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Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 7

FR30799386's mobileUndo (maintained on enwiki by DannyS712) is currently a proposed gadget. Join the discussion at the village pump ↗

Interstellarity has requested help ↗ with forking Joshua Scott's pending changes script to add a feature

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After an MfD ↗, DannyS712's MMS was deleted. It was originally created by {{u|Abelmoschus Esculentus}}. If you import either of these scripts, you may want to uninstall them, as they no longer exist.

Having published 6 issues of this newsletter, I decided it was time to move it out from my user space. It is now located at Wikipedia:Scripts++ ↗. Thanks, --DannyS712 (talk) 11:45, 30 June 2019 (UTC)
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A barnstar for you!

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|style="vertical-align: middle; padding: 3px;" | I just wanted to notify ↗ you that after getting started ↗ on here that you need some thanks ↗ and WikiLove ↗. –<span style="font-family:CG Times"><span style="color:black">MJL</span> ‐'''Talk'''‐<sup>☖ ↗</sup></span> 03:50, 17 July 2019 (UTC)
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:I sent a "Thanks" for this, but thanks again. ;) Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 18:11, 7 August 2019 (UTC)

Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 8

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News and updates associated with user scripts from the past month (July 2019).

Hello everyone and welcome to the 8th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter ↗:

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:20px|alt=Featured script|This month's featured script ↗ Jackmcbarn's editProtectedHelper

:20px|alt=New scripts|New ↗ Galobtter's WatchlistLinksNewTab{{*}} SD0001's Watchlist title updater{{*}} Yair rand's UserBlind
::Anne drew Andrew and Drew's ScritSorter{{*}} Masumrezarock100's mobilemorelinks
::Enterprisey: edit section on hover{{*}} Search shortcuts{{*}} superjump
::ZLEA: EditRequestLinks.js{{*}} MMSLink.js

:20px|alt=Updated scripts|Updated ↗ DannyS712's Global watchlist{{*}} SD0001's StubSorter

:20px|alt=Scripts moved to new maintainers|New maintainers ↗ After a discussion ↗, User:Sam Sailor/Scripts/Sagittarius+.js has been redirected to
::User:Wugapodes/Capricorn.js, and {{u|Wugapodes}} is maintaining it.

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A script to fill in {{Template:Infobox journal}} ↗

A tool to simplify merging articles ↗

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

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Hope everyone is having a good winter (or summer, for those in the northern hemisphere). Thanks, --DannyS712 (talk) 02:40, 1 August 2019 (UTC)
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''Bots Newsletter ↗'', August 2019

Nothing of note happened. Just like we like it.

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Several (1 ↗ + 12 ↗ = 13) users have been retired/resigned from the BAG due to inactivity, per our new activity requirements ↗ (discussion ↗).

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BAG members are expected to be active on Wikipedia to have their finger on the pulse of the community. After two years without any bot-related activity (such as posting on bot-related pages ↗, posting on a bot's talk page, or operating a bot), BAG members will be retired from BAG following a one-week notice. Retired members can re-apply for BAG membership as normal if they wish to rejoin the BAG.</blockquote>

Two BAG members retired

* {{User|Madman}} retired ↗.

* {{User|BU Rob13}} vanished ↗ and retired ↗.

Three new BAG members have been voted in, welcome to the BAG!

* {{User|Primefac}} joined on 2018-12-12 (RfBAG ↗). Primefac operates {{User|PrimeBOT}} which does a plethora of tasks.

* {{User|TheSandDoctor}} joined on 2019-01-21 (RfBAG ↗). TheSandDoctor operates several bots including {{User|DeprecatedFixerBot}}.

* {{User|Enterprisey}} joined on 2019-08-07 (RfBAG ↗). Enterprisey operates {{User|EnterpriseyBot}}, which does a plethora of tasks, {{User|RemindMeBot}} which posts reminders, and codes several scripts.

We thank former members for their service and wish Madman a happy retirement. We note that Madman and BU Rob13 were not inactive and could resume their BAG positions if they so wished, should their retirements happens to be temporary.

;BOTDICT
Two new entries feature in the bots dictionary ↗

''Editor-hostile wikitext'' ↗ – describes wikitext structuring that is editor hostile, even if it renders correctly

''Spectrum of usefulness'' ↗ – describes how tasks are deemed useful or not

;BOTPOL

Activity requirements ↗: BAG members now have an activity requirement. The requirements are very light, one only needs to be involved in a bot-related area at some point within the last two years. For purpose of meeting these requirements, discussing a bot-related matter anywhere on Wikipedia counts, as does operating a bot (RFC ↗).

Copyvio flag ↗: Bot accounts may be additionally marked by a bureaucrat ↗ upon BAG request as being in the "copyviobot" user group ↗ on Wikipedia. This flag allows using the API to add metadata to edits for use in the New pages feed (discussion ↗). There is currently 1 ↗ bot using this functionality.

Mass creation ↗: The restriction on mass-creation (semi-automated or automated) was extended from ''articles'', to ''all content-pages ↗''. There are subtleties, but ''content'' here broadly means whatever a reader could land on when browsing the mainspace in normal circumstances (e.g. Mainspace, Books, most Categories, Portals, ...). There is also a warning that WP:MEATBOT ↗ still applies in other areas (e.g. Redirects, Wikipedia namespace, Help, maintenance categories, ...) not explicitely covered by WP:MASSCREATION ↗.

;BOTREQs and BRFAs
As of writing, we have...

20 active BOTREQs ↗, please help if you can!

14 open BRFAs and 1 BRFA in need of BAG attention (see live status ↗).

In 2018, 96 bot task were approved ↗. An AWB ↗ search shows approximately 29 were withdrawn/expired, and 6 were denied.

Since the start of 2019, 97 bot task were approved ↗. Logs show 15 were withdrawn/expired ↗, and 15 were denied ↗.

10 inactive bots have been deflagged (see discussion ↗). 5 other bots have been deflagged per operator requests or similar (see discussion ↗).

;New things

All bot-related discussion pages now have a centralized and searchable archive box ↗ (see discussion ↗). Discussions are searchable per noticeboard, or globally.

{{tl|Bot}} now supports {{para|status|expired}} (see discussion ↗). This led to the deletion of :Category:Indefinitely blocked Wikipedia bots ↗ as useless (see discussion ↗).

WP:BOTREQ ↗ now mentions WP:SCRIPTREQ ↗ and WP:AWBTASKS ↗ as alternatives to bot requests.

The bot creation guide ↗ now mentions bot flags ↗, and two new languages Awk ↗ and MATLAB ↗. Other minor tweaks have been made.

AAlertBot has received major code updates. In particular, WP:AALERTS ↗ will now report splits ↗, mergers ↗, and AFC submissions ↗.

Citation bot has received several updates (User talk:Citation bot/Archive 10/11/12/13/14/15/16/17). In particular, the bot stopped the automated removal of {{para|publisher}} from {{tl|cite journal}}, and stopped the automated addition of CiteSeerX ↗ links, and now uses OAuth ↗ to authenticate those who make requests of the bot.

;Other discussions
These are some of the discussions that happened / are still happening since the last ''Bots Newsletter''. Many are stale, but some are still active.

Wikipedia:Bots/Noticeboard/Archive 12#Adminbots requests page ↗

Wikipedia:Bots/Noticeboard/Archive 12#Double-redirect tagging (2019) ↗

Wikipedia:Bots/Noticeboard/Archive 12#Long and Winding Road to Parsoid ↗

Wikipedia:Bots/Noticeboard/Archive 13#Bot-like user scripts ↗

Wikipedia:Bots/Noticeboard/Archive 13#WP:URLREQ ↗

Wikipedia:Bots/Noticeboard/Archive 13#Wikipedia:Bots/Status ↗

Wikipedia talk:Bot Approvals Group#Minimum edits ↗

Wikipedia talk:Bot policy#Minor update to WP:BOTISSUE ↗

Wikipedia talk:Bot policy#Semi-automated Portal creation ↗

Wikipedia talk:Bot policy#Clarification on "Bots operated by multiple users" ↗

Wikipedia talk:Bot policy#Bots triggered by multiple users ↗

Wikipedia talk:Bots#How to use Special:ApiFeatureUsage ↗

See also the latest discussions at the bot noticeboard ↗.

Thank you! <small>edited by: <span style="font-variant:small-caps; whitespace:nowrap;">Headbomb</span> 17:24, 7 August 2019 (UTC)</small>
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New Page Review newsletter September-October 2019

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Hello {{BASEPAGENAME}},

;Backlog
Instead of reaching a magic '''300''' as it once did last year, the backlog approaching 6,000 is still far too high. An effort is also needed to ensure that older unsuitable older pages at the back of the queue do not get automatically indexed for Google.

;Coordinator
A proposal is taking place '''here''' ↗ to confirm a nominated user as Coordinator of NPR.

;This month's refresher course
''Why I Hate Speedy Deleters ↗'', a 2008 essay by long since retired {{U|Ballonman}}, is still as valid today. Those of us who patrol large numbers of new pages can be forgiven for making the occasional mistake while others can learn from their 'beginner' errors. Worth reading.

;Deletion tags
Do bear in mind that articles in the feed showing the trash can icon (you will need to have 'Nominated for deletion' enabled for this in your filters) may have been tagged by inexperienced or non NPR rights holders using Twinkle. They require your further verification.

;Paid editing
Please be sure to look for the tell-tale signs of undisclosed paid editing. Contact the creator <u>if appropriate</u>, and submit the issue to WP:COIN ↗ if necessary. WMF policy requires paid editors to connect to their adverts.

;Subject-specific notability guidelines' (SNG). Alternatives to deletion

Reviewers are requested to familiarise themselves once more with notability guidelines for organisations and companies ↗.

''Blank-and-Redirect'' is a solution anchored in policy. Please consider this alternative before PRODing or CSD. Note however, that users will often revert or usurp redirects to re-create deleted articles. Do regularly patrol the redirects in the feed.

;Not English

A common issue: Pages not in English or poor, unattributed machine translations should not reside in main space even if they are stubs. Please ensure you are familiar with WP:NPPNE ↗. Check in Google for the language and content, and if they do have potential, tag as required, then move to draft. Modify the text of the template as appropriate before sending it.

;Tools
Regular reviewers will appreciate the most recent enhancements to the New Pages Feed and features in the Curation tool, and there are still more to come. Due to the wealth of information now displayed by ORES, reviewers are strongly encouraged to use the system now rather than Twinkle; it will also correctly populate the logs.

Stub sorting, by SD0001: A new script is available for adding/removing stub tags. See User:SD0001/StubSorter.js, It features a simple HotCat-style dynamic search field. Many of the reviewers who are using it are finding it an improvement upon other available tools.

Assessment: The script at User:Evad37/rater makes the addition of Wikiproject templates extremely easy. New page creators rarely do this. Reviewers are not obliged to make these edits but they only take a few seconds. They can use the Curation message system to let the creator know what they have done.

{{noping|DannyS712 bot III}} is now patrolling certain categories of uncontroversial redirects. Curious? Check out its patrol log ↗.

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Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 9

MJL's ''Archer'' was used to break a Wikipedia record. See the edit in question ↗ & <span class="plainlinks">the updated records page ↗</span> for more.

