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! Aaron Liu (talk) 05:06, 25 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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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.
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 greener purpley pastures of PHP with commits creating Special:NamespaceInfo and the __EXPECTUNUSEDTEMPLATE__ magic word to exclude a template from Special:UnusedTemplates! I wonder if Wikipedia has a templaters' newsletter...
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.
Andrybak/Unsigned helper forks Anomie/unsignedhelper to add support for binary search, automatic edit summaries after generating the {{unsigned}} template, support for {{undated}}, and support for generating while syntax highlighting is on.
Polygnotus/Move+ updates BilledMammal's classic Move+ to add automattic watchlisting of all pages—except the target page(s)—changed while processing a move.
Ey, I'm currently writing User:Aaron Liu/Watchlyst Greybar Unsin's feature on storing manually-created notification timestamps as a variable in WP's preferences storage (as in Special:Preferences) and comparing the timestamps of changes to categories against the manual timestamps to establish whether such a change counts as unread or not. The variable will have a format of "oldestUnreadChange/newestUnreadChange". I'm currently debating between the following names for this script-retrievable preference variable:
userjs-watchlyst-read
kinda clear, but not plural-able and not necessarily clear that "read" is in the past tense
userjs-watchlyst-sins
because that's what the "sin" part of my script's name means—unseen! :3
After release, changing the name of the preference variable would require keeping track of all past to maintain compatibility, so I'm asking someone first to hopefully retain a timeless name for the var. Aaron Liu (talk) 03:31, 4 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Actually, the format is ${oldest time to start checking for unread changes}+"/"+${newest time to start checking for unread changes}. Aaron Liu (talk) 03:46, 4 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Aaron Liu: Hi. That's a cool feature you are implementing! "userjs-watchlyst-sins" is quite clear in my opinion.
By the way I was about to reach you for recent UI issues with the script. are you aware of them? This is what I see right now:
undefined: "Draft:N. Rajasekar removed from Category:Living people byDannyS712 bot, this page is included within other pages"
Nope! Probably because category items never displayed due to the unread filter. I'll probably fix that when I implement the feature. Aaron Liu (talk) 15:41, 4 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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