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Hi,
Thank you for taking a look at the Draft:Jo Bamford page I was working on. I appreciate the feedback :)
I'm new at this and was wondering if you could give me some pointers on how to improve it? I know you're busy so any advice you can offer would be great. Thanks! --Eatthecrow (talk) 20:29, 21 January 2022 (UTC)
While I think the initial edit was grammatically poor, we don't have to cite plot sections; they are hammered out strictly through consensus. - Jack Sebastian (talk) 15:05, 25 January 2022 (UTC)
Hi there,
Re the added content requiring a source. I am the source, I am an engineer who works on the vehicles in question and over time I have personally carried out the modifications that make up the added/edited content in the article. LRV1007 (talk) 18:44, 27 January 2022 (UTC)
The Copyright notice on the Zane Grey Theatre article.
I am sorry but the user who added that gave no valid reason to why a copyright notice should be there. It was merely an act of vandalism, seemingly, and should be reverted. What is supposed to be copyrighted and not covered by fair use? _ The Mummy. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 146.90.0.73 (talk) 11:33, 3 February 2022 (UTC)
I think you made a mistake. I removed content on Grand Council of Bern, but adequately explained the reason. The last election was held in 2018, and the current composition is explained in the infobox on the top right corner. The summary and explanation in the "Composition" section is outdated and misleading. There is also a banner that calls for updates. No need for overpolicing. Thank you for your understanding. --95.237.77.50 (talk) 12:58, 12 February 2022 (UTC)
Hello! I wanted to drop a quick note for all of our AFC participants; nothing huge and fancy like a newsletter, but a few points of interest.
AFCH will now show live previews of the comment to be left on a decline.
The template {{db-afc-move}} has been created - this template is similar to {{db-move}} when there is a redirect in the way of an acceptance, but specifically tells the patrolling admin to let you (the draft reviewer) take care of the actual move.
I recently deleted the content of the Edelman Fossil Park Wikipedia page. I know this seems like a mistake, but my employer requested I remove the content so that it can be reviewed and edited offline before resubmitting. Is this okay? I'm not sure if there is another way to keep the content but turn off the page from the public until it is ready to go live?
Hi Synoman Barris. Thanks for your time and efforts for reviewing this article. I observe that you have placed a speedy deletion tag. As the article is informational for the aggrieved consumers as per Consumer Protection Act'2019, it is not written to promote any organisation or institution. The portal is created to facilitate for complaints in case of any fraudulent trade. Request you to kindly remove the tag. Gardenkur (talk) 07:53, 2 March 2022 (UTC)
Request to become a student
Hello! I've been an active reader and IP editor for many years, and a few months ago I decided to create an account, something I should have done long ago. Anyways, I'm leaving you a message to ask if I can become a student of the Counter-Vandalism-Unit.? Leave a message on my talk page for a response. Thank you,Telefocus (talk) 21:20, 1 March 2022 (UTC)
Telefocus, Hello , thank you for your message and welcome to Wikipedia. I regret to inform you that I am not able to take you through CVUA as my student for the following reasons:
You have not reached the minimum threshold of 200 mainspace edits
Looking through your edits, your not involved in antivandalism work
Youve some behavioural notices on your talk page which aren't solved yet
Most, if not all of your edits are to your talkpage or Wikipedia namespace.
Synoman Barris, I understand, I could have sworn the whole point of the Counter-Vandalism Unit/Academy was to learn to spot and counter vandalism, which is why I am asking to be a student, so I can learn. I also read the page and it does not appear there are requirements to become a student of the CVU. Telefocus (talk) 16:04, 2 March 2022 (UTC)
Leart Paqarada page edit
Hello,
I have made some edits voluntary to the page of Leart Paqarada but i received an notification that you removed all the changes.
I actually have changed his stats by updating them on the actual season. I just want to let you know that all the informations i put in the change are verified and you can find them in the official page of the Club and also on https://www.transfermarkt.de/. So, i think you have made a mistake.
