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This account is not shared by multiple people, therefore my username should be acceptable. I only made my username, "TheTVGuys", because "TheTVGuy", was already taken. — Preceding unsigned comment added by TheTVGuys (talk • contribs)
"Guys" unambiguously refers to more than one person. There are also multiple entities called "The TV Guys" if you google the name. I strongly suggest that you change your username. 331dot (talk) 18:05, 1 January 2020 (UTC)
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Hey, regarding this module. The idea is great, but it's nowhere near ready for the mainspace. I've glanced over the code and and its documentation and its full of arbitrary rules, unneeded parameters and almost 90% redundant and duplicate code. Please work some more on it before implementing it to mainspace. --Gonnym (talk) 14:29, 17 May 2020 (UTC)
Perfect, thanks for your help! Quick question, is it possible to run some sort of bot to remove all instances of duplicated templates? For example, some had both the Kooora and Goalzz template in the External links section, and now it shows the same template twice. Nehme1499 (talk) 21:03, 29 May 2020 (UTC)
@Vchimpanzee: She had decided to marry TC, but later changed her mind and chose to not get married. Instead she became the owner of Robin's Nest, which allowed her to stay in the country. TheTVExpert (talk) 19:15, 22 June 2020 (UTC)
I think you are doing a bit more relists than necessary at TfD. Many of the templates you relisted at Knowledge (XXG):Templates for discussion/Log/2020 July 5 could probably be soft deleted instead. While I don't think soft deletion should be used for all discussions with zero participation blatantly non controversial templates such as many of the ones here there is no reason to list them for another week. --Trialpears (talk) 15:22, 5 July 2020 (UTC)
Thanks for bringing this to my attention. I'll try to do more soft deletions rather that relisting for uncontroversial templates in the future. TheTVExpert (talk) 23:55, 5 July 2020 (UTC)
Nick Jordan (character)
Hello, just to let you know that I have reverted your page move from Nick Jordan (character) to Nick Jordan (Casualty and Holby City) as the guidelines (WP:NCTV, which you referenced) actually states: if the character appears in many different titles, use Character name (character), so therefore we use Nick Jordan (character). Thanks, Soaper1234 - talk15:09, 16 July 2020 (UTC)
Hey, TheTVExpert. I was the one who attempted to post the new Magnum image. Things must have changed since I was here last. Is there any way to include the actual title image? I see MacGyver and H50 have theirs (and they seem to be screenshots) but I cannot find the justification on Knowledge (XXG) to keep it there without it being deleted. Is there a way to re-post the Magnum title screen and keep it there? I only ask because the one there now looks so generic. AntiHeroDwight (talk) 13:08, 17 July 2020 (UTC)
@AntiHeroDwight: in order to use copyright images, they have to be uploaded directly to Knowledge (XXG) and not to the commons, and must have a rationale for why their use is acceptable. The easiest way to do this would be to use the File Upload Wizard. TheTVExpert (talk) 14:17, 17 July 2020 (UTC)
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Hey! Thanks for fixing up those links on the first season Magnum article. If you're interested in helping I'll probably be looking to start a second season article in my sandbox either today or tomorrow if I can pull together enough information (although with the Lenkov drama shouldn't be hard).
@TheDoctorWho: Sure, I could probably help with the second season article. I am planning to probably publish the MacGyver season 5 draft soon once I add some more information. Also, thanks for the source. TheTVExpert (talk) 22:33, 11 November 2020 (UTC)
Thanks again for catching all the link mistakes and other things on the second season article, when you work on something like that for so long you start missing the obvious things like that. Hopefully I'll get to the season 3 article soon. I noticed your draft of the pilot, I have the DVD set which has a behind-the-scenes feature specifically for that episode as well as a deleted scene. I'll see if I can pull some production info from that and add it for you. Thanks, TheDoctorWho(talk)21:37, 9 December 2020 (UTC)
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FoldArchives collapses archived talk page threads in order to reduce screen space
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I'm wondering if there is a bot that can automatically find certain links and change them (which is sometimes necessary after a page move). So it would go to the "What links here" of page Foo, and go to every target and change all occurrences of ] to ]. Thanks,VRtalk22:52, 22 October 2021 (UTC)
To editor VR: thank you for asking! When I have had to perform that kind of cleanup, I either did it manually or I used AWB for when there were a lot of pages on the What links here list. I know of no bot that does this, probably because it does not happen often, and when it does happen, there are ususally only a few links that need to be changed. WT:BOT might be a good place to ask. I don't know a lot about bots, but it's my understanding that while bots are tasked to do specific jobs, sometimes they can be tweaked to do other jobs as long as they have been approved. Best to you!P.I. Ellsworth - ed.01:32, 23 October 2021 (UTC)
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LuckyRename, by Alexis Jazz, is this month's featured script. LuckyRename makes requesting file moves easier, and automates the many steps in file moving (including automatic replacement of existing usage). Give it a shot!
