Wikipedia talk:Tools/Archive 2

"Change Script" tool available?
Just a question (or a wish list, depending on the view point). In Wikipedia (or any other WikiMedia projects), is there a "Change Script" tool for languages that may have more than one script, such as the Serbo-Croatian language with Latin alphabet and Cyrillic alphabet, Chinese language with Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese characters, or Cree language and Ojibwe language with both Latin alphabet (four differing styles commonly found) and Canadian Aboriginal syllabics (three different styles commonly found)? With such a tool, it doesn't matter in what the script is, the user could easily go back and forth between pages. If one page gets edited, the tool would automatically make the identical change in all other pages, but in the particular page's script. Alternatively, there could be a bot-maintained page would be the "master" page and all the differing pages users see are the "slave" pages, where the tool generates the slave pages from the master page, and if one of the slave page is edited by a user, the bot updates the master page, causing all the slave pages to be updated. This way, the page content is not changed, just the script, and if a page of a certain script is edited by a user, all the pages with differing scripts but with identical content would then all be updated. CJLippert (talk) 01:07, 10 September 2009 (UTC)

Wikiblame status
Wikiblame at http://wikipedia.ramselehof.de/wikiblame.php appears to be giving a 404 error - I get the following:
 * Not Found
 * The requested URL /wikiblame.php was not found on this server.

See also de:Benutzer Diskussion:Flominator/WikiBlame. — Jeff G. (talk&#124;contribs) 23:53, 16 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Wikiblame has not been working for me for several days. Receive message, "0 versions found", no matter what is entered.  --George100 (talk) 04:54, 17 February 2009 (UTC)
 * I will have a look at it asap. Thanks, --Flominator (talk) 06:25, 17 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Up and running again. Thanks for your patience. --Flominator (talk) 18:09, 18 February 2009 (UTC)


 * 403 now. Please see your user talk page for details.    — Jeff G. (talk&#124;contribs) 05:11, 14 August 2009 (UTC)

Now it's not finding any versions. :(  — Jeff G. (talk&#124;contribs) 19:10, 17 September 2009 (UTC)

I'm making java classes for wiki citations from pubmed,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Nerdseeksblonde/scriptTest

and also posted before about note-taking app for blackberry that can let you copy/paste notes along with wiki cite stub ( including page url). It more-or-less works on pdf docs ( rendered as straight text to save BW if text is in the document) and ftp links ( we have a server that handles most of this). Any interest or related tools? I'm doing this for testing generally but curious to see if any other uses. Nerdseeksblonde (talk) 17:09, 26 October 2009 (UTC)

Watchlistr
Hey all,

I've created a new tool called Watchlistr that aggregates watchlists from all of their Wikipedia/Wikimedia accounts (and, in the future, other mediawiki-based accounts) into one big list. I am not sure, however, what category of tool to file it under.

Any suggestions?

Cat1205123 (talk) 00:50, 23 July 2009 (UTC)

Update: Pending a code audit, do not put my site in the tools list, please. Cat1205123 (talk) 14:07, 23 July 2009 (UTC)

New update: Thanks to recent revisions in the MediaWiki code, Watchlistr is back up and running again. It no longer requires users' passwords. Cat1205123 (talk) 01:52, 31 December 2009 (UTC)

Category Watchlist
I just created Category Watchlist to watch additions and removals to categories. Comments are welcome. Svick (talk) 19:27, 28 November 2009 (UTC)

Watchlist that does not segregate by day?
I find it very annoying that the standard watchlist segregates edits arbitrarily by day. When reviewing my watchlist, I often see some bit of vandalism performed at the end of day. So I check it out. Almost always that bit of vandalism was already reverted on the next day.

What would be much more useful, would be a watchlist that is only organized by the pages being watched and shows all the edits to each watched article during the requested period. For example, Oxygen would show up just once with all the diffs (and a Changes diff if enhanced RC is set) during the watch period (say 7 days) under it. No break-up by day.