Hey you seem to be the only instructor left that seems to be possibly available in a timezone that is close to mine I notice that it says you aren't accepting students but the other instructors say they forgot to update their thing or remove themselves from it so I am assuming you may have a spot. I wish to become a student in the CVUA to learn how to better handle vandalism on Wikipedia as it will be my primary focus in my time being here. I hope you will consider taking me on as a student and I hope you have a great day. SkyTheWolf (Talk) 14:43, 24 March 2022 (UTC)
Do however note that at this time I have 184 edits to the mainspace but am currently attempting to get that number to above 200 to prove that I have mastered the "principles of basic editing" according to the CVUA page. SkyTheWolf (Talk) 14:48, 24 March 2022 (UTC)
Hello , thank you for taking interest in CvUA. Unfortunately, I may not have the time to take you through the course at this time due to some real life issues . Otherwise welcome to Wikipedia and thank you for your contributions. Cheers Megan B....It’s all coming to me till the end of time14:56, 24 March 2022 (UTC)
@Synoman Barris I just wanted to note you said you may not have time to take me through the course however it does not matter to me whether you take a while to respond I just was hoping to do the course no matter how long it takes so if you are able to do it on and off I would be grateful to still be a student and do the course regardless of the time it takes. So I hope that this may make you possibly reconsider. SkyTheWolf (Talk) 15:03, 24 March 2022 (UTC)
Thanks for working on move-reqs. One nit in your tagging at Talk:Mount Gambier: the {{old move}} box says "from Mount Gambier to Mount Gambier" but the move was actually from "Mount Gambier, South Australia". I wonder if there is a bug in mCloser that it followed the redirect that previously existed? Of if because you did that script after the actual move it used "current name" rather than parsing the move-req? DMacks (talk) 15:53, 7 May 2022 (UTC)
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Hello Synoman Barris, my name is Machibito and I would like to be part of the CVU Academy, I know how to use the Ultraviolet tool to reverse non-constructive edits and I have scrapped some edits with it, although I would like to learn more about how this tool works to avoid committing an error, a greeting. Machibito (¿A question?)21:12, 23 September 2022 (UTC)
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Hi,
I don't want to take much of your time, but just wanna know what exactly is missing from the draft when I have provided multiple independent and reliable Kenyan sources for the bio? For example, these sources give in-depth coverage of the subject: [1], [2], and [3]. Thanks in advance. Insight 3 (talk) 04:59, 8 January 2023 (UTC)
I see that you gave them IPBE for one year with zero reason logged. The original steward ticket does not explain the reason why they still need IPBE at this time so far after expiry. If they would like to email stewards again and ping me, I'd be happy to look. If you also want to email me too, that's fine. I just can't grant for absolutely zero reason. -- Amanda (she/her)16:54, 28 January 2023 (UTC)
Hello, I'm responding to your message this evening declining my Draft:Lisa B (Lisa Bernstein). I need some clarification on one thing you wrote. Also, I suspect that because of issues with the initial section of the draft, you overlooked the many solid citations in the subsequent sections of the draft that point to significant, published, reliable, secondary sources that are independent of the subject and focus directly on her, not in passing. I believe the problem is that the initial section lacks these, and I ask you to reconsider by more closely reviewing the subsequent draft sections.
The subject is notable because unlike anyone else, she is a popular practicing psychic as well as a well-published and awarded literary poet as well as a much-reviewed jazz singer. These latter two aspects of her professional work are referred to DIRECTLY, not in passing, in the citations in the two sections on her work as a poet and as a singer. All the citations in these two sections are significant, published, reliable, secondary sources that are independent of the subject. But I think you may have overlooked this because the initial section of the draft about her work as a psychic lacks published material that can be cited and therefore does not have the same quality of citations. But under the section "Books and Publications," citations 9-11 note books authored by the subject that are published or about to be published by prominent literary publishers, including one university press. After this, citations 13-23 refer directly to prestigious literary journals and anthologies that have published the subject's poems. These are not passing references but examples of actual publications. I did not give a full citation for every single publication by listing volume, journal no., etc. (and I could if you recommend it), but these 13 citations are significant examples. The section also includes citation 12 which notes a prominent award from the National Endowment for the Arts in creative writing that was given to the subject. Few other honors are as great in American literature. The next section of the draft on "Jazz and Groove Singer and Spoken-Word Artist" also includes many citations of independent, reliable sources that focus directly on the subject; these verify her notability