News and updates associated with user scripts from the past month (March 2020).
Hello everyone and welcome to the 14th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:
Scripts Submit your new/improved script here
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Stay safe, -- DannyS712 ( talk) 05:48, 1 April 2020 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2020).
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Arbcom RfC regarding on-wiki harassment. A draft RfC has been posted at Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Anti-harassment RfC (Draft) and not open to comments from the community yet. Interested editors can comment on the RfC itself on its talk page.
News and updates associated with user scripts from the past month (April 2020).
Hello everyone and welcome to the 15th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:
Scripts Submit your new/improved script here
|
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Morebits.date
class to replace the moment library. It can handle custom formatting and natural language for dates, as well as section header regexes. If you were using getUTCMonthName
or getUTCMonthNameAbbrev
with Date
objects, those have been deprecated and should
be updated.Hope everyone stays safe. -- DannyS712 ( talk) 20:27, 1 May 2020 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2020).
News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2020).
News and updates associated with user scripts from the past two months (May and June 2020).
Hello everyone and welcome to the 16th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:
Scripts Submit your new/improved script here
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If anyone else would like to contribute to future issues, please comment at Wikipedia talk:Scripts++. -- DannyS712 ( talk) 20:13, 30 June 2020 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2020).
RfC regarding on-wiki harassment. The RfC has been posted at Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Anti-harassment RfC and is open to comments from the community.
all discussions about pharmaceutical drug prices and pricing and for edits adding, changing, or removing pharmaceutical drug prices or pricing from articles.
News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2020).
News and updates associated with user scripts from the past two months (July and August 2020).
Hello everyone and welcome to the 17th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:
Scripts Submit your new/improved script here
|
Stay safe -- DannyS712 ( talk) 19:42, 31 August 2020 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2020).
mustor
shoulduse the articles for creation process.
News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2020).
1) if the result of a deletion discussion is to draftify; or 2) if the article is newly created.
News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2020).
Interface administrator changes
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any article on a beauty pageant, or biography of a person known as a beauty pageant contestant, which has been edited by a sockpuppet account or logged-out sockpuppet, to be logged at WP:GS/PAGEANT.
standard discretionary sanctions are authorized for all edits about, and all pages related to post-1932 politics of the United States and closely related people.( American Politics 2 Arbitration case).
News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2020).
Interface administrator changes
News and updates associated with user scripts from the past three months (September, October, and November 2020).
Hello everyone and welcome to the 18th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:
Scripts Submit your new/improved script here
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window.scriptInstallerInstallTarget
to allow controlling where new scripts are to be installed.My apologies for the delayed issue. As always, if anyone else would like to contribute, help is appreciated. Stay safe, -- DannyS712 ( talk) 18:20, 1 December 2020 (UTC)
News and updates associated with user scripts from the past month (December 2020).
Hello everyone and welcome to the 19th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:
Scripts Submit your new/improved script here
|
As always, if anyone else would like to contribute, help is appreciated. Stay safe, and happy holidays! -- DannyS712 ( talk) 00:19, 18 December 2020 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2020).
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for all pages relating to the Horn of Africa (defined as including Ethiopia, Somalia, Eritrea, Djibouti, and adjoining areas if involved in related disputes). The effectiveness of the discretionary sanctions can be evaluated on the request by any editor after March 1, 2021 (or sooner if for a good reason).
News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2021).
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post-1992 politics of United States and closely related people, replacing the 1932 cutoff.
News and updates associated with user scripts from the past month (January 2021).
Hello everyone and welcome to the 20th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:
Scripts Submit your new/improved script here
|
wgPageName
without first assigning it a value or using mw.config.get('wgPageName')
instead) are deprecated. If your user scripts make use of the globals, please update them to use mw.config
instead. Some
global interface editors or local
interface administrators may edit your user script to make these changes if you don't. See
phab:T72470 for more.As always, if anyone else would like to contribute, including nominating a featured script, help is appreciated. Stay safe, and happy new year! -- DannyS712 ( talk) 01:17, 3 February 2021 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2021).
