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Hey, The Transhumanist. I always thought that per MOS:LAYOUT that Portals went in the See also section, if the article contains a See also section. I recently put some Portals in an article, in See also, and somebody moved them to the very bottom of the References section. Now I see there is not much Portal placement guidance in MOS:LAYOUT. I wonder why? Are you still interested in Portals? Cheers! {{u|WikiWikiWayne}} {Talk}19:11, 24 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
In answer to your question, I'm not too into portals these days. I haven't been very involved in Wikipedia development over the past few years, though I use it each day. I occasionally switch to editor mode to fix a typo, or grammar, here or there, and less frequently do some real editing. I also respond to requests or notices to rescue pages in danger of deletion, and am involved with a rescue effort now. Currently, I'm also involved with a discussion of the potential impact of large language models, and the AI chatbots powered by them, like Chat-GPT, on Wikipedia, and how Wikipedia should respond via policy and action. 07:36, 25 January 2023 (UTC)
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@François Robere: Nice! By the way, I've been monitoring related news, and I'm continuously blown away. See why in my latest addition to the discussion:
Firstly, I had problems even getting a message to you because in the latest "Vector" skin there is no "edit" button on your talk page. I had to revert the recent change just to post this message. Why not prioritise usability over prettiness and get rid of whatever silly formatting you have?
I do use preview, and save when I believe it is done. I have the compulsion to reread the post again after it is completed and saved. And if I find something wrong with it, I fix it. Then the cycle repeats itself. Sorry. I guess I can mark the revisit edits as minor. As for the formatting of this page, I was unaware of the edit button problem, as I use the old vector skin. It sounds like the new skin has ruined my formatting. I'll look into it. Thank you for the heads up. — The Transhumanist08:53, 29 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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Hi, I like outlines. Did you request those draft outlines to be restored so you could work on them to move them to mainspace? —Alalch E.19:59, 8 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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I'm quite new to editing, but you should be able just to release this image (while still giving credit to the references) because you made it as seen with the blue barnstar you used as a source. Daryl76679 (talk) 22:46, 15 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
@Jerium: That's like asking, "Were the barnstars you've created necessary?" Which leads to "Is art necessary?" Yes. Very much so. And in art, details matter. It's your new design (adjusted slightly by color), and is symbolically much more representative of outlines, due to its tree structure icon. Well done. And you've anchored that symbol nicely to the WikiProject by displaying it prominently on its main page. That was brilliant. Now, by default, in a sense, all instances of its smaller version (in the awards) point back to it. Bravo! — The Transhumanist23:38, 17 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
The Transhumanist Okay, when you removed the alt that I had made at your request, I was not upset. In fact, based on the discussion on my talk page, I was not surprised as you were clearly thrilled with a barnstar being introduced; But now that we've ended up to this point, your biggest mistake occurred, confusing my patients for kindness. I and members of WP:WPWPA do not oust pre-existing barnstars, we only remaster barnstars that do not use File:Original Barnstar Hires.png per WP:B2G and add them into the barnstar template as the secondary alternative option while the original still remains in the template as the primary option. That is a gesture of honorable-courtesy, to acknowledge their efforts, original makers, in creating the original barnstars. The thing that no one ever does though, even if you are not a member of WP:WPWPA, is replace the barnstar file-images in barnstar templates that were already-rewarded to editors for whatever reason. That is just a low-ball move, near equivalent to blanking a page. Everything you've done in the template, I am undoing, but I will fullfill your request; and as one who is as good as Antonu (Yes, I am making that comparison), you don't know what a high-quality barnstar is, and you especially don't know how to properly award other editors. Jerium (talk) 00:36, 18 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
@Jerium: First, let me say thank you for updating the alt image on the barnstar page. That looks even better than the one I hobbled together from your previous design. Very nice.
As for the awarding process itself, my opinion is that it's between the giver and the recipient. It's not like it's a physical award sitting on their mantle. This, being a wiki, provides more options. If a rewarder sees a way to improve an award they've given, especially one they customized themselves, the edit button is just a click away. Likewise, if a recipient prefers the earlier version, they are welcome to revert. And if they don't, then perhaps that's an indication that they at least didn't mind the modification. Note, that I changed the look of the award, not the message content. Though, I wouldn't hesitate to fix a typo, or awkward wording, in the text of an award I've given.
