Useful Gadgets

The Gadgets extension allows for extra user features to be enabled and disabled as the user desires. Some of these features provide different skin layouts, extra editing features, and various other things that can make a beginner to MediaWiki's life easier.

Gadgets can be installed by copying the appropriate files needed to make them work from another wiki to your own, then they can be selected from the preferences menu.

Below will be a list of sites with gadgets most useful to beginning users and where to get them.

'''Note: Not all gadgets will work out of the box, and those listed may not work on all types of wiki setups. There are also included notes on how to make certain gagdets work better or how to avoid some problems getting them to work.'''

If anyone else knows of gadgets that are useful to MediaWiki beginners, please feel free to list them here