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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!
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I was in the process of posting a comment at the ANI regarding Valjean's blatant BLP content fork violations before that thread was pre-emptively closed. I am copying it here as you seem to feel the same as me. Please feel free to ping me if you intend to take further action on the BLP violation in Valjean's userspace and/or about their conduct in trying to keep their BLP violations "live" and I will comment there accordingly.
The problem is that the page in question is an entirely negative page about a living person - is that not a violation of WP:ATTACKPAGE, which is even more important when the attack considers a living person? The mere fact that a page is verifiable to reliable sources does not mean that it is not an attack page. Wikipedia should not feel subject to "size limits", but at the same time we have multiple policies (1, 2, 3 and others) that address the creation of forks that are intended to bypass due weight and other content policies to attack a living person. In my view, this is a conduct issue - the person being complained about created an attack page in userspace - it's purely a POVFORK and should be deleted as such - and the mere fact that a canvassed discussion that had many !votes based on opinion of the living person subject ended in "no consensus" does not change the fact that creating POVFORKS/"attack forks" about living persons is not permitted on Wikipedia, whether they are in userspace or not. Valjean is free to attempt to get it created as an article - but they have chosen not to do so either because they know it will not make it as an article, or for other reasons. That does not mean WP:BLP does not apply, and a violation of that policy is not somehow okay because it is in userspace. Valjean, being an experienced editor, should be more than willing to have moved their "draft" to mainspace with the sources it has if they felt it would pass muster. The fact they have chosen to keep it in userspace under the guise of "article development" when it is blatantly a POVFORK in violation of BLP is a conduct issue.
Let's talk about this tomorrow. The draft is in personal user namespace because it's still in development, as allowed there. That's one of the purposes of userspace, so don't get anywhere near harassment of legitimate actions done for the encyclopedia.
Drafts are not considered perfect or reliable. Look at the official template on the page. It is not ready for mainspace. That's the reason it's there, so AGF and drop the aspersions. Stop judging it by the standards of a finished article. @Tryptofish: is going to help me. This is one of the allowed methods for article creation. We also have plenty of allowed one-POV negative articles because that's how RS treat some topics. NPOV just requires we stay faithful to the topic and cover the various aspects and "sides" mentioned by RS.
This subject is not covered at Wikipedia and has enough RS coverage to easily pass GNG for its own article. It's not a POV fork or spinoff.
We cover ALL types of topics here, so your IDONTLIKEIT is not a legitimate argument to justify opposition in an AfD or MfD for a new article. Wait til it's ready for publication. If there are still problems then, it should go back to draftspace or userspace to be fixed, per WP:Preserve. Good night. -- Valjean (talk) (PING me) 06:22, 31 July 2024 (UTC)
Attack pages and POV forks about living people are not allowed whether they are drafts or not. I find it interesting that you’ve butted yourself in here given the bludgeoning concerns already raised about you. -bɜ:ʳkənhɪmez (User/say hi!) 06:28, 31 July 2024 (UTC)
I agree with your assessment Berchanhimez. Personally, I think Valjean is either incompetent or a troll. They're incompetent if they don't understand what an attack page is despite being told a dozen times or more and persist in their imaginary definition that such a page has to contain individual attacks rather than simply be a wholly negative page on a living individual. They are also incompetent if they honestly think that canvassing on multiple talk pages—Red-tailed hawk, That Coptic Guy, Tryptofish, PackMecEng, Walsh90210, SmokeyJoe, Doug Weller—and attacking editors with walls of text / bludgeoning at noticeboards is ever going to anything other than disruptive. If they do know what they're doing and it's deliberate, well, it's no longer incompetence but trolling. Gotta be one or t'other. And this is an editor who has been here ~2-0 years and proudly states that My fingerprints are still in our most important and fundamental policies and guidelines. Unfortunately, actions speak louder than words, and it's probably unwise to draw attention to one's longevity of tenure—and been writing policy—if one is then going to demonstrate nothing but a breathtaking insouciance in breaking them, pleading ignorance and blaming other editors.It's also slightly odd that they post here with such... keenness. I haven't (yet) got around to applying WP:NOBAN, but their last two messages to me have been removed and ignored in quick succession, which you might think is a bit of a giveaway :) ——Serial Number 5412911:54, 31 July 2024 (UTC)
