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== User script: [[User:The Transhumanist/anno.js]] ==

This script makes the annotations of bullet list entries disappear and reappear with the click of a toggle, or the press of a hot key.

But, it has a problem. When material above the reader's current position on the page is removed, it displaces the reader from what he was reading.  The text shifts up relative to the viewport and may even go off the screen.

If you know how to adjust the positioning of the viewport, please let me know.

Thank you. [[User talk:The Transhumanist|<i>The&nbsp;Transhumanist</i>]] 06:49, 6 April 2017 (UTC)

== User script: [[User:The Transhumanist/OLUtils.js]] ==

This is going to have a bunch of features optimized for working on outlines.

It's first and only feature at this time is a redlink remover. I've adapted a pre-existing script and added a section for removing redlinked list entries from outlines, which is currently in the testing and bug-fixing phase. It doesn't work yet, but I'm hopeful.

I'm in the process of documenting the code liberally with comments, and with extensive explanatory notes on the [[User talk:The Transhumanist/OLUtils.js|script's talk page]]. Commentary and questions are welcome! [[User talk:The Transhumanist|<i>The&nbsp;Transhumanist</i>]] 01:10, 14 April 2017 (UTC)

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== Nested RegExp ==

I'm working on a script ([[User:The Transhumanist/OLUtils.js]]) to remove redlinks from outlines, and I've run into a problem with regular expressions:

<syntaxhighlight lang="javascript">
1 var nodeScoop2 = new RegExp('('+RegExp.quote(redlinks[i])+')','i');
2 var matchString2 = wpTextbox1.value.match(nodeScoop2);
3 alert(matchString2);
</syntaxhighlight>

The above returns two matches, when I was expecting one.  The second one is coming from the nested RegExp constructor.

Is there another way to specify a variable within a regular expression? If so, what?

Also, I can't find any documentation on the plus signs as used here.  Can you explain them, or point me to an explanation?

What would the RegExp look like in literal notation?

Thank you. [[User talk:The Transhumanist|<i>The&nbsp;Transhumanist</i>]] 11:07, 5 May 2017 (UTC)
:This is the way Twinkle specifies variables in a regular expression; to my knowledge it's the only way to do it. The plus signs are acting as string concatenation operators [https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Operators/Arithmetic_Operators#Addition_() (string + string = concatenation)]. And you couldn't express this in literal notation, because literal notation can't accept variables (it is literal after all).
:As an example of using <code>new RegExp</code>, this regexp in literal notation: <code>/^Hello\s+/gi</code> is entirely equivalent to <code>new RegExp('^Hello\\s+', 'gi')</code>. Note the double escaping! This is because character escapes in regular expression are processed separately from character escapes in strings.
:As to why it is returning two matches instead of one, I really couldn't tell you. Could you provide a simplified test case or example? — <span style="border:dashed #666;border-width:1px 0 0 1px">[[User:This, that and the other|This, that]]</span> and <span style="border:dashed #666;border-width:0 1px 1px 0">[[User talk:This, that and the other|the other<small> (talk)</small>]]</span> 12:40, 5 May 2017 (UTC)
:: {{ping|This, that and the other}} Thank you for the explanation. In answer to your question, "yes". Run the script [[User:The Transhumanist/OLUtils.js]] on any article with "Outline of" in the title, and that has red links in it, and the alerts will show you. [[User talk:The Transhumanist|<i>The&nbsp;Transhumanist</i>]] 15:35, 5 May 2017 (UTC)

:{{ec}}{{Reply to|The Transhumanist}}  It's difficult to quickly assess exactly what's going on without seeing the data it's being run against and the matches you are seeing.  Is it possible that there's actually multiple matches in the input text?  E.g. if you look for "apple" in "apple, orange, pineapple", two matches is the expected result.  You would need to look for "\bapple\b" to restrict both ends to word boundaries, but that would still give multiple matches against "red apple, green apple, orange".  There is nothing about that code snippet which suggests that multiple matches should be unexpected behaviour.
:I think your problem here is that you need to deal with the text before and after the thing the regexp is supposed to match.  Looking at Alex's original script, I believe you need to use something like his original regular expressions, as it looks like they already deal with the beginning and end of the string.  I don't see why you appear to be reinventing the wheel here, as it looks like Alex's script already deals with that issue.
:As for "plus signs as used here", do you mean the string concatenation operators?  If you don't recognise basic JS operators and string concatenation, I suggest that you may need to learn fundamental JS programming before continuing.  Try the tutorials and guides at https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript.
:Literal notation?  If you feed "apple" into the above snipped, via the "redlinks" array, you'd get the equivalent of <code>/(apple)/i</code>.  That's very basic stuff, so you should probably be doing some reading on Mozilla's MDN site (or some other JS learning resource).
:[[User:Murph9000|<span style="color:white;background-color:purple;padding:0.1em 0.1em 0.1em 1em;">Murph</span><span style="color:white;background-color:black;padding:0.1em 1em 0.1em 0.1em;">9000</span>]] ([[User talk:Murph9000|talk]]) 12:55, 5 May 2017 (UTC)
:: {{ping|Murph9000}} Thank you for the input. I've been having much difficulty with this script.  The answer is "no" on the multiple matches.  The original statement was
::<syntaxhighlight lang="javascript">
var nodeScoop2 = new RegExp('\\[\\[\\s*('+RegExp.quote(redlinks[i])+')\\s*\\]\\]','i');
</syntaxhighlight>
::which for example returns <nowiki>[[Geography of France]]</nowiki>, Geography of France
::So I figure it's the nested RegExp that is the second match. [[User talk:The Transhumanist|<i>The&nbsp;Transhumanist</i>]] 15:33, 5 May 2017 (UTC)
:::Ok, now it's clearer exactly what you are talking about.  This is expected behaviour, it's standard regexp group stuff as Syockit explained below.  Don't use the term "nested RegExp" like that, as that's not what it is and that term just adds to the confusion here.  [[User:Murph9000|<span style="color:white;background-color:purple;padding:0.1em 0.1em 0.1em 1em;">Murph</span><span style="color:white;background-color:black;padding:0.1em 1em 0.1em 0.1em;">9000</span>]] ([[User talk:Murph9000|talk]]) 20:50, 5 May 2017 (UTC)

:The parentheses creates a [https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/RegExp#grouping-back-references capturing group]. The first match is the whole matched string, while the second one is the captured group. Try with <code>RegExp(RegExp.quote(redlinks[i]),'i')</code> and see if it works. [[User:Syockit|Syockit]] ([[User talk:Syockit|talk]]) 12:57, 5 May 2017 (UTC)

Wow. It's been many moons since anyone has asked me for JS help- I thought I'd become just a mostly-faded memory for a few editors. With that being said, [[User:Syockit|Syockit]] is right as far as I can tell in that the parentheses create a capturing group. I'm not entirely sure why they're there at all- I'd use the same nodeScoop2 you currently have without the parentheses around the RegExp.quote; i.e. try:

<syntaxhighlight lang="javascript">
var nodeScoop2 = new RegExp('\\[\\[\\s*'+RegExp.quote(redlinks[i])+'\\s*\\]\\]','i');
</syntaxhighlight>

Best, [[User:Kangaroopower|'''<span style="color:#009933;font-family:Tempus Sans ITC;">Kangaroo</span>''']][[User Talk:Kangaroopower|'''<span style="color:#000080;font-family:Tempus Sans ITC;">powah</span>''']] 20:09, 5 May 2017 (UTC)

:: {{ping|Kangaroopower}} I tried what you suggested in [[User:The Transhumanist/redlinkstest.js]], and it doesn't seem to work.  I'll keep at it, thgouh. [[User talk:The Transhumanist|<i>The&nbsp;Transhumanist</i>]] 20:34, 5 May 2017 (UTC)

:: {{ping|Kangaroopower}} I forgot the quotes. So I put those back, and adjusted the replace strings to account for the removal of the control group delimiters, and it worked.  Now to try it on the current script... [[User talk:The Transhumanist|<i>The&nbsp;Transhumanist</i>]] 02:29, 6 May 2017 (UTC)

::: {{ping|The Transhumanist}} Glad I could help. Best, --03:34, 6 May 2017 (UTC)

:Perhaps you are looking for String.indexOf().  Oftentimes people discover regular expressions and somehow convince themselves that everything must be expressed in terms of regexes.  If regex is not working for you, it is ok not to use it.  [[Special:Contributions/91.155.195.247|91.155.195.247]] ([[User talk:91.155.195.247|talk]]) 20:07, 5 May 2017 (UTC)

:: According to https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/String/indexOf , that returns a number. I'm looking for specific strings, not the position (index) of a string. Thank you, as I was unaware of what this method does. [[User talk:The Transhumanist|<i>The&nbsp;Transhumanist</i>]] 11:00, 6 May 2017 (UTC)

:::You will have the starting position of the string and its length (= the length of the substring you are looking for).  String.substring() will extract you the matching string - which will be the same as the string you were looking for, except possibly for case.  This is how a programmer would do it, not with regexes.  [[Special:Contributions/91.155.195.247|91.155.195.247]] ([[User talk:91.155.195.247|talk]]) 15:55, 7 May 2017 (UTC)

: I cannot clear see what do you want to achieve, but I find these codes overkill.  Mediawiki add titles of actual destinations as attribute <code>title</code> to links and class <code>new</code> for red links.

: This jQuery one-liner simply unlinks all red links.  This snippet actually inserts linked texts before links and then remove these links.  
<syntaxhighlight lang="javascript">
$("a.new").before(function(){ return this.textContent }).remove();
</syntaxhighlight>

: The function in <code>before</code> returns what to remain after link removal.  The <code>this</code> refers to the currently iterated element due to jQuery's design.  If we want to completely remove a link, make the function return nothing then.  The following example completely removes red category links and treat other red links as usual.

:<syntaxhighlight lang="javascript">
$("a.new").before(function(){
  if (!this.title.startsWith("Category:"))
    return this.textContent;
}).remove();
</syntaxhighlight>
: [[User:Jdh8|Chen-Pang He]] ([[User talk:Jdh8|talk]])  <!--Template:Undated--><small class="autosigned">—Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|undated]] comment added 07:40, 6 May 2017 (UTC)</small> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->

Sorry, but I don't understand what you are trying to achieve. If you want to remove red links from the DOM (in the generated code of the view), then you can use Javascript (faster) or jQuery (slower) to remove or replace all of them eventually at once, or do more things on each of them in a loop. With Javascript you need to use one of "getElementsByClassName" (for example applied to <code>class="new"</code>) or "getElementsByTagName" for all <code><a></code> elements, and then you can apply styles ('_color_', '_cursor_', &hellip;) or replace them with your own content such as their "innerHTML" values. With jQuery >= 1.2 you can use something like <code>$(".new").replaceWith(function() { return $(this).text(); });</code> or <code>$(".new").replaceWith(function() { return this.innerHTML; });</code>, while with jQuery >= 1.4 you can use the <code>unwrap</code> function like this: <code>$(".new").contents().unwrap();</code>. jQuery seems to be shorter, but this is because you do not see the whole code that is behind the execution of it, and it is much slower than doing it in native Javascript (when it is well written, of course). All of them, Javascript and jQuery, should be wrapped into a document ready function (via Javascript or jQuery), a setTimeout functions or both. If you need to store their values, then you can create a <code>for</code> or a <code>while</code> loop for each of them and the do whatever you want to. Of course, if you are working on the source code, then the above does not apply at all. About the regex, I need more about the data, plus tests and examples. The reason for its multiple matches has been well explained above. Just a note, if you are sending and parsin a huge quantity of data, for example the whole content of an article, then something like [[Perl|PERL]] is always the faster and the better solution possible because it was conceived for reporting of the big log files such as those generated by a server. [[AWK]] and [[Sed|sed]] are also good with this. Unfortunately, I do not think that they are available here. –[[User:Pjoef|p<span style="color: #802400">joe</span>f]] <small>(''[[User talk:Pjoef|talk]]'' • [[Special:Contributions/Pjoef|contribs]])</small> 12:18, 6 May 2017 (UTC)

: {{ping|Pjoef|Jdh8}} The script is [[User:The Transhumanist/OLUtils.js]], and the section we are working on here is for processing outlines, and starts with this:

:<code>if (document.title.indexOf("Outline ") != -1) {</code>.

