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Hello everyone, and welcome to the 24th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter, covering all our favorite new and updated user scripts since 24 December 2021. Uh-huh, we're finally covering the good ones among the rest! Aren't you excited? Remember to include a link in double brackets to the script's .js page when you install the script, so that we can see who uses the script in WhatLinksHere! The ScriptInstaller gadget automatically does this. Aaron Liu (talk) 01:00, 1 March 2024 (UTC)
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Featured script
Making user scripts load faster by SD0001 is this month's featured script, which caches userscripts every day to eliminate the overhead caused by force-downloading the newest version of scripts every time you open a Wikipedia page. Despite being released in April 2021, our best script scouters have failed to locate it due to its omission from the US of L. For security reasons, the script only supports loading JavaScript pages.
Newly maintained scripts
After earthly attempts at improving the original have failed...
Ahecht has created a fork of SiBr4/TemplateSearch, which adds the "TP:" shortcut for "Template:" in the search box, and updated it to be compatible with Vector 2022.
AquilaFasciata/goToTopFast is a much faster fork of the classic goToTop script that also adds compatibility for Minerva and Vector 2022.
Without caching. Each script takes 400–500ms. A particularly large script takes 1.11 s! Internet download speed is 50 Mbps.With caching enabled. Each script takes just 1-2 ms to load.
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To a lesser extent, the same goes for PrimeHunter/Search sort. I wish someone would integrate the sorts into the sort menu instead of adding 11 portlet links.
Dragoniez/SuppressEnterInForm stops you from accidentally submitting anything due to pressing enter while in the smaller box, and works on almost anything... except the InputBox element itself, used in subscription lists and the Signpost Crossword! Oh, the humanity!
Doǵu/Adiutor(pictured) provides a nice, integrated interface to do some twinkley tasks such as copyvio detection, CSD tagging, and viewing the most recent diff.
Eejit43 has quite the aesthetically pleasing scripts, all made in TypeScript.
/afcrc-helper is a replacement for the unmaintained Enterprisey/AFCRHS and processes Redirects for Creation and Categories for Creation requests.
/ajax-undo stops the "undo" button from taking you to another page while providing a text box to provide a reason for the revert.
/redirect-helper(pictured) adds a much better interface for editing and redirects, including categorization, for which valid categories are dictated by /redirect-helper.json.
/rmtr-helper helps process technical requested moves without being able to actually move them.
Guycn2/UserInfoPopup(pictured) adds a flyout after the watchlist star on userspace pages that displays the common information you might use about a user.
Jeeputer/editCounter, under userspace, adds a portlet link to count your edits by namespace, put them in a table, and put that table in a hardcoded subpage, all in the background.
Hilst/Scripts/sectionLinks converts all section links to use the § sign, which are known to be preferred over the ugly # by 99% of the devils I've met.
PrimeHunter/Category source.js adds portlet links to tell you where a category for an article comes from and supports those from template transclusions.
Sophivorus's MiniEdit adds some nice, li'l buttons next to paragraphs to edit their wikitext with a minimal interface.
Edit-listings
Dragoniez/ToollinkTweaks adds more and customizable links next to users in page history, logs, watchlist, recent changes, etc.
Firefly/more-block-info optimizes the display of rangeblocks in contribution pages. Doesn't work outside the English locale of any wiki, unfortunately.
NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh/AjaxLoader makes paging links (e.g. older 50, 500, newest) load without refreshing and makes you realize how slow your internet actually is.
Appearance-ricing
Ahecht/RedirectID adds the redirect target to all redirects. For all the WP:NAVPOPS haters. (Do these exist?)
Dragoniez/MarkBLockedGlobal: Remember the "strike blocked usernames" gadget? Now you can use a red, dotted line to highlight rangeblocks and global locks!
Jonesey/common(pictured) has some styles to overhaul your Vector 2022 experience. It reduces padding everywhere, and makes the top bar animation faster.