Sorry for falling behind a bit. Please let me know if I missed any new scripts. Thanks, --DannyS712 (talk) 01:55, 7 October 2019 (UTC)
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A script to simplify merging ↗

A script to tweak rollback links ↗

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New Page Review newsletter November 2019

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Hello {{BASEPAGENAME}},

This newsletter comes a little earlier than usual because the backlog is rising again and the holidays are coming very soon.
;Getting the queue to 0
There are now {{NUMBERINGROUP:patroller}} holders of the New Page Reviewer flag! Most of you requested the user right to be able to do something about the huge backlog but it's still roughly less than 10% doing 90% of the work. Now it's time for action.<br>
Exactly one year ago there were 'only' 3,650 unreviewed articles, now we will soon be approaching 7,000 despite the growing number of requests for the NPR user right. If ''each'' reviewer soon does '''only 2 reviews a day''' over five days, the backlog will be down to zero and the daily input can then be processed by ''every'' reviewer doing '''only 1 review every 2 days''' - that's only a few minutes work on the bus on the way to the office or to class! Let's get this over and done with in time to relax for the holidays.<br>
Want to join? Consider adding the '''NPP Pledge userbox''' ↗.<br>
Our next newsletter will announce the winners of some '''really cool awards''' ↗.
; Coordinator
Admin {{U|Barkeep49}} has been officially invested as NPP/NPR coordinator ↗ by a unanimous consensus of the community. This is a complex role and he will need all the help he can get from other experienced reviewers.
;This month's refresher course
Paid editing is still causing headaches for even our most experienced reviewers: This official Wikipedia article ↗ will be an eye-opener to anyone who joined Wikipedia or obtained the NPR right since 2015. See The Hallmarks ↗ to know exactly what to look for and take time to examine all the sources.
;Tools

It is now possible to select new pages by date range. This was requested by reviewers who want to patrol from the middle of the list.

It is now also possible for accredited reviewers to put any article back into the New Pages Feed for re-review. The link is under 'Tools' in the side bar.

;Reviewer Feedback
Would you like feedback on your reviews? Are you an experienced reviewer who can give feedback to other reviewers? If so there are two new feedback pilot programs. New Reviewer mentorship ↗ will match newer reviewers with an experienced reviewer with a new reviewer. The other program will be an occasional peer review cohort ↗ for moderate or experienced reviewers to give feedback to each other. The first cohort will launch ''November 13''.
;Second set of eyes

Not only are ''New Page Reviewers'' the guardians of quality of new articles, they are also in a position to ensure that pages are being correctly tagged for deletion and maintenance and that new authors are not being bitten. This is an important feature of your work, especially while some routine tagging for deletion can still be carried out by non NPR holders and inexperienced users. Read about it at the '''Monitoring the system''' ↗ section in the tutorial. If you come across such editors doing ''good'' work, don't hesitate to encourage them to apply for NPR.

Do be sure to have '''our talk page ''' ↗ on your watchlist. There are often items that require reviewers' special attention, such as to watch out for pages by known socks or disruptive editors, technical issues and new developments, and of course to provide advice for other reviewers.

;Arbitration Committee
The annual ArbCom election will be coming up soon. All eligible users will be invited to vote. While not directly concerned with NPR, Arbcom cases often lead back to notability and deletion issues and/or actions by holders of advanced user rights.
;Community Wish list
There is to be no wish list ↗ for WMF encyclopedias this year. We thank Community Tech for their hard work addressing our long list of requirements which somewhat overwhelmed them last year, and we look forward to a successful completion.
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Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 10

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Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 11

For those who haven't noticed, per phabricator:T234576 ↗, using <code>editToken</code> instead of <code>csrfToken</code> no longer works

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Following a discussion ↗, XFDcloser ↗ is now available as a gadget

Evad37's extra.js collection of helper functions is now available as MediaWiki:Gadget-libExtraUtil.js ↗

Twinkle ↗'s morebits ↗ is now a gadget, and is easier to use in as a dependency in other scripts (see here ↗ for more)

Last month's issue misidentified the creator of the new EditWarChecker script; it was created by Evad37

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A button to mark templates in the TfD holding cell as ready for deletion ↗

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

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Enjoy your thanksgiving --DannyS712 (talk) 08:22, 28 November 2019 (UTC)
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Disregard ping

I think that {{noping|CKorener (WMF)}} can probably address my question about web design ↗ at Wikipedia talk:Arbitration committee ↗, but feel free to comment if you would like to do so. Thanks, <span style="white-space:nowrap;"><span style="color:#01796f;text-shadow:#00BFFF 0 0 1.0em">↠Pine</span> <span style="color:DeepSkyBlue;">(<span style="color:#FFDF00 ;text-shadow:#FFDF00 0 0 1.0em"><b>✉</b></span>)</span></span> 18:19, 12 December 2019 (UTC)

New Page Review newsletter December 2019

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This year's Reviewer of the Year is {{noping|Rosguill}}. Having gotten the reviewer PERM in August 2018, they have been a regular reviewer of articles and redirects, been an active participant in the NPP community, and has been the driving force for the emerging NPP Source Guide that will help reviewers better evaluate sourcing and notability in many countries for which it has historically been difficult.

Special commendation again goes to {{noping|Onel5969}} who ends the year as one of our most prolific reviewers for the second consecutive year. Thanks also to {{noping| Boleyn}} and {{noping|JTtheOG}} who have been in the top 5 for the last two years as well.

Several newer editors have done a lot of work with CAPTAIN MEDUSA and DannyS712 (who has also written bots which have patrolled thousands of redirects) being new reviewers since this time last year.

Thanks to them and to everyone reading this who has participated in New Page Patrol this year.

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|DannyS712 (talk)
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|Boleyn (talk)
| data-sort-value="Ymblanter" |3,655
|Patrol Page Curation
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|Ymblanter (talk)
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|Patrol Page Curation
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|Cwmhiraeth (talk)
|3,522
|Patrol Page Curation
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(''The top 100 reviewers of the year can be found '''here ↗''''')

;Redirect autopatrol
A recent Request for Comment ↗ on creating a new redirect autopatrol pseduo-permission was closed early ↗. New Page Reviewers are now able to nominate editors ↗ who have an established track record creating uncontroversial redirects. At the individual discretion of any administrator or after 24 hours and a consensus of at least 3 New Page Reviewers an editor may be added to a list of users ↗ whose redirects will be patrolled automatically by {{noping|DannyS712 bot III}}.

;Source Guide Discussion
Set to launch early in the new year is our first New Page Patrol Source Guide ↗ discussion. These discussions are designed to solicit input on sources in places and topic areas that might otherwise be harder for reviewers to evaluate. The hope is that this will allow us to improve the accuracy of our patrols for articles using these sources (and/or give us places to perform a WP:BEFORE ↗ prior to nominating for deletion). Please watch the New Page Patrol talk page ↗ for more information.

;This month's refresher course
While New Page Reviewers are an experienced set of editors, we all benefit from an occasional review. This month consider refreshing yourself on Wikipedia:Notability (geographic features) ↗. Also consider how we can take the time for quality in this area. For instance, sources to verify human settlements, which are presumed notable, can often be found in seconds. This lets us avoid the (ugly) 'Needs more refs' tag.
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Belated holiday greetings

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<center><big>Merry Christmas and happy new year.</big>
<br /><span style="white-space:nowrap;"><span style="color:#01796f;text-shadow:#00BFFF 0 0 1.0em">↠Pine</span> <span style="color:DeepSkyBlue;">(<span style="color:#FFDF00 ;text-shadow:#FFDF00 0 0 1.0em"><b>✉</b></span>)</span></span> 16:17, 27 December 2019 (UTC)</center>
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Notification popup image

I've noticed that the notification popup's layout has changed slightly from what's shown in this image ↗. Should I update it, and if so, how would I? TK421bsod (talk) 07:49, 2 February 2020 (UTC)
:Hi {{ping|TK421bsod}} Thanks for the note. I've made a simple update to the image, using the same test-account as previously used. I think that might suffice for now?
:If you wanted to put more time into doing it more thoroughly (the timestamps are arguably the only thing that needs improving), the process would be: create a test-account (and mark it as connected to your main-account), trigger some simple notifications for that account (as done in the current screenshots, without touching mainspace), and then upload that new image on top of the old one (it could be argued that a new file ought to be started - that would entail digging through all the global-file-usage of the existing file to see which ones need to be replaced - but I think this method of updating the single file is better). Hope that helps. Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 18:35, 4 February 2020 (UTC)

Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 12

expand a diff until it covers all contiguous edits made by that user

highlight which content (in the HTML) comes from which template

hyperlink "per X" to the last comment X made

show a pop-up section preview when you hover over its TOC link

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

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Thanks, --DannyS712 (talk) 06:12, 5 February 2020 (UTC)
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New Page Reviewer newsletter February 2020

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;Source Guide Discussion
The first NPP source guide ↗ discussion is now underway. It covers a wide range of sources in Ghana with the goal of providing more guidance to reviewers about sources they might see when reviewing pages. Hopefully, new page reviewers will join others interested in reliable sources and those with expertise in these sources to make the discussion a success.

;Redirects
New to NPP? Looking to try something a little different? Consider patrolling some redirects. Redirects are relatively easy to review, can be found easily through the New Pages Feed ↗. You can find more information about how to patrol redirects at WP:RPATROL ↗.

;Discussions and Resources

There is an ongoing discussion ↗ around changing notifications for new editors who attempt to write articles.

A recent discussion of whether Michelin starred ↗ restraunts are notable was archived without closure ↗.

A resource page ↗ with links pertinent for reviewers was created this month.

A proposal ↗ to increase the scope of G5 was withdrawn.

;Refresher
Geographic regions, areas and places ↗ generally do not need general notability guideline ↗ type sourcing. When evaluating whether an article meets this notability guideline please also consider whether it might actually be a form of WP:SPAM ↗ for a development project (e.g. PR for a large luxury residential development) and not actually covered by the guideline.

Six Month Queue Data: Today – 7095 Low – 4991 High – 7095

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Nomination for deletion of Template:2030 cite

30px|link= ↗Template:2030 cite ↗ has been nominated for deletion ↗. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page ↗. Bsherr (talk) 12:26, 14 February 2020 (UTC)

Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 13

A script ↗ to help administrators handle proposed deletions

A script ↗ to hide newsletters when viewing another user's talk page

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

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I hope everyone is having a great year so far! --DannyS712 (talk) 15:53, 1 March 2020 (UTC)
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Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 14

For any scripts that previously made use of the <code>edit</code> API to change a page's content model,<br>a new API module is available: use <code>action=changecontentmodel</code> to specify the new <br>content model of an existing page. Documentation is available: mw:API:ChangeContentModel ↗.

The dispute resolution noticeboard wizard is no longer a gadget, but rather is loaded using<br><code>withJS</code> and <code>withCSS</code>. See the discussion at MediaWiki talk:Gadget-DRN-wizard.js ↗

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A script to help file movers process requests, including

# renaming the file

# updating file links

# removing the {{tl|Rename media}} template (when relevant)

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

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Stay safe, --DannyS712 (talk) 05:48, 1 April 2020 (UTC)
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Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 15

The <code>mediawiki.notify</code> resource loader module was deprecated and is no longer needed; its functionality is now available by default. See :mw:ResourceLoader/Migration guide (users) ↗ for more. Any dependency on it should be removed.