Updated scripts
SD0001: hide-reverted-edits has been updated to take into account changes in reversion tools like Twinkle and RedWarn.
ClaudineChionh: SkinSwitcher (a fork and update of Eizen's script) provides an options menu/toolbox/toolbar allowing users to view a given page in MediaWiki's default skins.
Knowledge (XXG):User scripts/Ranking is a sortable table of Knowledge (XXG)'s thousand-or-so most commonly used scripts; it includes their author, last modification date, installation count, and sometimes a short description.
Toolhub is a community managed catalog of software tools used in the Wikimedia movement. Technical volunteers can use Toolhub to document the tools that they create or maintain. All Wikimedians can use Toolhub to search for tools to help with their workflows and to create lists of useful tools to share with others.
draft-sorter sorts AfC drafts by adding WikiProject banners to their talk pages. It supersedes User:Enterprisey/draft-sorter, adding a few features and fixing some bugs.
BooksToSfn adds a portlet link in Visual Editor's source mode editing, in main namespace articles or in the user's Sandbox. When clicked, it converts one {{cite book}} inside a <ref>...</ref> tag block into an {{Sfn}}.
diffedit enables editing directly from viewing a diff "when, for instance, you notice a tiny mistake deep into an article, and don't want to edit the entire article and re-find that one line to fix that tiny mistake".
warnOnLargeFile warns you if you're about to open a very large file (width/height >10,000px or file size >100 MB) from a file page.
QuickDiff (by OneTwoThreeFall at Fandom) lets you quickly view any diff link on a wiki, whether on Recent Changes, contribs pages, history pages, the diff view itself, or elsewhere. For more information, view its page on Fandom.
talkback creates links after user talk page links like this: |C|TB (with the first linking to the user's contributions, and the latter giving the option of sending a {{talkback}} notice). It also adds a link next to section headers.
diff-link shows "copy" links on history and contributions pages that copy an internal link to the diff (e.g., Special:Diff/1026402230) to your clipboard when clicked.
auto-watchlist-expiry automatically watchlists every page you edit for a user-definable duration (you can still pick a different time using the dropdown, though).
generate pings generates the wikitext needed to ping all members of a category, up to 50 editors (the limit defined by MediaWiki).
share ExpandTemplates url allows for easy sharing of your inputs to Special:ExpandTemplates. It adds a button that, when clicked, copies a shareable URL to your exact invocation of the page, like this. Other editors do not need to have this script installed in order to access the URL generated.
show tag names shows the real names of tags next to their display names in places such as page revision histories or the watchlist.
ColourContrib color-codes the user contributions page so that pages you've edited last are sharply distinguished from pages where another editor was the last to edit the page.
All in all, some very neat scripts were written in these last few months. Hoping to see many more in the next issue -- drop us a line on the talk page if you've been writing (or seeing) anything cool and good. Filling in for DannyS712, this has been jp×g. Take care, and merry Christmas! jp×g07:30, 24 December 2021 (UTC)
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Hello. I hope you are doing well. I recently started using User:TheTVExpert/rmCloser, and I find it very useful. Just two suggestions though, first is regarding notifying the wikiprojects. If there are multiple wikiprojects listed on the talkpage, the script gives option to notify only one wikiproject at a time. It would be very helpful if the user can send notifications to multiple wikiprojects at the same time/in one go. The second suggestion is not that much important. Currently, if the user moves page using the script, then in the edit summary, link to RM discussion is from older page. If the link to target page is provided, then this would be solved. But this is not much important. Also, thank you very much for creating the script. —usernamekiran (talk)17:22, 3 December 2022 (UTC)
Hello! Just wanted to let you know that the order of new additions to WP:RM/TR has changed, and now new requests go on the bottom, which affects your user script, submitRMTR. :) ~ Eejit43 (talk) 22:27, 14 February 2023 (UTC)
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@UtherSRG Adding a new section to the script's talk page is probably the best place. However, you do not need to tag them as an edit request. I am logged in pretty much every day, so I will see any edits to that page within a few hours. I haven't updated the script in a little while, so I hope to be able to create the next version soon. Thanks. TheTVExpert (talk) 17:41, 7 December 2023 (UTC)
Ok. I asked because this seemed to get your attention, while some feature requests were out there for more than a year without any acknowledgement. I'd work on the features myself (I am a software developer) but haven't yet taken the plunge into wiki scripting... - UtherSRG(talk)18:10, 7 December 2023 (UTC)
Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 23
New year, new scripts. Welcome to the 23rd issue of the Knowledge (XXG) Scripts++ Newsletter, covering around 39% of our favorite new and updated user scripts since 24 December 2021. That’s right, we haven’t published in two years! Can you believe it? Did you miss us?
