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Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 10
 News and updates associated with user scripts from the past month (October 2019).

Hello everyone and welcome to the 10th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:

Scripts Submit your new/improved script here
 * Cscr-featured.svg Ahecht's page swap


 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg MoonyTheDwarf's wikimap
 * SD0001: hide-reverted-edits* T-Watch* W-Ping* easy-merge
 * Enterprisey: diff-permalink* search-links* section-redir-note* fancy-diffs* EditWarChecker


 * 1009Clock.jpg Pending requests
 * Inline editor for cleanup tags
 * Script to remove empty parameters
 * ...and many more, all available at User scripts/Requests



Have a great November, --DannyS712 (talk) 22:18, 7 November 2019 (UTC)

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White hat award

 * Hey, are you calling me a hat collector?! But seriously, thank you, ! Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 21:52, 15 November 2019 (UTC)

Google Code-In 2019 is coming - please mentor some documentation tasks!
Hello,

Google Code-In, Google-organized contest in which the Wikimedia Foundation participates, starts in a few weeks. This contest is about taking high school students into the world of opensource. I'm sending you this message because you recently edited a documentation page at the English Wikipedia.

I would like to ask you to take part in Google Code-In as a mentor. That would mean to prepare at least one task (it can be documentation related, or something else - the other categories are Code, Design, Quality Assurance and Outreach) for the participants, and help the student to complete it. Please sign up at the contest page and send us your Google account address to google-code-in-admins@lists.wikimedia.org, so we can invite you in!

From my own experience, Google Code-In can be fun, you can make several new friends, attract new people to your wiki and make them part of your community.

If you have any questions, please let us know at google-code-in-admins@lists.wikimedia.org.

Thank you!

--User:Martin Urbanec (talk) 21:59, 23 November 2019 (UTC)

Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 11
 News and updates associated with user scripts from the past month (November 2019).

Hello everyone and welcome to the 11th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:

Scripts Submit your new/improved script here
 * Cscr-featured.svg Enterprisey's reply-link


 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Evad37's Thanky* SuperHamster's CiteUnseen* Mattflaschen's Compare link.js
 * Enterprisey: diff-context* fancy-diffs* offset-history-link
 * BrandonXLF: NoRedirect* WatchDoc* HotDefaultSort* TodoList


 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Twinkle has received multiple updates
 * Evad37's rater is now at version 2; see the announcement here

Open tasks
 * For those who haven't noticed, per T234576, using  instead of   no longer works

Miscellaneous
 * 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

Pending requests
 * A button to mark templates in the TfD holding cell as ready for deletion
 * ...and many more, all available at User scripts/Requests



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

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batchtest-plus
Hi. Would you be willing to support only showing edits that matched the specific action type requested?


 * 1) Check what type, using
 * 2) If the type isn't   (any), in   in the first loop with formatLogEntry, check if   (or another variable name), and if not, just   (you also need to have this skip in the second loop before checking if it would have matched)

I tested this using the javascript console, and it worked. Thanks, --DannyS712 (talk) 02:32, 6 December 2019 (UTC)
 * ✅. Ideally, the API should support an  parameter (and for that matter an   one, too), but that's another discussion for another day. Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 06:06, 6 December 2019 (UTC)
 * thanks. I used this for the first time when I was testing out the suggestion at Special:Diff/929474131 - can you take a look? I didn't see any false positives, and I looked for a bunch. Among edits that were not prevented by other filters, this would have caught the spam in, eg, Special:Contributions/রনি_শিকদার, Special:Contributions/Harami_Bangali_Shaitan, Special:Contributions/Palal_Madarchod, Special:Contributions/Shala_Harami, Special:Diff/929176154, Special:Diff/929134416, Special:Diff/929096519, and more DannyS712 (talk) 06:23, 6 December 2019 (UTC)

Edits on the List of youngest killers
Hello! I have seen that you made some edits to the list. I have no disagreement with most of them except the one you say 'according to source was possibly an accident'. Nothing on the list says that only those who committed incidental deaths should be there, so by 'killers' I understand that all those who have caused a death, accidental or not, can be there. Perhaps this is something to be discussed by the community. Tell me what you think! Agente Rolf (talk) 21:25, 14 December 2019 (UTC)

Zoolander edits
Can you point me to the policy which prohibits the factual information about the cast of a movie on the movie's wikipedia page? I note that wikipedia is politically neutral and the redaction of certain factual information seems to fall foul of this. Lord of Sleech (talk) 19:57, 21 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Lots, but start with WP:SYNTH. You'd need a reliable source (preferably several) which specifically discusses the impeachment in the context of Zoolander, otherwise it's just irrelevant trivia, as would be similar "firsts" about any other cast member. Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 20:12, 21 December 2019 (UTC)