: For outlines, the script is supposed to remove list item entries (including bullet and carriage return) that are comprised entirely of redlinks, but only if they have no children. Red end nodes.  It goes through several iterations, just in case the removal of a red end node renders other red entries into end nodes.  After all those have been removed, then the script deletes any red category links, and finally delinks the remaining embedded red links. I've provided a more in-depth explanation below under [[#What the script is supposed to do]]. For non-outlines, it just deletes red cats and delinks the rest of the redlinks. [[User talk:The Transhumanist|<i>The&nbsp;Transhumanist</i>]] 04:09, 7 May 2017 (UTC)

=== The whole regex ===
{{ping|Jdh8|Kangaroopower|Syockit|Murph9000|SMcCandlish|TheDJ}}

The sample I posted at the beginning of this thread was simplified to show the problem that it was returning 2 matches instead of the expected 1. So, I thought the script might do unexpected replacements, but that has not happened (yet). But I've run into other problems...

The regex from the script is more involved than the sample, and is for matching the line the key topic (redlinks[i]) is included on plus the whole next line:

:<syntaxhighlight lang="javascript">
var nodeScoop2 = new RegExp('\\n((\\*)+)[ ]*?\\[\\[\\s*'+(RegExp.quote(redlinks[i]))+'\\s*\\]\\].*?\\n(.*?\\n)','i');
</syntaxhighlight>

The reason the whole next line is included is because I'd like to delete entries based upon the type of line that follows (or more accurately, does not follow).  If the entry is not followed by a child, then it gets deleted, but should be kept if it does have a child.  The weird thing is, that the part matching the whole next line is in the 4th set of parentheses, so you would expect $4 to back reference that. In practice, it is $3 that accesses that capturing group. And I don't know why.  Though the solution (ignoring the parentheses around the embedded RegExp, when counting the capturing groups) seems to be working.  But, I've run into a worse problem...

:<syntaxhighlight lang="javascript">
// Here is the regular expression for matching the scoop target (to "scoop up" the redlinked entry with direct (non-piped) link, plus the whole next line)
var nodeScoop2 = new RegExp('\\n((\\*)+)[ ]*?\\[\\[\\s*'+(RegExp.quote(redlinks[i]))+'\\s*\\]\\].*?\\n(.*?\\n)','i');
 
// To actualize the search string above, we create a variable with method:
var matchString2 = wpTextbox1.value.match(nodeScoop2);
alert(matchString2); // for testing

// Declare match patterns
var patt1 = new RegExp(":");
var patt2 = new RegExp(" – ");
var patt3 = /$1\*/;

// Here's the fun part. We use a big set of nested ifs to determine if matchString2 does not match criteria. If it does not match, delete the entry:
// If matchString2 isn't empty
if (matchString2 !== null) {

    // If has no coloned annotation (that is, does not have a ":")
    if (patt1.test(matchString2) === false) {

        // If has no hyphenated annotation (that is, does not have " – ")
        if (patt2.test(matchString2) === false) {

            // ...and if the succeeding line is not a child (that is, does not have more asterisks)
            if (patt3.test(matchString2) === false) {

                // ... then replace nodeScoop2 with the last line in it, thereby removing the end node entry
                wpTextbox1.value = wpTextbox1.value.replace(nodeScoop2,"\n$3");
                incrementer++;
                alert("removed entry");
            }
        }
    }
}       
</syntaxhighlight>

The problem is patt3. I'm trying to check for the asterisks at the beginning of the second line.  If there is one more asterisk on that line than in the line before it, it means it is a child.  In which case I do not want to delete the parent.  But, the above code deletes the parents anyways. 

In the example below, $1 should match the asterisk at the beginning of the parent line, and $1\* (patt3) should match the asterisks at the beginning of the child line.  But it doesn't seem to be working. And when I add an alert to test for the value of patt3 or $1, the script crashes!

<nowiki>* Parent</nowiki><br>
<nowiki>** Child</nowiki>

If $1 includes asterisks in it, does it return those asterisks escaped?

Any ideas on how to solve my patt3 problem? [[User talk:The Transhumanist|<i>The&nbsp;Transhumanist</i>]] 12:14, 6 May 2017 (UTC)

:Try to double-escape the aterisk <code>\\*</code> in a <code>RegExp</code> constructor or in this way <code>/\*</code>. –[[User:Pjoef|p<span style="color: #802400">joe</span>f]] <small>(''[[User talk:Pjoef|talk]]'' • [[Special:Contributions/Pjoef|contribs]])</small> 12:26, 6 May 2017 (UTC)

:: {{ping|Pjoef}} I did. See the RegExp below.  Notice that the double escaped asterisk is inside a capturing group. When you use $1 to refer to that capturing group, will the asterisks in there still be escaped? When I try to use alert to test for $1, it crashes the script.

:<syntaxhighlight lang="javascript">
var nodeScoop2 = new RegExp('\\n((\\*)+)[ ]*?\\[\\[\\s*'+(RegExp.quote(redlinks[i]))+'\\s*\\]\\].*?\\n(.*?\\n)','i');
</syntaxhighlight>

:: I look forward to your reply. [[User talk:The Transhumanist|<i>The&nbsp;Transhumanist</i>]] 13:58, 6 May 2017 (UTC)

::: "*" is a quantifier (a special character) and, as well as all other special characters, it needs to be escaped when it is part of the pattern of characters that you want to find or replace. See: [https://www.w3schools.com/jsref/jsref_obj_regexp.asp w3schools.com/jsref/jsref_obj_regexp.asp]. About the use of the alert for debugging purpose I suggest you to use console.log() method to display data directly within the debugger of the browser. More @: [https://www.w3schools.com/js/js_debugging.asp w3schools.com/js/js_debugging.asp]. The debugger itself should be also able to show you which and where is the error within your code. About the editing of the article and the DOM manipulation, it doesn't save the changes, but if an user is in the editor window/view and it presses the save button all changes that have been made to the content will be saved. –[[User:Pjoef|p<span style="color: #802400">joe</span>f]] <small>(''[[User talk:Pjoef|talk]]'' • [[Special:Contributions/Pjoef|contribs]])</small> 09:26, 7 May 2017 (UTC) 
:::P.S.: I haven't tested it out but probably $1 is "undefined". In this case you need to check for this before you use it: <code>if ($1) &hellip;</code>. –[[User:Pjoef|p<span style="color: #802400">joe</span>f]] <small>(''[[User talk:Pjoef|talk]]'' • [[Special:Contributions/Pjoef|contribs]])</small> 09:34, 7 May 2017 (UTC)

:Running the code in generated document seems to be easier because we can make use of HTML structure.  A leaf link safe to remove is the only child of <code>li</code>.

:<syntaxhighlight lang="javascript">
$("a.new").replaceWith(function(){
  if (this.title.startsWith("Category:"))
    return null;

  if (this.matches("li > :only-child"))
    return null;

  return this.textContent;
});
</syntaxhighlight>

:Cheers, [[User:Jdh8|Chen-Pang He]] ([[User talk:Jdh8|talk]])  <!--Template:Undated--><small class="autosigned">—Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|undated]] comment added 15:19, 6 May 2017 (UTC)</small> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->

:: {{ping|Jdh8}} Hi. Thanks for the suggestions. I have some questions for you: Would the code you provided edit the article, or just affect the view? I'm looking for editing solutions. How could a script remove children list items in the edit window? [[User talk:The Transhumanist|<i>The&nbsp;Transhumanist</i>]] 03:57, 7 May 2017 (UTC)

I got your message. It looks like you may have gotten the help you need. When working with RegExp, I like to try them on some sample strings to see what each one is actually matching, and what it's returning. There's a great website for doing that: [https://regex101.com/ regex101]. [[User:Nathanm mn|Nathanm mn]] ([[User talk:Nathanm mn|talk]]) 16:12, 6 May 2017 (UTC)

: {{ping|Nathanm mn}} We still haven't figured it out. The problem I'm trying to solve is how to identify when a list item has a child. A child list item will have one more asterisk at the beginning than the parent.  So, I set up a capturing group for the asterisks at the beginning of the parent (so $1 would be the back reference), and then try to match that number of asterisks plus one more in the child (using $1\*).  But it isn't working. I am stuck.  There are other criteria which the entries to be removed must fail, otherwise I wish to keep them.  So simply getting rid of all children isn't what I'm after. We already know they are red linked entries, because the first half of the program puts all redlinks into an array, which we process in the second half of the program. Then the nested if structure checks first for whether the current redlink in the array has no entry.  If it doesn't, then we check to see if it has no colon annotation. If it doesn't have a colon separator, then we check to see if it doesn't have a hyphenated annotation. If it doesn't have an en dash separator, then we check to see if it has no children.  If it doesn't have a child, then we delete it from the wiki source, modifying the actual article itself. 
: Once all redlinked entries that fail our tests are removed, then the rest of the program mops up, deleting red category links, and delinking all redlinks that still remain after that.  We know, due to the extensive filtering we just subjected them to, that they are all embedded redlinks, the content of which we want to keep. I'll make a sample below that presents examples of the data instances to be processed. [[User talk:The Transhumanist|<i>The&nbsp;Transhumanist</i>]] 22:12, 6 May 2017 (UTC)

=== What the script is supposed to do ===

{{ping|Jdh8|Kangaroopower|Syockit|Murph9000|SMcCandlish|TheDJ|Nathanm mn}}

Here is a sample item list:

* [[Geography]]
* [[Geology]] &ndash; this text is an annotation. And here is an embedded [[redlink 1]]. After all the end node (dead end) redlinked entries are removed, this redlink will be delinked.
* [[Redlink 2]]
* [[Redlink 3]]
** [[Redlink 4]]
** [[Psychology]]
* [[Redlink 5]]: this text is also an annotation. So I want to keep this entry.
* [[Redlink 6]]
** [[Redlink 7]]
*** [[Redlink 8]]
**** [[Redlink 9]] &ndash; this annotation will prevent this entry and all its parents from being deleted. They will however be delinked after list item removal and relinked category removal are completed.
* [[Redlink 10]]
** [[Redlink 11]]
** [[Redlink 12]]
*** [[Redlink 13]]
**** [[Redlink 14]]
** [[Redlink 15]]

What we want to do is remove the list entries for which the topic is a redlink, but which do not have annotations, and which do not have children. Then we delete redlinked categories, and delink whatever redlinks are leftover &mdash; those will be by definition embedded, such as redlink 1 and redlink 3. Redlink 3 is embedded by virtue of having children.

Redlink 2 is a dead end. It is an end node in the tree structure that contains only a redlink. It gets deleted.

The script goes through the list multiple times, until it no longer finds dead end redlinks.  This is because when it removes a redlinked end node, that may cause its redlinked parent to become a dead end node (such as when it has no other children). Multiple iterations catch these. So the entire branch starting with Redlink 10 will be deleted.

'''Here is the problem I've run into:''' the script currently and erroneously deletes the Redlink 3 list item. Because $1\* or $1\\* do not seem to be identifying the Redlink 4 list item as having more asterisks in the wikisource than the Redlink 3 list item. I do not know why.  What should happen is that Redlink 3 would be retained because of Redlink 4, and after Redlink 4 is removed, then Redlink 3 is checked again and is kept by virtue of having Psychology as a child.  But, when Redlink 3 is deleted in error, it makes Psychology a child of Geology, thus ruining the tree structure.

All this processing is to be done in the editor, so that the redlinked entries are actually removed from the article. 