Regarding the other barnstar, let me ask some philosophical questions: What do lightbulbs have to do with outlines? Are you saying that we're stuck with a lightbulb representing outlines as a main award on the barnstar page forever? How did that happen? What's the procedure for getting it changed to something more relevant? No hard feelings here. Just scratching my head, wondering what can be done about it. No lightbulbs are going off, though. Except, maybe this one: Could you be talked into changing it to something that captures the essence of outlines? That way, you would still be the credited artiste, and I know you could come up with something mind blowing. You remind me of Penubag in that regard. (He created the medal for the World Developer Award).
Last, but not least, is that we can always talk things over, and I'm glad you feel free to express your feelings. I look forward to our continued sharing of thoughts and ideas. — The Transhumanist00:58, 19 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
The lightbulb stays as it was the original upload. The new version also stays, so no one is taking a loss. It would be very difficult to get consensus to remove the newly updated barnstar, with the amount of effort I put in on quality, but I don't want to continue this discussion any further. Also, you're rude and insulting. We're done. Jerium (talk) 01:09, 19 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Well, you are on my talk page, and you did add the "rude" comment after you wrote that you didn't want to continue, thus continuing. So, I'm going to take those as cues to respond...
Then the light bulb stays. You met me half-way, which is willingness to compromise, and for that, I am grateful. And so, I guess I can do the same.
It seems a bit quirky, but, we can adapt to the light bulb barnstar. I imagine the award's prose could go something like this:
"I hereby award you this light bulb of excellence for creating such a wonderful outline and illuminating the world with its knowledge." Or maybe "Here is a light bulb to brighten your day, for creating such an illuminating outline." And this one: "You have illuminated minds like Edison illuminated the world. For this, you are awarded the outline light bulb!"
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Hi Transhumanist, I would like to take you up on your offer and ask you if you could find a few independent reliable sources sufficient to establish notability of the organisation "Diving Equipment and Marketing Association", When I tried perplexity it threw back Wikipedia, even after I told it not to.
Cheers, · · · Peter Southwood(talk): 09:33, 4 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
@Pbsouthwood: I ran into the same problem awhile back. Since it is a chatbot, which you can ask to do just about anything literary (so far, they haven't incorporated a robotic training data set into it, so it can't comply with requests to do physical things, yet), I asked it how to get it to return results without Wikipedia in them, and it instructed me to use "-site:en.wikipedia.org" in my prompts. I tried that, and it worked. I don't know if that is an ability that it adopted, or something they programmed into it.
Keep in mind that the chatbot's data lake is the Web, and there is a growing body of know how on how to use ChatGPT (which is essentially what drives this thing). So, as time goes on, perplexity.ai becomes more and more of an expert on how to use itself. As users, we can ask it to tap into that. It's counterintuitive, but, sometimes it works wonders.
I looked around for sources to establish notability for DEMA, and neither I nor perplexity could turn up anything of note. There is mention of DEMA commissioning a research study in Introductory Guide to Scuba Diver Species from University of Massachusetts Amherst, but I doubt that's enough to establish notability. (There's another source in there on DEMA—Buttner, C. (2007). DEMA and the public shouldn't mix. Published in Open Water Articles— but there's no copy of it online that I could find. It appears that DEMA's online footprint is primarily its own website. — The Transhumanist01:25, 7 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks TTH, I was aware of the Amherst paper, and agree – not enough. It is quite weird considering DEMA has had quite a large influence on recreational diving over several decades, and not always a good one. So it goes. The tip about "-site" is useful, and makes sense to a degree (that it works, not that it is explicitly needed), Anyway, thanks for trying, Wikipedia will just have to go without an article for now. Cheers, · · · Peter Southwood(talk): 04:24, 7 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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New year, new scripts. Welcome to the 23rd issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter, covering around 39% of our favorite new and updated user scripts since 24 December 2021. That’s right, we haven’t published in two years! Can you believe it? Did you miss us?
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User:Alexander Davronov/HistoryHelper has now become stable with some bugfixes and features such as automatically highlighting potentially uncivil edit summaries and automatically pinging all the users selected.
To a lesser extent, the same goes for User:PrimeHunter/Search sort.js. I wish someone would integrate the sorts into the sort menu instead of adding 11 portlet links.
Aaron Liu: Watchlyst Greybar Unsin is a rewrite of Ais's Watchlist Notifier with modern APIs and several new features such as not displaying watchlist items marked as seen (hence the name), not bolding diffs of unseen watchlist elements which doesn’t work properly anyways, displaying the rendered edit summary, proper display of log and creation actions and more links.