Happy Holidays
Happy Holidays text.png Hello Suffusion of Yellow: Enjoy the holiday season, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers,  D Big X ray ᗙ Happy Holidays!  18:16, 24 December 2019 (UTC)


 * Spread the WikiLove; use {{subst:Season's Greetings1}} to send this message

Happy New Year Suffusion of Yellow!
Happy New Year! Hello Suffusion of Yellow: Thanks for all of your contributions to improve the encyclopedia for Wikipedia's readers, and have a happy and enjoyable New Year! Cheers, Donner60 (talk) 04:13, 28 December 2019 (UTC) Send New Year cheer by adding {{subst:Happy New Year fireworks (static)}} to user talk pages with a friendly message.

Test wiki question
When you have time, could you swing by the test wiki and have a look at filter 211. Think there's enough there for you to get the idea of what I'm looking for, don't want to spill too many WP:BEANS here. Home Lander (talk) 00:41, 2 January 2020 (UTC)
 * My sysop bit on testwiki expired. Can you email me? Alternately,, can you restore my rights for a while? Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 01:23, 2 January 2020 (UTC)
 * ✅ — xaosflux  Talk 01:38, 2 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Thank you xaosflux., you don't have email enabled. I get that that's not a test filter, but you're trying to stop actual vandalism on testwiki, yes? Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 18:51, 2 January 2020 (UTC)
 * , correct. Planned on using it as a test filter, but decided it was a waste of my time to try coding it myself. LOL. Home Lander (talk) 20:07, 2 January 2020 (UTC)
 * See my reply at testwiki:Special:AbuseFilter/211. Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 21:26, 3 January 2020 (UTC)

Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 12
 News and updates associated with user scripts from the past two months (December 2019 and January 2020).

Hello everyone and welcome to the 12th issue issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:

Scripts Submit your new/improved script here
 * Cscr-featured.svg XFDcloser (now a gadget) is this issue's featured script


 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Suffusion of Yellow's mark-reverted* Majavah's unslashifier
 * Guywan's BulletSort and HistoryHighlight
 * BrandonXLF's QuickEdit and CompareRevisions


 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Enterprisey's fancy-diff should now be able to handle everything the parser can throw at it.
 * Twinkle has a new update (more). It now supports partial blocks and includes the select2 library as a dependency. Select2 is available at MediaWiki:Gadget-select2.min.js for other gadgets and scripts to use.

Miscellaneous
 * Until now, this newsletter has been written primarily by me (DannyS712).
 * If others would like to contribute, help is always appreciated;
 * this was intended to be a community newsletter.

Pending requests A number of requests are listed at User scripts/Requests. Some of the remaining ideas include scripts to: ...and many more, all available at User scripts/Requests
 * 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



Thanks, --DannyS712 (talk) 06:12, 5 February 2020 (UTC)

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4  LakesideMiners Come Talk To Me! 23:47, 12 February 2020 (UTC)
 * :-) Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 01:26, 14 February 2020 (UTC)

Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 13
 News and updates associated with user scripts from the past month (February 2019).

Hello everyone and welcome to the 13th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:

Scripts Submit your new/improved script here
 * Cscr-featured.svg Cobaltcigs's DiffPreviewFindLine is this month's featured script


 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Amorymeltzer's History button links* Headbomb's Unreliable/Predatory Source Detector
 * Interstellarity's Semi-protected edit requests and Extended-protected edit requests


 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Amorymeltzer's Crat Highlighter now has separate colors for each user access level
 * Opencooper's IPtoEmoji has been updated

Pending requests
 * 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 User scripts/Requests



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

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Sorry for bothering you, but...

 * New Page Patrol needs experienced volunteers
 * New Page Patrol is currently struggling to keep up with the influx of new articles. We could use a few extra hands on deck if you think you can help.
 * Reviewing/patrolling a page doesn't take much time but it requires a good understanding of Wikipedia policies and guidelines ; Wikipedia needs experienced users to perform this task and there are precious few with the appropriate skills. Even a couple reviews a day can make a huge difference.
 * If you would like to join the project and help out, please see the granting conditions and review our instructions page. You can apply for the user-right HERE. —  Insertcleverphrasehere (or here) (click me!)    20:58, 1 March 2020 (UTC)

Use of in batchtest-plus.js
Hi Suffusion of Yellow,

I noticed that batchtest-plus.js uses the  configuration variable. This was exposed by the MediaWiki software years ago for the purposes of automatic tablesorting on Wikipedia pages. The tablesorting feature no longer uses this variable, and it is as such scheduled for removal so that it doesn't get downloaded for all users on all articles.

