Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts/Show recent comments

This will eventually allow people to hide discussions on talk pages (or the VP) that occurred before a given date. It is in semi-complete form below. Please improve, modify, suggest, critique, etc. Thanks! JesseW 09:09, 31 August 2005 (UTC)
 * It needs:
 * An interface to set the uptodate.
 * A way to identify sections, rather than just paragraphs, so whole sections that have been updated can be shown, rather than just the paragraphs that have been updated.
 * A option to show, rather than hide, childNodes that have no dates in them.
 * Bells, whistles and gongs, of course!

uptodate= new Date( "Aug 26 2005" ); //This is the date which things need to be after to show up. tokeep= new Array; //The array that stores the info about which pieces to keep. bc=document.getElementById( "bodyContent" ); //Shorthand z=bc.childNodes; //Shorthand for (x=0;x<z.length;x++) { //Go through each childNode of bodyContent tokeep[x]=z[x]; //Put the node into tokeep (if kept, this will be later be replaced by true.) if (z[x].textContent) { //Some things don't have textContent //This matches the signature date format. (Odd other formats are not yet handled.) q=z[x].textContent.match(/[0-9]+:[0-9]+, [0-9]+ [A-Z][a-z]+ [0-9]+ [(]UTC[)]/); if (q) { //Some things don't have any dates in them //This turns it into a Date object(it needs to be reformatted for the sake of the parser) q= new Date(String(q).replace(/(.+), (.+) [(]UTC[)]/, "$2 $1 GMT" )); if (q>uptodate) { //Is it after uptodate? tokeep[x]= true //Then keep it. }}}}; for (x=0;x<tokeep.length;x++) { //Go through tokeep and do the removals. if (tokeep[x]!= true ) { bc.removeChild(tokeep[x]) }}

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