Is there a tool out there that does this? --mav (please help review urgent FAC and FARs) 17:36, 27 December 2009 (UTC)


 * It's probably not exactly what you want, but my Desktop Watchlist doesn't group edits by days, only by pages. It is a desktop application for Windows. Svick (talk) 17:05, 28 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I saw that. Looks interesting and I'll give it a try. But I was looking for a look and feel much closer to the enhanced RC/watchlist, just without the day sorting. --mav (please help review urgent FAC and FARs) 01:07, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

Wikipedia ad
Is this the page that I saw the Wikipedia ad for that said "We need testers!"? - Presidentman (talk) Random Picture of the Day 14:24, 3 January 2010 (UTC)
 * If you meant the ad below, then just click on it, it's for EpochFail's NICE user script. Svick (talk) 14:46, 3 January 2010 (UTC)

Page creation
Anybody interested in a tool that creates/appends/prepends pages with a given context? Any thoughts as to whether this would be a useful tool?Smallman12q (talk) 19:30, 11 January 2010 (UTC)

Exporting from OpenOffice
The page currently says: "Text documents opened in all versions of OpenOffice.org 3 can be exported natively into MediaWiki format, via the File -> Export -> File Format drop down menu."

I have a complete installation OpenOffice 3.2.1 on Windows XP. In the export dialog i only see PDF and XHTML.

I looked for a MediaWiki filter on http://www.openoffice.org/, but found several pages, all of which were marked "out of date".

So, does anyone know what is the right and modern way to export from OpenOffice to MediaWiki? --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 12:56, 20 July 2010 (UTC)


 * I think this is what you are referring to: http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/wikipublisher
 * I've not tested it yet, so can't vouch for its quality, but it certainly looks interesting. A brief search seems to indicate that this plugin was intended to be implemented in the main program when version 3.0 was released, but they must have thought better of it.  AJ  Cham  21:36, 20 July 2010 (UTC)


 * And I just discovered that as an Ubuntu user I could install this from the universe repo . Other *nix distros may have it as well.  AJ Cham  21:52, 20 July 2010 (UTC)


 * Thank you!
 * I added the link to "Sun Wiki Publisher" to the page and removed the sentence that says that documents opened in all versions of OpenOffice.org 3 can be exported natively into MediaWiki format.
 * If i am wrong and it is possible, please correct me. --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 23:04, 20 July 2010 (UTC)

In search for some template seach-tool in articles
I know of cat scan and I'm fond of it. Now I seaching for some kind of tool that cat scan cannot do for me. In fact I have a list of articles I once created (on nl.wikipedia). Out of this list I would like to know which articles have the template (i.e. disambiguation page), so I can seperate them from the 'real articles'. Can somebody help me? ty Davin (talk) 20:18, 22 February 2011 (UTC)

Pageview stats in toolbox
Who likes the idea of adding "pageview stats" to the toolbox, so a clickable link appears where "what links here" does? Sebwite (talk) 19:59, 15 April 2011 (UTC)


 * It can easily be done with code in your vector.js if you know javascript..
 * I've got the random pages links for all the rest of the namespaces in my side menu. Right underneath 'Random article' I've got an additional 'Random talk' 'Random wikipedia' 'Random user' and 'Random file' buttons. -- &oelig; &trade; 21:44, 18 April 2011 (UTC)

Edit persistence
Is there a tool that will tell me see edit persistence? So, for example, if I am looking at the edit history of a suspected vandal, I can see if any of the edits haven't been reverted yet, which would allow me to quickly check whether they need reverting. It could also be useful in showing me that the user has done a lot of edits that haven't been reverted and so perhaps isn't a vandal. Yaris678 (talk) 12:23, 6 May 2011 (UTC)

WatchlistBot 2.0 now available
Hello folks, I've now made the second iteration of my XMPP watchlist bot available for public use. I'm not sure which tool category it should be part of, however. It's quite general and could easily fit several of them. Any suggestions on where I should put it? --Chris (talk) 10:21, 30 January 2012 (UTC)

Tool for articles created?
I see the soxred93 account on Toolserver is no longer active. Any alternatives, especially for articles created by user? - Ipigott (talk) 09:40, 13 February 2012 (UTC)


 * I don't know if 'articles created by user' has been picked up yet but a few of the others like the edit counter have been replaced by ~tparis. Relevant discussion at WP:BOWN. -- &oelig; &trade; 04:03, 20 February 2012 (UTC)

OpenOffice.org Calc to MediaWiki
Is there any way to convert OpenOffice.org Calc spreadsheets into MediaWiki format? Most of the tools I've seen on Wikipedia are for OpenOffice.org Writer. Allen (talk) 01:40, 16 March 2012 (UTC)

Edit button for Introduction section
Sometimes I just want to edit only the intro part. I have been editing Wikipedia since the begining. I think that Wikipedia is developping and now I think that a proper edit subsection should be availible. Because also intro is section per se. Thus I think that it is totally manageable and good for Wikipedia. I propose to Wikipedia staff to have this formal inclusion into edit tools.
 * Regards: The Mad Hatter (talk)