For 99% of uses, I have migrated them automatically. However for your script I was not sure how to proceed. See T219340 for more details. Feel free to contact me, or ping me here, if you need anything. --Krinkle (talk) 19:23, 13 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the heads up! Fixed. Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 20:25, 14 March 2020 (UTC)

Discussion at Edit filter noticeboard
You are invited to join the discussion at Edit filter noticeboard. CAPTAIN MEDUSA  talk  18:40, 31 March 2020 (UTC)

Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 14
 News and updates associated with user scripts from the past month (March 2020).

Hello everyone and welcome to the 14th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:

Scripts Submit your new/improved script here
 * Cscr-featured.svg Danski454's code-link is this month's featured script


 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg RealFakeKim's pageInfo* Guywan: InsertShortcuts* ConfirmLogout


 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Headbomb's Unreliable/Predatory Source Detector has been updated to include more sources
 * Evad37's rater script is now on version 2.5. New features include:
 * No longer showing dropdowns for projects without ratings
 * Making use of Category:WikiProject banner templates not based on WPBannerMeta to detect templates
 * Automatically detecting Good Article, Featured Article, and Featured List status, and limiting ORES predictions to B-class
 * An updated version of Twinkle was released. Features relating to the recently-enabled partial blocks include automatic lookup of pages and expanded options for block templates. See a full list of changes here
 * For users of Enterprisey's easy-brfa script, the bug with transcluding new BRFAs has been resolved
 * Guywan's RefCruncher has had minor updates

Miscellaneous
 * For any scripts that previously made use of the  API to change a page's content model, a new API module is available: use   to specify the new 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 and  . See the discussion at MediaWiki talk:Gadget-DRN-wizard.js

Pending requests
 * A script to help file movers process requests, including
 * renaming the file
 * updating file links
 * removing the Rename media template (when relevant)
 * ...and many more, all available at User scripts/Requests



Stay safe, --DannyS712 (talk) 05:48, 1 April 2020 (UTC)

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Edit war over a COI
Hey, how are you? I was doing some cleanup of the Wickety Wak page to maintain encyclopedic tone. Someone who I assume is the original author, or the archivist mentioned at the end of the article (or both) keeps scrubbing mine and a few other editors' cleanup attempts. Myself and another editor have flagged the page with a COI but the author in question keeps removing it. (Update 23/01: They keep deleting my Talk page correspondence as well.)

Could I call upon you for assistance? LoofNeZorf (talk) 02:45, 22 January 2020 (UTC)
 * I currently (mostly) away from Wikipedia, but I'll take a look when I get back. But, COI cleanup isn't really my "area", so you may get a better response at WP:COIN. Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 20:15, 29 January 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for your help. I've taken the recommend action. LoofNeZorf (talk) 06:28, 23 April 2020 (UTC)

Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 15
 News and updates associated with user scripts from the past month (April 2020).

Hello everyone and welcome to the 15th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:

Scripts Submit your new/improved script here
 * Cscr-featured.svg SD0001's find-archived-section, now a gadget, is this month's featured script


 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Enterprisey:
 * link-deleted-revs (On error pages for deleted revisions, show a link to the Special:Undelete page)
 * undelete-backlink (On Special:Undelete pages for diffs and revisions, link back to the main Undelete page with the list of revisions)
 * Epicgenius's sortcategories (sorts categories in an article alphabetically)
 * Awesome Aasim:
 * addmylinks (adds a customizable area for links and/or text to the sidebar)
 * editrequest (tool that allows for processing and answering edit requests)
 * DemonDays64's Dumb quotes (replaces smart curly single and double quotes with "dumb" quotes)
 * Guywan's FileMoverHelper (move files and replace their uses in one action)


 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Enterprisey's reply-link has been updated to fail less, especially around template transclusions.
 * Twinkle released new features, including a new option to disable individual modules, support for stub template nomination at CfD, and integration with the PageTriage extension used to patrol new pages. (See full list of changes)

Open tasks
 * The  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.

