I have semi-protected this page for 2 years. I scarcely ever protect a talk page for that long, but in your case vandalism has been so persistent over such a long time that making an exception may be considered reasonable. If you want the protection shortened then please let me know. JBW (talk) 07:54, 7 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 24
Hello everyone, and welcome to the 24th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter, covering all our favorite new and updated user scripts since 24 December 2021. Uh-huh, we're finally covering the good ones among the rest! Aren't you excited? Remember to include a link in double brackets to the script's .js page when you install the script, so that we can see who uses the script in WhatLinksHere! The ScriptInstaller gadget automatically does this. Aaron Liu (talk) 01:00, 1 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Got anything good? Tell us about your new, improved, old, or messed-up script here!
Featured script
Making user scripts load faster by SD0001 is this month's featured script, which caches userscripts every day to eliminate the overhead caused by force-downloading the newest version of scripts every time you open a Wikipedia page. Despite being released in April 2021, our best script scouters have failed to locate it due to its omission from the US of L. For security reasons, the script only supports loading JavaScript pages.
Newly maintained scripts
After earthly attempts at improving the original have failed...
Ahecht has created a fork of SiBr4/TemplateSearch, which adds the "TP:" shortcut for "Template:" in the search box, and updated it to be compatible with Vector 2022.
AquilaFasciata/goToTopFast is a much faster fork of the classic goToTop script that also adds compatibility for Minerva and Vector 2022.
Without caching. Each script takes 400–500ms. A particularly large script takes 1.11 s! Internet download speed is 50 Mbps.With caching enabled. Each script takes just 1-2 ms to load.
Improve a script
Unfortunately, this section has remained nearly identical. Help us out here!
To a lesser extent, the same goes for PrimeHunter/Search sort. I wish someone would integrate the sorts into the sort menu instead of adding 11 portlet links.
Dragoniez/SuppressEnterInForm stops you from accidentally submitting anything due to pressing enter while in the smaller box, and works on almost anything... except the InputBox element itself, used in subscription lists and the Signpost Crossword! Oh, the humanity!
Doǵu/Adiutor(pictured) provides a nice, integrated interface to do some twinkley tasks such as copyvio detection, CSD tagging, and viewing the most recent diff.
Eejit43 has quite the aesthetically pleasing scripts, all made in TypeScript.
/afcrc-helper is a replacement for the unmaintained Enterprisey/AFCRHS and processes Redirects for Creation and Categories for Creation requests.
/ajax-undo stops the "undo" button from taking you to another page while providing a text box to provide a reason for the revert.
/redirect-helper(pictured) adds a much better interface for editing and redirects, including categorization, for which valid categories are dictated by /redirect-helper.json.
/rmtr-helper helps process technical requested moves without being able to actually move them.
Guycn2/UserInfoPopup(pictured) adds a flyout after the watchlist star on userspace pages that displays the common information you might use about a user.
Jeeputer/editCounter, under userspace, adds a portlet link to count your edits by namespace, put them in a table, and put that table in a hardcoded subpage, all in the background.
Hilst/Scripts/sectionLinks converts all section links to use the § sign, which are known to be preferred over the ugly # by 99% of the devils I've met.
PrimeHunter/Category source.js adds portlet links to tell you where a category for an article comes from and supports those from template transclusions.
Sophivorus's MiniEdit adds some nice, li'l buttons next to paragraphs to edit their wikitext with a minimal interface.
Edit-listings
Dragoniez/ToollinkTweaks adds more and customizable links next to users in page history, logs, watchlist, recent changes, etc.
Firefly/more-block-info optimizes the display of rangeblocks in contribution pages. Doesn't work outside the English locale of any wiki, unfortunately.
NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh/AjaxLoader makes paging links (e.g. older 50, 500, newest) load without refreshing and makes you realize how slow your internet actually is.
Appearance-ricing
Ahecht/RedirectID adds the redirect target to all redirects. For all the WP:NAVPOPS haters. (Do these exist?)
Dragoniez/MarkBLockedGlobal: Remember the "strike blocked usernames" gadget? Now you can use a red, dotted line to highlight rangeblocks and global locks!
Jonesey/common(pictured) has some styles to overhaul your Vector 2022 experience. It reduces padding everywhere, and makes the top bar animation faster.
Aaron Liu/V22 is a fork that narrows the sidebars instead of upheaving them, reverts the January 2024 dropdown changes, and restores the old page-link color for links that don't go outside the current wiki.
Nardog: SmartDiff is a spiritual successor to Enterprisey/fancy-diffs. It makes the page title part of links in diffs clickable, along with template and parser function calls. Unnamed parameters can be configured per template to also be linked. All links are styled based on the normal CSS classes of rendered links.
