Suffusion of Yellow

FilterDebugger

It looks like the implementation of ccnorm doesn't properly map '¡' to i. Special:AbuseLog/36337996 is currently shown as not a match. 0xDeadbeef→∞ (talk to me) 12:53, 11 November 2023 (UTC)

@0xDeadbeef: Thanks; looks like mw:Equivset has finally been updated! I'll rebuild with the newer version. Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 19:23, 12 November 2023 (UTC)

Should be fixed now. Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 19:40, 12 November 2023 (UTC)

works now, thanks! 0xDeadbeef→∞ (talk to me) 07:07, 13 November 2023 (UTC)

You might also want to keep an eye on phab:T357855. 1234qwer1234qwer4 20:30, 26 February 2024 (UTC)

Thanks, subscribed! Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 02:52, 1 March 2024 (UTC)

Frivolous topic

I have to wonder— is your username by any chance a reference to the I Ching calculator in The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul? 🌺 Cremastra (talk) 21:10, 10 January 2024 (UTC)

But of course. :-) Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 22:36, 15 January 2024 (UTC)

User script request

Hi. Now that I'm an EFM, I realize that it would be helpful to have a script that linked each warning/disallow message name (like "abusefilter-disallowed-WPWP-extendedconfirmed" on Special:AbuseFilter/1258 for example) to the relevant message (MediaWiki:abusefilter-disallowed-WPWP-extendedconfirmed). Any chance you would be interested in writing such a script? If not I can take a crack at it but you seem to have cornered the market on edit filter-related scripts so I figured I'd ask. Thanks, --DannyS712 (talk) 20:36, 18 January 2024 (UTC)

@DannyS712: I'm not really all that active right now; plus I have maybe 20 or so unfinished scripts that I'd rather get to first. If you want this done, go for it! Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 01:56, 25 January 2024 (UTC)

@Suffusion of Yellow okay, User:DannyS712/AbuseFilterMessageLinks.js --DannyS712 (talk) 09:06, 25 January 2024 (UTC)

Improving Filter 1045

Hi Suffusion of Yellow, do you think the additions of {{Close paraphrasing}} could also be added to line 9? Thanks Nobody (talk) 14:34, 7 February 2024 (UTC)

@1AmNobody24: Thanks,  Done. Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 22:20, 10 February 2024 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Technical Barnstar
	This is absolutely amazing, thank you. 1234qwer1234qwer4 20:29, 26 February 2024 (UTC)

@1234qwer1234qwer4: Thanks! Always nice to know someone other than me is using these tools. Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 02:53, 1 March 2024 (UTC)

Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 24

Hello everyone, and welcome to the 24th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter, covering all our favorite new and updated user scripts since 24 December 2021. Uh-huh, we're finally covering the good ones among the rest! Aren't you excited? Remember to include a link in double brackets to the script's .js page when you install the script, so that we can see who uses the script in WhatLinksHere! The ScriptInstaller gadget automatically does this. Aaron Liu (talk) 01:00, 1 March 2024 (UTC)

Got anything good? Tell us about your new, improved, old, or messed-up script here!

Featured script

Making user scripts load faster by SD0001 is this month's featured script, which caches userscripts every day to eliminate the overhead caused by force-downloading the newest version of scripts every time you open a Wikipedia page. Despite being released in April 2021, our best script scouters have failed to locate it due to its omission from the US of L. For security reasons, the script only supports loading JavaScript pages.

Newly maintained scripts

After earthly attempts at improving the original have failed...

• Aaron Liu has created What redirects here from Guarapiranga/WhatRedirectsHere; his fork includes support for every MediaWiki wiki, corrected link positions, an access key, and some rudimentary translation.
• 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.
• Mesidast/Tidy citations is a fork of Meteor sandwich yum/Tidy citations is a fork of Waldyrious/formatcitations. It configurably harmonizes whitespace and cleans up parameters in citation templates, descriptive edit summary included.

Without caching. Each script takes 400–500ms. A particularly large script takes 1.11 s! Internet download speed is 50 Mbps.

With caching enabled. Each script takes just 1-2 ms to load.

Improve a script

Unfortunately, this section has remained nearly identical. Help us out here!

