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Gadgets are enhancements to MediaWiki, made of javascript and CSS; but not written as full-blown extensions.

This wiki has several Gadgets that you can use.

  1. User:Cacycle/wikEd
  2. Snippets/Toggle_between_dropdown_menus_and_tabs MenuTabsToggle
  3. Wikipedia:HotCat

There are a ton of gadgets used on the WikiPedia site: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Gadgets/wikipedia

There are even gadgets for the Visual Editor

Users

Visit your preferences (Gadgets tab) to modify which gadgets are turned on or off.

Admins

  1. Export the gadget from the wiki that has the gadget.
    1. E.g.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Gadgets/export/HotCat
    2. Download the export / save the file locally
  2. Import the gadget to the new wiki that wants the gadget feature.
    1. E.g. https://freephile.org/wiki/index.php/Special:Import
  3. Add the gadget to the gadgets-definition page
    1. E.g. https://freephile.org/wiki/index.php/MediaWiki:Gadgets-definition