20px|alt=Pending requests ↗ '''Pending requests'''

A script to reload feeds automatically ↗

A script to mark templates in the TFD holding cell as ready for deletion ↗

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

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20px|alt= ↗ '''Miscellaneous'''

Wikipedia:User scripts/Most imported scripts ↗ now also shows the number of active users for each script. It will now be updated by a bot periodically.

Twinkle's Morebits library ↗ added a new <code>Morebits.date</code> class to replace the moment library. It can handle custom formatting and natural language for dates, as well as section header regexes. If you were using <code>getUTCMonthName</code> or <code>getUTCMonthNameAbbrev</code> with <code>Date</code> objects, those have been deprecated and should be updated ↗.

User:SD0001/find-archived-section was made a gadget. You can enable it from your gadget preferences ↗, in the Browsing section.

Hope everyone stays safe. --DannyS712 (talk) 20:27, 1 May 2020 (UTC)
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New Page Reviewer newsletter June 2020

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;Your help can make a difference
NPP Sorting can be a great way to find pages needing new page patrolling that match your strengths and interests. Using ORES, it divides articles into topics such as Literature or Chemistry and on Geography. Take a look and see if you can find time to patrol a couple pages a day. With over 10,000 pages in the queue, the highest it's been since ACPERM ↗, your help could really make a difference.

;Google Adds New Languages to Google Translate
In late February, Google added 5 new languages to Google Translate: Kinyarwanda, Odia (Oriya), Tatar, Turkmen and Uyghur. This expands our ability to find and evaluate sources in those languages.

;Discussions and Resources

A discussion ↗ on handling new article creation by paid editors is ongoing at the Village Pump.

Also at the Village Pump is a discussion ↗ about limiting participation at Articles for Deletion discussion.

A proposed new speedy deletion criteria ↗ for certain kinds of redirects ended with no consensus.

Also ending with no change was a proposal ↗ to change how we handle certain kinds of vector images.

Six Month Queue Data: Today – 10271 Low – 4991 High – 10271

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Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 16

Recent changes to the vector skin may have broken some scripts and gadgets. Uses of the <code>.vectorTabs</code> selector

: should be replaced with <code>.vector-menu-tabs</code>. Additionally, <code>.menu</code> should be replaced with <code><nowiki><ul></nowiki></code>, and <code>.vectorMenu</code>
: should be replaced with <code>.vector-menu</code>. See phabricator:T255718 ↗ and phabricator:T254797 ↗ for more.

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A script to simplify the process of nominating articles for good article reassessment (request ↗)

A script to help create navboxes (request ↗)

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

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If anyone else would like to contribute to future issues, please comment at Wikipedia talk:Scripts++ ↗. --DannyS712 (talk) 20:13, 30 June 2020 (UTC)
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Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 17

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News and updates associated with user scripts from the past two months (July and August 2020).

Hello everyone and welcome to the 17th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter ↗:

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:20px|alt=Featured script|This month's featured script ↗ Yet another Articles for creation helper script ("AFCH") ↗, a gadget used by Articles for creation ↗ reviewers, is this month's featured script

:20px|alt=New scripts|New ↗ Opencooper's collapseBots declutters talk pages by collapsing comments made by bots
: SD0001's GAR-helper is a script to easily create a GAR nomination and carry out the necessary related steps
: SD0001's shortdescs-in-category can be used to view short descriptions of pages in a category
: WikiMacaroons's Talk to Wiki allows for voice-activated functionality and navigation of Wikipedia
: WikiMacaroons's AutoShortDesc simplifies the addition of short descriptions to pages
: IagoQnsi's ipareader adds a button next to IPA pronunciations to have them read out by a text-to-speech program
: Awesome Aasim's xfdvote makes it easier to participate in XFD discussions
: BrandonXLF's CitationStyleMarker adds "CS1" or "CS2" beside citations to show their style with an optional toggle
: GeneralNotability's spihelper a script to help CheckUsers, SPI clerks, and patrolling admins with sockpuppet investigation case pages
: Evad37's TimestampDiffs adds a link at the end of every comment to the diff in which it was added

:20px|alt=Updated scripts|Updated ↗ Twinkle ↗ has a number of improvements including additional redirect category ↗ templates
: Updates to Enterprisey's reply-link include compatibility fixes with Mdaniels5757's markAdmins script and Kephir's unclutter script
: Evad37's rater is now at version 2.6.0, which updates including OOUI tweaks and the inclusion of banners for inactive projects

20px|alt= ↗ '''Miscellaneous'''

If anyone would like to help contribute to this newsletter, please leave a note at Wikipedia talk:Scripts++ ↗

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A script to simplify addition of "connected contributor" templates to talk pages ↗

A script to simplify removal of the "persondata" template on mlwiki ↗

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

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Stay safe --DannyS712 (talk) 19:42, 31 August 2020 (UTC)
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Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 18

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News and updates associated with user scripts from the past three months (September, October, and November 2020).

Hello everyone and welcome to the 18th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter ↗:

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:20px|alt=Featured script|This month's featured script ↗ SD0001's W-Ping is this month's featured script

:20px|alt=New scripts|New ↗ Sportzpikachu's bookmarks adds a bookmarks section to the navigation toolbar
:SD0001's deleted-metadata-link.js adds links to the deletedrevisions API output for deleted pages
:SD0001's GAN-helper makes it easier to create a GAN nomination.
:1234qwer1234qwer4's XfDstarted scripts add links to today's XfD log pages to the personal toolbar
:Awesome Aasim's rcpatrol is a tool that can be used to patrol recent changes, including reverting edits and warning users
:A new JavaScript snippet, MediaWiki:AFC-add-project-tags.js ↗, can be used to add WikiProject tags to drafts at Wikipedia:WikiProject Articles for creation/Add WikiProject tags ↗ without actually needing to install a user script.
:Nardog's PlayAudioNow makes {{tl|audio}} links playable while staying on the page, regardless of the format
:GeneralNotability's ip-ext-info.js adds extended info on IPs in a popup with their range, ASN, and ISP
:TheTVExpert's submitRMTR adds a button to Special:MovePage ↗ to submit a technical request at Wikipedia:Requested moves/Technical requests ↗
:TheTVExpert's rmCloser helps with closing and relisting requested moves.
:Enterprisey's parsoid-round-trip uses Parsoid ↗ to convert wikitext to HTML and back, and then shows the result and the difference between the original wikitext and the post-conversion wikitext.
:Frietjes's infoboxgap assists in renumbering infobox labels/data/classes, so that a new line can be inserted in the middle of the infobox.

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20px|alt=Pending requests ↗ '''Pending requests'''

A request ↗ for a script to help with maintaining the lists of vital articles ↗

A request ↗ for a script to make it easier to archive specific list entries, rather than whole discussion sections

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

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:20px|alt=Updated scripts|Updated ↗ Twinkle ↗ has made a number of improvements, including using a change tag to identify actions made with it and automatically filing edit requests for protected XfD nominations.
: SD0001's shortdescs-in-category is now compatible with scripts modifying category listings, such as Equazcion's CatListMainTalkLinks
:GhostInTheMachine's TalkHelper2 is a newer version of their prior script, TalkHelper
:GeneralNotability's spihelper updated to 2.2.10, fixing a number of small bugs, automatically tagging globally locked socks as such in the sockpuppet template, and restoring open cases following an SPI history merge.
:Enterprisey's script-installer gadget has been updated with more internationalization of messages, as well as addition of a user preference, <syntaxhighlight lang="javascript" inline>window.scriptInstallerInstallTarget</syntaxhighlight> to allow controlling where new scripts are to be installed.

20px|alt= ↗ '''Open tasks'''

Enterprisey is looking for beta testers for their new section-watchlist user script. See the announcement ↗.

20px|alt= ↗ '''Miscellaneous'''

The second edition of the :m:Coolest Tool Award ↗ will be taking place in December.

Enterprisey's links-in-logs script has now been implemented as part of MediaWiki core, see gerrit:640761 ↗ and phab:T207562 ↗.

My apologies for the delayed issue. As always, if anyone else would like to contribute, help is appreciated. Stay safe, --DannyS712 (talk) 18:20, 1 December 2020 (UTC)
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New Page Patrol December Newsletter

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800px|A chart of the 2020 New Page Patrol Queue ↗

;Year in review
It has been a productive year for New Page Patrol as we've roughly cut the size of the New Page Patrol queue in half this year. We have been fortunate to have a lot of great work done by {{noping|Rosguill}} who was the reviewer of the most pages and redirects this past year. Thanks and credit go to {{noping|JTtheOG}} and {{noping|Onel5969}} who join Rosguill in repeating in the top 10 from last year. Thanks to {{noping|John B123}}, {{noping|Hughesdarren}}, and {{noping|Mccapra}} who all got the NPR permission this year and joined the top 10. Also new to the top ten is DannyS712 bot III, programmed by {{noping|DannyS712}} which has helped to dramatically reduce the number of redirects that have needed human patrolling by patrolling certain types of redirects (e.g. for differences in accents) and by also patrolling editors who are on on the redirect whitelist ↗.
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| {{User0|Rosguill}}
| data-sort-value=Rosguill | {{FORMATNUM:63821}}
| Patrol ↗ Page Curation ↗
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| {{User0|John B123}}
| data-sort-value=John B123 | {{FORMATNUM:21697}}
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| {{User0|Onel5969}}
| data-sort-value=Onel5969 | {{FORMATNUM:19879}}
| Patrol ↗ Page Curation ↗
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| 5
| {{User0|JTtheOG}}
| data-sort-value=JTtheOG | {{FORMATNUM:12901}}
| Patrol ↗ Page Curation ↗
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| 6
| {{User0|Mcampany}}
| data-sort-value=Mcampany | {{FORMATNUM:9103}}
| Patrol ↗ Page Curation ↗
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| 7
| {{User0|DragonflySixtyseven}}
| data-sort-value=DragonflySixtyseven | {{FORMATNUM:6401}}
| Patrol ↗ Page Curation ↗
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| 8
| {{User0|Mccapra}}
| data-sort-value=Mccapra | {{FORMATNUM:4918}}
| Patrol ↗ Page Curation ↗
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| {{User0|Hughesdarren}}
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;Reviewer of the Year
{{noping|John B123}} has been named reviewer of the year for 2020. John has held the permission for just over 6 months and in that time has helped cut into the queue by reviewing more than 18,000 articles. His talk page shows his efforts to communicate with users, upholding NPP's goal of nurturing new users and quality over quantity.

;NPP Technical Achievement Award
As a special recognition and thank you {{noping|DannyS712}} has been awarded the first NPP Technical Achievement Award. His work programming the bot has helped us patrol redirects tremendously - more than 60,000 redirects this past year. This has been a large contribution to New Page Patrol and definitely is worthy of recognition.

Six Month Queue Data: Today – 2262 Low – 2232 High – 10271

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Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 19

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News and updates associated with user scripts from the past month (December 2020).

Hello everyone and welcome to the 19th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter ↗:

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:20px|alt=Featured script|This month's featured script ↗ Enterprisey's script-installer, a gadget that makes it easier to install scripts, is this month's featured script

:20px|alt=New scripts|New ↗ Enterprisey's copy-section-link adds popups to section headers which has an appropriate wikilink and external link to the section.
:DannyS712's FindBlacklistEntry ↗ can be used to figure out which line(s) in either the local or global spamblacklist prevent a particular url from being added.
:Nardog's CodeEditorAssist allows customizing the code editor ↗, including changing the color theme and enabling live autocompletion.
:Cobaltcigs's IllWill allows searches wikidata.org for foreign-language sitelinks, to populate {{tl|ill}} and replace plain red links.

