Commons:User scripts

[update]

MediaWiki: 1.33.0-wmf.6 (e7d6fb2)
jQuery: 1.11.3 / UI: 1.9.2

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Hi, interested in scripting? We need help, so do not hesitate to ask what you can do. We recommend start testing in your user-namespace (new users see basic instructions here).

We have a JavaScript styleguide, but it is a guide, not a policy. Nevertheless, consider reading the MediaWiki manual.

TO-DO

• Clarify the copyright situation of user-scripts.
• standardize scripts’ i18n methods → Gadgets 2.0 (mw.msg; example; explanation)
• Search & Detecting security vulnerable
• (urgent) Fix script affected by changes in the default continuation

To create

These are just suggestions. Feel free to comment in the talk-section.

• A script to get a formatted list of uploads, category-members, …
• A plugin to install scripts loaded with &withJS= – URL parameter to the user’s common or skin.js
• A script-installer which is invokable by a template (URL-params maybe) with a step-by-step wizard (done for gadgets → Template:ActivateGadget)
• A global-user-page and settings wizard allowing to create and update the userpage on several wikis.  Done
• A slideshow-framework using templates and script like Image Annotator or {{ImageStack}} with customizable caption-boxes, slide-effects, drag&slide, preview thumb-bar, …
• Integrate code for VIC and FPC nomination in MediaWiki:Gadget-QInominator.js.
• An autotranslate-template creation wizard  Done, see AutotranslateHelper — 0x010C ^~talk~ 09:40, 4 April 2017 (UTC)
• Refractor MediaWiki:Gadget-LanguageSelect.js: Multiple language-preferences, showing a (+) like HotCat allowing to add a translation (create an input on-the-fly) to push i18n forward
• Script to show 1-3 file examples in parent categories from their child categories (Special:Permalink/84246834#Galleries in Categories)
• Rewrite DerivativeFX as a JavaScript application meta:WMDE Technical Wishes/Move files to Commons ^phab:T190716
• A tool to visually explore Flickr-Images from streams/sets/… before uploading and allowing to unselect some of them by given criteria
• A script to allow admins to close undeletion requests like closing deletion requests with MediaWiki:Gadget-DelReqHandler.js (maybe inside delreqhandler)  Done here by Perhelion

Scripts without il8n

• Category:User scripts needing internationalisation

Other

• MediaWiki:Gadget-ChooseResolution.js, MediaWiki:Gadget-dictionaryLookupHover.js not installed as a gadget
• MediaWiki:Gadget-Tag.js – ? not installed

Under construction

• Improve: Gallery-like mass-changing script Help:VisualFileChange.js (former User:Rillke/AjaxMassDelete.js)
• Improve: Gallery of uploads Commons:Gallery tool (wrapper for MediaWiki:JSONListUploads.js)
• Improve: licensereviewer.js (switch to API, ease the process)
• Waiting for clearance: Common SVG Checker MediaWiki:CommonsSvgChecker.js and Commons:Commons SVG Checker as UI (former Commons:SVG Check)

General Talk

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Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 December. It will be on all wikis from 13 December (calendar).

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• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 12 December at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• New accounts will need passwords that are at least 8 characters long. Admins, interface admins, bureaucrats, oversighters, CentralNotice admins, global renamers, check users, stewards and some other user groups will need passwords that are at least 10 characters long. This is because an attacker could cause damage to the wikis if they took over these accounts. [1][2]
• When you hover over a footnote it will show you the reference as a pop-up. This is so you don't have to jump down to the bottom of the page to see a reference. This will happen in 2019. Some wikis already have gadgets that do this. You will be able to turn it off. [3]

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17:33, 10 December 2018 (UTC)

Users with script experience that may help

This user develops user scripts;

{{User script developer}}

• User:DieBuche (maybe inactive)
• User:Dschwen
• User:Helder
• User:Ilmari Karonen
• User:Krinkle (WMF)
• User:Lupo
• User:Magnus Manske (WMF)
• User:Rillke
• User:Perhelion
• User:Zhuyifei1999

→ See also: Category:Commons JavaScript coders

See also

Learning

• Wikibooks (de, en)
• mw:ResourceLoader/Default modules
• jQuery – code less, do more
• Usability drafts by Guillaume Paumier

Testing

You can test any script by running it from your console or put the code in a Special:MyPage/test.js and hit “preview”.

• jsfiddle.net – Edit css, JavaScript, HTML and run it (big sandbox)
• Testing with different IE versions (Windows) (IETester: For slow machines) (Expression Web SuperPreview: For mordern machines)
• &withJS functionality: Commons has per-page JavaScript functionality, via this code being included in MediaWiki:Common.js. Try a random imagefile with MediaWiki:VisualFileChange.js.
• Testing the API

Validating and styling

• Commons:User scripts/reports
• Use MediaWiki:Gadgetprototype.js for new gadgets.
• ESLint – JavaScript Code Quality Tool (former jshint)
• jslint – another JavaScript Code Quality Tool
• jsbeautifier – Indenting and formatting your script – also on Commons:
• Commons Beautifier: escape unsafe characters and beautify the source code
• compactor- or just search yourself

Tools

• Firebug – necessary if you use Firefox
• {{Scriptuse}}

Troubleshooting

• Commons Diagnostic: Let affected users make the test
• &debug=true – URL parameter to get un-minified code
• Debug AJAX requests (using mockjax) github doc

Commons

• Commons:Gadget