Wikipedia:Citation Watchlist

Citation Watchlist

Description	User script that adds visual indicators when a diff includes the addition of a URL from a questionable source
Author(s)	Harej, Ocaasi
First released	April 23, 2024 (2024-04-23)
Updated	April 23, 2024 (2024-04-23)
Source	Dev: testwiki:User:Harej/citation-watchlist.js

The Citation Watchlist is a user script that adds visual indicators to watchlist and recent changes entries when unreliable sources are added to articles. Indicators, including ❗ for warnings (more severe) and ✋ for cautions (less severe), appear only on the addition of unreliable URLs – not URLs that are already in the article. This makes the Citation Watchlist an efficient tool for analyzing individual edits for unreliable sources.

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Known limitations

• Bugs
  • If you refresh the watchlist via the "new changes" button, the script does not re-run. Actually, it overwrites over the annotations the script makes. You need to manually refresh your watchlist for the new highlights to show up.
• Limitations
  • The diffs are checked one at a time, which is slow if you have a lot of pages on your watchlist (or especially recent changes).
• Unsupported features
  • Subdomains of the same domain. For example, a link to "chicago.news.com" would not match against "news.com".
    • However, "www.news.com" would match against "news.com" as the script is explicitly written to do so.
  • Likewise, you could not have differentiated outcomes within the same domain. "news.com/news/" and "news.com/opinion/" would be considered the same source.
  • Supports additional lists, but there is no option to toggle between lists; everyone gets every list.
  • Does not support sources that are not identified by domain name, such as books or journal articles.
• Intentional product decisions
  • Does not highlight the addition of "good" sources. This would create unnecessary visual clutter; the goal is to make it easier to highlight the addition of sources considered unreliable.