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== Messages ==

hi! welcome! eimai ellinas episis [[User:Optim|O]][[Rosicrucian|p]][[AMORC|t]][[Freemasonry|i]][[Western mystery tradition|m]]<sup><small>[[S L MacGregor Mathers|·]][[Hellenic Ministry of Culture|.]][[User_talk:Optim|·]]</small></sup> 21:28, 5 Mar 2004 (UTC)

== URGENT POLL ==

There is a poll in the talk page of Macedonian Slavs article here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Macedonian_Slavs#The_poll

Some people are lobbying for changing the article's name to Macedonian without any qualifier. As it seems, a number of these people come from the Macedonian/Macedonian Slav wikipedia project. It seemed only fair to attract the attention of people possibly from the other side of the story. I hope that this message is of interest to you, if not please accept my apologies. Dstork 02:35, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC)Newcomer 05:45, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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==Demographics of Greece==

Do you have a citation for the demographic breakdowns given in [[Greece]] and [[Demographics of Greece]]?  Thanks.  [[User:Jkelly|Jkelly]] 05:09, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

==Wikipedians in Greece==
Hi, I understand that you are either Greek Wikipedian or a Wikipedian living in/with an interest in Greece. 

The category page [[Wikipedians/Greece]] has been replaced with [[:Category:Wikipedians in Greece]] but your name still appears on the old list. You might considering moving it. You might also consider adding adding [[Template:Greekwiki]] to your user page.

A [[Wikipedia:Greek Wikipedians' notice board]] has been in existence for some time but is terribly underutilised. It would certainly benefit from your involvement.--[[User:Damac|Damac]] 12:18, 23 November 2005 (UTC)


I'm also listed in the category and I think that the list is useful while most people are on the list and not the category. I think you can be bold and put the category tag to all user pages of users listed on that page (but not to anyone who is not listed). --[[User:Geraki|geraki]] 17:08, 23 November 2005 (UTC)

== Wikify ==

Hi, Geraki. I was wondering if you would modify [[User:Geraki/monobook.js]] so that it doesn't show up in the articles that need to be wikified category. Thanks, [[User:Kjkolb|Kjkolb]] 10:16, 1 December 2005 (UTC)

Done (I think). Thanks. —<b>[[User:Geraki|<span style="color:#006400;">Geraki</span>]]</b> <sup>[[User talk:Geraki|✉]]</sup><small>2005-12-1 T 13:46 Z</small>

== [[Greek literature]] a candidate at the [[Wikipedia:European Union collaboration]]==
You have supported [[Greek literature]] at the [[WP:IDRIVE]] some time ago. I have now renominated it at the new [[Wikipedia:European Union collaboration]]. Please consider supporting it there if you are still interested! --[[User:Fenice|Fenice]] 13:19, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

== request ==
Please see [[Talk:Arvanites]] if you can. <small>[[User talk:Matia.gr|talk to]]</small> [[User:Matia.gr|+MATIA]] 14:54, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

==[[Thessaloniki]] on the [[WP:AID|Article Improvement Drive]]==
Hey Geraki, I nominated the Thessaloniki article as a candidate for the [[WP:AID|Article Improvement Drive]]. The article is so very close to becoming a featured article so I thought it was appropriate that it be a candidate for the AID. Please feel free to vote at the AID page [[WP:AID|here]]. Thanks! Oh, also, I was wondering how knowledgeable you were on [[Phanar]] in [[Istanbul]]...I wanted to get a group of editors to work on that article since it is the seat of the [[Ecumenical Patriarch]]. --[[User:Caponer|Caponer]] 00:59, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

::[[Talk:Republic of Macedonia#POLL: Introduction for Republic of Macedonia article|Σχετικά με το ...]], πρέπει να δεις  [[Talk:Republic of Macedonia#Option #4 – Brief version (2)|αυτό]] και [[Talk:Republic of Macedonia#Option #9 – Brief version: variation of #4|αυτό]] και να πράξεις αναλόγως. Thanks. --[[User:84.164.233.2|Enas Filos]] 21:50, 7 April 2006 (UTC)


==Image Tagging [[:Image:Benizelos.jpg]]==
Thanks for uploading '''[[:Image:Benizelos.jpg]]'''. I notice the 'image' page currently doesn't specify who created the content, so the [[copyright]] status is unclear. If you have not created this media yourself then there needs to be an argument why we have the right to use the media on Wikipedia (see copyright tagging below). If you have not created the media yourself then it needs to be specified where it was found, i.e., in most cases link to the website where it was taken from, and the terms of use for content from that page.

If the media also doesn't have a copyright tag then one should be added. If you created/took the picture, audio, or video then the {{tl|GFDL-self}} tag can be used to release it under the [[GFDL]]. If you believe the media qualifies as fair use, consider reading [[Wikipedia:Fair use|fair use]], and then use a tag such as {{tlp|Non-free fair use in|article name}} or one of the other tags listed at [[Wikipedia:Image copyright tags#Fair_use]].  See [[Wikipedia:Image copyright tags]] for the full list of copyright tags that you can use.

If you have uploaded other media, consider checking that you have specified their source and copyright tagged them, too. You can find a list of 'image' pages you have edited by clicking on the "[[Special:Contributions/{{PAGENAME}}|my contributions]]" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "Image" from the dropdown box. Note that any unsourced and untagged images will be deleted one week after they have been uploaded, as described on [[wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion#Images.2FMedia|criteria for speedy deletion]]. If you have any questions please ask them at the [[Wikipedia:Media copyright questions|Media copyright questions page]]. Thank you. [[User:Jkelly|Jkelly]] 17:42, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

== Proposal for an Ancient Greek Wikisource ==

Geraki, I saw that you have uploaded texts in Ancient Greek for  [[:wikisource:el:Main Page]], so I wanted to inform you that there is an initiative underway to start a new wikisource exclusively for Ancient Greek. Please state your opinion at [[:meta:Requests_for_new_languages/Ancient#Ancient_Greek_Wikisource]] [[User:Ανδρέας|<span style="color:white;background:#227">&nbsp;<span style="background:#338">&nbsp;<span style="background:#449">A<span style="background:#55a">n<span style="background:#66b">d<span style="background:#77c">r</span>e</span>a</span>s</span>&nbsp;</span>&nbsp;</span>]] <sup><font size="-2">[[User talk:Ανδρέας|(T)]]</font></sup> 00:41, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

== [[User:Cool Cat/In many languages...]] ==

[[Image:WikiThanks.png|left]]
Thank you for the [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User%3ACool_Cat%2FIn_many_languages...&diff=76937701&oldid=76059631 Greek translation] --<small>[[User:Cool Cat|Cat]] [[User talk:Cool Cat|out]]</small> 07:38, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

== User:Geraki/monobook.js ==

Hi. [[User:Geraki/monobook.js]] appears at [[CAT:CSD]] even without it having a speedy tag. Could you check why this is happening? - [[User:Aksi_great|Aksi_great]] ([[User_talk:Aksi_great|talk]]) 19:16, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
==Untagged image==

An image you uploaded, [[:Image:Thessaloniki seal.png]], was tagged with the {{tl|coatofarms}} copyright tag.  This tag was deleted because it does not actually specify the copyright status of the image.  The image may need a more accurate copyright tag, or it may need to be deleted.  If the image portrays a [[seal]] or [[emblem]], it should be tagged as {{tl|seal}}.  If you have any questions, ask them at [[Wikipedia:Media copyright questions]]. -- 23:31, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

== Βικιθήκη - Fonts ==

Βλέπε [[s:el:Βικιθήκη:Γραμματεία#Fonts]] [[User:AndreasJS|<span style="color:white;background:blue;">&nbsp;Andreas&nbsp;</span>]] <sup><font size="-2">[[User talk:AndreasJS|(T)]]</font></sup> 15:02, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

== [[WP:RFBOT]] ==
Your recent bot approvals [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Gerakibot|request]] has been approved.  Please see the [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Gerakibot|request page]] for details. {{#if: Gerakibot|When the bot flag is set it will show up in [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=&user=&page=User%3AGerakibot this log].|}} [[User:ST47|ST47]]<small>[[User talk:ST47|Talk]]</small> 01:17, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

== Germanos karavangelis ==
To arthro gia ton Germano karavangeli dexetai sinexos epithesi apo pseutika ID!! Pos mporoume na to prostateusoume???
Assistance needed!
[[User:Seleukosa|Seleukosa]] 09:30, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

== Bot adding ru-sib links ==

Hello - just noticed that your bot is adding ru-sib interwiki links, see [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Estonia&curid=9386&diff=160762733&oldid=160563452], [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Computer&diff=prev&oldid=160791620], [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=United_States&diff=prev&oldid=160793965]. However, that WikiProject is closed, see [[:meta:Proposals_for_closing_projects/Closure_of_Siberian_Wikipedia]]. -- [[User:Sander_S%C3%A4de|<span style="font-family:Palatino Linotype; color:gray;font-size:15px">Sander&nbsp;Säde</span>]] 05:58, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

:Thanks, I'll fix it. [[User:Geraki|<span style="color:green;"><b>geraki</b></span>]] 06:17, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

== Replaceable fair use Image:Benizelos.jpg ==
[[Image:Nuvola apps important.svg|32px|left|Replaceable fair use]]
Thanks for uploading '''[[:Image:Benizelos.jpg]]'''. I noticed the 'image' page specifies that the image is being used under [[Wikipedia:Fair use|fair use]], but its use in Wikipedia articles fails our [[Wikipedia:Fair use criteria|first fair use criterion]] in that it illustrates a subject for which a freely licensed image could reasonably be found or created that provides substantially the same information. If you believe this image is not replaceable, please:

# Go to [[:Image:Benizelos.jpg|the image description page]] and edit it to add {{tlx|di-replaceable fair use disputed}}, '''without deleting the original Replaceable fair use template'''.
# On [[Image talk:Benizelos.jpg|the image discussion page]], write the reason why this image is not replaceable at all.

Alternatively, you can also choose to replace the fair use image by finding a freely licensed image of its subject, [[Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission|requesting that the copyright holder release this (or a similar) image under a free license]], or by taking a picture of it yourself.

If you have uploaded other fair use media, consider checking that you have specified how these images fully satisfy our fair use criteria. You can find a list of 'image' pages you have edited by clicking on <span class="plainlinks">[{{fullurl:Special:Contributions|target={{PAGENAMEE}}&namespace=6}} this link]</span>. Note that even if you follow steps 1 and 2 above, fair use images which could be replaced by free-licensed alternatives will be deleted 2 days after this notification (7 days if not used in an article), per our [[WP:FUC|Fair Use policy]].  If you have any questions please ask them at the [[Wikipedia:Media copyright questions|Media copyright questions page]]. Thank you.<!-- Template:di-replaceable fair use-notice --> [[User:Calliopejen1|Calliopejen1]] 13:47, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
==Orphaned non-free media (Image:Benizelos.jpg)==
[[Image:Nuvola apps important blue.svg|25px]] Thanks for uploading '''[[:Image:Benizelos.jpg]]'''. The media description page currently specifies that it is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a [[WP:FU|claim of fair use]]. However, it is currently [[Wikipedia:Orphan|orphaned]], meaning that it is not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the media was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. [[WP:BOLD|You may add it back]] if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that media for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see [[Wikipedia:Non-free content#Policy|our policy for non-free media]]).

If you have uploaded other unlicensed media, please check whether they're used in any articles or not. You can find a list of 'image' pages you have edited by clicking on the "[[Special:Contributions/{{PAGENAME}}|my contributions]]" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "Image" from the dropdown box. Note that all non-free media not used in any '''articles''' will be deleted after seven days, as described on [[wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion#Images.2FMedia|criteria for speedy deletion]]. Thank you.<!-- Template:Orphaned --> [[User:BetacommandBot|BetacommandBot]] 20:42, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

== Interwiki geodata ==
I don't generate the interwiki geodata myself; this work is done by Stefan Kühn, who parses multiple Wikipedia dumps and cross-correlates them -- you can find his interwiki geodata dataset at [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProjekt_Georeferenzierung/Wikipedia-World/en Wikipedia:WikiProjekt Georeferenzierung] (English language page on de: Wikipedia). There may be some encoding issues regarding this file: please contact me if you have problems decoding it. 

As an alternative, I have some dump analysis tools I use on the en: Wikipedia dumps, which could be fairly straightforwardly adapted to extract geotags for pages which have interwiki links to gr: However, since they perform a complete parse of all templates in the dump, they are rather slow: you will need to download several gigabytes of compressed dump, and then spend about 5 to 6 hours of CPU time parsing a complete dump. However, once the dumps have been parsed into a simple intermediate file represenation of the template data, analysis and re-analysis passes over the data extracted are easy and fast. -- [[User:The Anome|The Anome]] 09:44, 12 October 2007 (UTC)


== IRC cloak request ==
I am geraki on freenode and I would like
the cloak wikipedia/geraki. Thanks. --[[User:Geraki|<span style="color:green;">'''Geraki'''</span>]] <sup>[[User_talk:Geraki|T]]</sup><sub class="plainlinks" >[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&type=&user=Geraki L]</sub> 21:26, 18 November 2007 (UTC)

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== Image:Benny_Carter.jpg ==
Just to thank you for finding this picture of Benny Carter. He is a great artist and I truly enjoy his music. I still have difficulties understanding the procedure and rules for posting images that do not create violation of some sort.

Too bad you could not find a picture with Benny and his alto saxophone. For example, I would have preferred [http://www.bennycarter.com/bcpub3.shtml this one]. Same photographer, I believe.

Cheers,  -- [[User:Jazzeur|Jazzeur]] ([[User talk:Jazzeur|talk]]) 17:03, 31 August 2008 (UTC)
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Hi, unfortunately I didn't find this picture but the picture found me. The fact is that I responded to an e-mail (to permissions-en@wikimedia.org) by the photographer complaining about the use of one of his Benny Carter photos without his permission. Portraits of individuals usually are not accepted as "fair use" per the fair use guidelines. The photo would have been deleted, but Mr. Edward Berger was kind enough to release under a free license, another picture of his choice. You should always ask the photographer's permission to use a photo in order to not create violations. If you'd like another picture, please ask Mr. Edward Berger to release it under a free license, and then the picture has to be uploaded with the appropriate license tag and Mr. Berger mentioned as the author. [[User:Geraki|<span style="color:green;">'''Geraki'''</span>]] <sup>[[User_talk:Geraki|T]]</sup><sub class="plainlinks" >[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&type=&user=Geraki L]</sub> 08:20, 16 September 2008 (UTC)
:Thank you so much. With those few well chosen words, you have taught me more about how to put photos of people on Wikipedia than the usual lengthy policy documents that I have consulted. You are a great teacher. -- [[User:Jazzeur|Jazzeur]] ([[User talk:Jazzeur|talk]]) 13:58, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

== Your monobook.js ==

Hey. Your monobook.js page is currently showing up in the [[CAT:SD|candidates for speedy deletion]] category, probably because of your db tagging script (specifically, having '''<nowiki>"{{db|"+stuff+"}}"</nowiki>''' on the page may still cause it to be listed. I suggest editing the script - consider replacing one '{' with a variable containing the same. Cheers, [[User:Ale_jrb|<span style="color:green;">A</span><small><span style="color:green;">le_Jrb</span></small>]][[User_talk:Ale_jrb|<sup style="color:blue;">talk</sup>]] 22:28, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

== Speedy deletion of images ==

Hi there. Unless an image is a blatant copyright violation and you can prove as much with a URL, it is not eligible for speedy deletion as you have been tagging them. If the copyright status is in doubt, it's better to tag it with <nowiki>{{subst:nsd}}</nowiki>. If, after 7 days, the uploader doesn't add a source where we can verify the copyright status, it is deleted automatically. --[[User:Laser_brain|<span style="color:purple;">'''Laser brain'''</span>]] [[User_talk:Laser_brain|<span style="color:purple;">(talk)</span>]] 16:46, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

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== ''The Bugle'': Issue LXX, January 2012 ==

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== ''The Bugle'': Issue LXXI, February 2012 ==

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==Page Triage newsletter==
Hey guys!

Thanks to all of you who have commented on the [[Wikipedia talk:New Page Triage|New Page Triage talkpage]]. If you haven't had a chance yet, check it out; we're discussing some pretty interesting ideas, both from the Foundation and the community, and moving towards implementing quite a few of them :).

In addition, on Tuesday 13th March, we're holding an [[m:IRC office hours|office hours]] session in #wikimedia-office on IRC at 19:00 UTC (11am Pacific time). If you can make it, please do; we'll have a lot of stuff to show you and talk about, including (hopefully) a timetable of when we're planning to do what. If you can't come, for whatever reason, let me know on [[User talk: Okeyes (WMF)|my talkpage]] and I'm happy to send you the logs so you can get an idea of what happened :). Regards,  [[User:Okeyes (WMF)|Okeyes (WMF)]] ([[User talk:Okeyes (WMF)|talk]]) 23:56, 8 March 2012 (UTC)

==New Page Triage newsletter==
Hey all!

Thanks to everyone who attended our first [[m:IRC office hours|office hours]] session; the logs can be found [[m:IRC office hours/Office hours 2012-03-14|here]], if you missed it, and we should be holding a second one on Thursday, 22 March 2012 at [http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=18&min=00&sec=0&day=22&month=3&year=2012 18:00 UTC] in #wikimedia-office. I hope to see you all there :).

In the meantime, I have greatly expanded the details available at [[Wikipedia:New Page Triage]]: there's a lot more info about precisely what we're planning. If you have ideas, and they aren't listed there, bring them up and I'll pass them on to the developers for consideration in the second sprint. And if you know anyone who might be interested in contributing, send them there too!

Regards, [[User:Okeyes (WMF)|Okeyes (WMF)]] ([[User talk:Okeyes (WMF)|talk]]) 00:25, 14 March 2012 (UTC)


==Article Feedback Tool newsletter==
Sorry for the radio silence, guys :). I just wanted to let you know that we're planning on starting a new round of hand coding, which you can sign up for [[Wikipedia:Hand coding|here]]. This will be the final round (honest!), and is basically because we found some '''really''' interesting results from the last round that blew our collective mind. It's important to check that they weren't a fluke, though, and so a bit more work is needed.

If you have any questions, drop a note on my talkpage - and if you know anyone who would be interested in participating, please tell them about it! We'll be holding an IRC training session in #wikimedia-office at 18:00 UTC on the 21st of March to run through the tool and answer any questions you may have. Thanks! :) [[User:Okeyes (WMF)|Okeyes (WMF)]] ([[User talk:Okeyes (WMF)|talk]]) 00:42, 14 March 2012 (UTC)

==help triage some feedback==
Hey guys.

I appreciate this isn't quite what you signed up for, but I figured as people who are already pretty good at evaluating whether material is useful or not useful through Special:NewPages, you might be interested :). Over the last few months we've been developing [[WP:AFT5|the new Article Feedback Tool]], which features a free text box. it is imperative that we work out in advance what proportion of feedback is useful or not so we can adjust the design accordingly and not overwhelm you with nonsense.

This is being done through the [[Wikipedia:Article Feedback Tool/Version 5/Feedback evaluation|Feedback Evaluation System]] (FES), a tool that lets editors run through a stream of comments, selecting their value and viability, so we know what type of design should be promoted or avoided. We're about to start a new round of evaluations, beginning with an [[m:IRC office hours|office hours]] session tomorrow at 18:00 UTC. If you'd like to help preemptively kill poor feedback, come along to #wikimedia-office and we'll show you how to use the tool. If you can't make it, send me an email at {{nospam|okeyes|wikimedia.org}} or drop a note on my talkpage, and I'm happy to give you a quick walkthrough in a one-on-one session :).

All the best, [[User:Okeyes (WMF)|Okeyes (WMF)]] ([[User talk:Okeyes (WMF)|talk]]) 21:38, 20 March 2012 (UTC)

== ''The Bugle'': Issue LXXII, March 2012 ==

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* Book reviews: ''[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/News/March 2012/Book reviews|Nick-D looks into two recent Milhist books]]''
* Op-ed: ''[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/News/March 2012/Op-ed|Hawkeye on Wikipedia collaborating with the AWM]]''
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== A big NPT update ==
Hey! Big update on what the developers have been working on, and what is coming up:

'''coding'''
*Fixes for the "moved pages do not show up in Special:NewPages" and "pages created from redirects do not show up in Special:NewPages" bugs have been completed and signed off on. Unfortunately we won't be able to integrate them into the existing version, but they will be worked into the Page Triage interface.
*Coding has been completed on three elements; the API for displaying metadata about the article in the "list view", the ability to keep the "patrol" button visible if you edit an article before patrolling it, and the automatic removal of deleted pages from the queue. All three are awaiting testing but otherwise complete.

All other elements are either undergoing research, or about to have development started. I appreciate this sounds like we've not got through much work, and truthfully we're a bit disappointed with it as well; we thought we'd be going at a faster pace :(. Unfortunately there seems to be some 24-72 hour bug sweeping the San Francisco office at the moment, and at one time or another we've had several devs out of it. It's kind of messed with workflow.

'''Stuff to look at'''

We've got a pair of new mockups to comment on that deal with the filtering mechanism; [[:File:PageTriage-ListView-Whole.png|this]] is a slightly updated mockup of the list view, and [[:File:PageTriage-ListView-Whole-FilterDialog.png|this]] is what the filtering tab is going to look like. All thoughts, comments and suggestions welcome on the '''[[Wikipedia talk:New Page Triage|NPT talkpage]]''' :). I'd also like to thank the people who came to our last two office hours sessions; the logs will be shortly available [[m:IRC office hours|here]].

I've also just heard that the first functional prototype for enwiki will be deployed mid-April! Really, really stoked to see this happening :). We're finding out if we can stick something up a bit sooner on prototype.wiki or something.

I appreciate there may be questions or suggestions where I've said "I'll find out and get back to you" and then, uh. not ;p. I sincerely apologise for that: things have been a bit hectic at this end over the last few weeks. But if you've got anything I've missed, drop me a line and I'll deal with it! Further questions or issues to [[User talk:Okeyes (WMF)|the usual address]]. Thanks, [[User:Okeyes (WMF)|Okeyes (WMF)]] ([[User talk:Okeyes (WMF)|talk]]) 17:11, 3 April 2012 (UTC)

==Article Feedback Tool updates==
Hey all. My regular(ish) update on what's been happening with the new [[WP:AFT5|Article Feedback Tool]].

'''Hand-coding'''

As previously mentioned, we're doing a [[Wikipedia:Article Feedback Tool/Version 5/Feedback evaluation|big round of hand-coding]] to finalise testing :). I've been completedly bowled over by the response: we have 20 editors participating, some old and some new, which is a new record for this activity. Many thanks to everyone who has volunteered so far!

Coding should actively start on Saturday, when I'll be distributing individualised usernames and passwords to everyone. If you haven't spoken to me but would be interested in participating, either drop me a note on my talkpage or email {{nospam|okeyes|wikimedia.org}}. If you have spoken to me, I'm very sorry for the delay :(. There were some toolserver database issues beyond our control (which I think the ''Signpost'' discussed) that messed with the tool.

'''New designs and office hours'''

Our awesome designers have been making some new logos for the feedback page :) Check out [[:File:AFTv5 Oversighter default.png|the oversighter view]] and [[:File:AFTv5 Monitor default.png|the monitor view]] to get complete coverage; all opinions, comments and suggestions are welcome on [[Wikipedia talk:Article Feedback Tool/Version 5|the talkpage]] :).

We've also been working on the [[Special:AbuseFilter|Abuse Filter]] plugin for the tool; this will basically be the same as the existing system, only applied to comments. Because of that, we're obviously going to need slightly different filters, because different things will need to be blocked :). We're holding a '''special office hours session''' tomorrow at [http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=22&min=00&sec=0&day=5&month=4&year=2012 22:00 UTC] to discuss it. If you're a regex nut, existing abuse filter writer, or simply interested in the feedback tool and have suggestions, please do come along :).

I'm pretty sure that's it; if I've missed anything or you have any additional queries, don't hesitate to contact me! Thanks, [[User:Okeyes (WMF)|Okeyes (WMF)]] ([[User talk:Okeyes (WMF)|talk]]) 14:46, 4 April 2012 (UTC)
== Nomination of [[Greek Wikipedia]] for deletion ==

<div class="floatleft" style="margin-bottom:0">[[File:Ambox warning orange.svg|42px|alt=|link=]]</div>A discussion is taking place as to whether the article '''[[Greek Wikipedia]]''' is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to [[Wikipedia:List of policies and guidelines|Wikipedia's policies and guidelines]] or whether it should be [[Wikipedia:Deletion policy|deleted]].

The article will be discussed at [[Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Greek Wikipedia ]] until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion.  However, do not remove the article-for-deletion template from the top of the article. —[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''vf</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 22:46, 26 April 2012 (UTC)

==Article Feedback Tool office hours==
Hey {{PAGENAME}}; just a quick note to let you know that we'll be holding an [[m:IRC office hours|Office Hours]] session at [http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=18&min=00&sec=0&day=04&month=5&year=2012 18:00 UTC] (don't worry, I got the time right ;p) on 4th May in #wikimedia-office. This is to show off the almost-finished feedback page and prep it for a more public release; I'm incredibly happy to have got to this point :). Hope to see you there! Regards, [[User:Okeyes (WMF)|Okeyes (WMF)]] ([[User talk:Okeyes (WMF)|talk]]) 03:55, 30 April 2012 (UTC)

== ''The Bugle'': Issue LXXIII, April 2012 ==

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* Project news: ''[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/News/April 2012/Project news|From the editors; award recipients; contest results]]''
* Articles: ''[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/News/April 2012/Articles|The month's Featured and A-class content]]''
* Book reviews: ''[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/News/April 2012/Book reviews|Bomzibar on Subhas Chandra Bose; Hawkeye on corps commanders; Nick-D on American special forces]]''
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==New Pages update==
Hey {{PAGENAME}} :). A quick update on how things are going with the New Page Triage/New Pages Feed project. As [[WP:NPT|the enwiki page notes]], the project is divided into two chunks: the "list view" (essentially an updated version of Special:NewPages) and the "article view", a view you'll be presented with when you open up individual articles that contains a toolbar with lots of options to interact with the page - patrolling it, adding maintenance tags, nominating it for deletion, so on.

On the list view front, we're pretty much done! We tried deploying it to enwiki, in line with our [[Wikipedia:New Pages Feed/Engagement strategy|Engagement Strategy]] on Wednesday, but ran into bugs and had to reschedule - the same happened on Thursday :(. We've queued a new deployment for Monday PST, and hopefully that one will go better. If it does, the software will be ready to play around with and test by the following week! :).

On the article view front, the developers are doing some fantastic work designing the toolbar, which we're calling the "curation bar"; you can see a mockup [[:File:CurationToolbar-Flyout-Tagging.png|here]]. A stripped-down version of this should be ready to deploy fairly soon after the list view is; I'm afraid I don't have precise dates yet. When I have more info, or can unleash everyone to test the list view, I'll let you know :). As always, any questions to the [[Wikipedia talk:New Pages Feed|talkpage for the project]] or [[User talk:Okeyes (WMF)|mine]]. Thanks! [[User:Okeyes (WMF)|Okeyes (WMF)]] ([[User talk:Okeyes (WMF)|talk]]) 23:29, 5 May 2012 (UTC)

==New Page Triage prototype released==
Hey Geraki! We've finally finished the NPT prototype and deployed it on enwiki. We'll be holding an office hours session on the 16th at 21:00 in #wikimedia-office to show it off, get feedback and plot future developments - hope to see you there! [[User:Okeyes (WMF)|Okeyes (WMF)]] ([[User talk:Okeyes (WMF)|talk]]) 03:38, 13 May 2012 (UTC)

==New Page Triage/New Pages Feed==
Hey all :). A notification that the prototype for the [[WP:NPT|New Pages Feed]] is now live on enwiki! We had to briefly take it down after an unfortunate bug started showing up, but it's now live and we will continue developing it on-site.

The page can be found at '''[[Special:NewPagesFeed]]'''. Please, please, ''please'' test it and [[Wikipedia talk:New Pages Feed|tell us what you think]]! Note that as a prototype it will inevitably have bugs - if you find one not already mentioned at the talkpage, bring it up and I'm happy to carry it through to the devs. The same is true of any additions you can think of to the software, or any questions you might have - let me know and I'll respond.

