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WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - April 2020
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13:15, 1 April 2020 (UTC)

Edith Maud Ellis moved to draftspace
An article you recently created, Edith Maud Ellis, does not have enough sources and citations as written to remain published. It needs more citations from reliable, independent sources. (?) Information that can't be referenced should be removed (verifiability is of central importance on Wikipedia). I've moved your draft to draftspace (with a prefix of " " before the article title) where you can incubate the article with minimal disruption. When you feel the article meets Wikipedia's general notability guideline and thus is ready for mainspace, please follow the prompts on the Articles for Creation template atop the page. ... disco spinster   talk  21:15, 4 April 2020 (UTC)

Nomination of Wrea Head Hall for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Wrea Head Hall is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Articles for deletion/Wrea Head Hall until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. MrClog (talk) 17:54, 13 April 2020 (UTC)

WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - May 2020
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14:05, 1 May 2020 (UTC)

Teahouse question
Just letting you know that I responded to your question at the Teahouse. If you think the closing admin has not closed the AFD according to consensus, you'll want to open up a discussion at WP:DRV.  bibliomaniac 1  5  21:00, 6 May 2020 (UTC)

Short description
Thanks for the link to your script which lists short descriptions. I'll give it a try. Andrew🐉(talk) 18:40, 16 May 2020 (UTC)

I tried it but am not sure how it works. Please outline the process, if it's not too complex. Andrew🐉(talk) 18:50, 16 May 2020 (UTC)
 * I will add some documentation ASAP GhostInTheMachine (talk) 19:18, 16 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Added some documentation at User:GhostInTheMachine/SDlinkBuilder.I also renamed the script from makeSDlinks to SDlinkBuilder. Suspect that was not wise, I now have a redirect that I cannot delete. GhostInTheMachine (talk) 18:00, 18 May 2020 (UTC)
 * The redirect is now deleted. I like to be tidy, but you now need to install the new script. GhostInTheMachine (talk) 10:04, 21 May 2020 (UTC)

Welcome to The Wikipedia Adventure!

 * Hi GhostInTheMachine! We're so happy you wanted to play to learn, as a friendly and fun way to get into our community and mission.  I think these links might be helpful to you as you get started.
 * The Wikipedia Adventure Start Page
 * The Wikipedia Adventure Lounge
 * The Teahouse new editor help space
 * Wikipedia Help pages

-- 09:28, Thursday, May 21, 2020 (UTC)

'Request an article' wizard
This is me inviting you to this discussion / whiteboard for sketching out a 'Request an article' wizard. -- BessieMaelstrom (talk) 11:12, 26 May 2020 (UTC)

WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - June 2020
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21:22, 1 June 2020 (UTC)

TalkHelper user script
Hi GhostInTheMachine,

I stumbled upon your recently created TalkHelper user script, but noticed that the tlg template you used didn't play nicely with the substitution prefix. With a couple edit attempts, as you'll see, I managed to find the correct template (tlxs, if you're interested) from Enterprisey's reply-link script, that did. So, in addition to fixing that, I also marked your userspace subpage as 'reviewed' in the New Pages Patrol Page Curation toolbar. Incidentally, I meant to send you a note directly from that toolbar, but after I marked it as 'reviewed', that option wasn't available to me.

If you'd like, feel free to create a shortcut to the script (WP:TALKHELPER is available) using shortcut, so that other users can easily link to and promote your script. Looks like a very useful script, and I'm contemplating giving it a try.