Alexis Jazz: Factotum is a spiritual successor to reply-link with a host of extra features like section adding, link rewriting, regular expressions and more.
User:Aveaoz/AutoMobileRedirect: This script will automatically redirect MobileFrontend (en.m.wikipedia) to normal Wikipedia. Unlike existing scripts, this one will actually check if your browser is mobile or not through its secret agent string, so you can stay logged in on mobile! Hooray screen estate!
Deputy is a first-of-its-kind copyright cleanup toolkit. It overrides the interface for Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations for easy case processing. It also includes the functionality of the following (also new) scripts:
User:Elominius/gadget/diff arrow keys allows navigation between diffs with the arrow keys. It also has a version that requires holding Ctrl with the arrow key.
Frequently link to Wikipedia on your websites yet find generating CC-BY credits to be such a hassle? Say no more! User:Luke10.27/attribute will automatically do it for ya and copy the credit to yer clipboard.
User:MPGuy2824/MoveToDraft, a spiritual successor (i.e. fork) to Evad37's script, with a few bugs solved, and a host of extra features like check-boxes for choosing draftification reasons, multi-contributor notification, and appropriate warnings based on last edit time.
/CopyCodeBlock: one of the most important operations for any scripter and script-user is to copy and paste. This script adds a copy button in the top right of every code block (not to be confused with <code>) that will, well, copy it to your clipboard!
m:User:NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh/AceForLuaDebugConsole.js adds the Ace editor (a.k.a. the editor you see when editing JS, CSS and Lua on Wikimedia wikis) to the Lua debug console. "In my opinion, whoever designed it to be a plain <textarea> needs to seriously reconsider their decision."
GANReviewTool quickly and easily closes good article nominations.
ReviewStatus displays whether or not a mainspace page is marked as reviewed.
SpeciesHelper tries to add the correct speciesbox, category, taxonbar, and stub template to species articles.
User:Opencooper/svgReplace and Tol's fork replaces all rasterized SVGs with their original SVG codes for your loading pleasures. Tell us which one is better!
ArticleInfo displays page information at the top of the page, directly below the title.
/HeaderIcons takes away the Vector 2022 user dropdown and replaces it with all of the icons within, top level, right next to the Watchlist. One less click away! There's also an alternate version that uses text links instead of icons.
Hey, I've been trying to pare down unhelpful short descriptions onsite, and I've definitely unset a lot of outlines. Apologies for this, I will stop doing so, and start putting the ones back that I removed. Also, I really appreciate your work at the WikiProject, and I've actually started Draft:Outline of Chinese characters as a result. Cheers! Remsense诉05:55, 24 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Remsense: "Outline of" in the titles is just a format designation. It is not part of the subject of the article, which is what should be covered in the short description. The short description should briefly define the outline's topic. For example, describe "chess" rather than "Outline of chess". Therefore copying the short description of the corresponding root article works well. — The Transhumanist06:44, 13 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hi, just a little curious about something. Wouldn't the short descriptions for outline-type articles be the same as their wikidata descriptions? I feel like an outline page with the short description "Overview and topical guide to _______" works well when labelling those articles but I could be wrong. Like for instance the short description for our Algeria outline has the label "country in NW Africa, biggest in area" (or something like that) while other country outline pages simply have short-descriptions corresponding to their central descriptions. Wikipedian200 (talk) 14:51, 10 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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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]
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
yours is phenomenal, I see why it belongs in the hall of fame! My only question is why the 'introduction' image is gra(e?)yed out when the mouse is hovered over.
I appreciate you reviving the User page design center! I used this when I was new. Also, everyone has a phases where they religiously obsess over their user page (especially userboxes), and this tool is a good way to show them how to have fun with it. Panini!•🥪23:59, 2 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hi TTH, If a content page is transcluded without any parameters, is the wikicode of the transcluded page parsed during the transclusion, or is the already generated cached html just copied over? I suspect the former, but don't really know why it should necessarily be that way. I have a vague feeling there would be things like the ToC that would not work properly and would require the parser to work through the transcuded page's code.
