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Hello everyone, and welcome to the 26th issue of the Misplaced Pages ], 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! ] (]) 05:06, 25 December 2024 (UTC)
] <small>Got anything good? Tell us about your new, improved, old, or messed-up script ]!</small>
;Backlog status
After the last newsletter (No.28, June 2022), the backlog declined another 1,000 to 13,000 in the last week of June. Then the July backlog drive began, during which 9,900 articles were reviewed and the backlog fell by 4,500 to just under 8,500 (these numbers illustrate how many new articles regularly flow into the queue). Thanks go to the coordinators {{u|Buidhe}} and {{u|Zippybonzo}}, as well as all the nearly 100 participants. Congratulations to {{u|Dr vulpes}} who led with 880 points. See ] for further details.
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Unfortunately, most of the decline happened in the first half of the month, and the backlog has already risen to 9,600. Understandably, it seems many backlog drive participants are taking a break from reviewing and unfortunately, we are not even keeping up with the inflow let alone driving it lower. We need the '''other 600 reviewers''' to do more! Please try to do at least '''one a day'''.
===] Featured script===
:Very useful for changelist patrollers, ''']''', by ''']''', is this edition's featured script. Taking inspiration from ]'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 ].
===] Miscellaneous===
;Coordination: {{u|MB}} and {{u|Novem Linguae}} have taken on some of the coordination tasks. Please let them know if you are interested in helping out. {{u|MPGuy2824}} will be handling recognition, and will be retroactively awarding the annual barnstars that have not been issued for a few years.
* ], a recent ]/]-like userscript that follows modern WMF UI design, is now ]. However, its sole maintainer has left the project, which still awaits WMF ] (among some audits) to be installed on your favorite WMF wikis.
* ], our former chief editor, has ascended to ] 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 ] with commits creating ] and the <syntaxhighlight inline lang="wikitext">__EXPECTUNUSEDTEMPLATE__</syntaxhighlight> magic word to exclude a template from ]! I wonder if Misplaced Pages has a templaters' newsletter...
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;Open letter to the WMF: The Page Curation software needs urgent attention. There are dozens of bug fixes and enhancements that are stalled (listed at ]). We have written a letter to be sent to the WMF and we encourage as many patrollers as possible to sign it ]. We are also in negotiation with the Board of Trustees to press for assistance. Better software will make the active reviewers we have more productive.
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===] Improve a script===
;TIP - Reviewing by subject: Reviewers who prefer to patrol new pages by their most familiar subjects can do so from the regularly updated ].
* Many of our favorite scripts such as ], ], and ] haven't been updated for Vector 2022. You could be the one to change that!
* ] and ] work, yet have alien ]. Someone could improve them...
* ] 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 .
===] Requested scripts===
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We need scripts that...
;New reviewers: The ] is being underused. The learning curve for NPP is quite steep, but a detailed and easy-to-read ] exists, and the Curation Tool's many features are fully described and illustrated on the updated page ].
* allow you to edit {{tl|sfn}} references graphically a la ]
* 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 ]
* ...and many more, all available at ]. Thanks to the editors at US/R—including ], ], ], and many more!—for their work in processing userscript requests this past year.
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;Reminders
===] Updated scripts===
*Consider staying informed on project issues by putting ] on your watchlist.
* ] forks ] 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.
*If you have noticed a user with a ''good'' understanding of Misplaced Pages notability and deletion, suggest they help the effort by placing {{tq|<nowiki>{{subst:NPR invite}}</nowiki>}} on their talk page.
* Pour one out: ] forks ] to allow configuration precise to a number of days (from the original precision of years).
*If you are no longer very active on Misplaced Pages or you no longer wish to be part of the New Page Reviewer user group, please consider asking any admin to remove you from the list. This will enable NPP to have a better overview of its performance and what improvements need to be made to the process and its software.
* ] forks ] to automatically add CopyPatrol reports.
*To opt-out of future mailings, please remove yourself ]
* ] updates BilledMammal's classic Move+ to add automattic watchlisting of all pages—except the target page(s)—changed while processing a move.
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===] Newly maintained scripts===
Delivered by: ] (]) 21:23, 6 August 2022 (UTC)
* Administrators only! ] forks the now-broken ] to review unblock requests with a graphical interface.
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===] New scripts===
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* ]: ] provides a shortcut to its namesake tool, ], which helps de-] articles.
* ]]: ] (''pictured'') generates links to a limited range of ], log items, or page history. You see, it's not just ]!
* ] is a rewrite of ] that makes everything saner to configure.
* When viewing ], ] adds links to automatically insert coordinates into the article selected.
* To satiate archaeology and curiosity (the same thing, perhaps?), ] logs the time it takes for a user to review each submission to ].
* ] adds a searchable list of all Unicode characters to the 2010 source editor.
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Latest revision as of 05:06, 25 December 2024
Where this user is, it is 3:56 pm, 26 December 2024 GMT .
Hello everyone, and welcome to the 26th issue of the Misplaced Pages 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! Aaron Liu (talk) 05:06, 25 December 2024 (UTC)
Got anything good? Tell us about your new, improved, old, or messed-up script here!
Featured script
Very useful for changelist patrollers, DiffUndo, by 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.
Miscellaneous
Doğu/Adiutor, a recent WP:Twinkle/WP:RedWarn-like userscript that follows modern WMF UI design, is now 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.
DannyS712, our former chief editor, has ascended to MediaWiki and the greener purpley pastures of PHP with commits creating Special:NamespaceInfo and the __EXPECTUNUSEDTEMPLATE__ magic word to exclude a template from Special:UnusedTemplates! I wonder if Misplaced Pages has a templaters' newsletter...
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 fiasco history.
Andrybak/Unsigned helper forks Anomie/unsignedhelper to add support for binary search, automatic edit summaries after generating the {{unsigned}} template, support for {{undated}}, and support for generating while syntax highlighting is on.
Polygnotus/Move+ updates BilledMammal's classic Move+ to add automattic watchlisting of all pages—except the target page(s)—changed while processing a move.
Got anything good? Tell us about your new, improved, old, or messed-up script here!
Featured script
Miscellaneous
Improve a script
Requested scripts
Updated scripts
Newly maintained scripts
New scripts
