User:Invitatious/scripts

I occasionally write some JavaScript code. The unsigned changes script was my first script I wrote for Wikipedia, on June 6, 2006.

Unsigned comments script

IMPORTANT — READ THE FOLLOWING BEFORE USING: A script to automatically mark unsigned comments on talk pages. To use, edit the talk page. Click after the unsigned comment, then click the "unsigned2" tab at the top. The script will query Wikipedia for the last 16 users that edited the page the time they edited, and the summary. It will ask you for a single hexadecimal digit corresponding to the edit. Then, it will add this information to the talk page in the form of Template:Unsigned2 at the current cursor position. As this is a semi-automated tool, all changes are the responsibility of the editor. To install, add the code to your monobook.js (I have not tested this with any other skin). All necessary helper functions have already been included. NOTE: If the area below the toolbox turns a metal blue color, the script is using an IE workaround, created by Olliminatore, who has a German Wikipedia version of this script on his German user page. My copy of IE 6 on Windows XP SP2 does not need the workaround, but his does.

Quick installation

Copy the code below into monobook.js.

{{subst:User:Invitatious/US2.js}}

Administrators

To make sure this script is not harmful, check the JavaScript file linked to below, and if you are confident this will not cause harm, copy and paste that code into your monobook.js. Do not use the quick installation above for security reasons. This does not just apply to my script, it applies to all.

Localization

To localize for another language Wikipedia, edit the all the marked localizable strings sections in the file User:Invitatious/unsigned2.js to match that language and unsigned comment template. Put it on a user sub-page on that Wikipedia, along with a description and instructions for installing and using it.

IDEA: make this into a bot

Continuously, the bot would scan the Recent Changes for edits to Talk pages, AfD, etc. The bot will scan these edits for unsigned comments (TODO: How to recognize a signature). For each edit with an unsigned comment, it will add it to a queue to be marked. Every minute, an edit from the queue will be marked with the edit's user and timestamp. Then, when the edit is done, the user will be reminded (if the user is new, and has not been reminded before) to "Sign their posts on talk pages" using Template:Sign1 for accounts and Template:Sign2 for IPs.

Watchlist to wikitext

See my annotated watchlist for the script and a brief description of how to use it. Maybe I'll make this one-liner into something more elegant.

IDEA: add this to MediaWiki

Allow shared watchlists, and the ability to color/initial-code and show on Special:Watchlist.

NEW: Highlight your comments

Main article: /highlightsig

Using a modified signature, CSS, and JavaScript, you can highlight your comments (or at least the last paragraphs of them).

More scripts coming soon

I will probably write some more scripts.