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Tool for formatting citations

It's User:Meteor sandwich yum/Tidy_citations.js but it doesn't fix a few fields, notably |access-date, |archive-url, and |url-access; I still have to do those by hand. And you have to turn off the 'syntax highlighting' blue pen before you click "tidy". '''Abductive''' (reasoning) 20:43, 20 October 2022 (UTC)

:Thanks @Abductive, works perfectly. – '''Mesidast''' (talk) (contribs ↗) 15:22, 26 October 2022 (UTC)

Welcome to The Wikipedia Adventure!

Special:WantedTemplates

Hi, I have been cleaning up Special:WantedTemplates ↗ and noticed that your javascript page is showing up in Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Crammed ↗. This is because the backend software is parsing the curly braces as templates. An easy way to fix this is to put <syntaxhighlight>
// <nowiki>
</syntaxhighlight> at the top of your script, and <syntaxhighlight>
// </nowiki>
</syntaxhighlight> at the bottom of your script. This won't impact the functionality, since they are in javascript comments, but will remove the pages from Special:WantedTemplates ↗. Thanks in advance for your help! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 15:47, 26 November 2022 (UTC)

:@Plastikspork That's the tags added now, sorry for the bother. – '''Mesidast''' (talk) 16:00, 26 November 2022 (UTC)

Lodgement of reference to Algae - Hardy & Guiry. Rathlin. Will be grateful if you would check that I have entered this correctly.

Reference. to Rathlin Island - Morton1945 (talk) 20:43, 15 January 2023 (UTC)

:Hi @Morton1945, thanks for the notification. Your edit was good and for a plaintext reference it had everything it needed. I only converted it to the template format to make it easier for bots to run maintenance on it and to more standardise it. If you want a handy way to generate the template references yourself, see RefToolbar ↗.
:One piece of advice just would be that if the reference is at the end of a sentence, make sure the period (.) comes before the reference as shown in the following example: Use '''Test 1.<ref name=a>Test</ref>''' instead of '''Test 2<ref name=a/>.''' – '''Mesidast''' (talk) 10:35, 16 January 2023 (UTC)
::Thanks' - RefToolbar - looks complex, will have to read and try to understand! Understand (.) but surprised I was wrong here. Morton1945 (talk) 15:39, 16 January 2023 (UTC)
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Rock and wave ↗

I've reverted your gross breach of WP:CITEVAR ↗. Please read and follow this policy. Johnbod (talk) 22:27, 21 February 2023 (UTC)

:Ah apologies @Johnbod, I had thought that policy only applied to citations already using a template not plaintext refs. Oh well, live and learn, hopefully this edit ↗ is more acceptable. – '''Mesidast''' (talk) 10:42, 22 February 2023 (UTC)

Sorting categories

Hi, I wonder whether sorting categories alphabetically is a generally good idea? It might be a good solution for articles with lots of categories, but perhaps not when categories are fewer. I usually try to sort categories such that they are in logical blocks, when possible, and respecting some discipline-specific patterns. For example, in the tree of life articles, the first category usually is the taxonomic parent. "Animals described in ..." and "Taxa named by ...." should logically be placed next to each other because they both refer to describing the species. In articles about living people, the first two categories are usually the birth year and "Living people". Sorting alphabetically breaks all this. Cheers, Micromesistius (talk) 20:39, 18 September 2023 (UTC)

:Hi @Micromesistius, in the realm of taxonomy I will defer to your higher level of expertise and your explanation does make sense. Sorting them is mostly an occasional habit I've fallen into after a few times looking for a category in a partially sorted list and not seeing it initially due to it not being in the order and also from seeing a few other FA editors do it on occasion as well. I can revert those specific changes on Ashy flycatcher ↗ if you wish. Thanks, – '''Mesidast''' (talk) 08:40, 19 September 2023 (UTC)
::Great, thanks. It is not a big deal at the level of any single article (few readers probably notice), but I would just avoid sorting as the default action. – Cheers, 11:39, 19 September 2023 (UTC) Micromesistius (talk) 11:39, 19 September 2023 (UTC)

Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 24

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Hello everyone, and welcome to the 24th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter ↗, covering all our favorite new and updated user scripts since {{#formatdate:2021-12-24|dmy}}. 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)

20px ↗ Got anything good? Tell us about your new, improved, old, or messed-up script here ↗!

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20px ↗ 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.

20px ↗ Newly maintained scripts

After earthly attempts at improving the original have failed...

Aaron Liu has created What redirects here ↗ from Guarapiranga/WhatRedirectsHere; {{their|Aaron Liu}} fork includes support for every MediaWiki wiki, corrected link positions, an access key, and some rudimentary translation.

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.

Mesidast/Tidy citations is a fork of Meteor sandwich yum/Tidy citations is a fork of Waldyrious/formatcitations. It configurably harmonizes whitespace and cleans up parameters in citation templates, descriptive edit summary included.

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20px ↗ Improve a script

Unfortunately, this section has remained nearly identical. Help us out here!