Cheers, · · · Peter Southwood(talk): 13:40, 16 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Pbsouthwood: As I understand it, Wikiedia's servers parse wiki text as follows: everything that needs to be expanded is done first, then lua modules are performed, then the resulting wiki text is translated into HTML. That's why the TOC works properly even when there are transcluded pages. There may be some HTML processing after that, but I'm not sure what (inserting files?). I don't know where this stuff is explained, but someone at WP:VPT surely does. MediaWiki's parser is explained at mw:Manual:Parser, and may provide some insight, but Wikipedia's configuration is much more complex, including hundreds of extensions. I hope this helps. Sincerely, — The Transhumanist11:16, 18 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hey there, welcome to the 25th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter, covering all our favorite new and updated user scripts since 1 March 2024. We've got a ton of wonderful editors taking back their pitchforks today. Don't worry, for they come in peace, to forcibly fix and extend existing scripts you use with sheer passion. There's so many, them forks have got what's basically their own column now! gift us with some rows before it's too late Aaron Liu (talk) 04:01, 1 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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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.
An easily configurable script to add a link to the #p-vector-user-menu-overflow portlet with a name, target, and icon. This one should be a relatively easier one. I would do it myself, but I'm too busy rotting away on Celeste (video game).
After the RIIJ update, Aaron Liu: Watchlyst Greybar Unsin has a dismiss button that allows you to mark an item as read in one click and cycle to the next Watchlist item.
Lordseriouspig/StatusChangerImproved is just like Enterprisey's script, except you select your status from a dropdown instead of cycling through them with a button. The WMF operates out of car-centric infrastructure anyway. Shame!
Aaron Liu has created Duplinks from Evad37/duplinks-alt; his fork adds a config variable to automatically highlight duplicate links on the loading of any page where the portlet link would've appeared.
Tired of staring at a bunch of filtering text and waiting for darn filter logs to load? Msz2001/AbuseFilter analyzer can parse abuse filters into a visual syntax tree and evaluate locally on-demand!
Polygnotus/DuplicateReferences finds references with the same link and displays the number of them along with a button to add the {{duplicated citations}} tag under the references section. Being lazy has never been easier!
fastest gun on the net Ponor/really-quick-block really quick add to contribution lists three buttons awesome
Hi @The Transhumanist: How goes it? I came across your article Outline of dyslexia as part of the WP:NPP article review process. Is this an article? Its not references and seems to be arbitary list of information without reference present. You don't know if its valid or not. Are you planning to reference it. I see there is a whole other outline articles. Are they all in the same condition? Your not writing these for use off-wikipedia are you? scope_creepTalk19:05, 5 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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Keep up the great work! Love the pictures you included in the article. Please continue to add more references when you find them. Cheers.
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Hi TTH, Just found a fine example of why annotations should be cited unless they are by annotated links. Take a look at Index of branches of science, lots of annotated redlinks with no refs, blue links with claims that don't hold up when checked, and redirects, which I have not even looked at yet. No refs in the lead, poorly defined scope. Talk page full of messages indicating confusion and disagreement with the content, mostly unanswered. Cheers, · · · Peter Southwood(talk): 05:43, 13 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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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. At press time, over 94% of the world has legally fallen prey to the merry celebrations of "Christmas", and so shall you soon. It's been a quiet 4 months, and we hope to see you with way more new scripts next year. Happy holidays! Aaron Liu (talk) 05:06, 25 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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Very useful for changelist patrollers, DiffUndo, by Nardog, is this edition's featured script. Taking inspiration from WP:AutoWikiBrowser's double-click-to-undo feature, it adds an undo button to every line of every diff from "show changes", optimizing partial reverts with your favorite magic spell and nearly fulfilling m:Community Wishlist/Wishes/Partial revert undo.
Doğu/Adiutor, a recent WP:Twinkle/WP:RedWarn-like userscript that follows modern WMF UI design, is now an extension. However, its sole maintainer has left the project, which still awaits WMF 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 creating Special:NamespaceInfo and the __EXPECTUNUSEDTEMPLATE__ magic word to exclude a template from Special:UnusedTemplates! I wonder if Wikipedia has a templaters' newsletter...
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.
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.
Polygnotus/Move+ updates BilledMammal's classic Move+ to add automattic watchlisting of all pages—except the target page(s)—changed while processing a move.
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It's a little difficult to read this User talk page. Could you stop having content be crooked and remove whatever this is at the bottom of the page? It's a little chaotic-looking and can be hard to find previous discussions here. Thanks. LizRead!Talk!06:26, 8 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
The slanted contents is artistic expression, and has been there for years. The footer items are there for ease of reference. If I put them somewhere else, I'll forget to read them. (I'm a member of both those departments and need to keep an eye on things.) Down there, I see them every time I catch up on my messages, which reminds me to read them. However, I will research ways for visitors to turn such features off. Sincerely, — The Transhumanist10:23, 18 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Hello everyone, and welcome to the 27th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter, covering all our favorite new and updated user scripts since 2025! Boy, does it feel good to kick off the year with an issue. Yep, it's been a year since we cleared out the 2022-2024 backlog with issues 23 and 24! Good times. Though in this case "a year" just means... 6 months? 😯 The salience of whatever joke I was planning to make here has vanished speedily. Aaron Liu (talk) 21:00, 31 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Got anything good? Tell us about your new, improved, old, or messed-up script here!
