Help:Special tools

Gadgets
Gadgets are special tools that can be set up in your preferences and settings.

Tools and menus

 * Edit button "Tools for users maintenance" for head editors and administrators – enables special links in the left toolbox for maintaining user accounts (according to your rights you can set any user’s patrol rights, user rights or you can check IP addresses of the user for the purpose of blocking suspicious account)
 * Simplification of the delete page reasons – this will erase content of the Reason field when deleting a page
 * Do not display the disclaimer – this tool hides disclaimer when viewing an article
 * Summary tips – provides a special menu under the Summary field to quickly click edit summary

WikiLectures Copyvio Search for Google Chrome
You can install this extension to your browser if you use Google Chrome. It will help you to check sources and copyright violations at WikiLectures.

Article Scores
Extension allows inserting the score to every article’s revision by using the stars. The rating is available under every article and it changes according to number of edits and rating of the users during the time. List of all rated articles is available at the special page.

Category History
This extension provides list of all changes of all articles in a category. This is useful for editors and teachers. Link to the special page is available in the left toolbox when viewing a category page.

CharInsert
Helps to insert special characters to the edit field (box is under the Save page button).

Check User
This extensions allows to monitor IP addresses of all users and their edits. This is useful when blocking spam accounts. The special page is Special:CheckUser.

Chemical Sources
This extension provides special page for chemical sources.

Cite
Adds references and special tags  and.

Collection
Extension creates PDF version of articles and allows to create a collection of more articles (a book). The special page is here: Special:Book.

Contribution Scores
Polls the wiki database for highest user contribution volume.

Flash Extension
Allows to add flash animations to the articles.

Flash MP3
Allows to add flash media player for mp3 files to the articles.

Global Stats
This provides global statistics for WikiLectures (number of articles, number of users, etc.) during the time including CSV output.

Inputbox
Adds tag  to insert a predefined HTML form (e.g. to create an article or provide fulltext search).

Manual Sitemap
Creates XML Google Sitemap file (available only for administrators).

ParserFunctions
This extension adds parser logical functions that help programming templates.

Silverlight extension
This extension adds special tag  to insert a Silverlight animation.

Spam Report
This special page allows to send spam report to the provider of the IP address.

Subpage List 3
Automatically inserts list of all subpages of the current page using tag.

Syntax Highlight
Provides syntax highlighting of Javascript, PHP or other code using tag. This is useful in documentation pages.

User Merge and Delete
Adds a possibility of merging two user accounts or deleting one of them.

User Stats
This extension provides statistics of users’ contributions.