WikiQueer:User page design center/Scripts

Adding scripts to your account
You may have more than one user page. Additional pages in your user space are called "sub pages". They are named after your main user page, followed by a forward slash, followed by the subpage name. Like this: "User:The Transhumanist/Virtual classroom".

One subpage name in particular is reserved to be an active page checked by Mediawiki (the name of the software program which runs WikiQueer). That subpage, called "vector.js", is used to customize your user account.

"JS" stands for JavaScript. You can customize your WikiQueer account using JavaScript scripts. Whenever you log on, the MediaWiki software automatically accesses and runs any scripts found on your vector.js page (if you have one that is).

Many scripts are now made available as "gadgets"
Many scripts can be added to your account from Special:Preferences/Gadgets, such as:
 * Navigational Popups - This turns your mouse pointer into a crystal ball: whenever you hover the mouse over an internal link, a box will popup giving you a peek into that page (showing the topmost part of that page). And this function is recursive, in that you can do it again to a link inside the box, and inside the next box that pops from inside that box, and so on.  There is also a powerful menu provided of things you can do to the page in the popup.

These can still be added to your account the old-fashioned way on your vector.js page, but installing them in My preferences takes just checking a box for each.

