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I would love to call these accessory gadgets Wikigets. Pls give ur views on this proposal. I think it would be nice to hav a wiki touch. Amartyabag TALK2ME 06:44, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
I've removed Twinkle from the Gadget list temporarily; please see the discussion at WP:AN#Vandal making use of Twinkle. Ral315 ( talk) 18:43, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
Will we ever be able to make our own gadgets? Marshall T. Williams ( talk) 22:52, 13 September 2008 (UTC)
I think it would be a good idea to demand that any gadget passing the evaluation should support all skins installed in Wikipedia (including Nostalgia, which I use). NerdyNSK ( talk) 10:20, 6 October 2008 (UTC)
I noticed that the instructions on this page state that a header made of "https://"-style comments should be added to both JS and CSS files. However, according to the CSS spec only "/* */"-style comments are valid. Should that be fixed? Anomie ⚔ 14:49, 16 June 2009 (UTC)
//
-style comments? The only one I found was
MediaWiki:Gadget-Blackskin.css. You're right in that those style of comments do not work in CSS files.
Gary King (
talk)
15:31, 16 June 2009 (UTC)
This gadget was added back in January 2008 by Prodego, without any discussion that I can see. Per its description, it provides "a black background with green text on the Monobook skin"; however, if we're going to start having CSS stylesheet gadgets, there are any number of other stylesheets I'd see made into gadgets long before this - including plenty of purely aesthetic ones (rounded corners, anyone?). Can anyone else fill in any of the history on just how this came to be a gadget, and does anyone else have an opinion on whether it should remain a gadget or be removed? 「 ダイノガイ 千?!」 ? · Talk⇒Dinoguy1000 09:45, 18 June 2009 (UTC)
If you want to do a rounded corners gadget, I think that User:Drilnoth/rounded.css is pretty comprehensive, but only for Mozilla browsers. – Drilnoth ( T • C • L) 18:24, 20 June 2009 (UTC)
It would help immensely if there was a gadget usage statistic implemented in MediaWiki. Knowing the usage patterns of gadgets would allow to identify rarely used and too exotic gadgets that would be better used as a traditional user script. This would help in maintaining the gadget selection list at a user friendly size and would also help to prioritize gadget development.
I have filed a Bugzilla bug report for this, please see bugzilla:19288. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cacycle ( talk • contribs) 21:43, 18 June 2009
The darn thang didn't work. It did increase the number of characters I could type into the box, and as appeared in the edit summary preview, but when I saved the page, it cut off at exactly 200 chars as normal. [1] That behavior seems worse than useless! Is it possible I did something wrong? • Anakin (talk) 00:38, 27 October 2009 (UTC)
I tried again: [2]. Still caps at exactly 200. • Anakin 20:06, 26 November 2009 (UTC)
Hello folks,
I am here at the tech-meeting and a user asked me, if I could generate a gagdet-usage-statistic on the toolserver. Here is the usage of gadgets of all active (=make at least 1 edit in the last 30 days) users.
Have fun, de:User:DaB. 22:23, 15 April 2010 (UTC)
Numbers of install of the Gadget courtesy of the Toolserver administrators. I've added comparison to dewiki from a report done in March. — Dispenser 17:04, 11 September 2010 (UTC)
At the moment there is an RFC at the spoiler guideline talk page that may be of interest to scripters who write and maintain gadgets because it's a proposal to make a small change to the layout of the Vector skin, probably to insert a link to the site Disclaimers into the sidebar so that it will be more prominent--currently it's only linked from the page bottom.
I expect that this would be achieved by having Mediawiki:Vector.js inject the link into the appropriate place. This may (or may not) have implications for gadgets that make assumptions about the layout of the vector skin. -- TS 13:49, 8 October 2010 (UTC)
{{ editprotected}}
It's 1 hour ahead of time. Could someone fix that? -- Σ talk contribs 02:55, 17 August 2011 (UTC)
I have updated MediaWiki:Gadget-citations.js so that now it uses protocol relative urls (ie. when logged in with https:// ) it calls toolserver with the same protocol, hence not logging out users who are using a secure login. It works for me, can others please double check. Thanks. — billinghurst sDrewth 07:02, 9 December 2011 (UTC)
To prepare for 1.19, the MediaWiki:Gadgets-definition page should be updated with the page here: User:MarkAHershberger/1.19-gadget-definition. Without these changes, gadgets will stop working because of un-declared dependencies. See mw.util is undefined in MediaWiki:Common.js for more info. — Preceding unsigned comment added by MarkAHershberger ( talk • contribs)
Not sure why, but the appearance gadget that shows a UTC clock on the top right area, that allows you to click it to purge a page, is no longer working. I went ahead and disabled it and re-enabled it and it's still not showing up. VegaDark ( talk) 21:03, 16 January 2012 (UTC)
This gadget should be updated, due to use of the following:
Aside from that I'd recommend:
mw.util.wikiScript('api')
and
jQuery.getJSON
(instead of wgScriptPath and sajax_init_object).Krinkle ( talk) 21:10, 16 January 2012 (UTC)
m:User:Krinkle/Tools/WhatLeavesHere is proving useful to me when quickly looking at links on a page when managing spam, or just simply looking at what is linked off a page. Something worthwhile considering as a universal gadget here, or at least for people to consider adding into their common.js file. — billinghurst sDrewth 02:08, 24 January 2012 (UTC)
At the upcoming Berlin hackathon in June, we'd especially like to have conversations with Gadgets developers. Experts will be available to discuss extending functionality with JavaScript, the future of ResourceLoader and Gadgets, the new Lua templating system, how to best use the web API for bots, and various upcoming features and changes. We'd love to have power users, Gadget creators, bot maintainers and writers, and template makers at this event so we can all learn from each other and chat about what needs doing.
