Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts

This project is about Wikipedia user scripts. For a general collection, see Wikipedia:Scripts. For Greasemonkey user scripts, see Wikipedia:Tools/Greasemonkey user scripts. For other tools, see Wikipedia:Tools.

For basic help with using and installing these scripts, see m:Help:User style.

Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better create, organize and share User scripts. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list there. Currently, the focus is on scripts for monobook.js, but it may eventually expand to all skins.

For more information on WikiProjects, please see Wikipedia:WikiProjects and Wikipedia:WikiProject best practices.

Subpages

• Scripts - a library of user scripts.
• Tutorial - a tutorial on how to start using or writing user scripts.
• Techniques - a list of commonly used techniques.

Similar pages

• Wikipedia:Tools - various types of tools: bookmarklets, user scripts, etc.
• Wikipedia:Scripts - mainly scripts to activate wikilinks in various IRC programs, but a few other things, also.
• Wikipedia:Computer help desk - somehow, this is related.

Participants

• ABCD✉
• ☺Adam1213☺ Talk+|WWW
• Alphax ^τεχ
• BMIComp (talk, HOWS MY DRIVING)
• Celestianpower ^háblame(UTC)
• Essjay · Talk
•  grm_wnr Esc
• HappyCamper
• JesseW
• jnothman ^talk
• Jtkiefer ^{T | @ | C} -----
• Omegatron
• pile0nades^{talk | contribs}
• raylu
• Ryan Delaney ^talk
• Sasquatch讲看
• Neutrality^talk
• Where (talk)

• In this interests of full disclosure, I would like to point out that the discussions here, here and here lead up to the creation of the project. Alphax ^τεχ 07:40, 15 October 2005 (UTC)

Goals

1. Provide a central store of user scripts
2. Make it easy for people to use user scripts
3. Create a plugin system for user scripts

Tasks

1. Create a tutorial/walkthrough of how to set up scripts and how to get started writing your own.

   can we please get on this task asap!  ALKIVAR™ 19:17, 8 November 2005 (UTC)

   Unless you know javascript, I think that this will just consist of "Find a nice script somewhere and copy it/follow the instructions for installing it". We don't have any sort of generic framework that a non-programmer can use to install or create scripts as far as I know. Lupin|talk|popups 01:07, 9 November 2005 (UTC)

   Er, what about /Tutorial? JesseW, the juggling janitor 18:14, 9 November 2005 (UTC)

Requests

• A one click way to add pages to shared watchlists, i.e. like the ones under Wikipedia:Watch in the same way as pages can be added to the private watchlist. JesseW 19:51, 18 August 2005 (UTC)
• A way to add descriptions to pages on the private watchlist. i.e. "watch for vandalism", "watch for replies to my comment", "watch until the end of December", etc. JesseW 19:51, 18 August 2005 (UTC)
• A tranformer for Related Changes to put it in watchlist format (i.e. only the most recent change shows up) JesseW 19:51, 18 August 2005 (UTC)
  • User:Cryptic/relatedchanges.js. —Cryptic (talk) 19:15, 28 December 2005 (UTC)
• A way to revert multiple page moves at once. I've got most of this written(in a very insecure manner), but I can't iron out the last bugs. Bug me about it in IRC. JesseW 06:51, 19 August 2005 (UTC)
• Improved image upload box(see VP discussion for more details) JesseW 23:01, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
• A way to revert all of a user's contribs, as a means of combatting page move vandalism, etc.(See this VP discussion for details) JesseW 23:01, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
  • Should that script emulate the revert, or should it use the admin’s built-in revert capability? Sam Hocevar 08:20, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
    • Um, admin's revert capability. Alphax ^τεχ 08:34, 4 September 2005 (UTC)
• Please add a citation maker at the bottom of the pages.(if this is the wrong place for requests, woops)
  • This is the right place for requests, but I have no idea what you mean...
    • Perhaps something that would display what to put in a history paper bibliograpy at the bottom of a page in a neat little