:20px|alt=Updated scripts|Updated ↗ Twinkle ↗ has made a number of improvements, most notably full support for expiring watchlist items.
: Evad37's Signpost Publishing Script is now at version 2.4.2, with changes including a fix for calculating the size of pages with files.
: Evad37's MoveToDraft is now at version 2.5.1, with changes including:
:* checks for move conflicts and better options if move fails
:* the addition of {{tl|Drafts moved from mainspace}} after moves
:* updating the default move log and notification texts to be more in line with WP:DRAFTIFY ↗
: Enterprisey's cv-revdel now handles failures more cleanly, including reporting failures caused by the spam blacklist.
: Bradv's Notepad.js script has been updated with new styles and a new launch button.
: A beta version of XFDcloser ↗ is available for testing ↗, and brings a new user interface for dialogs and some preferences for customization.

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20px|alt= ↗ '''Open tasks'''

Voting in the :m:Community Wishlist Survey 2021 ↗ is ongoing until December 21, 2020. There are 15 proposals in the "bots and gadgets" ↗ category that may be of interest.

20px|alt=Pending requests ↗ '''Pending requests'''

A script to help list discussions at WP:ANRFC ↗ (request ↗)

A script to allow undoing edits despite conflicting intermediary edits (request ↗)

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

20px|alt= ↗ '''Miscellaneous'''

The Watchlist Expiry ↗ feature worked on by the Community Tech team has been enabled on Wikipedia. For scripts that include watching or unwatching pages, developers may want to update their code to take advantage of the new functionality. See the documentation on mediawiki.org ↗.

As noted in the prior issue, Enterprisey's links-in-logs script has now been implemented as part of MediaWiki core. By my count, this is his third script that was replaced by implementing the code in MediaWiki core or an extension, along with link-section-edits and abusefilter-hide-search. Additionally, his reply-link script is being converted in part to :mw:Extension:DiscussionTools ↗. Are there any other scripts that might be worth integrating directly in MediaWiki? Thoughts would be welcome at Wikipedia talk:Scripts++ ↗.

As always, if anyone else would like to contribute, help is appreciated. Stay safe, and happy holidays! --DannyS712 (talk) 00:19, 18 December 2020 (UTC)
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Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 20

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News and updates associated with user scripts from the past month (January 2021).

Hello everyone and welcome to the 20th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter ↗:

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:20px|alt=New scripts|New ↗ Ajbura's anrfc-lister assists with listing discussions at WP:ANRFC ↗ to request that they receive a formal close
: Bradv's endlesscontribs provides for endless scrolling of contributions pages
: Evad37's livenotifications displays notification alerts and messages in a little popup box, (almost) live as they happen
: Terasail's Edit Request Tool allows users to reply to, close or remove protected edit requests
: ToBeFree's clear-watchlist allows emptying your watchlist even if the watchlist is too full to be edited or cleared by conventional methods
: Dentonius's GlobalRecentChanges ↗ allows you to monitor recent changes across various wikis.
: Yahya's SNA (Start New Article) allows you to start a new article or draft from the navigation bar.
: Nardog:
:* CatChangeLinker bluelinks the "(diff | hist)" part of category additions/removals on your watchlist.
:* CatChangesViewer lists recent category additions/removals on a category page.
:* Consecudiff adds links to diffs of consecutive edits by the same user on watchlist, history, etc.
:* DiffFontSwitcher allows you to toggle between fonts for diff by clicking a line number.
:* MoveHistory lists the past moves a page has gone through.
: Novem Linguae:
:* UserHighlighterSimple is a fork of Chlod's UserHighlighter with a simplified color scheme.
:* VisualEditorEverywhere displays the Visual Editor edit tab and section links on pages that don't normally have them.

:20px|alt=Updated scripts|Updated ↗ User:Evad37/TimestampDiffs – fixed compatibility issues with various scripts/gadgets, including Wikipedia:Comments in Local Time ↗. For discussion archives, now looks for revisions on the base page.
: User:Enterprisey/undo-last-edit.js - no longer tries to load on special pages.
: User:Ahecht/Scripts/pageswap - version 1.4 fixes reading destination from form field if destination is not in article namespace, and fixes self redirects.
: Wikipedia:XFDcloser ↗ - version 4 brings a new user interface for dialogs, some preferences for customising XFDcloser, major behind-the-scenes coding changes, and resolves various issues raised on the talkpage. Also, since version 3.16.6 non-admin soft delete closure have been allowed at TfD.

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20px|alt= ↗ '''Open tasks'''

As a reminder, the legacy javascript globals (like accessing <syntaxhighlight lang="javascript" inline>wgPageName</syntaxhighlight> without first assigning it a value or using <syntaxhighlight lang="javascript" inline>mw.config.get('wgPageName')</syntaxhighlight> instead) are deprecated. If your user scripts make use of the globals, please update them to use <syntaxhighlight lang="javascript" inline>mw.config</syntaxhighlight> instead. Some global interface editors ↗ or local interface administrators ↗ may edit your user script to make these changes if you don't. See phab:T72470 ↗ for more.

20px|alt= ↗ '''Miscellaneous'''

For people interested in creating user scripts or gadgets using TypeScript ↗, a types-mediawiki package (GitHub ↗, NPM ↗) is now available that provides type definitions for the MediaWiki JS interface and the API.

A GitHub organization ↗ has been created for hosting codebases of gadgets ↗. Users who maintain gadgets using GitHub may choose to move their repos to this organization, to ensure continued maintenance by others even if the original maintainer becomes inactive.

20px|alt=Pending requests ↗ '''Pending requests'''

A script to ease reviewing Good Article nominations ↗

A script to help manage Z number templates ↗

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

As always, if anyone else would like to contribute, including nominating a featured script, help is appreciated. Stay safe, and happy new year! --DannyS712 (talk) 01:17, 3 February 2021 (UTC)
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Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 20

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News and updates associated with user scripts from the past month (January 2021).

Hello everyone and welcome to the 20th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter ↗:

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20px|alt=Scripts ↗ '''Scripts''' <small>Submit your new/improved script here ↗</small>
:20px|alt=New scripts|New ↗ Ajbura's anrfc-lister assists with listing discussions at WP:ANRFC ↗ to request that they receive a formal close
: Bradv's endlesscontribs provides for endless scrolling of contributions pages
: Evad37's livenotifications displays notification alerts and messages in a little popup box, (almost) live as they happen
: Terasail's Edit Request Tool allows users to reply to, close or remove protected edit requests
: ToBeFree's clear-watchlist allows emptying your watchlist even if the watchlist is too full to be edited or cleared by conventional methods
: Dentonius's GlobalRecentChanges ↗ allows you to monitor recent changes across various wikis.
: Yahya's SNA (Start New Article) allows you to start a new article or draft from the navigation bar.
: Nardog:
:* CatChangeLinker bluelinks the "(diff | hist)" part of category additions/removals on your watchlist.
:* CatChangesViewer lists recent category additions/removals on a category page.
:* Consecudiff adds links to diffs of consecutive edits by the same user on watchlist, history, etc.
:* DiffFontSwitcher allows you to toggle between fonts for diff by clicking a line number.
:* MoveHistory lists the past moves a page has gone through.
: Novem Linguae:
:* UserHighlighterSimple is a fork of Chlod's UserHighlighter with a simplified color scheme.
:* VisualEditorEverywhere displays the Visual Editor edit tab and section links on pages that don't normally have them.

:20px|alt=Updated scripts|Updated ↗ User:Evad37/TimestampDiffs – fixed compatibility issues with various scripts/gadgets, including Wikipedia:Comments in Local Time ↗. For discussion archives, now looks for revisions on the base page.
: User:Enterprisey/undo-last-edit.js - no longer tries to load on special pages.
: User:Ahecht/Scripts/pageswap - version 1.4 fixes reading destination from form field if destination is not in article namespace, and fixes self redirects.
: Wikipedia:XFDcloser ↗ - version 4 brings a new user interface for dialogs, some preferences for customising XFDcloser, major behind-the-scenes coding changes, and resolves various issues raised on the talkpage. Also, since version 3.16.6 non-admin soft delete closure have been allowed at TfD.

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20px|alt= ↗ '''Open tasks'''

As a reminder, the legacy javascript globals (like accessing <syntaxhighlight lang="javascript" inline>wgPageName</syntaxhighlight> without first assigning it a value or using <syntaxhighlight lang="javascript" inline>mw.config.get('wgPageName')</syntaxhighlight> instead) are deprecated. If your user scripts make use of the globals, please update them to use <syntaxhighlight lang="javascript" inline>mw.config</syntaxhighlight> instead. Some global interface editors ↗ or local interface administrators ↗ may edit your user script to make these changes if you don't. See phab:T72470 ↗ for more.

20px|alt= ↗ '''Miscellaneous'''

For people interested in creating user scripts or gadgets using TypeScript ↗, a types-mediawiki package (GitHub ↗, NPM ↗) is now available that provides type definitions for the MediaWiki JS interface and the API.

A GitHub organization ↗ has been created for hosting codebases of gadgets ↗. Users who maintain gadgets using GitHub may choose to move their repos to this organization, to ensure continued maintenance by others even if the original maintainer becomes inactive.

20px|alt=Pending requests ↗ '''Pending requests'''

A script to ease reviewing Good Article nominations ↗

A script to help manage Z number templates ↗

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

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Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 21

Alexander Davronov's HistoryHelper helps to copy diff links from the history display of a page

Aseleste's Purger makes it easier to purge or null edit a page

Awesome Aasim:

* CatMan adds a category manager to simplify interactions for adding and removing the categories of a page

* redirectcreator allows for easy creation of multiple redirects

Bop34's EasyDesc adds a link to the top navigation bar which allows you to add a short description without opening the edit menu

BrandonXLF's NullEdit adds a portlet link to perform a null edit on a page

Chlod:

* FoldArchives collapses archived talk page threads in order to reduce screen space

* GoToTitle converts the page title into an input field for navigating to other pages

* UserHighlighter adds highlighting to links to the userpages, talk pages, and contributions of administrators and other user groups as well as tooltips to indicate which groups a user is in

GhostInTheMachine:

* NoEditSummary adds a warning if an edit will be saved without an edit summary

* SortWhatLinksHere sorts the links shows on Special:WhatLinksHere ↗

* WatchlistTidy moves the "new updates found" timestamp block from the bottom of the filter block to the top of the filter area on the watchlist

GorillaWarfare's curlies simplifies converting curly quotes to straight quotes while in the source editing mode

Nardog:

* AutoSectionLink corrects the <code>/* section link */</code> every time you hit "Show changes"

* AutoTestcases autofills "Preview page with this template/module" with the most relevant /testcases page that exists

* SortCentralAuthByEditCount sorts the list of local accounts on CentralAuth by edit count

Novem Linguae:

* CiteHighlighter highlights 1800 sources green, yellow, or red depending on reliability.

* NPPLinks adds WP:BEFORE ↗ Google search links, copyvio check, duplicate article check, and other links to the left menu.

Ritenerek's goce_nav adds a link to Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors ↗ to the navigation menu

Suffusion of Yellow:

* filterDiff: Adds a "Show changes" button to the filter editor.

