Forum:Default widgets

when i logout, i no longer see the widgets for my wiki, how can i make a widget default(or can i )Unstubber


 * This request has been made before. I am pretty sure it would have been User:Uberfuzzy who told me that there are no plans to allow user-created widgets to appear by default to any/all visitor(s) to a given wiki. (So it seems that peddling features that are "opt-out only" is a privilege reserved for Wikia staff and not extended to wiki admins.)
 * The nearest thing to this is the MediaWiki:Widgetwikipage which is still an opt-in widget but at least it appears by default at (i) Special:Widgets (ii) the "Manage widgets" carousel toolbar, and (iii) Special:WidgetDashboard.
 * -- najevi 02:47, August 31, 2010 (UTC)
 * Indeed it has been made before, by me. Quoting from an email reply: (removed date info)
 * But that was a long time ago. So... Killr 15:33, August 31, 2010 (UTC)
 * But that was a long time ago. So... Killr 15:33, August 31, 2010 (UTC)


 * Once the new Wikia skin rolls out, it seems that there will no longer be widgets, so this request (possibly unfortunately) be well and truly dead. "As of now, we have identified the widget dashboard -- which includes the shoutbox -- as one of the most underutilized features. So, the widget dashboard will not be available on the new skin." - from Wikia’s new look - FAQ. The 888th Avatar   (talk)  15:45, August 31, 2010 (UTC)


 * I edited on Wikia for about a year before I knew widgets even existed. Yeah, there's a reason WHY they're the most underutilized feature... --Grynd (talk) 18:58, September 1, 2010 (UTC)

Good grief
First they starve the widget feature of adequate technical support and then they remove it due to it being underutilized.

Widgets were perhaps the most promising feature of the Monaco skin - the major shortfall being that there was no place to centrally share custom-widgets - no widget repository. For several ideas that might have been read User blog:Najevi/Test drive myContent and myLZ

In this case Wikia are throwing the proverbial "baby out with the bath water". Perhaps with this mandatory new look for Wikia (and the reduced feature set) the company name can be changed to Myopia. -- najevi 00:54, September 1, 2010 (UTC)