      whooo look at me, i would be an F for a citation

      kind of way.--Phinnaeus • T+Σ 02:07, 8 November 2005 (UTC)
      • That exists now. It's Special:Cite. Titoxd^{(?!? - did you read this?)} 20:45, 2 December 2005 (UTC)
• Would you happen to know how to make a firefox extension using Javascript? It would be very simple and used to fight vandalism. The basic idea is to feed RC diff's into firefox, and let it determine which pages contain text (such as an obscenity, LOL, or ...) listed in a file. For pages that don't contain anything on this list, the tab is closed. The others remain open and ready to be examined. If you can't figure out how to hookup the IRC RC output into firefox, then it could be used with WP:CDVF to open new tabs in firefox to be checked. I found a guide to making extensions, but it says you need to know Javascript. Thanks. — BRIAN0918 • 2005-10-30 03:50
  • Got this on my talk page. I think it might just be doable. Alphax ^τεχ 03:56, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
  • There's something crude here, designed to scoot through the pages listed on Special:Recentchanges looking for Bad Things. To refresh the list, you'd have to reload that page with this implementation. Please edit this code if you see a way to improve it. Lupin|talk|popups 21:54, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
• A tab when editing that allows you to search in the textarea. I know of a replace script but not of a search script. I'm sure it would be easy to create. Gflores ^Talk 18:35, 2 December 2005 (UTC)

It's not what you asked for, but if you're using firefox you can install Retro Find and Regular Expression Find to get regexp searching throughout pages, including textareas. Lupin|talk|popups 13:10, 3 December 2005 (UTC)

• A simple way to navigate between a version of a page and the diff to last version, eg. from this page to this page. /skagedal^[talk] 01:44, 28 December 2005 (UTC)
  • User:Cryptic/oldrevisiontodiffs.js. —Cryptic (talk) 19:15, 28 December 2005 (UTC)
  • Wonderful! Have been wanting this forever. I made a tiny stylistic change (not displaying "external link"-image), see my monobook.js. /skagedal^[talk] 21:02, 28 December 2005 (UTC)
• Script to append an "[Alexa]" button to all external links in an article (or on mouseover), like this [Alexa]. Alexa is a fast first test whether it's spam or not. I've tweaked with the User:monobook.js a while and realised that my javascript is not at par. Please help. -- Perfecto Canada 23:33, 8 January 2006 (UTC)
  • Take a look at User:Matthewmayer/monobook.js - it adds an 'Alexafy' link to the toolbox which makes all external links change into Alexa links. I'm no JavaScript whiz but it does the job :) Matthewmayer 01:16, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
    • Thanks, but it doesn't work in my User:monobook.js. -- Perfecto Canada 01:49, 10 January 2006 (UTC)
  • Here's a short alexa function. You need to get the code for addOnloadFunction too. Lupin|talk|popups 04:09, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

function addAlexaLinks() {
  for (var i=0; i<document.links.length; ++i) {
    var l=document.links[i]; 
    if(l.className.indexOf('external') != 0) continue;
    var sp=document.createElement('span');
    sp.innerHTML=' [<a href="http://www.alexa.com/data/details/?url=' + l.href + '">alexa</a>]';
    if(l.nextSibling) l.parentNode.insertBefore(sp, l.nextSibling);
    else l.parentNode.appendChild(sp);
  }
}
addOnloadFunction(addAlexaLinks);

• A way to make the sidebar display in the same position no matter how you scroll. I've got a css kludge in place, but would like to use javascript to make a more robust version. See Wikipedia talk:WikiProject User scripts#Fixed sidebar — Omegatron 00:24, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

• In bloglines and gmail, I can get to the next blog post or email just by pressing j. I've got so used to this functionality that I keep pressing j on the wiki, expecting to jump to the next heading on the page. Is anyone capable of making a user script to do this? This script by Matt Kruse might be a good starting point. Angela. 07:34, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