* filterNotes: Parses filter notes as wikitext (so links are clickable), and signs and dates new comments for you.

* filterTest: Adds a "Test changes" button. Opens Special:AbuseFilter/test ↗ with what's ''currently'' in the edit form, not with what's saved in the database, so you don't have to copy-paste your changes.

Terasail's COI Request Tool allows users to reply to, close or remove conflict of interest edit requests

:20px|alt=Updated scripts|Updated ↗ '''Updated scripts'''

Twinkle ↗ has a number of improvements, including that most watchlist defaults now make use of the new temporary watchlist ↗ feature. Other changes include rollbacks treating consecutive IPv6 editors in the same /64 range as the same user, adding a preview for shared IP tagging, a preference for watching users after CSD notification, and for sysops, the ability to block the /64 ↗ and link to a WP:RfPP ↗ request, and new copyright blocks default to indefinite.

Wikipedia:Shortdesc helper ↗ now v3.4.17, changes include minor fixes and preventing edits that don't change the description.

BrandonXLF's CitationStyleMarker now recognizes WP:CSLSA ↗ and WP:CSVAN ↗ styles, in addition to WP:CS1 ↗ and WP:CS2 ↗

Joeytje50's JWB now version 4.1.0, includes the ability to generate page lists from the search tool, major updates to the handling of regular expressions, the storing of user settings, the addition of upload protection, and an option to skip pages that belong to a specific category, among other changes. See User:Joeytje50/JWB/Changelog for a full list of recent changes.

User:SD0001/deleted-metadata-link.js – updated to include a link to snippet of deleted content, instead of just metadata.

:20px|alt= ↗ '''Miscellaneous'''

Wikipedia:User scripts/List ↗ has been revamped to make it easier to find scripts suited for your needs. If you know of a cool script that is missing on the list, or a script on the list that is no longer working, please edit the list or let us know on the talk page ↗.

:20px|alt=Pending requests ↗ '''Pending requests'''

A request ↗ for a script to help admins posting "recent death" items to Template:In the news ↗

A request ↗ for a script to warn users about syntax and template errors

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

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My apologies for this long-overdue issue, and if I missed any scripts.<br />Hopefully going forward we can go back to monthly releases - any help would be appreciated. Thanks, --DannyS712 (talk) 13:04, 2 June 2021 (UTC)
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New Page Patrol newsletter September 2021

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Please join ''this discussion'' ↗ - there is increase in the abuse of Wikipedia and its processes by POV pushers, Paid Editors, and by holders of various user rights including Autopatrolled ↗. Even our review systems themselves at AfC ↗ and NPR ↗ have been infiltrated. The good news is that detection is improving, but the downside is that it creates the need for a huge clean up - which of course adds to backlogs.

Copyright violations ↗ are also a serious issue. Most non-regular contributors do not understand why, and most of our Reviewers are not experts on copyright law - and can't be expected to be, but there is excellent, easy-to-follow advice on COPYVIO detection '''here''' ↗.

At the time of the last newsletter (#25, December 2020) the backlog was only just over 2,000 articles. New Page Review is an official system. It's the only firewall against the inclusion of new, improper pages.

There are currently '''706''' New Page Reviewers plus a further 1,080 admins, but as much as nearly 90% of the patrolling is still being done by around only the 20 or so most regular patrollers.

If you are no longer very active on Wikipedia or you no longer wish to be part of the New Page Reviewer user group, please consider asking any admin to remove you from the list. This will enable NPP to have a better overview of its performance and what improvements need to be made to the process or its software.
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November 2021 backlog drive

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''Bots Newsletter'', December 2021

Between September and December 2019, there were 33 BRFA ↗s. Of these, {{yeac}} 25 were approved, and 8 were unsuccessful ({{nayd}} 3 denied, {{idkc}} 3 withdrawn, and 20px|alt=Expired|link= ↗ 2 expired).

<span style="font-size:125%">'''September 2019'''</span>
thumb|Look! It's moving. It's alive. It's alive... It's alive, it's moving, it's alive, it's alive, it's alive, ''it's alive'', '''''IT'S ALIVE!''''' ↗

{{yeac}} Monkbot 16 ↗, DannyS712 bot 60 ↗, Ahechtbot 6 ↗, PearBOT 3 ↗, Qbugbot 3 ↗ · {{nayd}} DannyS712 bot 5 ↗, PkbwcgsBot 24 ↗ · {{idkc}} DannyS712 bot 61 ↗, TheSandBot 4 ↗

'''TParis goes away, UTRSBot goes kaput''': Beeblebrox noted ↗ that the bot for maintaining on-wiki records of UTRS ↗ appeals stopped working a while ago. TParis, the semi-retired user who had previously run it, said they were "unlikely to return to actively editing Wikipedia", and the bot had been vanquished by trolls submitting bogus UTRS requests on behalf of real blocked users. While OAuth ↗ was a potential fix, neither maintainer had time to implement it. TParis offered to access to the UTRS WMFLabs account to any admin identified with the WMF: "I miss you guys a whole lot [...] but I've also moved on with my life. Good luck, let me know how I can help". Ultimately, SQL ended up in charge. Some progress was made, and the bot continued to work another couple months — but as of press time, UTRSBot has not edited since November 2019.

'''Article-measuring contest resumed''': The list of Wikipedians by article count ↗, which had lain dead for several years, was triumphantly resurrected by GreenC following a bot request ↗.

<span style="font-size:125%">'''October 2019'''</span>

{{yeac}} OAbot 3 ↗, DannyS712 bot 47 ↗, Pathbot 2 ↗, PearBOT 2 ↗, DannyS712 bot 59 ↗, DannyS712 bot 62 ↗, HasteurBot 14 ↗, PearBOT 4 ↗, WOSlinkerBot 4 ↗, MilHistBot 5 ↗

'''Curb Safe Charmer adopts reFill''': TAnthony pointed out ↗ that reFill 2 ↗'s bug reports were going unanswered; creator Zhaofeng Li had retired from Wikipedia, and a maintainer was needed. As of June 2021, Curb Safe Charmer had taken up the mantle ↗, saying: "Not that I have all the skills needed but better me than nobody! 'Maintainer' might be too strong a term though. Volunteers welcome!" <br />

<span style="font-size:125%">'''November 2019'''</span>
thumb|Now you're thinking with portals. ↗

{{yeac}} BHGbot 4 ↗, YiFeiBot 2 ↗, DannyS712 bot III 64 ↗ · {{idkc}} PearBOT ↗

'''Old bots do new tricks''': DannyS712 bot III 64 ↗ prowled redirects, YiFeiBot 2 ↗ archived GoCE ↗ requests, and BHGbot 4 ↗ removed links to portals ↗ deleted at MfD ↗ (until its authorization was revoked in January at operator BrownHairedGirl's request ↗).

<span style="font-size:125%">'''December 2019'''</span>

{{yeac}} DemonDays64 Bot ↗, DannyS712 bot III 66 ↗, Bot1058 6 ↗, Monkbot 15 ↗, MilHistBot 6 ↗, PearBOT 5 ↗, DannyS712 bot IV 65 ↗ · {{nayd}} SportsStatsBot ↗ ·20px|alt=Expired|link= ↗ Xinbenlv bot ↗, SteveBot 8 ↗

'''Redirects to be autopatrolled''': A RfC took place ↗ at WP:NPP ↗, closing with unanimous consensus that new redirects ↗ should be automatically marked as patrolled ↗ by bot. DannyS712 wasted no time, and submitted DannyS712 bot III 66 ↗ the next day; it passed two days after that.

'''200,000 bios get short descs''': Along a similar vein, Bot1058 6 ↗ was approved to remove disambiguation pages from :Category:Monitored short pages ↗ and a new bot (DemonDays64 Bot ↗) changed lots of http ↗ links to https ↗ using JavaScript Wiki Browser ↗. One particularly neat task, PearBOT 5 ↗, automatically generated short descriptions ↗ for more than 200,000 biographies.

<span style="font-size:150%">'''In the next issue of ''Bots Newsletter'':'''</span><br />
What's next for our intrepid band of coders, maintainers and approvers?

What happens when two bots want to clerk the same page?

What happens when an adminbot goes hog wild?

Will reFill ever get fixed?

What's up with ListeriaBot, anyway?

Python 3.4 deprecation? In ''my'' PyWikiBot? (It's more likely than you think!)

These questions will be answered — and new questions raised — by the January 2022 ''Bots Newsletter''. Tune in, or miss out!

Signing off... '''jp'''×'''g''' 04:29, 10 December 2021 (UTC)
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Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 22

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Hello everyone, and welcome to the 22nd issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter ↗. This issue will be covering new and updated user scripts from the past seven months (June through December 2021).

20px|alt=Scripts ↗ <small>Got anything good? Tell us about your new, improved, old, or messed-up script here ↗!</small>

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20px|alt=Featured script|This month's featured script ↗ <span style="font-size:125%">'''Featured script'''</span>
: '''LuckyRename''', by '''Alexis Jazz''', is this month's featured script. LuckyRename makes requesting file moves easier, and automates the many steps in file moving (including automatic replacement of existing usage). Give it a shot!

20px|alt=Updated scripts|Updated ↗ <span style="font-size:125%">'''Updated scripts'''</span>

'''''SD0001''''': '''hide-reverted-edits''' has been updated to take into account changes in reversion tools like Twinkle and RedWarn.

'''''Writ Keeper''''': '''massRollback.js''' has added a rollback-some option (missed in last issue).

'''''ClaudineChionh''''': '''SkinSwitcher''' (a fork and update of Eizen's script) provides an options menu/toolbox/toolbar allowing users to view a given page in MediaWiki's default skins.

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Mass-patrolling at Special:NewPages ↗

Taking up the mantle of an almost completed peer review javascript bot

Restore the Wikipedia Citation Tool for Google Books

Autohighlighting specific characters (Greek)

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

20px|alt=Miscellaneous ↗ <span style="font-size:125%">'''Miscellaneous'''</span>

'''Wikipedia:User scripts/Ranking ↗''' is a sortable table of Wikipedia's thousand-or-so most commonly used scripts; it includes their author, last modification date, installation count, and sometimes a short description.

'''Toolhub ↗''' is a community managed catalog of software tools used in the Wikimedia movement. Technical volunteers can use Toolhub to document the tools that they create or maintain. All Wikimedians can use Toolhub to search for tools to help with their workflows and to create lists of useful tools to share with others.

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20px|alt=New scripts|New ↗ <span style="font-size:125%">'''New scripts'''</span>

'''''Ahecht''''':

*'''draft-sorter''' sorts AfC drafts by adding WikiProject banners to their talk pages. It supersedes User:Enterprisey/draft-sorter, adding a few features and fixing some bugs.

*'''massmove''', a modified User:Plastikspork/massmove.js that adds a link to the left column, allows adding and removing both prefixes and suffixes.

*'''watchlistcleaner''' removes missing pages (redlinks), redirects, pages you haven't edited recently, and/or pages you've never edited from your watchlist.

'''''Awesome Aasim''''':

*'''Infiniscroll''' adds infinite scrolling to user contributions, page histories, and log pages.

*'''Quick create''' allows for the fast creation of red-linked pages with two clicks.

'''''Caburum''''':

*'''UTCclock''' adds a clock displaying the current UTC time.

