Commons:User scripts

[update]

MediaWiki: 1.23wmf16 (e902103)
jQuery: 1.8.3 / UI: 1.8.24

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.

We have a 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

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.
• A slideshow-framework using templates and script like Image Annotator or {{ImageStack}} with customizable caption-boxes, slide-effects, drag&slide, preview thumb-bar, ...
• A script to close undeletion requests like closing deletion requests with MediaWiki:Gadget-DelReqHandler.js (maybe inside delreqhandler)
• Integrate code for VIC and FPC nomination in MediaWiki:Gadget-QInominator.js.
• An autotranslate-template creation wizard
• 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
• A tool to visually explore Flickr-Images from streams/sets/… before uploading and allowing to unselect some of them by given criteria

Scripts without il8n

• Category:User scripts needing internationalisation

Broken scripts

• MediaWiki talk:Gadget-massblock.js — will be removed soon. No maintainer.

Other

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

Under construction

• Improve: Gallery-like mass-changing script User:Rillke/AjaxMassDelete.js
• Improve: Gallery of uploads MediaWiki:JSONListUploads.js
• Improve: ZooFaris licensereviewer.js (switch to API, ease the process)

General Talk

→ /talk

Tech News: 2014-11

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. [[m:Special:MyLanguage/{{subst:PAGENAME}}|Translations]] are available.

Recent software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.23wmf17) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on March 6. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on March 11, and all Wikipedia wikis on March 13 (calendar).
• You can now use the new search tool (CirrusSearch) on all Wikiquote projects. You can now enable it in your Beta options. [1] [2]

VisualEditor news

• It is now easier to edit templates. Complex tools are now in the "advanced" mode. [3] [4]
• It is also easier to edit images. You now have more options and they are explained better. [5]
• VisualEditor adds fake blank lines so you can put your cursor there. They are now smaller and animated to be different from actual blank lines. [6]
• We have improved the tool to add special characters. The buttons are now larger. More changes are coming. [7]
• You can now use new keyboard shortcuts to undo the last action, clear formatting, and show the shortcut help window. [8] [9] [10]

Future software changes

• You will soon be able to use a Beta option to show a shorter list of language links. That way, Universal Language Selector will only show languages that are relevant to you. You will still be able to search for other languages. [11]
• CirrusSearch will soon automatically index newly imported pages. [12] [13]
• It will soon be possible to use CSS to style buttons in templates on all Wikimedia wikis, without needing JavaScript. [14]
• An IRC discussion with the Wikimedia Foundation Language Engineering team will take place on March 12 at 17:00 UTC on the channel #wikimedia-office on Freenode (time conversion). [15]

Tech news prepared by tech ambassadors and posted by MediaWiki message delivery • Contribute • [[m:Special:MyLanguage/{{subst:PAGENAME}}|Translate]] • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

09:10, 10 March 2014 (UTC)

Users with script experience that may help

• User:DieBuche
• User:Dschwen
• Helder
• User:Ilmari Karonen
• User:Krinkle
• User:Lupo
• User:Magnus Manske
• User:Rillke

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

• Use MediaWiki:Gadgetprototype.js for new gadgets.
• jslint - JavaScript Code Quality Tool
• jshint - 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