Cheers,

Dmehus (talk) 21:26, 26 June 2020 (UTC)
 * I see that you have reverted my good-faith correction with good-faith this edit. It really doesn't matter about using lusc or Iusc, so no problems with that, but hoping you can use tlxs so that the template link isn't redlinked. It seems to be common practice. Dmehus (talk) 21:31, 26 June 2020 (UTC)
 * LUSC should be used instead of IUSC. I have altered the calls to display the subst: correctly. I am currently working on TalkHelper2. More soon ... &mdash; GhostInTheMachine talk to me 07:44, 27 June 2020 (UTC)

Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 17
 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:

Scripts Submit your new/improved script here
 * Cscr-featured.svg Yet another Articles for creation helper script ("AFCH"), a gadget used by Articles for creation reviewers, is this month's featured script


 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg 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


 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg 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

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

Pending requests
 * 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 User scripts/Requests



Stay safe --DannyS712 (talk) 19:42, 31 August 2020 (UTC)

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Precious
You are recipient no. 2451 of Precious, a prize of QAI. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:14, 12 October 2020 (UTC)

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:57, 30 October 2020 (UTC)

Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 18
 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:

Scripts Submit your new/improved script here
 * Cscr-featured.svg SD0001's W-Ping is this month's featured script


 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg 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 WikiProject Articles for creation/Add WikiProject tags without actually needing to install a user script.
 * Nardog's PlayAudioNow makes 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 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.

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 User scripts/Requests




 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg 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,  to allow controlling where new scripts are to be installed.

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

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 640761 and 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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A userscript question: javascript, talkpages and wikidata
Hi GitM, I've been looking at your TalkHelper2 script. I've been wanting to adapt it toa a specific use case but I've zero js skills. Here's the usecase: On a mediawiki page like this one, the corresponding wikidata item will list some people as having specific roles (author, editor, peer reviewer), and some of those people will have their wikimedia username listed on their wikidata item.

Ideally, I'd love to colour comments on the talkpages based on on who they were left by. Bascially, where the script uses: $('.talkHelper' + when + ':contains(' + wgUserName + ')').addClass('talkHelperMe'); would it be possible to identify usernames from the relevant wikidata item and colour comments accordingly? Any help or ideas appreciated! T.Shafee(Evo &#38; Evo)talk 08:37, 15 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks for contacting me — it is always gratifying to know that others do notice my user scripts. The TalkHelper script identifies Wikipedia Talk page posts by finding the timestamp that is always added at the end of a talk post in Wikipedia. In the case of the Wikiversity Talk page, there are no timestamps and also no user signatures in the Wikipedia sense, so TalkHelper, as it currently exists, has nothing to work with. This makes it a rather different process to identify the users involved and "brand" the various page components accordingly.The author (Mario Rizzetto) is referenced only once and is identified in the Article info template on the main page. The display of the author name could easily be changed by altering the template itself – by adding suitable styling if everybody should see the highlighting or by adding a class so that a user script can add the styling for only you.How do we connect a review to a specific user or class of user? Looking at the article history — the first review was added by you on 5 December 2019 and the template does not reference a specific user. The second was added by you as well, but is attributed to William L Irving, which matches the second "reviewed by" entry in Wikidata. The "Third peer review" also has an "anonymous peer reviewer", but the history shows that you added the review. One way forward might be for you to create some form of mock-up of how you think the pages could look (and which components take the additional colours) and what connects the post to a user. Another route might be to enhance the review template so that extra parameters can indicate the role of the reviewing user or perhaps more directly the class of "branding" to use when displaying the review. — GhostInTheMachine talk to me 20:27, 15 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the detailed info! You're right that currently all the edits are bgin made by hand (via people submitting to this form that we then copy across). This is because most of the contributors (especially reviewers) have zero editing experience so kept messing up posting talkpage comments. The main problem with the v:template:review and v:template:response templates is that the syntax is easy to break when they get highly nested. Now that the [reply] fuction is running, we're hoping to transition back to normal talkpage comments, so would go back to standard signatures! Here's a crude mockup with blue white and grey indicating the three roles.
 * I've also been experimenting with this css templatestyle. (sandbox) but that has a couple of glaring limiations:
 * It can only alternate colours, rather than spotting different posting users.
 * I can't seem to colour the non-indented comments.
 * For some reason it seems to only show the formatting for me when I'm logged out, but I can't find any script I have installed over there that'd be over-riding it!
 * Any thoughts? T.Shafee(Evo &#38; Evo)talk 05:37, 16 December 2020 (UTC)