Forum:Enabling the Gadgets extension

Hello,

As some users may know, Wikia has a MediaWiki extension known as Gadgets which can be activated upon request. The extension will allow for us to to add custom JS/CSS scripts that are not part of the wiki-wide interface and are of optional use. The scripts are activated via tickboxes under the "Gadgets" tab on Special:Preferences (which we don't currently have as we don't have the extension installed).

Currently the only way to activate an optional, custom script on the wiki is via editing a user's own personal JS/CSS page, which can be rather time consuming and potentially troublesome. This extension makes enabling a script much easier as the admins can just write it into the MediaWiki namespace under the "Gadget" prefix and the end user can just enable it via their preferences. It's that simple.

So obviously I'm proposing that we enable this here. Pending a favourable consensus, the admin closing the forum should contact Wikia asking for the Gadgets extension to be enabled, with this forum being referenced to say the community generally wants this.

Please discuss this below. 13:37, September 4, 2013 (UTC)