Thanks! [[User:Okeyes (WMF)|Okeyes (WMF)]] ([[User talk:Okeyes (WMF)|talk]]) 13:22, 22 May 2012 (UTC)

== ''The Bugle'': Issue LXXIV, May 2012 ==

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* Project news: ''[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/News/May 2012/Project news|From the editors; award recipients; contest results]]''
* Articles: ''[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/News/May 2012/Articles|The month's Featured and A-class content]]''
* Book reviews: ''[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/News/May 2012/Book reviews|Bomzibar on Chiang Kai-shek; Nick-D on the Falklands War]]''
* Interview: ''[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/News/May 2012/Interview|Article writers discuss biographies]]''
* Op-ed: ''[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/News/May 2012/Op-ed|Nick-D examines using news articles as sources]]''
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==Article Feedback Tool, Version 5==
Hey all :)

Just a quick update on what we've been working on:
*The '''[[Special:ArticleFeedbackv5|centralised feedback page]]''' is now live! Feel free to use it and all other feedback pages; there's no prohibition on playing around, dealing with the comments or letting others know about it, although the full release comes much later. Let me know if you find any bugs; we know it's a bit odd in Monobook, but that should be fixed in our deployment this week.
*On '''Thursday, 7th June''' we'll be holding an [[m:IRC office hours|office hours]] session at [http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=20&min=00&sec=0&day=07&month=06&year=2012 20:00 UTC] in #wikimedia-office. We'll be discussing all the latest developments, as well as what's coming up next; hope to see you all there!
*Those of you who hand-coded feedback; I ''believe'' I contacted you all about t-shirts. If I didn't, [[Special:EmailUser/Okeyes_(WMF)|drop me a line]] and I'll get it sorted out :).


Thanks! [[User:Okeyes (WMF)|Okeyes (WMF)]] ([[User talk:Okeyes (WMF)|talk]]) 22:52, 4 June 2012 (UTC)

==AFT5 release coming up - help us design a banner!==
Hey all :). First-off, thanks to everyone for all their help so far; we're coming up to a ''much'' wider deployment :). Starting at the end of this month, and scaling up until 3 July, AFT5 will begin appearing on '''10 percent''' of articles. For this release we plan on sending out a CentralNotice that every editor will see - and for this, we need your help :). We've got plans, we know how long it's going to run for, where it's going to run...but not what it says. If you've got ideas for banners, give [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Article_Feedback_Tool/Version_5#The_release_is_coming_up_-_help_us_design_a_banner.21 this page] a read and submit your suggestion! Many thanks, [[User:Okeyes (WMF)|Okeyes (WMF)]] ([[User talk:Okeyes (WMF)|talk]]) 16:26, 19 June 2012 (UTC)

== GOCE July 2012 Copy Edit Drive ==

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* Articles: ''[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/News/June 2012/Articles|The month's Featured and A-class content]]''
* Book reviews: ''[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/News/June 2012/Book reviews|Nick-D on the Chaco War and the Bougainville Campaign]]''
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==Article Feedback newsletter==
Hey all!

So, big news this week - on Tuesday, we ramped up to 5 percent of articles :). There's been a lot more feedback (pardon the pun) as I'm sure you've noticed, and to try and help we've scheduled a large number of office hours sessions, including one this evening at [http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=22&min=00&sec=0&day=20&month=07&year=2012 22:00 UTC] in the {{irc|wikimedia-office}} channel, and another at  [http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=01&min=00&sec=0&day=20&month=07&year=2012 01:00 UTC] for the aussies amongst us :). I hope to see some of you there - if any of you can't make it but have any questions, [[User talk:Okeyes (WMF)|I'm always happy to help]].

Thanks! [[User:Okeyes (WMF)|Okeyes (WMF)]] ([[User talk:Okeyes (WMF)|talk]]) 20:39, 20 July 2012 (UTC)

==AFT5 newsletter==
Hey again all :). So, some big news, some small news, some good news, some bad news!

On the "big news" front; we've now deployed AFT5 on to 10 percent of articles, This is pretty awesome :). On the "bad news", however, it looks like we're having to stop at 10 percent until around September - there are scaling issues that make it dangerous to deploy wider. Happily, our awesome features engineering team is looking into them as we speak, and I'm optimistic that the issues will be resolved.

For both "small" and "good" news; we've got another [[m:IRC office hours|office hours]] session. This one is tomorrow, at [http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=22&min=00&sec=0&day=27&month=07&year=2012 22:00 UTC] in {{channel|wikimedia-office}} - I appreciate it's a bit late for Europeans, but I wanted to juggle it so US east coasters could attend if they wanted :). Hope to see you all there!

== ''The Bugle'': Issue LXXVI, July 2012 ==

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* Project news: ''[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/News/May 2012/Project news|From the editors: Wikimania 2012; special projects note]]''
* Articles: ''[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/News/May 2012/Articles|The month's Featured and A-class content]]''
* Book reviews: ''[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/News/May 2012/Book reviews|Nick-D on the Australian 25th Battalion]]''
* Interview: ''[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/News/May 2012/Interview|Article writers discuss buildings and fortifications]]''
* Op-ed: ''[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/News/May 2012/Op-ed|Hawkeye7 reports on a weekend workshop]]''
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==Page Triage newsletter==
Hey all. Some quick but important updates on what we've been up to and what's coming up next :).

The curation toolbar, our Wikimedia-supported twinkle replacement. We're going to be deploying it, along with a pile of bugfixes, to wikipedia on '''9 August'''. After a few days to check it doesn't make anything explode or die, we'll be sticking up a big notice and sending out an additional newsletter inviting people to test it out and give us feedback :). This will be followed by two office hours sessions - one on Tuesday the 14th of August at 19:00 UTC for all us Europeans, and one on Wednesday the 15th at 23:00 UTC for the East Coasters out there :). As always, these will be held in #wikimedia-office; drop me a note if you want to know how to easily get on IRC, or if you aren't able to attend but would like the logs.

I hope to see a lot of you there; it's going to be a big day for everyone involved, I think :). I'll have more notes after the deployment! [[User:Okeyes (WMF)|Okeyes (WMF)]] ([[User talk:Okeyes (WMF)|talk]]) 20:02, 3 August 2012 (UTC)

==New Pages newsletter==
Hey all :)

A couple of new things.

First, you'll note that all the project titles have now changed to the Page Curation prefix, rather than having the New Pages Feed prefix. This is because the overarching project name has changed to Page Curation; the feed is still known as New Pages Feed, and the Curation Toolbar is still the Curation Toolbar. Hopefully this will be the ''last'' namechange ;p.

On the subject of the Curation Toolbar (nice segue, Oliver!) - it's '''now deployed on Wikipedia'''. Just open up any article in [[Special:NewPagesFeed|the New Pages Feed]] and it should appear on the right. It's still a beta version - bugs are expected - and we've got a lot more work to do. But if you see something going wrong, or a feature missing, drop me a note or post on the [[Wikipedia talk:Page Curation|project talkpage]] and I'll be happy to help :).  We'll be holding two [[m:IRC office hours|office hours]] sessions to discuss the tool and improvements to it; the first is at [http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=19&min=00&sec=0&day=14&month=08&year=2012 19:00 UTC] on 14 August, and the second at [http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=23&min=00&sec=0&day=15&month=08&year=2012 23:00] on the 15th. Both will be in #wikimedia-office as always. Thanks! [[User:Okeyes (WMF)|Okeyes (WMF)]] ([[User talk:Okeyes (WMF)|talk]]) 15:40, 10 August 2012 (UTC)

== ''The Bugle'': Issue LXXVII, August 2012 ==

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==Page Curation update==
Hey all :). We've just deployed another set of features for Page Curation. They include flyouts from the icons in [[Special:NewPagesFeed]], showing who reviewed an article and when, a listing of this in the "info" flyout, and a general re-jigging of the info flyout - we've also fixed the weird bug with page_titles_having_underscores_instead_of_spaces in messages sent to talkpages, and introduced [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=pagetriage-deletion&user=&page=&year=&month=-1&tagfilter=&hide_patrol_log=1&hide_review_log=1 CSD logging]! As always, these features will need some work - but any feedback would be [[Wikipedia talk:Page Curation|most welcome]].

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==Page Curation newsletter==
Hey {{BASEPAGENAME}}. This will be, if not our final newsletter, one of the final ones :). After months of churning away at this project, our final version (apart from a few tweaks and bugfixes) is now live. Changes between this and the last release include deletion tag logging, a centralised log, and fixes to things like edit summaries.

Hopefully you like what we've done with the place; suggestions for future work on it, complaints and bugs [[Wikipedia talk:Page Curation|to the usual address]] :). We'll be holding [[m:IRC office hours|a couple of office hours]] sessions, which I hope you'll all attend. Many thanks,  [[User:Okeyes (WMF)|Okeyes (WMF)]] ([[User talk:Okeyes (WMF)|talk]]) 11:03, 24 September 2012 (UTC)

==Page Curation newsletter - closing up!==
Hey all :).

We're (very shortly) closing down this development cycle for Page Curation. It's genuinely been a pleasure to talk with you all and build software that is so close to my own heart, and also so effective. The current backlog is 9 days, and I've ''never'' seen it that low before.

However! Closing up shop does ''not'' mean not making any improvements. First-off, this is your last chance to give us a poke about unresolved bugs or report new ones [[Wikipedia talk:Page Curation|on the talkpage]]. If something's going wrong, we want to know about it :). Second, we'll hopefully be taking another pass over the software next year. If you've got ideas for features Page Curation doesn't currently have, stick them [[Wikipedia_talk:Page_Curation#Future_software_.28please_comment.21.29|here]].

Again, it's been an honour. Thanks :). [[User:Okeyes (WMF)|Okeyes (WMF)]] ([[User talk:Okeyes (WMF)|talk]]) 12:09, 17 October 2012 (UTC)

==This is not a newsletter==
[[Tribute (song)|This is just a tribute]].

Anyway. You're getting this note because you've participated in discussion and/or asked for updates to either the [[WP:AFT5|Article Feedback Tool]] or [[WP:NPT|Page Curation]]. This isn't about either of those things, I'm afraid ;p. We've recently started working on yet another project: Echo, a notifications system to augment the watchlist. There's not much information at the moment, because we're still working out the scope and the concepts, but if you're interested in further updates you can sign up [[Wikipedia:Editor engagement/Echo|here]].

In addition, we'll be holding an [[m:IRC office hours|office hours]] session at [http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=21&min=00&sec=0&day=14&month=11&year=2012 21:00 UTC] on Wednesday, 14 November in #wikimedia-office - hope to see you all there :). I appreciate it's an annoying time for non-Europeans: if you're interested in chatting about the project but can't make it, give me a shout and I can set up another session if there's enough interest in one particular timezone or a skype call if there isn't. Thanks! [[User:Okeyes (WMF)|Okeyes (WMF)]] ([[User talk:Okeyes (WMF)|talk]]) 10:59, 10 November 2012 (UTC)

==AFT5 newsletter==
Hey all :). A couple of quick updates (one small, one large)

First, we're continuing to work on some ways to increase the quality of feedback and make it easier to eliminate and deal with non-useful feedback: hopefully I'll have more news for you on this soon :).

Second, we're looking at ways to increase the actual number of users patrolling and take off some of the workload from you lot. Part of this is increasing the prominence of the feedback page, which we're going to try to do with a link at the top of each article to the relevant page. This should be deployed on Tuesday (touch wood!) and we'll be closely monitoring what happens. Let me know if you have any questions or issues :). Thanks, [[User:Okeyes (WMF)|Okeyes (WMF)]] ([[User talk:Okeyes (WMF)|talk]]) 14:27, 16 November 2012 (UTC)

== Bot introduces invisible unicode characters ==

Check [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Epsilon&diff=523524877&oldid=521717210 line 264]. Any idea why? -- [[User:Magioladitis|Magioladitis]] ([[User talk:Magioladitis|talk]]) 00:03, 7 December 2012 (UTC)


: Yes, I see a [[zero-width space]] (U+200B) after [[:bo:ཨེ་ཕི་སེ་ལོན།]]. The fact is that the addition of this, seem right! It seems that the character is part of the corresponding article at bo.wikipedia. The same link without the invisible character, as it was corrected from Yobot [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Epsilon&diff=prev&oldid=521717210], sends to a not existing page: [[:bo:ཨེ་ཕི་སེ་ལོན།]] (as opposed to the correct link as it was corrected by Gerakibot). We should move the article in order to remove the U+200B -[[User:Geraki|<span style="color:green;">'''geraki'''</span>]] <sup>[[User_talk:Geraki|T]]</sup><sub class="plainlinks" >[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&type=&user=Geraki L]</sub> 12:16, 7 December 2012 (UTC)
::I reported [https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42807 on bugzilla]. I think the invisible characters should not be allowed on pagetitle. -- [[User:Magioladitis|Magioladitis]] ([[User talk:Magioladitis|talk]]) 13:27, 7 December 2012 (UTC)

==AFT5 newsletter==
Hey all; another newsletter.

*If you're not already aware, a [[Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Article feedback|Request for Comment]] on the future of the Article Feedback Tool on the English-language Wikipedia is open; any and all comments, regardless of opinion and perspective, are welcome.
*Our final round of hand-coding is complete, and the results can be found [[m:Research:Article feedback/Final quality assessment|here]]; thanks to everyone who took part!
*We've made test deployments to the German and French-language projects; if you are aware of any other projects that might like to test out or use the tool, please let me know :).
*Developers continue to work on the upgraded version of the feedback page that was discussed during our last office hours session, with a prototype ready for you to play around with in a few weeks.

That's all for now! [[User:Okeyes (WMF)|Okeyes (WMF)]] ([[User talk:Okeyes (WMF)|talk]]) 16:11, 23 January 2013 (UTC)

==New Article Feedback version available for testing==
Hey all.

As promised, we've built a set of improvements to the Article Feedback Tool, which can be tested through the links [[mw:Article feedback/Version 5/Testing Feb 2013|here]]. Please do take the opportunity to play around with it, let me know of any bugs, and see what you think :).

A final reminder that the Request for Comment on whether AFT5 should be turned on on Wikipedia (and how) is soon to close; for those of you who have not submitted an opinion or !voted, it can be found [[Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Article feedback|here]].

Thanks! [[User:Okeyes (WMF)|Okeyes (WMF)]] ([[User talk:Okeyes (WMF)|talk]]) 19:16, 19 February 2013 (UTC)

== Bot@cs.wiki ==

Please, create userpage with link to your main talk page. [[User:JAn Dudík|JAn Dudík]] ([[User talk:JAn Dudík|talk]]) 06:54, 20 February 2013 (UTC)

== Books and Bytes: The Wikipedia Library Newsletter ==

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<big>'''Greetings [[WP:TWL|Wikipedia Library]] members!'''</big>  Welcome to the inaugural edition of ''Books and Bytes'', TWL’s monthly newsletter. We're sending you the first edition of this opt-in newsletter, because you signed up, or applied for a free research account:  HighBeam, Credo, Questia, JSTOR, or Cochrane.  To receive future updates of ''Books and Bytes'', please add your name to [[Wikipedia:The Wikipedia Library/Newsletter/Recipients|the subscriber's list]].  There's lots of news this month for the Wikipedia Library, including new accounts, upcoming events, and new ways to get involved...
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<p>'''Wikipedia Loves Libraries:''' Off to a roaring start this fall in the United States: 29 events are planned or have been hosted.</p>
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<p>'''New ideas:'''  OCLC innovations in the works; VisualEditor Reference Dialog Workshop; a photo contest idea emerges</p>
<p>'''News from the library world:''' Wikipedian joins the National Archives full time; the Getty Museum releases 4,500 images; CERN goes CC-BY</p>
<p>'''Announcing WikiProject Open:'''  WikiProject Open kicked off in October, with several brainstorming and co-working sessions</p>
<p>'''New ways to get involved:''' Visiting scholar requirements; subject guides; room for library expansion and exploration</p>
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== Greek medical articles ==

Hi! I saw your call on el.wikipedia. I am involved in a translation project that I organised with the Medical School at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, in which we translated enough medical articles from english to greek: [[:el:Βικιπαίδεια:Πανεπιστημιακά Εγχειρήματα/ΑΠΘ Ιατρική Εκπαίδευση]]. I'll be happy to move the articles from[[Wikipedia:WikiProject_Medicine/Translation_task_force/RTT|here]] to el.wikipedia. -[[User:Geraki|<span style="color:green;">'''geraki'''</span>]] <sup>[[User_talk:Geraki|T]]</sup><sub class="plainlinks" >[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&type=&user=Geraki L]</sub> 18:41, 10 January 2014 (UTC)
::That would be excellent. The entire list of articles we plan to eventually translate over the next few years is here [[Book:Health care]]. Let me know if you have any questions or concerns. [[User:Jmh649|<span style="color:#0000f1">'''Doc James'''</span>]] ([[User talk:Jmh649|talk]] · [[Special:Contributions/Jmh649|contribs]] · [[Special:EmailUser/Jmh649|email]]) (if I write on your page reply on mine) 18:43, 10 January 2014 (UTC)

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<big>'''[[WP:TWL|The Wikipedia Library]]'''</big> completed the first 6 months of its Individual Engagement grant last week. Here's where we are and what we've done:
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News for February from your Wikipedia Library.
<p>'''Donations drive:''' news on TWL's partnership efforts with publishers</p>
<p>'''Open Access:''' Feature from Ocaasi on the intersection of the library and the open access movement</p>
<p>'''American Library Association Midwinter Conference:'''  TWL attended this year in Philadelphia</p>
<p>'''Royal Society Opens Access To Journals:''' The UK's venerable [[Royal Society]] will give the public (and Wikipedians) full access to two of their journal titles for two days on March 4th and 5th</p>
<p>'''Going Global:''' TWL starts work on pilot projects in other language Wikipedias</p>
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*TWL Branch on Arabic Wikipedia, microgrants program
*Australian articles get a link to librarians
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Hi Books & Bytes recipients:  [[WP:TWL|The Wikipedia Library]] has been expanding rapidly and we need some help!  We currently have 10 signups for free account access open and several more in the works... In order to help with those signups, distribute access codes, and manage accounts we'll need 2-3 more '''''Account Coordinators'''''.  

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Issue 7, June-July 2014<br>
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*Seven new donations, two expanded partnerships
*TWL's Final Report up, read the summary
*Adventures in Las Vegas, WikiConference USA, and updates from TWL coordinators
*Spotlight: Blog post on BNA's impact on one editor's research
<big>[[Wikipedia:The Wikipedia Library/Newsletter/June-July2014|Read the full newsletter]]</big><br><br>
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== Wikimania 2014 ==

Hi Geraki!

My name is Victor and I'm a storyteller and video producer for the Wikimedia Foundation. I'll be looking to capture stories about Wikimedians at Wikimania in London in a week. [https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Thank_You_All Here is an example] of the kind of thing that I'm aiming to do. I saw that you're attending Wikimania and I was wondering if you might have some time to talk about your work on Wikimedia projects. Anyway let me know if you are interested, I'll be at Wikimania from the 6th-10th of August and would need maybe 30 minutes of your time. I can answer any questions you may have. I’m best reached at vgrigas(at)wikimedia.org 

Thanks!

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== Books and Bytes - Issue 8 ==

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Issue 8, August-September2014<br>
by {{user|The Interior}}, {{user|Ocaasi}}, {{user|Sadads}}
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*TWL now a Wikimedia Foundation program, moves on from grant status
*Four new donations, including large '''DeGruyter''' parntership, pilot with '''Elsevier'''
*New TWL coordinators, Wikimania news, new library platform discussions, Wiki Loves Libraries update, and more
*Spotlight: "Traveling Through History" - an editor talks about his experiences with a TWL newspaper archive, Newspapers.com
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== New Wikipedia Library Accounts Now Available (November 2014) ==

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Hello Wikimedians! 
[[File:Wikipedia_Library_owl.svg|thumb|150px|The TWL OWL says sign up today :)]]
[[m:The Wikipedia Library|The Wikipedia Library]] is announcing signups today for, free, full-access accounts to published research as part of our [[m:The_Wikipedia_Library/Journals|Publisher Donation Program]]. You can sign up for:

*'''DeGruyter''': 1000 new accounts for English and German-language research. Sign up on one of two language Wikipedias:
**[[w:en:Wikipedia:De_Gruyter|English signup]] 
**[[w:de:Wikipedia:De_Gruyter|Deutsch signup]] 
*'''[[w:en:Wikipedia:Fold3|Fold3]]''': 100 new accounts for American history and military archives
*'''[[w:en:Wikipedia:ScotlandsPeople|Scotland's People]]''': 100 new accounts for Scottish genealogy database
*'''[[w:en:Wikipedia:BNA|British Newspaper Archive]]''': expanded by 100+ accounts for British newspapers 
*'''[[w:en:Wikipedia:HighBeam|Highbeam]]''': 100+ remaining accounts for newspaper and magazine archives
*'''[[w:en:Wikipedia:Questia| Questia]]''': 100+ remaining accounts for journal and social science articles
*'''[[w:en:Wikipedia:JSTOR|JSTOR]]''': 100+ remaining accounts for journal archives

Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects: sign up today!
<br>--[[w:en:Wikipedia:TWL/Coordinators|The Wikipedia Library Team]] 23:25, 5 November 2014 (UTC)

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== New Wikipedia Library Accounts Now Available (December 2014) ==

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Hello Wikimedians! 
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[[w:en:WP:The Wikipedia Library|The Wikipedia Library]] is announcing signups today for, free, full-access accounts to published research as part of our [[m:The_Wikipedia_Library/Journals|Publisher Donation Program]]. You can sign up for:

*[[w:en:WP:ELSEVIER|Elsevier]] - science and medicine journals and books
*[[w:en:WP:RSC Gold|Royal Society of Chemistry]] - chemistry journals
*[[w:en:wp:Pelican Books|Pelican Books]] - ebook monographs
*[[w:en:WP:Public Catalogue Foundation|Public Catalogue Foundation]]- art books

Other partnerships with accounts available are listed on [[w:en:WP:The_Wikipedia_Library/Journals|our partners page]]. Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects: sign up today!
<br>--[[w:en:Wikipedia:TWL/Coordinators|The Wikipedia Library Team]].00:25, 18 December 2014 (UTC)

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== Books and Bytes - Issue 9 ==

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Issue 9, November-December 2014<br>
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*New donations, including real-paper-and-everything books, e-books, science journal databases, and more
*New TWL coordinators, conference news, a new open-access journal database, summary of library-related WMF grants, and more
*Spotlight: "Global Impact: The Wikipedia Library and Persian Wikipedia" - a Persian Wikipedia editor talks about their experiences with database access in Iran, writing on the Persian project and the JSTOR partnership
<big>[[Wikipedia:The Wikipedia Library/Newsletter/November-December2014|Read the full newsletter]]</big><br><br>
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== Books and Bytes - Issue 10 ==

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Issue 10, January-February 2015<br>
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*New donations - ProjectMUSE, Dynamed, Royal Pharmaceutical Society, and Women Writers Online
*New TWL coordinator, conference news, and a new guide and template for archivists
*TWL moves into the new Community Engagement department at the WMF, quarterly review 
<big>[[Wikipedia:The Wikipedia Library/Newsletter/January-February2015|Read the full newsletter]]</big><br><br>
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== A new reference tool ==

Hello ''Books & Bytes'' subscribers.  There is a new Visual Editor reference feature in development called [[:mw:Citoid|Citoid]].  It is designed to "auto-fill" references using a [[URL]] or [[Digital object identifier|DOI]].  We would really appreciate you testing whether TWL partners' references work in Citoid.  Sharing your results will help the developers fix bugs and improve the system. If you have a few minutes, please visit the '''[[Wikipedia:TWL/Citoid|testing page]]''' for simple instructions on how to try this new tool.  Regards, [[User:MediaWiki message delivery|MediaWiki message delivery]] ([[User talk:MediaWiki message delivery|talk]]) 18:47, 10 April 2015 (UTC)
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== Books and Bytes - Issue 11 ==

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Issue 11, March-April 2015<br>
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*New donations - MIT Press Journals, Sage Stats, Hein Online and more
*New TWL coordinators, conference news, and new reference projects
*Spotlight: Two metadata librarians talk about how library professionals can work with Wikipedia
<p><big>[[Wikipedia:The Wikipedia Library/Newsletter/March-April2015|Read the full newsletter]]</big></p><br><br>
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== The Wikipedia Library needs you! ==

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The Wikipedia Library is expanding, and we need your help! With only a couple of hours per week, you can make a big difference in helping editors get access to reliable sources and other resources. [[Wikipedia:The_Wikipedia_Library/Coordinators/Signup|Sign up]] for one of the following roles:
*'''Account coordinators''' help distribute research accounts to editors.
*'''Partner coordinators''' seek donations from new partners.
*'''Outreach coordinators''' reach out to the community through blog posts, social media, and newsletters or notifications.
*'''Technical coordinators''' advise on building tools to support the library's work.

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== The Wikipedia Library needs you! ==

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We hope [[WP:TWL|The Wikipedia Library]] has been a useful resource for your work.  TWL is expanding rapidly and ''we need your help!'' 

With only a couple hours per week, you can make a big difference for sharing knowledge. Please sign up and help us in one of these ways:
*'''Account coordinators''': help distribute free research access
*'''Partner coordinators''': seek new donations from partners
*'''Communications coordinators''': share updates in blogs, social media, newsletters and notices
*'''Technical coordinators''': advise on building tools to support the library's work
*'''Outreach coordinators''': connect to university libraries, archives, and other GLAMs
*'''Research coordinators''': run reference services
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== Books and Bytes - Issue 12 ==

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Issue 12, May-June 2015<br>
by {{user|The Interior}}, {{user|Ocaasi}}, {{user|Sadads}}, {{user|Nikkimaria}}
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*New donations - Taylor & Francis, Science, and three new French-language resources
*Expansion into new languages, including French, Finnish, Turkish, and Farsi
*Spotlight: New partners for the Visiting Scholar program
*American Library Association Annual meeting in San Francisco
<p><big>[[Wikipedia:The Wikipedia Library/Newsletter/May-June2015|Read the full newsletter]]</big></p>
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== Books and Bytes - Issue 13 ==

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Issue 13, August-September 2015<br>
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*New donations - EBSCO, IMF, more newspaper archives, and Arabic resources
*Expansion into new languages, including Viet and Catalan
*Spotlight: Elsevier partnership garners controversy, dialogue
*Conferences: PKP, IFLA, upcoming events
<p><big>[[Wikipedia:The Wikipedia Library/Newsletter/August-September2015|Read the full newsletter]]</big></p>
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== [[WP:ACE2015|ArbCom elections are now open!]] ==

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== Books and Bytes - Issue 14 ==

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Issue 14, October-November 2015<br>
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*New donations - Gale, Brill, plus Finnish and Farsi resources
*Open Access Week recap, and DOIs, Wikipedia, and scholarly citations
*Spotlight: 1Lib1Ref - a citation drive for librarians
<p><big>[[Wikipedia:The Wikipedia Library/Newsletter/October-November2015|Read the full newsletter]]</big></p>
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== Books & Bytes - Issue 15 ==

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Issue 15, December-January 2016<br>
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*New donations - Ships, medical resources, plus Arabic and Farsi resources
*<nowiki>#</nowiki>1lib1ref campaign summary and highlights
*New branches and coordinators
<p><big>[[Wikipedia:The Wikipedia Library/Newsletter/December-January2016|Read the full newsletter]]</big></p>
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== Notification about disabling the Wikipedia collections tool ==

Thank you for using the [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Gather/by/ collections feature] in Wikipedia beta!  Due to technical and moderation issues, we will be turning off this experimental feature. Your collections will be available for viewing and export until March 1st.  If you would like to save your collection as links on a special Wikipedia page, please fill out the following [http://goo.gl/forms/ZyYQm6uu7e form]. If you are interested in giving your feedback about Wikipedia Collections please do so [[mw:Extension_talk:Gather|here]].