I'm stuck!  I look forward to your replies. [[User talk:The Transhumanist|<i>The&nbsp;Transhumanist</i>]] 23:00, 6 May 2017 (UTC)
:Your patt3 is off for a couple of reasons. First, with the $''n'' regex matches, in general you access them using <code>RegExp.$1</code> (which will be a string containing the match), not just <code>$1</code> – except for within String.replace function, when just <code>$1</code> is used in the replacement string [https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/RegExp/n]. Secondly, with regex literals, what you type is literally what you get as the regex string. So <code>var patt3 = /$1\*/;</code> will literally be interpreted as <code>/$1\*/</code> (where <code>$</code> asserts position at the end of the string; <code>1</code> matches the character <code>1</code>; <code>\*</code> matches the character <code>*</code>).
:What you could use instead is <code>var patt3 = new RegExp("\\*{"+(RegExp.$1.length+1)+"}");</code> which, for example, will give you the regex <code>/\*{3}/</code> when the <code>RegExp.$1</code> match is "**" - <u>'''[[User:Evad37|Evad]]''37'''''</u>&nbsp;<span style="font-size:95%;">&#91;[[d:w:User talk:Evad37|talk]]]</span> 04:59, 7 May 2017 (UTCt)
:: {{ping|Evad37}} I'll try it and will let you know how it works.  By the way, what about <code>var patt3 = new RegExp("$1\*");</code>. Why won't that work? (That was the first thing I tried, before going literal). [[User talk:The Transhumanist|<i>The&nbsp;Transhumanist</i>]] 23:14, 7 May 2017 (UTC)
:::<code>$1</code> as part of a string doesn't have any special meaning, except within the string .replace function. So <code>var patt3 = new RegExp("$1\*");</code> would give you the regex <code>/$1*/</code>. To use the actual match instead of $1, you would use <code>var patt3 = new RegExp(RegExp.$1 + "\*");</code> which would e.g. give you the regex <code>/***/</code> for a match "**". To actually get valid regex, the match would have to be escaped (note also that the single slash in <code>"\*"</code> doesn't get preserved unless it is double-escaped as <code>"\\*"</code>) . - <u>'''[[User:Evad37|Evad]]''37'''''</u>&nbsp;<span style="font-size:95%;">&#91;[[d:w:User talk:Evad37|talk]]]</span> 23:55, 7 May 2017 (UTC)
:::: Thank you [[User:Evad37|Evad]]. Using your code, the script now works, matching about 90% of what it is supposed to.  So far, I've cleaned up the all the country outlines for Africa. Now working on Asia.  I'm not sure why it is skipping some entries that it shouldn't, but I'm sure I'll figure it out by observing as I use it. [[User talk:The Transhumanist|<i>The&nbsp;Transhumanist</i>]] 22:39, 11 May 2017 (UTC)

== Use of Wikipedian programmer categories ==
{{Reply to|The Transhumanist}} '''''Was it really appropriate to spam over 500 users with a notice of this discussion using [[WP:AWB]]?'''''  That seems to me to be an inappropriate use of that tool.  [[User:Murph9000|<span style="color:white;background-color:purple;padding:0.1em 0.1em 0.1em 1em;">Murph</span><span style="color:white;background-color:black;padding:0.1em 1em 0.1em 0.1em;">9000</span>]] ([[User talk:Murph9000|talk]]) 13:21, 5 May 2017 (UTC)
:: 90% of them haven't logged in for months or years, but were still listed in the js users categories.  It's the only feasible way I could think of to reach the other 10%. You wouldn't happen to know of a script that can sort or screen a user list by the date of their last edit, would you?  That would be very helpful. [[User talk:The Transhumanist|<i>The&nbsp;Transhumanist</i>]] 15:07, 5 May 2017 (UTC)
:: {{done}} Found a way. See [[#Tracking down recent editors]], below. [[User talk:The Transhumanist|<i>The&nbsp;Transhumanist</i>]] 17:10, 5 May 2017 (UTC)

: Yeah, OP shouldn't have done that. If you want to recruit programming helpers, try Stack Overflow! [[User:Tomalak geretkal|Tomalak Geret&#39;kal]] ([[User talk:Tomalak geretkal|talk]]) 13:29, 5 May 2017 (UTC)
:: Just contacted users in the js wikipedian categories, which is what those categories are for, per [[WP:UCAT]]. For help with a script to improve the encyclopedia.  I'll look into a way to filter out dead user accounts from a list.  [[User talk:The Transhumanist|<i>The&nbsp;Transhumanist</i>]] 15:19, 5 May 2017 (UTC) 
:: {{done}} See [[#Tracking down recent editors]], below. [[User talk:The Transhumanist|<i>The&nbsp;Transhumanist</i>]] 19:26, 5 May 2017 (UTC)
: For real. Wikipedia ''is not'' StackOverflow. [[User:Julesmazur|Julesmazur]] ([[User talk:Julesmazur|talk]]) 14:00, 5 May 2017 (UTC)
:: The programming userboxes are to enable Wikipedians to contact each other about programming, per [[WP:UCAT]]. That's why we list our JavaScript skill-level, right? [[User talk:The Transhumanist|<i>The&nbsp;Transhumanist</i>]] 15:07, 5 May 2017 (UTC)
:::Consider that I've deleted several pages that you created through these mass messages that were not, in fact, user talk pages. Examples (not exhaustive, and I got bored of deleting them after a few): [[User talk:X!/egapresu siht tide t'nod esaelP]], [[User talk:Vanished user 98wiejfno34tijsfoiwefjlok5y/infobox]], [[User talk:Godlvall2/UserBoxes]]. Those userboxes are for ''identification'', sure, but they're not for automated mass messaging. [[User:Writ Keeper|Writ&nbsp;Keeper]]&nbsp;[[User Talk: Writ Keeper|&#9863;]][[Special:Contributions/Writ_Keeper|&#9812;]] 15:35, 5 May 2017 (UTC)
:::: Thanks. My bad. I didn't notice them right away, and then started skipping them. [[User talk:The Transhumanist|<i>The&nbsp;Transhumanist</i>]] 16:52, 5 May 2017 (UTC)

:Also, was it really necessary to use AWB to post an invitation to 300+ ''mainspace'' talk pages? I don't think that's where they go. [[User:Writ Keeper|Writ&nbsp;Keeper]]&nbsp;[[User Talk: Writ Keeper|&#9863;]][[Special:Contributions/Writ_Keeper|&#9812;]] 14:11, 5 May 2017 (UTC)
:: {{ping|Writ Keeper}} I've converted those to informational notices concerning upkeep of JavaScript articles, with a more encyclopedic tone. Thank you for the feedback. [[User talk:The Transhumanist|<i>The&nbsp;Transhumanist</i>]] 16:51, 5 May 2017 (UTC)

: I agree, StackOverflow would be the appropriate place to ask a programming question, not Wikipedia. [[User:Styfle|Styfle]] ([[User talk:Styfle|talk]]) 17:16, 5 June 2017 (UTC)

== Tracking down recent editors ==

I'd like to contact recent editors (say, in the past month) from the users listed at:

[[:Category:User js-4]]

Many of the users listed here haven't logged in for years.

Any ideas? [[User talk:The Transhumanist|<i>The&nbsp;Transhumanist</i>]] 11:43, 5 May 2017 (UTC)

: Hi [[User:The Transhumanist|The Transhumanist]].  Quarry is awesome for stuff like this.  Here you go :)   https://quarry.wmflabs.org/query/18396 --[[User:EpochFail|<span style="display:inline-block;padding:0 .25em;border-bottom:2px solid #008;background: #f6f6f6;" title="aka halfak">EpochFail</span>]] ([[User_talk:EpochFail|talk]] &bull; [[Special:Contributions/EpochFail|contribs]]) 16:05, 5 May 2017 (UTC)
:: Perfect.  I ran it again for the other cats.  Thank you for the script! [[User talk:The Transhumanist|<i>The&nbsp;Transhumanist</i>]] 19:08, 5 May 2017 (UTC)


== Data type section needed in [[JavaScript]] article ==
In my eyes the article misses a section describing the available data types. Can somebody with knowledge about the subject add this?
--[[Special:Contributions/79.213.185.195|79.213.185.195]] ([[User talk:79.213.185.195|talk]]) 06:37, 22 April 2017 (UTC)

== JavaScript sub-categories, subject development ==

I thought of creating some sub-categories for JavaScript like: "People related to JavaScript" and "Open-source games written in JavaScript". I'm not sure about the naming of the first one, and the second one seems to be contained in "Browser games" and "Open-source video games". What do you think? --[[User:إلياس الجزائري|إلياس الجزائري]] ([[User talk:إلياس الجزائري|talk]]) 17:19, 8 May 2017 (UTC) [[User:إلياس الجزائري|إلياس الجزائري]] ([[User talk:إلياس الجزائري|talk]]) 17:19, 8 May 2017 (UTC)
: [[User:إلياس الجزائري|إلياس الجزائري]], they both sound like distinct categories to me. Go for it. The second one would be a good subcategory of the two categories you mentioned. I'm very interested in browsing the people one, so you have at least one fan so far. By the way, how do you pronounce your name? [[User talk:The Transhumanist|<i>The&nbsp;Transhumanist</i>]] 00:27, 10 May 2017 (UTC)
::{{reply|The Transhumanist}}, I'm gonna create those cats. Um, about my name, if I were to write it in "romaji", it would be something like this: "ilyes eljaza'iri" (Arabic for "Elias The Algerian")--[[User:إلياس الجزائري|إلياس الجزائري]] ([[User talk:إلياس الجزائري|talk]]) 15:30, 10 May 2017 (UTC)
::: [[User:إلياس الجزائري|إلياس الجزائري]] Can I call you "Elias"? [[User talk:The Transhumanist|<i>The&nbsp;Transhumanist</i>]] 00:44, 11 May 2017 (UTC)
:::: {{reply|The Transhumanist}}, sure thing... Hey, the "People related to JavaScript" category has been moved to "People associated with JavaScript" ''since it is a more appropriate term'' xD. I knew it sounded strange... Ahem, anyway, "JavaScript developers" would be the most "appropriate term", no? (As in '''Shall we rename it again?''') And then we may add [[Mike Bostock]] (D3.js), [[Nicky Case]] (Nothing To Hide, Coming Out Simulator 2014, Exporable Explanations, Parable of Polyglons, etc), the creator of Node.js, Ferros Abukhadija who created [[WebTorrent]] — and that ''redirect'' should be turned into an article, it is notable enough, I believe... in addition to some other (cool) dudes... Currently I have no (real) access to the internet, which means I won't be able to (try) to '''create those articles'''... Also, since the goal of this WikiProject is to help people learn JS, "''''starting a book''''" would be helpful! (Take a look at [[Book:Alice in Wonderland]])... One more thing, the projects page is much too "big", don't you think? If I were you, I would '''split it'''  (Open tasks, needed articles, requested articles, or idk)... Ah, I am talkative and "I don't English good", hope I'm not being a pain in the ''rass'' (Arabic for "head" ;-;) --[[User:إلياس الجزائري|إلياس الجزائري]] ([[User talk:إلياس الجزائري|talk]]) 03:53, 12 May 2017 (UTC)
::::: [[User:إلياس الجزائري|Elias]], are all notable JavaScript authors JavaScript developers as well? If not, then "JavaScript developers" as the main people category for JavaScript would be too narrow. Also, does "JavaScript developers" mean "developers of the JavaScript language" or does it mean "JavaScript software developers"? Concerning a "book", we don't need one, as outlines are more extensive topic lists. See ''[[Draft:Outline of JavaScript]]''. By the way, take a look at [[JavaScript syntax]]. It's not just about syntax, as it nearly summarizes the whole language. Can you think of a better title for it? Last, but not least, '''''get real (Internet access)!''''' [[User talk:The Transhumanist|<i>The&nbsp;Transhumanist</i>]] 13:43, 12 May 2017 (UTC)

== "[[WP:JSRL|Reference library]]" ==

It would be helpful if we create a "Reference library" page as in [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Video games/Reference library]]. --[[User:إلياس الجزائري|إلياس الجزائري]] ([[User talk:إلياس الجزائري|talk]]) 09:49, 9 May 2017 (UTC)
: Wow. [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3APrefixIndex&prefix=WikiProject+Video+games%2FReference+library&namespace=4 That's amazing]. [[WP:JSRL|Page started]]. How do you think it should be organized?  I look forward to seeing what you add to it. [[User talk:The Transhumanist|<i>The&nbsp;Transhumanist</i>]] 01:13, 10 May 2017 (UTC)
: [[User:إلياس الجزائري|إلياس الجزائري]], thank you for adding to it. It has been expanded further. Feel free to work your wiki-magic and improve it. [[User talk:The Transhumanist|<i>The&nbsp;Transhumanist</i>]] 02:37, 11 May 2017 (UTC)


: [[User:إلياس الجزائري|إلياس الجزائري]], the reference library has been expanded with links to external articles. ''[[User talk:The Transhumanist|The Transhumanist]]'' 05:35, 21 January 2018 (UTC)

== How to remedy the regular MediaWiki updates breakings? ==

Would it be possible for this new task force to influence the current system in order to avoid the regular massive javascripts breakings which are provoked by the MediaWiki updates for years?