 * Go to your gadget preferences and enable "Add an [edit] link for the lead section of a page" under "Appearance". --Chris (talk) 20:08, 17 May 2012 (UTC)


 * Not usable for everyone, loading all the javascript takes long enough to annoy many people to switch it off. Richiez (talk) 21:30, 17 May 2012 (UTC)

Link colors
Hi all, I have been looking for a solution, but haven't figured it out yet and came to this page, which seems the best place to answer my question. When browsing articles in Wikipedia the article links turn purple instead of blue, while red links become brownish. I don't want this to happen and I know that when you empty your browsing history it stops doing so, at least on every browser refresh. But is there any way I can keep my browsing history active outside of Wikipedia and have it disabled permanently within Wikipedia? If not possible I have to deal with it, but it annoys me a bit to see the purple links. If there's anyone out there who wants to be my hero and help me out that would be much appreciated :) LindaSportGirl (talk) 10:54, 2 July 2012 (UTC)
 * If this doesn't happen when you're logged out, please try disabling your custom css, js, and gadgets to find the culprit.  —  Jeff G. ツ  (talk)   11:41, 2 July 2012 (UTC)

tool request
Is there a page for requesting tools? What I am looking for is a tool that will go through articles in a category (for example one under Category:Orphaned articles) and list the articles that have links to it (ignoring redirects and disambig. pages). --Traveler100 (talk) 06:32, 21 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Anyone willing to help? Suggestions for tools.--Traveler100 (talk) 09:09, 10 November 2012 (UTC)

Searching for user-created articles
Everyone, is there a Tool for searching the user's history for all articles created by said user? I want to look at a list of articles I have created without having to go back through all of my contributions.- Gilliam (talk) 09:40, 24 March 2013 (UTC)
 * You want https://toolserver.org/~tparis/pages/, yes? ~ Amory ( u  •  t  •  c ) 18:51, 25 March 2013 (UTC)

Animated article history revisions
At Village pump (technical)/Archive 124 I asked a question about "tools that can automatically "play" all the diffs or the versions of an article", that someone here might know the answer to. Thanks. –Quiddity (talk) 19:15, 30 March 2014 (UTC)


 * Hi Quiddity, have a look at "Replay Edits" by User:Jeph paul


 * video of Wikimania 2013 presentation
 * Try it: http://cosmiclattes.github.io/wikireplay/player.html "WikiReplay"

You can give feedback at meta:Grants_talk:IEG/Replay_Edits. I love this project, imagine this tool together with "article blame" search etc. --Atlasowa (talk) 12:10, 3 April 2014 (UTC)

Black-listed
I am confused, today, I opened the User Analysis Tools to check on my stats, as usual. And I found out it doesn't work! It says I am black-listed for some reason, could you please explain this to me? Thanks  TheQ Editor     (Talk) 20:34, 17 April 2014 (UTC)
 * - It works fine for me (using your username). Perhaps it was overloaded at the time, or you hit refresh too quickly, or a random glitch? If you can find a reproducible bug, let the developer of it know (link in the FAQ tab). Also, don't be worried about editcounts too much - checking daily can be fun, but quality is vastly more important than quantity, and reading/lurking/absorbing can be as important as measurable-contribution especially in the long-term. :) –Quiddity (talk) 22:02, 18 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks, it was a glitch. It's all good now.   TheQ Editor     (Talk) 15:02, 21 April 2014 (UTC)

how to edit any page using visualeditor in mobile brower
I Am using wikipedia in mobile(Android), and I want to edit page using Visual Editor as it is easy to edit using it because we don't have to use codes any more. But visual editor is usable on mobile or not tell me guys....???? Saurabh Chatterjee 2 (talk) 15:22, 29 December 2014 (UTC)

Disregard editor?
I see plenty of tools for isolating the edits of a particular user, but is there anything that can do the inverse, i.e. display an article but disregard a particular editor's contributions? --Walnuts go kapow (talk) 17:57, 6 August 2015 (UTC)

Tool Request
I know that this might not be the right place for this but I would be glad if someone directs me to the right page. Anyways, here is the description of a tool that I think would be useful if done. This would be a great tool for those who want to create stub articles in one language which are based on the content of another. Thanks for consideration. --Alperen (talk) 17:03, 7 August 2015 (UTC)
 * 1) User edits a page
 * 2) User clicks a button while he/she is editing the page
 * 3) A script is invoked which parses the infobox and reads each infobox line into a variable, then it rewrites the infobox content into sententces just under the infobox.
 * That's a pretty clever idea. Maybe try posting on the village pump? Brightgalrs ( /braɪtˈɡæl.ərˌɛs/ )[1] 22:12, 4 February 2016 (UTC)