• Many of our favorite scripts such as Fred Gandt/userResourceManager, Guarapiranga/search-shortcuts and Bradv/Superlinks haven't been updated for Vector 2022. You could be the one to change that!
• Elominius/media timer works, but its UI looks alien. Someone could improve it...
• 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.
• We want...

• ...a mark-as-read button and watchlist notices support for Aaron Liu/Watchlyst Greybar Unsin
• ...a tool to automatically fix CAT:BROKENREFs, preferably a fork/addition to TheJJJunk/ARA
• ...a fix/fork of DannyS712/SectionRemover to make it work

Requested scripts

• A simple script to second or archive proposed deletions
• A script to auto-expand V22 ToC sections like 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 Nux/LongTableFilters
• ...and many more, all available at Wikipedia:User scripts/Requests

New scripts

• DannyS712/AbuseFilterMessageLinks add links to the "warn" and "disallow" messages in edit filters.
• 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.
• 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.
• Moonythedwarf/extra-unreliable highlights phrases commonly used in spammed and POV'd paragraphs.

• 

  NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh/FormattedEditRequest (pictured) generates a wikitext-formatted diff view of any changes you've made that you can copy and paste anywhere.
• PrimeHunter/Category source.js adds portlet links to tell you where a category for an article comes from and supports those from template transclusions.
• Qwerfjkl/massCFD creates mass WP:CfD nominations.
• Rublov/refspace highlights footnote spacing errors in red.
• 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.
• Ingenuity/AbuseFilterContribs adds the edit filters that an edit tripped (if any) to a user's contributions page.
  • Nardog/ExamineMore makes it so the paging at Special:AbuseFilter/examine actually works, pending a fix to T292764.
• 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!
• GhostInTheMachine/GraphicReplyLink replaces the [ reply ] link with 💬, which is some sort of rainy cloud I guess?

• 

  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.
• Phlsph7/ClassicalTOC (Vector 2022) reinserts the inline table of contents to pages under Vector 2022.
• 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.
• Sideswipe9th/Vector 2022 Floating Tools Menu moves the Page Tools menu to the left and makes it float along with the table of contents.
• Sm8ps/SectionEditing makes pressing Tab ↹ toggle the visibility of the tiny [ edit ] links next to section headings.. Not a great name, eh?
• The wub/tocExpandAll adds a button on top of the floating ToC to expand or collapse subheadings.

Permissions required!

• Ahecht/potd-helper: A script to post the picture of the day. A powerful upgrade for your mop.

• 

  Dragoniez
  • /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?
• Theleekycauldron/DYK promoter automates (nearly) all the work needed to post a DYK hook.

QOL shortcuts

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

Yes, we're just doing 'em as we go now. Thanks for reading through this looong issue, if you did! I'm sure this'll send a record for the longest issue ev-ah. You may need to wait even longer for the last issue, as our reserve of old-y and goodie scripts have ran out... We encourage you to try and do some of the requests or improvement tasks. See you in Summer, hopefully!

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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:37, 1 March 2024 (UTC)

RFA2024 update: no longer accepting new proposals in phase I

Hey there! This is to let you know that phase I of the 2024 requests for adminship (RfA) review is now no longer accepting new proposals. Lots of proposals remain open for discussion, and the current round of review looks to be on a good track towards making significant progress towards improving RfA's structure and environment. I'd like to give my heartfelt thanks to everyone who has given us their idea for change to make RfA better, and the same to everyone who has given the necessary feedback to improve those ideas. The following proposals remain open for discussion:

• Proposal 2, initiated by HouseBlaster, provides for the addition of a text box at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship reminding all editors of our policies and enforcement mechanisms around decorum.
• Proposals 3 and 3b, initiated by Barkeep49 and Usedtobecool, respectively, provide for trials of discussion-only periods at RfA. The first would add three extra discussion-only days to the beginning, while the second would convert the first two days to discussion-only.
• Proposal 5, initiated by SilkTork, provides for a trial of RfAs without threaded discussion in the voting sections.
• Proposals 6c and 6d, initiated by BilledMammal, provide for allowing users to be selected as provisional admins for a limited time through various concrete selection criteria and smaller-scale vetting.
• Proposal 7, initiated by Lee Vilenski, provides for the "General discussion" section being broken up with section headings.
• Proposal 9b, initiated by Reaper Eternal, provides for the requirement that allegations of policy violation be substantiated with appropriate links to where the alleged misconduct occured.
• Proposals 12c, 21, and 21b, initiated by City of Silver, Ritchie333, and HouseBlaster, respectively, provide for reducing the discretionary zone, which currently extends from 65% to 75%. The first would reduce it 65%–70%, the second would reduce it to 50%–66%, and the third would reduce it to 60%–70%.
• Proposal 13, initiated by Novem Lingaue, provides for periodic, privately balloted admin elections.
• Proposal 14, initiated by Kusma, provides for the creation of some minimum suffrage requirements to cast a vote.
• Proposals 16 and 16c, initiated by Thebiguglyalien and Soni, respectively, provide for community-based admin desysop procedures. 16 would desysop where consensus is established in favor at the administrators' noticeboard; 16c would allow a petition to force reconfirmation.
• Proposal 16e, initiated by BilledMammal, would extend the recall procedures of 16 to bureaucrats.
• Proposal 17, initiated by SchroCat, provides for "on-call" admins and 'crats to monitor RfAs for decorum.
• Proposal 18, initiated by theleekycauldron, provides for lowering the RfB target from 85% to 75%.
• Proposal 24, initiated by SportingFlyer, provides for a more robust alternate version of the optional candidate poll.
• Proposal 25, initiated by Femke, provides for the requirement that nominees be extended-confirmed in addition to their nominators.
• Proposal 27, initiated by WereSpielChequers, provides for the creation of a training course for admin hopefuls, as well as periodic retraining to keep admins from drifting out of sync with community norms.
• Proposal 28, initiated by HouseBlaster, tightens restrictions on multi-part questions.

To read proposals that were closed as unsuccessful, please see Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/2024 review/Phase I/Closed proposals. You are cordially invited once again to participate in the open discussions; when phase I ends, phase II will review the outcomes of trial proposals and refine the implementation details of other proposals. Another notification will be sent out when this phase begins, likely with the first successful close of a major proposal. Happy editing! theleekycauldron (talk • she/her), via:

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 10:53, 14 March 2024 (UTC)

Moving a filter clause

My 1094 filter is primarily intended for LTAs, but some recent additions has it picking up lots of primary-school vandalism related to Skibidi Toilet (e.g. [1]). It seems like it would be more appropriate to merge those clauses to an existing filter that targest that type of disruption. Do you know of an existing filter that would be a good candidate for that and is monitored by a bot for WP:AIV autopostings? OhNoitsJamie ^Talk 13:48, 26 March 2024 (UTC)

(talk page watcher) Probably 614 (hist · log)? 0xDeadbeef→∞ (talk to me) 14:50, 26 March 2024 (UTC)

Perfect, thank you 0xDeadbeef! OhNoitsJamie ^Talk 14:52, 26 March 2024 (UTC)

No problem. Just noting: the list of filters monitored by the bot is configured at Template:DatBot filters. 0xDeadbeef→∞ (talk to me) 14:53, 26 March 2024 (UTC)

LTA

Since you've seemed to have related experience, Wikipedia:Edit_filter_noticeboard#Adding_potential_LTA_filter. Q ^{T C} 20:25, 29 March 2024 (UTC)

@OverlordQ: Sorry for the late reply. I see you've removed the thread and don't have email enabled. There's not much to say in public, except that filters don't work terribly well against that sort of LTA. Email me if you want to discuss more. Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 22:06, 2 April 2024 (UTC)

Filter highlighter problem, and a question

Your filter highlighter script shows that a disabled filter, whether public or private, is enabled even though it's not, and it's missing the line across the filter's name for disabled filters.

Question: do I place window.effpUseDev = true; above or below importScript('User:Suffusion of Yellow/effp-helper.js');? That's because I want to enable experimental features for effp-helper.