Actually my personal experience about this phenomena, as an administrator of four Wikimedia wikis is a kind of traumatic.
* On Wikibooks, [[MediaWiki:Gadgets-definition#broken-gadgets|half of the gadgets are broken]], and they hadn't been identified during several years before my recent inventory.

* On the French Wikiversity, we have a precious partnership with a famous school from France called the [[CNED]]. We had taken a few months to authorize and install their MOOC JS system. But less than one year after this success, everything has been compromised by the MediaWiki 1.30 this week. And [[phab:T165131|no one could help us on Phabricator for now]]. The fact is, that on the average-sized wikis like this one, the administrator team is often penniless in front of these breakings. And I don't want to talk about dictatorship or sabotage but I couldn't help thinking about these words, after having spent many unplanned days trying to repair our useful scripts every year.

* These yearly mass breakings have already caused the resignation of priceless professional JS developers like [[:fr:User:Dr Brains]] and [[b:fr:User:DavidL]].

So I think about at least proposing some unit tests to the MediaWiki developers (by [[Behat (computer science)|Behat]] hooks on [[Gerrit (software)|Gerrit]]?), in order limit the breakings, and a bot to identify and organize their reparations at an interwiki scale. [[User:JackPotte|JackPotte]] ([[User talk:JackPotte|talk]]) 21:20, 12 May 2017 (UTC)
:The problem is scale. What we do (and need to do), no longer scales to people just doing their own thing without oversight, linting etc. We (MediaWiki developers) are breaking these things for good reasons, not willy nilly (SIX YEARS for this years removal !!!!). But writing a userscript is easy. Maintaining it for years and years (while you cannot trace who uses it and how often it is used. or if you just got married and now have 2 kids taking up all your time) is not and whoever is left behind gets to clean up his own problems and everyone else's :) (I spent 5 days fixing well over 50 gadgets and scripts myself).
:Part of these breakages, is to force people into a world where these things are going to be easier to trace ([https://grafana.wikimedia.org/dashboard/db/mw-js-deprecate?refresh=1m&orgId=1&from=now-6M&to=now deprecations]), easier to sandbox (one error not bringing down all the other javascript), faster to load, making use of libraries instead of 15 year old globals etc etc. We NEED to move this forward, because it's holding a lot of other stuff back.
:One improvement would be building linting options for the mediawiki libraries into the CodeEditor.
:A second would be further expanding https://github.com/Krinkle/mw-tool-tourbot to be more usable for more people to scan for code that needs to be updated and to and to do pro active cleanup work.
:Gadgets are another part of the answer. globablized gadgets a better answer. globalized gadgets with code review an even better one. The question is, who is going to build it ? And that's my other problem. I have a feeling that we are no longer seeing a lot of technical people join the ranks of Wikipedia anymore. Not as we had between 2001 and 2008. And that generation has largely moved on by now. And I can't blame people for not wanting to build scripts for Wikipedia, if I had learned to build stuff on github, I'd NEVER jump through the Wikipedia hoops either :)
:—[[User:TheDJ|Th<span style="color: green">e</span>DJ]] ([[User talk:TheDJ|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/TheDJ|contribs]]) 22:02, 12 May 2017 (UTC)

== I'm stumped: How do you save a location in the viewport to reposition the viewport later? ==

{{ping|Jdh8|Evad37|TheDJ|Ynhockey|Murph9000|Kangaroopower|Syockit|Llightex|This, that and the other|Pjoef|Nathanm mn|Paulmlieberman|AlexTheWhovian|Canley|Unready|Writ Keeper}}

Hi guys,

I'm suffering from the viewport blues. How to reposition the viewport where I want it to go is turning out to be a major mystery for me. It's become a design element problem on a program I've been working on. I stopped touching it 3 months ago because of it. It really has me stumped.  I definitely need some guidance on this one...

It's a script to make browsing and reading lists on Wikipedia easier. It's called [[User:The Transhumanist/anno.js]]. It toggles the hiding of annotations, so you can turn them off when you just want to see the items listed for quick browsing.  And you can reactivate them again when you come across a term you don't know. For example...

It makes:

* [[Chess board]] &ndash; checkerboard with 64 squares (eight rows and eight columns) arranged in two alternating colors (light and dark). The colors are called "black" and "white", although the actual colors vary: usually they are dark green and buff for boards used in competition, and often natural shades of light and dark woods for home boards. Chess boards can be built into [[chess table]]s, or dispensed with (along with pieces) if playing [[mental chess]], [[computer chess]], [[Internet chess]] and sometimes [[correspondence chess]].
** [[Rank (chess)|Rank]] &ndash; horizontal row of squares on the chessboard.
** [[File (chess)|File]] &ndash; vertical (i.e. in the direction from one player to the other) column of squares on the chessboard.
* [[Chess set]] &ndash; all the pieces required to play a game of chess. Chess sets come in various materials and styles, and some are considered collectors' items and works of art. The most popular style for competitive play is the [[Staunton chess set]], named after [[Howard Staunton]]. The relative values given are approximate and depend on the game situation.
** [[Chess piece]]s &ndash; two armies of 16 chess pieces, one army white, the other black. Each player controls one of the armies for the entire game. The pieces in each army include:
*** 1 [[King (chess)|king]] &ndash; most important piece, and one of the weakest (until the endgame). The object of the game is checkmate, by placing the enemy king in check in a way that it cannot escape capture in the next move. On the top of the piece is a cross.
*** 1 [[Queen (chess)|queen]] &ndash; most powerful piece in the game, with a relative value of 9 points. The top of the piece is crown-like. Official tournament chess sets have 2 queens of each color, to deal with pawns being promoted
*** 2 [[Rook (chess)|rook]]s &ndash; look like castle towers and have a relative value of 5 points each.
*** 2 [[Bishop (chess)|bishop]]s &ndash; stylized after [[mitre]]s (bishops' hats), and have a relative value of 3 points each.
*** 2 [[Knight (chess)|knight]]s &ndash; usually look like horse heads and have a relative value of 3 points each.
*** 8 [[Pawn (chess)|pawn]]s &ndash; smallest pieces in the game, each topped by a ball. Pawns have a relative value of 1 point each.

Look like this: 

* [[Chess board]]
** [[Rank (chess)|Rank]]
** [[File (chess)|File]]
* [[Chess set]]
** [[Chess piece]]s
*** 1 [[King (chess)|king]]
*** 1 [[Queen (chess)|queen]]
*** 2 [[Rook (chess)|rook]]s
*** 2 [[Bishop (chess)|bishop]]s
*** 2 [[Knight (chess)|knight]]s
*** 8 [[Pawn (chess)|pawn]]s

The problem is that the view port shifts position relative to what the user was looking at.  When annotations before his location in the article are removed, the text he was looking at disappears off the top of the view port.  When those annotations are restored, it pushes the text in the view port down.

What I'd like to do is have the top line of the topmost bulleted item in the view port retain its position when the toggle is pressed, with everything else being updated above and below it.  If there are no bulleted items on the screen, then the topmost line of text should retain its position.

This is where I'm stuck.

Everything I've read so far about view port location adjustment requires doing so relative to an identifiable DOM element.

"<nowiki><li></nowiki>" tags apparently are not specific enough.

Is there a way to apply regex to just the content of the viewport?

If so, I could insert a div (with ID), and then determine and save the location of the div, and work off of that.

I'm hoping you can point me in the right direction on any approach(es) you think might work for saving a position in an article's content relative to what the user was looking at, and repositioning the viewport to that location after the script has altered the page.

Sincerely, [[User talk:The Transhumanist|<i>The&nbsp;Transhumanist</i>]] 17:04, 15 May 2017 (UTC)

:I'm trying to test this script, but the "Hide anno" link in the menu bar is all the way at the top of the page. So, I have to scroll all the way up to toggle this option, but then that makes the point about repositioning the viewport moot. Is there another way to "Hide anno" without scrolling to the top and clicking on the link? [[User:Llightex|Llightex]] ([[User talk:Llightex|talk]]) 20:47, 15 May 2017 (UTC)
:: [[User:Llightex|Llightex]], yes, there is a way. The hotkey to turn it on and off is {{Keypress|Shift|Alt|a}}. Some good pages to test it out on are:
::* [[Outline of fishing]]
::* [[Outline of canoeing and kayaking]]
::* [[Outline of cell biology]]
::* [[Outline of forestry]]
::* [[Outline of astronomy]]
:: It's {{keypress|Shift|Alt}} for hot keys in Firefox. For other browsers, see [[Wikipedia:Keyboard shortcuts]]. Thanks for testing it. [[User talk:The Transhumanist|<i>The&nbsp;Transhumanist</i>]] 02:39, 17 May 2017 (UTC)

:Could you please not ping me for these general JavaScript-related queries? In my mind, pings should be restricted to cases where you speak to someone personally. In this case, you are not doing that. — <span style="border:dashed #666;border-width:1px 0 0 1px">[[User:This, that and the other|This, that]]</span> and <span style="border:dashed #666;border-width:0 1px 1px 0">[[User talk:This, that and the other|the other<small> (talk)</small>]]</span> 01:36, 16 May 2017 (UTC)
::2nd'ed —[[User:TheDJ|Th<span style="color: green">e</span>DJ]] ([[User talk:TheDJ|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/TheDJ|contribs]]) 08:33, 16 May 2017 (UTC)
::: Sure thing. [[User talk:The Transhumanist|<i>The&nbsp;Transhumanist</i>]] 02:02, 17 May 2017 (UTC)

Perhaps you could consider another approach - instead of just having "all on" or "all off", you could insert an element before each annotation that when clicked on toggles just that annotation. - <u>'''[[User:Evad37|Evad]]''37'''''</u>&nbsp;<span style="font-size:95%;">&#91;[[d:w:User talk:Evad37|talk]]]</span> 03:06, 17 May 2017 (UTC)
: Good idea. That would be especially useful when all list items are hidden (but not the other way around). Hence we still need the show/hide toggle (which we already have), and in turn we still need viewport repositioning. The latter is the hardest thing I've come across in JavaScript so far. [[User talk:The Transhumanist|<i>The&nbsp;Transhumanist</i>]] 04:44, 18 May 2017 (UTC)

