Wikipedia:Scripts++/Issue 26

Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 26

Hello everyone, and welcome to the 26th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter, covering all our favorite new and updated user scripts since 1 August 2024. OPTIONAL FLAVOR TEXT ~~~ ~~~~

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

Featured script

, by , is this edition's featured script. LONGER DESCRIPTION

Updated scripts

Andrybak/Unsigned helper forks Anomie/unsignedhelper to add support for binary search, automatic edit summaries after generating the {{unsigned}} template, support for {{undated}}, and support for generating while syntax highlighting is on. It still doesn't include support for the 2017 wikitext editor or the visual editor.
Administrators only! Novem Linguae/UnblockReview forks the now-broken Enterprisey/unblock-review to review unblock requests with a graphical interface.
DreamRimmer/User not around forks Andrybak/Not around to allow precise cofiguration to an amount of days (from the original precision of years).

Newly maintained scripts

MOVED SCRIPT 1

Improve a script

Many of our favorite scripts such as Fred Gandt/userResourceManager and Guarapiranga/search-shortcuts haven't been updated for Vector 2022. You could be the one to change that!
Elominius/media timer and PrimeHunter/Search sort work, yet have alien user interface design. Someone could improve them...
BilledMammal/Move+ needs updating to order list of pages handle lists of pages to move correctly regardless of the discussion's page, so that we may avoid repeating fiasco history.

Requested scripts

A tool to automatically fix CAT:BROKENREFs, preferably a fork/addition to TheJJJunk/ARA
A fix/fork of DannyS712/SectionRemover to make it work
PENDING REQUEST 1
...and many more, all available at Wikipedia:User scripts/Requests

Miscellaneous

Doğu/Adiutor, a Twinkle/RedWarn-like userscript that follows modern WMF UI design, is now an extension. However, it needs mw:code stewardship (among some audits) to be installed on your favorite WMF wikis.
DannyS712, our former chief editor, has ascended to MediaWiki and the ~~greener~~ purpley pastures of PHP with commits to create Special:NamespaceInfo and the __EXPECTUNUSEDTEMPLATE__ magic word to exclude a template from Special:UnusedTemplates! I wonder if Wikipedia has a templaters' newsletter...

New scripts

SCRIPT 1
AUTHOR WITH MULTIPLE SCRIPTS
AUTHOR'S SCRIPT 1
1AmNobody24: Find Link provides a shortcut to its namesake tool, Edward/Find link, which helps de-WP:ORPHAN articles.
Andrybak: Contribs ranger generates links to a limited set (range) of user contributions, log items, or page history. You see, it's not just contribs!
CanonNi/VoteVisualizer is a rewrite of Pythoncoder/voteSymbols that makes everything saner to configure.
When viewing Category:Articles missing coordinates with coordinates on Wikidata, User:Jeeputer/coordInserter adds links to automatically insert coordinates into the article selected.
To satiate archaeology and curiosity (the same thing, perhaps?), |JJPMaster/AfC time logger logs the time it takes for a user to review each submission to Wikipedia:Articles for creation.
User:Nardog
- /DiffUndo allows you to double click lines of the "show changes" view to drop that change.
- /InsertAnyChar adds a searchable list of all Unicode characters to the 2010 source editor.

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