Many of our favorite scripts such as Fred Gandt/userResourceManager, Guarapiranga/search-shortcuts and Bradv/Superlinks haven't been updated for Vector 2022. You could be the one to change that!

Elominius/media timer works, but its UI looks alien. Someone could improve it...

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.

We want...

:* ...a mark-as-read button and watchlist notices support for Aaron Liu/Watchlyst Greybar Unsin
:* ...a tool to automatically fix CAT:BROKENREF ↗s, preferably a fork/addition to TheJJJunk/ARA
:* ...a fix/fork of DannyS712/SectionRemover to make it work

20px ↗ Requested scripts

A simple script to second or archive proposed deletion ↗s

A script to auto-expand V22 ToC sections like this demo ↗

A WP:3O ↗ response tool that can automatically remove the relevant request from the 3O dashboard

A byte filter to be split from Nux/LongTableFilters ↗

...and many more, all available at Wikipedia:User scripts/Requests ↗

20px ↗ New scripts

DannyS712/AbuseFilterMessageLinks add links to the "warn" and "disallow" messages in edit filter ↗s.

Diegodlh/Web2Cit/script adds an option to use m:Web2Cit ↗ (which WP:ProveIt ↗ also uses) instead of mw:Citoid ↗ to generate citations in the Visual Editor.

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!

frameless|right ↗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.

right|frameless ↗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.

right|frameless ↗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.

Moonythedwarf/extra-unreliable highlights phrases commonly used in spammed and POV'd paragraphs.

frameless|right ↗NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh/FormattedEditRequest ''(pictured)'' generates a wikitext-formatted diff view of any changes you've made that you can copy and paste anywhere.

PrimeHunter/Category source.js adds portlet links to tell you where a category for an article comes from and supports those from template transclusions.

Qwerfjkl/massCFD creates mass WP:CfD ↗ nominations.

Rublov/refspace highlights footnote spacing errors in red.

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.

Ingenuity/AbuseFilterContribs adds the edit filters that an edit tripped (if any) to a user's contributions page.

*Nardog/ExamineMore makes it so the paging at Special:AbuseFilter/examine ↗ actually works, pending a fix to {{Phab|T292764}}.

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!

GhostInTheMachine/GraphicReplyLink replaces the [ {{preload|Template talk:Signpost/Crossword cell|reply|User:Aaron Liu/insomnium}} ] link with 💬, which is some sort of rainy cloud I guess?{{jokes}}

frameless|right ↗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.

Phlsph7/ClassicalTOC (Vector 2022) reinserts the inline table of contents to pages under Vector 2022.

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 ↗.

Sideswipe9th/Vector 2022 Floating Tools Menu moves the Page Tools menu to the left and makes it float along with the table of contents.

Sm8ps/SectionEditing makes pressing {{key press|Tab}} toggle the visibility of the tiny [ {{preload|Template talk:Signpost/Crossword cell|edit|User:Aaron Liu/insomnium}} ] links next to section headings.. Not a great name, eh?

The wub/tocExpandAll adds a button on top of the floating ToC to expand or collapse subheadings.

=Permissions required!=

Ahecht/potd-helper: A script to post the picture of the day. A powerful upgrade for your mop.

right|frameless ↗Dragoniez ↗

*/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?

Theleekycauldron/DYK promoter automates (nearly) all the work needed to post a DYK hook.

=QOL shortcuts=

BrandonXLF/SVGEditor lets you edit any file that is an SVG, straight from the file page.

DanCherek/UAABotRemover adds a portlet link to enable a removal shortcut of faulty reports from Wikipedia:Usernames for administrator attention ↗.

DreamRimmer/BlankUserPage helps you destroy webhost-ers' hopes and dreams with a user-friendly dialog box.

ESanders (WMF)/commentlinks.js ↗ adds a "link" button right after the "reply" button while the WMF struggles to reach feature parity with Convenient Discussions ↗.

Isaacl/copy-comment-link-to-clipboard does exactly what you'd think it does, but in Wikitext.

FenrisAureus/SimpleStatus adds a shortcut at the top to edit your /Status subpage while providing a pre-made template.

Fred Gandt/addCloneClearButtonAboveScributoConsole: What a mouthful! Yet all it does (no offense) is add another {{Button|Clear}} button on top of the Lua module debug console.

Guarapiranga/GlobalWatchlistLink adds a link to metawiki:Special:GlobalWatchlist ↗ next to the normal watchlist.

Nardog

*PasteToCommons adds a paste handler to upload the pasted image to Wikimedia Commons.

*Unpipe tries to detect violations of WP:NOPIPE ↗ and fix them as much as possible.

Ohconfucius/tometricunits automatically adds unit conversions of imperial units ↗ in brackets after their uses per MOS:UNITS ↗.

