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

• Lupin's famous navigational pop-ups.  (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 ]  (Export)
  Uses: Gadget-dictionaryLookupHover.js
• Secure all links: When browsing from the secure wikinews site, makes sure all interwiki links continue to be on the secure site.  (Export)
  Uses: Gadget-secureAllLinks.js
• Suppress display of the fundraiser banner.  (Export)
  Uses: Gadget-HideFundraisingNotice.css

Editing gadgets

• Hot Cat: easily add / remove / change a category on a media file, with name suggestion [example]  (Export)
  Uses: Gadget-HotCat.js
• Add an [edit] link for the lead section of a page  (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]  (Export)
  Uses: Gadget-wikied.js
• Autosight: Adds a "review this revision checkbox" on pages already sighted. (like controllable auto-sight). Does not work for rollback. [must be a reviewer to work]  (Export)
  Uses: Gadget-butMommyILoveItMyAutosight.js
• Bracket Matcher: enable a basic syntax highlighter to ease the pain of esoteric templates  (Export)
  Uses: Gadget-bracketmatch.js

Reviewing articles

• 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- Become notified when an article is tagged with {{review}} or the stable version of a published article becomes outdated (In a way similar to what happens upon an edit to your talk page)  (Export)
  Uses: Gadget-readyAlert.js
• Review progress - Changes the wikinews logo to red depending on how many articles are waiting to be reviewed. Less annoying version of reviewAlert. (Only works on monobook and vector.)  (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).  (Export)
  Uses: Gadget-articleCharacterCount.js
• On screen edit: Allows person to hilight, 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.  (Export)
  Uses: Gadget-onScreenEdit.js

User interface gadgets

• Open links to external sites in a new window  (Export)
  Uses: Gadget-extlinks.js
• UTCLiveClock: a clock in the personal toolbar that shows the current time in UTC, and provides a purge link.‎  (Export)
  Uses: Gadget-UTCLiveClock.js
• Add a "*" tab to the top of the page which lets you purge the cache of the page.  (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]  (Export)
  Uses: Gadget-quizScorePost.js
• Button to convert °C↔°F on pages using {{temp label}} (Weather maps)  (Export)
  Uses: Gadget-weatherConvert.js
• Change the "new section" tab text to instead display the much narrower "+".  (Export)
  Uses: Gadget-addsection-plus.js
• Disable scrolling news tickers (like {{ticker}}). Some people might find them a waste of cpu cycles.  (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.  (Export)
  Uses: Gadget-UserMessages.js
• tab-blinker Change the 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]  (Export)
  Uses: Gadget-talkblinker.js
• Clean delete reasons: This script will remove the automatic deletion reasons to keep Special:Log/delete uncluttered. It will not affect the reason if specified in the URL. [for admins only]  (Export)
  Uses: Gadget-CleanDeleteReasons.js
• Add a button in the drop-down menu to tag pages for speedy deletion  (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.  (Export)
  Uses: Gadget-showAccessKeys.css
• Change the colour of links to Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects. Might not work on all browsers.  (Export)
  Uses: Gadget-underlinePedia.css
• Change links unwelcomed user talk pages to preload {{howdy}}  (Export)
  Uses: Gadget-welcomer.js
• Underline in green categorizable {{w}} links  (Export)
  Uses: Gadget-whighlighter.css
• Highlight your name on pages  (Export)
  Uses: Gadget-userhighlight.js
• Hide {{votings}} entries marked as zero  (Export)
  Uses: Gadget-hidevotings.css
• HackPad integration – Edit articles collaboratively using HackPad. (experimental)  (Export)
  Uses: Gadget-hackpad.js

Opinion/comment namespace

• Automatically add the opinion page of an article you watch to your watchlist.  (Export)
  Uses: Gadget-CommentWatch.js
• Separate different comments on talk and opinion pages (Stolen from fr:)  (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.  (Export)
  Uses: Gadget-liquidnormtalk.js, Gadget-liquidnormtalk.css