as a singer/spoken-word artist. Citations 24-40 are reviews that prominently focus on B (Bernstein)'s seven recordings, usually reviewing just her most recent recording but sometimes including recent related releases by others; still, these are direct, not passing, references to the subject, and a review of more than one musical artist at a time is customary in these journals. These include the most important jazz journals in the United States (Jazz Times, All About Jazz, L.A. Jazz Scene, etc.). Citations 41-43 give examples of her widespread radio play. Can you give another look at these two sections of the draft? I believe you will see that they meet the criteria for significant sources verifying the subject's notability as a literary poet and a singer/spoken-word artist, including the uniqueness of being both. As for her notability as a psychic, it's difficult to cite independent sources for this, but it would be inaccurate to leave out of the draft. Would it make more sense to move this section last or de-emphasize it? I agree that the references to workshops given by the subject are unfortunately less substantial, but the nature of this work leans against written references. Finally, I don't understand what you mean by "Too much primary sources." I don't mean to offend you, and I realize you are probably working quickly and using some shorthand, but grammatically "much" goes with a singular noun rather than a plural noun like "sources." Do you mean too much content from one primary source? Or too many different primary sources? Also, I don't know which primary source or sources you're referring to. In any case, I do see that the first section on her work as a psychic lacks the solid and numerous citations of the other sections of the draft. In summary, given what I've written above, I hope you'll see that it is simply not true to say that citations 9-45 at minimum, and a couple of the initial citations, are NOT reliable, independent, secondary sources showing the subject's notability. I believe that they are and you may have been misled by the initial summary section and the section on the subject's psychic practice. Could you reconsider? Or advise me of an editing path to move this forward to acceptance? Thank you so much, LS
Hello, the reason I declined your draft was due to the presence of many primary sources, I would advice you to remove the sources such as Facebook, not use her self written blogs to cite sections. After you've corrected the mistakes with the references I advice you to resubmit the article once again for another reviewer to take a look. Cheers Megan B....It’s all coming to me till the end of time11:39, 3 March 2023 (UTC)
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Hello Synoman Barris,
New Page Review queue December 2022
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The October drive reduced the backlog from 9,700 to an amazing 0! Congratulations to WaddlesJP13 who led with 2084 points. See this page for further details. The queue is steadily rising again and is approaching 2,000. It would be great if <2,000 were the “new normal”. Please continue to help out even if it's only for a few or even one patrol a day.
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Something to be aware of as a global rollbacker involved in ACC: Per Wikipedia:Global rights policy#Global rollbackers, Global rollbackers may use the rollback, suppressredirect, markbotedits, and noratelimit functions on the English Wikipedia only in the context of counter-vandalism efforts. Since normal people are only allowed to create 6 accounts per day, and the only reason you can create more is the global rollbacker flag, per policy you are required to create no more than 6 accounts per day until you get noratelimit some way other than through global rollbacker status (such as by becoming an account creator). * Pppery *it has begun...17:04, 9 May 2023 (UTC)
Hello Pppery am aware of that policy but thanks for reminding me :). I realised that on 5th May I created one extra account above the normal limit, it was all an error on my part due to my confusion in timezones , however I realised this and stopped. Have a nice day and happy editing. Cheers --Megan B....It’s all coming to me till the end of time19:21, 9 May 2023 (UTC)
Hello Kailash29792, I reviewed this version of the draft, at that state and from my source search I couldn't confirm that the film had begun principal photography, therefore declined it per NFF. While there is improvement in the current draft (the author has given a source to confirm principal photography has began), it seems to be bombarded with alot of sources many of which are unreliable/or have questionable reliability i.e Times of India. Still needs a cleanup IMO. Cheers Megan B....It’s all coming to me till the end of time07:01, 11 May 2023 (UTC)
The Times of India comes between no consensus and generally unreliable per WP:TOI. But it seems acceptable for non-government purposes as this is a film article. Either way, it shouldn't be an obstacle to getting the article to mainspace. Given that Captain Miller (film) is currently a redlink, I could easily move it. But I prefer to play fair. Kailash29792(talk)14:14, 11 May 2023 (UTC)
Hi Megan, I'm unsure why you closed the RM at Chinese Communist Party. My understanding is that the function of the thread is to investigate whether a consensus can be established on moving the page, and that the discussion is to be closed either when one is established or when it becomes clear one cannot be established.