For some moment, I've seen your contributions to the Wikipedia project as well as in FAR. I nominated Adichie for FA, and it's been over five weeks or more. It has just received two supports with one full review. While I am a first-timer, I am also afraid of being archived (though I don't know the exact process), I would love to see you chime in anytime you're less busy. Thanks. Safari ScribeEdits!Talk!06:14, 20 July 2024 (UTC)
Recent reverts
I reverted your and Elinruby’s remarks because they were in a closed thread. I am not trying to refactor other users’ comments, otherwise I wouldn’t have marked the changes as minor. As the thread was closed by an uninvolved bureaucrat I think you should respect that close. Dronebogus (talk) 12:45, 15 July 2024 (UTC)
One reply in a closed thread does not constitute bludgeoning. Replying to every single other edit made very much does. Do you even read these pages you keep waving at other people?! Bizarre. And why are you posting on Isabelle Belato's talk? How has she been involved in any of this?! ——Serial Number 5412913:03, 15 July 2024 (UTC)
Don’t do this
This is an extremely bad close; not only are you not qualified to call an extremely contentious discussion, you are arguably involved in the overarching meta-dispute per here. Dronebogus (talk) 10:00, 15 July 2024 (UTC)
Regardless of any other outcome, I owe you an apology for this.[1] Rollback is for vandalism or other bad-faith edits. I didn't know I had hit that there, as I was reading through a lot at the time, but I still should have noticed and self-reverted. So, I apologize for having done that with your edit. If I had meant to revert it, I would have done so with an edit summary indicating why. SeraphimbladeTalk to me15:01, 9 July 2024 (UTC)
Thanks, Seraphimblade appreciated, and I know you would have. To be honest, if the context had been different, I would have assumed accidental rollback immediately. That I didn't, well, didn't help. Anyway, I'm just glad that whole episode's over with no harm done to all :) All the best, ——Serial Number 5412915:24, 13 July 2024 (UTC)
The third round of the 2024 WikiCup ended on 28 June. As with Round 2, this round was competitive: each of the 16 contestants who advanced to Round 4 scored at least 256 points.
The following editors all scored more than 400 points in Round 3:
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Thanks for the honor, LittleJerry, not sure why I was chosen 😬 do you need a spot check then? Mark me down if so, I've removed it from the requests page. Sometime tmtw, UTC. Although I also owe another review. Stand by. ——Serial Number 5412922:31, 2 July 2024 (UTC)
HI! I really appreciated your taking the time to help review Maria Trubnikova for FA earlier this year. I nominated Nadezhda Stasova, an article about another member of the Russian feminist "triumvirate", for FAC review a month ago and it's been going through the process. However, it's only attracted 2 full reviewers and an image review so far, and though all 3 editors supported, I'm worried it'll get archived soon without another reviewer taking a look and helping develop a broader consensus. Do you have any time to comment on the article soon? If not, no worries of course, but if you do, thank you! —Ganesha811 (talk) 13:24, 28 June 2024 (UTC)
Thanks Ganesha811, for the reminder! I'd totally forgotten. Sorry about that. But FAC is such a PITA that by the time my last got promoted on 5 June, I took a few weeks off the process. See you there. ——Serial Number 5412913:52, 28 June 2024 (UTC)
Thank you! And congrats on yours, it was very interesting reading! Not being from the UK, the intricacies of the Wars of the Roses are not something I've ever known much about. —Ganesha811 (talk) 14:15, 28 June 2024 (UTC)
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@Serial Number 54129 Hope you are doing well. Do you have any advice for the FAC process as it's my first time with it and would appreciate advice from an experienced user like you. Looking forward to your response. Regards. MSincccc (talk) 13:48, 28 May 2024 (UTC)