Tool down
The ref refill tool is down since a day or two back. Can someone fix this or direct me to the user in charge of the tool. Thanks. Ping me.--BabbaQ (talk) 17:55, 29 May 2016 (UTC)

Links to dead tools
Toolserver has been shutdown for a month, but there is still Wikistalk listed, which used to run on Toolserver and is now dead, leading only to "404 not found." Is there a replacement using the new system? Could someone familiar with the tools put a note by the ones which have ceased operating, perhaps noting if someone is working on one which will sork with the new "improved" tool system? That would avoid some unnecessary frustration. Thanks Edison (talk) 12:45, 2 August 2014 (UTC)

Please fix it or up date it Imaginemylove (talk) 20:53, 10 May 2017 (UTC)

BibTeX2Wiki converter
This one was very useful. Is there an alternative? Does someone have the code or can contact the creator of it? --Ondertitel (talk) 11:58, 31 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Ondertitel, it was moved to http://jstools.ucoz.net/bibtex2wiki . --V1adis1av (talk) 17:47, 23 June 2017 (UTC)

Citation analysis
I am trying to compare the number of Arabic Vs Non-Arabic references (i.e. Latin script) used in the Arabic Wikipedia - is there a tool I can use to collate references from many articles and get them on one file? Sorry if this is the wrong place to ask this question...--الدبوني (talk) 07:44, 3 October 2017 (UTC)

Request regarding incomplete information on a wikipedia page
EXO (band) had several platinum certifications but now they have been removed. The page is protected so we cannot edit it. Please help.

Thank you Prachi Rustagi Prachi Rustagi (talk) 17:50, 19 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Prachi Rustagi Please use the View source tab on the page you are concerned about, and use the "Submit an edit request" link at the bottom right. That takes you to the article's talk page. Then add exact details of the change you wish to make, and an editor will respond as appropriate Noyster (talk),  19:13, 19 February 2018 (UTC)

Introducing Toolhub
What does your participation on the Wikimedia projects look like? Do you edit articles? Upload files? Patrol vandalism? Translate articles? Translate interface messages? Do you organize people, online or offline? Do you train new editors, or new trainers? Do you write code?

There are many different ways to contribute to Wikimedia – more than you would expect just from reading Wikipedia articles. Over the past several years, volunteers have developed technical tools that help Wikimedians improve content, patrol vandalism, and perform many other tasks. They make it possible to do what the wiki software alone cannot accomplish. Without these tools, many of our projects would slow down to a crawl.

I am very happy to announce a new project called Toolhub which seeks to create a searchable index of these tools in all languages. We are building this tool catalog based on what our communities need. If you would like to help, please take a look at Toolhub and review the question at the top of the page. You can also leave feedback in any language on the talkpage. You can also email me private feedback. Harej (WMF) (talk) 23:25, 2 June 2018 (UTC)

Listing user scripts here vs. WP:USLIST
This page mostly seems to list external tools, but I've noticed a small number of user scripts among them. For the sake of clearer organization, I've been moving these entries to User scripts/List, which is much more comprehensive (and already linked to from the Wikipedia programs header, and in . Or just removing them, if they're obsolete. Just wanted to give a heads up on this. Colin M (talk) 17:37, 18 November 2019 (UTC)

Also, I'm doing the same thing with WP:GADGETS, for the same reason. Basically, I think it makes sense for this page to only list "external" tools (i.e. any tool you access through a separate website, or a program you install on your computer). Colin M (talk) 17:43, 18 November 2019 (UTC)

Macos no longer support widgets anymore
Should we remove, or mark as deprecated the mac widgets because apple stopped supporting it from the catalina. The creeper2007 (talk)


 * Not sure based on principle alone; there's probably enough people using pre-Catalina Macs that it's worth keeping up. Ehler (talk) 02:40, 17 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Just specify it if you want The creeper2007--Pierpao (talk) 11:24, 19 May 2020 (UTC)

Done!The creeper2007 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 01:52, 21 May 2020 (UTC)

Tools directory of application and interesting use
Hello, it would be good to see a list of tools using Wikipedia (or things related to Wikipedia) such as http://wiki.polyfra.me http://listen.hatnote.com/#en. Do we have a list somewhere? It might be a good Wikifun and help during Wikistress. --Titodutta (talk) 14:20, 14 July 2020 (UTC)