While it is certainly true that a consensus had not been established at the point of your closure, the discussion was still active; the most recent a comment against the move occured at 3AM 12/05 (this morning), and a response was given at 7AM (by me). I'd also note that I'd articulated the case for movi
While it is certainly true that a consensus had not been established at the point of your closure, the discussion was still active; the most recent a comment against the move occured at 3AM 12/05 (this morning), and a response was given at 7AM (by me). I'd also note that I'd had some success justfying the move to an editor who previously had not found the move justified. As such, it seems reasonable that a consensus could have been reached in the course of the discussion.
Please let me know if there is anything I am missing regarding policy here, as I am relatively new to editing Wikipedia. However, if I've got the general gist of the procedures right, I'd appreciate it if you could reopen the RM.
Hello, RM are usually open for seven days unless relisted if consensus is not reached. When I read through the RM, it was obvious to me that there was a consensus and it was not to move since valid points were given by the editors opposing that was relevant to policy. I think this is better suited for a WP:MR since am unsure whether to reopen the discussion while I believe it shall lead to the same result. Cheers Megan B....It’s all coming to me till the end of time17:00, 12 May 2023 (UTC)
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New year, new scripts. Welcome to the 23rd issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter, covering around 39% of our favorite new and updated user scripts since 24 December 2021. That’s right, we haven’t published in two years! Can you believe it? Did you miss us?
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User:Alexander Davronov/HistoryHelper has now become stable with some bugfixes and features such as automatically highlighting potentially uncivil edit summaries and automatically pinging all the users selected.
To a lesser extent, the same goes for User:PrimeHunter/Search sort.js. I wish someone would integrate the sorts into the sort menu instead of adding 11 portlet links.
Aaron Liu: Watchlyst Greybar Unsin is a rewrite of Ais's Watchlist Notifier with modern APIs and several new features such as not displaying watchlist items marked as seen (hence the name), not bolding diffs of unseen watchlist elements which doesn’t work properly anyways, displaying the rendered edit summary, proper display of log and creation actions and more links.
Alexis Jazz: Factotum is a spiritual successor to reply-link with a host of extra features like section adding, link rewriting, regular expressions and more.
User:Aveaoz/AutoMobileRedirect: This script will automatically redirect MobileFrontend (en.m.wikipedia) to normal Wikipedia. Unlike existing scripts, this one will actually check if your browser is mobile or not through its secret agent string, so you can stay logged in on mobile! Hooray screen estate!
Deputy is a first-of-its-kind copyright cleanup toolkit. It overrides the interface for Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations for easy case processing. It also includes the functionality of the following (also new) scripts:
User:Elominius/gadget/diff arrow keys allows navigation between diffs with the arrow keys. It also has a version that requires holding Ctrl with the arrow key.
Frequently link to Wikipedia on your websites yet find generating CC-BY credits to be such a hassle? Say no more! User:Luke10.27/attribute will automatically do it for ya and copy the credit to yer clipboard.
User:MPGuy2824/MoveToDraft, a spiritual successor (i.e. fork) to Evad37's script, with a few bugs solved, and a host of extra features like check-boxes for choosing draftification reasons, multi-contributor notification, and appropriate warnings based on last edit time.
/CopyCodeBlock: one of the most important operations for any scripter and script-user is to copy and paste. This script adds a copy button in the top right of every code block (not to be confused with <code>) that will, well, copy it to your clipboard!
m:User:NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh/AceForLuaDebugConsole.js adds the Ace editor (a.k.a. the editor you see when editing JS, CSS and Lua on Wikimedia wikis) to the Lua debug console. "In my opinion, whoever designed it to be a plain <textarea> needs to seriously reconsider their decision."
GANReviewTool quickly and easily closes good article nominations.
ReviewStatus displays whether or not a mainspace page is marked as reviewed.
SpeciesHelper tries to add the correct speciesbox, category, taxonbar, and stub template to species articles.
User:Opencooper/svgReplace and Tol's fork replaces all rasterized SVGs with their original SVG codes for your loading pleasures. Tell us which one is better!
ArticleInfo displays page information at the top of the page, directly below the title.
/HeaderIcons takes away the Vector 2022 user dropdown and replaces it with all of the icons within, top level, right next to the Watchlist. One less click away! There's also an alternate version that uses text links instead of icons.