:Local Storage is an object thus your problem. –[[User:Pjoef|p<span style="color: #802400">joe</span>f]] <small>(''[[User talk:Pjoef|talk]]'' • [[Special:Contributions/Pjoef|contribs]])</small> 08:10, 19 May 2017 (UTC)
:: [[User:Pjoef|Pjoef]], the annotations disappear and reappear just fine, without local storage, because we don't leave the page. It follows that we don't need local storage to record the location of anything within the viewport.  What we do need is some way to determine the location of the viewport, so we can place a marker or beacon into it, or a way to identify content or elements within the viewport, so we can home in on one of those later.  The former would probably be better, since it avoids the contingency of there being no elements in the viewport. [[User talk:The Transhumanist|<i>The&nbsp;Transhumanist</i>]] 18:25, 19 May 2017 (UTC)
:::A JavaScript object like local storage has not an order.<br>If I understood your scope fully, then you can do it in another way. Turn on/off a global variable via js or stored in a cookie or whatever, and apply changes. When this variable is turned on (true, 1) then hide annotations (you can do it in several ways by adding a proper element, a class, applying a style, &hellip;), When this variable is turned off (false, 0, null, undefined, empty string) and you are on the same page then show annotations again (by doing the opposite of the previous case). When it is turned off and the location is changed then do nothing. It can be written in fully native js.<br>If you still want to use an object then you need to add a positioning key to each item and do a loop through this key, or an array, which is sortable or it is already ordered, and then doing a loop within the array to get the correct/wanted objects. –[[User:Pjoef|p<span style="color: #802400">joe</span>f]] <small>(''[[User talk:Pjoef|talk]]'' • [[Special:Contributions/Pjoef|contribs]])</small> 09:34, 23 May 2017 (UTC)

{{ping|The Transhumanist}} I think I've got an approach that could work – for elements above the veiwport, get the difference in height from before hiding annotations to after hiding annotations, then scroll the window up by that amount.
*If an element is above the viewport, [https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Web/API/Element/getBoundingClientRect getBoundingClientRect] will have a negative value for <code>bottom</code>
*The total height of an element can be obtained by the jQuery [http://api.jquery.com/outerheight/ .outerHeight(true)] method
*The window can be scrolled using [https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/scrollBy window.scrollBy()]
In code, this would be something like the following
<syntaxhighlight lang="javascript">
//Select the set of annotations that are above where the viewpoint is scrolled to
var $annos_above = $(".anno").filter( function(){
    var rect = this.getBoundingClientRect();
    if ( rect.bottom < 0 ) {
        return true;
    } else {
        return false;
    }
} );

//For each annotation above the viewport, get the difference in height in the containing element as that annotation is hidden
var scroll_amount = 0;
$annos_above.each( function(){
    var height_before = $(this).parent().outerHeight(true);
    $(this).hide();
    var height_after = $(this).parent().outerHeight(true);
    scroll_amount = scroll_amount + (height_after-height_before);
} );

//Hide the remaining annotations
$( ".anno" ).hide();

//Scroll the window by the required amount
window.scrollBy(0, scroll_amount);
</syntaxhighlight>
- <u>'''[[User:Evad37|Evad]]''37'''''</u>&nbsp;<span style="font-size:95%;">&#91;[[d:w:User talk:Evad37|talk]]]</span> 05:06, 28 May 2017 (UTC)

: [[User:Evad37|Evad]], this looks way more efficient than [[User_talk:The_Transhumanist/anno.js#A_possible_solution|the approach I've been working on]]. Thank you. I'll see what I can do with it. [[User talk:The Transhumanist|<i>The&nbsp;Transhumanist</i>]] 22:46, 3 June 2017 (UTC)

== User script for moving refs after punctuation ==

I'm a little new to JavaScript, but I've created a script ([[User:Erutuon/footnoteCleanup.js]]) to move refs, {{tl|citation needed}} tags, and footnote templates after punctuation.

It escapes ref tags, then reorders them in relation to punctuation; then escapes footnote templates, and reorders them; then unescapes twice to get the original content back. Thus, ref tags inside of footnote templates should be handled correctly. And it can currently handle just one level of templates inside of the footnote templates. (That can be increased if necessary.)

This tool might be useful if you happen to find an article with a huge number of misplaced refs and want to fix it without doing a lot of annoying copy-pasting. — [[User:Erutuon|Eru]]·[[User talk:Erutuon|tuon]] 02:16, 20 May 2017 (UTC)

== What is [[jsfiddle]]? ==

It looks like a sandbox, but I have a feeling it is a whole lot more. It seems to be used extensively out there in the JS community, but we don't have an article on [[jsfiddle]] yet.

I did find this: [[Comparison of online source code playgrounds]], and there is no article on [[Source code playground]].  Are there other names for this type of thing?

Getting back to my initial query, what is jsfiddle, and what is it used for?

I look forward to your replies. [[User talk:The Transhumanist|<i>The&nbsp;Transhumanist</i>]] 20:42, 21 May 2017 (UTC)

:An interview with one of the jsFiddle creators is at https://davidwalsh.name/jsfiddle-interview. The term 'source code playground' sounds correct. The author stated {{green|"One of the great code sharing tools was pastebin. It was simple and straight-forward but quickly grew out of its usefulness. That's where jsFiddle comes in. jsFiddle is a fresh tool that not only displays the code and highlights it but also executes its code within the browser for even better debugging."}} When you look at jsFiddle and compare it to some other entries that also let you try your example in your own browser, it has the virtue of letting you play with HTML, CSS and Javascript all at the same time. 

:When considering possible applications for a source code playground, it seems like an obvious win for an online textbook to use examples that can execute in the browser. Here is an online book by Cody Lindley that uses jsFiddle for its examples: https://www.gitbook.com/book/frontendmasters/react-enlightenment/details. A sample jsFiddle window is at https://www.reactenlightenment.com/react-jsx/5.8.html. 

:When you compare the Alexa rankings for jsfiddle.com and www.codepen.io, the latter gets more hits. The CodePen site has some quite elegant examples ('pens') which will run in your browser and claim to let you play with the code. [[CodePen]] gets bonus points for [https://open.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/11/11/building-a-cross-platform-360-degree-video-experience-at-the-new-york-times/?_r=0 a New York Times blog article] that came complete with a CodePen window that allows playing with one of their videos, although the company name isn't mentioned in the article text. They also managed to raise a million dollars from investors, which could explain why their examples are more beautiful than the jsFiddle ones. While having an article on CodePen seems well-justified, it is tricky to know if an article on jsFiddle could meet the notability rules. It would be fun to have. I see that [[Comparison of online source code playgrounds]] already has some red-linked entries, which is a thing that people often object to in lists. 

:Whether individual items are notable or not, It seems worthwhile for somebody to write an article on [[Source code playground]]. [[User:EdJohnston|EdJohnston]] ([[User talk:EdJohnston|talk]]) 02:53, 27 May 2017 (UTC)

== Should we have an article on Babel? ==

* https://babeljs.io/

It allows you to program in the latest version of JavaScript, and then transpile it to a version that is actually being used in current browsers.  Is it notable enough? [[User talk:The Transhumanist|<i>The&nbsp;Transhumanist</i>]] 00:24, 15 June 2017 (UTC)

Babel is a cornerstone of modern frameworks/libraries, React and Vue rely on Babel,<ref name="JSX Represents Objects">[https://reactjs.org/docs/introducing-jsx.html#jsx-represents-objects React Documentation - JSX Represents Objects]</ref><ref name=react/package.json>[https://github.com/facebook/react/blob/b365ee2816896ea9f01c1f65e65d403955762f8f/package.json github.com - react/package.json]</ref><ref name=vue-cli/package.json>[https://github.com/vuejs/vue-cli/blob/3289e1065c580a59b93dd08dbbb2daccff5c2043/package.json github.com - vue-cli/package.json]</ref> which are two of the most popular frameworks as of 2018/2019.<ref name="state of js frameworks 2018">[https://2018.stateofjs.com/front-end-frameworks/conclusion/ The State of JavaScript Front-End Frameworks 2018 - Conclusion]</ref> [[User:Htmlghozt|Htmlghozt]] ([[User talk:Htmlghozt|talk]]) 10:28, 15 July 2019 (UTC)
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== Are these notable? ==

Here are some things I've run across while browsing JS on WWW:

* http://bluebirdjs.com/docs/getting-started.html
* https://bower.io/
* http://broccolijs.com/
* http://brunch.io/

Which ones should WP have articles on? [[User talk:The Transhumanist|<i>The&nbsp;Transhumanist</i>]] 01:27, 15 June 2017 (UTC)

== There is no [[Portal:JavaScript]] ==

(Hint hint). [[User talk:The Transhumanist|<i>The&nbsp;Transhumanist</i>]] 06:21, 15 June 2017 (UTC)

== [[HTML scripting]] is in sad shape (eom) ==

== New article: [[Userscript manager]] (eom) ==

== New [[Draft:Tampermonkey]] (eom) ==

== Please check lead section at [[JavaScript]] (eom) ==

== Expert attention ==

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: Thank you. ''[[User talk:The Transhumanist|The Transhumanist]]'' 05:38, 26 October 2017 (UTC)

== Applying JavaScript upon the future of outlines ==

I'm in the process of building scripts for viewing outlines and for outline development. To make it easier for others to follow along with how the scripts work, I provide extensive explanations of the source code on their talk pages.

So far, there is:
* [[User:The Transhumanist/OutlineViewAnnotationToggler.js]] &ndash; this one provides a menu item to turn annotations on/off, so you can view lists bare when you want to (without annotations). When done, it will work on (the embedded lists of) all pages, not just outlines. Currently it is limited to outlines only, for development and testing purposes. It supports hotkey activation/deactivation of annotations, but that feature currently lacks an accurate viewport location reset for retaining the location on screen that the user was looking at. The program also needs an indicator that tells the user it is still on. Otherwise, you might wonder why a bare list has annotations in edit mode, when you go in to add some. :) Though it is functional as is. Check it out. After installing it, look at [[Outline of cell biology]], and press {{keypress|Shift|Alt|a}}. And again.
* [[User:The Transhumanist/RedlinksRemover.js]] &ndash; strips out entries in outlines that are nothing but a redlink. It removes them right out of the tree structure. But only end nodes (i.e., not parent nodes, which we need to keep). It delinks redlinks that have non-redlink offspring, or that have or are embedded in an annotation. It does not yet recognize entries that lack a bullet (it treats those as embedded).

It is my objective to build a set of scripts that fully automate the process of creating outlines. This end goal is a long way off ([[AI-complete]]?). In the meantime, I hope to increase productivity as much as I can. Fifty percent automation would double an editor's productivity.  I think I could reach 80% automation (a five-fold increase in productivity) within a couple years.

There's more:
* [[User:The Transhumanist/StripSearchInWikicode.js]] &ndash; another script, which strips search results down to a bare list of links, and inserts wikilink formatting for ease of insertion of those links into lists.  This is useful for gathering links for outlines. I'd like this script to sort its results. So, if you know how, or know someone who knows how, please let me know. A more immediate problem is that the output is interlaced with CR/LFs. I can't figure out how to get rid of them. Stripping them out in WikEd via regex is a tedious extra step. It would be nice to track them down and remove them with the script.

I look forward to your comments and suggestions. ''[[User talk:The Transhumanist|The Transhumanist]]'' 07:45, 26 October 2017 (UTC)

== Global object? ==

"mw" is the alias for "mediaWiki", the global object.