'''''Chlod''''':

*'''CopiedTemplateEditor''', mainly for CCI ↗ case handlers, allows graphically editing a talk page's {{tl|copied}} templates.

'''''DaxServer''''':

*'''BooksToSfn''' adds a portlet link in Visual Editor ↗'s source mode editing, in main namespace articles or in the user's Sandbox. When clicked, it converts one {{tlx|cite book}} inside a <code><nowiki><ref>...</ref></nowiki></code> tag block into an {{tlx|Sfn}}.

'''''FlightTime''''':

*'''OneClickArchiver''' is a custom version of User:Technical_13/Scripts/OneClickArchiver which doesn't prepend {{Tl|Clear}} to the top of each section on the archive page.

'''''Jon Harald Søby ↗''''':

*'''diffedit ↗''' enables editing directly from viewing a diff "when, for instance, you notice a tiny mistake deep into an article, and don't want to edit the entire article and re-find that one line to fix that tiny mistake".

*'''warnOnLargeFile ↗''' warns you if you're about to open a very large file (width/height >10,000px or file size >100 MB) from a file page.

'''''JPxG''''':

*'''<span style="plainlinks">PressPass ↗</span>''' adds a collection of tools for Newspapers.com including configurable automatic citation generation in five different formats.

*'''CurrentSwitcher''' gives you links on the contribs page to hide duplicate entries, current revisions, rollbacks, huggles, twinkles, and redwarns.

* '''TrackSum''' lets you automatically sum the lengths of tracks in templates like {{tl|track listing}} and get total runtimes.

'''''Nardog''''':

*'''CopySectLink''' adds a button to copy the unencoded page title or section path next to each heading.

*'''IPAInput''' allows you to type in IPA symbols by directly looking at an IPA key like Help:IPA/English ↗ and clicking on the symbols.

*'''TemplatePreviewGuard''' warns when you try to use "Preview page with this template" with a page that doesn't transclude the template.

'''''NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh''''':

*'''ContribsTabVector''' adds "Contributions" and "Statistics" tabs to user and user talk pages on the Vector ↗ skin.

*'''CopyvioChecker''' adds a "CopyvioCheck" tab to all pages, except Special ↗ (Vector skin only).

*'''LiveDiffLink''' is a version of Equazcion's LiveDiffLink which shows a wikilink instead of a URL.

*'''QuickDiff ↗''' (by OneTwoThreeFall at Fandom) lets you quickly view any diff link on a wiki, whether on Recent Changes, contribs pages, history pages, the diff view itself, or elsewhere. For more information, view its page on Fandom ↗.

'''''Novem Linguae''''':

*'''DetectSNG''' scans a list of 1,600 SNG ↗ keywords and displays them at the top of the article.

*'''NotSoFast''' highlights recently created articles in the new pages feed, to discourage patrolling them too quickly.

*'''UserRightsDiff''' concisely displays what perm was added or removed when viewing Special:UserRights ↗.

*'''VoteCounter''' displays a rough count of keeps and deletes at XFDs, RFCs, etc.

*'''WatchlistAFD''' automatically watchlists the AFDs ↗ of any pages you AFC ↗ accept or NPP ↗ patrol, to help you calibrate your reviewing.

'''''P.T.Đ''''':

*'''TwinkleMobile''' enables Twinkle on mobile view (Minerva skin).

'''''Qwerfjkl''''':

*'''editRedirect''' adds a → link after redirects to edit them.

*'''RegExTypoFix''', a script for fixing typos, is a wrapper for User:Joeytje50/RETF.js.

*'''talkback''' creates links after user talk page links like this: |<span style="font-size:x-small; display:inline-block;">{{False link|C}}</span>|<span style="font-size:x-small; display:inline-block;">{{False link|TB}}</span> (with the first linking to the user's contributions, and the latter giving the option of sending a {{tl|talkback}} notice). It also adds a [{{False link|copy}}] link next to section headers.

'''''Rublov''''':

*'''diff-link''' shows "copy" links on history and contributions pages that copy an internal link to the diff (e.g., Special:Diff/1026402230 ↗) to your clipboard when clicked.

'''''Rummskartoffel''''':

*'''auto-watchlist-expiry''' automatically watchlists every page you edit for a user-definable duration (you can still pick a different time using the dropdown, though).

*'''generate pings''' generates the wikitext needed to ping all members of a category, up to 50 editors (the limit defined by MediaWiki).

*'''share ExpandTemplates url''' allows for easy sharing of your inputs to Special:ExpandTemplates ↗. It adds a button that, when clicked, copies a shareable URL to your exact invocation of the page, like this ↗. Other editors '''do not''' need to have this script installed in order to access the URL generated.

*'''show tag names''' shows the real names of tags next to their display names in places such as page revision histories or the watchlist.

'''''Tol''''':

*'''VisualEditor Citation Needed''' adds a button (under "Insert") in VisualEditor to add a {{tl|citation needed}} tag.

'''''Venkat TL''''':

*'''ColourContrib''' color-codes the user contributions page so that pages you've edited last are sharply distinguished from pages where another editor was the last to edit the page.

'''''Vukky''''':

*'''StatusChanger''' is a fork of Enterprisey's Status Changer, which adds a UI to the script. (using Morebits ↗, so you'll need to have Twinkle ↗ enabled to use it).

All in all, some very neat scripts were written in these last few months. Hoping to see many more in the next issue -- drop us a line on the talk page ↗ if you've been writing (or seeing) anything cool and good. Filling in for DannyS712, this has been '''jp'''×'''g'''. Take care, and merry Christmas! '''jp'''×'''g''' 07:30, 24 December 2021 (UTC)
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Bots Newsletter, January 2022

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Welcome to the ninth issue of the English Wikipedia's ''Bots Newsletter'', your source for all things bot ↗. Vicious bot-on-bot edit warring... superseded tasks... policy proposals... these stories, and more, are brought to you by Wikipedia's most distinguished newsletter about bots.

After a long hiatus between August 2019 and December 2021, there's quite a bit of ground to cover. Due to the vastness, I decided in December to split the coverage up into a few installments that covered six months each. Some people thought this was a good idea, since covering an entire year in a single issue would make it unmanageably large. Others thought this was stupid, since they were getting talk page messages about crap from almost three years ago. Ultimately, the question of whether each issue covers six months or a year is only relevant for a couple more of them, and then the problem will be behind us forever.

Of course, you can also look on the bright side – we are making progress, and this issue will only be about crap from almost ''two'' years ago. Today we will pick up where we left off in December, and go through the first half of 2020.

<span style="font-size:150%">'''Overall'''</span><br />
In the first half of 2020, there were 71 BRFA ↗s. Of these, {{yeac}} 59 were approved, and 12 were unsuccessful (with {{nayd}} 8 denied, {{idkc}} 2 withdrawn, and 20px|alt=Expired|link= ↗ 2 expired).

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{{yeac}} ST47Bot ↗, Seppi333Bot ↗, Qbugbot 4 ↗ · {{nayd}} PkbwcgsBot 25 ↗, PkbwcgsBot 26 ↗

A new Pywikibot ↗ release dropped support for Python 3.4 ↗, and it was expected that support for Python 2.7 ↗ would be removed in coming updates. Toolforge ↗ itself planned to drop Python 2 support in 2022.

Two new bots dropped in January 2020: ST47Bot ↗, the successor to STBot, and Seppi333Bot ↗, whose task was to perform a weekly update of four "massive" wikitables for WikiProject Molecular Biology ↗.

Cydebot, an adminbot ↗ operated by Cyde since 2006, was blocked ↗ after going berserk on categories that hadn't yet been CfD ↗'d.

<span style="font-size:125%">'''February 2020'''</span>
thumb|upright=0.6|Speaking of WikiProject Molecular Biology, ''Listeria'' went wild in February ↗

{{yeac}} AnomieBOT 78 ↗, Cewbot 2 ↗, DannyS712 bot 67 ↗, DannyS712 bot III 63 ↗, PearBOT 6 ↗, DemonDays64 Bot 2 ↗ · {{nayd}} PearBOT ↗

On February 1, some concerns ↗ were raised about ListeriaBot performing "nonsense" edits. Semi-active operator Magnus Manske (who originally coded the Phase II software|precursor ↗ of MediaWiki ↗) was pinged. Meanwhile, the bot was temporarily <span class="plainlinks">blocked ↗</span> for several hours until the issue was diagnosed and resolved.

On February 18, ST47Bot ↗ got into a <span class="plainlinks">tussle ↗</span> with Amalthea (bot), and had to be partially-blocked from Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Cases/Overview ↗.

<span style="font-size:125%">'''March 2020'''</span>

{{yeac}} MajavahBot ↗, SDZeroBot ↗, TheSandBot 6 ↗, TheSandBot 7 ↗, Bitbotje ↗, FACBot 6 ↗, TheSandBot 8 ↗, Qbugbot 5 ↗, Cewbot 3 ↗, SDZeroBot 2 ↗, PrimeBOT 31 ↗, WikiCleanerBot 12 ↗ ·20px|alt=Expired|link= ↗ AntiCompositeBot ↗

In March, a long discussion ↗ was started at Wikipedia talk:Bot policy ↗ by Skdb about the troubling trend of bots "expiring" without explanation after their owners became inactive. This can happen for a variety of reasons -- API ↗ changes break code, hosting providers' software updates break code, hosting accounts lapse, software changes make bots' edits unnecessary, and policy changes make bots' edits unwanted. The most promising solution seemed to be Toolforge ↗ hosting (although it has some problems of its own, like the occasional necessity of refactoring code).

Some of the twelve bot tasks approved this month were TheSandBot 6 ↗ (removing blocked users from :Category:Wikipedia usernames with possible policy issues ↗), and TheSandBot 7 ↗ (removing ''unblocked'' users from :Category:Wikipedians who are indefinitely blocked for promotional user names ↗). SDZeroBot 2 ↗ was approved to refine geographic stub tags. New bots approved this month were MajavahBot ↗ (to patrol WP:EFFPR ↗), SDZeroBot ↗ (to merge stub tags), and Bitbotje ↗ (fixing DISPLAYTITLE modifications, DEFAULTSORT errors and broken behavior switches in draftspace ↗).

<span style="font-size:125%">'''April 2020'''</span>
thumb|''Listeria'' being examined ↗

{{yeac}} TheSandBot 9 ↗, BHGbot 5 ↗, DannyS712 bot 69 ↗, SDZeroBot 3 ↗, ST47ProxyBot ↗, WugBot 4 ↗, SDZeroBot 4 ↗, DatBot 10 ↗, WikiCleanerBot 11 ↗, WikiCleanerBot 13 ↗, WikiCleanerBot 14 ↗, AntiCompositeBot 2 ↗, Cewbot 4 ↗ · {{nayd}} DaedanBot 1 ↗ ·20px|alt=Expired|link= ↗ Creffbot ↗

A discussion ↗ on the bot noticeboard, "Re-examination of ListeriaBot", was started by Barkeep49, who pointed out repeated operation outside the scope of its BRFA (i.e. editing pages in mainspace, and adding non-free images ↗ to others). Some said it was doing good work, and others said it was operating beyond its remit. It was <span class="plainlinks">blocked ↗</span> on April 10; the next day it was unblocked, reblocked from article space, reblocked "for specified non-editing actions", unblocked, and indeffed. The next week, several safeguards ↗ were implemented in its code by Magnus; the bot was allowed to roam free once more on April 18.

