Help:Widgets
From Wikia Help
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Widgets are boxes available on the Monaco Skin that contains a set of links or functions that are useful for your wiki. You can build the widgets to suit your perspective on what's important for your wiki. In addition, as processing power permits, we intend to surface more page-by-page and overall statistical information so you can learn more about how visitors see your wiki.
They can be added to the navigation sidebar, or accessed through the Widget Dashboard.
To explore and add widgets on the supporting skins, choose "Manage Widgets" from the bottom of the drop-down list in your userbar at the top of the page. You will see a row of icons at the top of the article space. You can drag and drop any of these icons into your sidebar. You can also visit Special:Widgets.
Manage Widgets
Clicking on your highlighted user name and icon at the top left of the screen brings down a menu of options including Manage Widgets. This brings up the Widget Bar spanning across the top of the main page, where you can scroll left and right to view, or click directly on the widget icons to drag and drop them to the sidebar.
Widget Dashboard
The Widget Dashboard is where you can put all the widgets you want to review at one time to get a quick snapshot of what is happening on your wiki. Read more about it here.
Full Widgets List
View the complete Widgets list to see the full gallery and explanations of each. This list also behaves like the Widget Bar -- you can click and drag the Widget icons from this list into the right sidebar.
Widgets at Work
Not quite sure what each widget is capable of? Here is a comprehensive list of all widgets and how they should be used. 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 out the widget, and returns it to your Widget Dashboard.
| Widget Icon | Widget | Info |
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Bookmark
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| Allows you to bookmark pages as you go around wikis. |
Active Talk Pages
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| 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. |
Top Referrers
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| This cloud of tags lets you know which sites are sending visitors to your wiki. |
Shoutbox
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| Not only can you see who's online and viewing the wiki, but you can also chat on-wiki within this widget. |
Tips
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| 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. |
Wiki Page in Widget
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| Instead of viewing a page in a new browser window or tab, you can set it to appear within this widget. |
Image Slideshow
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| Displays a slideshow of the most recently uploaded images to this wiki. |
Stale Pages
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| This drops down a list of articles or stubs which have not been edited or changed in a long time. |
Last Wikis
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| This shows which wikis you visited last, so that you can easily navigate back to the ones you were viewing most recently. |
Need Help
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| Some wikis are incomplete or could use your help with editing. The Need Help widget appears empty in the sidebar at first. |
Recent Changes
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| The most recently edited articles within this wiki are listed here. |
Top Voted
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| 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. |
Top Content
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| 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 visited; these are community-chosen links |
Recently Edited By
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| Click on the wrench icon to set the limit to how many recent editors there were to the article you are viewing. |
Most Visited
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| This widget lists the most visited articles on this wiki. Click on More... to fully expand the list. |
Problem Reports
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| View a list of the problem reports for the wiki you are viewing. |
Top Users
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| See a list of the most frequent visitors and contributors to this wiki - the top five edit counts. |
Watchlist
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| Keep a list of the articles you are watching. See watchlist. |
Contributions
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| Handy way to view your contributions. |
Got feedback?
Have a question about this feature? Want to recommend a new widget idea? Comment on the new Forum.
Embedding
Most Widgets can also be embedded directly into a page, see Help:WidgetTag for more details.