What is a global object? ''[[User talk:The Transhumanist|The Transhumanist]]'' 12:58, 19 December 2017 (UTC)
:{{re|The Transhumanist}} is this a quote from somewhere else, context may help.  You may be referring to the [[meta:Interwiki map]]. — [[User:Xaosflux|<span style="color:#FF9933; font-weight:bold; font-family:monotype;">xaosflux</span>]] <sup>[[User talk:Xaosflux|<span style="color:#009933;">Talk</span>]]</sup> 13:50, 19 December 2017 (UTC)
:: {{ping|Xaosflux}} Context, right. See below... ''[[User talk:The Transhumanist|The Transhumanist]]'' 18:39, 19 December 2017 (UTC)
:I think you are talking about a Javascript object. Global variables are declared outside any function, and they can be accessed (used) on any function in the program. Local variables are declared inside a function, and can be used only inside that function. Same thing with global and local objects. [[:mw:ResourceLoader/Core modules]] Disclaimer: I am not a Javascript expert. &#40;&#40;&#40;[[User:The Quixotic Potato|The Quixotic Potato]]&#41;&#41;&#41; ([[User talk:The Quixotic Potato|talk]])  17:57, 19 December 2017 (UTC)
:: {{ping|The Quixotic Potato}} That link is where I came across the term. At [[mw:ResourceLoader/Core modules#mediawiki]] It says:
::<blockquote>This is the mediawiki base module. It initialises the mediaWiki global object (with mw as alias). Alias mw is available everywhere and should be used.</blockquote>
:: But I can't find the definition of "global object" anywhere. As far as I can tell, it means that "mediaWiki" and "mw" refer to the mediaWiki object (initialized by the mediawiki base module) no matter what script they are used in on Wikipedia.
:: Does that mean scripts on Wikipedia don't need a [[User_talk:The_Transhumanist/StripSearchSorted.js#Bodyguard function|bodyguard function]] to protect the mw alias? 
:: Is "global object" a neologism? It would be nice to be able to look up the definition. ''[[User talk:The Transhumanist|The Transhumanist]]'' 18:25, 19 December 2017 (UTC)

:::I'll ping {{ping|TheDJ}} who knows a hell of a lot more about this stuff than I do. &#40;&#40;&#40;[[User:The Quixotic Potato|The Quixotic Potato]]&#41;&#41;&#41; ([[User talk:The Quixotic Potato|talk]])  18:29, 19 December 2017 (UTC)
::::mediaWiki is a library using the javascript object structure. It is accessible via the variable name mediaWiki (or mw) in javascript's [https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Guide/Grammar_and_types#Variable_scope global scope for variables]. Global variables can be written and read by everyone, so they are a bit dangerous to use, therefor we try to limit how many we use, so that we make fewer mistakes. We use bodyguards functions to 'hoist' these global variable names and make them functionally scoped variables (we import jQuery and mediaWiki, and instead of using them directly within the bodyguard, we use by renaming them to the function parameters $ and mw). This has multiple advantages. First, by lifting, we basically get to name them however we want and we can be consistent about that throughout the module (pick one and stick to it). Second, we won't be bothered by other libraries accidentally overwriting the global variable after our code in the bodyguard began executing (these can be very hard problems to debug, as they are cause by someone else's code). Third, it makes it easier to keep track of the global variables that you are using, making it harder to unintentionally use a global variable. For jshint/eslint, we define just the globals that we import with the bodyguard, allowing us to easily spot unintentional global variable usage in any other place in the code. —[[User:TheDJ|Th<span style="color: green">e</span>DJ]] ([[User talk:TheDJ|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/TheDJ|contribs]]) 19:47, 19 December 2017 (UTC)
::::: {{ping|TheDJ}} I don't understand the answer (I was expecting a "yes" or "no" response). Do "mediaWiki" and "mw" have the power of reserved words (in scripts on Wikipedia)? Do scripts on Wikipedia need a [[User_talk:The_Transhumanist/StripSearchSorted.js#Bodyguard function|bodyguard function]] to protect the mw alias? I generally include the following, but is it providing any benefit?

:::::<syntaxhighlight lang="javascript">

// Start off with a bodyguard function to reserve the aliases mw and $
( function ( mw, $ ) {
    // body of program goes here
}( mediaWiki, jQuery ) );
</syntaxhighlight>
::::: What am I missing?
::::: By the way, I'm still having trouble grasping a particular term. On the page at [[mw:ResourceLoader/Core modules#mediawiki]] it says:
:::::<blockquote>This is the mediawiki base module. It initialises the mediaWiki global object (with mw as alias). Alias mw is available everywhere and should be used.</blockquote>
::::: In the quote above, what exactly does "mediaWiki global object" refer to?  I look forward to your replies. ''[[User talk:The Transhumanist|The Transhumanist]]'' 15:31, 30 December 2017 (UTC)
:I assume "global" refers to [[scope (computer science)]] (especially [[global scope]]) whereas object refers to a [[JavaScript#Prototype-based (object-oriented)|Javascript object]]. In other words, it is an object which any program can access on a specific MediaWiki page. Changing some attribute of the object will cause all other programs or scripts accessing the object to be affected. (And for that reason, I assume that the majority of attributes of the object are read-only.) --[[User:Izno|Izno]] ([[User talk:Izno|talk]]) 18:35, 19 December 2017 (UTC)
:: {{ping|Izno}} Thank you. Any comments on TheDJ's Dec 19 answer above? (I don't get it). ''[[User talk:The Transhumanist|The Transhumanist]]'' 23:26, 23 December 2017 (UTC)

== New draft: [[Wikipedia:WikiProject JavaScript/Drafts/Glossary of JavaScript|Glossary of JavaScript]] (eom) ==

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== JavaScript programmers needed at [[WT:WPPORT]] ==

The portal system is being overhauled.

They could really use some input from JS programmers on what is possible. <span class="nowrap">&nbsp;&nbsp; &mdash; ''[[User talk:The Transhumanist|The&nbsp;Transhumanist]]''&nbsp;&nbsp; </span> 22:45, 14 May 2018 (UTC)

== Please turn my whinge into text at [[IIFE]] ==

I've noticed an amazing omission from [[IIFE]] summarized in that [[Talk:Immediately-invoked_function_expression#One-time_initialization_with_garbage_collected_resources|talk page]].  I've neither tuits or brain-bits at the moment.  Could someone add text to document this frequently-seen usage of IIFEs? [[User:Shenme|Shenme]] ([[User talk:Shenme|talk]]) 05:15, 20 June 2018 (UTC)

== Newsletter ==

Hi. Recently, I discovered a passion for created and understanding user scripts on wikipedia, and am planning to create a monthly newsletter about new scripts and projects (by anyone, not just promoting my own), and well as open script requests and other related information. If you would like to subscribe, please see [[User:DannyS712/subscribe to scripts]]. If you have any questions, please reach out and [[User talk:DannyS712|talk]] to me. --[[User:DannyS712|DannyS712]] ([[User talk:DannyS712|talk]]) 00:19, 23 December 2018 (UTC)
:{{ping|Luístro|The Transhumanist|SewerCat|Llightex|Evad37|Eizzen|Darcourse|Krinkle|Lu Brito|Mavaddat|Dreamy Jazz|Gryllida}} All of you are listed as participants in this wikiproject. Any interest? --[[User:DannyS712|DannyS712]] ([[User talk:DannyS712|talk]]) 00:22, 23 December 2018 (UTC)
::I would query [[User:legoktm|Legoktm]] about this, they are working - if I am not mistaken -- on a centralized repository of user scripts at Wikimedia projects across different wikis and languages. [[User:Gryllida|Gryllida]] ([[User talk:Gryllida|talk]]) 10:17, 24 December 2018 (UTC)
:::{{ping|legoktm}} per above - are you working on this? If so, can I see it / help? --[[User:DannyS712|DannyS712]] ([[User talk:DannyS712|talk]]) 08:15, 31 December 2018 (UTC)
::::No, I haven't worked on it for over a year now. [[User:Legoktm|Legoktm]] ([[User talk:Legoktm|talk]]) 05:37, 6 February 2019 (UTC)
:::::{{ping|Legoktm}} Do you have any progress / old pages I could use then? --[[User:DannyS712|DannyS712]] ([[User talk:DannyS712|talk]]) 05:45, 6 February 2019 (UTC)

== Cat links 2.js ==

{| style="padding-right: 5px; border: 1px solid #00FF00; background-color: #122317;"
|rowspan="2" style="vertical-align:middle;" | [[File:Barnstar - technical works.svg|200px]]

|rowspan="2" |
|style="font-size: x-large; padding-right: 5px; vertical-align: middle; height: 1.1em; color: #00FF00;" | {{center|'''The User Script Barnstar'''}}
|-
|style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid #00FF00; color: #00FF00;" | '''is hereby awarded to <big><big>[[User talk:DannyS712|<span style="color: GreenYellow;">DannyS712</span>]]</big></big> for writing [[User:DannyS712/Cat links 2.js|<span style="color: DodgerBlue;">Cat links 2.js</span>]], a script for harvesting links from categories, paving the way for this core technique to be applied in Wikipedia's navigation departments. Keep up the excellent work! Kudos.'''<templatestyles src="User OS:Dos/style.css"/><span class="blink" style="color: #00FF00;">_</span><br />
<span class="nowrap">&nbsp;&nbsp; &mdash; ''[[User talk:The Transhumanist|<span style="color: DodgerBlue;">The&nbsp;Transhumanist</span>]]''&nbsp;&nbsp; </span> 23:52, 11 January 2019 (UTC)
|}

== Voluntary code review ==

Anyone interested in participating in a voluntary "request for code review" process, for userscripts and gadgets? Please discuss at '''[[Wikipedia talk:User scripts#Voluntary code review]]''' (not here) - <u>'''[[User:Evad37|Evad]]''37'''''</u>&nbsp;<span style="font-size:95%;">&#91;[[d:w:User talk:Evad37|talk]]]</span> 03:43, 20 February 2019 (UTC)

: {{ping|Evad37}} Is code review like the requests for help I've posted on your talk page from time to time? <span class="nowrap">&nbsp;&nbsp; &mdash; ''[[User talk:The Transhumanist|The&nbsp;Transhumanist]]''&nbsp;&nbsp; </span> 10:40, 18 April 2019 (UTC)
::I think it's more of a [[software peer review]]: a type of [[code review]] where the author invites other coders to assess a new or changed script. [[User:Certes|Certes]] ([[User talk:Certes|talk]]) 14:46, 26 April 2019 (UTC)

== Main JavaScript navigation page nominated for deletion ==

[[Draft:Outline of JavaScript]], the main navigation page (under construction) for Javascript, has been nominated for deletion.

See: '''[[Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Draft:Outline of JavaScript]]'''. <span class="nowrap">&nbsp;&nbsp; &mdash; ''[[User talk:The Transhumanist|The&nbsp;Transhumanist]]''&nbsp;&nbsp; </span> 22:12, 17 April 2019 (UTC)

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== Where do I ask to have my common.js deleted? ==

Hi, I've done a lot of testing at [[User:NewsAndEventsGuy/common.js]] and would like to get rid of the mess of notes in the version history.  I tried template:mfd but that didn't seem to work in that context.   Where do I ask someone to delete common.js? [[User:NewsAndEventsGuy|NewsAndEventsGuy]] ([[User talk:NewsAndEventsGuy|talk]]) 05:22, 12 August 2019 (UTC)
:{{ping|NewsAndEventsGuy}} if its your own user page, just tag with with {{tl|db-g7}} - any admin can delete a user script, including your common.js. The mfd template did work, as far as adding categories, but it won't be shown in its expanded form --[[User:DannyS712|DannyS712]] ([[User talk:DannyS712|talk]]) 05:39, 12 August 2019 (UTC)
:{{u|NewsAndEventsGuy}}, I've deleted the page for you. You can tag with {{t|db-g7}} as DannyS712 suggested to get the page deleted. [[User:Galobtter|Galobtter]] ([[User talk:Galobtter|pingó mió]]) 05:44, 12 August 2019 (UTC)
::: Thank you both! I forgot about db-g7, thanks for the reminder. [[User:NewsAndEventsGuy|NewsAndEventsGuy]] ([[User talk:NewsAndEventsGuy|talk]]) 10:49, 12 August 2019 (UTC)

== Importscript vs just putting code in common.js ==
:''Follow-up to [[User talk:Ucucha/HarvErrors#Show button bug]]'' --[[User:Redrose64|<span style="color:#a80000; background:#ffeeee; text-decoration:inherit">Red</span>rose64]] &#x1f339; ([[User talk:Redrose64|talk]]) 07:47, 13 August 2019 (UTC)
Back in the [[Cretaceous]] I was an experienced programmer.   Javascript (and wiki userscripts) are new to me.  I hope this is a simple question with a simple explanation.  The question is

:Why on earth does the same code behave differently when it is ''part'' of common.js, as opposed to being imported from a separate file?