Aaron Liu/V22 is a fork that narrows the sidebars instead of upheaving them, reverts the January 2024 dropdown changes, and restores the old page-link color for links that don't go outside the current wiki.
Nardog: SmartDiff is a spiritual successor to Enterprisey/fancy-diffs. It makes the page title part of links in diffs clickable, along with template and parser function calls. Unnamed parameters can be configured per template to also be linked. All links are styled based on the normal CSS classes of rendered links.
For the paranoid: Rublov/anonymize replaces your username at the top of the screen with the generic "User page" text. Remember, it is your duty to persuade everyone that editing is an honor.
/AjaxBlock provides a dialog box for easy input of reasons while blocking users.
/Selective Rollback(pictured) provides a dialog box to customize rollback edit summaries and does them without reloading the page. Seriously, why doesn't MediaWiki already do this?
/flickrsearch adds a portlet link to search for uploadable flickr images about the subject.
/randomincategory adds a portlet link when on Category pages to go to a random page in the current category.
Vghfr/EasyTemplates adds a portlet link to automatically insert some of the most common inline {{fix}} templates.
Yes, we're just doing 'em as we go now. Thanks for reading through this looong issue, if you did! I'm sure this'll send a record for the longest issue ev-ah. You may need to wait even longer for the last issue, as our reserve of old-y and goodie scripts have ran out... We encourage you to try and do some of the requests or improvement tasks. See you in Summer, hopefully!
The Toolforge Grid Engine services have been shut down after the final migration process from Grid Engine to Kubernetes. (T313405)
Arbitration
An arbitration case has been opened to look into "the intersection of managing conflict of interest editing with the harassment (outing) policy".
Miscellaneous
Editors are invited to sign up for The Core Contest, an initiative running from April 15 to May 31, which aims to improve vital and other core articles on Wikipedia.
Latest comment: 4 months ago5 comments2 people in discussion
Was not a debut for Bearman at the KSA GP as was a debut for De Vries, Piastri, and Sargeant at the BHR 2023? That's why I put that prose as per 2023... Island92 (talk) 17:17, 4 April 2024 (UTC)
@Island92: De Vries, Piastri and Sargeant all participated in FP1 and FP2 at the 2023 Bahrain Grand Prix. Bearman did not partcipate in FP1 or FP2. Looking at the sporting regs sourced at 2024 Formula One World Championship#Free practice drivers,[1] the mandated use of free practice drivers is specified in section 32.4 (which is about the general use of third drivers in practice section, with paragraph c specifing that "rookies" must be used twice). It specifies that third drivers are for FP1 and FP2. Therefore Bearman does not count towards Ferrari satisfing article 32.4 c as Bearman did not participate in FP1 or FP2. SSSB (talk) 18:12, 4 April 2024 (UTC)
Partial action blocks are now in effect on the English Wikipedia. This means that administrators have the ability to restrict users from certain actions, including uploading files, moving pages and files, creating new pages, and sending thanks. T280531
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hello sssb i want you to create an article about the nantahala hyperspeedway in the state of north Carolina It could be a Circuit that is formula one ready and Also create another article about the fort peck hyperspeedway in the state of montana!!! 149.74.4.35 (talk) 12:00, 5 May 2024 (UTC)
Latest comment: 2 months ago2 comments2 people in discussion
I know it was probably an accident, but maybe be more careful not to refer to an user as he on a noticeboard discussion where the behaviour being reported is them repeatedly removing someone's comment referring to said user as he. – 2804:F14:8085:6201:6014:787:F7A8:B566 (talk) 21:45, 25 May 2024 (UTC)
I was careful, but I am still in the habit of using "he" where gender is unspecified (which is grammatical acceptable in English: "used to refer to a person whose gender is not known or not important in that situation") and I made a mistake, which happens. SSSB (talk) 02:55, 26 May 2024 (UTC)
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Hi
Just wanted to notify you of this, seems you were active on similar discussions and AfDs but the Lewis Hamilton win list and other such lists are proposed for deletion.