• • I've written something to do this. Try adding {{subst:js|User:Lupin/sectionkeys.js}} and (if you need it) {{subst:Wikipedia:WikiProject_User_scripts/Scripts/addOnloadFunction.js}} to your user javascript file. Lupin|talk|popups 23:14, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

• Fast checking from recent changes would be nice. It would be interesting to have a script which automatically checks if you're referred to an article from Special:Recentchanges, and takes some verification action. For example, the insertion of an iframe at the top of the article, perhaps 6-10 lines long, directed on a google search for the article title without surrounding quotes. For experimental data showing the potential value, see recent deletion log for Shridhar Chillal and google the article title. Manually googling in all honesty takes about 15-20 seconds; having this automated saves enough time to knock out a psychological barrier. --John Moser 08:54, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

Resources

Contact

1. IRC: irc://irc.freenode.net:6667/#wikipedia-wikiproject-scripts

References

Devmo JavaScript Reference FileSystemObject - this only works on Windows.

Tools

• Colorizer: http://blogs.applibase.net/prasad/downloads/jscolorizer/jscolorizer.html (needs a few tweaks to be perfectly set up for the wiki, though: remove the >pre> tags, put a single space at the beginning of every line. Somebody want to make these minor changes and host it on their webspace?).
  • CHANGES: Thanks for putting up the requirements, I have made the required changes, so now you can get colorized code with/without <pre> tags, you can select each line indentation.
    • Thanks so much for making the changes I requested! It is much better! If I may, I'd like to request one other addition - a way to replace the br/ tags with real newlines; that way the output won't all end up on one line. Just replacing them won' work, as closing font tags are put after them. But if you replace all of them, then replace font newline combinations with newline font - it works. Thanks again for responding! - Let me know if I should put this somewhere else. (Copied to the linked blog). JesseW, the juggling janitor 23:16, 28 October 2005 (UTC)

Piles of code

Places that we might mine for interesting and/or useful bits of code. Please anotate the following as you review them. This is from the June 23 2005 database dump, listing all the page names with .js in them, excluding the other skins versions of monobook.js.

1. meta:Help:User style - contains a lot of useful bits that we ought to copy into Scripts
2. User:Jag123/StubScript.js - valuable - doesn't look like code I've seen before. Should be investigated further. JesseW 23:48, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
3. User:Korath/Spoiler.js - valuable - all of these should be added to Scripts

   Doesn't work; relies on old revisions of Template:Spoiler top and Template:Spoiler bottom, which are themselves barely used. Might be rewriteable into something for the standard Template:Spoiler (and variants) and Template:Endspoiler. —Cryptic (talk) 15:36, 12 November 2005 (UTC)

   I've rewritten it, with Ilmari Karonen's help, at User:Cryptic/spoiler.js. —Cryptic (talk) 22:39, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

4. User:Korath/autovfd.js - valuable - all of these should be added to Scripts
5. User:Korath/blockip.js - valuable - all of these should be added to Scripts
6. User:Korath/welcome.js - valuable - all of these should be added to Scripts
7. User:Pilaf/livepreview.js - valuable - local expanded copy is here, partially commented.
8. User:Poccil/Automation.js - valuable - all of these should be added to Scripts
9. User:Poccil/Schooltables.js - valuable - doesn't look like code I've seen before. Should be investigated further. JesseW 23:48, 29 August 2005 (UTC)

   Is for personal use; it reads a file on his computer. The FSO code is nice to have, though. raylu 05:42, August 31, 2005 (UTC)

   I wouldn't think we really want ActiveX security risks here. As much as possible, we're looking for cross-browser scripting. jnothman ^talk 01:26, 7 November 2005 (UTC)