Got anything good? Tell us about your new, improved, old, or messed-up script here!
User:Alexander Davronov/HistoryHelper has now become stable with some bugfixes and features such as automatically highlighting potentially uncivil edit summaries and automatically pinging all the users selected.
To a lesser extent, the same goes for User:PrimeHunter/Search sort.js. I wish someone would integrate the sorts into the sort menu instead of adding 11 portlet links.
Aaron Liu: Watchlyst Greybar Unsin is a rewrite of Ais's Watchlist Notifier with modern APIs and several new features such as not displaying watchlist items marked as seen (hence the name), not bolding diffs of unseen watchlist elements which doesn’t work properly anyways, displaying the rendered edit summary, proper display of log and creation actions and more links.
Alexis Jazz: Factotum is a spiritual successor to reply-link with a host of extra features like section adding, link rewriting, regular expressions and more.
User:Aveaoz/AutoMobileRedirect: This script will automatically redirect MobileFrontend (en.m.wikipedia) to normal Knowledge (XXG). Unlike existing scripts, this one will actually check if your browser is mobile or not through its secret agent string, so you can stay logged in on mobile! Hooray screen estate!
Deputy is a first-of-its-kind copyright cleanup toolkit. It overrides the interface for Knowledge (XXG):Contributor copyright investigations for easy case processing. It also includes the functionality of the following (also new) scripts:
User:Elominius/gadget/diff arrow keys allows navigation between diffs with the arrow keys. It also has a version that requires holding Ctrl with the arrow key.
Frequently link to Knowledge (XXG) on your websites yet find generating CC-BY credits to be such a hassle? Say no more! User:Luke10.27/attribute will automatically do it for ya and copy the credit to yer clipboard.
User:MPGuy2824/MoveToDraft, a spiritual successor (i.e. fork) to Evad37's script, with a few bugs solved, and a host of extra features like check-boxes for choosing draftification reasons, multi-contributor notification, and appropriate warnings based on last edit time.
/CopyCodeBlock: one of the most important operations for any scripter and script-user is to copy and paste. This script adds a copy button in the top right of every code block (not to be confused with <code>) that will, well, copy it to your clipboard!
m:User:NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh/AceForLuaDebugConsole.js adds the Ace editor (a.k.a. the editor you see when editing JS, CSS and Lua on Wikimedia wikis) to the Lua debug console. "In my opinion, whoever designed it to be a plain <textarea> needs to seriously reconsider their decision."
GANReviewTool quickly and easily closes good article nominations.
ReviewStatus displays whether or not a mainspace page is marked as reviewed.
SpeciesHelper tries to add the correct speciesbox, category, taxonbar, and stub template to species articles.
User:Opencooper/svgReplace and Tol's fork replaces all rasterized SVGs with their original SVG codes for your loading pleasures. Tell us which one is better!
ArticleInfo displays page information at the top of the page, directly below the title.
/HeaderIcons takes away the Vector 2022 user dropdown and replaces it with all of the icons within, top level, right next to the Watchlist. One less click away! There's also an alternate version that uses text links instead of icons.