WikiTextExpander by Polygnotus, is this edition's featured script. At the click of a configurable hotkey, this script will find and replace or link a configurable list of phrases within the selected text in all source editors (even in the comment/reply field!). Besides allowing the quick insertion of templated messages, this script greatly mitigates the WP:WTF? problem by providing both the legibility of familiar words and the convenience of shortcuts. And to those asking, the capitalization of "Wikitext" as "WikiText" was a necessary sacrifice for far-more-memorable acronymy.
CanonNi: AlertAssistant has been fixed and rewritten using OOUI instead of Twinkle's Morebits. Such modern, very tool. (Do note that the maintainer has since become inactive.)
NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh/AjaxLoader has been updated to use modern JS APIs that replace the browser's URL bar with the link you clicked on to load in place. The "back" (and "forward") buttons also work now. Cool, innit?
andrybak: Unsigned helper no longer shows an error when the message to sign was added in the earliest 50 revisions of a page's history. This is especially relevant to pages with short histories.
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.
In breaking m:Tech/News, Gadgets can now include .vue files. This makes it easier to develop modern user interfaces using Vue.js, in particular using Codex, the official design system of Wikimedia. Codex icons are now also available. The documentation has examples.
Appo/Globstory integrates OpenHistoryMap, updating the map whenever hovering/clicking on a location or year, the latter of which changes the map to be (hopefully) accurate to the year selected. It's pretty interesting.
linkinfo Somewhat similar to WP:NavPops, Awesome Aasim/linkinfo(pictured) provides a collection of links to replace the right-click context menu, presented beautifully.
PreviousDiscussions provides a link to search for your username on subpages of another user's userpage and talkpage conveniently.
Twineeea/noRedLinks brings you to the "read" instead of the "create" tab when you visit a red link. Contemplate life's mysteries as you stare into the blank! Deeply.
No, this is not going to be the enduring tradition of S++ for the future. This was meant to be a joke for the special occasion on the first day of the fourth month but was delayed by four months because I'm lazy.
One of my daily tasks is going through aging drafts and deleting the ones that are stale and eligible for CSD G13. I've been seeing a lot of "outline" pages that you have been working on and I was just wondering what you were planning on doing with them all as there are dozens of them at this point. Will you be submitting them for AFC review? Moving them to User or Project space? Or leaving them in Draft space indefinitely? I wouldn't be concerned if there were just one or two but I think at this point there are 40 or 50 of them. Thanks for any information you can provide on them. Happy editing! LizRead!Talk!20:28, 10 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I've been working on them as time allows. But, you keep running into them, and that is taking up your time unnecessarily, and you feel that one solution would be to move them to my user space. I'd be fine with that. Please do the honors, as it is easier for admins to do multiple moves. The time it would take me to move them manually would be better spent on editing. Thank you for reaching out. — The Transhumanist23:17, 13 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Oh, I think you misunderstand me, I'm not complaining about them. I'm more concerned that they will get accidentally deleted as CSD G13s if you don't remember to return to the page every 6 months to make an edit to it. And, honestly, I did wonder what you were planning to do with all of them. I hope you maintain a list of outlines as not every admin who deletes draft pages posts a notification about pages they delete through speedy deletion. But I really just wanted to check in with you about them since over the past two weeks, I've been running into a lot of these pages. I know how much time and energy you put into our Portals when they existed so I was curous if you had a larger aim in mind with all of these Outlines. Thank you. LizRead!Talk!19:29, 15 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Liz: — I read pressure into your message, and am happy to learn that was not your sentiment.
Portals–that brings back memories. My involvement with the portal department was to develop an instant virtual portal design (where you click on a menu item and a portal pops up based on whatever page you happen to be on), and I had put a lot of samples out there to generate feedback, and rather than cordial input, we got a deletion tirade led by a wikitroll. Those portals were to be temporary anyways. If they had decided to discuss rather than hunt/bully, perhaps we would have the desired design today. My time was going to dry up in 2019, so I was in a rush to get the job done, but that conflict made it infeasible; it looked like it was going to be a time sink, so I dropped it and moved on to my next project (IRL) early.