Sorry for snarling at you after your close and reverting the action. I feel like we were getting ready to hug it out before this ATG and DYK flap. Hopefully you and I can turn it around. I will likely go to Arbcom with my concerns and I hope you and I can get back to just leering at each other suspiciously but not getting into a knife fight. Lightburst (talk) 20:51, 15 May 2024 (UTC)
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Today's TFA, Felix M. Warburg House, was written by Vami_IV and Epicgenius, introduced: "This article is about another of the great houses that once lined Fifth Avenue in New York. Specifically, this is the mansion of Felix M. Warburg, a Jewish financier who ignored fears of anti-Semitic reprisal to his decided to build himself a big Gothic manor in the middle of New York City. Although the Warburgs no longer remain, their legacy does: the museum is now the home of the Jewish Museum (Manhattan) and the building largely survives as they left it. It's a beautiful building and I hope you will all enjoy it."! - in memory -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:02, 10 May 2024 (UTC)
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The language you used when closing WP:Articles for deletion/French ship Gapeau (B284) made it clear that you were aware that this was not an uncontested AfD, which meant it was not a candidate for a non-admin closure. While your read of consensus may be accurate, this type of AfD is best left for an admin to close. Also please note that only four days have passed since the last relist; we normally give each relist the full seven days before closing. Thank you. Owen×☎10:38, 9 May 2024 (UTC)
Hi OwenX, you're wrong, and it's very discouraging to see an admin pushing a non-policy based argument. If you believe that what we actually do no longer reflects what is codified, then you should seek to overturn the policy. (Incidentally, my language reflected the fact that I had recently seen a similarlymisleading interpretaton pushed by another admin elsewher, not that the topic was contentious.) ——Serial Number 5412910:51, 9 May 2024 (UTC)
I know you didn't mean any harm, but you really can't move whole discussions by other people that way. It can change the meaning, depending on where it is. You can link or quote it, but you really shouldn't move them from one venue to another. One exception is if you are moving from WP:AN to WP:ANI, and you put a pointer, and you explain the move afterwards in the body, etc, but this isn't that. Dennis Brown - 2¢02:54, 6 May 2024 (UTC)
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I was recording the apparent stance of editors of the Gilbert and Sullivan project on infoboxes to make a case about systemic bias on the project as almost all active users don’t seem terribly fond of infoboxes. Even if you disagree with the categorization that hardly constitutes an “attack”, especially in comparison with Cassianto comparing me to the Schutzstaffel. Dronebogus (talk) 20:47, 4 November 2023 (UTC)
You either have not read, or have read yet still munderstand, WP:POLEMIC. It does not matter how you interpret it. It is defined by itself. And if you don't think random lists of names are creepy, then there's more recent, anglocentric examples. ——Serial21:05, 4 November 2023 (UTC)
I didn't call you a nazi - more lies. I said that your list, which features the names of editors who dare to disagree with you on infoboxes, was akin to what the SS did to dissenters 90 years ago. I've asked you a few times now, please remove my name. CassiantoTalk21:29, 4 November 2023 (UTC)
Your friend SandyGeorgia copied it for god knows why. Unless he agrees to delete the copy it’s pointless for me to delete it. Dronebogus (talk) 21:33, 4 November 2023 (UTC)
You're right, she is my friend, and I'll thank you kindly not to misgender her. I think you've annoyed enough people here over the last few days, you really don't want to be adding to it. Delete my name, it's a simple request. CassiantoTalk21:43, 4 November 2023 (UTC)
I’ll delete it, but if there’s a copy floating around it’s pointless. I’m on my phone at a restaurant so it’ll be a minute Dronebogus (talk) 21:46, 4 November 2023 (UTC)
That must be some restaurant, if you feel that arguing the toss over a simple deletion is better than participating in some light dinner conversation with friends or family. Deleted it yet? CassiantoTalk21:54, 4 November 2023 (UTC)