Interface administrator changes
delete-redirect
userright, which allows moving a page over a single-revision redirect, regardless of that redirect's target. The full proposal is at
Wikipedia:Page mover/delete-redirect.place the General sanctions/Coronavirus disease 2019 editnotice template on pages in scope that do not have page-specific sanctions?
authorized for all edits about, and all pages related to, any gender-related dispute or controversy and associated people.Sanctions issued under GamerGate are now considered Gender and sexuality sanctions.
the topics of Kurds and Kurdistan, broadly construed.
News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2021).
delete-redirect
userright, which allows moving a page over a single-revision redirect, regardless of that redirect's target.News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2021).
Interface administrator changes
oversight
will be renamed to suppress
. This is for
technical reasons. You can comment at
T112147 if you have objections.News and updates associated with user scripts from the past four months (February through May 2021).
Hello everyone and welcome to the 21st issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:
Scripts Submit your new/improved script here
|
My apologies for this long-overdue issue, and if I missed any scripts.
Hopefully going forward we can go back to monthly releases - any help would be appreciated. Thanks, --
DannyS712 (
talk)
13:04, 2 June 2021 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2021).
News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2021).
Interface administrator changes
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News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2021).
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News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2021).
News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2021).
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Interface administrator changes
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News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2021).
News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2021).
Hello everyone, and welcome to the 22nd issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter. This issue will be covering new and updated user scripts from the past seven months (June through December 2021).
Got anything good? Tell us about your new, improved, old, or messed-up script here!
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{{
cite book}}
inside a <ref>...</ref>
tag block into an {{
Sfn}}
.All in all, some very neat scripts were written in these last few months. Hoping to see many more in the next issue -- drop us a line on the talk page if you've been writing (or seeing) anything cool and good. Filling in for DannyS712, this has been jp× g. Take care, and merry Christmas! jp× g 07:30, 24 December 2021 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2021).
Interface administrator changes
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News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2022).
oversight
will be renamed suppress
in around 3 weeks. This will not affect the name shown to users and is simply a change in the technical name of the user group. The change is being made for
technical reasons. You can comment
in Phabricator if you have objections.News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2022).
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News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2022).
deletelogentry
and deletedhistory
rights. This means that those in the
Researcher user group and
Checkusers who are not administrators can now access
Special:RevisionDelete. The users able to view the special page after this change are the 3 users in the Researcher group, as there are currently no checkusers who are not already administrators. (
T301928)News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2022).
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News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2022).
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News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2022).
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Interface administrator changes
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user_global_editcount
is a new variable that can be used in
abuse filters to avoid affecting globally active users. (
T130439)News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2022).
News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2022).
News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2022).
News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2022).
{{
rangeblock|create=yes}}
or {{
uw-ublock|contains profanity}}
.News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2022).
/64
to the end of an IP in
Special:Contributions to see all of a subnet's edits, and
consider blocking the whole subnet rather than an IP that may change within a minute.News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2022).
News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2023).
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News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2023).
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[p]roposal for better addressing undisclosed paid editing. Feedback is being accepted until 24 April 2023.
News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2023).
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News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2023).
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News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2023).
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News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2023).
News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2023).
Interface administrator changes
News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2023).
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[s]ysops can choose to use revdel if, in their view, it's the right tool for this situation, and they need not default to oversight. But oversight could well be right where there's a particularly high risk to the person. Use your judgment.
local consensus which may or may not reflect the broader community consensus. Regular closers of XfD forums were also encouraged to
note when broader community discussion, or changes to policies and guidelines, would be helpful.
News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2023).
Interface administrator changes
News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2023).
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?
Got anything good? Tell us about your new, improved, old, or messed-up script here!
Due to budget and procrastination limitations, we've only had time to review the first ~39% of the scripts since last issue. Help us out here! Aaron Liu ( talk) 13:24, 29 December 2023 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2023).
News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2024).
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)
Got anything good? Tell us about your new, improved, old, or messed-up script here!
After earthly attempts at improving the original have failed...
Unfortunately, this section has remained nearly identical. Help us out here!
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!
MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 02:37, 1 March 2024 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2024).
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News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2024).
News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2024).
News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2024).
News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2024).
