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

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• Add prefix: Automatically adds prefixes to links when creating a page.  (View description | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-EditorAPIs.js, Gadget-AddPrefix.js, Gadget-AddPrefix.css
  Enabled for everyone by default.
• Interwiki: Adds functionality to add and display interlanguage links from Wikidata.  (View description | Export)
  Uses: interwikiStyles, Gadget-interwiki.js
  Enabled for everyone by default.
• ⧼gadget-interwikiStyles⧽  (View description | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-interwiki.css
  This gadget is hidden, meaning it will not show up on the preferences page.
  Enabled for everyone by default.
• Add a banner that lets you know when your test wiki language becomes available as an interface language.  (View description | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-languageBanner.js, Gadget-languageBanner/Banner.vue
  This gadget is packaged, with entry point being languageBanner.js
  Requires the following right: editmyoptions.
  Limited to the "view" page action.
  Enabled for everyone by default.
• Project specific logos  (View description | Export)
  Uses: ProjectSpecificLogosStyles, Gadget-ProjectSpecificLogos.js
  Enabled for everyone by default.
• ⧼gadget-ProjectSpecificLogosStyles⧽  (View description | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-ProjectSpecificLogos.css
  This gadget is hidden, meaning it will not show up on the preferences page.
• Adds a "Set language" and "Set (test project) as your test project" button to the sidebar when viewing test wikis.  (View description | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-SetTestWikiPreference.js
  Enabled for everyone by default.
• File pages redirect to Wikimedia Commons  (View description | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-direct-link-to-Commons.js
  Enabled for everyone by default.
• Space saving style of the "In other languages" box  (View description | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-SpaceSavingIOL.css
  Enabled for everyone by default.
• Supports display of sign writing characters in Wp/ase  (View description | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-Signwriting.js
  Available for the following skins: Vector legacy (2010), MonoBook, Timeless, Cologne Blue, Modern.
  Enabled for everyone by default.
• Hidden gadget that adds the functionality of the setlang URL parameter to the mobile skin (Minerva).  (View description | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-setlang.js
  Requires the following right: editmyuserjson.
  Available for the MinervaNeue skin.
  This gadget is hidden, meaning it will not show up on the preferences page.
  Enabled for everyone by default.
  The following dependency is deprecated: mediawiki.Uri.
• ⧼gadget-testwikiredirect⧽  (View description | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-testwikiredirect.js
  This gadget is hidden, meaning it will not show up on the preferences page.
  Enabled for everyone by default.
  The following dependency is deprecated: mediawiki.Uri.

User tools

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• Add an [edit] link for the introduction section of a page  (View description | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-edittop.js, Gadget-edittop.css
• 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
• PurgeTab: Adds a tab "purge" to purge the cache.  (View description | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-purgetab.js
  Enabled for everyone by default.
• Hot Cat: easily add / remove / change a category on a page, with name suggestion [example]  (View description | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-HotCat.js
• Highlight redirects  (View description | 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 description | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-wikEd.js

Language support and internationalisation

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• CharInsert: add a toolbar under the edit window for quickly inserting wiki markup and special characters  (View description | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-charinsert.js
  Limited to the "edit" page action.
  Enabled for everyone by default.
• ⧼gadget-charinsert-core⧽  (View description | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-charinsert-core.js, Gadget-charinsert-styles.css
  This gadget is hidden, meaning it will not show up on the preferences page.
• Directional editing control script (authors Brion and Splarka).‎  (View description | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-BiDiEditing.js
• Detect the directionality of the edit box.  (View description | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-DetectDir.js
• ShortLink: This option is intended to remove long UTF-8 encoded titles from the "Permanent link". (source)‎  (View description | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-ShortLink.js
• Enlarge font-size for zh fonts  (View description | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-large-font.css

Admin gadgets

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• 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 description | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-CleanDeleteReasons.js
  Requires the following right: delete.
• MassDelete: 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 description | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-massdelete.js
  Requires the following right: delete.
• Safe Rollback – asks for confirmation of rollback instead of its direct performing  (View description | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-SafeRollback.js
  Requires the following right: rollback.