Hello, I hope you are doing great. I wanted to inform you about the rmCloser script; it's not working properly. When I click on the 'close' option, choose a reason, and then click the submit button, it displays 'Closing move.: Retrieving page...' and gets stuck. If other users are also experiencing this issue, they will probably inform you soon. If it's just me facing this problem, I'll let you know once I get it working again. Thanks! – DreamRimmer (talk) 12:43, 8 January 2024 (UTC)
rmCloser
Hi TheTVExpert. rmCloser has recently started putting WP:RM/TR requests in the "requests to revert undiscussed moves" section rather than the "uncontroversial technical requests" section: here's one from today, and I saw another one fairly recently. Maybe something in the RM/TR formatting changed? Just a heads-up. Extraordinary Writ (talk) 23:05, 22 February 2024 (UTC)
Hello everyone, and welcome to the 24th issue of the Knowledge (XXG) Scripts++ Newsletter, covering all our favorite new and updated user scripts since 24 December 2021. Uh-huh, we're finally covering the good ones among the rest! Aren't you excited? Remember to include a link in double brackets to the script's .js page when you install the script, so that we can see who uses the script in WhatLinksHere! The ScriptInstaller gadget automatically does this. Aaron Liu (talk) 01:00, 1 March 2024 (UTC)
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Making user scripts load faster by SD0001 is this month's featured script, which caches userscripts every day to eliminate the overhead caused by force-downloading the newest version of scripts every time you open a Knowledge (XXG) page. Despite being released in April 2021, our best script scouters have failed to locate it due to its omission from the US of L. For security reasons, the script only supports loading JavaScript pages.
Newly maintained scripts
After earthly attempts at improving the original have failed...
Ahecht has created a fork of SiBr4/TemplateSearch, which adds the "TP:" shortcut for "Template:" in the search box, and updated it to be compatible with Vector 2022.
AquilaFasciata/goToTopFast is a much faster fork of the classic goToTop script that also adds compatibility for Minerva and Vector 2022.
Without caching. Each script takes 400–500ms. A particularly large script takes 1.11 s! Internet download speed is 50 Mbps.With caching enabled. Each script takes just 1-2 ms to load.
Improve a script
Unfortunately, this section has remained nearly identical. Help us out here!
To a lesser extent, the same goes for PrimeHunter/Search sort. I wish someone would integrate the sorts into the sort menu instead of adding 11 portlet links.
Dragoniez/SuppressEnterInForm stops you from accidentally submitting anything due to pressing enter while in the smaller box, and works on almost anything... except the InputBox element itself, used in subscription lists and the Signpost Crossword! Oh, the humanity!
Doǵu/Adiutor(pictured) provides a nice, integrated interface to do some twinkley tasks such as copyvio detection, CSD tagging, and viewing the most recent diff.
Eejit43 has quite the aesthetically pleasing scripts, all made in TypeScript.
/afcrc-helper is a replacement for the unmaintained Enterprisey/AFCRHS and processes Redirects for Creation and Categories for Creation requests.
/ajax-undo stops the "undo" button from taking you to another page while providing a text box to provide a reason for the revert.
/redirect-helper(pictured) adds a much better interface for editing and redirects, including categorization, for which valid categories are dictated by /redirect-helper.json.
/rmtr-helper helps process technical requested moves without being able to actually move them.
Guycn2/UserInfoPopup(pictured) adds a flyout after the watchlist star on userspace pages that displays the common information you might use about a user.
Jeeputer/editCounter, under userspace, adds a portlet link to count your edits by namespace, put them in a table, and put that table in a hardcoded subpage, all in the background.
Hilst/Scripts/sectionLinks converts all section links to use the § sign, which are known to be preferred over the ugly # by 99% of the devils I've met.
PrimeHunter/Category source.js adds portlet links to tell you where a category for an article comes from and supports those from template transclusions.
Sophivorus's MiniEdit adds some nice, li'l buttons next to paragraphs to edit their wikitext with a minimal interface.
Edit-listings
Dragoniez/ToollinkTweaks adds more and customizable links next to users in page history, logs, watchlist, recent changes, etc.
Firefly/more-block-info optimizes the display of rangeblocks in contribution pages. Doesn't work outside the English locale of any wiki, unfortunately.
NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh/AjaxLoader makes paging links (e.g. older 50, 500, newest) load without refreshing and makes you realize how slow your internet actually is.
Appearance-ricing
Ahecht/RedirectID adds the redirect target to all redirects. For all the WP:NAVPOPS haters. (Do these exist?)
Dragoniez/MarkBLockedGlobal: Remember the "strike blocked usernames" gadget? Now you can use a red, dotted line to highlight rangeblocks and global locks!
Jonesey/common(pictured) has some styles to overhaul your Vector 2022 experience. It reduces padding everywhere, and makes the top bar animation faster.
Aaron Liu/V22 is a fork that narrows the sidebars instead of upheaving them, reverts the January 2024 dropdown changes, and restores the old page-link color for links that don't go outside the current wiki.
Nardog: SmartDiff is a spiritual successor to Enterprisey/fancy-diffs. It makes the page title part of links in diffs clickable, along with template and parser function calls. Unnamed parameters can be configured per template to also be linked. All links are styled based on the normal CSS classes of rendered links.