News and updates associated with user scripts from the past month (March 2020).
Hello everyone and welcome to the 14th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:
Scripts Submit your new/improved script here
|
|
Stay safe, -- DannyS712 ( talk) 05:48, 1 April 2020 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2020).
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Arbcom RfC regarding on-wiki harassment. A draft RfC has been posted at Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Anti-harassment RfC (Draft) and not open to comments from the community yet. Interested editors can comment on the RfC itself on its talk page.
News and updates associated with user scripts from the past month (April 2020).
Hello everyone and welcome to the 15th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:
Scripts Submit your new/improved script here
|
|
Morebits.date
class to replace the moment library. It can handle custom formatting and natural language for dates, as well as section header regexes. If you were using getUTCMonthName
or getUTCMonthNameAbbrev
with Date
objects, those have been deprecated and should
be updated.Hope everyone stays safe. -- DannyS712 ( talk) 20:27, 1 May 2020 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2020).
News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2020).
News and updates associated with user scripts from the past two months (May and June 2020).
Hello everyone and welcome to the 16th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:
Scripts Submit your new/improved script here
|
|
If anyone else would like to contribute to future issues, please comment at Wikipedia talk:Scripts++. -- DannyS712 ( talk) 20:13, 30 June 2020 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2020).
RfC regarding on-wiki harassment. The RfC has been posted at Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Anti-harassment RfC and is open to comments from the community.
all discussions about pharmaceutical drug prices and pricing and for edits adding, changing, or removing pharmaceutical drug prices or pricing from articles.
News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2020).
News and updates associated with user scripts from the past two months (July and August 2020).
Hello everyone and welcome to the 17th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:
Scripts Submit your new/improved script here
|
Stay safe -- DannyS712 ( talk) 19:42, 31 August 2020 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2020).
mustor
shoulduse the articles for creation process.
News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2020).
1) if the result of a deletion discussion is to draftify; or 2) if the article is newly created.
News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2020).
Interface administrator changes
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|
any article on a beauty pageant, or biography of a person known as a beauty pageant contestant, which has been edited by a sockpuppet account or logged-out sockpuppet, to be logged at WP:GS/PAGEANT.
standard discretionary sanctions are authorized for all edits about, and all pages related to post-1932 politics of the United States and closely related people.( American Politics 2 Arbitration case).
News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2020).
Interface administrator changes
News and updates associated with user scripts from the past three months (September, October, and November 2020).
Hello everyone and welcome to the 18th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:
Scripts Submit your new/improved script here
|
|
window.scriptInstallerInstallTarget
to allow controlling where new scripts are to be installed.My apologies for the delayed issue. As always, if anyone else would like to contribute, help is appreciated. Stay safe, -- DannyS712 ( talk) 18:20, 1 December 2020 (UTC)
News and updates associated with user scripts from the past month (December 2020).
Hello everyone and welcome to the 19th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:
Scripts Submit your new/improved script here
|
As always, if anyone else would like to contribute, help is appreciated. Stay safe, and happy holidays! -- DannyS712 ( talk) 00:19, 18 December 2020 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2020).
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for all pages relating to the Horn of Africa (defined as including Ethiopia, Somalia, Eritrea, Djibouti, and adjoining areas if involved in related disputes). The effectiveness of the discretionary sanctions can be evaluated on the request by any editor after March 1, 2021 (or sooner if for a good reason).
News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2021).
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post-1992 politics of United States and closely related people, replacing the 1932 cutoff.
News and updates associated with user scripts from the past month (January 2021).
Hello everyone and welcome to the 20th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:
Scripts Submit your new/improved script here
|
wgPageName
without first assigning it a value or using mw.config.get('wgPageName')
instead) are deprecated. If your user scripts make use of the globals, please update them to use mw.config
instead. Some
global interface editors or local
interface administrators may edit your user script to make these changes if you don't. See
phab:T72470 for more.As always, if anyone else would like to contribute, including nominating a featured script, help is appreciated. Stay safe, and happy new year! -- DannyS712 ( talk) 01:17, 3 February 2021 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2021).