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== Books & Bytes - Issue 16 ==

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Issue 16, February-March 2016<br>
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*New donations - science, humanities, and video resources
*Using hashtags in edit summaries - a great way to track a project
*A new cite archive template, a new coordinator, plus conference and Visiting Scholar updates
*Metrics for the Wikipedia Library's last three months
<p><big>[[Wikipedia:The Wikipedia Library/Newsletter/February-March2016|Read the full newsletter]]</big></p>
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== Books & Bytes - Issue 17 ==

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Issue 17, April-May 2016<br>
by [[User:The Interior|The Interior]], [[User:Ocaasi|Ocaasi]], [[User:UY Scuti|UY Scuti]], [[User:Sadads|Sadads]], and [[User:Nikkimaria|Nikkimaria]]
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*New donations this month - a German-language legal resource
*Wikipedia referals to academic citations - news from CrossRef and WikiCite2016
*New library stats, WikiCon news, a bot to reveal Open Access versions of citations, and more! 
<p><big>[[Wikipedia:The Wikipedia Library/Newsletter/April-May2016|Read the full newsletter]]</big></p>
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== Books & Bytes - Issue 18 ==

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<span style="font-size: 2em; font-family: Copperplate, 'Copperplate Gothic Light', serif">'''''Books & Bytes'''''</span><br />
Issue 18, June–July 2016<br>
by {{user|The Interior}}, [[User:Ocaasi|Ocaasi]], [[User:Samwalton9|Samwalton9]], [[User:UY Scuti|UY Scuti]], and [[User:Sadads|Sadads]]
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*New donations - Edinburgh University Press, American Psychological Association, Nomos (a German-language database), and more! 
* Spotlight: GLAM and Wikidata
* TWL attends and presents at International Federation of Library Associations conference, meets with Association of Research Libraries
* OCLC wins grant to train librarians on Wikimedia contribution
<p><big>[[Wikipedia:The Wikipedia Library/Newsletter/June-July2016|Read the full newsletter]]</big></p>
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== Books and Bytes - Issue 19 ==

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<span style="font-size: 2em; font-family: Copperplate, 'Copperplate Gothic Light', serif">'''''Books & Bytes'''''</span><br />
Issue 19, September–October 2016 <br>
by [[User:Nikkimaria|Nikkimaria]], [[User:Sadads|Sadads]] and [[User:UY Scuti|UY Scuti]]
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*New and expanded donations - Foreign Affairs, Open Edition, and many more
*New Library Card Platform and Conference news
*Spotlight: Fixing one million broken links
<p><big>[[en:Wikipedia:The_Wikipedia_Library/Newsletter/September-October2016|Read the full newsletter]]</big></p><br><br>
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== Books and Bytes - Issue 20 ==

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<span style="font-size: 2em; font-family: Copperplate, 'Copperplate Gothic Light', serif">'''''Books & Bytes'''''</span><br />
Issue 20, November-December 2016<br>
by {{user|Nikkimaria}}, {{user|Ocaasi}}, {{user|UY Scuti}}, {{user|Samwalton9}}
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*Partner resource expansions
*New search tool for finding TWL resources
*<nowiki>#</nowiki>1lib1ref 2017
*Wikidata Visiting Scholar
<p><big>[[:en:Wikipedia:The Wikipedia Library/Newsletter/November-December2016|Read the full newsletter]]</big></p>
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== [[Geraki:RefToolbarMessages-el.js]] ==

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:Hello, it's [[User:Geraki/RefToolbarMessages-el.js]], with a slash, not [[User:Geraki:RefToolbarMessages-el.js]]. '''[[User:Eyesnore|<span style="color:green">Eye</span>]][[User talk:Eyesnore|<span style="color:brown">snore</span>]]''' 13:12, 27 January 2017 (UTC)

==[[Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion|Speedy deletion]] nomination of [[:Geraki:RefToolbarMessages-el.js]]==
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:{{ping|PKT|Geraki}} Administrators: '''do not''' delete this page. I should contact an administrator to move the page for you. '''[[User:Eyesnore|<span style="color:green">Eye</span>]][[User talk:Eyesnore|<span style="color:brown">snore</span>]]''' 13:10, 27 January 2017 (UTC)

== [[User:Geraki:RefToolbarMessages-el.js]] ==

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== Books and Bytes - Issue 21 ==

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<span style="font-size: 2em; font-family: Copperplate, 'Copperplate Gothic Light', serif">'''''Books & Bytes'''''</span><br />
Issue 21, January-March 2017<br>
by {{user|Nikkimaria}}, {{user|Ocaasi}}, {{user|UY Scuti}}, {{user|Samwalton9}}, {{user|Sadads}}
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*<nowiki>#</nowiki>1lib1ref 2017
*Wikipedia Library User Group
*Wikipedia + Libraries at Wikimedia Conference 2017
*Spotlight: Library Card Platform
<p><big>[[:en:Wikipedia:The Wikipedia Library/Newsletter/January-March2017|Read the full newsletter]]</big></p>
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== Bots Newsletter, April 2017 ==

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Greetings!

The ''BAG Newsletter'' is now the ''Bots Newsletter'', per [[Wikipedia talk:Bots/News#Enlarge scope?|discussion]]. As such, we've subscribed all [[:Category:Wikipedia bot operators|bot operators]] to the newsletter. You can subscribe/unsubscribe from future newsletters by adding/removing your name from [[Wikipedia:Bots/Spam|this list]].

Highlights for this newsletter include:
;Arbcom
[[Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Magioladitis/Proposed decision|Magioladitis ARBCOM case]] has closed. The [[Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Magioladitis/Proposed decision#Motion to close|remedies of the case]] include:
*''Community encouraged to review common fixes''
*''Community encouraged to review policy on cosmetic edits''
*''Developers encouraged to improve AWB interface''
*''Bot approvals group encouraged to carefully review BRFA scope''
*''Reminders/Restrictions specific to Magioladitis''

;BRFAs
We currently have 27 [[Wikipedia:BAG/Status|open]] bot requests at [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval]], and could use your help processing!

;Discussions
There are multiple ongoing discussions surrounding bot-related matters. In particular:
*[[Wikipedia talk:Bot policy#WP:COSMETICBOT update|RFC on COSMETICBOT]]
*[[Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Check Wikipedia#Identifying cosmetic fixes|Efforts at WP:CHECKWIKI to identify cosmetic fixes]]
*[[Wikipedia talk:Bot owners' noticeboard#Requested move 10 April 2017|Requested move for the Bot Owners' Noticeboard]]
*A phabricator ticket {{phab|T162685}} has been made to have a "bots" tag, so issues related to bot frameworks can be tracked

;New things
Several new things are around:
*A BAG Guide has been created ([[WP:BAGG]], [[Wikipedia talk:Bot Approvals Group/Guide|discussion]]).
*Users now have the option to hide AWB from their watchlists via a script ([[WP:HIDEAWB]], [[User_talk:Evad37/Watchlist-hideAWB.js#Permanently hide AWB?|discussion]])
*The guidance on how to deal with bot issues has been overhauled ([[WP:BOTISSUE]], [[Wikipedia talk:Bot policy/Archive 25#Changes to "dealing with issues" section|discussion]])
*The bot policy has been updated to clarify that bot operators are required to register accounts. ([[WP:BOTACCOUNT]], [[Wikipedia talk:Bot policy#Are/should IPs be allowed to run bots?|discussion]])

;Wikimania
[https://wikimania2017.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania Wikimania 2017] is happening in Montreal, during 9–13 August. If you plan to attend, or give a talk, [[Wikipedia:Bot owners' noticeboard#Wikimania 2017|let us know]]!

Thank you! <small>edited by:<span style="font-variant:small-caps; whitespace:nowrap;">[[User:Headbomb|Headbomb]]</span> 11:35, 12 April 2017 (UTC)</small>
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== Books and Bytes - Issue 22 ==

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<span style="font-size: 2em; font-family: Copperplate, 'Copperplate Gothic Light', serif">'''''Books & Bytes'''''</span><br />
Issue 22, April-May 2017
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*New and expanded research accounts
*Global branches update
*Spotlight: OCLC Partnership
*Bytes in brief
<p><big>[[:m:The Wikipedia Library/Newsletter/April-May2017|Read the full newsletter]]</big></p>
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== Bots Newsletter, July 2017 ==

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Greetings!

Here is the 4th issue of the ''Bots Newsletter'' (formerly the ''BAG Newletter''). You can subscribe/unsubscribe from future newsletters by adding/removing your name from [[Wikipedia:Bots/Spam|this list]].

Highlights for this newsletter include:

;BAG
[[User:BU Rob13|BU Rob13]] and [[User:Cyberpower678|Cyberpower678]] are now members of the [[WP:BAG|BAG]] (see [[Wikipedia:Bot Approvals Group/nominations/BU Rob13|RfBAG/BU Rob13]] and [[Wikipedia:Bot Approvals Group/nominations/Cyberpower678 3|RfBAG/Cyberpower678  3]]). BU Rob13 and Cyberpower678  are both [[WP:ADMIN|administrators]]; the former operates [[User:BU RoBOT|BU RoBOT]] which does a plethora of tasks, while the latter operates [[User:Cyberbot I|Cyberbot I]] (which replaces old bots), [[User:Cyberbot II|Cyberbot II]] (which does many different things), and [[User:InternetArchiveBot|InternetArchiveBot]] which combats [[WP:LINKROT|link rot]]. Welcome to the BAG!

;BRFAs
We currently have 12 [[Wikipedia:BAG/Status|open]] bot requests at [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval]], and could use your help processing!

;Discussions
*Efforts at [[WP:CHECKWIKI]] to [[Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Check Wikipedia#Identifying cosmetic fixes|identify cosmetic fixes]] are still ongoing.
*The [[Wikipedia talk:Bot policy/Archive 26#WP:COSMETICBOT update|RFC on COSMETICBOT]] has concluded with "a clear consensus exists to adopt the proposed language". The [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia%3ABot_policy&type=revision&diff=781071749&oldid=776564969 new wording] is now live.
*The venue for bot appeals and reexaminations has been [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Bot_policy&diff=785900489&oldid=785809177 changed] from [[WP:BRFA]] to [[WP:BOTN]] (see [[Wikipedia talk:Bot policy#Venue change for bot appeals and reexaminations|discussion]])
*The ''[[Wikipedia:Bot owner's noticeboard]]'' is now the ''[[Wikipedia:Bots/Noticeboard]]'' (see [[Wikipedia talk:Bots/Noticeboard#Requested move 10 April 2017|discussion]]).

;New things
*A [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia%3ABot_policy&type=revision&diff=782685110&oldid=781071956 historical correction] was made to [[WP:BOTPOL]] (see [[Wikipedia talk:Bot policy/Archive 26#History|discussion]]).
*[[WP:HIDEBOTS]] now mentions [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia%3ABots&type=revision&diff=786445484&oldid=781329442 how to hide all bots from your watchlist], not only specific bots.
*The phabricator ticket {{phab|T162685}} is now closed, and we now have "[https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/bot-frameworks/ #Bots-Framework]" tag, so issues related to bot frameworks can be tracked.
*Wikibits.js has been removed (see [https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2017-April/001574.html discussion]).
*21 inactive bots have been deflagged (see [[Wikipedia:Bots/Noticeboard#Inactive bots May 2017|discussion]]).
*[[WP:BOTISSUE]] has been [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Bot_policy&diff=785809177&oldid=785323626 updated] to mention that BAG members can act as neutral mediators in bot-related disputes.
* [[WP:INTERWIKIBOT]] has been [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Bot_policy&diff=789678056&oldid=787355603 updated] to reflect the post-February 2013 practice of putting interwiki links on Wikidata, rather than on Wikipedia (see [[Wikipedia talk:Bot policy#Interwiki bots|discussion]]).

;Upcoming
* [[HTML Tidy]] will be [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsing/Replacing_Tidy phased out] in [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2017/28 June 2018, or possibly earlier]. This may affect some bots (see [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsing/Replacing_Tidy/FAQ#What_will_editors_need_to_do.3F FAQ]).

;Wikimania
[https://wikimania2017.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania Wikimania 2017] is happening in Montreal, during 9–13 August. If you plan to attend, or give a talk, [[Wikipedia:Bot owners' noticeboard#Wikimania 2017|let us know]]!

Thank you! <small>edited by: <span style="font-variant:small-caps; whitespace:nowrap;">[[User:Headbomb|Headbomb]]</span> 17:12, 19 July 2017 (UTC)</small>
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== Books and Bytes - Issue 23 ==

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<span style="font-size: 2em; font-family: Copperplate, 'Copperplate Gothic Light', serif">'''''Books & Bytes'''''</span><br />
Issue 23, June-July 2017
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*Library card
*User Group update
*Global branches update
*Spotlight: Combating misinformation, fake news, and censorship
*Bytes in brief
''Chinese, Arabic and Yoruba versions of Books & Bytes are now available in meta!''
<p><big>[[:m:The Wikipedia Library/Newsletter/June-July2017|Read the full newsletter]]</big></p>
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== Books and Bytes - Issue 24 ==

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[[File:Wikipedia Library owl.svg|80px|link=The Wikipedia Library/Kit/Main]] '''The Wikipedia Library'''
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<span style="font-size: 2em; font-family: Copperplate, 'Copperplate Gothic Light', serif">'''''Books & Bytes'''''</span><br />
Issue 24, August-September 2017
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<div style = "margin-top: 1.5em; border: 3px solid #ae8c55; border-radius: .5em; padding: 1em 1.5em; font-size: .9em">
*User Group update
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== Bots Newsletter, March 2018 ==

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Greetings!

Here is the 5th issue of the ''Bots Newsletter'' (formerly the ''BAG Newletter''). You can subscribe/unsubscribe from future newsletters by adding/removing your name from [[Wikipedia:Bots/Spam|this list]].

Highlights for this newsletter include:

;ARBCOM
*''[[Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Magioladitis 2|Magioladitis 2]]'' happened, leading to further restrictions on {{noping|Magioladitis}} ([[Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Magioladitis 2#Final decision|decision]], [[Wikipedia:Arbitration/Index/Cases/2017#September|summary]]).
*''[[Wikipedia talk:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Betacommand 3#Amendment request: Betacommand 3 (December 2017)|Betacommand 3]]'' was proposed to be amended to lift the indefinite ban on {{noping|Δ}}, but was unsuccessful ([[Wikipedia talk:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Betacommand 3#Betacommand 3: Arbitrator views and discussion|decision]]).
*A motion concerning ''[[Wikipedia talk:Arbitration/Requests/Archive 12#Crosswiki issues: Motion (November 2017)|Crosswiki issues]]'' (mostly concerning Wikidata) was passed (see [[Wikipedia talk:Arbitration/Requests/Archive 12#Crosswiki issues: Motion (November 2017)|discussion]]).

;BAG
*{{noping|Hersfold}} was [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia%3ABot_Approvals_Group%2FFormer&type=revision&diff=807534876&oldid=757247341 removed from the BAG] due to long term inactivity.
*

;BRFAs
We currently have 6 [[Wikipedia:BAG/Status|open]] bot requests at [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval]], and could use your help processing!

;Discussions
While there were no large-scale bot-related discussion in the past few months, you can check [[WP:BOTN]] and [[WT:BOTPOL]] (and their corresponding archives) for smaller issues that came up.

;New things
*[[WP:BOTDICT]], a dictionary of common bot-related terms (see [[Wikipedia talk:Bots/Dictionary#Creation and feedback|discussion]]).
*6 inactive bots have been deflagged (see [[Wikipedia:Bots/Noticeboard/Archive_12#Inactive_bots_-_December_2017|discussion]]).
*The [[meta:2017 Community Wishlist Survey/Results|2017 Community Wishlist Survey]] happened. Two bot-related proposal passed, #6 ''[[meta:2017 Community Wishlist Survey/Bots and gadgets/Deploy Article Alerts to other languages|deploy Article Alerts to other languages]]'' and #10 ''[[meta:2017 Community Wishlist Survey/Bots and gadgets/Commons deletion notification bot|Commons deletion notification bot]]'', although other entries may affect bots as well.
* [[:Category:Wikipedia bots]] and its subcategories has had some cleanup. Bot-related pages that were historically important but are no longer of interests can be found in [[:Category:Wikipedia bots (historical)]]
* The edit summary limit has been increased to 1000 characters (see {{phab|T6715}}). If a bot you operate relied on the old truncation limit (255 characters), please review/update your code, as overly long summaries can be disruptive/annoying. If you want to use extra characters to have more information in your edit summary, please do so intelligently.
* You will soon be able to [[Wikipedia:Notifications|ping]] users from the edit summary (see {{phab|T188469}}). If you wish to use this feature in your bot, please do so intelligently.

;Upcoming
* [[HTML Tidy]] will be [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsing/Replacing_Tidy phased out] in [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2017/28 June 2018, or possibly earlier]. This may affect some bots (see [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsing/Replacing_Tidy/FAQ#What_will_editors_need_to_do.3F FAQ]).
*

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== Books & Bytes - Issue 27 ==

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**Alexander Street (expansion)
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== Books & Bytes – Issue 28 ==

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== '''Bots Newsletter''', August 2018 ==

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Greetings!

Here is the 6th issue of the ''Bots Newsletter''. You can subscribe/unsubscribe from future newsletters by adding/removing your name from [[Wikipedia:Bots/Spam|this list]].

Highlights for this newsletter include:

;ARBCOM
*Nothing particular important happened. Those who care already know, those who don't know wouldn't care. The curious can dig ARBCOM archives themselves.

;BAG
*There were no changes in [[Wikipedia:Bot Approvals Group#Member list|BAG membership]] since the last ''Bots Newsletter''. [[User:Headbomb|Headbomb]] went from semi-active to active.
*In the last 3 months, only 3 BAG members have closed requests - help is needed with the [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests_for_approval|backlog]].

;BOTREQs and BRFAs
As of writing, we have...
* 24 active [[WP:BOTREQ|BOTREQs]], please help if you can!
* 5 open BRFAs and 3 BRFAs in need of BAG attention (see [[Wikipedia:BAG/Status|live status]]).
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Bots/Requests_for_approval/Approved&oldid=853482126 54 approved bot tasks] since the start of 2018. Of note, [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests_for_approval/Community_Tech_bot_5|Community Tech bot 5]] (the [[meta:2017 Community Wishlist Survey/Results|#10 Wish on the 2017 Community Survey]]) was approved to notify users concerning problematic images and files from [[commons:Main Page|Wikimedia Commons]].
Also
* If you're a bot operator that can [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsing/Replacing_Tidy/FAQ#What_will_editors_need_to_do.3F help] with Tidy/Linter error cleanup (see [[Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 166#Seeking intrepid technical volunteers for a mission|discussion]], [[Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 167#Remex: Pages that used to look fine are now broken|discussion]]), please [[WP:BRFA|file a BRFA]]! 
* 8 inactive bots have been deflagged (see [[Wikipedia:Bots/Noticeboard/Archive 12#Inactive bots - May 2018|discussion]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Noticeboard/Archive 12#Notice of removal of "bot" flag from RM bot|discussion]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Noticeboard/Archive 12#Removal of bot permissions from User:HasteurBot|discussion]]).

;Discussions
These are some of the discussions that happened / are still happening since the last ''Bots Newsletter''. Many are stale, but some are still active.
* [[Wikipedia:Bots/Noticeboard/Archive 12#Use of tags by bots|Use of tags by bots]] – Exploring the use of a new 'bot' tag.
* [[Wikipedia talk:Bot policy#Mass page moves|Mass page moves]] – Bot policy question/clarification about mass moves.
* [[Wikipedia talk:Bot policy#Creation of redirects|Creation of redirects]] – Bot policy question/clarification about the creation of redirects.
* [[Wikipedia talk:Bots#Guidance on disruptive use of semi-automated tools?|Guidance on disruptive use of semi–automated tools?]] – Related to meatbots (see also [[Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive 205#Proposed footnote to discourage mass changes|MOS discussion]], which resulted in small addition to [[MOS:VAR]]).
* [[Wikipedia:Bots/Noticeboard#Discussion concerning WP:BOTFLAG/WP:RC|Discussion concerning WP:BOTFLAG/WP:RC]] – A reminder that bots should use the bot flag when it makes sense to use it (see also [[Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 167#Bot edits not hidden in RecentChanges|VPT discussion]] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia%3ACreating_a_bot&type=revision&diff=853715828&oldid=852064145 CREATEBOT update]).
* [[Wikipedia:Bots/Noticeboard#Out of curiosity... (to all bot operators)|Out of curiosity... (to all bot operators)]] – BotPasswords vs OAuth usage amongst bot operators.
* [[Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 165#Introducing Toolhub|Introducing Toolhub]] – [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Toolhub Toolhub] is looking for feedback.

;New things
* {{tl|Automated tools}}, a new template linking to user-activated tools and scripts has been created. It can be used in articles previews, and can be placed on any non-mainspace page/template (e.g. {{tl|Draft article}}) to provide convenient links to editors.
* [https://sourceforge.net/p/autowikibrowser/code/12218/ AWB 5.10.0.0] is out, after nearly 20 months without updates. If you run an old version, you will be prompted to install the new version automatically. See the [[WP:AWB/H#5.10.0.0|changelog]] for what's new. Note that the [[WP:AWB/H#x.x.x.x|next version]] will require [[.NET Framework#4.5|.NET Framework 4.5]]. Many thanks to [[User:Reedy|Reedy]] and the AWB team.
* [https://tools.wmflabs.org/botwatch/ BotWatch], "a listing of editors that have made >2 edits per minute [without] a bot flag", is being developed by [[User:SQL|SQL]] (see [[Wikipedia talk:Bot Approvals Group#Alpha Tool: Botwatch|discussion]]).
* Massive updates and improvements have been made to [[User:Citation bot|Citation bot]] in the past few months (see [[User talk:Citation bot/Archive 7|discussions]], [[User talk:Citation bot/Archive 8|discussions]], [[User talk:Citation bot/Archive 9|discussions]]). You can activate the bot [https://tools.wmflabs.org/citations/doibot.html here], amongst other methods.
* [[HTML Tidy]] has been [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsing/Replacing_Tidy phased out] (see [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2018/28 Tech News #28]).
* {{tl|Newbot}} has been reorganized a bit ([https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Newbot&diff=843103357&oldid=827251051 diff]). In particular, it links to previously approved BRFAs (see [[Wikipedia:Bots/Noticeboard/Archive 12#Appearance of Template:Newbot|discussion]]).
* [[Wikipedia:Bots#See also]] has been reorganized a bit ([https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Bots&diff=843957541&oldid=843956859 diff]).
* The [[Wikipedia:Bots/Dictionary|bot dictionary]] has two new entries, ''[[Wikipedia:Bots/Dictionary#Context bot|context bot]]'' and ''[[Wikipedia:Bots/Dictionary#Context-sensitive edit|context-sensitive edit]]''.
* The [[Wikipedia:Bot requests/Header|bot request header]] has been updated to include better guidance (see [[Wikipedia talk:Bot requests#Wikipedia:Bot requests/Header update|discussion]]).
* The subcategories of [[:Category:Wikipedia bot requests for approval]] have been sorted in a consistent manner to make past BRFAs easier to find.
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== Books & Bytes, Issue 32 ==

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*New and expanded partners
*Wikimedia and Libraries User Group update
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[[File:Fifteen Year Society userbox.svg|left|125px|link=Wikipedia:Fifteen Year Society]] Dear {{PAGENAME}},

I'd like to extend a cordial invitation to you to join the '''[[Wikipedia:Fifteen Year Society|Fifteen Year Society]]''', an informal group for editors who've been participating in the Wikipedia project for fifteen years or more. &#x200B;

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== Books & Bytes, Issue 33 ==

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*<nowiki>#</nowiki>1Lib1Ref
*Wikimedia and Libraries User Group update
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You have been a member of [[Wiki Project Med Foundation]] (WPMEDF) in the past. Your membership, however, appears to have expired. As such this is a friendly reminder encouraging you to officially rejoin WPMEDF. There are no associated costs. Membership gives you the right to vote in elections for the board. The current membership round ends in 2020. 

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== Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 7 ==


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Hello everyone and welcome to the 7th issue of the Wikipedia [[Wikipedia:Scripts++|Scripts++ Newsletter]]:

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:[[File:Cscr-featured.svg|20px|alt=Featured script|This month's featured script]] [[User:Evad37/MoveToDraft|Evad37's MoveToDraft]]

:[[File:Gnome-colors-list-add.svg|20px|alt=New scripts|New]] [[User:MJL/textDisallow|MJL's textDisallow]]{{*}} [[User:Opencooper/talkCount|Opencooper's talkCount]]{{*}} [[User:Guywan/Scripts/LEA|Guywan's List Entry Annotator]]
:: [[User:SD0001|SD0001]]: [[User:SD0001/DYK-helper|DYK-helper]]{{*}} [[User:SD0001/find-archived-section|find-archived-section]]{{*}} [[User:SD0001/draft-sort-burst|draft-sort-burst]]{{*}} [[User:SD0001/UnassessedArticleLinks|UnassessedArticleLinks]]{{*}} [[User:SD0001/StubSorter|StubSorter]]
:: [[User:DannyS712|DannyS712]]: [[User:DannyS712/Subcategories|Subcategories]]{{*}} [[User:DannyS712/Examine edits|Examine edits]]{{*}} [[User:DannyS712/ExpandHistory|ExpandHistory]]{{*}} [[User:DannyS712/Global watchlist|Global watchlist]]

:[[File:Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg|20px|alt=Updated scripts|Updated]] [[User:DannyS712/DiscussionCloser|DannyS712's DiscussionCloser]]

[[File:Ambox important.svg|20px|alt=]] '''Open tasks'''
* [[User:DannyS712/Undo|FR30799386's mobileUndo]] (maintained on enwiki by DannyS712) is currently a proposed gadget. Join the discussion at [[Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)#Undo script|the village pump]]
* [[User:Interstellarity|Interstellarity]] has [[Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)#Pending changes|requested help]] with forking [[User:Joshua Scott/Scripts/pendingchanges.js|Joshua Scott's pending changes script]] to add a feature

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[[File:Info Simple bw.svg|20px|alt=]] '''Miscellaneous'''
* After [[Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:DannyS712/MMS|an MfD]], [[User:DannyS712/MMS.js|DannyS712's MMS]] was deleted. It was [[User:Abelmoschus Esculentus/MMS.js|originally created]] by {{u|Abelmoschus Esculentus}}. If you import either of these scripts, you may want to uninstall them, as they no longer exist.


Having published 6 issues of this newsletter, I decided it was time to move it out from my user space. It is now located at [[Wikipedia:Scripts++]]. Thanks, --[[User:DannyS712|DannyS712]] ([[User talk:DannyS712|talk]]) 11:45, 30 June 2019 (UTC)
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== Books & Bytes Issue 34, May – June 2019 ==

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* Partnerships
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== Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 8 ==


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Hello everyone and welcome to the 8th issue of the Wikipedia [[Wikipedia:Scripts++|Scripts++ Newsletter]]:

[[File:Farm-Fresh scripts text.png|20px|alt=Scripts]] '''Scripts''' <small>Submit your new/improved script [[Wikipedia talk:Scripts++|here]]</small>
:[[File:Cscr-featured.svg|20px|alt=Featured script|This month's featured script]] [[User:Jackmcbarn/editProtectedHelper|Jackmcbarn's editProtectedHelper]]

:[[File:Gnome-colors-list-add.svg|20px|alt=New scripts|New]] [[User:Galobtter/WatchlistLinksNewTab.js|Galobtter's WatchlistLinksNewTab]]{{*}} [[User:SD0001/watchlist-update-title|SD0001's Watchlist title updater]]{{*}} [[User:Yair rand/UserBlind.js|Yair rand's UserBlind]]
::[[User:Anne drew Andrew and Drew/ScriptSorter|Anne drew Andrew and Drew's ScritSorter]]{{*}} [[User:Masumrezarock100/mobilemorelinks|Masumrezarock100's mobilemorelinks]]
::[[User:Enterprisey|Enterprisey]]: [[User:Enterprisey/edit-section-on-hover|edit section on hover]]{{*}} [[User:Enterprisey/search-shortcuts|Search shortcuts]]{{*}} [[User:Enterprisey/superjump|superjump]]
::[[User:ZLEA|ZLEA]]: [[User:ZLEA/EditRequestLinks.js|EditRequestLinks.js]]{{*}} [[User:ZLEA/MMSLink.js|MMSLink.js]]

:[[File:Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg|20px|alt=Updated scripts|Updated]] [[User:DannyS712/Global watchlist|DannyS712's Global watchlist]]{{*}} [[User:SD0001/StubSorter|SD0001's StubSorter]]

:[[File:Farm-Fresh error go.png|20px|alt=Scripts moved to new maintainers|New maintainers]] After [[Special:Permalink/904307205#Patrolling with Sagittarius|a discussion]], [[User:Sam Sailor/Scripts/Sagittarius+.js]] has been redirected to
::[[User:Wugapodes/Capricorn.js]], and {{u|Wugapodes}} is maintaining it.