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)
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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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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!
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Following that, New Page Patrol organized another backlog drive for articles in January 2024. The January drive started with 13,650 articles and reduced the backlog to 7,430 articles. Congratulations to JTtheOG, who achieved first place with 1,340 points in this drive.
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2023 Awards
Onel5969 won the 2023 cup with 17,761 article reviews last year - that's an average of nearly 50/day. There was one Platinum Award (10,000+ reviews), 2 Gold Awards (5000+ reviews), 6 Silver (2000+), 8 Bronze (1000+), 30 Iron (360+) and 70 more for the 100+ barnstar. Hey man im josh led on redirect reviews by clearing 36,175 of them. For the full details, see the Awards page and the Hall of Fame. Congratulations everyone for their efforts in reviewing!
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Hey there, welcome to the 25th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter, covering all our favorite new and updated user scripts since 1 March 2024. We've got a ton of wonderful editors taking back their pitchforks today. Don't worry, for they come in peace, to forcibly fix and extend existing scripts you use with sheer passion. There's so many, them forks have got what's basically their own column now! gift us with some rows before it's too late Aaron Liu (talk) 04:01, 1 August 2024 (UTC)
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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.
An easily configurable script to add a link to the #p-vector-user-menu-overflow portlet with a name, target, and icon. This one should be a relatively easier one. I would do it myself, but I'm too busy rotting away on Celeste (video game).
After the ＲＩＩＪ update, Aaron Liu: Watchlyst Greybar Unsin has a dismiss button that allows you to mark an item as read in one click and cycle to the next Watchlist item.
Lordseriouspig/StatusChangerImproved is just like Enterprisey's script, except you select your status from a dropdown instead of cycling through them with a button. The WMF operates out of car-centric infrastructure anyway. Shame!
Newly maintained scripts
Aaron Liu has created Duplinks from Evad37/duplinks-alt; his fork adds a config variable to automatically highlight duplicate links on the loading of any page where the portlet link would've appeared.
Tired of staring at a bunch of filtering text and waiting for darn filter logs to load? Msz2001/AbuseFilter analyzer can parse abuse filters into a visual syntax tree and evaluate locally on-demand!
Polygnotus/DuplicateReferences finds references with the same link and displays the number of them along with a button to add the {{duplicated citations}} tag under the references section. Being lazy has never been easier!
fastest gun on the net Ponor/really-quick-block really quick add to contribution lists three buttons awesome
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Hello everyone, and welcome to the 26th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter, covering all our favorite new and updated user scripts since 1 August 2024. At press time, over 94% of the world has legally fallen prey to the merry celebrations of "Christmas", and so shall you soon. It's been a quiet 4 months, and we hope to see you with way more new scripts next year. Happy holidays! Aaron Liu (talk) 05:06, 25 December 2024 (UTC)
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Featured script
Very useful for changelist patrollers, DiffUndo, by Nardog, is this edition's featured script. Taking inspiration from WP:AutoWikiBrowser's double-click-to-undo feature, it adds an undo button to every line of every diff from "show changes", optimizing partial reverts with your favorite magic spell and nearly fulfilling m:Community Wishlist/Wishes/Partial revert undo.
Miscellaneous
Doğu/Adiutor, a recent WP:Twinkle/WP:RedWarn-like userscript that follows modern WMF UI design, is now an extension. However, its sole maintainer has left the project, which still awaits WMF mw:code stewardship (among some audits) to be installed on your favorite WMF wikis.
DannyS712, our former chief editor, has ascended to MediaWiki and the greener purpley pastures of PHP with commits creating Special:NamespaceInfo and the __EXPECTUNUSEDTEMPLATE__ magic word to exclude a template from Special:UnusedTemplates! I wonder if Wikipedia has a templaters' newsletter...
BilledMammal/Move+ needs updating to order list of pages handle lists of pages to move correctly regardless of the discussion's page, so that we may avoid repeating fiasco history.
Andrybak/Unsigned helper forks Anomie/unsignedhelper to add support for binary search, automatic edit summaries after generating the {{unsigned}} template, support for {{undated}}, and support for generating while syntax highlighting is on.
Polygnotus/Move+ updates BilledMammal's classic Move+ to add automattic watchlisting of all pages—except the target page(s)—changed while processing a move.
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