Admin Forum:How does the bookmark widget work?

It says

"Add your favorite pages by clicking 'add' icon above"

but there is no "add" button. Should I have used something other than

Bookmark

or is this widget broken?

Pecoes 11:20, February 12, 2012 (UTC)


 * Are all widgets broken? I also tried RecentChanges, NewPages and Contribs. At first sight they seemed to work, but apparently they merely output static HTML. When I came back to the page 24 hours later they still showed the exact same - by now outdated - lists.


 * What exactly is the point of widgets?


 * Pecoes 13:47, February 13, 2012 (UTC)


 * Can you give a link to the wiki or page with this problem? It sounds like an old wiki that was never fully updated for the latest Oasis skin. Wikia's previous skin called Monaco supported widgets, but Oasis does not. -- Fandyllic (talk &middot; contr) 13 Feb 2012 1:17 PM Pacific


 * Here's the page with the static/broken widgets:


 * Jade_Empire_Modding_Wiki:Community_Portal


 * The wiki is brand new. It was founded a little over two months ago and it yes, it does use the Oasis skin. Does that mean I can forget about widgets? And if so, would it be a problem, if I write my own?


 * Pecoes 21:35, February 13, 2012 (UTC)


 * I looked at the history for that page and it looks like you (Pecoes) added the widget code, but it probably never worked. You obviously decided to add it for some reason and copied it from somewhere. Did it work where you copied it from (and where would that be?)?
 * The short answer is that the  tag may work in some rare cases, but shouldn't since support for it was supposed to have been taken away.
 * Widgets in the sense of modules developed by Wikia using the  tag should not be used, but widgets as a concept (small functional modules of code not normally supported in standard wikicode) still exist, but may break if Wikia does something to make them incompatible.
 * See w:c:wow:Template:WoW_Answers_widget for an example of a widget that was re-implemented for Oasis to replace something similar that could be done by the  tag in the old Monaco skin.
 * New widgets take alot more initiative and experimentation and are not as easy or reliable as the old ones, but when Wikia takes away, sometimes you can work around it. -- Fandyllic (talk &middot; contr) 13 Feb 2012 2:56 PM Pacific