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[[File:1009Clock.jpg|20px|alt=Pending requests]] '''Pending requests'''
* [[Wikipedia:User scripts/Requests#Template:Infobox journal filler/inserter|A script to fill in &#123;&#123;Template:Infobox journal&#125;&#125;]]
* [[Wikipedia:User scripts/Requests#Script for Merging articles easily.|A tool to simplify merging articles]]
* ...and many more, all available at [[Wikipedia:User scripts/Requests]]

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Hope everyone is having a good winter (or summer, for those in the northern hemisphere). Thanks, --[[User:DannyS712|DannyS712]] ([[User talk:DannyS712|talk]]) 02:40, 1 August 2019 (UTC)
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Hi {{BASEPAGENAME}}, I have started a discussion over [[Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#Disclose_the_editors_who_are_enrolled_over_Wikipedia_Library|our Village pump]] with the aim of maintaining a public list of all editors who are granted access to any TWL resource. Your thoughts and opinions on the proposal are welcome:-) Regards, [[User:Winged Blades of Godric|<span style="color: red">&#x222F;</span><span style="font-family:Verdana"><b style="color:#070">WBG</b></span>]][[User talk:Winged Blades of Godric|<sup><span style="color:#00F">converse</span></sup>]]
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== ''Bots [[Wikipedia:Bots/News|Newsletter]]'', August 2019 ==

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Greetings!

Here is the 7th issue of the ''Bots Newsletter'', a lot happened since [[Wikipedia:Bots/News/201808|last year's newsletter]]! You can subscribe/unsubscribe from future newsletters by adding/removing your name from [[Wikipedia:Bots/Spam|this list]].

Highlights for this newsletter include:

;ARBCOM
* Nothing of note happened. Just like we like it.

;BAG
* Several ([[Wikipedia_talk:Bot_Approvals_Group/Archive_9#Inactive BAG retirement (Mr.Z-man)|1]] + [[Wikipedia_talk:Bot_Approvals_Group/Archive_9#Bulk_inactivity_removals|12]] = 13) users have been retired/resigned from the BAG due to inactivity, per [[Wikipedia:Bot Approvals Group#Activity requirements|our new activity requirements]] ([[Wikipedia talk:Bot policy/Archive 28#Should BAG members have an activity requirement?|discussion]]).
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BAG members are expected to be active on Wikipedia to have their finger on the pulse of the community. After two years without any bot-related activity (such as posting on [[:Category:Wikipedia bots|bot-related pages]], posting on a bot's talk page, or operating a bot), BAG members will be retired from BAG following a one-week notice. Retired members can re-apply for BAG membership as normal if they wish to rejoin the BAG.</blockquote>
*Two BAG members retired
** {{User|Madman}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=891278258 retired].
** {{User|BU Rob13}} [[WP:VANISHED|vanished]] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia%3ABot_Approvals_Group&type=revision&diff=905528110&oldid=891388521 retired].
* Three new BAG members have been voted in, welcome to the BAG!
** {{User|Primefac}} joined on 2018-12-12 ([[Wikipedia:Bot Approvals Group/nominations/Primefac|RfBAG]]). Primefac operates {{User|PrimeBOT}} which does a [[User:PrimeBOT#Tasks|plethora of tasks]].
** {{User|TheSandDoctor}} joined on 2019-01-21 ([[Wikipedia:Bot Approvals Group/nominations/TheSandDoctor|RfBAG]]). TheSandDoctor operates several bots including {{User|DeprecatedFixerBot}}.
** {{User|Enterprisey}} joined on 2019-08-07 ([[Wikipedia:Bot Approvals Group/nominations/Enterprisey|RfBAG]]). Enterprisey operates {{User|EnterpriseyBot}}, which does a [[User:EnterpriseyBot#Tasks|plethora of tasks]], {{User|RemindMeBot}} which posts reminders, and codes several scripts.

We thank former members for their service and wish Madman a happy retirement. We note that Madman and BU Rob13 were not inactive and could resume their BAG positions if they so wished, should their retirements happens to be temporary.

;BOTDICT
Two new entries feature in the [[WP:BOTDICT|bots dictionary]]
*[[WP:BOTDICT#Editor-hostile wikitext|''Editor-hostile wikitext'']] – describes wikitext structuring that is editor hostile, even if it renders correctly
*[[WP:BOTDICT#Threshold of usefulness|''Spectrum of usefulness'']] – describes how tasks are deemed useful or not

;BOTPOL
*[[WP:BAGREQ|Activity requirements]]: BAG members now have an activity requirement. The requirements are very light, one only needs to be involved in a bot-related area at some point within the last two years. For purpose of meeting these requirements, discussing a bot-related matter anywhere on Wikipedia counts, as does operating a bot ([[Wikipedia talk:Bot policy/Archive 28#Should BAG members have an activity requirement?|RFC]]).
*[[WP:COPYVIOFLAG|Copyvio flag]]: Bot accounts may be additionally marked by a [[WP:CRAT|bureaucrat]] upon BAG request as being in the [[Special:ListUsers/copyviobot|"copyviobot" user group]] on Wikipedia. This flag allows using the API to add metadata to edits for use in the New pages feed ([[Wikipedia:Bots/Noticeboard/Archive 12#New bot-like access group|discussion]]). There is currently [[Special:ListUsers/copyviobot|1]] bot using this functionality.
*[[WP:MASSCREATION|Mass creation]]: The restriction on mass-creation (semi-automated or automated) was extended from ''articles'', to ''all [[Wikipedia:Reader#Project versus content|content-pages]]''. There are subtleties, but ''content'' here broadly means whatever a reader could land on when browsing the mainspace in normal circumstances (e.g. Mainspace, Books, most Categories, Portals, ...). There is also a warning that [[WP:MEATBOT]] still applies in other areas (e.g. Redirects, Wikipedia namespace, Help, maintenance categories, ...) not explicitely covered by [[WP:MASSCREATION]].

;BOTREQs and BRFAs
As of writing, we have...
* 20 active [[WP:BOTREQ|BOTREQs]], please help if you can!
* 14 open BRFAs and 1 BRFA in need of BAG attention (see [[Wikipedia:BAG/Status|live status]]).
* In 2018, 96 bot task were [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Approved/Archive 14|approved]]. An [[WP:AWB|AWB]] search shows approximately 29 were withdrawn/expired, and 6 were denied.
* Since the start of 2019, 97 bot task were [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Approved|approved]]. Logs show 15 were [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval#Expired/withdrawn requests|withdrawn/expired]], and 15 were [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval#Denied requests|denied]].
* 10 inactive bots have been deflagged (see [[Wikipedia:Bots/Noticeboard/Archive 13#Inactive bots - May 2019|discussion]]). 5 other bots have been deflagged per operator requests or similar (see [[Special:Permalink/896996617#Updates|discussion]]).

;New things
*All bot-related discussion pages now have a [[Wikipedia:Bots/ArchiveBox|centralized and searchable archive box]] (see [[Wikipedia:Bots/Noticeboard/Archive_13#New_archive_box|discussion]]). Discussions are searchable per noticeboard, or globally.
*{{tl|Bot}} now supports {{para|status|expired}} (see [[Template talk:Bot#status=expired|discussion]]). This led to the deletion of [[:Category:Indefinitely blocked Wikipedia bots]] as useless (see [[Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2019 July 26#Category:Indefinitely blocked Wikipedia bots|discussion]]).
*[[WP:BOTREQ]] now mentions [[WP:SCRIPTREQ]] and [[WP:AWBTASKS]] as alternatives to bot requests.
*The [[WP:CREATEBOT|bot creation guide]] now mentions [[Help:Creating a bot#Bot Flag|bot flags]], and two new languages [[Help:Creating a bot#Awk|Awk]] and [[Help:Creating a bot#MATLAB|MATLAB]]. Other minor tweaks have been made.
*[[User:AAlertBot|AAlertBot]] has received major code updates. In particular, [[WP:AALERTS]] will now report [[WP:SPLIT|splits]], [[WP:MERGE|mergers]], and [[WP:AFC|AFC submissions]].
*[[User:Citation bot|Citation bot]] has received several updates ([[User talk:Citation bot/Archive 10]]/[[User talk:Citation bot/Archive 11|11]]/[[User talk:Citation bot/Archive 12|12]]/[[User talk:Citation bot/Archive 13|13]]/[[User talk:Citation bot/Archive 14|14]]/[[User talk:Citation bot/Archive 15|15]]/[[User talk:Citation bot/Archive 16|16]]/[[User talk:Citation bot/Archive 17|17]]). In particular, the bot stopped the automated removal of {{para|publisher}} from {{tl|cite journal}}, and stopped the automated addition of [[CiteSeerX]] links, and now uses [[meta:Help:OAuth|OAuth]] to authenticate those who make requests of the bot.

;Other discussions
These are some of the discussions that happened / are still happening since the last ''Bots Newsletter''. Many are stale, but some are still active.
* [[Wikipedia:Bots/Noticeboard/Archive 12#Adminbots requests page]]
* [[Wikipedia:Bots/Noticeboard/Archive 12#Double-redirect tagging (2019)]]
* [[Wikipedia:Bots/Noticeboard/Archive 12#Long and Winding Road to Parsoid]]
* [[Wikipedia:Bots/Noticeboard/Archive 13#Bot-like user scripts]]
* [[Wikipedia:Bots/Noticeboard/Archive 13#WP:URLREQ]]
* [[Wikipedia:Bots/Noticeboard/Archive 13#Wikipedia:Bots/Status]]
* [[Wikipedia talk:Bot Approvals Group#Minimum edits]]
* [[Wikipedia talk:Bot policy#Minor update to WP:BOTISSUE]]
* [[Wikipedia talk:Bot policy#Semi-automated Portal creation]]
* [[Wikipedia talk:Bot policy#Clarification on "Bots operated by multiple users"]]
* [[Wikipedia talk:Bot policy#Bots triggered by multiple users]]
* [[Wikipedia talk:Bots#How to use Special:ApiFeatureUsage]]

See also the latest discussions at the [[WP:BOTN|bot noticeboard]].

Thank you! <small>edited by: <span style="font-variant:small-caps; whitespace:nowrap;">[[User:Headbomb|Headbomb]]</span> 17:24, 7 August 2019 (UTC)</small>
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== Speech copyright FYI ==

Hi Geraki. Letting you know that the 1917 speech is probably not public domain in the United States, because US laws on sound recording copyrights are completely insane. If the speech is linked in an article, and accompanied by commentary, you can use {{tl|Non-free speech}} and a fair use rationale to protect it from deletion. Although, if it gets deleted again before you get around to it, we at least know where it is now. [[User:Someguy1221|Someguy1221]] ([[User talk:Someguy1221|talk]]) 08:08, 1 September 2019 (UTC)
:As you were not the original uploader of the ogg version, it appears you have not been notified that the file is [[Wikipedia:Files_for_discussion/2019_September_1#File:1917.ogg|up for discussion]]. This is a courtesy notification to rectify that omission; I am not the nominator. --[[User:kingboyk|kingboyk]] ([[User talk:Kingboyk|talk]]) 17:27, 1 September 2019 (UTC)

== Books & Bytes – Issue 35, July – August 2019 ==

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* Wikimania
* We're building something great, but..
* Wikimedia and Libraries User Group update
* A Wikibrarian's story
* Bytes in brief

<big>'''[[:m:The Wikipedia Library/Newsletter/July-August_2019|Read the full newsletter]]'''</big>
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Updates associated with [[:m:User:DannyS712/Global watchlist|DannyS712's Global watchlist script]]:

;General announcements
* Management has migrated to phabricator; to report a bug or request a feature, please create a new task with the [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/dannys712-global_watchlist.js/ script's tag]
* Message translation has been reduced; for common messages that are already translated in mediawiki core, the system translations are used, in order to reduce duplication of efforts

;Recent additions
* New pages are shown at the start of a site's feed
* Log entries are shown at the end of a site's feed
* Basic validation has been added to user settings, applied before saving
* Site validation has also been added; a site (excluding unique projects like wikidata, meta, commons, etc.) is considered to be valid if it is the form of "language.project", where both the language code and project name are valid. It does not, however, check that the actual site is valid; only that it could be. In other words, even though <code>sco.wiktionary</code> refers to a site that doesn't exist, it is considered valid, because <code>sco</code> is a valid language code (<code>sco.wikipedia</code> is a working site) and <code>wiktionary</code> is a valid project.

;Announcements
* BREAKING CHANGE: Backwards compatibility supporting the use of sites as <code>*.*.org</code> (like 'en.wikipedia.org' or 'meta.wikimedia.org'), deprecated in version 1.7.5, will be removed soon; all sites should now be saved as <code>*.*</code> (like 'de.wikinews' or 'fr.wikisource')
* BREAKING CHANGE: Storing user sites as <code>window.GlobalWatchlistSites</code>, deprecated in version version 1.11.11, will be removed soon; all settings should be stored in the <code>window.GlobalWatchlistConfig</code> object
* Both of these breaking changes will be implemented alongside version 4.0; until then, any use of the config page ([[:m:Special:BlankPage/GlobalWatchlistConfig]]) will result in saving settings in the newest format

;Next release
Version 4.0 should be released in around a week. It will include the new features mentioned above, as well as removal of backwards compatibility for settings and sites.

I've sent this first message to users that participated in the discussion at [[:m:Community Wishlist Survey 2019/Watchlists/Revive Crosswatch tool]] or otherwise shown interest in the script. To subscribe or unsubscribe from future updates, see [[:m:User:DannyS712/Global watchlist/Updates|the distribution list]].

Thanks, --[[User:DannyS712|DannyS712]] ([[User talk:DannyS712|talk]]) 16:03, 5 October 2019 (UTC)
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== Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 9 ==


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Hello everyone and welcome to the 9th issue of the Wikipedia [[Wikipedia:Scripts++|Scripts++ Newsletter]]:

[[File:Farm-Fresh scripts text.png|20px|alt=Scripts]] '''Scripts''' <small>Submit your new/improved script [[Wikipedia talk:Scripts++|here]]</small>
:[[File:Cscr-featured.svg|20px|alt=Featured script|This month's featured script]] [[User:Enterprisey/links-in-logs|Enterprisey's links-in-logs]]

:[[File:Gnome-colors-list-add.svg|20px|alt=New scripts|New]] [[User:Tokenzero/infoboxJournal|Tokenzero's infoboxJournal]]{{*}} [[User:SD0001/RFUD-helper|SD0001's RFUD-helper]]{{*}} [[User:Danski454/codeEditWindowSize|Danski454's code edit window size]]
:: [[User:BrandonXLF|BrandonXLF]]: [[User:BrandonXLF/FloatHead|FloatHead]]{{*}} [[User:BrandonXLF/ShowRevisionID|ShowRevisionID]]{{*}} [[User:BrandonXLF/EditorFirst|EditorFirst]]
:: [[User:Þjarkur|Þjarkur]]: [[User:Þjarkur/NeverUseMobileVersion|NeverUseMobileVersion]]{{*}} [[User:Þjarkur/CleanDiffURLs|CleanDiffURLs]]
:: [[User:Galobtter/scripts/adminhighlighter.js|Galobtter's admin highlighter]]{{*}} [[User:ZLEA/Dashboard|ZLEA's Dashboard]]{{*}} [[User:Cobaltcigs/DisableDragDrop|Cobaltcigs's DisableDragDrop]]

:[[File:Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg|20px|alt=Updated scripts|Updated]] [[User:SD0001/find-archived-section|SD0001's archived section finder]]

[[File:Info Simple bw.svg|20px|alt=]] '''Miscellaneous'''
* [[User:MJL/Archer|MJL's ''Archer'']] was used to break a Wikipedia record. See [[Special:Diff/910646443|the edit in question]] & <span class="plainlinks">[https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia%3AWikipedia_records&type=revision&diff=912575545&oldid=912513411 the updated records page]</span> for more.



Sorry for falling behind a bit. Please let me know if I missed any new scripts. Thanks, --[[User:DannyS712|DannyS712]] ([[User talk:DannyS712|talk]]) 01:55, 7 October 2019 (UTC)
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* [[Wikipedia:User scripts/Requests#Script for Merging articles easily.|A script to simplify merging]]
* [[Wikipedia:User scripts/Requests#Hide rollback link for unpatrolled edits|A script to tweak rollback links]]
* ...and many more, all available at [[Wikipedia:User scripts/Requests]]

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== Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 10 ==


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Hello everyone and welcome to the 10th issue of the Wikipedia [[Wikipedia:Scripts++|Scripts++ Newsletter]]:

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[[File:Farm-Fresh scripts text.png|20px|alt=Scripts]] '''Scripts''' <small>Submit your new/improved script [[Wikipedia talk:Scripts++|here]]</small>
:[[File:Cscr-featured.svg|20px|alt=Featured script|This month's featured script]] [[User:Ahecht/Scripts/pageswap|Ahecht's page swap]]

:[[File:Gnome-colors-list-add.svg|20px|alt=New scripts|New]] [[User:MoonyTheDwarf/wikimap|MoonyTheDwarf's wikimap]]
::[[User:SD0001|SD0001]]: [[User:SD0001/hide-reverted-edits|hide-reverted-edits]]{{*}} [[User:SD0001/T-Watch|T-Watch]]{{*}} [[User:SD0001/W-Ping|W-Ping]]{{*}} [[User:SD0001/easy-merge|easy-merge]]
::[[User:Enterprisey|Enterprisey]]: [[User:Enterprisey/diff-permalink|diff-permalink]]{{*}} [[User:Enterprisey/search-links|search-links]]{{*}} [[User:Enterprisey/section-redir-note|section-redir-note]]{{*}} [[User:Enterprisey/fancy-diffs|fancy-diffs]]{{*}} [[User:Evad37/EditWarChecker|EditWarChecker]]

:[[File:1009Clock.jpg|20px|alt=Pending requests]] '''Pending requests'''
:: [[Wikipedia:User scripts/Requests#Script allowing addition of inline cleanup tags directly from article page|Inline editor for cleanup tags]]
:: [[Wikipedia:User scripts/Requests#Empty parameters|Script to remove empty parameters]]
:: ...and many more, all available at [[Wikipedia:User scripts/Requests]]

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Have a great November, --[[User:DannyS712|DannyS712]] ([[User talk:DannyS712|talk]]) 22:18, 7 November 2019 (UTC)
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== Global watchlist - Update 2 ==

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Updates associated with [[:m:User:DannyS712/Global watchlist|DannyS712's Global watchlist script]]:

;General notes
* To report a bug or request a feature, please create a new task on [[phab:|Phabricator]] with the [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/dannys712-global_watchlist.js/ script's tag]

;Recent additions
* Site validation has been tightened. Previously, only the language code and project name had to be valid - now, they must be a valid combination (i.e. <code>en.wikiversity</code> exists, and so is valid, but <code>sco.wikiversity</code> is not valid, because no such wiki exists).
* When the global watchlist feed is loading, an OOUI widget will be shown, rather than an animated gif.
* An option has been added to no longer group edits to the same page. For now, this isn't very useful, since metadata for the edits (editor, summary, tags, etc.) are not yet shown, but they will be soon. Until then, ungrouped edits are treated the same as pages with only 1 edit - the minor and bot flags are displayed if applicable. If edits are grouped, the minor and bot flags are only shown if they apply to '''''all''''' of the edits.

;Upcoming changes
* Starting with version 5.0, there will be an option at the settings page to switch to and from a "stable" version of the script. When activated, the script import in your global.js should be replaced, and then the page refreshed with the new script loaded. The stable script will live at [[:m:User:DannyS712/Global watchlist/stable.js]], and will be updated with each full release. Otherwise, it shouldn't be edited, providing a version that is less prone to bugs as the script is developed.

;Announcements
* WARNING: Starting with version 5.1, the option to mark the pages of a site as seen be implemented using the <code>entirewatchlist</code> API option, rather than manually listing the titles. This is being done to simplify the implementation code. This will result in the same functionality as marking all pages as seen via [[Special:Watchlist]] (i.e. even if the page isn't visible due to your filter choices, it will still be marked as seen). If you would like to keep using the current method for a while, please switch to the stable branch.

;Next release
Version 5.0 has just gone live. It includes the new features mentioned above.

To subscribe or unsubscribe from future updates, see [[:m:User:DannyS712/Global watchlist/Updates|the distribution list]].

Thanks, --[[User:DannyS712|DannyS712]] ([[User talk:DannyS712|talk]]) 22:43, 8 November 2019 (UTC)
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The [[WP:ARBCOM|Arbitration Committee]] is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the [[Wikipedia:Arbitration|Wikipedia arbitration process]]. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose [[WP:BAN|site bans]], [[WP:TBAN|topic bans]], editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The [[Wikipedia:Arbitration/Policy|arbitration policy]] describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.

If you wish to participate in the 2019 election, please review [[Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2019/Candidates|the candidates]] and submit your choices on the '''[[Special:SecurePoll/vote/{{Arbitration Committee candidate/data|2019|poll}}|voting page]]'''.  If you no longer wish to receive these messages, you may add {{tlx|NoACEMM}} to your user talk page. [[User:MediaWiki message delivery|MediaWiki message delivery]] ([[User talk:MediaWiki message delivery|talk]]) 00:03, 19 November 2019 (UTC)
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== Books & Bytes – Issue 36 ==

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<span style="font-size: 2em; font-family: Copperplate, 'Copperplate Gothic Light', serif">'''''Books & Bytes'''''</span><br />
Issue 36, September – October 2019
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* [[m:1lib1ref|#1Lib1Ref January 2020]]
* #1Lib1Ref 2019 stories and learnings

<big>'''[[:m:The Wikipedia Library/Newsletter/September-October_2019|Read the full newsletter]]'''</big>
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== Global watchlist - Update 3 ==

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Updates associated with [[:m:User:DannyS712/Global watchlist|DannyS712's Global watchlist script]]:

;Survey
* I am investigating adding more context to each entry that is shown (such as the edit summaries, tags, patrol marks, the user who made the edit, etc.). Is there any desire for such additions? If so, what should be added first, and what is a low priority? Please leave feedback on the relevant phabricator task, [[phab:T238300]].

;Recent additions
* Site validation has been overhauled. Rather than hard-coding a list of valid sites, users will be able to watch any site where they have an attached local user account. If a site is rejected as invalid, please ensure that there is indeed a local account attached to your global account.
* Users will now be alerted regarding the results of attempting to update their settings.
* Live updates have been added - when activated, the script will refresh in the background, and then load the new feed, every 7.5 seconds. In the future, this frequency may be configurable.
* OOUI icons have been added to most buttons.
* There is now an option to eliminate the confirmation dialog when marking all sites as seen.

;Announcements
* WARNING: Starting with version 6.1, site aliases currently used when saving settings will be removed, and only sites in the form of `lang.project` will be accepted.
* As noted in the last update, marking a site as seen now uses <code>entirewatchlist</code>, which means that any changes to watched pages between when the watchlist was loaded and when the site was "marked as seen" may be ignored.

;Next release
Version 6.0 was just finalized for the development and stable branches of the script.

To subscribe or unsubscribe from future updates, see [[:m:User:DannyS712/Global watchlist/Updates|the distribution list]].

Thanks, --[[User:DannyS712|DannyS712]] ([[User talk:DannyS712|talk]]) 21:03, 22 November 2019 (UTC)
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== Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 11 ==


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News and updates associated with user scripts from the past month (November 2019).

Hello everyone and welcome to the 11th issue of the Wikipedia [[Wikipedia:Scripts++|Scripts++ Newsletter]]:

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[[File:Farm-Fresh scripts text.png|20px|alt=Scripts]] '''Scripts''' <small>Submit your new/improved script [[Wikipedia talk:Scripts++|here]]</small>
:[[File:Cscr-featured.svg|20px|alt=Featured script|This month's featured script]] [[User:Enterprisey/reply-link|Enterprisey's reply-link]]

:[[File:Gnome-colors-list-add.svg|20px|alt=New scripts|New]] [[User:Evad37/Thanky|Evad37's Thanky]]{{*}} [[User:SuperHamster/CiteUnseen.js|SuperHamster's CiteUnseen]]{{*}} [[User:Mattflaschen/Compare link.js|Mattflaschen's Compare link.js]]
:: [[User:Enterprisey|Enterprisey]]: [[User:Enterprisey/diff-context|diff-context]]{{*}} [[User:Enterprisey/fancy-diffs|fancy-diffs]]{{*}} [[User:Enterprisey/offset-history-link|offset-history-link]]
:: [[User:BrandonXLF|BrandonXLF]]: [[User:BrandonXLF/NoRedirect|NoRedirect]]{{*}} [[User:BrandonXLF/WatchDoc|WatchDoc]]{{*}} [[User:BrandonXLF/HotDefaultSort|HotDefaultSort]]{{*}} [[User:BrandonXLF/TodoList|TodoList]]

:[[File:Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg|20px|alt=Updated scripts|Updated]] [[Wikipedia:Twinkle|Twinkle]] has received multiple updates
:: [[User:Evad37/rater|Evad37's rater]] is now at version 2; see the announcement [[Special:Permalink/928311215#New version of Rater! Beta tester wanted!|here]]

[[File:Ambox important.svg|20px|alt=]] '''Open tasks'''
* For those who haven't noticed, per [[phabricator:T234576]], using <code>editToken</code> instead of <code>csrfToken</code> no longer works

[[File:Info Simple bw.svg|20px|alt=]] '''Miscellaneous'''
* Following [[Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 177#XFDcloser gadget?|a discussion]], [[Wikipedia:XFDcloser|XFDcloser]] is now available as a gadget
* [[User:Evad37|Evad37]]'s [[User:Evad37/extra.js|extra.js collection of helper functions]] is now available as [[MediaWiki:Gadget-libExtraUtil.js]]
* [[Wikipedia:Twinkle|Twinkle]]'s [[MediaWiki:Gadget-morebits.js|morebits]] is now a gadget, and is easier to use in as a dependency in other scripts (see [[Special:Permalink/926745838#Hidden gadgets|here]] for more)
* Last month's issue misidentified the creator of the new [[User:Evad37/EditWarChecker|EditWarChecker]] script; it was created by [[User:Evad37|Evad37]]
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[[File:1009Clock.jpg|20px|alt=Pending requests]] '''Pending requests'''
* [[Wikipedia:User scripts/Requests#TFD holding cell: button to mark template as ready for deletion|A button to mark templates in the TfD holding cell as ready for deletion]]
* ...and many more, all available at [[Wikipedia:User scripts/Requests]]

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Enjoy your thanksgiving --[[User:DannyS712|DannyS712]] ([[User talk:DannyS712|talk]]) 08:22, 28 November 2019 (UTC)
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== Global watchlist - Update 4 ==

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Updates associated with [[:m:User:DannyS712/Global watchlist|DannyS712's Global watchlist script]]:

;Recent additions
* A new "fast" mode has been introduced. When used, the watchlist serves as just a list of pages that have been modified, and no longer includes context about the edits themselves.
* More information has been added to entries. When edits are not grouped by page, or when there is only 1 edit to a page, minor and bot flags are shown, as well as the user who made the edit, the summary used, and any tags that were applied. When multiple entries are grouped, bot and minor flags are only shown if ''all'' of the grouped edits were made by bots or where marked as minor. If only 1 user edited the page, that user's name is still shown, but no summaries or tags are included.
* All watchlists are now fetched in parallel, rather than in series, greatly reducing load time.

;Technical notes
* Most of the source code is now annotated with jsdoc notes, allowing others to more clearly understand and review the code.
* I will be looking into creating guidelines to let others contribute to the script; see [[phab:T238298]].

;Translations
* There is now proper qqq documentation for translations. Translation takes place at [[:m:User:DannyS712/Global watchlist/Translate]], and help is appreciated.
* Newly translated messages are added to the script when I notice them; if you have translated messages that aren't showing up, please let me know at [[:m:User talk:DannyS712]].

;Next release
Version 7.0 was just finalized for the development and stable branches of the script.

To subscribe or unsubscribe from future updates, see [[:m:User:DannyS712/Global watchlist/Updates|the distribution list]].

