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Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 24
Hello everyone, and welcome to the 24th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter, covering all our favorite new and updated user scripts since 24 December 2021. Uh-huh, we're finally covering the good ones among the rest! Aren't you excited? Remember to include a link in double brackets to the script's .js page when you install the script, so that we can see who uses the script in WhatLinksHere! The ScriptInstaller gadget automatically does this. Aaron Liu (talk) 01:00, 1 March 2024 (UTC)
Got anything good? Tell us about your new, improved, old, or messed-up script here!
Featured script
Making user scripts load faster by SD0001 is this month's featured script, which caches userscripts every day to eliminate the overhead caused by force-downloading the newest version of scripts every time you open a Wikipedia page. Despite being released in April 2021, our best script scouters have failed to locate it due to its omission from the US of L. For security reasons, the script only supports loading JavaScript pages.
Newly maintained scripts
After earthly attempts at improving the original have failed...
Ahecht has created a fork of SiBr4/TemplateSearch, which adds the "TP:" shortcut for "Template:" in the search box, and updated it to be compatible with Vector 2022.
AquilaFasciata/goToTopFast is a much faster fork of the classic goToTop script that also adds compatibility for Minerva and Vector 2022.
Without caching. Each script takes 400–500ms. A particularly large script takes 1.11 s! Internet download speed is 50 Mbps.With caching enabled. Each script takes just 1-2 ms to load.
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Unfortunately, this section has remained nearly identical. Help us out here!
To a lesser extent, the same goes for PrimeHunter/Search sort. I wish someone would integrate the sorts into the sort menu instead of adding 11 portlet links.
Dragoniez/SuppressEnterInForm stops you from accidentally submitting anything due to pressing enter while in the smaller box, and works on almost anything... except the InputBox element itself, used in subscription lists and the Signpost Crossword! Oh, the humanity!
Doǵu/Adiutor(pictured) provides a nice, integrated interface to do some twinkley tasks such as copyvio detection, CSD tagging, and viewing the most recent diff.
Eejit43 has quite the aesthetically pleasing scripts, all made in TypeScript.
/afcrc-helper is a replacement for the unmaintained Enterprisey/AFCRHS and processes Redirects for Creation and Categories for Creation requests.
/ajax-undo stops the "undo" button from taking you to another page while providing a text box to provide a reason for the revert.
/redirect-helper(pictured) adds a much better interface for editing and redirects, including categorization, for which valid categories are dictated by /redirect-helper.json.
/rmtr-helper helps process technical requested moves without being able to actually move them.
Guycn2/UserInfoPopup(pictured) adds a flyout after the watchlist star on userspace pages that displays the common information you might use about a user.
Jeeputer/editCounter, under userspace, adds a portlet link to count your edits by namespace, put them in a table, and put that table in a hardcoded subpage, all in the background.
Hilst/Scripts/sectionLinks converts all section links to use the § sign, which are known to be preferred over the ugly # by 99% of the devils I've met.
PrimeHunter/Category source.js adds portlet links to tell you where a category for an article comes from and supports those from template transclusions.
Sophivorus's MiniEdit adds some nice, li'l buttons next to paragraphs to edit their wikitext with a minimal interface.
Edit-listings
Dragoniez/ToollinkTweaks adds more and customizable links next to users in page history, logs, watchlist, recent changes, etc.
Firefly/more-block-info optimizes the display of rangeblocks in contribution pages. Doesn't work outside the English locale of any wiki, unfortunately.
NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh/AjaxLoader makes paging links (e.g. older 50, 500, newest) load without refreshing and makes you realize how slow your internet actually is.
Appearance-ricing
Ahecht/RedirectID adds the redirect target to all redirects. For all the WP:NAVPOPS haters. (Do these exist?)
Dragoniez/MarkBLockedGlobal: Remember the "strike blocked usernames" gadget? Now you can use a red, dotted line to highlight rangeblocks and global locks!
Jonesey/common(pictured) has some styles to overhaul your Vector 2022 experience. It reduces padding everywhere, and makes the top bar animation faster.
Aaron Liu/V22 is a fork that narrows the sidebars instead of upheaving them, reverts the January 2024 dropdown changes, and restores the old page-link color for links that don't go outside the current wiki.
Nardog: SmartDiff is a spiritual successor to Enterprisey/fancy-diffs. It makes the page title part of links in diffs clickable, along with template and parser function calls. Unnamed parameters can be configured per template to also be linked. All links are styled based on the normal CSS classes of rendered links.
For the paranoid: Rublov/anonymize replaces your username at the top of the screen with the generic "User page" text. Remember, it is your duty to persuade everyone that editing is an honor.
/AjaxBlock provides a dialog box for easy input of reasons while blocking users.
/Selective Rollback(pictured) provides a dialog box to customize rollback edit summaries and does them without reloading the page. Seriously, why doesn't MediaWiki already do this?
