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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 description]

• After rolling back a change, automatically open the contributions page of that user. (View description | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-modrollback.js
  Requires the following right: rollback.
• Require confirmation before performing rollback on mobile devices (View description | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-confirmationRollback-mobile.js
  Requires the following right: rollback.
• Disable access keys (View description | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-removeAccessKeys.js
• Focus the cursor in the search bar on loading the Main Page. (View description | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-searchFocus.js
• GoogleTrans: open a translation popup for the selected text or the word under the cursor when pushing the shift button (View description | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-GoogleTrans.js
• Open other websites links in a new tab/window (View description | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-exlinks.js
• Reference Tooltips: Roll over any inline citation to see reference information, instead of having to move away from the article text. (View description | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-ReferenceTooltips.js, Gadget-ReferenceTooltips.css
  Enabled for everyone by default.
• Twinkle, a set of tools that automates common tasks such as reporting vandalism, warning vandals, and requesting deletion. (View description | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-morebits.js, Gadget-Twinkle.js, Gadget-morebits.css
  Requires the following right: autoconfirmed.
  The following dependency is deprecated: jquery.ui.
• Prosesize: add a toolbox link to show the size of and number of words in a page (View description | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-Prosesize.js, Gadget-Prosesize.css
• Hide the donations site notice. (View description | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-HideFundraisingNotice.css

Editing gadgets[View description]

• Edittools - Show the special characters toolbar on edit screens. (View description | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-Edittools.css
• HotCat: Easily add / remove / change a category on an image, with name suggestion (View description | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-Hotcat.js
• Vandal Warner: Easily add warning messages on talk page of vandals. (View description | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-vandalwarner.js
• refTools, adds a "cite" button to the editing toolbar for quick and easy addition of commonly used citation templates. (View description | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-refToolbar.js
  Enabled for everyone by default.
• ⧼gadget-refToolbarBase⧽ (View description | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-refToolbarBase.js
  This gadget is hidden, meaning it will not show up on the preferences page.
• Real-Time Recent Changes, a powerful GUI that enables you to monitor the recent changes in real-time. (View description | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-RTRC.js
• CharInsert, adds a toolbar under the edit window for quickly inserting wiki markup and special characters (View description | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-charinsert.css

Interface gadgets[View description]

• Add a "change" link for the first section of a page (View description | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-edittop.js
• Add a "0" tab to the top of the page which lets you change the first section of the page. (View description | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-editzero.js
• Add a "Last" tab to the top of the page which shows the difference of the current version with the last version. (View description | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-lastdiff.js
• Add a "Purge" tab to the top of the page which lets you purge the cache of the page. (View description | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-purgetab.js
• Contributions Range: Allow /16,/24-/32 CIDR ranges on Special:Contributions forms (uses API), as well as wildcard Prefix searches, eg: Splark* (View description | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-contribsrange.js
• Logs Filter: Allows regex-based filtering of Special:Log. While this originally was intended for areas such as Special:Log/rights it now allows filtering of almost any page that has
• on it. (View description | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-rightsfilter.js
• Watchlist notifier: Alerts you when a page on your watch list is changed. (View description | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-WatchlistNotifier.js
  Gadget is not loaded. Please migrate to ResourceLoader. (Learn more)
• Live Clock: Add a UTC clock to the screen. (View description | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-LiveClock.js
• Highlight Administrators: Highlights the link to the talk pages of Administrators to make them easier to locate. (View description | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-HighlightAdmins.js
• Bracket Match - A gadget that simplifies the creation of templates with parser functions (View description | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-Bracketmatch.js
• Enhanced Interwikis: The interwiki box will be able to cycle from language names in English to their native languages and their actual links. To cycle, click "in other languages". (View description | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-EnhancedInterwikis.js
• HighlightRedirect: Adds a tab to the top of the page which highlights redirects in green. (View description | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-HighlightRedirect.js
• Move section [change] links to the right side of the screen. (View description | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-righteditlinks.css
• Show radio buttons to switch between views of certain content, such as some maps (View description | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-switcher.js
  Enabled for everyone by default.
• Display watchlist notices (View description | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-watchlist-notice.js
  Requires the following right: viewmywatchlist.
  Enabled for everyone by default.
• ⧼gadget-watchlist-notice-core⧽ (View description | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-watchlist-notice-core.js
  This gadget is hidden, meaning it will not show up on the preferences page.

Administration[View description]

• Userrights Change the privileges of a user. (from Sir Lestaty de Lioncourt) (View description | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-userrights.js
• Ajax RFD close tool for use on Simple English Wikipedia. (View description | Export)
  Uses: Gadget-quickrfdclosure.js
  Requires the following right: delete.