JSBreadCrumbs is a simple extension that adds a jQuery based Javascript file and a CSS file to your wiki’s output that will add a trail of navigation breadcrumbs below the navigation tabs. The idea is for a simpler history than your back button that only tracks navigation inside of the wiki. Unlike the browser’s back button, it will only track GET requests, not POSTs, will only show history for your wikis, and will remove duplicate entries from the list.

The breadcrumbs can follow users across wikis in a wiki farm, if those wikis share the same domain. This is the default behavior, but can be changed. The other configurable options are the number of breadcrumbs shown, and the separator between the breadcrumbs.

Since this extension is simply Javascript and CSS, it can be added to your wiki as a gadget, if you use the Gadgets extension.

To get more information, or to download the extension, please see the extension’s page on mediawiki.org.

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