For the paranoid: Rublov/anonymize replaces your username at the top of the screen with the generic "User page" text. Remember, it is your duty to persuade everyone that editing is an honor.
/AjaxBlock provides a dialog box for easy input of reasons while blocking users.
/Selective Rollback(pictured) provides a dialog box to customize rollback edit summaries and does them without reloading the page. Seriously, why doesn't MediaWiki already do this?
/flickrsearch adds a portlet link to search for uploadable flickr images about the subject.
/randomincategory adds a portlet link when on Category pages to go to a random page in the current category.
Vghfr/EasyTemplates adds a portlet link to automatically insert some of the most common inline {{fix}} templates.
Yes, we're just doing 'em as we go now. Thanks for reading through this looong issue, if you did! I'm sure this'll send a record for the longest issue ev-ah. You may need to wait even longer for the last issue, as our reserve of old-y and goodie scripts have ran out... We encourage you to try and do some of the requests or improvement tasks. See you in Summer, hopefully!
Thank you very much for User:TheTVExpert/rmCloser. Although, I do not use it often, I find it very useful.
I was wondering if a similar script could be forked/created to notify associated WikiProjects about merger discussions. As I understand it, rmCloser identifies requested moves based on the template. Would it be possible to target the string "Proposed merge of" on talk pages where a merger conversation is happening? It would be useful to notify associated WikiProjects when there is contentious discussion or when there is a very old merge tag to get the conversation going. It could be its own new script or it could be a new component of rmCloser. Just an idea! Thanks, --Classicwiki (talk) If you reply here, please ping me.20:33, 13 May 2024 (UTC)
@Classicwiki I think this would work best as a separate script. What would you think about a script that just adds a button under the header of every article talk page section (maybe limited to those with recent comments) and allows the user to select which WikiProjects with banners on the page that they want to notify, select a type of message (merge discussion, split proposal, other discussion, etc.), and preview and customize the message? TheTVExpert (talk) 18:38, 15 May 2024 (UTC)
@TheTVExpert, I think that is a great idea. It allows for various other discussion types to be added.
If you are looking for test cases (just on merge and split):
I like the idea of limiting to recent conversations (maybe a comment within the past year?).
The only problem I see is WikiProjects becoming overwhelmed/annoyed with the automated talk page notifications on their talk pages. Is there a way to prevent abuse? Limiting script usage by edit count, rights, etc.? --Classicwiki (talk) If you reply here, please ping me.23:22, 15 May 2024 (UTC)
Hey there, welcome to the 25th issue of the Knowledge (XXG) Scripts++ Newsletter, covering all our favorite new and updated user scripts since 1 March 2024. We've got a ton of wonderful editors taking back their pitchforks today. Don't worry, for they come in peace, to forcibly fix and extend existing scripts you use with sheer passion. There's so many, them forks have got what's basically their own column now! gift us with some rows before it's too late Aaron Liu (talk) 04:01, 1 August 2024 (UTC)
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To a lesser extent, the same goes for PrimeHunter/Search sort. I wish someone would integrate the sorts into the sort menu instead of adding 11 portlet links.
An easily configurable script to add a link to the #p-vector-user-menu-overflow portlet with a name, target, and icon. This one should be a relatively easier one. I would do it myself, but I'm too busy rotting away on Celeste (video game).
After the ＲＩＩＪ update, Aaron Liu: Watchlyst Greybar Unsin has a dismiss button that allows you to mark an item as read in one click and cycle to the next Watchlist item.
Lordseriouspig/StatusChangerImproved is just like Enterprisey's script, except you select your status from a dropdown instead of cycling through them with a button. The WMF operates out of car-centric infrastructure anyway. Shame!
Newly maintained scripts
Aaron Liu has created Duplinks from Evad37/duplinks-alt; his fork adds a config variable to automatically highlight duplicate links on the loading of any page where the portlet link would've appeared.
Tired of staring at a bunch of filtering text and waiting for darn filter logs to load? Msz2001/AbuseFilter analyzer can parse abuse filters into a visual syntax tree and evaluate locally on-demand!
Polygnotus/DuplicateReferences finds references with the same link and displays the number of them along with a button to add the {{duplicated citations}} tag under the references section. Being lazy has never been easier!
fastest gun on the net Ponor/really-quick-block really quick add to contribution lists three buttons awesome
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Done TheTVExpert (talk) 13:00, 30 May 2020 (UTC)
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.
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Great job on the improvements! For you're hard work, I award you this interesting image of a bird. Enjoy!
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