropdown menus to the toolbar with links to common tasks, analytic tools and logs (Vector skin only)  (View source | Export)
  Uses: MoreMenu-pagestyles, Gadget-MoreMenu.js, Gadget-MoreMenu.css
  Available on the Vector skin.
• ⧼gadget-MoreMenu-pagestyles⧽  (View source | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-MoreMenu-pagestyles.css
• Syntax highlighter: Make syntax stand out colourfully in the edit box.  (View source | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-DotsSyntaxHighlighter.js
• AFD nominator: Adds a new option on the more menu to nominate articles for deletion.  (View source | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-afdnominator.js

User interface gadgets    [View source]

• FixedUserbar - Makes the toolbar with user links at the top of the page stay in a fixed position and scroll down the page with the window.  (View source | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-fixedUserbar.js
• FixedUserbar2 - Same as Fixed Userbar, but adds additional features to the top userbar including search and tools.  (View source | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-fixedUserbar2.js
• Add a "*" tab to the top of the page, which purges the page's cache when followed.  (View source | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-purgetab.js
• Add a link to the list of subpages of the current page to the toolbox.  (View source | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-subpages.js
• Add a clock in the personal toolbar that displays the current time in UTC (which also provides a link to purge the current page).  (View source | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-UTCLiveClock.js
• After rolling back an edit, automatically open the contributions of the user rolled back.  (View source | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-modrollback.js
• Change UTC-based times and dates, such as those used in signatures, to be relative to local time. (documentation)  (View source | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-CommentsInLocalTime.js
• Disable access keys  (View source | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-removeAccessKeys.js
• Focus the cursor in the search bar on loading the Main Page.  (View source | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-searchFocus.js
• Make text fields (e.g. the edit form) use a sans-serif font instead of a monospace font.  (View source | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-textareasansserif.css
• Open external links in a new tab/window  (View source | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-exlinks.js
• Dark mode. Works with both Vector and Monobook skins.  (View source | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-Blackskin.css
• Display a warning on usernames inserted by Javascript.  (View source | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-fakename.js
• Adds a link to the user sandbox to the userbar at the top of the page.  (View source | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-sandboxLink.js
• UserspaceLink - Adds a link to a special page showing all userspace pages.  (View source | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-userspaceLink.js
• Reference Tooltips: Roll over any inline citation to see reference information, instead of having to jump away from the article text.  (View source | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-ReferenceTooltips.js, Gadget-ReferenceTooltips.css
  Enabled for everyone by default.
• User target log - Adds a link to the toolbox when you visit a userpage that shows logs the user has been the target of.  (View source | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-targetlog.js

LiquidThreads tweaks    [View source]

• Hide comment toolbar until hovered over.  (View source | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-lqt-hidetoolbar.css

Gadgets for Janitors    [View source]

• Add a "resurrect" tab which restores a deleted page with a single click.  (View source | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-resurrect.js
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• Add a link to Special:RenameUser to the toolbox on user pages.  (View source | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-userrename.js
  

  Requires the following right:

  • renameuser