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by gojomo 5091 days ago
MediaWiki/Wikipedia has a skin feature where a user can set their own custom user-specific JS to be added to each page. (Think of it as a server-side Greasemonkey or auto-triggered-bookmarklet.) See...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:User_style#JavaScript

...and the 'Custom JavaScript' links of...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsect...

I suspect you could use this to implement a bounce-to-other-app-via-URL-handler mechanism, for any logged-in user who could be coached to cut&paste the right Javascript into the right place.