So? If you'd just edited it in the first place with the edit summary "Removing my name as I don't want it here" and left you could have easily avoided the unecessary kerfuffle. Tim O'Doherty (talk) 21:51, 4 November 2023 (UTC)
If you're so sure of yourself, why don't you do the collegial thing and delete it for me? Mark my words, if I interfered in someone else's user space, which I wouldn't as a mark of respect, there would be a tonne of admins lining up to take shots. CassiantoTalk21:59, 4 November 2023 (UTC)
Believe me when I tell you I couldn't give less of a toss whether your name's on some tinpot hitlist. Just baffling when some people get upset over things like this. Starting to belive there are individuals here that are simply addicted to confrontation. Tim O'Doherty (talk) 22:06, 4 November 2023 (UTC)
The reason you don't care is because your name doesn't appear on that list; and the fact you call it a "hitlist" [sic] should tell you why this has caused me to worry and feel the need to engage in this "confrontation". CassiantoTalk22:22, 4 November 2023 (UTC)
I can assure you I have more important things to worry about than my username appearing on some Wikipedia subpage. I don't sit in my house and fret over a conflict on a website with no bearing on my safety in real life. At the end of the day it's some letters moving on a screen. Not worth the trouble of bullying an editor into submission. As the kids say, "touch grass". Tim O'Doherty (talk) 22:27, 4 November 2023 (UTC)
Not really evening for me anymore, dunno why you'd assume my time zone. But in any case, good day / evening / night to you too. Also, apologies to SN for having this stupid proxy war spill out onto his talk page. Best, Tim O'Doherty (talk) 22:33, 4 November 2023 (UTC)
You can't click onto her user page? Not a good look, assuming someone's gender based on their user name. I wonder what our friends at the WP:GGTF would have to say about that? CassiantoTalk21:50, 4 November 2023 (UTC)
Please don't tell me what I can and cannot find offensive. This really isn't your finest hour. Still waiting for your kind confirmation that my name has disappeared from your list. CassiantoTalk22:03, 4 November 2023 (UTC)
This isn’t yours, either, but in any case I’ve blanked and U1’d the stupid page. Now go do these productive things you accuse me of not doing. Dronebogus (talk) 22:19, 4 November 2023 (UTC)
Hello, I want to be the first to wish you the very best during the holidays. I know that we may not have been on the best terms in the past, but I offer you peace in 2024! Lightburst (talk) 18:34, 15 December 2023 (UTC)
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Would you mind terribly deleting the first two sentences of this comment? Goes a bit too far, me thinks. Merry Christmas though. – bradv05:55, 26 December 2023 (UTC)
@Bradv: Well, OK, as you wish. I am forced to remain patronized, then! :) no worries, and apologies. Still: I've been paddled over the occasional oppose before, but this one can pound sand. Happy Christmas and New Year's to you and yours! ——Serial06:06, 26 December 2023 (UTC)
Yeah this is quite ridiculous, and I really don't blame you for responding the way you did. But in the interest of avoiding even further ridiculousness, I appreciate your prompt response. – bradv06:16, 26 December 2023 (UTC)
Thumbs up!!
You were mentioned on another talk page, which I hope you know about. I believe you're doing the right thing. Coming from the Bronx, animosity is the way of life and I've come to know my share of do**** bags ... and you're definitely doing the right and moral thing. I felt the same way when HMIJ was getting in. Be free and say what you want, God bless you! Always here in your corner, Bringingthewood (talk) 01:23, 28 December 2023 (UTC)
@Bringingthewood: Well. Thanks! No, I didn't know I was "mentioned on another talk page", but as the fella said, if there's one thing worse than being talked about, it's being not talked about :)I remember HMiJ's RfA had an odd oppose that I called out, something to do with that? In any case, judge a man by the quality of his enemies, I settle for nothing less than admins and arbs nowadays. "It's purely business, Sonny" :) thanks for the message; good to hear! ——Serial16:22, 28 December 2023 (UTC)
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Come out to Black and Tans, and check my edits if you can
Hi Serial,
I took your advice to edit the page to add the views of scholars on the definitions they use for what a Black and Tan actually is without waiting for Leabharlanna Éireann. This went down like, well, a request for a pint of black and tan at a SF Ardfheis.