10. User:Tom-/mediawiki.js - contains only the line: document.getElementById("ca-delete").getElementsByTagName("a")[0].accessKey = ""; - which should probably be added to Techniques
11. User:Lupin/md5-2.2alpha.js - md5sum function which works with UTF strings
12. User:Lupin/popups.js - see Wikipedia:Tools/Navigation popups
13. User:Lupin/autoedit.js - automatically edit (sed-style) using commands in URLs
14. User:Lupin/fixnew.js - change ip addresses into contribs links (eg used to be useful on Special:Newpages, but now mediawiki does that anyway so it's obselete on that page)
15. User:Lupin/nichalpCustomLinks - on user pages, add toolbox links to kate's tool, user log and block/unblock
16. User:Lupin/recentdiffs.js - display all diffs on one page. A bandwidth hog, but somewhat useful sometimes.
17. User:Lupin/recent2.js - monitor the recent changes rss feed for objectionable content
18. User:Cryptic/smiley.js (documentation) - replace ascii emoticons with images.
19. User:Cryptic/toggleundelete.js - adds an "Invert" button to administrators' undeletion pages.

monobooks.js

1. User:-aka-demia/monobook.js - valuable - Categories at Top function - should be added to Scripts
2. User:Alphax/monobook.js - Popups, godmode-lite, add purge tab, add section 0 tab, add generic tab, add generic tab for use as a menu, close AFD, 1-click talk page messages, funky date manipulation stuff (start thread, week old AFD page, live clock (client based)), toolbox link adding, show/hide AFDs, force edit summary, text replacement, make clicking on non-existent talk pages from the content page auto-start a new section, add a history link to the new messages box
3. User:Andrewh/monobook.js - adds "Wikipedia: (Pagename)" to the status bar
4. User:Angela/monobook.js - bottom tabs and an interesting implementation of toolbox links
5. User:Arwel_Parry/monobook.js - bottom tabs, blocklog tabs
6. User:Astronouth7303/monobook.js - get article name, add edit section
7. User:Aydee/monobook.js - top links (needs checking)
8. User:Bdesham/monobook.js - removal of hotkeys
9. User:BesigedB/monobook.js - add purge tab (another version), some other interesting (but as yet unknown) stuff
10. User:Blankfaze/monobook.js
11. User:Bratsche/monobook.js
12. User:BrokenSegue/monobook.js
13. User:Bsienk/monobook.js
14. User:Bucephalus/monobook.js
15. User:Burgundavia/monobook.js
16. User:Camembert/monobook.js
17. User:Carbonite/monobook.js
18. User:CatherineMunro/monobook.js
19. User:Celestianpower/monobook.js - near-spaghetti code which I plan to rewrite for Celestianpower sometime. Alphax ^τεχ 03:02, 29 October 2005 (UTC)
20. User:Ceyockey/monobook.js
21. User:Chamaeleon/monobook.js
22. User:Chiacomo/monobook.js
23. User:Chopchopwhitey/monobook.js
24. User:Chrism/monobook.js
25. User:CloudSurfer/monobook.js
26. User:Colin_Hill/monobook.js
27. User:ContiE/monobook.js
28. User:Crispiness/monobook.js
29. User:Cyrius/monobook.js
30. User:DanKeshet/monobook.js
31. User:Danny_B-)/monobook.js
32. User:Davidcannon/Biography/monobook.js
33. User:Davidcannon/monobook.js
34. User:Dbenbenn/monobook.js
35. User:Demiurge/monobook.js
36. User:Dennis_Valeev/monobook.js
37. User:Diberri/monobook.js
38. User:Dori/monobook.js
39. User:Drini/monobook.js
40. User:Dshill/monobook.js
41. User:E=MC^2/monobook.js
42. User:Eloquence/monobook.js
43. User:Evil_Monkey/monobook.js
