User:GhostInTheMachine/Scripts

My user scripts so far

Overview	Scripts	Status	Me	Description	Listed
CommentsInLocalTime	JS	Live	Y	Adjust timestamp to local time — Fork of User:Gary/comments in local time.js as of 2022-08-07
FoldSections	JS	Live	Y	Fold sections of an article — Fork of User:BrandonXLF/CollapseSections as of 2022-01-10
GraphicReplyLink	JS	Live	Y	Replace the text reply link with a with a better-looking graphic emoji	Namespace-specific → Discussions
LastEditor	JS	Live	Y	Displays information related to page's last editor — Fork of User:Eizen/LastEditor as of 2021-01-18
NoEditSummary	JS	Live	Y	Warn if you are about to save an edit with no summary text — stolen from a post by User:SD0001	Editing → Edit summary
SD-display-helper	JS	Live	Y	CSS to improve display of the Short Description Helper
SDlinkBuilder	JS	Live	Y	Extracts all of the links from a page and builds a list of them with their Short descriptions	Articles
SDsummary	JS	Live	Y	Provide buttons for boilerplate Short description edit summaries
ShinyButtons	JS	Live	N	Add extra menu buttons for my TODO and WIP subpages — rolled into UI
SortSearchResults	JS	Live	Y	Sort the search results by page name
SortWhatLinksHere	JS	Live	Y	Sort the links displayed by the What links here page	Listings → What links here
SubPages	JS	Live	N	Add a button to list the subpages of the current page — rolled into UI	Shortcuts → Page information
TalkHelper	JS	v2 live	✓	Improve the readability of long talk pages (redirects to latest version)
— TalkHelper v1	JS	superceded	✓	Highlights the posts from yesterday and today. Adds a menu button to jump to the first post	Namespace-specific → Discussions
— TalkHelper v2	JS	Live	Y	Adds yesterday and today sidebar menu for simpler navigation	Namespace-specific → Discussions
— TalkHelper v3	JS	prototyping		Adds more navigation options
Tasky	B	prototyping		Add articles to a task list and manage the task status
UI	JS	Live	Y	Assorted changes to the layout of current skin and menus Now includes ShinyButtons and SubPages
WatchlistTidy	JS	Live	Y	Makes changes to the layout of the watchlist page to fix specific design errors	Listings → Watchlist
WRANA		drafted / stalled		This will be a prototype of a Wizard for requesting a new article @BessieMaelstrom – Outline for a "Request an article wizard"
common	JS	standard	Y	Listed here so that I can add notes to the page rather than the script
	CSS			Empty — all CSS is now added by the JS script that needs it
Test	JS	testing	B	Whatever I am playing with testing at the moment. Here be dragons
	CSS

Scripts borrowed and stolen

I use various user scripts written by other people. See the notes in the page covering my common.js

Loading user scripts

Y Template {{Lusc}} = {{Load user script}}

This is the current way to load a user script which uses the newer mw.loader.load() function.

• MediaWiki ResourceLoader:
  • Migration guide re Iusc vs. Lusc
  • importScript migration guide
  • mw.loader.load
• MediaWiki core documentation:
  • mw.loader mw.loader
  • mw.loader-method-using load dependencies

Also Y {{Js}} — uses the full URL, so it can load scripts from another wiki

Installing user scripts

N Template {{Iusc}} = {{Install user script}}

• This was the old way to import a user script which uses the importScript() function
• Do NOT use this — the importScript() function will probably be deleted one day
• The function was altered in August 2022 and is no longer safe

Timeline for importScript function

February 2010	MediaWiki 1.16	added importScript as part of the mediawiki.util module
November 2015	MediaWiki 1.26	unconditional preload of mediawiki.util disabled by default
June 2016	MediaWiki 1.27	preload of mediawiki.util module no longer available — scripts that use the mediawiki.util module must express a dependency on it
July 2017	MediaWiki 1.29	the importScript() function is deprecated
August 2022	MediaWiki 1.39/wmf.26 ?	the importScript() function was rewritten and is now not safe in many situations
Unknown	Unknown	the importScript function is deleted. Global chaos erupts

JavaScript misc

• jQuery API documentation
• JavaScript mw.config — direct access to config variables currently works but is strongly discouraged
• loading config variables — instead, load config variables via mw.config.get( 'wgUserEditCount')
• User:SD0001/Making user scripts load faster — Enable caching for resource loads
• Wikipedia:Syntax highlighting

Gadgets

• MediaWiki:Gadgets-definition ⇒ Special:Gadgets — list of special gadgets users can enable