Thanks, --[[User:DannyS712|DannyS712]] ([[User talk:DannyS712|talk]]) 04:37, 15 December 2019 (UTC)
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== Books & Bytes – Issue 37 ==

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<span style="font-size: 2em; font-family: Copperplate, 'Copperplate Gothic Light', serif">'''''Books & Bytes'''''</span><br />
Issue 37, November – December 2019
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* [[m:1lib1ref|#1Lib1Ref]]
* Wikimedia and Libraries User Group

<big>'''[[:m:The Wikipedia Library/Newsletter/November-December 2019|Read the full newsletter]]'''</big>
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== Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 12 ==


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Hello everyone and welcome to the 12th issue issue of the Wikipedia [[Wikipedia:Scripts++|Scripts++ Newsletter]]:

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:[[File:Cscr-featured.svg|20px|alt=Featured script|This month's featured script]] [[Wikipedia:XFDcloser|XFDcloser]] (now a gadget) is this issue's featured script

:[[File:Gnome-colors-list-add.svg|20px|alt=New scripts|New]] [[User:Suffusion of Yellow/mark-reverted|Suffusion of Yellow's mark-reverted]]{{*}} [[User:Majavah/Unslashifier.js|Majavah's unslashifier]]
:: [[User:Guywan|Guywan]]'s [[User:Guywan/Scripts/BulletSort|BulletSort]] and [[User:Guywan/Scripts/HistoryHighlight|HistoryHighlight]]
:: [[User:BrandonXLF|BrandonXLF]]'s [[User:BrandonXLF/QuickEdit|QuickEdit]] and [[User:BrandonXLF/CompareRevisions|CompareRevisions]]

:[[File:Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg|20px|alt=Updated scripts|Updated]] [[User:Enterprisey/fancy-diffs|Enterprisey's fancy-diff]] {{tq|should now be able to handle everything the parser can throw at it.}}
:: [[Wikipedia:Twinkle|Twinkle]] has a new update ([[Wikipedia talk:Twinkle#January 2020 Twinkle updates, features, and behaviors (2020-01-24)|more]]). It now supports partial blocks and includes the select2 library as a dependency.<br>Select2 is available at [[MediaWiki:Gadget-select2.min.js]] for other gadgets and scripts to use.



[[File:Info Simple bw.svg|20px|alt=]] '''Miscellaneous'''
:Until now, this newsletter has been written primarily by me (DannyS712).
:If others would like to contribute, help is always appreciated;
:this was intended to be a community newsletter.

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[[File:1009Clock.jpg|20px|alt=Pending requests]] '''Pending requests'''<br>
A number of requests are listed at [[Wikipedia:User scripts/Requests#Some ideas]].<br>
Some of the remaining ideas include scripts to:
* expand a diff until it covers all contiguous edits made by that user
* highlight which content (in the HTML) comes from which template
* hyperlink "per X" to the last comment X made
* show a pop-up section preview when you hover over its TOC link
...and many more, all available at [[Wikipedia:User scripts/Requests]]

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Thanks, --[[User:DannyS712|DannyS712]] ([[User talk:DannyS712|talk]]) 06:12, 5 February 2020 (UTC)
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== Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 13 ==

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News and updates associated with user scripts from the past month (February 2019).

Hello everyone and welcome to the 13th issue of the Wikipedia [[Wikipedia:Scripts++|Scripts++ Newsletter]]:

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[[File:Farm-Fresh scripts text.png|20px|alt=Scripts]] '''Scripts''' <small>Submit your new/improved script [[Wikipedia talk:Scripts++|here]]</small>
:[[File:Cscr-featured.svg|20px|alt=Featured script|This month's featured script]] [[User:Cobaltcigs/DiffPreviewFindLine|Cobaltcigs's DiffPreviewFindLine]] is this month's featured script

:[[File:Gnome-colors-list-add.svg|20px|alt=New scripts|New]] [[User:Amorymeltzer/scripts#History button links|Amorymeltzer's History button links]]{{*}} [[User:Headbomb/unreliable|Headbomb's Unreliable/Predatory Source Detector]]
::[[User:Interstellarity|Interstellarity]]'s [[User:Interstellarity/Semi-protected edit requests.js|Semi-protected edit requests]] and [[User:Interstellarity/Extended-protected edit requests.js|Extended-protected edit requests]]

:[[File:Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg|20px|alt=Updated scripts|Updated]] [[User:Amorymeltzer/crathighlighter.js|Amorymeltzer's Crat Highlighter]] now has separate colors for each user access level
::[[User:Opencooper/IPtoEmoji|Opencooper's IPtoEmoji]] has been updated

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[[File:1009Clock.jpg|20px|alt=Pending requests]] '''Pending requests'''
* [[Wikipedia:User scripts/Requests#PROD handler|A script]] to help administrators handle proposed deletions
* [[Wikipedia:User scripts/Requests#Some ideas|A script]] to hide newsletters when viewing another user's talk page
* ...and many more, all available at [[Wikipedia:User scripts/Requests]]

[[File:Text-x-source.svg|240px|alt=Scripts++ Newsletter|Scripts++ Newsletter]]
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I hope everyone is having a great year so far! --[[User:DannyS712|DannyS712]] ([[User talk:DannyS712|talk]]) 15:53, 1 March 2020 (UTC)
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== Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 14 ==

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News and updates associated with user scripts from the past month (March 2020).

Hello everyone and welcome to the 14th issue of the Wikipedia [[Wikipedia:Scripts++|Scripts++ Newsletter]]:

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[[File:Farm-Fresh scripts text.png|20px|alt=Scripts]] '''Scripts''' <small>Submit your new/improved script [[Wikipedia talk:Scripts++|here]]</small>
:[[File:Cscr-featured.svg|20px|alt=Featured script|This month's featured script]] [[User:Danski454/code-link|Danski454's code-link]] is this month's featured script

:[[File:Gnome-colors-list-add.svg|20px|alt=New scripts|New]] [[User:RealFakeKim/Scripts/pageInfo|RealFakeKim's pageInfo]]{{*}} [[User:Guywan|Guywan]]: [[User:Guywan/Scripts/InsertShortcuts|InsertShortcuts]]{{*}} [[User:Guywan/Scripts/ConfirmLogout|ConfirmLogout]]

:[[File:Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg|20px|alt=Updated scripts|Updated]] [[User:Headbomb/unreliable|Headbomb's Unreliable/Predatory Source Detector]] has been updated to include more sources
:* [[User:Evad37/rater|Evad37's rater script]] is now on version 2.5. New features include:
::# No longer showing dropdowns for projects without ratings
::# Making use of [[:Category:WikiProject banner templates not based on WPBannerMeta]] to detect templates
::# Automatically detecting Good Article, Featured Article, and Featured List status, and limiting ORES predictions to B-class
:* An updated version of [[Wikipedia:Twinkle|Twinkle]] was released. Features relating to the recently-enabled<br>partial blocks include automatic lookup of pages and expanded options for block templates.<br>See a full list of changes [[Wikipedia talk:Twinkle#March 2020 Twinkle updates, features, and behaviors (2020-03-04 @712686d)|here]]
:* For users of [[User:Enterprisey/easy-brfa|Enterprisey's easy-brfa]] script, the bug with transcluding new BRFAs has been resolved
:* [[User:Guywan/Scripts/RefCruncher|Guywan's RefCruncher]] has had minor updates

[[File:Info Simple bw.svg|20px|alt=]] '''Miscellaneous'''
* For any scripts that previously made use of the <code>edit</code> API to change a page's content model,<br>a new API module is available: use <code>action=changecontentmodel</code> to specify the new <br>content model of an existing page. Documentation is available: [[mw:API:ChangeContentModel]].
* The dispute resolution noticeboard wizard is no longer a gadget, but rather is loaded using<br><code>withJS</code> and <code>withCSS</code>. See the discussion at [[MediaWiki talk:Gadget-DRN-wizard.js]]

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[[File:1009Clock.jpg|20px|alt=Pending requests]] '''Pending requests'''
* A script to help file movers process requests, including
*# renaming the file
*# updating file links
*# removing the {{tl|Rename media}} template (when relevant)
* ...and many more, all available at [[Wikipedia:User scripts/Requests]]

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Stay safe, --[[User:DannyS712|DannyS712]] ([[User talk:DannyS712|talk]]) 05:48, 1 April 2020 (UTC)
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== Issue 38, January – April 2020 ==

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<span style="font-size: 2em; font-family: Copperplate, 'Copperplate Gothic Light', serif">'''''Books & Bytes'''''</span><br />
Issue 38, January – April 2020
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* New partnership
* Global roundup

<big>'''[[:m:The Wikipedia Library/Newsletter/January-April 2020|Read the full newsletter]]'''</big>
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<small>On behalf of The Wikipedia Library team --15:57, 29 April 2020 (UTC)</small>
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== Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 15 ==

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News and updates associated with user scripts from the past month (April 2020).

Hello everyone and welcome to the 15th issue of the Wikipedia [[Wikipedia:Scripts++|Scripts++ Newsletter]]:

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[[File:Farm-Fresh scripts text.png|20px|alt=Scripts]] '''Scripts''' <small>Submit your new/improved script [[Wikipedia talk:Scripts++|here]]</small>
:[[File:Cscr-featured.svg|20px|alt=Featured script|This month's featured script]] [[User:SD0001/find-archived-section|SD0001's find-archived-section]], now a gadget, is this month's featured script

:[[File:Gnome-colors-list-add.svg|20px|alt=New scripts|New]] [[User:Enterprisey|Enterprisey]]:
::# [[User:Enterprisey/link-deleted-revs|link-deleted-revs]] (On error pages for deleted revisions, show a link to the Special:Undelete page)
::# [[User:Enterprisey/undelete-backlink|undelete-backlink]] (On Special:Undelete pages for diffs and revisions, link back to the main Undelete page with the list of revisions)
:: [[User:Epicgenius/sortcategories.js|Epicgenius's sortcategories]] (sorts categories in an article alphabetically)
:: [[User:Awesome Aasim|Awesome Aasim]]:
::# [[User:Awesome Aasim/addmylinks|addmylinks]] (adds a customizable area for links and/or text to the sidebar)
::# [[User:Awesome Aasim/editrequest|editrequest]] (tool that allows for processing and answering edit requests)
:: [[User:DemonDays64/Scripts/Dumb quotes|DemonDays64's Dumb quotes]] (replaces smart curly single and double quotes with "dumb" quotes)
:: [[User:Guywan/Scripts/FileMoverHelper.js|Guywan's FileMoverHelper]] (move files and replace their uses in one action)

:[[File:Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg|20px|alt=Updated scripts|Updated]] [[User:Enterprisey/reply-link|Enterprisey's reply-link]] has been updated to fail less, especially around template transclusions.
::[[Wikipedia:Twinkle|Twinkle]] released new features, including a new option to disable individual modules, support for stub template nomination at CfD, and integration with the PageTriage extension used to patrol new pages. <small>''([[Wikipedia talk:Twinkle#April 2020 Twinkle updates, features, and behaviors (2020-04-25) @ffe5bbed|See full list of changes]])''</small>

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[[File:Ambox important.svg|20px|alt=]] '''Open tasks'''
* The <code>mediawiki.notify</code> resource loader module was deprecated and is no longer needed; its functionality is now available by default. See [[:mw:ResourceLoader/Migration guide (users)]] for more. Any dependency on it should be removed.

[[File:1009Clock.jpg|20px|alt=Pending requests]] '''Pending requests'''
* [[Wikipedia:User scripts/Requests#Live reload|A script to reload feeds automatically]]
* [[Wikipedia:User scripts/Requests#TFD holding cell: button to mark template as ready for deletion|A script to mark templates in the TFD holding cell as ready for deletion]]
* ...and many more, all available at [[Wikipedia:User scripts/Requests]]

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[[File:Info Simple bw.svg|20px|alt=]] '''Miscellaneous'''
* [[Wikipedia:User scripts/Most imported scripts]] now also shows the number of active users for each script. It will now be updated by a bot periodically.
* Twinkle's [[MediaWiki:Gadget-morebits.js|Morebits library]] added a new <code>Morebits.date</code> class to replace the moment library. It can handle custom formatting and natural language for dates, as well as section header regexes. If you were using <code>getUTCMonthName</code> or <code>getUTCMonthNameAbbrev</code> with <code>Date</code> objects, those have been deprecated and should [[Wikipedia_talk:Twinkle#Technical_changes|be updated]].
* [[User:SD0001/find-archived-section]] was made a gadget. You can enable it from your [[Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-gadgets|gadget preferences]], in the Browsing section.

Hope everyone stays safe. --[[User:DannyS712|DannyS712]] ([[User talk:DannyS712|talk]]) 20:27, 1 May 2020 (UTC)
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== Books & Bytes – Issue 39, May – June 2020 ==

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<span style="font-size: 2em; font-family: Copperplate, 'Copperplate Gothic Light', serif">'''''Books & Bytes'''''</span><br />
Issue 39, May – June 2020
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* Library Card Platform
* New partnerships
** ProQuest
** Springer Nature
** BioOne
** CEEOL
** IWA Publishing
** ICE Publishing
* Bytes in brief

<big>'''[[:m:The Wikipedia Library/Newsletter/May-June 2020|Read the full newsletter]]'''</big>
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Thank you for your interest and contributions to WikiLoop Battlefield.
We are holding a voting for proposed new name. We would like to invite you to this voting. The voting
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== Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 16 ==

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News and updates associated with user scripts from the past two months (May and June 2020).

Hello everyone and welcome to the 16th issue of the Wikipedia [[Wikipedia:Scripts++|Scripts++ Newsletter]]:

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[[File:Farm-Fresh scripts text.png|20px|alt=Scripts]] '''Scripts''' <small>Submit your new/improved script [[Wikipedia talk:Scripts++|here]]</small>
:[[File:Cscr-featured.svg|20px|alt=Featured script|This month's featured script]] [[User:Ed6767/redwarn|Ed6767's redwarn]] is this month's featured script

:[[File:Gnome-colors-list-add.svg|20px|alt=New scripts|New]] [[User:Enterprisey|Enterprisey]]: [[User:Enterprisey/abusefilter-diff-check|abusefilter-diff-check]]{{*}} [[User:Enterprisey/abusefilter-hide-search|abusefilter-hide-search]]{{*}} [[User:Enterprisey/live-reload|live-reload]]{{*}} [[User:Enterprisey/quick-vand-block|quick-vand-block]]{{*}}
:: [[User:Enterprisey/abusefilter-mass-test|abusefilter-mass-test]]{{*}} [[User:Enterprisey/simple-notifs|simple-notifs]]{{*}} [[User:Enterprisey/rc-thanks]]
:* [[User:DannyS712/RemindMe|DannyS712's RemindMe]]{{*}} [[User:Majavah/Aligner|Majavah's Aligner]]
:* [[User:BrandonXLF|BrandonXLF]]: [[User:BrandonXLF/ShowUserGender|ShowUserGender]]{{*}} [[User:BrandonXLF/ReferenceExpander|ReferenceExpander]]
:* [[User:Awesome Aasim|Awesome Aasim]]: [[User:Awesome Aasim/oneclickdelete|oneclickdelete]]{{*}} [[User:Awesome Aasim/noeditredlinks.js|noeditredlinks.js]]{{*}} [[User:Awesome Aasim/editrequest|editrequest]]
:* [[User:TheTVExpert|TheTVExpert]]: [[User:TheTVExpert/searchForSection|searchForSection]]{{*}} [[User:TheTVExpert/scriptDocumentationTabs|scriptDocumentationTabs]]
:* [[User:Alex 21|Alex 21]]: [[User:Alex 21/script-categoriessort.js|script-categoriessort.js]]{{*}} [[User:Alex 21/script-imageres.js|script-imageres.js]]
:* [[User:Ed6767/redwarn|Ed6767's redwarn]]

:[[File:Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg|20px|alt=Updated scripts|Updated]] [[Wikipedia:Twinkle|Twinkle]] released new features, including a rollback links on history pages and Special:Recentchanges,
::the ability to rollback-in-place on Recent changes and Contributions, a new option autoselect warning
::level, and an XfD log. <small>''(Enable in your [[WP:TW/PREF|prefences]]; [[Wikipedia talk:Twinkle#June 2020 Twinkle updates, features, and behaviors (2020-06-13) @6a11ff8|See full list of changes]])''</small>
:* [[User:Headbomb/unreliable|Headbomb's unreliable source detector script]] now allows users to add their own custom rules. See the documentation at [[User:Headbomb/unreliable#Custom rules]].

[[File:Ambox important.svg|20px|alt=]] '''Open tasks'''
* Recent changes to the vector skin may have broken some scripts and gadgets. Uses of the <code>.vectorTabs</code> selector
: should be replaced with <code>.vector-menu-tabs</code>. Additionally, <code>.menu</code> should be replaced with <code><nowiki><ul></nowiki></code>, and <code>.vectorMenu</code>
: should be replaced with <code>.vector-menu</code>. See [[phabricator:T255718]] and [[phabricator:T254797]] for more.

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[[File:1009Clock.jpg|20px|alt=Pending requests]] '''Pending requests'''
* A script to simplify the process of nominating articles for good article reassessment ([[Wikipedia:User scripts/Requests#Good article reassessment script|request]])
* A script to help create navboxes ([[Wikipedia:User scripts/Requests#Navbox user script|request]])
* ...and many more, all available at [[Wikipedia:User scripts/Requests]]

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If anyone else would like to contribute to future issues, please comment at [[Wikipedia talk:Scripts++]]. --[[User:DannyS712|DannyS712]] ([[User talk:DannyS712|talk]]) 20:13, 30 June 2020 (UTC)
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== Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 17 ==

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News and updates associated with user scripts from the past two months (July and August 2020).

Hello everyone and welcome to the 17th issue of the Wikipedia [[Wikipedia:Scripts++|Scripts++ Newsletter]]:

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[[File:Farm-Fresh scripts text.png|20px|alt=Scripts]] '''Scripts''' <small>Submit your new/improved script [[Wikipedia talk:Scripts++|here]]</small>
:[[File:Cscr-featured.svg|20px|alt=Featured script|This month's featured script]] [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Articles for creation/Helper script|Yet another Articles for creation helper script ("AFCH")]], a gadget used by [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Articles for creation|Articles for creation]] reviewers, is this month's featured script

:[[File:Gnome-colors-list-add.svg|20px|alt=New scripts|New]] [[User:Opencooper/collapseBots|Opencooper's collapseBots]] declutters talk pages by collapsing comments made by bots
: [[User:SD0001/GAR-helper|SD0001's GAR-helper]] is a script to easily create a GAR nomination and carry out the necessary related steps
: [[User:SD0001/shortdescs-in-category|SD0001's shortdescs-in-category]] can be used to view short descriptions of pages in a category
: [[User:WikiMacaroons/Talk to Wiki|WikiMacaroons's Talk to Wiki]] allows for voice-activated functionality and navigation of Wikipedia
: [[User:WikiMacaroons/AutoShortDesc|WikiMacaroons's AutoShortDesc]] simplifies the addition of short descriptions to pages
: [[User:IagoQnsi/ipareader|IagoQnsi's ipareader]] adds a button next to IPA pronunciations to have them read out by a text-to-speech program
: [[User:Awesome Aasim/xfdvote|Awesome Aasim's xfdvote]] makes it easier to participate in XFD discussions
: [[User:BrandonXLF/CitationStyleMarker|BrandonXLF's CitationStyleMarker]] adds "CS1" or "CS2" beside citations to show their style with an optional toggle
: [[User:GeneralNotability/spihelper|GeneralNotability's spihelper]] a script to help CheckUsers, SPI clerks, and patrolling admins with sockpuppet investigation case pages
: [[User:Evad37/TimestampDiffs|Evad37's TimestampDiffs]] adds a link at the end of every comment to the diff in which it was added

:[[File:Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg|20px|alt=Updated scripts|Updated]] [[Wikipedia_talk:Twinkle#July_2020_Twinkle_updates,_features,_and_behaviors_(2020-07-19)_@2b6f9a7|Twinkle]] has a number of improvements including additional [[WP:RCAT|redirect category]] templates
: Updates to [[User:Enterprisey/reply-link|Enterprisey's reply-link]] include compatibility fixes with [[User:Mdaniels5757/markAdmins|Mdaniels5757's markAdmins script]] and [[User:Kephir/gadgets/unclutter|Kephir's unclutter script]]
: [[User:Evad37/rater|Evad37's rater]] is now at version 2.6.0, which updates including OOUI tweaks and the inclusion of banners for inactive projects

[[File:Info Simple bw.svg|20px|alt=]] '''Miscellaneous'''
* If anyone would like to help contribute to this newsletter, please leave a note at [[Wikipedia talk:Scripts++]]

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[[File:1009Clock.jpg|20px|alt=Pending requests]] '''Pending requests'''
* [[Wikipedia:User scripts/Requests#Automate adding 'connected contributor' and 'connected contributor (paid)' templates to article talk pages|A script to simplify addition of "connected contributor" templates to talk pages]]
* [[Wikipedia:User scripts/Requests#Removing a template and its associated parameters|A script to simplify removal of the "persondata" template on mlwiki]]
* ...and many more, all available at [[Wikipedia:User scripts/Requests]]

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== Books & Bytes – Issue 40 ==

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== Books & Bytes – Issue 41 ==

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== Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 18 ==

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News and updates associated with user scripts from the past three months (September, October, and November 2020).

Hello everyone and welcome to the 18th issue of the Wikipedia [[Wikipedia:Scripts++|Scripts++ Newsletter]]:

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[[File:Farm-Fresh scripts text.png|20px|alt=Scripts]] '''Scripts''' <small>Submit your new/improved script [[Wikipedia talk:Scripts++|here]]</small>
:[[File:Cscr-featured.svg|20px|alt=Featured script|This month's featured script]] [[User:SD0001/W-Ping|SD0001's W-Ping]] is this month's featured script

:[[File:Gnome-colors-list-add.svg|20px|alt=New scripts|New]] [[User:Sportzpikachu/bookmarks|Sportzpikachu's bookmarks]] adds a bookmarks section to the navigation toolbar
:[[User:SD0001/deleted-metadata-link.js|SD0001's deleted-metadata-link.js]] adds links to the deletedrevisions API output for deleted pages
:[[User:SD0001/GAN-helper|SD0001's GAN-helper]] makes it easier to create a GAN nomination.
:[[User:1234qwer1234qwer4/XfDstarted|1234qwer1234qwer4's XfDstarted scripts]] add links to today's XfD log pages to the personal toolbar
:[[User:Awesome Aasim/rcpatrol|Awesome Aasim's rcpatrol]] is a tool that can be used to patrol recent changes, including reverting edits and warning users
:A new JavaScript snippet, [[MediaWiki:AFC-add-project-tags.js]], can be used to add WikiProject tags to drafts at [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Articles for creation/Add WikiProject tags]] without actually needing to install a user script.
:[[User:Nardog/PlayAudioNow|Nardog's PlayAudioNow]] makes {{tl|audio}} links playable while staying on the page, regardless of the format
:[[User:GeneralNotability/ip-ext-info.js|GeneralNotability's ip-ext-info.js]] adds extended info on IPs in a popup with their range, ASN, and ISP
:[[User:TheTVExpert/submitRMTR|TheTVExpert's submitRMTR]] adds a button to [[Special:MovePage]] to submit a technical request at [[Wikipedia:Requested moves/Technical requests]]
:[[User:TheTVExpert/rmCloser|TheTVExpert's rmCloser]] helps with closing and relisting requested moves.
:[[User:Enterprisey/parsoid-round-trip|Enterprisey's parsoid-round-trip]] uses [[:mw:Special:MyLanguage/Parsoid|Parsoid]] to convert wikitext to HTML and back, and then shows the result and the difference between the original wikitext and the post-conversion wikitext.
:[[User:Frietjes/infoboxgap|Frietjes's infoboxgap]] assists in renumbering infobox labels/data/classes, so that a new line can be inserted in the middle of the infobox.

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[[File:1009Clock.jpg|20px|alt=Pending requests]] '''Pending requests'''
* [[Wikipedia:User scripts/Requests#Vital Articles helper|A request]] for a script to help with maintaining the lists of [[Wikipedia:Vital articles|vital articles]]
* [[Wikipedia:User scripts/Requests#OneClickArchiver for lists|A request]] for a script to make it easier to archive specific list entries, rather than whole discussion sections
* ...and many more, all available at [[Wikipedia:User scripts/Requests]]

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:[[File:Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg|20px|alt=Updated scripts|Updated]] [[Wikipedia:Twinkle|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.
: [[User:SD0001/shortdescs-in-category|SD0001's shortdescs-in-category]] is now compatible with scripts modifying category listings, such as [[User:Equazcion/CatListMainTalkLinks|Equazcion's CatListMainTalkLinks]]
:[[User:GhostInTheMachine/TalkHelper2|GhostInTheMachine's TalkHelper2]] is a newer version of their prior script, [[User:GhostInTheMachine/TalkHelper|TalkHelper]]
:[[User:GeneralNotability/spihelper|GeneralNotability's spihelper]] updated to 2.2.10, fixing a number of small bugs, automatically tagging globally locked socks as such in the sockpuppet template, and restoring open cases following an SPI history merge.
:[[User:Enterprisey/script-installer|Enterprisey's script-installer]] gadget has been updated with more internationalization of messages, as well as addition of a user preference, <syntaxhighlight lang="javascript" inline>window.scriptInstallerInstallTarget</syntaxhighlight> to allow controlling where new scripts are to be installed.

[[File:Ambox important.svg|20px|alt=]] '''Open tasks'''
* [[User:Enterprisey|Enterprisey]] is looking for beta testers for their new [[User:Enterprisey/section-watchlist|section-watchlist]] user script. See [[Wikipedia talk:User scripts#section-watchlist looking for beta testers|the announcement]].

[[File:Info Simple bw.svg|20px|alt=]] '''Miscellaneous'''
* The second edition of the [[:m:Coolest Tool Award]] will be taking place in December.
* [[User:Enterprisey/links-in-logs|Enterprisey's links-in-logs]] script has now been implemented as part of MediaWiki core, see [[gerrit:640761]] and [[phab:T207562]].

My apologies for the delayed issue. As always, if anyone else would like to contribute, help is appreciated. Stay safe, --[[User:DannyS712|DannyS712]] ([[User talk:DannyS712|talk]]) 18:20, 1 December 2020 (UTC)
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== Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 19 ==

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News and updates associated with user scripts from the past month (December 2020).

Hello everyone and welcome to the 19th issue of the Wikipedia [[Wikipedia:Scripts++|Scripts++ Newsletter]]:

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[[File:Farm-Fresh scripts text.png|20px|alt=Scripts]] '''Scripts''' <small>Submit your new/improved script [[Wikipedia talk:Scripts++|here]]</small>
:[[File:Cscr-featured.svg|20px|alt=Featured script|This month's featured script]] [[User:Enterprisey/script-installer|Enterprisey's script-installer]], a gadget that makes it easier to install scripts, is this month's featured script

:[[File:Gnome-colors-list-add.svg|20px|alt=New scripts|New]] [[User:Enterprisey/copy-section-link|Enterprisey's copy-section-link]] adds popups to section headers which has an appropriate wikilink and external link to the section.
:[[:m:User:DannyS712/FindBlacklistEntry|DannyS712's FindBlacklistEntry]] can be used to figure out which line(s) in either the local or global spamblacklist prevent a particular url from being added.
:[[User:Nardog/CodeEditorAssist|Nardog's CodeEditorAssist]] allows customizing the [[:mw:code editor|code editor]], including changing the color theme and enabling live autocompletion.
:[[User:Cobaltcigs/IllWill|Cobaltcigs's IllWill]] allows searches wikidata.org for foreign-language sitelinks, to populate {{tl|ill}} and replace plain red links.

:[[File:Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg|20px|alt=Updated scripts|Updated]] [[Special:Permalink/994567514#December 2020 Twinkle updates (2020-12-16)|Twinkle]] has made a number of improvements, most notably full support for expiring watchlist items.
: [[User:Evad37/SPS|Evad37's Signpost Publishing Script]] is now at version 2.4.2, with changes including a fix for calculating the size of pages with files.
: [[User:Evad37/MoveToDraft|Evad37's MoveToDraft]] is now at version 2.5.1, with changes including:
:* checks for move conflicts and better options if move fails
:* the addition of {{tl|Drafts moved from mainspace}} after moves
:* updating the default move log and notification texts to be more in line with [[WP:DRAFTIFY]]
: [[User:Enterprisey/cv-revdel|Enterprisey's cv-revdel]] now handles failures more cleanly, including reporting failures caused by the spam blacklist.
: [[User:Bradv/Scripts/Notepad.js|Bradv's Notepad.js]] script has been updated with new styles and a new launch button.
: A beta version of [[Wikipedia:XFDcloser|XFDcloser]] is [[Wikipedia:XFDcloser/beta|available for testing]], and brings a new user interface for dialogs and some preferences for customization.

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[[File:Ambox important.svg|20px|alt=]] '''Open tasks'''
* Voting in the [[:m:Community Wishlist Survey 2021]] is ongoing until December 21, 2020. There are 15 proposals in the [[:m:Community Wishlist Survey 2021/Bots and gadgets|"bots and gadgets"]] category that may be of interest.

