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References segregator question

Hi PleaseStand, I'm unfamiliar with your references script and wanted to ask if it could help solve a technical WP problem. I started an article for A Dictionary of the Chinese Language using parenthetical inline references, but it was changed against my wishes to footnotes. As we discussed on the talk page, I'd rather not revert the other editor's work, and wondered if your segregator could convert the footnote ref=sfnp to parenthetical ref=harv citation. What do you think? Keahapana (talk) 02:18, 12 October 2016 (UTC)

@Keahapana: Sorry for this delayed reply. I wrote it a while ago, apparently forgot to post it, and did not notice for a while, because recently, I have not been editing Wikipedia much.

References Segregator probably is not useful for this task. Currently, it has no support for working with footnotes inserted by templates. Also, it cannot convert between citation styles; it can only convert between these two ways of marking up footnotes:

References Segregator is written in JavaScript.<ref name="homepage">[[User:PleaseStand/References segregator]]</ref>

==References==
<references />

References Segregator is written in JavaScript.<ref name="homepage" />

==References==
<references>
<ref name="homepage">[[User:PleaseStand/References segregator]]</ref>
</references>

I don't happen to know of any existing script for doing such a conversion. However, you may be able to use the wikitext editor's find-and-replace feature for much of the work. Specifically, converting an article's in-text citations that use {{sfnp}} to use instead {{harv}} is largely a matter of (a) changing the template name, (b) moving punctuation to after the citations, (c) bundling adjacent citations, and (d) combining the citations with names of authors within the text (as mentioned in Wikipedia:Parenthetical referencing#Inline citation in the body of the article, "You may name the author within the article itself, in which case only put the year in parentheses ..."). I was able to come up with a set of regexes that does all but (d). I can provide the regexes if you are interested. PleaseStand (talk) 08:47, 16 March 2017 (UTC)

User Info suggestion

Hello, I just found out about your script when I was reading this VPT discussion, and saw the line in the screenshot. It's really helpful! However, for blocked users, new users, and/or those with very few edits, linking to X's edit counter is overkill, since I just want to get a quick glance at their contributions (perhaps to determine if a U5 nomination is appropriate, etc). One suggestion is to allow the user to define three variables (blocked, min age, min count) to tell the script below what point the link should instead be to Special:Contributions. How does that sound? — Train2104 (t • c) 23:33, 7 March 2017 (UTC)

@Train2104: That might be confusing. Also, the script already includes a link to Special:Contributions when the API returns at least one non-deleted edit by the user.

For example, on your talk page, the script displays, "An extended confirmed user, page mover, file mover, patroller, pending changes reviewer, rollbacker, and template editor, 7 years 7 months old, with 36,878 edits. Last edited 4 hours ago."

The text "4 hours ago" is linked to Special:Contributions. PleaseStand (talk) 08:35, 16 March 2017 (UTC)

Got it. It's a little counterintuitive, though. — Train2104 (t • c) 14:26, 16 March 2017 (UTC)

File:Creating an article with AfC.png listed for discussion

A file that you uploaded or altered, File:Creating an article with AfC.png, has been listed at Wikipedia:Files for discussion. Please see the discussion to see why it has been listed (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry). Feel free to add your opinion on the matter below the nomination. Thank you. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 20:08, 16 March 2017 (UTC)

JavaScript RegExp problem

I noticed you have experience in JavaScript. I'm hoping you can help me with a problem I've run into writing a userscript.

Please see my post at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject JavaScript#Nested RegExp.

Thank you. The Transhumanist 12:24, 5 May 2017 (UTC)

Update to your script - userinfo

Hello,

Due to the creation of EFH, a new definition is needed in your script after Line 127, 'abusefilter-helper': "edit filter helper",.

Thanks! -- Dane ^talk 19:58, 4 October 2017 (UTC)

Done: Special:Diff/803890550 PleaseStand (talk) 09:55, 5 October 2017 (UTC)

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userinfo.js on Commons

Hey, just wanted to let you know that I copied your user info script over to Commons at commons:User:IagoQnsi/userinfo.js. I also updated the friendlyGroupNames variable to include Commons groups that don't exist on Wikipedia. If you want to copy it over to commons:User:PleaseStand/userinfo.js, just let me know and I'd be happy to delete my copy. Cheers, and thanks for a great script, IagoQnsi (talk) 07:46, 5 April 2018 (UTC)

userinfo.js

Hey, First of all thanks for such a great script. It looks like there is a bug in the script as at this userpage it doesn't show the date of registration of account. I have found this on some other accounts also, but this is the only one I remember rn. ‐‐1997kB (talk) 16:57, 10 July 2018 (UTC)

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Looking for other site-UI-improvement scripts or gadgets

Hi PleaseStand. I know you haven't edited recently, and hope you're ok. I hugely appreciate your "User info" script and have done for years! In case you do see this... There's a new long-term Desktop Improvements project that we're starting to work on. One of the existing tools/inspirations we've listed is your "Hide Vector sidebar" userscript. I'm wondering if you know of any other gadgets/userscripts/etc that are not already listed at mw:Reading/Web/Desktop Improvements#Phase 1: Design ideas? I'm also hoping you might have a chance to look through the sub-pages such as mw:Reading/Web/Desktop Improvements/Wikimania Stockholm research report and share your feedback about the overall ideas and specific details. Either way, thank you for your efforts to help make the sites more usable. :) Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 21:44, 30 October 2019 (UTC)

partial blocks in User:PleaseStand/userinfo.js

Hey could you please make it compatible with partial blocks. Thanks! ‐‐1997kB (talk) 08:21, 29 January 2020 (UTC)

"Adminship" listed at Redirects for discussion

A discussion is taking place to address the redirect Adminship. The discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2020 July 12#Adminship until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. Hog Farm _Bacon 04:21, 12 July 2020 (UTC)

suppressredirect is undefined in Mediawiki:Gadget-userinfo.js

Hello PleaseStand, we have the ckb:میدیاویکی:Gadget-userinfo.js gadget on ckbwiki, but when we click on "گوێزەرەوە بەبێ ڕەوانەکەر", it looks like the page is not defined and will take us to https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undefined while the the correct link is ckb:ویکیپیدیا:گواستنەوەی پەڕە. I tried to solve it, but I couldn't. If you have time, please take a look. If you haven't enabled the gadget before, please go to the Gadgets tab on ckbwiki, find پیشاندانی زانیارییەکانی تۆماربوون، ژمارەی دەستکارییەکان، و گرووپەکانی بەکارھێنەر لە ژێر ناوی بەکارھێنەرەکاندا and enable it. You can see the results on User:Sakura emad's page. Have a good day and thank you! ⇒ Aram Talk 14:48, 23 August 2021 (UTC)