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Hello everyone, and welcome to the 24th issue of the Wikipedia 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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Featured script
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 Wikipedia 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!
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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
The Special:Book page (as well as the associated "Create a book" functionality) provided by the old Collection extension has been removed from all Wikisource wikis, as it was broken. This does not affect the ability to download normal books, which is provided by the Wikisource extension. [1]
Maintenance on etherpad is completed. If you encounter any issues, please indicate in this ticket.
Gadgets allow interface admins to create custom features with CSS and JavaScript. The Gadget and Gadget_definition namespaces and gadgets-definition-edit user right were reserved for an experiment in 2015, but were never used. These were visible on Special:Search and Special:ListGroupRights. The unused namespaces and user rights are now removed. No pages are moved, and no changes need to be made. [2]
A usability improvement to the "Add a citation" in Wikipedia workflow has been made, the insert button was moved to the popup header. [3]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 March. It will be on all wikis from 7 March (calendar). [4][5]
Future changes
All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 20. This is planned at 14:00 UTC. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks. [6]
The HTML markup of headings and section edit links will be changed later this year to improve accessibility. See Heading HTML changes for details. The new markup will be the same as in the new Parsoid wikitext parser. You can test your gadget or stylesheet with the new markup if you add ?useparsoid=1 to your URL (more info) or turn on Parsoid read views in your user options (more info).
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Hello, I have noticed you “trimmed” some of my revisions on my user page. Can you explain what that means and what it does? Thank you. Antny08 (talk) 15:39, 11 March 2024 (UTC)
Hi @Antny08, I removed some information from your user page as it reveals too much personally-identifying information about you. We have a policy of protecting editors' safety by hiding such information if they share it. I'm really sorry about having to suppress your edits, and I know it's annoying, but it's for the best. stwalkerster (talk) 15:55, 11 March 2024 (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-11
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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 March. It will be on all wikis from 14 March (calendar). [7][8]
After consulting with various communities, the line height of the text on the Minerva skin will be increased to its previous value of 1.65. Different options for typography can also be set using the options in the menu, as needed. [9]
The active link color in Minerva will be changed to provide more consistency with our other platforms and best practices. [10]
Structured data on Commons will no longer ask whether you want to leave the page without saving. This will prevent the “information you’ve entered may not be saved” popups from appearing when no information have been entered. It will also make file pages on Commons load faster in certain cases. However, the popups will be hidden even if information has indeed been entered. If you accidentally close the page before saving the structured data you entered, that data will be lost. [11]
Future changes
All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 20. This is planned at 14:00 UTC. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks. [12][13]
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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
The notice "Language links are at the top of the page" that appears in the Vector 2022 skin main menu has been removed now that users have learned the new location of the Language switcher. [14]
IP info feature displays data from Spur, an IP addresses database. Previously, the only data source for this feature was MaxMind. Now, IP info is more useful for patrollers. [15]
The Toolforge Grid Engine services have been shut down after the final migration process from Grid Engine to Kubernetes. [16][17][18]
RevisionSlider is an interface to interactively browse a page's history. Users in right-to-left languages reported RevisionSlider reacting wrong to mouse clicks. This should be fixed now. [20]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 March. It will be on all wikis from 21 March (calendar). [21][22]
All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 20. This is planned at 14:00 UTC. [23][24]
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Hello, I saw you removed my source you CaseOh’s birth. This was an incorrect removal, as I had a discussion with other Wikipedia members about the very question of if I can use YouTube as a source, and they said yes. I will undo your revision, and we can discuss further. Antny08 (talk) 17:00, 20 March 2024 (UTC)
Hi @Antny08:, where was this discussion held? I don't see it on the article talk page, so please could you give me a link to the discussion?Uncontroversial information about a subject can be sourced to a self-published source, but the number of times that subjects lie about their date of birth makes a date of birth definitely fall outside that definition. stwalkerster (talk) 17:06, 20 March 2024 (UTC)
In the context of the question you asked - namely whether collaboration between YouTubers has happened - I'd agree that citing a YouTube video is OK if and only if there aren't any other sources. However, you've taken that answer have applied it to other circumstances. It is not appropriate to cite a self-published source for more controversial information like dates of birth. stwalkerster (talk) 17:18, 20 March 2024 (UTC)
Okay, thanks. Antny08 (talk) 17:23, 20 March 2024 (UTC)
Notability
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Hello, can you explain to me how high frequency publishing makes a source unreliable, that makes no sense, as that should make the source MORE reliable. I do not see anywhere where it says they cannot publish frequently. Please explain. Antny08 (talk) 14:41, 21 March 2024 (UTC)
High-frequency publishing doesn't make a source unreliable on it's own. However, when a single author is publishing 5, 6, 10 articles per day, what time are they spending on researching and fact-checking each claim in all of the articles, and who is spending the time giving editorial oversight to every article written? It's far from a definitive answer, but it does indicate a vague direction for the reliability of a source. I'd expect a competent journalist to be able to write about maybe 1-2 distinct topics per day, though they may publish several articles about the same topic with updates or more in-depth explainers in a shorter timeframe.For the two relevant sources you're asking about, both authors appear to be writing each article about completely distinct topics in a very short amount of time. Sure, it's possible that it's all above-board, but it's not a great look. stwalkerster (talk) 14:53, 21 March 2024 (UTC)
