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Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 14

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

Danski454's code-link is this month's featured script

RealFakeKim's pageInfo • Guywan: InsertShortcuts • ConfirmLogout

Headbomb's Unreliable/Predatory Source Detector has been updated to include more sources

• Evad37's rater script is now on version 2.5. New features include:

1. No longer showing dropdowns for projects without ratings
2. Making use of Category:WikiProject banner templates not based on WPBannerMeta to detect templates
3. Automatically detecting Good Article, Featured Article, and Featured List status, and limiting ORES predictions to B-class

• An updated version of Twinkle was released. Features relating to the recently-enabled
  partial blocks include automatic lookup of pages and expanded options for block templates.
  See a full list of changes here
• For users of Enterprisey's easy-brfa script, the bug with transcluding new BRFAs has been resolved
• Guywan's RefCruncher has had minor updates

Miscellaneous

• For any scripts that previously made use of the edit API to change a page's content model,
  a new API module is available: use action=changecontentmodel to specify the new
  content model of an existing page. Documentation is available: mw:API:ChangeContentModel.
• The dispute resolution noticeboard wizard is no longer a gadget, but rather is loaded using
  withJS and withCSS. See the discussion at MediaWiki talk:Gadget-DRN-wizard.js

Pending requests

• A script to help file movers process requests, including
  1. renaming the file
  2. updating file links
  3. removing the {{Rename media}} template (when relevant)
• ...and many more, all available at Wikipedia:User scripts/Requests

Stay safe, --DannyS712 (talk) 05:48, 1 April 2020 (UTC)

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