I'm not getting much sense at the talk page, so I wondered if you could have a look and see if anything I've added looks unbalanced, and maybe edit it if it does.
What kind of thing causes someone to call people "curb kissers" at a GA review? I would advise you to strike this comment. jp×g🗯️12:12, 20 January 2024 (UTC)
I encourage you to strike your description of a good faith editor's comments or religious values as "divisive and exclusionary superstition" found here. I believe it attacks a living person. I also strongly disagree with the rest of your comment (and am an atheist) but I believe you are entitled to express an opinion about how RfA should work. — Bilorv (talk) 18:05, 5 February 2024 (UTC)
I stopped participating at RfA years ago once it stopped being a legitimate vote, so if you're offended that a bad rationale stands on par with a good rationale: it doesn't. Our editor cohort often differ in what they value in admins and some of us would decry those rationales. If a Wikipedian supported (or opposed) based upon some tribalism, you might bristle but condemning that identification slanders everyone in that group. As you don't necessarily know who all on this platform is some variation of monotheist, speaking of religion in such divisive terms can only further alienate you.Chris Troutman (talk)18:26, 5 February 2024 (UTC)
Thanks, CT, wise words indeed; however, I think it was after about a year that the sudden realization hit me that alienation, aggravation, extemporization and, frankly, near-excommunication were either an inherent component to the project or an inevitable consequence of participation in it. Cheers, ——Serial18:50, 5 February 2024 (UTC)
For what it's worth, IMHO "God made us imperfect so it's OK to make mistakes" is some good opium for the masses. Why call that out? That is objectively a better RFA vote rationale than many others (including the classic "they made this mistake once"). If it's good morals, who cares if it comes from superstition? My philosophy is to save the opprobrium for the "God said to kill you" types. That is the bad opium. Levivich (talk) 19:00, 5 February 2024 (UTC)
Of all the inflammatory anti-opiates that discussion needed, it was me mentioning opium. Now, that would have been burning oil on troubled waters. Would a quote from Dawkins have gone down any better, I wonder. (I assume not, since if there's one thing people can't seem to live without, it's the opportunity to get incensed over something.) ——Serial19:11, 5 February 2024 (UTC)
It's kinda ironic that the first relatively peaceful message left here this week should be devoted to, err, war. I mean, who needs the New Lodge Road when you've got RfA :D Vive la différence!——Serial19:27, 6 February 2024 (UTC)
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The 2024 WikiCup is off to a flying start, with 135 participants. This is the largest number of participants we have seen since 2017.
Our current leader is newcomer Generalissima (submissions), who has one FA on John Littlejohn (preacher) and 10 GAs and 12 DYKs mostly on New Zealand coinage and Inuit figures. Here are some more noteworthy scorers:
As a reminder, competitors may submit work for the first round until 23:59 (UTC) on 27 February, and the second round starts 1 March. Remember that only the top 64 scoring competitors will make it through to the second round; currently, competitors need at least 15 points to progress. If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, and you hope to get it promoted before the end of the round, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. However, please remember to continue to offer reviews at GAN, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs which could otherwise be caused by the Cup. As ever, questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup and the judges (Cwmhiraeth (talk·contribs), Epicgenius (talk·contribs), and Frostly (talk·contribs)) are reachable on their talk pages. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:58, 11 February 2024 (UTC)
Greetings, Serial Number 54129. You are receiving this notification because you've agreed to consider endorsing prospective admin candidates identified by the process outlined at Administrators without tools. Recently, the following editor(s) received this distinction and the associated endearing title:
FYI, I think you misunderstood my close (in which case I may not have written it clearly enough). I did not intend to imply that there was no consensus for anything - in fact, I saw a rough consensus to admonish Nihonjoe and remind all editors of our policies on COI editing. My closing note was intended to *be* that admonishment. When I wrote, "There is no consensus for any further action here", I meant action beyond admonishment. —Ganesha811 (talk) 17:26, 26 February 2024 (UTC)
WikiCup 2024 March newsletter
The first round of the 2024 WikiCup ended at 23:59 (UTC) on 27 February. Everyone with at least 30 points moved on to Round 2, the highest number of points required to advance to the second round since 2014. Due to a six-way tie for the 64th-place spot, 67 contestants have qualified for Round 2.