I still have little time to devote to Wikipedia these days, but what I have I spend on the outline drafts. In the Fall of '23, I asked the Deletion Review department to revive them all, and they did. I've been pecking away at them ever since.
I keep pretty close track of them, but a few slip by every once in awhile. See the outline draft tracker. That shows the date of each one's last edit, so we can tell how much time they have before they go bye bye. And the ones that do, turn red to aid in later retrieval.
Even though there is another editor who has pledged to help with these, we have our hands full and are not in a hurry to revive the 4 red ones at this time. There are a number of the outline drafts verging on readiness for article space, and once those have been completed and moved, that will be a good time to recover the CSD13'd drafts.
Sorry to give you an unofficial talk page message, but the talk page thingy blocks my "Add topic" button. @The Transhumanist: I am so anxious about my planned FL nom for the Outline of Spain, and as you may have noticed by now, I will not nominated the article until you review it and I adress the issues. Thereason for this is that I quickly noticed that you are kinda the master of outlines. Thanks in advance! Earth605 (talk) 15:11, 28 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Hey @The Transhumanist, per your request via the Mentor system I'm dropping you a reply here.
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Dear mentor,
There's this new feature called Home Page, and when I went on it, there was a section in the corner that says your my mentor! There was a box to communicate to you through, to ask any question, and so, I was wondering if I could pick your brain about the impact of Wikipedia on AI and vice versa...
Where in the Wikimedia community is AI (in relation to Wikipedia) being discussed?
I'm interested in the impact AI is making on Wikipedia, including reduced traffic, reduction in editors, AI-generated content on Wikipedia, AI out competing Wikipedia with on-demand near-instant AI-generated articles by conversation bots, and anything else pertaining to Wikipedia-AI.
Is Wikipedia in danger of going the way of the dinosaurs due to AI? And if so, when?
Or, will Wikipedia adapt by itself being developed into an AI?
Please respond on my talk page.
Thank you.
Sincerely, — The Transhumanist 06:59, 13 October 2025 (UTC)
P.S.: I don't recall signing up for a mentor. Would you please check to see how I got one?
Traffic to Wikimedia projects actually increased since the release of many AI tools, largely due to web scraping and API requests made by AI tools.[3] I'm not aware of the foundation posting any statistics on what proportion of the traffic to the project is AI vs Human, nor am I sure if it's possible to fully distinguish this.
I don't think AI will replace Wikipedia, I'm seeing a growing trend of distrust towards the tech around various talk pages, so I think there will always be a demand for human-generated information. This article may be of interest to you too: [9]. There's a whole wikiproject dedicated to fixing AI mistakes on the site too, which I think shows that people still want genuinely human-made content here.
The Wikimedia Foundation did have talk of integrating AI in the form of AI-generated article summaries, but it received massive backlash. Link to discussion. We use AI in some of our tools including ORES which is designed to predict how good an article is for reviewers and detect vandalism, but it looks like having AI directly on Wikipedia doing stuff like writing or summarising articles will not happen based on past discussions. The site isn't totally anti-AI, but the tone shown by most is generally use AI to help editors in small careful ways, not to replace them or to do the job for them.
Finally, for asking to check how you got a mentor - it's automatic. Most Wikipedia accounts are assigned one now. I'm here if you have questions or need help but I otherwise won't generally intervene or get in the way of whatever it is you want to do on WP. I'm just here if you need anything! :)
@Encoded: Yes, thank you, well done—it definitely helps. I'm interested in how the overall community, which includes Wikimedia and MediaWiki, is approaching, adapting to, and being impacted by AI. Like, how is the Wikimedia Foundation responding to AI, what it foresees as its and Wikipedia's challenges are related to AI, what AI projects are underway within this community, what deals have and are being made with AI companies, what AI-powered competition has been identified to Wikipedia (such as AI-powered encyclopedia projects, AI apps capable of generating encyclopedic-scope articles, and so on), etc. And most of all, where the top level discussion forums are for all this (presumably somewhere on Meta or another WMF website). — The Transhumanist10:26, 13 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
AI projects underway:ORES, Lift Wing. The use of AI in the wiki itself (includingwriting/generating/summarising articles) have not been approved or have been put on indefinite hold due to serious opposition amongst the community. Previously, a ChatGPT plugin was developed, but this has now ended. [4]
AI Company Deals: WMF's AI systems are in-house, I'm not aware of any specific deals being published.
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