Best wishes! Hope to see you there. - Sumana Harihareswara, Wikimedia Foundation's Volunteer Development Coordinator. Please reply on my talk page, here or at mediawiki.org. —Preceding undated comment added 16:25, 16 February 2012 (UTC).
Hey folks,
I've just added a super simple gadget for the Teahouse project's "ask a question" page. I originally had it set to appear by default, but I figured I'd better get a sanity check here first. The code is brought in by a very short initialisation script only on that particular page to save a bit of code bloat.
We're hoping to soft-launch the Teahouse project on Monday Pacific (I've been wrapped up in training and slow on getting this done). Please let me know before then if there's any problem in putting this in a gadget, or if I need to be doing it some other way.
Thanks a lot. — Andrew Garrett • talk 23:18, 24 February 2012 (UTC)
Does anyone see any issue if I enable ResourceLoader for ProveIt? Initially, this would just be so MediaWiki:Gadget-ProveIt.js can be unminiifed, but ResourceLoader minifies it when serving. I do have a dependency on jQuery Tabs, but I'd like to keep using mw.loader.using so it also works in dev (when I'm testing in non-gadget mode). Superm401 - Talk 05:09, 4 March 2012 (UTC)
The NewDiff gadget has been updated and is now based on r133098, designed by Trevor Parscal, which is currently in trunk, with some minor adjustments. Comments welcome. — Edokter ( talk) — 12:35, 10 March 2012 (UTC)
Is there any way to disable a Gadget for only one user. I ask because this user is effectively banned from using HotCat, and I think he is violating this by bypassing the automatic saving of HotCat and modifying the edit summary. (I only know about it, because he forget to make this two times.) Armbrust, B.Ed. Let's talk about my edits? 19:02, 17 March 2012 (UTC)
When I'm accessing en.wiki via https (secure.wikimedia.org) and click on the "My sandbox" link - it takes me to https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/incubator/wiki/W/index.php/Special:MyPage/sandbox - not quite sure how that can be fixed, but it probably should be. -- Versa geek 21:28, 19 March 2012 (UTC)
A few months ago, the "watch page" / "unwatch page" function in Gadget-dropdown-menus.js started sending me to an annoying new page asking me to click on a "Yes" button to confirm my request to watch or unwatch a page. The default "watch" / "unwatch" button (displayed when the gadget is not being used) doesn't do this.
I did some poking around and believe the reason for this change in behaviour is that a new "token" parameter was added to the MediaWiki watch/unwatch API (see here). The default watch/unwatch button action includes this token parameter, but the watch/unwatch menu item in the dropdown-menus gadget does not. — Rich wales 03:06, 25 June 2012 (UTC)
Moved to Wikipedia:Gadget/proposals#Teahouse Response gadget. Equazcion (talk) 20:26, 10 Aug 2012 (UTC)
I just noticed that for a long time now, MediaWiki has had a preference for "Edit area font style:" in the Editing tab, which includes an option for sans-serif, effectively making this gadget obsolete. I propose we immediately edit MediaWiki:Gadget-textareasansserif to state that this gadget is obsolete. To entirely remove the gadget, we have a few options:
Thoughts? Anomie ⚔ 03:23, 3 September 2012 (UTC)
mediaWiki.util.jsMessage('<p>You are currently using the "Make text fields use a sans-serif font" gadget. <b>This gadget will be turned off on $DATE!</b></p><p>For some time now, MediaWiki has included a preference to select the text area font in the <a href="/info/en/?search=Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing" target="preferences">Editing tab</a>; to keep your sans-serif font, please activate this preference. To stop receiving this message, please turn off this gadget in your preferences.</p>','textareasansserif-deprecated');
textareasansserif[ResourceLoader|dependencies=mediawiki.util]|textareasansserif.css|textareasansserif.js
).
Anomie
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03:23, 3 September 2012 (UTC)
Support removal. There's no good reason for opposing the change now that the preference doesn't apply to just #wpTextbox1, and we can even automatically change users' preferences for them.