/flickrsearch adds a portlet link to search for uploadable flickr images about the subject.
/randomincategory adds a portlet link when on Category pages to go to a random page in the current category.
Vghfr/EasyTemplates adds a portlet link to automatically insert some of the most common inline {{fix}} templates.
Yes, we're just doing 'em as we go now. Thanks for reading through this looong issue, if you did! I'm sure this'll send a record for the longest issue ev-ah. You may need to wait even longer for the last issue, as our reserve of old-y and goodie scripts have ran out... We encourage you to try and do some of the requests or improvement tasks. See you in Summer, hopefully!
I understand your points. I anticipated many of your suggested corrections which stem from my lack of familiarity with wiki procedures such as referring to images that exist in attachments rather than copying public domain images and pasting them in a desirable spot using wiki process.
I was wondering if you would look over my entire suggested update in detail, modify it as necessary changing everything you notice into the perfect wiki way to incorporate my changes—-then produce the final Diamond crash wiki page will all changes incorporated that I could paste into my sandbox to confirm that it corresponds to my intentions—then I would make the final update by pasting my sandbox after selecting all of the existing source code for the Diamond crash page. No rush, at your convenience.
I really don’t want to study wiki to do this and would compensate you if necessary for eliminating this headache for me. Cresterest (talk) 02:09, 15 February 2024 (UTC)
Sure, I can help you with wiki markup and formatting. I don't blame you for not wanting to mess with it - it takes a while to learn. I don't think there is no need to upload the images themselves, just linking them in the external links section is fine. I just disliked the constant referencing of another section since the broke the flow of the prose.
I'll be formatting your proposed change in your sandbox if it is ok for you. Cheers, ♠ Catalk to me! 15:13, 16 February 2024 (UTC)
Thank you so much. However I do want the images to appear without navigating, as I think they are essential to understanding/feeling the loss. If you would please locate the crash impact scar image appropriately beneath the image of the aircraft flying in formation.
I will look for my sandbox when you notify you are complete. Cresterest (talk) 12:28, 22 February 2024 (UTC)
February 2024 WikiProject Unreferenced articles backlog drive – award
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This award is given in recognition to Ca/Archives/2024 for collecting more than 1 point during the WikiProject Unreferenced articles's FEB24 backlog drive. Your contributions played a crucial role in sourcing 14,300 unsourced articles during the drive. Thank you so much for participating and helping to reduce the backlog! – – DreamRimmer (talk) 17:39, 8 March 2024 (UTC)
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Hello,
can you help me out i have a concern about creating a business page. i don't know the initial steps --Bhattdipesh (talk) 09:47, 15 March 2024 (UTC)
Hi, I made a draft wikipedia page Kenneth S Breuer, a professor at Brown University. How do I know it's being reviewed? --Sara246santos (talk) 18:28, 18 March 2024 (UTC)
Hi, it seems that you moved the article to the mainspace (that is where all our articles reside), but was returned to a draft status by a New Page Patroller, whose job is to monitor new articles. Wikipedia processes can be convoluted,
I don't blame you for missing this, but editors with a conflict of interest should have their drafts be reviewed through the WP:Articles for Creation process, where it will be reviewed before publishing.
As for the draft itself, I recommend adding sources to verify claims like his fellowships. Exceptional claims like At the micron scale, he pioneered the mechanics of bacterial motility and flagellar mechanics, the nanoscale flow near a moving contact line, and the development of nanoscale velocimetry techniques. require verification from independent sources, not just the papers themselves. ♠ Catalk to me! 23:37, 18 March 2024 (UTC)
I just realized I forgot to actually answer your question. Currently, your draft is not being reviewed, as evidenced by the box on top of your draft page. To submit it for review, click the blue button and follow the instructions. ♠ Catalk to me! 23:58, 18 March 2024 (UTC)
As Israeli, I find it absurde that the English page about this person is defined by you as "not sufficiently notable for inclusion in Wikipedia.". Dror is one of the key leaders in Israel, Personaly I'm part of a comunitry of close to 100,000 people that follow him daily on his whatsapp groups. (check is social media) - he is being quated and interviewed almost every day etc etc. https://x.com/faniaoz/status/1771595428573712817?s=20
I edited parts that were wrong, and this page need to be restored ASAP as it makes Wikipedia looks like a political tool which tries to hide the people that are working to change the Israeli goverment.
Thank you, Gili2011 (talk) 07:25, 26 March 2024 (UTC)
Hi, I see that Omert and you are continuing to work on the draft. If you want the draft to be considered another time, you should contact the editor who rejected the draft User talk:Scope creep and ask for reconsideration.
Some suggestion: Try to reduce the links to sources affiliated with Dror himself(like his business or published books) and replace them with independent sources. Some sentences has WP:OVERCITE issues or sound promotional. Words like "leading" need attribution (according to whom?).
Tell me if you need more help. Catalk to me! 08:05, 29 March 2024 (UTC)
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