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WARNING: DO NOT PLACE NEW REPORTS ON THIS PAGE! ALL REPORTS AND FEATURE REQUESTS GO ON GITHUB. IF YOU DO NOT HAVE GITHUB ACCESS, MAKE A REQUEST ON WT:AFC.

Welcome to the development page for the AfC helper script.

Bug and feature list

Recently moved to stable

For the full changelog, see Wikipedia:WikiProject Articles for creation/Helper script/Changelog.

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1.18 bug fix: "biography status" drop down menu doesn't work correctly (Thanks to TheOneSean (talk · contribs) and Anne Delong (talk · contribs)) bug fix: removal of too many cases of "HTML HRs", see WT:AFC#AFCH: Overeager removal of HTML comments, thanks for reporting to Huon (talk · contribs).

Pending update

User:Nathan2055/afc.js (v4.1.18i1)

Implementation of measures proposed on talk page while v4.1.19 is frozen

• Readded custom decline reason
• Modified BLP decline reason to no longer speedy automatically
• Minor interface changes
• Bug fixes

User:Mabdul/afc beta.js (v4.1.19)

Will be published on July 1st, is frozen (only critical bug fixes allowed to go into this one)

• Integration of WP:AutoEd
• Cleanup removes more HTML comments
• Fix three bugs in the reflist check (thanks to Anne Delong (talk · contribs), Nathan2055 (talk · contribs), and FoCuSandLeArN (talk · contribs))
• Requesting a token before every page edit as a test: this may fix the "stuck in editing" bug. Feedback is welcomed.
• Checking if a stub tag is already placed on the page, see diff (thanks to Deadbeef (talk · contribs))
• Improve disambiguation template check, see diff
• Ref tag correction part #2 introduced: move :;.,!? before ref tags
• Fixed a Regex for the ref cleanup
• Rolledback to Tim's AfC/R stuff, something completely borked it and I have no idea what

User:Mabdul/afc alpha.js (v4.1.20)

Early stage alpha build, all new code that doesn't fix critical bugs should go here

• Disambiguate headlines, see Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Articles for creation/2013 2#Disambiguating headings (diffs) (thanks to Pigsonthewing (talk · contribs))
• Removal of {{talk header}} per consensus at this thread (diff) (thanks to davidwr (talk · contribs))
• Add a purge feature for related pages
• Add decline reason for pages that have been AfDd in the past
• Minor interface changes

Upcoming features

Features that are either prepared to be written or are in progress of being written go here

• Redirect checker for renamed users (e.g. if user Foo was renamed to user Bar, the messages would be left on Bar's talk page)(commented out until I find a solution on the JQuery problem I have)
• "Exporting" AfC/R and AfC stuff into two functions on other pages
• Categories for decline reasons (consensus at WT:AFC)

To be coded

High priority

• AFC/R stuff; needs a simple restart of developing. (@Nathan2055 would you overtake the part of merging back the reasons?)
  • this talk page discussion)
  • Implementation of HotCat --> AFC/C cat adding when cat is created.
    • Uh, the HotCat stuff was for accepting articles. I have no clue what you want it to do with AFC/C. I'll mess with the reasoning stuff though. --Nathan2055^{talk - contribs} 16:13, 29 May 2013 (UTC)

Normal priority

• Bugs sorting and shrinking non-timestamped decline templates (see File:AFCH Decline sorting bug.png, page in question is Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Cardin-Lugar Amendment)
• Add wikilinks to the comments of the deletion log
• Sort decline templates on bases of the |ts= and |declinets=; shrink templates on basis of order [1]
  • I get the code already by a friend, but have to understand it first! mabdul 00:30, 27 June 2012 (UTC)
    • need to add comment sorting as well
• [2] wikilink correction
• Move user/user talk pages automatically
• A resubmit button
  • On top of that, it needs to be able to review drafts, perhaps with a warning. --Nathan2055^{talk - contribs} 17:40, 22 May 2013 (UTC)
  • See → ticket on Github Technical 13 (talk) 17:04, 18 June 2013 (UTC)
• Automatically request salted titles be unprotected while accepting

Low priority

• Moving blacklisted submissions
• Automatically adding a {{reflist}} if there are ref tags, but not reflist
• Moving the {{reflist}} to the bottom if there are ref tags deeper in the source code
• Individual configurations/preferences (e.g.: auto turn on of the teahouse invitation, watchlisting (and related checkboxes, etc.))
• Cleanup/removal option of decline templates without going on edit
• Check advisor.js code for more cleanup stuff
• Access key for opening the review panel (see mw:ResourceLoader/Default_modules#addPortletLink)
• {{Connected contributor multi}} adding while accepting
• Duplication of references (both in article, and having one reference in article, and another in final list) (requested by TheOriginalSoni (talk · contribs))
• Add stuff from User:Ohconfucius/script/formatgeneral.js; maybe ping Ohconfucius (talk · contribs)
• FFU reviewing
• Using magic CSS and polish the design
• Add a CSD button for CSD#G13 (requested by Nathan2055 (talk · contribs))
• rework the commenting structure of the helper script (too many places use the same stuff).
  • Fix whitespace bug if a user ends the comment with a newline, see diff
  • Signature breaking the comment template
• Automatic tagging of {{linkrot}}

Feedback

Feedback should now be posted on GitHub. If you do not have a GitHub account, please post it at WT:AFC.

Note that feedback and observations related to following parts are highly needed as they are mostly not reproducible. Error logs, JavaScript developer console outputs, etc. are very helpful.

• "stuck in editing" bug: Requesting a token before every page edit as a test.
• Potential crashes and freezing when using IE10(maybe this is a Win8 problem) and (Mobile) Chrome (see WT:AFC and this thread)