[[File:1009Clock.jpg|20px|alt=Pending requests]] '''Pending requests'''
* A script to help list discussions at [[WP:ANRFC]] ([[Wikipedia:User scripts/Requests#A script for listing discussions at WP:ANRFC|request]])
* A script to allow undoing edits despite conflicting intermediary edits ([[Wikipedia:User scripts/Requests#Undo even when there are intermediary edits to the paragraph|request]])
* ...and many more, all available at [[Wikipedia:User scripts/Requests]]

[[File:Info Simple bw.svg|20px|alt=]] '''Miscellaneous'''
* The [[:m:Community Tech/Watchlist Expiry|Watchlist Expiry]] feature worked on by the Community Tech team has been enabled on Wikipedia. For scripts that include watching or unwatching pages, developers may want to update their code to take advantage of the new functionality. See the documentation [[:mw:Special:MyLanguage/Help:Watchlist expiry|on mediawiki.org]].
* As noted in the prior issue, [[User:Enterprisey/links-in-logs|Enterprisey's links-in-logs]] script has now been implemented as part of MediaWiki core. By my count, this is his third script that was replaced by implementing the code in MediaWiki core or an extension, along with [[User:Enterprisey/link-section-edits|link-section-edits]] and [[User:Enterprisey/abusefilter-hide-search|abusefilter-hide-search]]. Additionally, his [[User:Enterprisey/reply-link|reply-link]] script is being converted in part to [[:mw:Extension:DiscussionTools]]. Are there any other scripts that might be worth integrating directly in MediaWiki? Thoughts would be welcome at [[Wikipedia talk:Scripts++]].

As always, if anyone else would like to contribute, help is appreciated. Stay safe, and happy holidays! --[[User:DannyS712|DannyS712]] ([[User talk:DannyS712|talk]]) 00:19, 18 December 2020 (UTC)
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You have been a member of [[Wiki Project Med Foundation]] (WPMEDF) in the past. Your membership, however, appears to have expired. As such this is a friendly reminder encouraging you to officially rejoin WPMEDF. There are no associated costs. Membership gives you the right to vote in elections for the board. The current membership round ends in 2022. 

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== Books & Bytes - Issue 42 ==

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Issue 42, November – December 2020
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* New EBSCO collections now available
* 1Lib1Ref 2021 underway
* Library Card input requested
* Libraries love Wikimedia, too!

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== Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 20 ==

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News and updates associated with user scripts from the past month (January 2021).

Hello everyone and welcome to the 20th issue of the Wikipedia [[Wikipedia:Scripts++|Scripts++ Newsletter]]:

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[[File:Farm-Fresh scripts text.png|20px|alt=Scripts]] '''Scripts''' <small>Submit your new/improved script [[Wikipedia talk:Scripts++|here]]</small>
:[[File:Gnome-colors-list-add.svg|20px|alt=New scripts|New]] [[User:Ajbura/anrfc-lister|Ajbura's anrfc-lister]] assists with listing discussions at [[WP:ANRFC]] to request that they receive a formal close
: [[User:Bradv/endlesscontribs|Bradv's endlesscontribs]] provides for endless scrolling of contributions pages
: [[User:Evad37/livenotifications|Evad37's livenotifications]] displays notification alerts and messages in a little popup box, (almost) live as they happen
: [[User:Terasail/Edit Request Tool|Terasail's Edit Request Tool]] allows users to reply to, close or remove protected edit requests
: [[User:ToBeFree/scripts/clear-watchlist|ToBeFree's clear-watchlist]] allows emptying your watchlist even if the watchlist is too full to be edited or cleared by conventional methods
: [[meta:User:Dentonius/scripts/GlobalRecentChanges.js|Dentonius's GlobalRecentChanges]] allows you to monitor recent changes across various wikis.
: [[User:Yahya/scripts/SNA|Yahya's SNA (Start New Article)]] allows you to start a new article or draft from the navigation bar.
: [[User:Nardog|Nardog]]:
:* [[User:Nardog/CatChangeLinker|CatChangeLinker]] bluelinks the "(diff | hist)" part of category additions/removals on your watchlist.
:* [[User:Nardog/CatChangesViewer|CatChangesViewer]] lists recent category additions/removals on a category page.
:* [[User:Nardog/Consecudiff|Consecudiff]] adds links to diffs of consecutive edits by the same user on watchlist, history, etc.
:* [[User:Nardog/DiffFontSwitcher|DiffFontSwitcher]] allows you to toggle between fonts for diff by clicking a line number.
:* [[User:Nardog/MoveHistory|MoveHistory]] lists the past moves a page has gone through.
: [[User:Novem Linguae|Novem Linguae]]: 
:* [[User:Novem Linguae/Scripts/UserHighlighterSimple.js|UserHighlighterSimple]] is a fork of [[User:Chlod/Scripts/UserHighlighter|Chlod's UserHighlighter]] with a simplified color scheme.
:* [[User:Novem Linguae/Scripts/VisualEditorEverywhere.js|VisualEditorEverywhere]] displays the Visual Editor edit tab and section links on pages that don't normally have them.

:[[File:Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg|20px|alt=Updated scripts|Updated]] [[User:Evad37/TimestampDiffs]] – fixed compatibility issues with various scripts/gadgets, including [[Wikipedia:Comments in Local Time]]. For discussion archives, now looks for revisions on the base page.
: [[User:Enterprisey/undo-last-edit.js]] - no longer tries to load on special pages.
: [[User:Ahecht/Scripts/pageswap]] - version 1.4 fixes reading destination from form field if destination is not in article namespace, and fixes self redirects.
: [[Wikipedia:XFDcloser]] - version 4 brings a new user interface for dialogs, some preferences for customising XFDcloser, major behind-the-scenes coding changes, and resolves various issues raised on the talkpage. Also, since version 3.16.6 non-admin soft delete closure have been allowed at TfD.

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[[File:Ambox important.svg|20px|alt=]] '''Open tasks'''
* As a reminder, the legacy javascript globals (like accessing <syntaxhighlight lang="javascript" inline>wgPageName</syntaxhighlight> without first assigning it a value or using <syntaxhighlight lang="javascript" inline>mw.config.get('wgPageName')</syntaxhighlight> instead) are deprecated. If your user scripts make use of the globals, please update them to use <syntaxhighlight lang="javascript" inline>mw.config</syntaxhighlight> instead. Some [[:m:Special:MyLanguage/Interface editors|global interface editors]] or local [[Wikipedia:Interface administrators|interface administrators]] may edit your user script to make these changes if you don't. See [[phab:T72470]] for more.

[[File:Info Simple bw.svg|20px|alt=]] '''Miscellaneous'''
*For people interested in creating user scripts or gadgets using [[TypeScript]], a types-mediawiki package ([https://github.com/wikimedia-gadgets/types-mediawiki GitHub], [https://www.npmjs.com/package/types-mediawiki NPM]) is now available that provides type definitions for the MediaWiki JS interface and the API.
*A [https://github.com/wikimedia-gadgets GitHub organization] has been created for hosting [[WP:REPOS|codebases of gadgets]]. Users who maintain gadgets using GitHub may choose to move their repos to this organization, to ensure continued maintenance by others even if the original maintainer becomes inactive.

[[File:1009Clock.jpg|20px|alt=Pending requests]] '''Pending requests'''
* [[Wikipedia:User scripts/Requests#Script for Reviewing GAs|A script to ease reviewing Good Article nominations]]
* [[Wikipedia:User scripts/Requests#A user script that automatically creates Z number templates and adds them to other templates|A script to help manage Z number templates]]
* ...and many more, all available at [[Wikipedia:User scripts/Requests]]

As always, if anyone else would like to contribute, including nominating a featured script, help is appreciated. Stay safe, and happy new year! --[[User:DannyS712|DannyS712]] ([[User talk:DannyS712|talk]]) 01:17, 3 February 2021 (UTC)
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== Books & Bytes – Issue 42 ==

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== Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 21 ==

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News and updates associated with user scripts from the past four months (February through May 2021).

Hello everyone and welcome to the 21st issue of the Wikipedia [[Wikipedia:Scripts++|Scripts++ Newsletter]]:

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[[File:Farm-Fresh scripts text.png|20px|alt=Scripts]] '''Scripts''' <small>Submit your new/improved script [[Wikipedia talk:Scripts++|here]]</small>

:[[File:Gnome-colors-list-add.svg|20px|alt=New scripts|New]] '''New scripts'''
* [[User:Alexander Davronov/HistoryHelper|Alexander Davronov's HistoryHelper]] helps to copy diff links from the history display of a page
* [[User:Aseleste/Scripts/Purger|Aseleste's Purger]] makes it easier to purge or null edit a page
* [[User:Awesome Aasim|Awesome Aasim]]:
** [[User:Awesome Aasim/CatMan|CatMan]] adds a category manager to simplify interactions for adding and removing the categories of a page
** [[User:Awesome Aasim/redirectcreator|redirectcreator]] allows for easy creation of multiple redirects
* [[User:Bop34/Userscripts/EasyDesc|Bop34's EasyDesc]] adds a link to the top navigation bar which allows you to add a short description without opening the edit menu
* [[User:BrandonXLF/NullEdit|BrandonXLF's NullEdit]] adds a portlet link to perform a null edit on a page
* [[User:Chlod|Chlod]]:
** [[User:Chlod/Scripts/FoldArchives|FoldArchives]] collapses archived talk page threads in order to reduce screen space
** [[User:Chlod/Scripts/GoToTitle|GoToTitle]] converts the page title into an input field for navigating to other pages
** [[User:Chlod/Scripts/UserHighlighter|UserHighlighter]] adds highlighting to links to the userpages, talk pages, and contributions of administrators and other user groups as well as tooltips to indicate which groups a user is in
* [[User:GhostInTheMachine|GhostInTheMachine]]:
** [[User:GhostInTheMachine/NoEditSummary|NoEditSummary]] adds a warning if an edit will be saved without an edit summary
** [[User:GhostInTheMachine/SortWhatLinksHere|SortWhatLinksHere]] sorts the links shows on [[Special:WhatLinksHere]]
** [[User:GhostInTheMachine/WatchlistTidy|WatchlistTidy]] moves the "new updates found" timestamp block from the bottom of the filter block to the top of the filter area on the watchlist
* [[User:GorillaWarfare/script/curlies|GorillaWarfare's curlies]] simplifies converting curly quotes to straight quotes while in the source editing mode
* [[User:Nardog|Nardog]]:
** [[User:Nardog/AutoSectionLink|AutoSectionLink]] corrects the <code>/* section link */</code> every time you hit "Show changes"
** [[User:Nardog/AutoTestcases|AutoTestcases]] autofills "Preview page with this template/module" with the most relevant /testcases page that exists
** [[User:Nardog/SortCentralAuthByEditCount|SortCentralAuthByEditCount]] sorts the list of local accounts on CentralAuth by edit count
* [[User:Novem Linguae|Novem Linguae]]:
** [[User:Novem Linguae/Scripts/CiteHighlighter|CiteHighlighter]] highlights 1800 sources green, yellow, or red depending on reliability.
** [[User:Novem Linguae/Scripts/NPPLinks|NPPLinks]] adds [[WP:BEFORE]] Google search links, copyvio check, duplicate article check, and other links to the left menu.
* [[User:Ritenerek/js/goce nav|Ritenerek's goce_nav]] adds a link to [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors]] to the navigation menu
* [[User:Suffusion of Yellow|Suffusion of Yellow]]:
** [[User:Suffusion of Yellow/filterDiff|filterDiff]]: Adds a "Show changes" button to the filter editor.
** [[User:Suffusion of Yellow/filterNotes|filterNotes]]: Parses filter notes as wikitext (so links are clickable), and signs and dates new comments for you.
** [[User:Suffusion of Yellow/filterTest|filterTest]]: Adds a "Test changes" button. Opens [[Special:AbuseFilter/test]] with what's ''currently'' in the edit form, not with what's saved in the database, so you don't have to copy-paste your changes.
* [[User:Terasail/COI Request Tool|Terasail's COI Request Tool]] allows users to reply to, close or remove conflict of interest edit requests

:[[File:Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg|20px|alt=Updated scripts|Updated]] '''Updated scripts'''
*[[WP:TW|Twinkle]] has a number of improvements, including that most watchlist defaults now make use of the new [[meta:Community Tech/Watchlist Expiry|temporary watchlist]] feature.  Other changes include rollbacks treating consecutive IPv6 editors in the same /64 range as the same user, adding a preview for shared IP tagging, a preference for watching users after CSD notification, and for sysops, the ability to [[WP:/64|block the /64]] and link to a [[WP:RfPP]] request, and new copyright blocks default to indefinite.
* [[Wikipedia:Shortdesc helper]] now v3.4.17, changes include minor fixes and preventing edits that don't change the description.
* [[User:BrandonXLF/CitationStyleMarker|BrandonXLF's CitationStyleMarker]] now recognizes [[WP:CSLSA]] and [[WP:CSVAN]] styles, in addition to [[WP:CS1]] and [[WP:CS2]]
* [[User:Joeytje50/JWB|Joeytje50's JWB]] now version 4.1.0, includes the ability to generate page lists from the search tool, major updates to the handling of regular expressions, the storing of user settings, the addition of upload protection, and an option to skip pages that belong to a specific category, among other changes. See [[User:Joeytje50/JWB/Changelog]] for a full list of recent changes.
* [[User:SD0001/deleted-metadata-link.js]] – updated to include a link to snippet of deleted content, instead of just metadata.

:[[File:Info Simple bw.svg|20px|alt=]] '''Miscellaneous'''
* [[Wikipedia:User scripts/List]] has been revamped to make it easier to find scripts suited for your needs. If you know of a cool script that is missing on the list, or a script on the list that is no longer working, please edit the list or let us know on [[Wikipedia talk:User scripts|the talk page]].

:[[File:1009Clock.jpg|20px|alt=Pending requests]] '''Pending requests'''
* [[Wikipedia:User scripts/Requests#Script for admins posting "recent death" items to Template:In the news|A request]] for a script to help admins posting "recent death" items to [[Template:In the news]]
* [[Wikipedia:User scripts/Requests#Warn about syntax & template errors when saving|A request]] for a script to warn users about syntax and template errors
* ...and many more, all available at [[Wikipedia:User scripts/Requests]]

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My apologies for this long-overdue issue, and if I missed any scripts.<br />Hopefully going forward we can go back to monthly releases - any help would be appreciated. Thanks, --[[User:DannyS712|DannyS712]] ([[User talk:DannyS712|talk]]) 13:04, 2 June 2021 (UTC)
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* 1Lib1Ref update

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== ''Bots Newsletter'', December 2021 ==

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Welcome to the eighth issue of the English Wikipedia's ''Bots Newsletter'', your source for all things [[Wikipedia:Bots|bot]]. Maintainers disappeared to parts unknown... bots awakening from the slumber of æons... hundreds of thousands of short descriptions... these stories, ''and more'', are brought to you by Wikipedia's most distinguished newsletter about bots.

Our [[Wikipedia:Bots/News/2019-08|last issue]] was in August 2019, so there's quite a bit of catching up to do. Due to the vast quantity of things that have happened, the next few issues will only cover a few months at a time. This month, we'll go from September 2019 through the end of the year. I won't bore you with further introductions — instead, I'll bore you with a newsletter about bots.

<span style="font-size:125%">'''Overall'''</span><br />
* Between September and December 2019, there were 33 [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval|BRFA]]s. Of these, {{yeac}} 25 were approved, and 8 were unsuccessful ({{nayd}} 3 denied, {{idkc}} 3 withdrawn, and [[File:Image-Symbol wait old.svg|20px|alt=Expired|link=]] 2 expired).

<span style="font-size:125%">'''September 2019'''</span>
[[File:Frankenstein1931CliveKarloff (cropped).jpg|thumb|Look! It's moving. It's alive. It's alive... It's alive, it's moving, it's alive, it's alive, it's alive, ''it's alive'', '''''IT'S ALIVE!''''']]
* {{yeac}} [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Monkbot 16|Monkbot 16]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/DannyS712 bot 60|DannyS712 bot 60]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Ahechtbot 6|Ahechtbot 6]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/PearBOT 3|PearBOT 3]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Qbugbot 3|Qbugbot 3]] · {{nayd}} [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/DannyS712 bot 5|DannyS712 bot 5]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/PkbwcgsBot 24|PkbwcgsBot 24]] · {{idkc}} [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/DannyS712 bot 61|DannyS712 bot 61]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/TheSandBot 4|TheSandBot 4]]
*'''TParis goes away, UTRSBot goes kaput''': [[User:Beeblebrox|Beeblebrox]] [[Wikipedia:Bots/Noticeboard/Archive_13#User:UTRSBot|noted]] that [[User:UTRSBot|the bot]] for maintaining on-wiki records of [[Wikipedia:Unblock Ticket Request System|UTRS]] appeals stopped working a while ago. [[User:TParis|TParis]], the semi-retired user who had previously run it, said they were "unlikely to return to actively editing Wikipedia", and the bot had been vanquished by trolls submitting bogus UTRS requests on behalf of real blocked users. While [[OAuth]] was a potential fix, neither maintainer had time to implement it. TParis offered to access to the UTRS WMFLabs account to any admin identified with the WMF: "I miss you guys a whole lot [...] but I've also moved on with my life. Good luck, let me know how I can help". Ultimately, [[User:SQL|SQL]] ended up in charge. Some progress was made, and the bot continued to work another couple months — but as of press time, UTRSBot has not edited since November 2019.
*'''Article-measuring contest resumed''': The [[WP:List of Wikipedians by article count|list of Wikipedians by article count]], which had lain dead for several years, was triumphantly resurrected by [[User:GreenC|GreenC]] following a [[Wikipedia:Bot_requests/Archive_79#List of Wikipedians by article count|bot request]].

<span style="font-size:125%">'''October 2019'''</span>
* {{yeac}} [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/OAbot 3|OAbot 3]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/DannyS712 bot 47|DannyS712 bot 47]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Pathbot 2|Pathbot 2]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/PearBOT 2|PearBOT 2]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/DannyS712 bot 59|DannyS712 bot 59]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/DannyS712 bot 62|DannyS712 bot 62]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/HasteurBot 14|HasteurBot 14]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/PearBOT 4|PearBOT 4]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/WOSlinkerBot 4|WOSlinkerBot 4]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/MilHistBot 5|MilHistBot 5]]
*'''Curb Safe Charmer adopts reFill''': [[User:TAnthony|TAnthony]] [[Wikipedia:Bots/Noticeboard/Archive_13#reFill_2|pointed out]] that [[WP:ReFill|reFill 2]]'s bug reports were going unanswered; creator [[User:Zhaofeng Li|Zhaofeng Li]] had retired from Wikipedia, and a maintainer was needed. As of June 2021, [[User:Curb Safe Charmer|Curb Safe Charmer]] had [[Wikipedia_talk:ReFill#Maintainer?|taken up the mantle]], saying: "Not that I have all the skills needed but better me than nobody! 'Maintainer' might be too strong a term though. Volunteers welcome!" <br />

<span style="font-size:125%">'''November 2019'''</span>
[[File:Wormhole travel as envisioned by Les Bossinas for NASA.jpg|thumb|Now you're thinking with portals.]]
* {{yeac}} [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/BHGbot 4|BHGbot 4]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/YiFeiBot 2|YiFeiBot 2]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/DannyS712 bot III 64|DannyS712 bot III 64]] · {{idkc}} [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/PearBOT|PearBOT]]
*'''Old bots do new tricks''': [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/DannyS712 bot III 64|DannyS712 bot III 64]] prowled redirects, [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/YiFeiBot 2|YiFeiBot 2]] archived [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors|GoCE]] requests, and [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/BHGbot 4|BHGbot 4]] removed links to [[Wikipedia:Contents/Portals|portals]] deleted at [[Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion|MfD]] (until its authorization was revoked in January at operator [[User:BrownHairedGirl|BrownHairedGirl]]'s [[Special:Diff/937425282|request]]).

<span style="font-size:125%">'''December 2019'''</span>
* {{yeac}} [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/DemonDays64 Bot|DemonDays64 Bot]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/DannyS712 bot III 66|DannyS712 bot III 66]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Bot1058 6|Bot1058 6]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Monkbot 15|Monkbot 15]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/MilHistBot 6|MilHistBot 6]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/PearBOT 5|PearBOT 5]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/DannyS712 bot IV 65|DannyS712 bot IV 65]] · {{nayd}} [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/SportsStatsBot|SportsStatsBot]] ·[[File:Image-Symbol wait old.svg|20px|alt=Expired|link=]] [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Xinbenlv bot|Xinbenlv bot]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/SteveBot 8|SteveBot 8]]
*'''Redirects to be autopatrolled''': A [[Wikipedia talk:New pages patrol/Reviewers/Redirect autopatrol#RfC|RfC took place]] at [[Wikipedia:New pages patrol|WP:NPP]], closing with unanimous consensus that new [[Wikipedia:Redirect|redirects]] should be [[Wikipedia:Autopatrolled|automatically marked as patrolled]] by bot. [[User:DannyS712|DannyS712]] wasted no time, and submitted [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/DannyS712 bot III 66|DannyS712 bot III 66]] the next day; it passed two days after that.
*'''200,000 bios get short descs''': Along a similar vein, [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Bot1058 6|Bot1058 6]] was approved to remove disambiguation pages from [[:Category:Monitored short pages]] and a new bot ([[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/DemonDays64 Bot|DemonDays64 Bot]]) changed lots of [[Hypertext Transfer Protocol|http]] links to [[HTTPS|https]] using [[WP:JWB|JavaScript Wiki Browser]]. One particularly neat task, [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/PearBOT 5|PearBOT 5]], automatically generated [[Wikipedia:Short description|short descriptions]] for more than 200,000 biographies.

<span style="font-size:150%">'''In the next issue of ''Bots Newsletter'':'''</span><br />
What's next for our intrepid band of coders, maintainers and approvers?
*What happens when two bots want to clerk the same page?
*What happens when an adminbot goes hog wild?
*Will reFill ever get fixed?
*What's up with [[User:ListeriaBot|ListeriaBot]], anyway?
*Python 3.4 deprecation? In ''my'' PyWikiBot? (It's more likely than you think!)
These questions will be answered — and new questions raised — by the January 2022 ''Bots Newsletter''. Tune in, or miss out!

Signing off... '''[[User:JPxG|jp]]'''×'''[[User talk:JPxG|g]]''' 04:29, 10 December 2021 (UTC)
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== Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 22 ==

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Hello everyone, and welcome to the 22nd issue of the Wikipedia [[Wikipedia:Scripts++|Scripts++ Newsletter]]. This issue will be covering new and updated user scripts from the past seven months (June through December 2021).

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[[File:Cscr-featured.svg|20px|alt=Featured script|This month's featured script]] <span style="font-size:125%">'''Featured script'''</span>
: '''[[User:Alexis Jazz/LuckyRename|LuckyRename]]''', by '''[[User:Alexis Jazz|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!

[[File:Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg|20px|alt=Updated scripts|Updated]] <span style="font-size:125%">'''Updated scripts'''</span>
* '''''[[User:SD0001|SD0001]]''''': '''[[User:SD0001/hide-reverted-edits|hide-reverted-edits]]''' has been updated to take into account changes in reversion tools like Twinkle and RedWarn.
* '''''[[User:Writ Keeper|Writ Keeper]]''''': '''[[User:Writ Keeper/Scripts/massRollback.js|massRollback.js]]''' has added a rollback-some option (missed in last issue).
* '''''[[User:ClaudineChionh|ClaudineChionh]]''''': '''[[User:ClaudineChionh/Scripts/SkinSwitcher|SkinSwitcher]]''' (a fork and update of [[User:Eizen|Eizen]]'s [[User:Eizen/SkinSwitcher|script]]) provides an options menu/toolbox/toolbar allowing users to view a given page in MediaWiki's default skins.

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[[File:1009Clock.jpg|20px|alt=Pending requests]] <span style="font-size:125%">'''Pending requests'''</span>
* Mass-patrolling at [[Special:NewPages]]
* Taking up the mantle of an almost completed peer review javascript bot
* Restore the Wikipedia Citation Tool for Google Books
* Autohighlighting specific characters (Greek)
* ...and many more, all available at [[Wikipedia:User scripts/Requests]]

[[File:Info Simple bw.svg|20px|alt=Miscellaneous]] <span style="font-size:125%">'''Miscellaneous'''</span>
* '''[[Wikipedia:User scripts/Ranking]]''' is a sortable table of Wikipedia's thousand-or-so most commonly used scripts; it includes their author, last modification date, installation count, and sometimes a short description.
* '''[[:m:Toolhub|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.
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[[File:Gnome-colors-list-add.svg|20px|alt=New scripts|New]] <span style="font-size:125%">'''New scripts'''</span>
*'''''[[User:Ahecht|Ahecht]]''''':
**'''[[User:Ahecht/Scripts/draft-sorter|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.
**'''[[User:Ahecht/Scripts/massmove|massmove]]''', a modified [[User:Plastikspork/massmove.js]] that adds a link to the left column, allows adding and removing both prefixes and suffixes.
**'''[[User:Ahecht/Scripts/watchlistcleaner|watchlistcleaner]]''' removes missing pages (redlinks), redirects, pages you haven't edited recently, and/or pages you've never edited from your watchlist.
*'''''[[User:Awesome Aasim|Awesome Aasim]]''''':
**'''[[User:Awesome Aasim/infiniscroll|Infiniscroll]]''' adds infinite scrolling to user contributions, page histories, and log pages.
**'''[[User:Awesome Aasim/quickcreate|Quick create]]''' allows for the fast creation of red-linked pages with two clicks.
*'''''[[User:Caburum|Caburum]]''''':
**'''[[User:Caburum/UTCclock|UTCclock]]''' adds a clock displaying the current UTC time.
*'''''[[User:Chlod|Chlod]]''''':
**'''[[User:Chlod/Scripts/CopiedTemplateEditor|CopiedTemplateEditor]]''', mainly for [[WP:CCI|CCI]] case handlers, allows graphically editing a talk page's {{tl|copied}} templates.
*'''''[[User:DaxServer|DaxServer]]''''':
**'''[[User:DaxServer/BooksToSfn|BooksToSfn]]''' adds a portlet link in [[WP:VE|Visual Editor]]'s source mode editing, in main namespace articles or in the user's Sandbox. When clicked, it converts one {{tlx|cite book}} inside a <code><nowiki><ref>...</ref></nowiki></code> tag block into an {{tlx|Sfn}}.
*'''''[[User:FlightTime|FlightTime]]''''':
**'''[[User:FlightTime/OneClickArchiver|OneClickArchiver]]''' is a custom version of [[User:Technical_13/Scripts/OneClickArchiver]] which doesn't prepend {{Tl|Clear}} to the top of each section on the archive page.
*'''''[[m:User:Jon Harald Søby|Jon Harald Søby]]''''':
**'''[[m:User:Jon Harald Søby/diffedit|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".
**'''[[c:User:Jon Harald Søby/warnOnLargeFile.js|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.
*'''''[[User:JPxG|JPxG]]''''':
**'''<span style="plainlinks">[https://github.com/jp-x-g/PressPass PressPass]</span>''' adds a collection of tools for Newspapers.com including configurable automatic citation generation in five different formats.
**'''[[User:JPxG/current-switcher.js|CurrentSwitcher]]''' gives you links on the contribs page to hide duplicate entries, current revisions, rollbacks, huggles, twinkles, and redwarns.
** '''[[User:JPxG/TrackSum.js|TrackSum]]''' lets you automatically sum the lengths of tracks in templates like {{tl|track listing}} and get total runtimes.
*'''''[[User:Nardog|Nardog]]''''':
**'''[[User:Nardog/CopySectLink|CopySectLink]]''' adds a button to copy the unencoded page title or section path next to each heading.
**'''[[User:Nardog/IPAInput|IPAInput]]''' allows you to type in IPA symbols by directly looking at an IPA key like [[Help:IPA/English]] and clicking on the symbols.
**'''[[User:Nardog/TemplatePreviewGuard|TemplatePreviewGuard]]''' warns when you try to use "Preview page with this template" with a page that doesn't transclude the template.
*'''''[[User:NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh|NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh]]''''':
**'''[[User:NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh/ContribsTabVector.js|ContribsTabVector]]''' adds "Contributions" and "Statistics" tabs to user and user talk pages on the [[WP:VECTOR|Vector]] skin.
**'''[[User:NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh/CopyvioChecker|CopyvioChecker]]''' adds a "CopyvioCheck" tab to all pages, except [[Help:Special page|Special]] (Vector skin only).
**'''[[User:NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh/LiveDiffLink.js|LiveDiffLink]]''' is a version of [[User:Equazcion/LiveDiffLink|Equazcion's LiveDiffLink]] which shows a wikilink instead of a URL.
**'''[[m:User:NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh/QuickDiff|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 [https://dev.fandom.com/wiki/QuickDiff page on Fandom].
*'''''[[User:Novem Linguae|Novem Linguae]]''''':
**'''[[User:Novem Linguae/Scripts/DetectSNG.js|DetectSNG]]''' scans a list of 1,600 [[WP:SNG|SNG]] keywords and displays them at the top of the article.
**'''[[User:Novem Linguae/Scripts/NotSoFast.js|NotSoFast]]''' highlights recently created articles in the new pages feed, to discourage patrolling them too quickly.
**'''[[User:Novem Linguae/Scripts/UserRightsDiff.js|UserRightsDiff]]''' concisely displays what perm was added or removed when viewing [[Special:UserRights]].
**'''[[User:Novem Linguae/Scripts/VoteCounter.js|VoteCounter]]''' displays a rough count of keeps and deletes at XFDs, RFCs, etc.
**'''[[User:Novem Linguae/Scripts/WatchlistAFD.js|WatchlistAFD]]''' automatically watchlists the [[WP:AFD|AFDs]] of any pages you [[WP:AFC|AFC]] accept or [[WP:NPP|NPP]] patrol, to help you calibrate your reviewing.
*'''''[[User:P.T.Đ|P.T.Đ]]''''':
**'''[[User:P.T.Đ/TwinkleMobile|TwinkleMobile]]''' enables Twinkle on mobile view (Minerva skin).
*'''''[[User:Qwerfjkl|Qwerfjkl]]''''':
**'''[[User:Qwerfjkl/scripts/editRedirect|editRedirect]]''' adds a → link after redirects to edit them.
**'''[[User:Qwerfjkl/scripts/RETF|RegExTypoFix]]''', a script for fixing typos, is a wrapper for [[User:Joeytje50/RETF.js]].
**'''[[User:Qwerfjkl/scripts/talkback|talkback]]''' creates links after user talk page links like this: |<span style="font-size:x-small; display:inline-block;">{{False link|C}}</span>|<span style="font-size:x-small; display:inline-block;">{{False link|TB}}</span> (with the first linking to the user's contributions, and the latter giving the option of sending a {{tl|talkback}} notice). It also adds a [{{False link|copy}}] link next to section headers.
*'''''[[User:Rublov|Rublov]]''''':
**'''[[User:Rublov/diff-link|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.
*'''''[[User:Rummskartoffel|Rummskartoffel]]''''':
**'''[[User:Rummskartoffel/auto-watchlist-expiry|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).
**'''[[User:Rummskartoffel/generate pings|generate pings]]''' generates the wikitext needed to ping all members of a category, up to 50 editors (the limit defined by MediaWiki).
**'''[[User:Rummskartoffel/share ExpandTemplates url|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, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:ExpandTemplates?wpContextTitle=John+Doe+%28Wikipedia+editor%29&wpInput=%7B%7B%23invoke%3AExample%7Chello%7D%7D&wpRemoveComments=1&wpRemoveNowiki=0&wpGenerateXml=1&wpGenerateRawHtml=0 like this]. Other editors '''do not''' need to have this script installed in order to access the URL generated.
**'''[[User:Rummskartoffel/show tag names|show tag names]]''' shows the real names of tags next to their display names in places such as page revision histories or the watchlist.
*'''''[[User:Tol|Tol]]''''':
**'''[[User:Tol/VECN|VisualEditor Citation Needed]]''' adds a button (under "Insert") in VisualEditor to add a {{tl|citation needed}} tag.
*'''''[[User:Venkat TL|Venkat TL]]''''':
**'''[[User:Venkat TL/ColourContrib|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.
*'''''[[User:Vukky|Vukky]]''''':
**'''[[User:Vukky/Scripts/StatusChanger|StatusChanger]]''' is a fork of [[User:Enterprisey/StatusChanger.js|Enterprisey's Status Changer]], which adds a UI to the script. (using [[Wikipedia:Morebits|Morebits]], so you'll need to have [[WP:TW|Twinkle]] enabled to use it).