Suntooooth

* /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 {{tl|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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Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 27

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20px ↗ Featured script

: '''WikiTextExpander''' by '''Polygnotus ↗''', is this edition's featured script. At the click of a configurable hotkey, this script will find and replace or link a configurable list of phrases within the selected text in all source editors (even in the comment/reply field!). Besides allowing the quick insertion of templated messages, this script greatly mitigates the WP:WTF? ↗ problem by providing both the legibility of familiar words and the convenience of shortcuts. And to those asking, the capitalization of "Wikitext ↗" as "WikiText" was a necessary sacrifice for far-more-memorable acronymy.

20px ↗ Updated scripts

CanonNi: AlertAssistant has been fixed and rewritten using OOUI instead of Twinkle's Morebits. Such modern, very tool. (Do note that the maintainer has since become inactive.)

NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh/AjaxLoader has been updated to use modern JS APIs that replace the browser's URL bar with the link you clicked on to load in place. The "back" (and "forward") buttons also work now. Cool, innit?

My prayers have been... answered? DreamRimmer/Search sort is a fork of PrimeHunter/Search sort that makes the 11 portlet links much smaller and nicer to look at.

andrybak: Unsigned helper no longer shows an error when the message to sign was added in the earliest 50 revisions of a page's history. This is especially relevant to pages with short histories.

20px ↗ Newly maintained scripts

Cyberdog958/Superlinks finally fixes the famous Bradv/Superlinks to work with Vector 2022!

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20px ↗ Improve a script

20px ↗ Requested scripts

We need scripts that...

allow sorting lists of citations {{tq|such as by URI or other identifier}}

automatically convert the capitalization of citations' titles

collect a list of discussion participants and generate a ping list

automate starting merge discussions

...and many more, all available at Wikipedia:User scripts/Requests ↗

20px ↗ Miscellaneous

In breaking m:Tech/News ↗, {{tq|Gadgets can now include <code>.vue</code> files. This makes it easier to develop modern user interfaces using Vue.js ↗, in particular using Codex ↗, the official design system of Wikimedia. Codex icons ↗ are now also available. The documentation ↗ has examples.}}

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20px ↗ New scripts

Appo/Globstory integrates OpenHistoryMap ↗, updating the map whenever hovering/clicking on a location or year, the latter of which changes the map to be (hopefully) accurate to the year selected. It's pretty interesting.

frameless|right|upright=0.5|linkinfo ↗ Somewhat similar to WP:NavPops ↗, Awesome Aasim/linkinfo ''(pictured)'' provides a collection of links to replace the right-click context menu, presented beautifully.

Chaotic Enby/Recent Unblock Highlighter is the #1 WP:ROPE ↗ dispensary of the year. Admins exclusive, naturally.

Chew/HighlightQuotes: Makes all text between double quotes have a yellow background. Shiny.

Daniel Quinlan/RangeHelper allows you to treat IP ranges as users and calculate the smallest range that contains specific addresses IP.

Dbeef/C+ allows CheckUsers to generate a {{tl|sock list}} from the Special:CheckUser ↗ page. Its checkboxes make this task hassle-free.

DreamRimmer ↗ has been working at it with the state-of-the-art Vue.js mw:Codex ↗ UI lately!

* /CHUHelper and /EFFPRH reply to username-change and edit-filter requests, respectively.

* /DraftNoCat deactivates the categories on a draft article. Dogs are better, really.

* frameless|right|EasySubpage ↗ /EasySubpage ''(pictured)'' creates subpages... easily!

* TBanHelper warns you when your current page's title contains certain namespaces or keywords, sternly.

DVRTed/multiContribs provides an aggregate view of the contributions of multiple users and a link at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations ↗ to automatically activate it with all users in a sockpuppet category.

Edit7hesadparts/linkColorRandomizer turns your links rainbowy.

Macaw*/noRefListAlert alerts you when the list of references is missing.

Polygnotus ↗

* /DetectPromo is an interesting alternative to the classic Moonythedwarf/extra-unreliable, though of course the word list is somewhat different, you'll see.

* /DiscussionToolsDrafts gives you a centralized page to see automatically-saved DiscussionTools reply drafts, just like EditRecovery ↗.

* PreviousDiscussions provides a link to search for your username on subpages of another user's userpage and talkpage conveniently.

Twineeea/noRedLinks brings you to the "read" instead of the "create" tab when you visit a red link. Contemplate life's mysteries as you stare into the blank! Deeply.

No, this is not going to be the enduring tradition of S++ for the future. This was meant to be a joke for the special occasion on the first day of the fourth month but was delayed by four months because I'm lazy.
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Does the "Tidy" tool change lat/long coordinates? Or collapse cite templates into one line?

Hi. Could you please comment at User_talk:Abductive#Questions_on_changes_to_Nile_article ↗. There was a damaging edit made to the Nile ↗ article a few weeks ago, and I'm trying to track down how the errors happened. The editor says they ran the User:Mesidast/Tidy citations.js tool. But I looked at that tool and I see no mention of coordinates. Could you please post a note on that Talk page (to keep the conversation co-located) that can bring some clarity to the issue? Details about the change and the errors are in that Talk page discussion. Thanks. Noleander (talk) 19:11, 12 May 2026 (UTC)