PleaseStand (
talk)
03:12, 27 September 2012 (UTC)
Put this in a page MediaWiki:Gadget-textareasansserif.js:
new mediaWiki.Api().post( {action: 'options', token: mediaWiki.user.tokens.get( 'editToken' ), change: 'editfont=sans-serif|gadget-textareasansserif'} );
Change the relevant line in MediaWiki:Gadgets-definition to:
textareasansserif[ResourceLoader|dependencies=mediawiki.api,mediawiki.user]|textareasansserif.js|textareasansserif.css
And update MediaWiki:Gadget-textareasansserif to:
To use a sans-serif font for editing pages, change the "Edit area font style" in the [[#mw-prefsection-editing|"Editing" section]].
I think a recent security patch to MediaWiki core broke the API's ability to disable the gadget. Moreover, the number of accounts with the gadget enabled rose from 5187 (on November 22) to 5203 (on November 29). Leaving the broken script enabled can only cause an increasing amount of unnecessary server load and potential user confusion. As two months have passed, all active users should have been switched over. Is it time to remove the gadget now? PleaseStand ( talk) 21:49, 2 December 2012 (UTC)
Now that the new diff colors have been in MediaWiki for some time now, does this gadget actually do anything useful? Or does it just set the diff colors to what they already are? Anomie ⚔ 03:29, 3 September 2012 (UTC)
The change is part of 1.21wmf4. Is there any reason to keep this gadget now? PleaseStand ( talk) 05:23, 27 November 2012 (UTC)
As you are aware that I am doing lots of my efforts on Urdu Wiki. I often work on Wikipedia to update Interwiki links and Categories link between the two Wikipedias i.e. Urdu & English Wikipedia. I am using "Hot Interwiki" link in Urdu wiki ( find here) but couldn't succeed to find this link in English Wiki. Can you help me out to get this tool in English Wiki too so that I may enter Urdu interwiki link into English as I am usually make new categories on Urdu Wiki to categorize all article in a proper way. I only use English Wiki to enter Urdu interwiki and for this I've to spend lot of time to push the edit button on every single article on English Wiki to enter Urdu interwiki link.
I hope you will help me to get access to "Hot Interwiki" tool on English Wikipedia. Thanks -- ساجد امجد ساجد ( talk) 21:21, 28 October 2012 (UTC)
I want helper about preference more specifically an editcount helper. Whom should I go? -- Pratyya (Hello!) 15:06, 14 January 2013 (UTC)
Can we please add a requirement that each new gadget must be explained clearly in the preference option itself and must be linked to a detailed explanation and/or illustration of its functionality? (I would have said "should" on the second part, but almost every gadget does something that would not be easy to explain to a newbie WP user, so it really should be "must". How can a user decide whether they want to use a gadget [or not use it, if it's enabled by default] if they can't even understand what it does?) Most gadgets do satisfy both requirements already, but new ones continue to be added that don't satisfy either. If this idea is rejected as instruction creep, then can the people who are actively involved in this and other relevant pages just please "police" the addition of new preferences more carefully? Today I went to My Preferences after not checking them in a long time, and I found several new gadgets, one of which was checked by default but not described sufficiently well for even an experienced WP user like me to figure out what the heck it did (took 10 minutes of searching). This shouldn't be allowed to happen. - dcljr ( talk) 14:07, 16 February 2013 (UTC)
Up to yesterday they were right-aligned. I seem to recall it was a Gadget doing that. Can't find it. Was a Gadget removed recently? :) · Salvidrim!· ✉ 01:09, 7 May 2013 (UTC)
span.mw-editsection { float:right; }
@ Edokter: The Notifications gadget is causing a JS error for logged out users. The reason is that it loads ext.echo.overlay.js, which wasn't designed to function for anonymous users. I can fix this in ext.echo.overlay.js, but won't be able to deploy the fix until next week. Kaldari ( talk) 19:47, 8 May 2013 (UTC)
There is an ongoing RfC going on at Category talk:Wikipedians#RfC: Is this category and current subcategories appropriate for Wikipedia that gadget creators and users may be interested it. Technical 13 ( talk) 12:19, 29 August 2013 (UTC)
As known user contributions from an IP or a user can be listed. But additionally it is possible to list an IP-Range (activate CIDR-Settings). When listing a single IP or user, all the list entries have time of edit; but when listing an IP range, time of each edit is missing when expanding the entries. I was told that the script has to be adapted. Could please anyone help in adatping that script so that also time of edit will be listed? Please have a look to the german WP where I was describing the problem. I was told that this script (in the german WP) is affected and has to be adapted. Please have a look at this description of the problem; be aware that it is written in german language. Thank you. -- ProloSozz ( talk) 10:14, 10 January 2014 (UTC)
"Collections of scripts should be applied as own entities."
What is an "own entity" when it is at home? (Looks like some kind of Google-translate from German.) All the best:
Rich
Farmbrough, 14:13, 7 November 2014 (UTC).