Interface administrator changes
delete-redirect
userright, which allows moving a page over a single-revision redirect, regardless of that redirect's target. The full proposal is at
Wikipedia:Page mover/delete-redirect.place the General sanctions/Coronavirus disease 2019 editnotice template on pages in scope that do not have page-specific sanctions?
authorized for all edits about, and all pages related to, any gender-related dispute or controversy and associated people.Sanctions issued under GamerGate are now considered Gender and sexuality sanctions.
the topics of Kurds and Kurdistan, broadly construed.
News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2021).
delete-redirect
userright, which allows moving a page over a single-revision redirect, regardless of that redirect's target.News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2021).
Interface administrator changes
oversight
will be renamed to suppress
. This is for
technical reasons. You can comment at
T112147 if you have objections.News and updates associated with user scripts from the past four months (February through May 2021).
Hello everyone and welcome to the 21st issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:
Scripts Submit your new/improved script here
|
My apologies for this long-overdue issue, and if I missed any scripts.
Hopefully going forward we can go back to monthly releases - any help would be appreciated. Thanks, --
DannyS712 (
talk)
13:04, 2 June 2021 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2021).
News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2021).
Interface administrator changes
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News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2021).
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News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2021).
News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2021).
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Interface administrator changes
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News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2021).
News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2021).
Hello everyone, and welcome to the 22nd issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter. This issue will be covering new and updated user scripts from the past seven months (June through December 2021).
Got anything good? Tell us about your new, improved, old, or messed-up script here!
|
|
{{
cite book}}
inside a <ref>...</ref>
tag block into an {{
Sfn}}
.All in all, some very neat scripts were written in these last few months. Hoping to see many more in the next issue -- drop us a line on the talk page if you've been writing (or seeing) anything cool and good. Filling in for DannyS712, this has been jp× g. Take care, and merry Christmas! jp× g 07:30, 24 December 2021 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2021).
Interface administrator changes
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|
News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2022).
oversight
will be renamed suppress
in around 3 weeks. This will not affect the name shown to users and is simply a change in the technical name of the user group. The change is being made for
technical reasons. You can comment
in Phabricator if you have objections.News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2022).
|
|
News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2022).
deletelogentry
and deletedhistory
rights. This means that those in the
Researcher user group and
Checkusers who are not administrators can now access
Special:RevisionDelete. The users able to view the special page after this change are the 3 users in the Researcher group, as there are currently no checkusers who are not already administrators. (
T301928)News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2022).
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News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2022).
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News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2022).
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Interface administrator changes
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user_global_editcount
is a new variable that can be used in
abuse filters to avoid affecting globally active users. (
T130439)News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2022).
News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2022).
News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2022).
News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2022).
{{
rangeblock|create=yes}}
or {{
uw-ublock|contains profanity}}
.News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2022).
/64
to the end of an IP in
Special:Contributions to see all of a subnet's edits, and
consider blocking the whole subnet rather than an IP that may change within a minute.News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2022).
News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2023).
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News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2023).
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[p]roposal for better addressing undisclosed paid editing. Feedback is being accepted until 24 April 2023.
News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2023).
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News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2023).
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News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2023).
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News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2023).
News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2023).
Interface administrator changes
News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2023).
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[s]ysops can choose to use revdel if, in their view, it's the right tool for this situation, and they need not default to oversight. But oversight could well be right where there's a particularly high risk to the person. Use your judgment.
local consensus which may or may not reflect the broader community consensus. Regular closers of XfD forums were also encouraged to
note when broader community discussion, or changes to policies and guidelines, would be helpful.
News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2023).
Interface administrator changes
News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2023).
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?
Got anything good? Tell us about your new, improved, old, or messed-up script here!
Due to budget and procrastination limitations, we've only had time to review the first ~39% of the scripts since last issue. Help us out here! Aaron Liu ( talk) 13:24, 29 December 2023 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2023).
News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2024).
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)
Got anything good? Tell us about your new, improved, old, or messed-up script here!
After earthly attempts at improving the original have failed...
Unfortunately, this section has remained nearly identical. Help us out here!
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!
MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 02:37, 1 March 2024 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2024).
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News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2024).
News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2024).
News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2024).
News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2024).