Thanks, Codename Noreste 🤔 talk 23:58, 3 April 2024 (UTC)

Um, which filter? Results are cached for up to 30 minutes; otherwise there would be a extra ~150K API request with every page load. I just disabled a few filters; is it one of those? Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 00:05, 4 April 2024 (UTC)

I meant that the filter highlighter script displays that any disabled filter is enabled without the line crossing out the filter's name indicating that filter is disabled, even though those disabled filters are actually disabled. Codename Noreste 🤔 talk 00:25, 4 April 2024 (UTC)

Does it at least say "disabled" in the title text? Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 00:31, 4 April 2024 (UTC)

When I hover over a random public filter, say for example Special:AbuseFilter/1, it is actually disabled, and the information says that it is disabled. However, I do not see any line crossing out the filter's public description name indicating that it is visually disabled. Codename Noreste 🤔 talk 00:37, 4 April 2024 (UTC)

But you see it on the the documentation page, I take it? That's weird; that should be the same CSS. I'll look at this more later, but try other browsers, zoom in, zoom out, etc. Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 01:25, 4 April 2024 (UTC)

Hmm, in Firefox when I choose "always underline links" the strikeout doesn't show for me either. Maybe you have some similar setting? I don't know if that's possible to override, but I'll look at it. Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 02:57, 4 April 2024 (UTC)

Oh and the order doesn't matter; everything in common.js will be executed before any of the imported scripts. Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 00:06, 4 April 2024 (UTC)

Magic

	The Magician's Barnstar
	Looking at Special:AbuseFilter/1297, I think you could convert ClueBot NG into edit filter code and people wouldn't notice for a while. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 20:59, 15 April 2024 (UTC)

Thanks, ToBeFree! I do hope to able to set that to disallow, but edits like Special:Diff/1218192315 are going to be tricky. Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 21:31, 15 April 2024 (UTC)

That diff isn't vandalism? ~ ToBeFree (talk) 21:44, 15 April 2024 (UTC)

You would think so. But search YouTube for a video called 'QT Hush - "The Peeky-Boo Caper" (1960)'. (I won't link to it since it's probably a copyvio). When the title card comes up at about 00:25, it clearly says "The Peeky-Poo Caper". I suspect very few people care about this subject. Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 22:06, 15 April 2024 (UTC)

Interesting. Weird. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 23:52, 15 April 2024 (UTC)

(talk page watcher) Speaking of filters, 1297 caught Special:Diff/1219231893 of an IP posting "your mom" vandalism of which I just reverted; that filter tagged it, while 320 (hist · log) did not catch it at all. 1297 could possibly detect any false negatives other filters may not catch, and that diff technically counts as a false negative of filter 320.

Anyway, if filter 1297 tracks a huge number of vandalism that filters 12, 225, 260, 380, 384, and 614 may not catch if at all, then 1297 would also be justifiable in my opinion. Codename Noreste 🤔 𝙇𝙖 𝙎𝙪𝙢𝙖 14:39, 16 April 2024 (UTC)

phab:T363020

done, can follow up at T363020 of course. — xaosflux ^Talk 20:54, 19 April 2024 (UTC)

Thanks, I'll leave the IP the vague note. Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 21:00, 19 April 2024 (UTC)

This edit caught my eye...

Thought you might find it of interest. At Sneedville, Tennessee *previously known as Chvcksville* was added...using a V instead of a U...so very clever. Shearonink (talk) 00:14, 26 April 2024 (UTC)

Well, I'm sure they feel clever, at least. I don't think this is a major problem anymore; best just to treat it as a WP:RBI matter when they slip past the filter. Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 00:22, 26 April 2024 (UTC)

would this be okay?

can I send them my username on Fortnite? Ill delete it after, and well talk on fortnite EdenBAnn (talk) 22:22, 30 April 2024 (UTC)

Do not share any personal information that be tracked to your real-life identity. It's not likely in your case, but Wikipedia users have been known to get death threats. "Deleting it after" won't help; everything you say on Wikipedia is recorded in the page history. Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 22:33, 30 April 2024 (UTC)

Okay Thank You! EdenBAnn (talk) 22:34, 30 April 2024 (UTC)

A cupcake for you!

Hi, sorry about all the mess on my friend's talk page. We will figure it out, how to talk to each other on a different website. So here is a cupcake as an apology. Quirkykiana (talk) 22:38, 30 April 2024 (UTC)

Thank you! You weren't causing any major harm, but if that had gone on for thousands of edits, someone would have eventually taken harsher action. Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 22:46, 30 April 2024 (UTC)

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