All in all, some very neat scripts were written in these last few months. Hoping to see many more in the next issue -- [[Wikipedia talk:Scripts++|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 '''[[User:JPxG|jp]]'''×'''[[User talk:JPxG|g]]'''. Take care, and merry Christmas! '''[[User:JPxG|jp]]'''×'''[[User talk:JPxG|g]]''' 07:30, 24 December 2021 (UTC)
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== Bots Newsletter, January 2022 ==

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Welcome to the ninth issue of the English Wikipedia's ''Bots Newsletter'', your source for all things [[WP:BOTS|bot]]. Vicious bot-on-bot edit warring... superseded tasks... policy proposals... these stories, and more, are brought to you by Wikipedia's most distinguished newsletter about bots.

After a long hiatus between August 2019 and December 2021, there's quite a bit of ground to cover. Due to the vastness, I decided in December to split the coverage up into a few installments that covered six months each. Some people thought this was a good idea, since covering an entire year in a single issue would make it unmanageably large. Others thought this was stupid, since they were getting talk page messages about crap from almost three years ago. Ultimately, the question of whether each issue covers six months or a year is only relevant for a couple more of them, and then the problem will be behind us forever.

Of course, you can also look on the bright side – we are making progress, and this issue will only be about crap from almost ''two'' years ago. Today we will pick up where we left off in December, and go through the first half of 2020.

<span style="font-size:150%">'''Overall'''</span><br />
In the first half of 2020, there were 71 [[WP:BRFA|BRFA]]s. Of these, {{yeac}} 59 were approved, and 12 were unsuccessful (with {{nayd}} 8 denied, {{idkc}} 2 withdrawn, and [[File:Image-Symbol wait old.svg|20px|alt=Expired|link=]] 2 expired).

<span style="font-size:125%">'''January 2020'''</span>
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* {{yeac}} [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/ST47Bot|ST47Bot]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Seppi333Bot|Seppi333Bot]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Qbugbot 4|Qbugbot 4]] · {{nayd}} [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/PkbwcgsBot 25|PkbwcgsBot 25]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/PkbwcgsBot 26|PkbwcgsBot 26]]
*A new [[mw:Pywikibot|Pywikibot]] release dropped support for [[Python 3.4]], and it was expected that support for [[Python 2.7]] would be removed in coming updates. [[m:Toolforge|Toolforge]] itself planned to drop Python 2 support in 2022.
*Two new bots dropped in January 2020: [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/ST47Bot|ST47Bot]], the successor to [[User:STBot|STBot]], and [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Seppi333Bot|Seppi333Bot]], whose task was to perform a weekly update of four "massive" wikitables for [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Molecular Biology|WikiProject Molecular Biology]].
*[[User:Cydebot|Cydebot]], an [[WP:ADMINBOT|adminbot]] operated by [[User:Cyde|Cyde]] since 2006, was [[Special:Contributions/Cydebot|blocked]] after going berserk on categories that hadn't yet been [[WP:CFD|CfD]]'d.

<span style="font-size:125%">'''February 2020'''</span>
[[File:Listeria monocytogenes 01.jpg|thumb|upright=0.6|Speaking of WikiProject Molecular Biology, ''Listeria'' went wild in February]]
* {{yeac}} [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/AnomieBOT 78|AnomieBOT 78]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Cewbot 2|Cewbot 2]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/DannyS712 bot 67|DannyS712 bot 67]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/DannyS712 bot III 63|DannyS712 bot III 63]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/PearBOT 6|PearBOT 6]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/DemonDays64 Bot 2|DemonDays64 Bot 2]] · {{nayd}} [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/PearBOT|PearBOT]]
*On February 1, some [[Wikipedia:Bots/Noticeboard/Archive_13#ListeriaBot_behaving_poorly|concerns]] were raised about [[User:ListeriaBot|ListeriaBot]] performing "nonsense" edits. Semi-active operator [[User:Magnus Manske|Magnus Manske]] (who originally coded the [[Wikipedia:Magnus_Manske_Day|Phase II software|precursor]] of [[MediaWiki]]) was pinged. Meanwhile, the bot was temporarily <span class="plainlinks">[https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log/block&page=User%3AListeriaBot blocked]</span> for several hours until the issue was diagnosed and resolved.
*On February 18, [[Special:Contributions/ST47Bot|ST47Bot]] got into a <span class="plainlinks">[https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Cases/Overview&offset=20200219&limit=250&action=history tussle]</span> with [[User:Amalthea (bot)|Amalthea (bot)]], and had to be partially-blocked from [[Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Cases/Overview]].

<span style="font-size:125%">'''March 2020'''</span>
* {{yeac}} [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/MajavahBot|MajavahBot]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/SDZeroBot|SDZeroBot]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/TheSandBot 6|TheSandBot 6]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/TheSandBot 7|TheSandBot 7]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Bitbotje|Bitbotje]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/FACBot 6|FACBot 6]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/TheSandBot 8|TheSandBot 8]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Qbugbot 5|Qbugbot 5]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Cewbot 3|Cewbot 3]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/SDZeroBot 2|SDZeroBot 2]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/PrimeBOT 31|PrimeBOT 31]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/WikiCleanerBot 12|WikiCleanerBot 12]] ·[[File:Image-Symbol wait old.svg|20px|alt=Expired|link=]] [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/AntiCompositeBot|AntiCompositeBot]]
* In March, a long [[Wikipedia_talk:Bot_policy/Archive_28#Bot_expirations?|discussion]] was started at [[Wikipedia talk:Bot policy]] by [[User:Skdb|Skdb]] about the troubling trend of bots "expiring" without explanation after their owners became inactive. This can happen for a variety of reasons -- [[API|API]] changes break code, hosting providers' software updates break code, hosting accounts lapse, software changes make bots' edits unnecessary, and policy changes make bots' edits unwanted. The most promising solution seemed to be [[wikitech:Toolforge|Toolforge]] hosting (although it has some problems of its own, like the occasional necessity of refactoring code).
* Some of the twelve bot tasks approved this month were [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/TheSandBot 6|TheSandBot 6]] (removing blocked users from [[:Category:Wikipedia usernames with possible policy issues]]), and [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/TheSandBot 7|TheSandBot 7]] (removing ''unblocked'' users from [[:Category:Wikipedians who are indefinitely blocked for promotional user names]]). [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/SDZeroBot 2|SDZeroBot 2]] was approved to refine geographic stub tags. New bots approved this month were [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/MajavahBot|MajavahBot]] (to patrol [[WP:EFFPR]]), [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/SDZeroBot|SDZeroBot]] (to merge stub tags), and [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Bitbotje|Bitbotje]] (fixing DISPLAYTITLE modifications, DEFAULTSORT errors and broken behavior switches in [[WP:DRAFTS|draftspace]]).
<span style="font-size:125%">'''April 2020'''</span>
[[File:Barbara McClintock (1902-1992) shown in her laboratory in 1947.jpg|thumb|''Listeria'' being examined]]
* {{yeac}} [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/TheSandBot 9|TheSandBot 9]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/BHGbot 5|BHGbot 5]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/DannyS712 bot 69|DannyS712 bot 69]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/SDZeroBot 3|SDZeroBot 3]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/ST47ProxyBot|ST47ProxyBot]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/WugBot 4|WugBot 4]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/SDZeroBot 4|SDZeroBot 4]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/DatBot 10|DatBot 10]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/WikiCleanerBot 11|WikiCleanerBot 11]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/WikiCleanerBot 13|WikiCleanerBot 13]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/WikiCleanerBot 14|WikiCleanerBot 14]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/AntiCompositeBot 2|AntiCompositeBot 2]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Cewbot 4|Cewbot 4]] · {{nayd}} [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/DaedanBot 1|DaedanBot 1]] ·[[File:Image-Symbol wait old.svg|20px|alt=Expired|link=]] [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Creffbot|Creffbot]]
*A [[Wikipedia:Bots/Noticeboard/Archive_13#Re-examination_of_ListeriaBot|discussion]] on the bot noticeboard, "Re-examination of ListeriaBot", was started by [[User:Barkeep49|Barkeep49]], who pointed out repeated operation outside the scope of its BRFA (i.e. editing pages in mainspace, and adding [[WP:NFCC|non-free images]] to others). Some said it was doing good work, and others said it was operating beyond its remit. It was <span class="plainlinks">[https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log/block&page=User%3AListeriaBot blocked]</span> on April 10; the next day it was unblocked, reblocked from article space, reblocked "for specified non-editing actions", unblocked, and indeffed. The next week, several [[Special:Diff/951794012|safeguards]] were implemented in its code by Magnus; the bot was allowed to roam free once more on April 18.
*[[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/ST47ProxyBot|ST47ProxyBot]] joined the stable in April, after a BRFA started in December was finally completed. As an adminbot, it was authorized to block [[IP address]]es belonging to [[open proxy|open proxies]], public [[VPN service]]s, and [[web host]]s. New tasks approved for existing bots included [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/BHGbot 5|BHGbot 5]] ([[WP:DIFFUSE|diffusing]] categories),  [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/TheSandBot 9|TheSandBot 9]] (taking over some tasks from the inactive [[User:RonBot|RonBot]]), and [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/WugBot 4|WugBot 4]] (updating data at {{tl|Interactive COVID-19 maps}}). Also, [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/DatBot 10|DatBot 10]] was approved to scale down non-free [[SVG]]s — I didn't even know that was a thing.
* A [[Wikipedia_talk:Bot_policy/Archive_28#Making_BOTCOMM_more_explicit|discussion]] at [[Wikipedia talk:Bot policy]] was started by [[User:Thryduulf|Thryduulf]] about whether [[WP:BOTCOMM]] should explicitly specify that bot operators must be responsive to concerns raised on English Wikipedia specifically (as opposed to [[Phabricator]], [[SourceForge]], [[wikitech:Toolforge|Toolforge]], et cetera). Eventually, the policy was amended to its [[Wikipedia:Bot_policy#Good_communication|current form]]:
:<blockquote>Issues and enquiries are typically expected to be handled on the English Wikipedia. Pages reachable via [[WP:SUL|unified login]], like a talk page at [[:commons:Main Page|Commons]] or at [[:it:Main Page|Italian Wikipedia]] could also be acceptable [...] External sites like [[Phabricator]] or [[GitHub]] (which require separate registration or do not allow for IP comments) and email (which can compromise [[Wikipedia:Outing|anonymity]]) can supplement on-wiki communication, but do not replace it.</blockquote>

<span style="font-size:125%">'''May 2020'''</span>
[[File:Serpiente alquimica.jpg|thumb|upright=0.75|We heard you like bots, so we made a bot that reports the status of your bots, so now you can use bots while you use bots]]
* {{yeac}} [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/MajavahBot 3|MajavahBot 3]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/DannyS712 bot 70|DannyS712 bot 70]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/CitationCleanerBot 5|CitationCleanerBot 5]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Dreamy Jazz Bot 4|Dreamy Jazz Bot 4]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/QEDKbot|QEDKbot]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/William Avery Bot 2|William Avery Bot 2]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/DannyS712 bot 68|DannyS712 bot 68]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/PrimeBOT 32|PrimeBOT 32]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/TheSandBot 10|TheSandBot 10]],  [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Bot1058 7|Bot1058 7]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/BHGbot 6|BHGbot 6]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/EaglesBot 2|EaglesBot 2]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Cewbot 5|Cewbot 5]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/WikiCleanerBot 17|WikiCleanerBot 17]] · {{nayd}} [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/MDanielsBot|MDanielsBot]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/PhuzBot 3|PhuzBot 3]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Gedimon|Gedimon]] · {{idkc}} [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/PearBOT 7|PearBOT 7]]
*[[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/MajavahBot 3|MajavahBot 3]], an impressively meta bot task, was approved this month for maintaining a list of bots running on the English Wikipedia. The page, located at [[User:MajavahBot/Bot status report]], is updated every 24 hours; it contains a list of all accounts with the bot flag, as well as their operator, edit count, last activity date, last edit date, last logged action date, user groups and block status.
*Other approvals for this month were [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/William Avery Bot 2|William Avery Bot 2]] (processing redirects in {{tl|R from scientific name}}), [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/DannyS712 bot 68|DannyS712 bot 68]] (allowing users to schedule bot reminders for themselves),  [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/TheSandBot 10|TheSandBot 10]] (removing blocked/locked users from [[:Category:User talk pages with conflict of interest notices]]), [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Bot1058 7|Bot1058 7]] (updating [[Wikipedia:Requested moves/Technical requests/Permalink]]), [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Dreamy Jazz Bot 4|Dreamy Jazz Bot 4]] (adding <nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:WikiProject Biography|WikiProject Biography]]|living=no<nowiki>}}</nowiki> to talk pages where their associated article is in a year of death category), and [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/QEDKbot|QEDKbot]] (deleting and nominating empty categories).
*General syntax fixing tasks were approved for [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/DannyS712 bot 70|DannyS712 bot 70]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/CitationCleanerBot 5|CitationCleanerBot 5]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/PrimeBOT 32|PrimeBOT 32]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/BHGbot 6|BHGbot 6]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Cewbot 5|Cewbot 5]], and [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/EaglesBot 2|EaglesBot 2]], as well as [[User:WikiCleanerBot|WikiCleanerBot]] [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/WikiCleanerBot 15|15]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/WikiCleanerBot 16|16]], and [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/WikiCleanerBot 17|17]].
*Seven bots who fell below [[Wikipedia:Bot_policy#Activity_requirements|activity requirements]] (with neither the bots nor their operators having any edits or logged actions in two years) had their bot flags removed. They were [[User:NekoBot|NekoBot]], [[User:Robert SkyBot|Robert SkyBot]], [[User:DASHBotAV|DASHBotAV]], [[User:VoxelBot|VoxelBot]], [[User:JackieBot|JackieBot]], [[User:ReferenceBot|ReferenceBot]], and [[User:CensusBot|CensusBot]].
*On May 12, [[User:EmausBot|EmausBot]] was [[Wikipedia:Bots/Noticeboard/Archive_14#Block_of_EmausBot|blocked]].

<span style="font-size:125%">'''June 2020'''</span>
[[File:Arburg Lego.png|thumb|A partial block averted at the eleventh hour for the robot that makes Legos]]
* {{yeac}} [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/QEDKbot 2|QEDKbot 2]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/AnomieBOT 79|AnomieBOT 79]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/WOSlinkerBot 6|WOSlinkerBot 6]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Yapperbot 2|Yapperbot 2]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Yapperbot|Yapperbot]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/AnomieBOT 80|AnomieBOT 80]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Dreamy Jazz Bot 5|Dreamy Jazz Bot 5]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/WikiCleanerBot 18|WikiCleanerBot 18]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/HasteurBot 15|HasteurBot 15]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/MusikBot II 4|MusikBot II 4]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/NoSandboxesHere|NoSandboxesHere]] · {{nayd}} [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/RedWarn|RedWarn]] · {{idkc}} [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Seppi333Bot 2|Seppi333Bot 2]]
*In July 2017, [[User:Headbomb|Headbomb]] made a [[Wikipedia:Bots/Noticeboard/Archive_14#Partial_block_of_dashboard_bot|proposal]] that a section of the [[Wikipedia:Dashboard]] be devoted to bots and technical issues. In November 2019, [[Lua]] code was written superseding [[User:Legobot|Legobot]]'s tasks on that page, and operator [[User:Legoktm|Legoktm]] was asked to stop them so that the new code could be deployed. After no response to pings, a [[WP:PARTIALBLOCK|partial-block]] of Legobot for the dashboard was proposed. Some months later, on June 16, Headbomb said: "A full block serves nothing. A partial block solves all current issues [...] Just fucking do it. It's been 3 years now." The next day, however, Legoktm disabled the task, and the dashboard was successfully refactored.
*On June 7, [[User:RexxS|RexxS]] blocked [[User:Citation bot|Citation bot]] for [[WP:disruptive editing|disruptive editing]], saying it was "still removing links after request to stop". A couple weeks later, a [[Wikipedia:Bots/Noticeboard/Archive_14#Citation_bot|discussion on the bots noticeboard]] was opened, saying "it is a widely-used and useful bot, but it has one of the longest block logs for any recently-operating bot on Wikipedia". While its last BRFA approval was in 2011, its code and functionality had changed dramatically since then, and [[User:AntiCompositeNumber|AntiCompositeNumber]] requested that BAG require a new BRFA. Maintainer [[User:AManWithNoPlan|AManWithNoPlan]] responded that most blocks were from years ago (when it lacked a proper [[test suite]]), and problems since then had mostly been one-off errors (like a [[Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Archive310#Citation_bot_is_making_unacceptable_proxy_edits_for_blocked_users|June 2019 incident]] in which a [[WP:LTA|LTA]] had "weaponized" the bot to harass editors).
*[[user:David Tornheim|David Tornheim]] opened a discussion about [[Wikipedia_talk:Bot_policy/Archive_28#Bot_code_--_can_remain_proprietary???|whether bots based on closed-source code should be permitted]], and proposed that they not. He cited a recent case in which a maintainer had said "I can only suppose that the code that is available on GitHub is not the actual code that was running on [the bot]". Some disagreed: [[User:Naypta|Naypta]] said that "I like free software as much as the next person, and I strongly believe that bot operators should make their bot code public, but I don't think it should be that they must do so".
*Two new bots had their first BRFAs approved: [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Yapperbot|Yapperbot]], to replace [[User:Legobot|Legobot]] for handling the [[WP:FRS|Feedback Request Service]], and [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/NoSandboxesHere|NoSandboxesHere]], to remove {{tl|user sandbox}} from articles in draftspace using [[:Category:Non-userspace pages using User sandbox]].

<span style="font-size:150%">'''Conclusion'''</span><br />
* What's next for our intrepid band of coders, maintainers and approvers?
:*Will Citation bot ever be set free to roam the project?
:*What's the deal with all those book links that [[User:InternetArchiveBot|InternetArchiveBot]] is adding to articles?
:*Should we keep using Gerrit for MediaWiki?
:*What if we had a day for bots to make cosmetic edits?
These questions will be answered — and new questions raised — by the February 2022 ''Bots Newsletter''. Tune in, or miss out!

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== Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 23 ==

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New year, new scripts. Welcome to the 23rd issue of the Wikipedia [[Wikipedia:Scripts++|Scripts++ Newsletter]], covering around 39% of our favorite new and updated user scripts since {{#formatdate:2021-12-24|dmy}}.  That’s right, we haven’t published in two years! Can you believe it? Did you miss us?

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=== [[File:Cscr-featured.svg|20px|alt=Featured script|This month's featured script]] Featured script ===
: '''''[[User:Nardog/RefRenamer|RefRenamer]]''''' by '''[[User:Nardog|Nardog]]''' is this issue's featured script. For whatever reason, [[m:Community Wishlist Survey 2019/Status report 1#Named References in VE|the foundation will only give us better reference names]] in [[WP:VE|VisualEditor]] if we [[Wish (film)|wish]] for it in [[m:Community Wishlist Survey 2024|the next survey]]. Nardog to the rescue! This script has a ton of options to satisfy almost anyone who wishes to use better refnames than [[WP:VECRUFT|":0" and ":418"]].

===[[File:Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg|20px|alt=Updated scripts|Updated]] Updated scripts===
* [[User:Nardog|Nardog]]: [[User:Nardog/MoveHistory|MoveHistory]] can now look up the move history of any page from anywhere on the site.
* [[User:Enterprisey/diff-permalink]] now has a version that copies the Special:Diff link with square brackets.
* [[User:GhostInTheMachine/WatchlistTidy]] now moves the Active Filters panel to the right so that the Show/Hide button doesn't constantly jump.
* [[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.
* [[Wikipedia:AutoEd/unicodehex.js]] will no longer replace [[mw:Manual:$wgFragmentMode#Details|legacy MediaWiki dot-entities]] (dot followed by two uppercase alphanumeric characters) in article links, which caused several links to become broken.

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===[[File:Ambox important.svg|20px]] Improve a script===
* Many of our favorite scripts such as [[User:Fred Gandt/userResourceManager]], [[User:Guarapiranga/search-shortcuts]] and [[User:Bradv/Scripts/Superlinks]] haven't been updated for Vector 2022. You could be the one to change that!
* [[User:Elominius/gadget/media timer]] works, but its UI looks alien. Someone could improve it...
* 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.
* We want...
:* ...a mark-as-read button for [[User:Aaron Liu/Watchlyst Greybar Unsin|Watchlyst Greybar Unsin]]
:* ...a tool to automatically fix [[CAT:BROKENREF]]s, preferably a fork/addition to [[User:TheJJJunk/ARA]]
:* ...a fix/fork of [[User:DannyS712/SectionRemover.js]] to make it work

===[[File:1009Clock.jpg|20px|alt=Pending requests]] Requested scripts===
* A [[WP:3O]] requesting and responding tool, similar to [[WP:ERT|Terasil's classic edit request tool]]
* A "bytes removed"/"added" filter on the user contribs page
* A review tool for [[WP:proposed deletion]]s
* Mass patrol new pages by a user for use in [[WP:RFP/A]]
* ...and many more, all available at [[Wikipedia:User scripts/Requests]]

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===[[File:Gnome-colors-list-add.svg|20px|alt=New scripts|New]] New scripts===
* [[User:Aaron Liu|Aaron Liu]]: [[User:Aaron Liu/Watchlyst Greybar Unsin|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.
* [[User:Alexis Jazz|Alexis Jazz]]: [[User:Alexis Jazz/Factotum|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 Wikipedia. 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!
* [[User:Chlod|Chlod]]:
** [[User:Chlod/Scripts/Deputy|Deputy]] is a first-of-its-kind copyright cleanup toolkit. It overrides the interface for [[Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations]] for easy case processing. It also includes the functionality of the following (also new) scripts:
*** [[User:Chlod/Scripts/Deputy/AttributionNoticeTemplateEditor|Attribution Notice Template Editor]] (ANTE) graphically modifies content attribution notices. It is the successor to [[User:Chlod/Scripts/CopiedTemplateEditor]] and supports more templates than {{T|copied}} ones.
*** [[User:Chlod/Scripts/Deputy/InfringementAssistant|Infringement Assistant]] allows a user to hide sections of a page for suspected copyright violations and report the page to the appropriate [[Wikipedia:Copyright problems]] noticeboard.
* [[User:Elominius/gadget/diff arrow keys]] allows navigation between diffs with the arrow keys. It also has a version that requires holding {{key press|Ctrl}} with the arrow key.
* [[User:Enterprisey|Enterprisey]]
** [[User:Enterprisey/diff-permalink-2.js|diff-permalink-2]] allows quickly copying wikilinks to diff and permalink pages from those pages, a variation of existing script [[User:Enterprisey/diff-permalink]]
** [[User:Enterprisey/archiver|archiver]] is a fork of Σ's Archiver with several bugfixes.
** [[User:Enterprisey/parent-cats|/parent-cats]] highlights categories that are a subcategory of a category already included in a page's categories. 
* [[User:Guarapiranga/accessKeysCheatSheet]] adds an [[WP:access key|access key]] shortcut to display all shortcuts based on code provided by [[User:Nardog|Nardog]] and [[User:NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh|NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh]].
* [[User:HungKhanh0106/ProperDisplay]] loads a bunch of fonts to add correct [[Help:Multilingual support#Scripts|rendering support]]s for "esoteric" languages.
* [[User:Jeeputer/highlightPiped]] will make piped links [[Cerise (color)#Irresistible|irresistible]] (or [[Lists of colors|else]]).
* [[User:Jerome Frank Disciple/curlyfixer.js]] adds an [[WP:AutoEd]] function that straightens curly quotes per MOS. That's right! Such a module was only made in the 14th year of AutoEd's existence! [[WP:AutoEd/Customization|Configure]] away!
* Frequently link to Wikipedia 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 [[User:Evad37|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.
* [[User:Nardog|Nardog]]
** [[User:Nardog/CopyCodeBlock|/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 <nowiki><code></nowiki>) that will, well, copy it to your clipboard!
** [[User:Nardog/RCMuter|/RCMuter]]: Hide specific users, perhaps [[User:MediaWiki message delivery]], from the Watchlist and Recent Changes.
** [[User:Nardog/VitalTopicon.js|/VitalTopicon]] makes you see the vital article topicon on [[WP:vital articles]].
* [[m:User:NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh/AceForLuaDebugConsole.js]] adds the [[Ace (editor)|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."
* [[User:Novem Linguae|Novem Linguae]]
** [[User:Novem Linguae/Scripts/DraftCleaner.js|DraftCleaner]] fixes formatting of new articles.
** [[User:Novem Linguae/Scripts/GANReviewTool|GANReviewTool]] quickly and easily closes good article nominations.
** [[User:Novem Linguae/Scripts/ReviewStatus|ReviewStatus]] displays whether or not a mainspace page is marked as reviewed.
** [[User:Novem Linguae/Scripts/SpeciesHelper|SpeciesHelper]] tries to add the correct speciesbox, category, taxonbar, and stub template to species articles.
* [[User:Opencooper/svgReplace]] and [[:m:User:Tol/RealSVG.js|Tol's fork]] replaces all rasterized SVGs with their original SVG codes for your loading pleasures. Tell us which one is better!
* [[User:Phlsph7/HighlightUnreferencedPassages]] adds a button to highlight all unreferenced paragraphs in reds, and can even do it automatically. 
* Still hate [[WP:Vector 2022|Vector 2022]]'s floating TOC? [[User:Phlsph7/UnfoldedNumberedTOC(Vector2022)]] might make you give it a try.
* Quite a bit of pages at [[Special:WantedCategories]] either exist now or got removed. [[User:Qwerfjkl/scripts/hideUnwantedCategories]] automatically hides those.
* [[User:SuperHamster]]'s [[Wikipedia:Tools/View it!]] generates a gallery of images for a given subject on any Wikimedia project utilizing [[Structured Data on Commons]]. Images can then be added as needed.
* [[User:Terasail|Terasail]]
** [[User:Terasail/ArticleInfo|ArticleInfo]] displays page information at the top of the page, directly below the title.
** [[User:Terasail/HeaderIcons|/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 [[User:Terasail/HeaderTextLinks|alternate version]] that uses text links instead of icons.
* ...and any more, all available at [[WP:US/L]].