But the articles are not very long, and some people have surprising fast typing speeds, up to above 100WPM. Some articles also may have been written before-hand, and only published on a specific day or time depending on what the situation is. Antny08 (talk) 14:56, 21 March 2024 (UTC)
Typing speed is not my concern. If typing speed is the critical path to publishing speed, then it's a strong indicator that the author isn't checking their work. I'd expect research time and fact-checking to take at least 80% of the time in writing an article for a competent journalist. stwalkerster (talk) 14:59, 21 March 2024 (UTC)
Fast typing speed doesn’t mean not checking their work. Let’s say he actually did make 10 articles in a day. If he spent a full 24 hours, he would still be spending over 2 hours on each article. But 10 articles in a day doesn’t seem right, can you prove this? Or were you just saying that as an example? Antny08 (talk) 15:01, 21 March 2024 (UTC)
I was using it as an example, but just from clicking through the author's page, [25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33] - 9 all published on yesterday by the same person. I got to 7 when I counted earlier, so 10 didn't seem like too much of a stretch. I was only 1 off, and I can't be bothered to check their entire publishing history just to see if there's a higher rate. stwalkerster (talk) 15:06, 21 March 2024 (UTC)
All of the articles state they are only a 3 minute read. This means they are short articles, so that many in a day is understandable. Please reconsider calling the sources unreliable. Thanks. Antny08 (talk) 15:08, 21 March 2024 (UTC)
I stand by my own opinion, but if you want a definitive community consensus about whether they're considered reliable I'd suggest bringing them up at WP:RSN. stwalkerster (talk) 15:10, 21 March 2024 (UTC)
Okay, thanks. I suggested in the AfD that we should draftify the article. CaseOh is a popular figure, and his popularity is only growing. Because there will likely be more reliable sources about him in the future, it makes sense to draftify it until more sources emerge or are found, rather than delete it. Antny08 (talk) 15:14, 21 March 2024 (UTC)
I have one question, according to WP:SNG and WP:Notability, it says the subject does not need to meet WP:GNG if it meets WP:SNG. For WP:ANYBIO, it says they are notable if they won a significant award, or were nominated for multiple significant awards. CaseOh was nominated for 3 different awards at the Streamer Awards and won one of them. This event had 645,000 concurrent viewers, and was broadcasting everywhere online during its airing. It is a very popular event with many famous people attending and watching. I believe this proves the notability. Please let me know what you think. Antny08 (talk) 16:01, 21 March 2024 (UTC)
Part of the point of an AfD is to get community consensus about whether a specific article meets the notability criteria. It's certainly something that can/should be raised at AfD and considered. I feel that clause from NPEOPLE is probably intended for situations like Donna Strickland rather than this though. stwalkerster (talk) 16:18, 21 March 2024 (UTC)
I understand it that is a more major award, but it does not specify that it has to be a noble peace prize. The fact that it says you don’t need WP:GNG if you have WP:SNG doesn’t only apply to awards, and less specifically biographies, it applies to many other subjects as well. The Streamer Award that he won is still a major award, and the fact that he has nominated for 2 others adds to that significance. Antny08 (talk) 16:49, 21 March 2024 (UTC)
This is an argument to raise at the AfD. stwalkerster (talk) 20:32, 21 March 2024 (UTC)
ClueBot Commons
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There's stuill an edit summary that needs to go. DuncanHill (talk) 00:29, 23 March 2024 (UTC)
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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
An update was made on March 18th 2024 to how various projects load site, user JavaScript and CSS in Vector 2022 skin. A checklist is provided for site admins to follow.
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 March. It will be on all wikis from 28 March (calendar). [34][35]
It seems to look reliable, and the site is used in many Wikipedia articles as a source, but I want your opinion, so please let me know, thanks :) Antny08 (talk) 14:48, 26 March 2024 (UTC)
IMHO this probably falls into the same content-mill high-frequency bucket as VentureJolt from a brief look through the site. stwalkerster (talk) 16:06, 26 March 2024 (UTC)
Are we sockpuppets?
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Clearly! I saw the addition of the photo to CaseOh on my watchlist earlier from my phone, and like you couldn't find permission but resolved to check properly when I got to my desktop. I had a glance through the user's other uploads and saw some... questionable... sources. By the time I got to my computer, you'd already tagged the CaseOh one so I just went through some of the others they'd uploaded. stwalkerster (sock | talk) 10:19, 26 March 2024 (UTC)
I'm a little curious on if there's a "CaseOh reacts to WP-afd" video. As a personal reflection, when I discovered the concept of reaction videos (WP doesn't let us down), I just sighed, but I've actually found some I enjoy, like [39]. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 10:33, 26 March 2024 (UTC)
The concept of a prominent YouTuber discovering their article is up for deletion is something that does concern me slightly, especially after the JackSucksAtLife situation where many of his followers attempted to recreate the article following the usual subscribers=notability fallacy and we ended up sinking a bunch of time into cleaning it all up. Hopefully that doesn't happen here, but we can deal with it if it does. stwalkerster (sock | talk) 10:54, 26 March 2024 (UTC)
Yes. It's not just YouTubers, BNN Breaking has views on its WP-coverage, and has commented on that on WP and their own website. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 11:00, 26 March 2024 (UTC)
lol, I did not even think about that happening, if the article gets deleted and that does happen, I can help clean everything up if I am able to. Antny08 (talk) 14:57, 26 March 2024 (UTC)
Sure, I’d be happy to help with that. Please let me know what you decide after the AfD ends. Antny08 (talk) 17:01, 26 March 2024 (UTC)
I was joking about making an essay, I don't expect that to be necessary. But time will tell. People have tried to make a BFDI-article since 2010, apparently, but the essay was only made in 2023, so there's no rush. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 17:52, 26 March 2024 (UTC)
Oh, okay. No worries Antny08 (talk) 19:52, 26 March 2024 (UTC)
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The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 March. It will be on all wikis from 7 March (calendar). [4][5]