The following scorers in Round 1 all scored more than 300 points:
Generalissima (submissions), who has 916 points mostly from one FA on John Littlejohn (preacher), 15 GAs, and 16 DYKs on a variety of topics including New Zealand coinage and Inuit figures, in addition to seven reviews
In this newsletter, the judges would like to pay a special tribute to Vami_IV (submissions), who unfortunately passed away this February. At the time of his death, he was the second-highest-scoring competitor. Outside the WikiCup, he had eight other featured articles, five A-class articles, eight other good articles, and two Four Awards. Vami also wrote an essay on completionism, a philosophy in which he deeply believed. If you can, please join us in honoring his memory by improving one of the articles on his to-do list.
Remember that any content promoted after 27 February but before the start of Round 2 can be claimed in Round 2. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, feel free to review one of the nominations listed on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed. Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:41, 28 February 2024 (UTC)
Not for me, pal. I'm glad to see you got up the courage to comment after the thread was closed, but better late than never, I suppose. In the meantime, feel free to get on yer bike and move along—your presence here is wholly unhelpful. Your advice as an editor is about as useful as it ever was as an admin. Don't post here again, you know the drill. ——Serial01:45, 28 February 2024 (UTC)
Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 24
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)
Got anything good? Tell us about your new, improved, old, or messed-up script here!
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!
Got anything good? Tell us about your new, improved, old, or messed-up script here!
Featured script
Improve a script
Requested scripts
Updated scripts
Newly maintained scripts
New scripts
Generalissima (submissions) with 1,059 points, mostly from 1 featured article on DeLancey W. Gill, 11 good articles, 18 did you know nominations, and dozens of reviews;
Skyshifter (submissions) with 673 points, mostly from 2 featured articles on Worlds (Porter Robinson album) and I'm God, 5 good articles, and 2 did you know nominations;
Sammi Brie (submissions) with 557 points, mostly from 1 featured article on KNXV-TV, 5 good articles, and 8 did you know nominations; and
AryKun (submissions) with 415 points, mostly from 1 featured article on Great cuckoo-dove, with a high number of bonus points from that article.
SounderBruce (submissions) with 552 points, mostly from a featured article about the 2020 Seattle Sounders FC season, three featured lists, and two good articles;
BennyOnTheLoose (submissions) with 548 points, mostly from a featured article about the snooker player John Pulman, two featured lists, and one good article;
voorts (submissions) with 530 points, mostly from two featured articles (Well he would, wouldn't he? and Cora Agnes Benneson) and three good articles.
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Requested scripts
Generalissima (submissions), who has one FA on John Littlejohn (preacher) and 10 GAs and 12 DYKs mostly on New Zealand coinage and Inuit figures. Here are some more noteworthy scorers:
AirshipJungleman29 (submissions), with one FA on Hö'elün, two GAs on Mongolia-related articles, and two DYKs;
Vami_IV (submissions), with one FA on Doom (2016 video game), one GA on Boundary Fire (2017), and 11 reviews;
MaranoFan (submissions), with one FA on Holidays (Meghan Trainor song), a nine-article FT on 30 (album), and two DYKs;
Elli (submissions), both with one FA and one DYK each.
Template:@Bureaucrats has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. — xaosflux Talk 16:04, 12 February 2024 (UTC)
Vami_IV (submissions), who unfortunately passed away this February. At the time of his death, he was the second-highest-scoring competitor. Outside the WikiCup, he had eight other featured articles, five A-class articles, eight other good articles, and two Four Awards. Vami also wrote an essay on completionism, a philosophy in which he deeply believed. If you can, please join us in honoring his memory by improving one of the articles on his to-do list.
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