44. User:Fabiform/monobook.js
45. User:Fangz/monobook.js
46. User:Fito/monobook.js
47. User:Foobaz/monobook.js
48. User:Fvw/monobook.js
49. User:Gangleri/monobook.js
50. User:Gebruiker:Dedalus/monobook.js
51. User:Gentgeen/monobook.js
52. User:Geraki/monobook.js
53. User:Gkhan/monobook.js
54. User:Goblin/monobook.js
55. User:Grm_wnr/monobook.js
56. User:Guy_M/monobook.js
57. User:Gwi/monobook.js.
58. User:Gwi/monobook.js
59. User:Hégésippe_Cormier/monobook.js
60. User:Halibutt/monobook.js
61. User:Hemanshu/monobook.js
62. User:Hooloovoo/monobook.js
63. User:Icairns/monobook.js
64. User:IceKarma/monobook.js
65. User:Ilya/monobook.js
66. User:Ilyanep/monobook.js
67. User:Inter/monobook.js
68. User:Ish_ishwar/monobook.js
69. User:Jag123/monobook.js
70. User:JanSlupski/monobook.js
71. User:Jd87/monobook.js
72. User:Jdforrester/monobook.js
73. User:JesseW/monobook.js
74. User:Jiang/monobook.js
75. User:Jimbo_Wales/monobook.js
76. User:Jimregan/monobook.js
77. User:Jjeffs/monobook.js
78. User:Johan_Elisson/monobook.js
79. User:Jrdioko/monobook.js
80. User:Jredmond/monobook.js
81. User:Jsanchezes/monobook.js
82. User:Judvrd/monobook.js
83. User:Kahusi/monobook.js
84. User:Kcar1986/monobook.js
85. User:Kelly_Martin/monobook.js
86. User:Kevin_Saff/monobook.js
87. User:Kmccoy/monobook.js
88. User:Knowledge_Seeker/monobook.js
89. User:Korath/monobook.js
90. User:Korrigan/monobook.js
91. User:Kukkurovaca/monobook.js
92. User:Lan3y/monobook.js
93. User:Luigi30/monobook.js
94. User:Lupin/monobook.js - removeAccessKeys (somewhat redundant), subject nag (ignore own userspace, but don't allow blank summaries or summaries just consisting of automatically generated section titles otherwise), the evaluator, an extremely useful javascript debugging tool
95. User:Lupo/monobook.js
96. User:Lupo_Test/monobook.js
97. User:Ma'ame_Michu/monobook.js
98. User:Mark_Dingemanse/monobook.js
99. User:Markaci/monobook.js
100. User:Marsian/monobook.js
101. User:Matthewmayer/monobook.js - adds an 'unwatch' link to each item on watchlist.
102. User:MattTM/monobook.js
103. User:MattTM/monobook.js
104. User:Maximus_Rex/monobook.js
105. User:Mbimmler/monobook.js
106. User:Memzy/monobook.js
107. User:Menchi/monobook.js
108. User:Metju12/monobook.js
109. User:MikeX/monobook.js
110. User:Mike_Storm/monobook.js
111. User:Mikez/monobook.js
112. User:Mirv/monobook.js
113. User:Mononoke/monobook.js
114. User:Mormegil/monobook.js
115. User:Mr._Strong_Bad/monobook.js
116. User:Msh210/monobook.js
117. User:Mu5ti/monobook.js
118. User:Mulad/monobook.js
119. User:Mzajac/monobook.js
120. User:NSR/monobook.js
121. User:Nadavspi/monobook.js
122. User:Nauseam/monobook.js
123. User:Nommonomanac/monobook.js
124. User:Norm/monobook.js
125. User:Ollinaie//monobook.js
126. User:Ollinaie/monobook.js
127. User:Omegatron/monobook.js - I have a thing to fix dashes (en,em,minus), fix units ("43KHZ" → "43 kHz"), and add an unwatch link after every article on your watchlist
128. User:Omphaloscope/monobook.js
129. User:Onco_p53/monobook.js
130. User:Oui/monobook.js
131. User:Oven_Fresh/monobook.js
132. User:OwenBlacker/monobook.js
133. User:Palica/monobook.js
134. User:Paul_Stansifer/monobook.js
135. User:Paullisa/monobook.js
136. User:Pcb21/monobook.js
137. User:Phil_Boswell/monobook.js
138. User:PiaCarrot/monobook.js
139. User:Pika_Pikachu/monobook.js