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Formula One Grand Prix wins by Lewis Hamilton 159.242.125.170 (talk) 16:35, 12 June 2024 (UTC)
The Signpost: 4 July 2024
Latest comment: 1 month ago1 comment1 person in discussion
Local administrators can now add new links to the bottom of the site Tools menu without using JavaScript. Documentation is available on MediaWiki. (T6086)
A major issue with the page Ezhava and a very recently formed page Tiyyar
Latest comment: 1 month ago2 comments2 people in discussion
Hi @SSSB
I have seen that you have edited the page Ezhava and related issues with that . from the records it is clear that almost all editors coniders ezhavas and thiyyas as synonymous and both are redirected to each other. I saw that a year back when such an issue came you took similar stance , I just checked the archieves and find out this , --> https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Ezhava&oldid=1031793980 however after violating this a new page has been created few days back , the page contradicts almost any thing the main page says and went to claim that thiyyas are a separate ethnicity . However the main page says that it is the same . Quoting from the main page Ezhava --> They are also known as Ilhava, Irava, Izhava and Erava in the south of the region; as Chovas, Chokons and Chogons in Central Travancore; and as Thiyyar, Tiyyas and Theeyas in the Malabar region. This is from the section variations from the main page ezhava.
The problem is since these both are included together it would require to split like the entire pages , if it is separate . I have checked the past edits and archieves and the main admins had made it clear that both are same . It would require splitting up the page "Ezhava" too . Else it is like creating 10. 20 pages with the same name. Also thiyyas are being counted as a separate ethnicity in the page tiyyar in most of the cases including the govt records the name is thiyya , so like it is extra confusion. All the details are well discussed in the main page ezhava. the current page tiyyar even discusses , genetics like indo aryans etc, is a mere news article enough enough for this claims ?? the article claims things like separate dialect for thiyya. I mean how can this be in an ecyclopedia even a news article wont say this?? Can u please check into this ? I think if it is separate the entire page need to be splitted up ? What do u think ? PN - I am a major reader of these topics since years and i genuinely think that its creating confusion . I had already intiated a session too can you please look into this ? Lisa121996 (talk) 04:44, 1 July 2024 (UTC)
@Lisa121996: this appears to have sorted itself out. Thank you for bringing this to my attention. However, as you may have noticed, I am no longer active on this area of Wikipedia. In future, it may therefore be better for you to direct your concerns to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject India to garner more attention and better experts. SSSB (talk) 08:35, 7 July 2024 (UTC)
Lewis Hamilton records
Latest comment: 1 month ago3 comments2 people in discussion
Re the above
I think you are being discriminate about which records you "choose" to see as trivia. For instance, most pitstops by a winning driver (for Verstappen) could be deemed trivia so why are you not removing that? I'm not going to revert your edit because i don't want to get banned re 3 revert rule, so i'll leave things as they are for now. Koppite1 (talk) 21:28, 7 July 2024 (UTC)
To comment on your first sentence, I am covering that at the appropriate talk page. To answer your second sentence, because I didn't know that "stat" existed. To comment on your final sentence, you shouldn't revert my edit becuase the article is currently your prefered version without your "compromise". SSSB (talk) 21:33, 7 July 2024 (UTC)
@Koppite1: my final point is really one you need to be aware of, because your comment suggests you missed the point of my last edit to the relevant page.21:40, 7 July 2024 (UTC)
Top 25
Latest comment: 1 month ago2 comments2 people in discussion
Please look again at the Top 25 Report you just reverted. ThingsCanOnlyGetWetter made a list of his favourite UK political stories and replaced the real Top 25 with his list. Surely that isn't acceptable. 63.226.202.30 (talk) 07:48, 10 July 2024 (UTC)
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