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Technology report
User script report (January to July 2016, part 1)
This "User scripts" report covers material listed at Wikipedia:User scripts from 1 January to 31 July 2016.
Text may be adapted from the respective listings there; see the page's history for attribution.
Text may be adapted from the respective listings there; see the page's history for attribution.
User scripts allow registered users to customise almost any aspect of the Wikipedia interface. They can enhance the reading experience, assist with editing, or provide other functionality, supplementing the choices already available in Special:Preferences. See Wikipedia:User scripts for further information, including instructions.
Reading
"Link Redirect Title" links the title if you've come from a redirect
- Serendipity (source) by User:Mxn – Inserts alphabetically adjacent article content to distract you the way traditional print encyclopedias used to. Also disables newfangled hypertext features.
- Link Redirect Title (source) by User:Fred Gandt – Modifies the title heading of any redirect destination page, creating a link to the proper destination. Created for and only tested with the Vector skin.
- Client-side MathJax (source) by User:Esquivalience – Enables MathJax rendering of mathematical notation within <math> tags. Preferences -> Appearance -> Math must be set to "LaTeX source". Fast once cached in your browser.
- GeoHack replacement script (source) by User:Evad37 – Replace coordinates' external links to GeoHack with direct links to a single mapping provider.
Editing
Page views graph for Wikipedia article generated by "View statistics"
- Section Footers (source) by User:Fred Gandt – Adds subtle clones of all section headings (including [ edit ] links) to the end of their respective sections; allows section editing from the bottom of all sections (reported to be glitchy)
- Comments in local time (source) by User:Mxn – Displays signature timestamps in your local time, relative to the current time. A replacement for Wikipedia:Comments in Local Time with better language and timezone support.
- Pending Changes Link (source) by User:Omni Flames – Adds a "Pending Changes" link on the top toolbar, primarily designed for Pending Changers Reviewers.
- QuickLinks (source) by User:Music1201 – Adds links to the toolbar for the following pages: Articles for deletion, Pending changes, New pages, and Random AFC.
- View statistics (source) by User:קיפודנחש – Adds a "View statistics" item to the "More" menu, showing view statistics in a popup dialog. uses Template:PageViews graph
Others
"responsiveHistoryCompare" in action on a history page
- responsiveHistoryCompare (source) by User:Fred Gandt – Dynamically moves Compare selected revisions buttons next to the selected revisions on
action=historypages. - Close XfD (source) by User:Czar – Adds the latest semi-automated closure tools for XfD discussions, accessible either in-line or via a tab at the top of standalone XfD discussion pages
Installation code
In brief
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia tech ambassadors. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- A prototype for structured data on Commons is available now. [1]
- The RevisionSlider beta feature can now be tested on mediawiki.org, German Wikipedia, Arabic Wikipedia and Hebrew Wikipedia.
Problems
- Renamed users on some wikis were not connected to their account on other wikis between 20 July and 21 July. This has been fixed. [2]
Changes this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 August. It will be on all wikis from 4 August (calendar).
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