140. User:Pilaf/monobook.js
141. User:Pile0nades/monobook.js
142. User:Pjacobi/monobook.js
143. User:Plop/monobook.js
144. User:Pmcm/monobook.js
145. User:Polly_on_Pills/monobook.js
146. User:Prattflora/Monobook.js
147. User:Przepla/monobook.js
148. User:R3m0t/Monobook.js
149. User:R3m0t/monobook.js
150. User:RW/monobook.js
151. User:Randy_Johnston/monobook.js
152. User:Rdsmith4/monobook.js
153. User:Redwolf24/monobook.js Block user from their user or user talk page, kate count, popups, auto-afd.
154. User:RexNL/monobook.js
155. User:Rich_Farmbrough/monobook.js
156. User:RoToRa/monobook.js
157. User:Roybb95/monobook.js
158. User:Rparle/monobook.js/purgebutton
159. User:Rparle/monobook.js
160. User:Rrjanbiah/monobook.js
161. User:Sam_Hocevar/monobook.js
162. User:Sanmartin/monobook.js
163. User:Sannse/monobook.js
164. User:Sansculotte/monobook.js
165. User:Saruoh/monobook.js
166. User:Savetheclocktower/monobook.js
167. User:Schneem?nnchen/monobook.js
168. User:ScudLee/monobook.js
169. User:Seancdaug/monobook.js
170. User:Sebbe/monobook.js
171. User:Sgeo/monobook.js
172. User:Sgeo/monobook.js_(toolbox_links)
173. User:Shanes/monobook.js
174. User:Sheldon_Rampton/monobook.js
175. User:Simonfairfax/monobook.js
176. User:Sj/monobook.js
177. User:Sketchee/monobook.js
178. User:Slea/monobook.js
179. User:SlimVirgin/monobook.js
180. User:Smoddy/monobook.js
181. User:Spangineer/monobook.js
182. User:Stevertigo/monobook.js
183. User:Sundar/monobook.js
184. User:Susvolans/monobook.js
185. User:Sverdrup/monobook.js
186. User:Ta_bu_shi_da_yu/monobook.js
187. User:Tacvek/monobook.js
188. User:Tagishsimon/monobook.js
189. User:Teknic/monobook.js
190. User:The_Computer_Mutt/Monobook.js
191. User:TheoClarke/monobook.js
192. User:Tietew/monobook.js
193. User:Timwi/monobook.js
194. User:Tlogmer/monobook.js
195. User:Tom-/monobook.js - code to remove delete function accesskey...
196. User:TreyHarris/monobook.js - blank, was code to hide and show spoiler boxes(should be looked at)
197. User:Trilobite/monobook.js - Investigate!
198. User:TruBlu/monobook.js - blank, was version; contains an interesting bit to move the interlanguage links to the top. Should be investigated.
199. User:Tsca/monobook.js - bottom links
200. User:Unyounyo/monobook.js - links at the bottom
201. User:Urby2004/monobook.js - LivePreview
202. User:Waxpancake/monobook.js - betterhistory, 403 Forbidden
203. User:Wclark/monobook.js - redefines the ta array. Investigate.
204. User:Weft/monobook.js - Godmode-lite
205. User:Whitehorse1/monobook.js - blank, was a link to http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~chill1/betterhistory <- Should be investigated. Now 403 Forbiden
206. User:Xaosflux/monobook.js combination of many monobooks.
207. User:Yelhsa/monobook.js - LivePreview, only.
208. User:Zeimusu/monobook.js - Lupin's Popups, nosource()(adds a nosource tag to an image; should be added to /Scripts), /Scripts/addpurge(), /Scripts/replace(), uses morelinks function to load the above, LivePreview, KateLink()(adds a link to Kate's Editcounter to every page; should be added to /Scripts)
209. User:ZeroOne/monobook.js - LivePreview, only.
210. User:Zocky/monobook.js - links to various interesting things(listed above).
     • User:Zocky/PicturePopups.js - "Picture Popups for Wikipedia" - investigate!

standards.js

1. User:Lupin/standard.js