So that's it.  If it's a simple question you can stop reading now.  In case it isn't simple, here is my story
{{od}}

1. Seeking education about harv citation, [[Help:Citation tools]] steered me to [[User:Ucucha/HarvErrors.js]]<br>
2. At the time I had no common.js page<br>
3. The other editor's directions say to use importscript, but I like to keep things tight so instead of importing I created a common.js for myself and copied the contents of this other editor's user script into it.  After all, if it works when importing from his/her userspace, why not just put it directly into my common.js where I am most likely to keep an eye on it?<br>
4. It worked great until I noticed the "show" button on one article talk page was not working.<br>
5. I isolated the onset of this behavior to [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Global_warming&diff=908531695&oldid=908525653 this DIFF].  Subsequent testing identified that diff's use of [[Template:harvnb]] as the culprit.  In particular, the harvnb cites had no associated reference in the bibliography.  In harv citation speak, the diff created pipes but no anchors.  That creates a TRUE condition in the first test in [[User:Ucucha/HarvErrors.js]] (which  I had copied to my common.js)<br>
6. For convenience, I created my own test user subpage with a harvnb citation but no bibliography.  To my surprise I could not reproduce the error.  <br>
7. Back at the isolated diff described above, I finally noticed there were ''two'' such citations in a single paragraph.  So I created a ''second'' test user subpage.  The two test pages are 
:::*[[User:NewsAndEventsGuy/ShowButtonTest-DifferentParagraphs|Harv errors in different paragraphs (test page)]]
:::*[[User:NewsAndEventsGuy/ShowButtonTest-SameParagraph|Harv errors in same paragraph (test page)]]
8. Back at [[User:NewsAndEventsGuy/common.js|my common.js page]], I started pruning to isolate the snippet that produced this behavior.  Eventually I pruned it down as far as I could, and I replaced the contents of the conditional IF-statment to force a TRUE condition.  It now reads
<syntaxhighlight lang="javascript">
mw.hook( 'wikipage.content' ).add( function( $content ) {
    var href,
    	links = $content.find( 'a[href^="#CITEREF"]' );

    links.each( function (i, elem) {
    	href = elem.getAttribute( 'href' ).substring(1); //skip the #
        if ( 1 < 3) {
            elem.parentNode.innerHTML += "harv error";}
    } );

});
</syntaxhighlight><br>
9. With that code in my common.js, the show button in 
:::*[[User:NewsAndEventsGuy/ShowButtonTest-SameParagraph|Harv errors in same paragraph (test page)]]
is disabled but the show button in 
:::*[[User:NewsAndEventsGuy/ShowButtonTest-DifferentParagraphs|Harv errors in different paragraphs (test page)]]
works just fine.<br>
10. '''However the weird thing''' is with this same code in a separate user page, [[User:NewsAndEventsGuy/test.js]] and changing common.js so it just has a single "importscript" line, the show button works fine on both test pages.  <br>
11. Incidentally, when I tweaked the conditional statement to force a FALSE condition, the show button worked fine on both test pages, whether the code was in common.js or imported form test.js.  <br>
12. To summarize the factors that appear necessary to kill the show button they are
::: A. This snippet of code has to be in common.js not imported from elsewhere
::: B. There must be ''two'' harv citations without bibliographic references
::: C. They must be in the ''same paragraph''
13. I have an inkling of what's going on with (B) and (C).  What truly has me stumped is (A).<br>
14. Going full circle, I verified that the original Harv Errors script works fine if I put it in a separate subpage in my own userspace and import it from myself.   It's only when I paste the original directly into common.js that this problem appears.
{{od}}

'''Bottom line question'''....Why on earth does the same code behave differently when it is ''part'' of common.js, as opposed to being imported from a separate file?  

Hopefully there is a simple answer having to do with what happens when you "import", but if this really is an unexpected behavior....then..... one might ask who cares?  Just import it from a separate file and be happy.  Indeed, that's what I plan to do.  HOWEVER.... if it really is unexpected, then something else as-yet-unnoticed might be going on too so I thought I would make this report and maybe learn something at the same time.

Thanks, please be kind to the javascript newbie.  
[[User:NewsAndEventsGuy|NewsAndEventsGuy]] ([[User talk:NewsAndEventsGuy|talk]]) 13:13, 12 August 2019 (UTC)
:'''UPDATE'''  New factor..... the [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Ucucha/HarvErrors.js&action=history version history at User:Ucucha/HarvErrors.js] shows the first line was changed by another editor.  The original first line for Harv Errors was
:::: <nowiki>jQuery(document).ready(function($){  </nowiki>
:When I replace the first line in common.js file with that original the show button works as expected.  The Harv Errors script was updated, apparently for good reason, by {{Ping|TheDJ}}.  In [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Ucucha/HarvErrors.js&diff=796588640&oldid=747119984 this diff] his/her edit summary says {{tq|use mw.hook, so that it works with live preview, new wikieditor, VE etc.}} and (s)he changed the first line to 
:::: <nowiki>mw.hook( 'wikipage.content' ).add( function( $content ){ </nowiki>
:So somehow this is connected to the showbutton issue I described above.   jQuery(document) with these other factors = no problem.  But mw.hook with these other factors does something it should not.
:[[User:NewsAndEventsGuy|NewsAndEventsGuy]] ([[User talk:NewsAndEventsGuy|talk]]) 21:25, 12 August 2019 (UTC)

== Help request from en:wiktionary-user ==

Hi, see [[wikt:MediaWiki_talk:Gadget-TranslationAdder.js#How_to_test_changes_to_the_code?|this question]] --[[User:So9q|So9q]] ([[User talk:So9q|talk]]) 15:15, 31 August 2019 (UTC)
:: No longer needed--[[User:So9q|So9q]] ([[User talk:So9q|talk]]) 04:15, 1 September 2019 (UTC)

== Request for information on WP1.0 web tool ==

Hello and greetings from the maintainers of the [[User:WP_1.0_bot|WP 1.0 Bot]]! As you may or may not know, we are currently involved in an overhaul of the bot, in order to make it more modern and maintainable. As part of this process, we will be rewriting the [[:toolforge:enwp10/cgi-bin/pindex.fcgi|web tool]] that is part of the project. You might have noticed this tool if you click through the links on the project assessment summary tables.

We'd like to collect information on how the current tool is used by....you! How do you yourself and the other maintainers of your project use the web tool? Which of its features do you need? How frequently do you use these features? And what features is the tool missing that would be useful to you? We have collected all of these questions at [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScK30kJtKQ3cp-QLY1VJhB94HP2q6437Cdk3E2rVRYHowcL4A/viewform?usp=sf_link this Google form] where you can leave your response. [[User:Walkerma|Walkerma]] ([[User talk:Walkerma|talk]]) 04:24, 27 October 2019 (UTC)
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== We should have an article on the Virtual DOM ==

As used by React, Vue, and Ember. I will be able to work on this in a month or so, but if someone felt like getting started on it, that'd be great! – [[user talk:Anne drew Andrew and Drew|<span style="color:#074">Anne&nbsp;drew</span>]] 01:51, 17 November 2019 (UTC)
==Discussion at [[Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)#Creating and saving a preloaded page with one click]]==
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: For the record, archived at [[Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 182#Creating and saving a preloaded page with one click]]. —⁠[[User:Andrybak|andrybak]] ([[User talk:Andrybak|talk]]) 08:14, 23 July 2024 (UTC)

== Proposal ==

Hello all. I have made a proposal over at the village pump which you may be interested in regarding user scripts. See [[Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#Proposal_regarding_a_user_script_approval_process]] [[User:Ed6767|<span style="font-family:'Roboto',sans-serif;font-weight:300;color:red;text-shadow: 2px 2px 10px black;">Ed6767</span>]] [[User talk:Ed6767|<span style="color:black;"><strong>talk!</strong></span>]] 02:29, 26 June 2020 (UTC)
: For the record, archived at [[Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)/Archive 169#Proposal regarding a user script approval process]]. —⁠[[User:Andrybak|andrybak]] ([[User talk:Andrybak|talk]]) 08:14, 23 July 2024 (UTC)

== Help with auth to Toolforge? ==

Anyone know how I can authenticate a request from a user script to a Toolforge tool? I'm not sure OAuth would work, since I figure that uses cookies (but I would be happy to be wrong about that). I could always have the user script make an edit or a log entry and pass the diff/log entry ID with the request, but that seems spammy. [[User:Enterprisey|Enterprisey]]&nbsp;([[User talk:Enterprisey|talk!]]) 07:12, 3 July 2020 (UTC)
:OAuth doesn't use cookies... see [[mw:OAuth/For Developers#OAuth_in_a_nutshell]] - <u>'''[[User:Evad37|Evad]]''37'''''</u>&nbsp;<span style="font-size:95%;">&#91;[[d:w:User talk:Evad37|talk]]]</span> 08:13, 3 July 2020 (UTC)
::{{u|Evad37}}, so I was thinking that I would send a request from the user script to the tool, and the tool would then query rest.php/oauth2/resource/profile to see if the user is logged in. That's not the correct use of OAuth, I think (because I would be sending a token associated with the user to /profile, so the answer (barring token expiration) would always be "yes, the user's logged in"). I'm not sure how else to validate that a user is logged in without somehow making a request from the tool that carries the en.wp session cookies. [[User:Enterprisey|Enterprisey]]&nbsp;([[User talk:Enterprisey|talk!]]) 08:30, 3 July 2020 (UTC)
:::{{re|Enterprisey}} Hmmm... What's this for anyway? Maybe there's a different approach you could use. - <u>'''[[User:Evad37|Evad]]''37'''''</u>&nbsp;<span style="font-size:95%;">&#91;[[d:w:User talk:Evad37|talk]]]</span> 09:26, 3 July 2020 (UTC)
::::A tool for watchlisting a section (a user can subscribe/unsubscribe to a section). I don't want to store subscription lists onwiki because sections can move, be merged, etc, which would require a bot to update them. Also, just as watchlists aren't public, section watchlists shouldn't be, either. Thus, I want the userscript to make authenticated requests to a tool that stores the subscription lists in a database. [[User:Enterprisey|Enterprisey]]&nbsp;([[User talk:Enterprisey|talk!]]) 00:15, 4 July 2020 (UTC)
:{{u|Enterprisey}}, do you mean editing on behalf of a user or just authenticating that the user is that user? For the latter, I've already had some ideas about this for RW - so the script would generate a random token on the user side (the private token), have that be passed to toolforge which will store the token and also hand back a public token string which will then be used to make a public edit on Wikipedia somewhere, be it a config file or authentication page (similar to the way [[WP:DISCORD]] authenticates users). Then, the script will give the private token and the revision ID which will then link the user who made that edit to the owner of both the public and private token. From then on, the requests would be authenticated by including the private token in the request which is only known to the server and the client - the private token would be stored in a cookie or document storage so it's never made public, and when it expires the process will just run again - but this isn't the most secure solution, but I'd say its more ideal over handing auth cookies. Doing this means that authentication would be far less often. [[User:Ed6767|<span style="font-family:'Roboto',sans-serif;font-weight:300;text-shadow: 2px 2px 10px black;color:black;">Ed<span style="color:red;">6767</span></span>]] [[User talk:Ed6767|<span style="color:black;"><strong>talk!</strong></span>]] 18:09, 3 July 2020 (UTC)
::Made this horrible infographic too: [[File:RWToolforgeAuthDiagram.png|center|frameless]] [[User:Ed6767|<span style="font-family:'Roboto',sans-serif;font-weight:300;text-shadow: 2px 2px 10px black;color:black;">Ed<span style="color:red;">6767</span></span>]] [[User talk:Ed6767|<span style="color:black;"><strong>talk!</strong></span>]] 18:20, 3 July 2020 (UTC)
:::Looks good, and thanks for the infographic! (Very high-effort!) I will probably end up trying this if I can't find an existing solution. [[User:Enterprisey|Enterprisey]]&nbsp;([[User talk:Enterprisey|talk!]]) 01:31, 4 July 2020 (UTC)
:::Please [https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/168261/what-does-dont-roll-your-own-security-mean don't roll your own authentication system], it rarely ends well. --[[User:Tgr|Tgr]] ([[User talk:Tgr|talk]]) 20:01, 4 July 2020 (UTC)
::::Indeed - for people stumbling across this - this should be noted as a very basic sketch in my head, untested verification system and should never ever ever ever be used as authentication of to carry any sort of sensitive info. OAuth2 or another existing system is always ideal. [[User:Ed6767|<span style="font-family:'Roboto',sans-serif;font-weight:300;text-shadow: 2px 2px 10px black;color:black;">Ed<span style="color:red;">6767</span></span>]] [[User talk:Ed6767|<span style="color:black;"><strong>talk!</strong></span>]] 22:07, 4 July 2020 (UTC)
:Further discussion, by the way, including another (component of a) solution, at [[meta:Tech#Authenticating a request from a user script to a toolforge tool]] ([[meta:Special:Permalink/20243665#Authenticating a request from a user script to a toolforge tool|permalink]]). [[User:Enterprisey|Enterprisey]]&nbsp;([[User talk:Enterprisey|talk!]]) 05:51, 4 July 2020 (UTC)
::For the record, archived at [[meta:Tech/Archives/2020#Authenticating a request from a user script to a toolforge tool]]. —⁠[[User:Andrybak|andrybak]] ([[User talk:Andrybak|talk]]) 08:15, 23 July 2024 (UTC)