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 User scripts/Requests



Miscellaneous
 * 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  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   or   with   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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Filter 1053
Thanks for fixing the throttle params, I read up the docs and that wasn't there. I was wondering how does  behave? Will that track ranges as well? Also, was there any reason for disabling the tag? -- qedk ( t  愛  c ) 06:49, 3 May 2020 (UTC)
 * It's a mess. From the source, it looks like:
 * But according to the docs for  for an IPv6 address will be prefixed with "v6-". So if User:2600:1000:BF08:AD7:C5EA:BB73:F24C:B3FF edits Foo the throttle key for   will be , i.e. the key will only depend on the first digit! Not dangerous like   or  , which really shouldn't even be allowed on WMF wikis, but probably not all the useful either.
 * Not sure what you're asking about the tag; you disabled it before I made the change. If that was a bug and you didn't mean to do that, no, I don't know the cause. Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 17:43, 3 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Oooof, that's not a good sight. No idea how I did not realize that I disabled my own tag, must've missed my morning coffee then. Either way, thanks for the help, appreciate it! -- qedk ( t  愛  c ) 06:12, 4 May 2020 (UTC)

Filters 1040/1041
Please disable filters 1040 and 1041; the log spam is getting to be too much. --Stay safe, ◊ PRAHLAD balaji (M•T•A•C) This message was left at 02:54, 25 May 2020 (UTC)
 * See WP:EFN. Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 18:15, 26 May 2020 (UTC)

Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 16
 News and updates associated with user scripts from the past two months (May and June 2020).

Hello everyone and welcome to the 16th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:

Scripts Submit your new/improved script here
 * Cscr-featured.svg Ed6767's redwarn is this month's featured script


 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Enterprisey: abusefilter-diff-check* abusefilter-hide-search* live-reload* quick-vand-block*
 * abusefilter-mass-test* simple-notifs* User:Enterprisey/rc-thanks
 * DannyS712's RemindMe* Majavah's Aligner
 * BrandonXLF: ShowUserGender* ReferenceExpander
 * Awesome Aasim: oneclickdelete* noeditredlinks.js* editrequest
 * TheTVExpert: searchForSection* scriptDocumentationTabs
 * Alex 21: script-categoriessort.js* script-imageres.js
 * Ed6767's redwarn


 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Twinkle released new features, including a rollback links on history pages and Special:Recentchanges,
 * the ability to rollback-in-place on Recent changes and Contributions, a new option autoselect warning
 * level, and an XfD log. (Enable in your prefences; See full list of changes)
 * Headbomb's unreliable source detector script now allows users to add their own custom rules. See the documentation at User:Headbomb/unreliable.

Open tasks
 * Recent changes to the vector skin may have broken some scripts and gadgets. Uses of the  selector
 * should be replaced with . Additionally,   should be replaced with , and
 * should be replaced with . See T255718 and T254797 for more.

Pending requests
 * 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 User scripts/Requests



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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Precious anniversary
--Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:04, 29 July 2020 (UTC)

SPAM REMOVAL without verification??
So instead of verifying that Salvation Anointed is in fact a Federally Registered trademark Cannabis Christian Ministry Service founded in 2008... just remove it because you were to lazy to verify the supplied website link for reference.

Appreciate the looking out for cannabis verified religious and spiritual cannabis use but that's my REAL job... google KANEH MOVIE, REVJC, SALVATION ANOINTED... then reinstate my post and if you feel it needs to be modified or edited that cool but removing without verification is just Wikipedia control freakage... no disrespect but check it out and verify sources before removing. Salvationanointed (talk) 00:35, 22 August 2020 (UTC)
 * You should not be editing subject with which you have a conflict of interest Your edits were plainly promotional and unsourced. If you have some neutral, sourced content you'd like added, you can suggest it at Talk:Cannabis and religion. Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 00:40, 22 August 2020 (UTC)

Ah so it was taken as self promotion... now that can be a conflict of interest. That is why I was replying ... my statements were not balderdash but summations yet because I was giving the information instead of a paid publicist or third party... I get that. The issue has always been staying out of public eye and serving for years... now that it is legalized I was sharing the historical significance. Yet it should have been through third party. Now that makes more sense... someone else should make the posts... thanks for the clarity and embracing my momentary frustrations with ignorance on wikipedia's process. Blessed be tree family Salvationanointed (talk) 02:57, 22 August 2020 (UTC)
 * More or less but not just any "someone else." Specifically, you should just do whatever it is you're doing until mainstream academics or journalists write about you, and then someone with no connection to you reads those academics or journalists and writes about you.  Don't go looking for third parties because if you contact them they're no longer third parties and the ones who would contact you are looking for money in violation of our terms of use. Ian.thomson (talk) 04:09, 22 August 2020 (UTC)

I'm sorry
 I dream of horses has given you a dove! Doves promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day happier. Spread the WikiLove by giving someone else a dove, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past (this fits perfectly) or a good friend. Cheers!

Spread the peace of doves by adding {{subst:Peace dove}} to someone's talk page with a friendly message!

--I dream of horses (Contribs) Please notify me after replying off my talk page. Thank you. 23:38, 30 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Thank you, ! Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 23:44, 30 August 2020 (UTC)