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User talk page warning to flag up likely THEYCANTHEARYOU problem

(I asked at VPT and was signposted here, so am just copypasting my original query:)

While waiting (!) for the mobile user notification problem (WP:THEYCANTHEARYOU) to be one day maybe (!!) fixed, would it be a) possible and b) good idea to implement in the meantime a warning which automatically appears on the top of the user talk page of a user who is likely to be not getting notifications (ie. edits only or or mostly on an affected mobile device, and does not edit their talk page)?

I realise this would do nothing to help such users receive the said notifications, but it would at least make it easier for the rest of us to identify this as a possible explanation for their lack of response to warnings etc., helping to AGF and not raise blood pressures unduly. I've seen many user talk pages where the attempts at communicating with the user get increasingly desperate, until someone points out this as the likely reason. I just thought maybe that could be done automatically by way of some clever code.

Thanks, -- DoubleGrazing (talk) 11:58, 2 May 2022 (UTC)

PS: By "automatically" I meant some sort of user-side script which I could opt in and put in my common.js or somewhere. When I then visit a user talk page, the script checks the user's edit history and displays (to me) a warning, flagging up things like 'user has never edited their user talk page' or 'user edits using iOS devices only', or whatever the relevant criteria are. -- DoubleGrazing (talk) 11:59, 2 May 2022 (UTC)

@DoubleGrazing: I have a script that might do part of what you are looking for: User:Rummskartoffel/talk page usage.js, which displays the time since a user's last edits in certain talk namespaces, along with links to those edits and links to their contributions for the namespaces in question. It doesn't do the other things you're looking for, though. Rummskartoffel 17:55, 8 May 2022 (UTC)

Thanks @Rummskartoffel, will keep that in mind. Best, -- DoubleGrazing (talk) 06:08, 9 May 2022 (UTC)

Date Format Converter

I would like to suggest a Javascript extension that changes date formats from 1977-01 to January 1977. I am editing articles on Arc Routing and Mixed Chinese postman problem and the book uses the date format yyyy-mm and I would like to automate the process of correctly formatting the dates to month name long yyyy. ScientistBuilder (talk) 19:37, 10 May 2022 (UTC)

I suggest using {{subst:#time:F Y|1977-01}}, which converts to "January 1977" when you save. Nardog (talk) 21:58, 10 May 2022 (UTC)

User script to Grab Youtube, Facebook, and Twitter links from a Wiki Page

Simple. Just grab and take the URls/links from a Wikipedia page with websites from Youtube, Facebook, and Twitter. Any additional sites can be good but these three should be primary. I am thinking of storing and saving them a copy before being deleted or anything bad can happen. Can anyone create an automated userscript for this? Thank you --Likhasik (talk) 16:53, 12 May 2022 (UTC)

 Doing...... Shouldn't take long. Chlod (say hi!) 16:56, 12 May 2022 (UTC)

Hi lods. Thank you for this. Well, I would say that I am an archivist and I would like to request an automation for sending links to archive.today and ghostarchive.org - both of which save webpages. Probably an extension after grabbing the URLs, then sending them to the archival sites, if possible. Thank you for the initiative. Let me know and please do ping me with "@" --Likhasik (talk) 17:06, 12 May 2022 (UTC)

@Likhasik: Userscipt can be found at User:Chlod/Scripts/LinkGrab.js. By default, this adds a button to the "More" menu (at the page header) that will copy links to YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter to your clipboard. To change the websites that are copied, place the following before the importScript or mw.loader.load line in for the script in your common.js file.

window.lgLinksToFind = [
	// Default
	"youtube.com",
	"youtu.be",
	"facebook.com",
	"twitter.com",
	// Example: Also copy links to the Washington Post
	"washingtonpost.com"
];
importScript("User:Chlod/Scripts/LinkGrab.js");

Let me know if you want anything changed or need anything else. I'll definitely expand this in the future to give it a better interface for choosing websites to get than having to edit the JS file. As for the extension that automatically archives the links: it's beyond the scope for this board (and probably needs more than a userscript, as I don't think either website would allow cross-origin resource sharing with Wikipedia). We do, however, have User:InternetArchiveBot (interface) that can automatically archive outlinks to the Internet Archive (as long as the option was set). Chlod (say hi!) 17:46, 12 May 2022 (UTC)

@Chlod Can you also please add a "false positive" feedback box (I'm not sure with the name) whenever I click Grab links? Like for example, an article without any of those URLs/Websites. If I click "Grablink", it should give me feedback that there are no links corresponding to it (No YT/FB/Twitter links). Hence not wasting my time confirming if I have the links grabbed.

Whenever I click grab links, the feedback box shows "Links copied to clipboard" but there are no links copied instead. I just wanted to save time instead of CTRL+V-ing every time to see if there is something copied.

Also, can you also create a userscript that whenever I click "random article", it will lead me to my preferred topics? I am tired seeing sports articles whenever I click random article which I do not want to edit. Thank you.

--Likhasik (talk) 03:31, 13 May 2022 (UTC)

@Likhasik: For the former,  Done. For the latter, you may wish to use Special:RandomInCategory and bookmark that instead. Chlod (say hi!) 04:29, 13 May 2022 (UTC)

Please also add the total numbers of link copied. Better if by Links/URLs themselves with the overall count, of course. (Example: 5 YT links copied; 0 FB links; 2 Twitter etc.) Only for the feedback box

Also, is there a possibility that I can edit this userscript by myself with my own preferences and Links? Sorry I am new in using a Userscript. Thanks! --Likhasik (talk) 04:42, 13 May 2022 (UTC)

@Likhasik: Feel free to copy over the userscript to your own userspace (subject to WP:CWW, of course). After that, just change the relevant lines in your common.js to use your own version. Chlod (say hi!) 04:45, 13 May 2022 (UTC)

Okay then. Also, please do add the aforementioned request. The number of copied links per site. Thank you --Likhasik (talk) 05:16, 13 May 2022 (UTC)

@Likhasik:  Done. Chlod (say hi!) 05:28, 13 May 2022 (UTC)

@Chlod Hello and good day. I think the script is broken. It copies links that are not any of those three. It just takes any URLs in the page, including files and images within wikipedia. Please fix. The feedback box is not even cooperating and I'd say still faulty. --Likhasik (talk) 03:20, 15 May 2022 (UTC)

@Likhasik: Looks like I missed a pair of brackets. Should be fixed now. Chlod (say hi!) 03:35, 15 May 2022 (UTC)