ST47ProxyBot ↗ joined the stable in April, after a BRFA started in December was finally completed. As an adminbot, it was authorized to block IP address ↗es belonging to open proxies ↗, public VPN service ↗s, and web host ↗s. New tasks approved for existing bots included BHGbot 5 ↗ (diffusing ↗ categories), TheSandBot 9 ↗ (taking over some tasks from the inactive RonBot), and WugBot 4 ↗ (updating data at {{tl|Interactive COVID-19 maps}}). Also, DatBot 10 ↗ was approved to scale down non-free SVG ↗s — I didn't even know that was a thing.

A discussion ↗ at Wikipedia talk:Bot policy ↗ was started by Thryduulf about whether WP:BOTCOMM ↗ should explicitly specify that bot operators must be responsive to concerns raised on English Wikipedia specifically (as opposed to Phabricator ↗, SourceForge ↗, Toolforge ↗, et cetera). Eventually, the policy was amended to its current form ↗:

:<blockquote>Issues and enquiries are typically expected to be handled on the English Wikipedia. Pages reachable via unified login ↗, like a talk page at Commons ↗ or at Italian Wikipedia ↗ could also be acceptable [...] External sites like Phabricator ↗ or GitHub ↗ (which require separate registration or do not allow for IP comments) and email (which can compromise anonymity ↗) can supplement on-wiki communication, but do not replace it.</blockquote>

<span style="font-size:125%">'''May 2020'''</span>
thumb|upright=0.75|We heard you like bots, so we made a bot that reports the status of your bots, so now you can use bots while you use bots ↗

{{yeac}} MajavahBot 3 ↗, DannyS712 bot 70 ↗, CitationCleanerBot 5 ↗, Dreamy Jazz Bot 4 ↗, QEDKbot ↗, William Avery Bot 2 ↗, DannyS712 bot 68 ↗, PrimeBOT 32 ↗, TheSandBot 10 ↗, Bot1058 7 ↗, BHGbot 6 ↗, EaglesBot 2 ↗, Cewbot 5 ↗, WikiCleanerBot 17 ↗ · {{nayd}} MDanielsBot ↗, PhuzBot 3 ↗, Gedimon ↗ · {{idkc}} PearBOT 7 ↗

MajavahBot 3 ↗, an impressively meta bot task, was approved this month for maintaining a list of bots running on the English Wikipedia. The page, located at User:MajavahBot/Bot status report, is updated every 24 hours; it contains a list of all accounts with the bot flag, as well as their operator, edit count, last activity date, last edit date, last logged action date, user groups and block status.

Other approvals for this month were William Avery Bot 2 ↗ (processing redirects in {{tl|R from scientific name}}), DannyS712 bot 68 ↗ (allowing users to schedule bot reminders for themselves), TheSandBot 10 ↗ (removing blocked/locked users from :Category:User talk pages with conflict of interest notices ↗), Bot1058 7 ↗ (updating Wikipedia:Requested moves/Technical requests/Permalink ↗), Dreamy Jazz Bot 4 ↗ (adding <nowiki>{{</nowiki>WikiProject Biography ↗|living=no<nowiki>}}</nowiki> to talk pages where their associated article is in a year of death category), and QEDKbot ↗ (deleting and nominating empty categories).

General syntax fixing tasks were approved for DannyS712 bot 70 ↗, CitationCleanerBot 5 ↗, PrimeBOT 32 ↗, BHGbot 6 ↗, Cewbot 5 ↗, and EaglesBot 2 ↗, as well as WikiCleanerBot 15 ↗, 16 ↗, and 17 ↗.

Seven bots who fell below activity requirements ↗ (with neither the bots nor their operators having any edits or logged actions in two years) had their bot flags removed. They were NekoBot, Robert SkyBot, DASHBotAV, VoxelBot, JackieBot, ReferenceBot, and CensusBot.

On May 12, EmausBot was blocked ↗.

<span style="font-size:125%">'''June 2020'''</span>
thumb|A partial block averted at the eleventh hour for the robot that makes Legos ↗

{{yeac}} QEDKbot 2 ↗, AnomieBOT 79 ↗, WOSlinkerBot 6 ↗, Yapperbot 2 ↗, Yapperbot ↗, AnomieBOT 80 ↗, Dreamy Jazz Bot 5 ↗, WikiCleanerBot 18 ↗, HasteurBot 15 ↗, MusikBot II 4 ↗, NoSandboxesHere ↗ · {{nayd}} RedWarn ↗ · {{idkc}} Seppi333Bot 2 ↗

In July 2017, Headbomb made a proposal ↗ that a section of the Wikipedia:Dashboard ↗ be devoted to bots and technical issues. In November 2019, Lua ↗ code was written superseding Legobot's tasks on that page, and operator Legoktm was asked to stop them so that the new code could be deployed. After no response to pings, a partial-block ↗ of Legobot for the dashboard was proposed. Some months later, on June 16, Headbomb said: "A full block serves nothing. A partial block solves all current issues [...] Just fucking do it. It's been 3 years now." The next day, however, Legoktm disabled the task, and the dashboard was successfully refactored.

On June 7, RexxS blocked Citation bot for disruptive editing ↗, saying it was "still removing links after request to stop". A couple weeks later, a discussion on the bots noticeboard ↗ was opened, saying "it is a widely-used and useful bot, but it has one of the longest block logs for any recently-operating bot on Wikipedia". While its last BRFA approval was in 2011, its code and functionality had changed dramatically since then, and AntiCompositeNumber requested that BAG require a new BRFA. Maintainer AManWithNoPlan responded that most blocks were from years ago (when it lacked a proper test suite ↗), and problems since then had mostly been one-off errors (like a June 2019 incident ↗ in which a LTA ↗ had "weaponized" the bot to harass editors).

David Tornheim ↗ opened a discussion about whether bots based on closed-source code should be permitted ↗, and proposed that they not. He cited a recent case in which a maintainer had said "I can only suppose that the code that is available on GitHub is not the actual code that was running on [the bot]". Some disagreed: Naypta said that "I like free software as much as the next person, and I strongly believe that bot operators should make their bot code public, but I don't think it should be that they must do so".

Two new bots had their first BRFAs approved: Yapperbot ↗, to replace Legobot for handling the Feedback Request Service ↗, and NoSandboxesHere ↗, to remove {{tl|user sandbox}} from articles in draftspace using :Category:Non-userspace pages using User sandbox ↗.

<span style="font-size:150%">'''Conclusion'''</span><br />

What's next for our intrepid band of coders, maintainers and approvers?

:*Will Citation bot ever be set free to roam the project?
:*What's the deal with all those book links that InternetArchiveBot is adding to articles?
:*Should we keep using Gerrit for MediaWiki?
:*What if we had a day for bots to make cosmetic edits?
These questions will be answered — and new questions raised — by the February 2022 ''Bots Newsletter''. Tune in, or miss out!

Signing off... <span style="font-variant:small-caps; whitespace:nowrap;">'''jp'''×'''g'''</span> 23:22, 31 January 2022 (UTC)
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Hello {{BASEPAGENAME}},

At the time of the last newsletter (No.26, September 2021), the backlog was 'only' just over 6,000 articles. In the past six months, the backlog has reached nearly 16,000, a staggering level not seen in several years. A very small number of users had been doing the vast majority of the reviews. Due to "burn-out", we have recently lost most of this effort. Furthermore, several reviewers have been stripped of the user right for abuse of privilege and the articles they patrolled were put back in the queue.

Several discussions on the state of the process have taken place on the talk page ↗, but there has been no action to make any changes. The project also lacks coordination since the "position" is vacant.

In the last 30 days, only 100 reviewers ↗ have made more than 8 patrols and only 50 have averaged one review a day. There are currently {{NUMBEROFNEWPAGEPATROLLERS}} ↗ New Page Reviewers, but about a third have not had any activity in the past month. All {{NUMBEROFADMINS:R}} administrators have this permission, but only about a dozen significantly contribute to NPP.

This means we have an active pool of about 450 to address the backlog. We cannot rely on a few to do most of the work as that inevitably leads to burnout. A fairly experienced reviewer can usually do a review in a few minutes. If every active reviewer would patrol just one article per day, the backlog would very quickly disappear.

If you have noticed a user with a ''good'' understanding of Wikipedia notability and deletion, do suggest they help the effort by placing {{tq|<nowiki>{{subst:NPR invite}}</nowiki>}} on their talk page.

If you are no longer very active on Wikipedia or you no longer wish to be part of the New Page Reviewer user group, please consider asking any admin to remove you from the list. This will enable NPP to have a better overview of its performance and what improvements need to be made to the process and its software.

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Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 23

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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 {{#formatdate:2021-12-24|dmy}}. That’s right, we haven’t published in two years! Can you believe it? Did you miss us?

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20px|alt=Featured script|This month's featured script ↗ Featured script

: '''''RefRenamer''''' by '''Nardog''' is this issue's featured script. For whatever reason, the foundation will only give us better reference names ↗ in VisualEditor ↗ if we wish ↗ for it in the next survey ↗. Nardog to the rescue! This script has a ton of options to satisfy almost anyone who wishes to use better refnames than ":0" and ":418" ↗.

20px|alt=Updated scripts|Updated ↗ Updated scripts

Nardog: MoveHistory can now look up the move history of any page from anywhere on the site.

User:Enterprisey/diff-permalink now has a version that copies the Special:Diff link with square brackets.

User:GhostInTheMachine/WatchlistTidy now moves the Active Filters panel to the right so that the Show/Hide button doesn't constantly jump.

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.

Wikipedia:AutoEd/unicodehex.js ↗ will no longer replace legacy MediaWiki dot-entities ↗ (dot followed by two uppercase alphanumeric characters) in article links, which caused several links to become broken.

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frameless|center|alt=Holy RefRenamer|Screenshot of RefRenamer, a user script that assists in replacing non-descriptive reference names ↗
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20px ↗ Improve a script

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

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

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.

We want...

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

20px|alt=Pending requests ↗ Requested scripts

A WP:3O ↗ requesting and responding tool, similar to Terasil's classic edit request tool ↗

A "bytes removed"/"added" filter on the user contribs page

A review tool for WP:proposed deletion ↗s

Mass patrol new pages by a user for use in WP:RFP/A ↗

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

20px|alt=New scripts|New ↗ New scripts

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!

Chlod:

* 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:

** Attribution Notice Template Editor (ANTE) graphically modifies content attribution notices. It is the successor to User:Chlod/Scripts/CopiedTemplateEditor and supports more templates than {{T|copied}} ones.

** Infringement Assistant allows a user to hide sections of a page for suspected copyright violations and report the page to the appropriate Wikipedia:Copyright problems ↗ noticeboard.

User:Elominius/gadget/diff arrow keys allows navigation between diffs with the arrow keys. It also has a version that requires holding {{key press|Ctrl}} with the arrow key.

Enterprisey

* diff-permalink-2 allows quickly copying wikilinks to diff and permalink pages from those pages, a variation of existing script User:Enterprisey/diff-permalink

* archiver is a fork of Σ's Archiver with several bugfixes.

* /parent-cats highlights categories that are a subcategory of a category already included in a page's categories.

User:Guarapiranga/accessKeysCheatSheet adds an access key ↗ shortcut to display all shortcuts based on code provided by Nardog and NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh.