== JS on wikimedia is currently too antiquated to ever bloom ==

I would love to contribute code to wikipedia, but I'm once again failing at the same obstacle I did 6 months ago. Wikimedia is geared to a now over 10 years old version of JavaScript. Let's put that in perspective: Wikimedia is geared to a version of JavaScript that's that was released the same year as Windows 7! Back then I was barely a teenager. JQuery is now not much more than a relic, and all it does now is encouraging sloppy code-style and making debugging a lot harder. Combine this with the relatively large API of Wikimedia and the complete lack of modern comforts like Intellisense and TypeScript it becomes nearly unsurmountable to produce a functional script while keeping your sanity for someone who has become accustomed to the modern ways.

There is sadly no easy way to remedy this...
The changes necessary would be large enough to warrant an essentially total rewrite of the MediaWiki software. And while this would open up some awesome opportunities, I won't blame anyone breaking out in cold sweat when they just imagine it.

Any opinions on this?  [[User:SkSlick|SkSlick]] ([[User talk:SkSlick|talk]]) 01:08, 13 December 2020 (UTC)
:True. [[WP:RedWarn]] ran into this issue (cc {{u|Ed6767}}). Would be nice if you could specify some build options to be applied to a JS/TS file after you hit "Save", so we could at least use Babel. Or maybe the devs could give us a few checkboxes with various transpilers (Babel, TS compiler) for each user script. Shouldn't be that tough to add. [[User:Enterprisey|Enterprisey]]&nbsp;([[User talk:Enterprisey|talk!]]) 17:01, 13 December 2020 (UTC)
::{{small|(not Ed, but)}} Hard agree with the sentiments here. As a developer more skilled with modern web technologies, trying to piece together code for Wikipedia has been a hassle. Old MediaWiki JavaScript has been quite the problem for RedWarn, especially now when we're rewriting RedWarn from the ground up using TypeScript. MediaWiki's codebase not having type definitions is another pain in the rear, since every time we want to use a function or property within MediaWiki's <code>mw</code>, we've had to place whatever we need in a [https://gitlab.com/redwarn/redwarn-web/-/raw/dev-rwTS/src/mediawiki.d.ts declaration file] that has been expanding even more and more as progress goes on. I've tried to automatically grab the types based on the provided JSDoc inside of the source, but to no avail, as it it extremely complicated to do so. Since a rewrite of MediaWiki's JavaScript parts is ''(unfortunately)'' out of the question (unless WMF wants to spend some funds to make that happen), we've had to deal with this old and clunky method. My best advice would be to have the [https://doc.wikimedia.org/mediawiki-core/master/js/ MW JS documentation] at hand whenever making scripts, and just rely on your best senses to see which goes with which. Sure, it's a strong timesink, but once you're used to the extremely old and aging JavaScript codebase, it shouldn't really be a problem. Babel/TS transpilers don't sound that bad, but that might raise some security or performance issues. I guess the only way to find out if that's the case would be to actually bring that suggestion to the Phab. But if there's anything that Wikipedia has taught me about its developers, it's that there's a lot of people who are overly attached to old processes and tech, and that introducing changes as big as these (especially when it uses newer technologies) is commonly met with a lot of criticism. <span style="background:#ffff00;color:#00159c;">'''''[[User:Chlod|Chlod]]'''''</span>&nbsp;<small style="font-size:calc(1em - 2pt)">([[User talk:Chlod|say&nbsp;hi!]])</small> 17:31, 13 December 2020 (UTC)
:::See {{phab|T232285}} for a spirited discussion about using Babel for this specifically; I imagine some arguments there also apply to TS. TS declarations themselves are {{phab|T263914}}; a front-end build step in MediaWiki itself is {{phab|T199004}}. [[User:Enterprisey|Enterprisey]]&nbsp;([[User talk:Enterprisey|talk!]]) 18:05, 13 December 2020 (UTC)
::::They're finally converting JSDuck to JSDoc? 🎉 Finally! It's a bit disappointing that the Babel idea was shot down, though. It would have provided a universally better experience for writing user scripts. <span style="background:#ffff00;color:#00159c;">'''''[[User:Chlod|Chlod]]'''''</span>&nbsp;<small style="font-size:calc(1em - 2pt)">([[User talk:Chlod|say&nbsp;hi!]])</small> 18:11, 13 December 2020 (UTC)
:::I wrote about the issue on [[Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)#Proper ECMAScript support|Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)#Proper ECMAScript support]], and there are discussions ongoing {{phab|T75714}}. Some people are so afraid of new technology, to quote from an issue written just a few days ago: ''"JS is a hazard and was a mistake."''. For me there is just no way I can justify the amount of work and time needed to produce even the smallest thing. It's really a shame because I think this is a major hindrance for the loads of skilled JS/ES/TS devs who regularly contribute to OSS projects that may be interested in contributing here... [[User:SkSlick|SkSlick]] ([[User talk:SkSlick|talk]]) 20:57, 13 December 2020 (UTC)

:::And see [https://github.com/azatoth/twinkle/pull/1220 here] for a spirited discussion on upgrading Twinkle to use TypeScript as part of a rewrite for localizability (spoiler: it doesn't seem to be going well).
:::{{re|Chlod}} Actually just a few weeks ago I too started out writing a [https://github.com/siddharthvp/twinkle/blob/xfd-rewritten/types/mediawiki.d.ts mediawiki.d.ts file]. It seems my raw coverage is greater, but I have put in just the types and not doc-comments. Can we please collaborate on this so that the same definitions can be used across Twinkle and Redwarn and hopefully, many more scripts/gadgets to come? Open to setting up a separate repo for this that can be published to npm. – [[User:SD0001|<span style="font-weight: bold; color: green">SD0001</span>]] ([[User talk:SD0001|talk]]) 14:47, 17 December 2020 (UTC)
::::@[[User:SD0001|SD0001]], sounds good :)
::::On another note, I also think it might be useful to make a project on Meta-Wiki where we do this, and additionally can provide warning/xfd/tag definitions in a standard format that can be used across all bots/scripts/tools/etc. It'd make things much easier for everyone just having one standard library that can be installed via NPM, or the raw JSON data that can be fetched/stored locally. It'd also mean Wiki localisation would be so much easier, and all the tools can provide the same templates. What do you think? 🎄🎄 [[User:Ed6767|<span style="font-family:'Roboto',sans-serif;font-weight:300;text-shadow: 2px 2px 10px black;color:black;">Ed</span>]] [[User talk:Ed6767|<span style="color:black;"><strong>talk!</strong></span>]] 🎄🎄 15:48, 17 December 2020 (UTC)
:::::{{re|Ed6767}} That would be a nice thing to aim for. But I'm not sure if that's straightforward as all that data isn't easily represented in JSON form. [https://github.com/wikimedia-gadgets/twinkle/blob/l10n/src/tag-data.ts Here's] the file for tag data. 95% of it is JSON, but it gets tricky to stay within JSON limits for the data on what inputs to ask the user for each tag. – [[User:SD0001|<span style="font-weight: bold; color: green">SD0001</span>]] ([[User talk:SD0001|talk]]) 17:46, 18 December 2020 (UTC)
::::::@[[User:SD0001|SD0001]], it'd just take a rework of the way the data is processed and the logic works, which is a plus if anything as you wouldn't have to write/copy more code if you needed to add a different tag with similar functionality. We could provide example code to aid any new tool developers with this. 🎄🎄 [[User:Ed6767|<span style="font-family:'Roboto',sans-serif;font-weight:300;text-shadow: 2px 2px 10px black;color:black;">Ed</span>]] [[User talk:Ed6767|<span style="color:black;"><strong>talk!</strong></span>]] 🎄🎄 18:59, 18 December 2020 (UTC)
:Just noting that if anyone wants to use ES6+ features now, https://github.com/evad37/modular-wiki-userscript-base is one way you can do it – this is basically what I'm using for [[WP:RATER]] and the new version of [[WP:XFDC]] - <u>'''[[User:Evad37|Evad]]''37'''''</u>&nbsp;<span style="font-size:95%;">&#91;[[d:w:User talk:Evad37|talk]]]</span> 23:41, 18 December 2020 (UTC)
::{{re|Evad37}} How about moving that project to the newly-created [https://github.com/wikimedia-gadgets wikimedia-gadgets] org? That would help bring it greater visibility. – [[User:SD0001|<span style="font-weight: bold; color: green">SD0001</span>]] ([[User talk:SD0001|talk]]) 08:11, 19 December 2020 (UTC)
:::{{done}} - <u>'''[[User:Evad37|Evad]]''37'''''</u>&nbsp;<span style="font-size:95%;">&#91;[[d:w:User talk:Evad37|talk]]]</span> 12:38, 19 December 2020 (UTC)

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==Bold idea: the Generic Queue Toolkit==
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: For the record, archived at [[Wikipedia:Village pump (idea lab)/Archive 37#Bold idea: the Generic Queue Toolkit]]. —⁠[[User:Andrybak|andrybak]] ([[User talk:Andrybak|talk]]) 08:14, 23 July 2024 (UTC)

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== Need help with JSON parsing ==

Just found this wikiproject so [[Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)#Need help parsing JSON from within wikipedia (in a user subpage)|here's]] the link to the Technical post explaining my issue. [[User:Vghfr|Vghfr]] ([[User talk:Vghfr|talk]]) 04:22, 22 January 2024 (UTC)
: For the record, archived at [[Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 210#Need help parsing JSON from within wikipedia (in a user subpage)]]. —⁠[[User:Andrybak|andrybak]] ([[User talk:Andrybak|talk]]) 08:14, 23 July 2024 (UTC)

== Edit preview from a userscript ==

[[File:Symbol watching blue lashes high contrast.svg|25px|link=|alt=]]&nbsp;You are invited to join the discussion at [[:Wikipedia talk:User scripts#Preview edits by a userscript|Wikipedia talk:User scripts §&nbsp;Preview edits by a userscript]].  —⁠[[User:Andrybak|andrybak]] ([[User talk:Andrybak|talk]]) 19:34, 10 February 2024 (UTC)<!-- [[Template:Please see]] -->
: For the record, archived at [[Wikipedia talk:User scripts/Archive 7#Preview edits by a userscript]]. —⁠[[User:Andrybak|andrybak]] ([[User talk:Andrybak|talk]]) 08:14, 23 July 2024 (UTC)