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User script report (January–July 2016, part 2)


This "User scripts" report (along with part 1) covers scripts newly listed at Wikipedia:User scripts, January 1 – July 31, 2016.
Text may be adapted from the respective listings there; see the page's history for attribution.

"FloatingTOC" places a duplicate Table of Contents in the bottom corner of the screen

Editing

"CopySectionLink" makes it easy to grab a link to a page section

Others

You wont be accidentally logged out if you use "Confirm Logout"

Installation code

  1. ^ Copy the following code, click here, then paste:
    {{subst:iusc|1=User:Thespaceface/MetricFirst.js}}
  2. ^ Copy the following code, click here, then paste:
    {{subst:iusc|1=User:Fred_Gandt/subdueLinks.js}}
  3. ^ Copy the following code, click here, then paste:
    {{subst:iusc|1=User:P999/Toggle VF.js}}
  4. ^ Copy the following code, click here, then paste:
    {{subst:iusc|1=User:Ugog Nizdast/FloatingTOC.js}}
  5. ^ Create your custom GeoHack page here; then copy the following code, click here, and paste:
    {{subst:iusc|1=User:Evad37/Custom GeoHack replacement.js}}
  6. ^ Copy the following code, click here, then paste:
    {{subst:iusc|1=User:Ugog Nizdast/displayNumberOfTags.js}}
  7. ^ Copy the following code, click here, then paste:
    {{subst:iusc|1=User:Bility/copySectionLink.js}}
  8. ^ Copy the following code, click here, then paste: mw.loader.load('//meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Perhelion/signing.js&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript');
  9. ^ Copy the following code, click here, then paste:
    {{subst:iusc|1=User:APerson/sync-template-sandbox.js}}
  10. ^ Copy the following code, click here, then paste:
    {{subst:iusc|1=User:Music1201/MyCSD.js}}
  11. ^ Copy the following code, click here, then paste:
    {{subst:iusc|1=User:Evad37/WikidataWatchlistLabels.js}}
  12. ^ Copy the following code, click here, then paste:
    {{subst:iusc|1=User:Evad37/ToDoLister.js}}
  13. ^ Copy the following code, click here, then paste:
    {{subst:iusc|1=User:Fred_Gandt/confirmLogout.js}}

In brief

New gadgets

  • Scripts which have been widely tested may be made into gadgets, which registered users can easily enable or disable through Special:Preferences § Gadgets. Two new gadgets have recently been added to English Wikipedia: "Display links to disambiguation pages in orange" (DisambiguationLinks) and "Strike out usernames that have been blocked" (markblocked).

Newly approved bot tasks

  • Josvebot (task 13) – Fixes some of the WP:CHECKWIKI-errors automatically
  • BU RoBOT (task 25) – Categorizes stub articles in more detailed stub categories based on existing categorization
  • Yobot (task 26) – Fixes section header naming for References, External links, and See also