User:HungKhanh0106/ProperDisplay loads a bunch of fonts to add correct rendering support ↗s for "esoteric" languages.

User:Jeeputer/highlightPiped will make piped links irresistible ↗ (or else ↗).

User:Jerome Frank Disciple/curlyfixer.js adds an WP:AutoEd ↗ function that straightens curly quotes per MOS. That's right! Such a module was only made in the 14th year of AutoEd's existence! Configure ↗ away!

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.

Nardog

* /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 <nowiki><code></nowiki>) that will, well, copy it to your clipboard!

* /RCMuter: Hide specific users, perhaps User:MediaWiki message delivery, from the Watchlist and Recent Changes.

* /VitalTopicon makes you see the vital article topicon on WP:vital articles ↗.

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."

Novem Linguae

* DraftCleaner fixes formatting of new articles.

* 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!

User:Phlsph7/HighlightUnreferencedPassages adds a button to highlight all unreferenced paragraphs in reds, and can even do it automatically.

Still hate Vector 2022 ↗'s floating TOC? User:Phlsph7/UnfoldedNumberedTOC(Vector2022) might make you give it a try.

Quite a bit of pages at Special:WantedCategories ↗ either exist now or got removed. User:Qwerfjkl/scripts/hideUnwantedCategories automatically hides those.

User:SuperHamster's Wikipedia:Tools/View it! ↗ generates a gallery of images for a given subject on any Wikimedia project utilizing Structured Data on Commons ↗. Images can then be added as needed.

Terasail

* 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.

...and any more, all available at WP:US/L ↗.

Due to budget and procrastination limitations, we've only had time to review the first ~39% of the scripts since last issue ↗. Help us out here! ↗ <span style="color: rgb(6,69,173); text-decoration: inherit;">Aaron Liu</span> ↗ (talk) 13:24, 29 December 2023 (UTC)
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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. <span style="color:#0645ad">Aaron Liu</span> (talk) 01:00, 1 March 2024 (UTC)

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

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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 <em>post</em> 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 25

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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 {{#formatdate:2024-03-01|dmy}}. 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! <small>gift us with some rows before it's too late</small> <span style="color:#0645ad">Aaron Liu</span> (talk) 04:01, 1 August 2024 (UTC)

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

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20px ↗ Featured script

: '''inline-diff-inline-patrol ↗''' by '''Ponor ↗''' is this edition's featured script. By loading diffs inline on every page that shows a list of changes, it implements the 2023 community wish m:Community Wishlist Survey 2023/Admins and patrollers/Inline diffs and inline patrol ↗. Hopefully we won't need this script anymore soon, with the WMF's focus on the backlog ↗...

20px ↗ Improve a script

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...

:* ...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

Automatically delink all duplicate links within the same section per MOS:LINKONCE ↗.

Collapsible parentheses in body text, which had a ridiculously long original request title ↗ and was accidentally moved to WP:US/L ↗ by me. Oops!

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) ↗.

Preview an edit under the mobile viewport on desktop ↗, with perhaps MediaWiki:Gadget-mobile-sidebar.js ↗ used for inspiration.

...and many more, all available at Wikipedia:User scripts/Requests ↗. Jeeputer and Nardog have been the most active on the page in the past five months.

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20px ↗ Updated scripts

After the <ruby>ＲＩＩＪ<rp>(</rp><rt>rewrite it in jQuery ↗</rt><rp>)</rp></ruby> 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!

20px ↗ Newly maintained scripts

Aaron Liu has created Duplinks from Evad37/duplinks-alt; {{their|Aaron Liu}} fork adds a config variable to automatically highlight duplicate links on the loading of any page where the portlet link would've appeared.

BilledMammal/Move+ expands the powers of User:TheTVExpert/rmCloser to include common procedures done with the art of moving pages.

On a holiday? Somewhere? Gotta learn ye ABCs? CanonNi/StatusSetter puts the fun into Enterprisey/StatusChanger with a quadruple more statuses. That starts with a C!

In our continuing trend(s?), DaxServer/DiscussionCloser forks DannyS712/DiscussionCloser to make it work. Sadly, this is the end of our lexicographic combo.

Andrybak:

* user-tabs-on-contribs is a fork of User:Enterprisey/user-tabs-on-contribs for Vector 2022 ↗.

* Archiver is a fork of User:Enterprisey/archiver with automatic calculation of the destination archive subpage and with support for non-Vector skins.

Quite coincidentally, Elli/OneClickArchiver has been forked from User:Equazcion/OneClickArchiver to work with the mw:Heading HTML changes ↗.

FlightTime/OneClickArchiver forks the same thing but also no longer nonsensically prepends {{tl|clear}} to page archives.

* There are now over 7 OneClickArchivers, legacy or not ↗.

20px ↗ New scripts

thumb|Padlock for semi−move protection−designed by User:Chaotic Enby ↗ Aaron Liu: MoveTop adds a different padlock topicon for each level of move-protection.

Andrybak/Not around can help you mark talk pages of inactive users with {{tl|not around}}.

BrandonXLF/AddCopied automatically tags talk pages of pages you've copied between with {{tl|copied}}.

Bugghost/UserRoleIndicator adds text labels (which default to emoji) to user links that label the user's usergroups. Wow, that's a mouthful

CanonNi/AlertAssistant adds a Twinkle-style dialog for alerting users about contentious topics.

CFA/AttributeTranslation automatically tags articles translated from other places with appropriate attribution.

In the defense of the 'pedia, the humble Jeeputer/defconIndicator adds the WP:WIKIDEFCON ↗ status to the toolbar.

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 {{tl|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

TheTechie/Help Me Tool is a quick and easy way of responding to {{tl|help me}} requests.

Per MOS:CONFORM ↗, ZKang123/TitleCaseConverter converts all citation titles to... title case, unfortunately.

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Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 26

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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! <span class="skin-invert" style="color:#0645ad">Aaron Liu</span> (talk) 05:06, 25 December 2024 (UTC)

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20px ↗ 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 ↗.

20px ↗ 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 <s>greener</s> <ins>purpley</ins> pastures of PHP ↗ with commits creating Special:NamespaceInfo ↗ and the <syntaxhighlight inline lang="wikitext">__EXPECTUNUSEDTEMPLATE__</syntaxhighlight> magic word to exclude a template from Special:UnusedTemplates ↗! I wonder if Wikipedia has a templaters' newsletter...

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20px ↗ Improve a script

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 and PrimeHunter/Search sort work, yet have alien user interface design ↗. Someone could improve them...

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 ↗.

20px ↗ Requested scripts

We need scripts that...

allow you to edit {{tl|sfn}} references graphically a la Ingenuity/ReferenceEditor ↗

copy specific named references from other pages to help with splitting and whatnot

make adding icons/links to the top toolbar (or other portlets) much easier

graphically generate a {{tl|source assess table}}

award a Four Award ↗

...and many more, all available at Wikipedia:User scripts/Requests ↗. Thanks to the editors at US/R—including Nardog, User:Novem Linguae, User:Jeeputer, and many more!—for their work in processing userscript requests this past year.

20px ↗ Updated scripts

Andrybak/Unsigned helper forks Anomie/unsignedhelper to add support for binary search, automatic edit summaries after generating the {{tl|unsigned}} template, support for {{tl|undated}}, and support for generating while syntax highlighting is on.

Pour one out: DreamRimmer/User not around forks Andrybak/Not around to allow configuration precise to a number of days (from the original precision of years).

Red-tailed hawk/cv revdel forks Enterprisey/cv-revdel to automatically add CopyPatrol reports.

Polygnotus/Move+ updates BilledMammal's classic Move+ to add automattic watchlisting of all pages—except the target page(s)—changed while processing a move.

20px ↗ Newly maintained scripts

Administrators only! Novem Linguae/UnblockReview forks the now-broken Enterprisey/unblock-review to review unblock requests with a graphical interface.

20px ↗ New scripts

1AmNobody24: Find Link provides a shortcut to its namesake tool, Edward/Find link, which helps de-WP:ORPHAN ↗ articles.

frameless|right ↗Andrybak: Contribs ranger (''pictured'') generates links to a limited range of user contributions ↗, log items, or page history. You see, it's not just contribs ↗!

CanonNi/VoteVisualizer is a rewrite of Pythoncoder/voteSymbols that makes everything saner to configure.

When viewing :Category:Articles missing coordinates with coordinates on Wikidata ↗, Jeeputer/coordInserter adds links to automatically insert coordinates into the article selected.

To satiate archaeology and curiosity (the same thing, perhaps?), JJPMaster/AfC time logger logs the time it takes for a user to review each submission to Wikipedia:Articles for creation ↗.

Natdog/InsertAnyChar adds a searchable list of all Unicode characters to the 2010 source editor.

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Yo Quiddity

This ↗ contains the sentence {{tq|Account information from the affected accounts (such as associated email addresses, time zones, and other profile settings) were accessible to the attacker prior to the account being locked.}}

Wouldn't it be wise to make emailaddresses on profiles partially hidden?

On other services (Google, Steam) you get something like Quid*****@***ail.com which makes it more difficult to figure out what your email is, even if an attacker has your password.

I use a separate email account for Wikipedia, but many people use their personal account.

I also see little benefit in telling people what their own email address is. Polygnotus (talk) 02:54, 5 April 2025 (UTC)

Made a ticket and added you to it Phab:T391161 ↗
:Yup! As noted there (before i saw this), duplicate of a recent task, and that's one of the things they're re-examining from this whole thing. Cheers though, Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 16:33, 5 April 2025 (UTC)

::And has someone contacted Troy Hunt (the guy behind haveibeenpwned)? He can easily confirm or deny if everything can be explained by credential stuffing or not. Polygnotus (talk) 16:40, 5 April 2025 (UTC)
:::I'm not sure what I can say about investigation details, so let's go with the ol' "I can neither confirm nor deny" response ↗. :-) Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 16:47, 5 April 2025 (UTC)
::::OK, tell him I said "hi". {{smiley|13}} Polygnotus (talk) 17:08, 5 April 2025 (UTC)

Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 27

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Hello everyone, and welcome to the 27th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter ↗, covering all our favorite new and updated user scripts since 2025! Boy, does it feel good to kick off the year with an issue. Yep, it's been a year since we cleared out the 2022-2024 backlog with issues 23 and 24! Good times. <small>Though in this case "a year" just means... 6 months? 😯 The salience of whatever joke I was planning to make here has vanished speedily.</small> <span class="skin-invert" style="color:#0645ad">Aaron Liu</span> (talk) 21:00, 31 July 2025 (UTC)

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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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Belated Wiki Anniversary Wishes 🎉

150px|right|Happy Wiki Anniversary ↗

Dear Quiddity (WMF),

Your wiki anniversary was '''20 days''' ago, marking '''12 years''' (as per SUL) of dedicated service! I wanted to extend a heartfelt thanks for your amazing contributions. With over '''29,712''' edits, your dedication is an inspiration to the community. Wishing you all the best for the year ahead!

''Use this '''Tool''' ↗ to send wiki anniversary wishes to other amazing Wikimedians.''

-- ''': <span style="text-shadow:gray 3px 2px 3px;"><span style="color:#FF5733;">Suyash</span> <span style="color:#2E86C1;">Dwivedi</span></span>''' (💬) 18:59, 16 October 2025 (UTC)