Due to budget and procrastination limitations, we've only had time to review the first ~39% of the [[Special:Diff/1061928044/1189431990|scripts since last issue]]. [[Wikipedia:Scripts++/Next|Help us out here!]] [[:User:Aaron Liu|<span style="color: rgb(6,69,173); text-decoration: inherit;">Aaron Liu</span>]] ([[User talk:Aaron Liu#top|talk]]) 13:24, 29 December 2023 (UTC)
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== Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 24 ==

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Hello everyone, and welcome to the 24th issue of the Wikipedia [[Wikipedia:Scripts++|Scripts++ Newsletter]], covering all our favorite new and updated user scripts since {{#formatdate:2021-12-24|dmy}}. 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. [[User:Aaron Liu|<span style="color:#0645ad">Aaron Liu</span>]] ([[User talk:Aaron Liu#top|talk]]) 01:00, 1 March 2024 (UTC)

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===[[File:Cscr-featured.svg|20px]] Featured script===
: '''[[User:SD0001/Making user scripts load faster|Making user scripts load faster]]''' by '''[[User:SD0001|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 [[WP:US/L|the US of L]]. For security reasons, the script only supports loading JavaScript pages.

===[[File:Farm-Fresh error go.png|20px]] Newly maintained scripts===
After earthly attempts at improving the original have failed...
* [[User:Aaron Liu|Aaron Liu]] has created [[m:User:Aaron Liu/What redirects here.js|What redirects here]] from [[User:Guarapiranga/WhatRedirectsHere.js|Guarapiranga/WhatRedirectsHere]]; {{their|Aaron Liu}} fork includes support for every MediaWiki wiki, corrected link positions, an access key, and some rudimentary translation.
* [[User:Ahecht|Ahecht]] has created [[User:Ahecht/Scripts/TemplateSearch|a fork]] of [[User:SiBr4/TemplateSearch.js|SiBr4/TemplateSearch]], which adds the "TP:" shortcut for "Template:" in the search box, and updated it to be compatible with Vector 2022.
* [[User:AquilaFasciata/goToTopFast.js|AquilaFasciata/goToTopFast]] is a much faster fork of the classic goToTop script that also adds compatibility for Minerva and Vector 2022.
* [[User:Mesidast/Tidy citations|Mesidast/Tidy citations]] is a fork of [[User:Meteor sandwich yum/Tidy citations|Meteor sandwich yum/Tidy citations]] is a fork of [[User:Waldyrious/formatcitations|Waldyrious/formatcitations]]. It configurably harmonizes whitespace and cleans up parameters in citation templates, descriptive edit summary included.
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===[[File:Ambox important.svg|20px]] Improve a script===
Unfortunately, this section has remained nearly identical. Help us out here!
* Many of our favorite scripts such as [[User:Fred Gandt/userResourceManager|Fred Gandt/userResourceManager]], [[User:Guarapiranga/search-shortcuts|Guarapiranga/search-shortcuts]] and [[User:Bradv/Scripts/Superlinks|Bradv/Superlinks]] haven't been updated for Vector 2022. You could be the one to change that!
* [[User:Elominius/gadget/media timer|Elominius/media timer]] works, but its UI looks alien. Someone could improve it...
* To a lesser extent, the same goes for [[User:PrimeHunter/Search sort.js|PrimeHunter/Search sort]]. I wish someone would integrate the sorts into the sort menu instead of adding 11 portlet links.
* We want...
:* ...a mark-as-read button and watchlist notices support for [[User:Aaron Liu/Watchlyst Greybar Unsin|Aaron Liu/Watchlyst Greybar Unsin]]
:* ...a tool to automatically fix [[CAT:BROKENREF]]s, preferably a fork/addition to [[User:TheJJJunk/ARA|TheJJJunk/ARA]]
:* ...a fix/fork of [[User:DannyS712/SectionRemover.js|DannyS712/SectionRemover]] to make it work

===[[File:Ambox clock yellow.svg|20px]] Requested scripts===
* A simple script to second or archive [[WP:proposed deletion|proposed deletion]]s
* A script to auto-expand V22 ToC sections like [[:File:Automatically expanding sections in the TOC (Vector 2022).webm|this demo]]
* A [[WP:3O]] response tool that can automatically remove the relevant request from the 3O dashboard
* A byte filter to be split from [[:pl:User:Nux/LongTableFilters.js|Nux/LongTableFilters]]
* ...and many more, all available at [[Wikipedia:User scripts/Requests]]

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===[[File:Gnome-colors-list-add.svg|20px]] New scripts===
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*[[User:DannyS712/AbuseFilterMessageLinks.js|DannyS712/AbuseFilterMessageLinks]] add links to the "warn" and "disallow" messages in [[wp:edit filter|edit filter]]s.
*[[User:Diegodlh/Web2Cit/script|Diegodlh/Web2Cit/script]] adds an option to use [[m:Web2Cit]] (which [[WP:ProveIt]] also uses) instead of [[mw:Citoid]] to generate citations in the Visual Editor.
*[[meta:User:Dragoniez/SuppressEnterInForm|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 [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2023-12-24/Crossword|the Signpost Crossword]]! Oh, the humanity!
*[[File:CopyVio detector, Adiutor.png|frameless|right]][[User:Doǵu/Adiutor|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.
*[[File:Eejit43's redirect-helper script demo.png|right|frameless]][[User:Eejit43|Eejit43]] has quite the aesthetically pleasing scripts, all made in [[TypeScript]].
**[[User:Eejit43/scripts/afcrc-helper|/afcrc-helper]] is a replacement for the unmaintained [[User:Enterprisey/AFCRHS|Enterprisey/AFCRHS]] and processes Redirects for Creation and Categories for Creation requests.
**[[User:Eejit43/scripts/ajax-undo|/ajax-undo]] stops the "undo" button from taking you to another page while providing a text box to provide a reason for the revert.
**[[User:Eejit43/scripts/redirect-helper|/redirect-helper]] ''(pictured)'' adds a much better interface for editing and redirects, including categorization, for which valid categories are dictated by [[User:Eejit43/scripts/redirect-helper.json|/redirect-helper.json]].
**[[User:Eejit43/scripts/rmtr-helper|/rmtr-helper]] helps process technical requested moves without being able to actually move them.
*[[File:User Info Popup screenshot 1.jpg|right|frameless]][[User:Guycn2/UserInfoPopup|Guycn2/UserInfoPopup]] ''(pictured)'' adds a flyout after the watchlist star on userspace pages that displays the common information you might use about a user.
*[[User:Jeeputer/editCounter|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.
*[[User:Hilst/Scripts/sectionLinks|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.
*[[User:Moonythedwarf/extra-unreliable|Moonythedwarf/extra-unreliable]] highlights phrases commonly used in spammed and POV'd paragraphs.
*[[File:FormattedEditRequest-in-work.png|frameless|right]][[User:NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh/FormattedEditRequest|NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh/FormattedEditRequest]] ''(pictured)'' generates a wikitext-formatted diff view of any changes you've made that you can copy and paste anywhere.
*[[User:PrimeHunter/Category source.js|PrimeHunter/Category source.js]] adds portlet links to tell you where a category for an article comes from and supports those from template transclusions.
*[[User:Qwerfjkl/scripts/massCFD|Qwerfjkl/massCFD]] creates mass [[WP:CfD]] nominations.
*[[User:Rublov/refspace|Rublov/refspace]] highlights footnote spacing errors in red.
*[[User:Sophivorus|Sophivorus]]'s [[mw:MiniEdit|MiniEdit]] adds some nice, li'l buttons next to paragraphs to edit their wikitext with a minimal interface.

====Edit-listings====
*[[meta:User:Dragoniez/ToollinkTweaks|Dragoniez/ToollinkTweaks]] adds more and customizable links next to users in page history, logs, watchlist, recent changes, etc.
*[[User:Firefly/more-block-info|Firefly/more-block-info]] optimizes the display of rangeblocks in contribution pages. Doesn't work outside the English locale of any wiki, unfortunately.
*[[User:Ingenuity/AbuseFilterContribs|Ingenuity/AbuseFilterContribs]] adds the edit filters that an edit tripped (if any) to a user's contributions page.
**[[User:Nardog/ExamineMore.js|Nardog/ExamineMore]] makes it so the paging at [[Special:AbuseFilter/examine]] actually works, pending a fix to {{Phab|T292764}}.
*[[User:NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh/AjaxLoader.js|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====
*[[User:Ahecht|Ahecht/RedirectID]] adds the redirect target to all redirects. For all the [[WP:NAVPOPS]] haters. (Do these exist?)
*[[meta:User:Dragoniez/MarkBLockedGlobal|Dragoniez/MarkBLockedGlobal]]: Remember the "strike blocked usernames" gadget? Now you can use a red, dotted line to highlight rangeblocks and global locks!
*[[User:GhostInTheMachine/GraphicReplyLink|GhostInTheMachine/GraphicReplyLink]] replaces the [ {{preload|Template talk:Signpost/Crossword cell|reply|User:Aaron Liu/insomnium}} ] link with 💬, which is some sort of rainy cloud I guess?{{jokes}}
*[[File:En.WP VPP Screen Shot 2024-01-13 with custom CSS.png|frameless|right]][[User:Jonesey95/common.css|Jonesey/common]] ''(pictured)'' has some styles to overhaul your Vector 2022 experience. It reduces padding everywhere, and makes the top bar animation faster.
**[[m:User:Aaron Liu/v22.css|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.
*[[User:Nardog/SmartDiff|Nardog: SmartDiff]] is a spiritual successor to [[User:Enterprisey/fancy-diffs|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.
*[[User:Phlsph7/ClassicalTOC(Vector2022)|Phlsph7/ClassicalTOC (Vector 2022)]] reinserts the inline table of contents to pages under Vector 2022.
*For the paranoid: [[User:Rublov/anonymize|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 [[WP:HOLIC|editing is an honor]].
*[[User:Sideswipe9th/V22FloatingToolsMenu|Sideswipe9th/Vector 2022 Floating Tools Menu]] moves the Page Tools menu to the left and makes it float along with the table of contents.
*[[User:Sm8ps/SectionEditing|Sm8ps/SectionEditing]] makes pressing {{key press|Tab}} toggle the visibility of the tiny [ {{preload|Template talk:Signpost/Crossword cell|edit|User:Aaron Liu/insomnium}} ] links next to section headings.. Not a great name, eh?
*[[User:The wub/tocExpandAll.js|The wub/tocExpandAll]] adds a button on top of the floating ToC to expand or collapse subheadings.

====Permissions required!====
*[[User:Ahecht/Scripts/potd-helper|Ahecht/potd-helper]]: A script to <em>post</em> the picture of the day. A powerful upgrade for your mop.
*[[File:Selective Rollback dialog.png|right|frameless]][[meta:User:Dragoniez|Dragoniez]]
**[[meta:User:Dragoniez/AjaxBlock|/AjaxBlock]] provides a dialog box for easy input of reasons while blocking users.
**[[meta:User:Dragoniez/Selective Rollback|/Selective Rollback]] ''(pictured)'' provides a dialog box to customize [[wp:rollback|rollback]] edit summaries and does them without reloading the page. Seriously, why doesn't MediaWiki already do this?
*[[User:Theleekycauldron/DYK promoter|Theleekycauldron/DYK promoter]] automates (nearly) all the work needed to post a DYK hook.

====QOL shortcuts====

*[[User:BrandonXLF/SVGEditor|BrandonXLF/SVGEditor]] lets you edit any file that is an SVG, straight from the file page.
*[[User:DanCherek/UAABotRemover|DanCherek/UAABotRemover]] adds a portlet link to enable a removal shortcut of faulty reports from [[Wikipedia:Usernames for administrator attention]].
*[[User:DreamRimmer/BlankUserPage|DreamRimmer/BlankUserPage]] helps you destroy webhost-ers' hopes and dreams with a user-friendly dialog box.
*[[meta:User:ESanders (WMF)/commentlinks.js|ESanders (WMF)/commentlinks.js]] adds a "link" button right after the "reply" button while the WMF struggles to reach feature parity with [[commons:Special:MyLanguage/User:Jack who built the house/Convenient Discussions|Convenient Discussions]].
*[[User:Isaacl/script/copy-comment-link-to-clipboard|Isaacl/copy-comment-link-to-clipboard]] does exactly what you'd think it does, but in Wikitext.
* [[User:FenrisAureus/SimpleStatus|FenrisAureus/SimpleStatus]] adds a shortcut at the top to edit your /Status subpage while providing a pre-made template.
*[[User:Fred Gandt/addCloneClearButtonAboveScributoConsole.js|Fred Gandt/addCloneClearButtonAboveScributoConsole]]: What a mouthful! Yet all it does (no offense) is add another {{Button|Clear}} button on top of the Lua module debug console.
* [[User:Guarapiranga/GlobalWatchlistLink|Guarapiranga/GlobalWatchlistLink]] adds a link to [[metawiki:Special:GlobalWatchlist]] next to the normal watchlist.
*[[User:Nardog|Nardog]]
**[[User:Nardog/PasteToCommons|PasteToCommons]] adds a paste handler to upload the pasted image to Wikimedia Commons.
**[[User:Nardog/Unpipe.js|Unpipe]] tries to detect violations of [[WP:NOPIPE]] and fix them as much as possible.
*[[User:Ohconfucius/script/tometricunits|Ohconfucius/tometricunits]] automatically adds unit conversions of [[United States customary units|imperial units]] in brackets after their uses per [[MOS:UNITS]].
* [[User:Suntooooth|Suntooooth]]
** [[User:Suntooooth/flickrsearch.js|/flickrsearch]] adds a portlet link to search for uploadable flickr images about the subject.
** [[User:Suntooooth/randomincategory.js|/randomincategory]] adds a portlet link when on Category pages to go to a random page in the current category. 
* [[User:Vghfr/EasyTemplates/Easytemplates|Vghfr/EasyTemplates]] adds a portlet link to automatically insert some of the most common inline {{tl|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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== Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 25 ==

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Hey there, welcome to the 25th issue of the Wikipedia [[Wikipedia:Scripts++|Scripts++ Newsletter]], covering all our favorite new and updated user scripts since {{#formatdate:2024-03-01|dmy}}. 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! <small>gift us with some rows before it's too late</small> [[User:Aaron Liu|<span style="color:#0645ad">Aaron Liu</span>]] ([[User talk:Aaron Liu#top|talk]]) 04:01, 1 August 2024 (UTC)

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===[[File:Cscr-featured.svg|20px]] Featured script===
: '''[[m:User:Ponor/inline-diff-inline-patrol|inline-diff-inline-patrol]]''' by '''[[m:User:Ponor|Ponor]]''' is this edition's featured script. By loading diffs inline on every page that shows a list of changes, it implements the 2023 community wish [[m:Community Wishlist Survey 2023/Admins and patrollers/Inline diffs and inline patrol]]. Hopefully we won't need this script anymore soon, with the WMF's [[m:Community Wishlist Survey/Wishlist Survey Audit 2023|focus on the backlog]]...

===[[File:Ambox important.svg|20px]] Improve a script===
* Many of our favorite scripts such as [[User:Fred Gandt/userResourceManager|Fred Gandt/userResourceManager]], [[User:Guarapiranga/search-shortcuts|Guarapiranga/search-shortcuts]] and [[User:Bradv/Scripts/Superlinks|Bradv/Superlinks]] haven't been updated for Vector 2022. You could be the one to change that!
* [[User:Elominius/gadget/media timer|Elominius/media timer]] works, but its UI looks alien. Someone could improve it...
* To a lesser extent, the same goes for [[User:PrimeHunter/Search sort.js|PrimeHunter/Search sort]]. I wish someone would integrate the sorts into the sort menu instead of adding 11 portlet links.
* We want...
:* ...watchlist notices support for [[User:Aaron Liu/Watchlyst Greybar Unsin|Aaron Liu/Watchlyst Greybar Unsin]]
:* ...a tool to automatically fix [[CAT:BROKENREF]]s, preferably a fork/addition to [[User:TheJJJunk/ARA|TheJJJunk/ARA]]
:* ...a fix/fork of [[User:DannyS712/SectionRemover|DannyS712/SectionRemover]] to make it work

===[[File:Ambox clock yellow.svg|20px]] Requested scripts===
* Automatically delink all duplicate links within the same section per [[MOS:LINKONCE]].
* Collapsible parentheses in body text, which had [[Wikipedia:User scripts/Requests#Collapsible parentheses in body text|a ridiculously long original request title]] and was accidentally moved to [[WP:US/L]] by me. Oops!
* 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)]].
* [[Wikipedia:User scripts/Requests#Mobile edit preview|Preview an edit under the mobile viewport on desktop]], with perhaps [[MediaWiki:Gadget-mobile-sidebar.js]] used for inspiration. 
* ...and many more, all available at [[Wikipedia:User scripts/Requests]]. [[User:Jeeputer|Jeeputer]] and [[User:Nardog|Nardog]] have been the most active on the page in the past five months.

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===[[File:Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg|20px]] Updated scripts===
* After the <ruby>ＲＩＩＪ<rp>(</rp><rt>rewrite it in [[jQuery]]</rt><rp>)</rp></ruby> update, [[User:Aaron Liu|Aaron Liu]]: [[User:Aaron Liu/Watchlyst Greybar Unsin|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.
* [[User:Lordseriouspig/StatusChangerImproved|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!

===[[File:Farm-Fresh error go.png|20px]] Newly maintained scripts===
* [[User:Aaron Liu|Aaron Liu]] has created [[User:Aaron Liu/duplinks.js|Duplinks]] from [[User:Evad37/duplinks-alt|Evad37/duplinks-alt]]; {{their|Aaron Liu}} fork adds a config variable to automatically highlight duplicate links on the loading of any page where the portlet link would've appeared.
* [[User:BilledMammal/Move+|BilledMammal/Move+]] expands the powers of [[User:TheTVExpert/rmCloser]] to include common procedures done with the art of moving pages.
* On a holiday? Somewhere? Gotta learn ye ABCs? [[User:CanonNi/Scripts/StatusSetter|CanonNi/StatusSetter]] puts the fun into [[User:Enterprisey/StatusChanger|Enterprisey/StatusChanger]] with a quadruple more statuses. That starts with a C!
* In our continuing trend(s?), [[User:DaxServer/DiscussionCloser|DaxServer/DiscussionCloser]] forks [[User:DannyS712/DiscussionCloser|DannyS712/DiscussionCloser]] to make it work. Sadly, this is the end of our lexicographic combo.
* [[User:Andrybak|Andrybak]]:
** [[User:Andrybak/Scripts/user-tabs-on-contribs|user-tabs-on-contribs]] is a fork of [[User:Enterprisey/user-tabs-on-contribs]] for [[Wikipedia:Vector 2022|Vector 2022]].
** [[User:Andrybak/Scripts/Archiver|Archiver]] is a fork of [[User:Enterprisey/archiver]] with automatic calculation of the destination archive subpage and with support for non-Vector skins.
* Quite coincidentally, [[User:Elli/OneClickArchiver|Elli/OneClickArchiver]] has been forked from [[User:Equazcion/OneClickArchiver]] to work with the [[mw:Heading HTML changes]].
* [[User:FlightTime/OneClickArchiver|FlightTime/OneClickArchiver]] forks the same thing but also no longer nonsensically prepends {{tl|clear}} to page archives. 
** [[Wikipedia:One click archiving|There are now over 7 OneClickArchivers, legacy or not]].
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* [[File:Move-protection-shackle-broken-arrow-lime.svg|thumb|Padlock for semi−move protection−designed by [[User:Chaotic Enby]]]] [[User:Aaron Liu|Aaron Liu]]: [[User:Aaron Liu/MoveTop|MoveTop]] adds a different padlock topicon for each level of move-protection.
* [[User:Andrybak/Scripts/Not around|Andrybak/Not around]] can help you mark talk pages of inactive users with {{tl|not around}}.
* [[User:BrandonXLF/AddCopied|BrandonXLF/AddCopied]] automatically tags talk pages of pages you've copied between with {{tl|copied}}.
* [[User:Bugghost/Scripts/UserRoleIndicator|Bugghost/UserRoleIndicator]] adds text labels (which default to emoji) to user links that label the user's usergroups. Wow, that's a mouthful
* [[User:CanonNi/Scripts/AlertAssistant|CanonNi/AlertAssistant]] adds a Twinkle-style dialog for alerting users about contentious topics.
* [[User:CFA/scripts/AttributeTranslation|CFA/AttributeTranslation]] automatically tags articles translated from other places with appropriate attribution.
* In the defense of the 'pedia, the humble [[User:Jeeputer/defconIndicator|Jeeputer/defconIndicator]] adds the [[WP:WIKIDEFCON]] status to the toolbar.
* Tired of staring at a bunch of filtering text and waiting for darn filter logs to load? [[m:User:Msz2001/AbuseFilter analyzer|Msz2001/AbuseFilter analyzer]] can parse abuse filters into a visual syntax tree and evaluate locally on-demand!
* [[User:Polygnotus/DuplicateReferences|Polygnotus/DuplicateReferences]] finds references with the same link and displays the number of them along with a button to add the {{tl|duplicated citations}} tag under the references section. Being lazy has never been easier!
* fastest gun on the net [[m:User:Ponor/really-quick-block|Ponor/really-quick-block]] really quick add to contribution lists three buttons awesome
* [[User:TheTechie/Help Me Tool.js|TheTechie/Help Me Tool]] is a quick and easy way of responding to {{tl|help me}} requests.
* Per [[MOS:CONFORM]], [[User:ZKang123/TitleCaseConverter|ZKang123/TitleCaseConverter]] converts all citation titles to... title case, unfortunately.

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== Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 26 ==

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Hello everyone, and welcome to the 26th issue of the Wikipedia [[Wikipedia:Scripts++|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! [[User:Aaron Liu|<span class="skin-invert" style="color:#0645ad">Aaron Liu</span>]] ([[User talk:Aaron Liu#top|talk]]) 05:06, 25 December 2024 (UTC)

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===[[File:Cscr-featured.svg|20px]] Featured script===
:Very useful for changelist patrollers, '''[[User:Nardog/DiffUndo|DiffUndo]]''', by '''[[User:Nardog|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]].

===[[File:Info icon 002.svg|20px]] Miscellaneous===
* [[User:Doğu/Adiutor|Doğu/Adiutor]], a recent [[WP:Twinkle]]/[[WP:RedWarn]]-like userscript that follows modern WMF UI design, is now [[mw:Extension:Adiutor|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.
* [[User:DannyS712|DannyS712]], our former chief editor, has ascended to [[MediaWiki]] and the <s>greener</s><!--Yes, the usage of the <s> element to denote "things that are no longer relevant or no longer accurate" here is intentional.--> <ins>purpley</ins> pastures of [[PHP]] with commits creating [[Special:NamespaceInfo]] and the <syntaxhighlight inline lang="wikitext">__EXPECTUNUSEDTEMPLATE__</syntaxhighlight> magic word to exclude a template from [[Special:UnusedTemplates]]! I wonder if Wikipedia has a templaters' newsletter...

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===[[File:Ambox important.svg|20px]] Improve a script===
* Many of our favorite scripts such as [[User:Fred Gandt/userResourceManager|Fred Gandt/userResourceManager]], [[User:Guarapiranga/search-shortcuts|Guarapiranga/search-shortcuts]], and [[User:Bradv/Scripts/Superlinks|Bradv/Superlinks]] haven't been updated for Vector 2022. You could be the one to change that!
* [[User:Elominius/gadget/media timer|Elominius/media timer]] and [[User:PrimeHunter/Search sort.js|PrimeHunter/Search sort]] work, yet have alien [[user interface design]]. Someone could improve them...
* [[User:BilledMammal/Move+|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 [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk%3AWikiProject_Weather&action=history&limit=10&offset=202412150415 fiasco history].

===[[File:Ambox clock yellow.svg|20px]] Requested scripts===
We need scripts that...
* allow you to edit {{tl|sfn}} references graphically a la [[:User:Ingenuity/ReferenceEditor.js|Ingenuity/ReferenceEditor]]
* copy specific named references from other pages to help with splitting and whatnot
* make adding icons/links to the top toolbar (or other portlets) much easier
* graphically generate a {{tl|source assess table}}
* award a [[WP:Four Award|Four Award]]
* ...and many more, all available at [[Wikipedia:User scripts/Requests]]. Thanks to the editors at US/R—including [[User:Nardog|Nardog]], [[User:Novem Linguae]], [[User:Jeeputer]], and many more!—for their work in processing userscript requests this past year.

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===[[File:Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg|20px]] Updated scripts===
* [[User:Andrybak/Scripts/Unsigned helper|Andrybak/Unsigned helper]] forks [[User:Anomie/unsignedhelper|Anomie/unsignedhelper]] to add support for binary search, automatic edit summaries after generating the {{tl|unsigned}} template, support for {{tl|undated}}, and support for generating while syntax highlighting is on.
* Pour one out: [[User:DreamRimmer/User not around.js|DreamRimmer/User not around]] forks [[User:Andrybak/Scripts/Not around|Andrybak/Not around]] to allow configuration precise to a number of days (from the original precision of years).
* [[User:Red-tailed hawk/cv revdel.js|Red-tailed hawk/cv revdel]] forks [[User:Enterprisey/cv-revdel|Enterprisey/cv-revdel]] to automatically add CopyPatrol reports.
* [[User:Frost/moveplus.js|Polygnotus/Move+]] updates BilledMammal's classic Move+ to add automattic watchlisting of all pages—except the target page(s)—changed while processing a move.

===[[File:Farm-Fresh error go.png|20px]] Newly maintained scripts===
* Administrators only! [[User:Novem Linguae/Scripts/UnblockReview|Novem Linguae/UnblockReview]] forks the now-broken [[User:Enterprisey/unblock-review|Enterprisey/unblock-review]] to review unblock requests with a graphical interface.

===[[File:Gnome-colors-list-add.svg|20px]] New scripts===
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* [[User:1AmNobody24|1AmNobody24]]: [[User:1AmNobody24/Find Link|Find Link]] provides a shortcut to its namesake tool, [[User:Edward/Find link|Edward/Find link]], which helps de-[[WP:ORPHAN]] articles.
* [[File:Wikipedia Contribs ranger screenshot of contributions by Jimbo Wales dark mode.png|frameless|right]][[User:Andrybak|Andrybak]]: [[User:Andrybak/Scripts/Contribs ranger|Contribs ranger]] (''pictured'') generates links to a limited range of [[Help:User contributions|user contributions]], log items, or page history. You see, it's not just [[Wikipedia:Glossary#Contribs|contribs]]!
* [[User:CanonNi/Scripts/VoteVisualizer|CanonNi/VoteVisualizer]] is a rewrite of [[User:Pythoncoder/Scripts/voteSymbols|Pythoncoder/voteSymbols]] that makes everything saner to configure.
* When viewing [[:Category:Articles missing coordinates with coordinates on Wikidata]], [[User:Jeeputer/coordInserter|Jeeputer/coordInserter]] adds links to automatically insert coordinates into the article selected.
* To satiate archaeology and curiosity (the same thing, perhaps?), [[User:JJPMaster/AfC time logger|JJPMaster/AfC time logger]] logs the time it takes for a user to review each submission to [[Wikipedia:Articles for creation]].
* [[User:Nardog/InsertAnyChar|Natdog/InsertAnyChar]] adds a searchable list of all Unicode characters to the 2010 source editor.
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