Help:Widgets

From Wikia Help

Manage your widgets!

The widget carousel

Special:Widgets

Widgets are boxes that can be dragged-and-dropped onto the Monaco sidebar, containing a set of links or functions that may be useful for your wiki.

They can be added to the left-hand navigation sidebar, or accessed through the Widget Dashboard, and you can arrange the widgets to suit your preferences.

Widget basics

Adding widgets

To explore and add widgets, choose "Manage widgets" from the bottom of the drop-down list in your user bar at the top of the page.

You will see a row of icons appear at the top of the article space, the "widget carousel", which you can scroll left/right. Click the green "+" icon next to a widget to add it to your sidebar, and close the bar using the red "X"

Alternatively, you can visit Special:Widgets. This list also behaves like the widget bar - you can click the green "+" button to add items from this list to the sidebar.

Using widgets

The wrench icon is used to customize settings, and the up/down arrows expand and minimize widgets. Clicking on the 'x' in the right corner closes the widget.

Widget dashboard

The Widget Dashboard is a special page where you can arrange any or all the widgets you want to review at one time to get a quick snapshot of what is happening on your wiki - it provides more space for you to work with than the sidebar. To add widgets to this page, add widgets to your sidebar, then drag them to this page.

Visit it at Special:WidgetDashboard, and read more at Help:Widget Dashboard.

Full list of widgets

Not quite sure what each widget is capable of? Here is a comprehensive list of all widgets and how they can be used:

Widget icon	Widget	Info
Active talk pages		Set a limit and see which talk pages have been recently edited. This keeps you up to date with what activity is occurring across all talk pages.
Bookmark		Allows you to bookmark pages as you go around wikis.
Contributions		Handy way to view your contributions.
Help needed		Some wikis are incomplete or could use your help with editing. The Need Help widget appears empty in the sidebar at first.
Image slideshow		Displays a slideshow of the most recently uploaded images to this wiki.
Last wikis		This shows which wikis you visited last, so that you can easily navigate back to the ones you were viewing most recently.
Magazine Creator		This allows you to create a magazine of content pages on the wiki.
Most visited		This widget lists the most visited articles on this wiki. Click on More... to fully expand the list.
Problem reports		View a list of the problem reports for the wiki you are viewing.
Recent changes		The most recently edited articles within this wiki are listed here.
Shoutbox		Allows you to chat live on the wiki!
Recently Edited By		Click on the wrench icon to set the limit to how many recent editors there were to the article you are viewing.
Stale pages		This drops down a list of articles or stubs which have not been edited or changed in a long time.
Tips		This widget will display and tips the admins on that wiki have built in. These tips might be about wikimarkup - they may be about wiki policy - or they may be general tips pertaining to that wiki's topic. Find out all the things you didn't know.
Top content		Filter articles by most popular, most visited, newly changed, or by highest rating. Use the dropdown menu to select from how you want your articles to be displayed. Featured - Special:Top/most popular; these are community-chosen links Most popular - Special:Top/most visited; pages with the highest number of page views Newly changed - Special:Top/newly changed Highest ratings - Special:Top/highest ratings
Top referrers		This cloud of tags lets you know which sites are sending visitors to your wiki.
Top users		See a list of the most frequent visitors and contributors to this wiki - the top five edit counts.
Top voted		Thanks to the star ratings at the bottom of each article, you can now view the top rated articles that were voted on by other users. See page rating.
Watchlist		Keep a list of the articles you are watching. See watchlist.
Wiki Page in Widget		Instead of viewing a page in a new browser window or tab, you can set it to appear within this widget.