For the paranoid: Rublov/anonymize replaces your username at the top of the screen with the generic "User page" text. Remember, it is your duty to persuade everyone that editing is an honor.
/AjaxBlock provides a dialog box for easy input of reasons while blocking users.
/Selective Rollback(pictured) provides a dialog box to customize rollback edit summaries and does them without reloading the page. Seriously, why doesn't MediaWiki already do this?
/flickrsearch adds a portlet link to search for uploadable flickr images about the subject.
/randomincategory adds a portlet link when on Category pages to go to a random page in the current category.
Vghfr/EasyTemplates adds a portlet link to automatically insert some of the most common inline {{fix}} templates.
Yes, we're just doing 'em as we go now. Thanks for reading through this looong issue, if you did! I'm sure this'll send a record for the longest issue ev-ah. You may need to wait even longer for the last issue, as our reserve of old-y and goodie scripts have ran out... We encourage you to try and do some of the requests or improvement tasks. See you in Summer, hopefully!
Hi XXBlackburnXx. Could you explain this revert? The content added seems worthy of inclusion and appears to decently sourced. Kind regards, Robby.is.on (talk) 10:06, 17 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hello, it was a proxy that edited that page that contained a spam link to betmentor.com, also if you notice, the parameters filled in the cite web template does not correspond with what the website actually says. It has been a common spam practice these days to add tons of machine translated content to a page in which they sneakily add a spam link to it, and the global spam fighting community generally responds by reverting the whole edit. I don't mind if you restore the content, just be mindful of the external links. XXBlackburnXx (talk) 10:19, 17 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
In this case it seems like they took some content from eswiki: es:Iñaki Williams and machine translated it:
El 19 de febrero anotó en el triunfo frente al [[Girona Fútbol Club|Girona]] (3-2).<ref>{{Cita web|url=https://www.mundodeportivo.com/futbol/athletic-bilbao/20240219/1002193892/as.html|título=Berenguer e Iñaki Williams abren el camino hacia la Champions|fechaacceso=2024-02-20|fecha=2024-02-19|sitioweb=Mundo Deportivo|idioma=es}}</ref><ref>{{Cita web|url=https://as.com/futbol/nadie-tose-al-athletic-en-su-casa-n/|título=Nadie tose al Athletic en su casa|fechaacceso=2024-02-20|apellido=Herrán|nombre=Alfonso|fecha=2024-02-19|sitioweb=Diario AS|idioma=es}}</ref><ref>{{Cita web|url=https://as.com/futbol/primera/eric-garcia-no-vamos-a-cambiar-el-estilo-de-juego-nos-equivocariamos-n/|título=Eric García: “No vamos a cambiar el estilo de juego, nos equivocaríamos”|fechaacceso=2024-02-20|apellido=Suelves|nombre=Marc Bernad|fecha=2024-02-20|sitioweb=Diario AS|idioma=es}}</ref>El 29 de febrero abrió el marcador en la goleada frente al [[Club Atlético de Madrid|Atlético de Madrid]] (3-0) en la vuelta de semifinales de Copa.<ref>{{Cita web|url=https://www.marca.com/futbol/copa-rey/cronica/2024/02/29/65d63437e2704efa728b45dc.html|título=El Athletic es una familia|fechaacceso=2024-03-04|fecha=2024-02-29|sitioweb=MARCA|idioma=es}}</ref>El 6 de abril fue titular en la [[Final de la Copa del Rey de fútbol 2023-24|final de Copa]] frente al [[Real Club Deportivo Mallorca|RCD Mallorca]], donde conquistó su tercer título.<ref>{{Cita web|url=https://www.marca.com/futbol/copa-rey/cronica/2024/04/07/661144bfca474107408b4594.html|título=El Athletic cantó la 'cuarenta'|fechaacceso=2024-04-10|fecha=2024-04-06|sitioweb=MARCA|idioma=es}}</ref><ref>{{Cita web|url=https://www.relevo.com/futbol/copa-del-rey/inaki-convierte-inmortal-camiseta-gorra-20240408171514-nt.html|título=Iñaki convierte en icónica una camiseta y una gorra que surgieron tras eliminar al Atlético|fechaacceso=2024-04-10|fecha=2024-04-08|sitioweb=Relevo|idioma=es}}</ref>
Oh, thanks for clearing that up. That makes sense. I hadn't inspected the diff that closely and nothing obviously wrong had jumped out at me. the global spam fighting community generally responds by reverting the whole edit is also good to know. Robby.is.on (talk) 19:41, 18 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]