User:Jonesey95/Tools

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  Cite rowlett}} - Fix error cat to not create a URL-wikilink error: Rowlett, Russ. "Lighthouses of Norway: Vadsø Area". The Lighthouse Directory. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  . Retrieved February 24, 2016.

Tool to generate Cite journal template from a DOI

{{cite jstor|1514012}}

can be substituted using:

{{safesubst:#tag:ref|{{subst:cite doi/10.2307.2F1514012}}}}

{{DISPLAYTITLE:List of ''The Kingdom Keepers'' characters}} at the top of the article

On the Special page you just need to enter the mailing-list page, a header and the wikitext of the message itself. Add four tildes to the end of the message and you're good to go.

December 2020 [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors|Guild of Copy Editors]] Newsletter

https://r12a.github.io/app-conversion/

str = str.replace(/{{\s*[cC]ite doi\|10\.2307\/(.+?(?=[\}]))/gi, '{{Cite journal|jstor=$1');
str = str.replace(/{{\s*[cC]ite doi\|(10\.\d+\/.+?(?=[\}]))/gi, '{{Cite journal|doi=$1');
str = str.replace(/{{\s*[cC]ite pmid\|(\d+?(?=[\}]))/gi, '{{Cite journal|pmid=$1');

Strip URL from external link:  \[http.+?(?= )(.+?(?=\]))\] (replace with $1)

Regex testing

{{oldid2}}

{{oldid2|123456789|SectionName|Description}}

{{oldid2|123456789|Description}}

Use {{Code}}.

Links to different projects and Wikipedias, and to external sites with special prefixes.

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Interwiki_linking#Prefixes

meta:Special:Interwiki

Discussion of the job queue from July 2014.

See also T69419 and T132467.

Special:WantedTemplates

Make a universal age template that handles births, deaths, and ages gracefully, even when some pieces are unknown. The current mishmash of templates is a giant mess. The first step would be reading the documentation and talk pages for the existing templates to create a spec for what a universal template could do. It would probably have to be written in Lua. – Jonesey95 (talk) 05:13, 31 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Regular expression

https://tools.wmflabs.org/copyvios/

Central banner notices are at m:CentralNotice/Request.

• T106685: insource searches do not work properly (Marked as Resolved because they display a timeout warning now. Not fixed.)
• T157152: Citoid adding extra "PMC" (Declined as not a bug, worked around in CS1)
• T10761: false positives in template transclusion reports due to faulty js file parsing
• T32758: exclude some namespaces from Special:WantedTemplates
• T132467: categorization takes days or months when templates or modules change
• T157670: categorization takes months or forever when MediaWiki code changes
• T160269: serif font for lead section "edit" link (Fixed)
• T133874: VisualEditor rearranges template parameters (Declined as not a bug)
• T161581 T162291: Visual Editor wraps ISBNs in nowiki tags
• T10681: Group watchlist changes across days
• T132308: Citoid is not yet even minimally intelligent about the citation dates it inserts.
• T174303: Citoid insert Special:BookSources link when ISBN is added
• T18036: Number of category members (PAGESINCATEGORY) is inaccurate for large categories
• T140606: Signatures are not checked for Linter errors (deployed mid-2020; includes flag for obsolete tags, not yet activated, waiting for consensus discussion here on en.WP) (talk page thread)
• T215999: Linter does not detect invalid "500px500px" as a bogus file option (Fixed, but the fix caused T276675, Linter false positive: image caption ending in "px" is incorrectly detected as a Linter error)
• T216003: Linter fails to detect multiple "upright" parameters as a Bogus file option
• T56140: Move TemplateData to its own JSON-content namespace
• T214984: PHP7's stricter JSON parsing breaks some wiki content (i.e. bad JSON was saved in the past using HHVM, and now if you try to edit a template that transcludes bad JSON, you will get an error even if you are not changing the JSON)

Tasks I am following.

Report on all WPs: https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikitext-deprecation/

You can add ?safemode=1 to the end of the URL on Wikimedia wikis to disable your personal

User:Caorongjin/wordcount

Help:Template#Problems_and_workarounds

Expand templates to see what the rendered wikicode (not the rendered HTML) looks like. Useful for testing sandbox code and comparing to the existing template code.

Special:ExpandTemplates

{{subst:ESp|xy}} (edit-protected, not done, change X to Y)

or a script to do this in a fancy way, according to Izno:

All the cool kids actually use User:Jackmcbarn/editProtectedHelper.js

Check citations for consistency (CS1, CS2, named, unnamed, templated, not templated) ref info / refinfo:

{{ref info|articlename|style=float:right}}

Topic bans, warnings, editing restrictions: Wikipedia:Editing_restrictions

Lest we forget.

Help:MediaWiki namespace

Site-wide CSS and JS, including mobile

MediaWiki:Common.css includes settings like navbox text = 88%

Special:Version

Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by number of edits

edit count rank

https://www.toptal.com/designers/htmlarrows/punctuation/left-bracket/

Also URL encoding UTF-8 codes: https://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_urlencode.ASP

https://jsonlint.com/

Fix JSON (sigh)

Add &veaction=edit to the edit page link.

mw:Editor

• the default MediaWiki editor from 2003, an HTML textarea
• the 2010 "Extension:WikiEditor", confusingly called "enable the editing toolbar" or "the 2010 wikitext editor"
• the 2017 wikitext editor (part of VisualEditor)
• VisualEditor

Put uselang=qqx in the query string. The ShowMessageNames gadget "Add a toolbox link to reload the current page with the system message names exposed" in Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-gadgets will add a link to the sidebar to automatically do so.

It's at meta:Interwiki map and changes are requested at its talk.

gutenberg: and more. Shortcuts/abbreviations to other wikis, wikidata, wikipedias, wiktionary, etc.

https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/users/my_library/

Access to JSTOR, ODNB, EBSCO, ProQuest, newspapers.com, Ancestry.com, and more.

• url=http without cite web

Other common cite template biffs reports

• cite book in plain text in article
• cite news in plain text in article
• cite web in plain text in article
• See also WCW error 47 and WCW error 43, templates without proper beginning or end (template code will show in the rendered article) (3,000+ articles on each as of December 2020, yikes!)
• See also WCW error 34, three or four braces instead of two.

mw:Help:Sorting

Wikipedia:Database reports/Page count by namespace

number of pages in each namespace; number of articles; number of templates

{{Cite palaeontology}}

See Template:Référence nécessaire.

Simpler: (Template:Edad)

<includeonly>{{Age|{{{1|}}}|{{{2|}}}|{{{3|}}}|{{{4|}}}|{{{5|}}}|{{{6|}}}}}</includeonly><noinclude>
{{documentation|content=
{{subst only|auto=y}}
This template assists with translating from Spanish to English by translating the Spanish [[:es:Template:Edad]] to the English [[Template:Age]].}}</noinclude>

And here's a good basic Template redirect to copy wikitext from:

Template:Ref-web

To see CS1 cite template auto-substitution, see {{Book cite}}

Like this

{{format footnotes}} for articles that use deprecated parenthetical referencing.

Upload an image to find HTML color values

https://imagecolorpicker.com/en

Nested ref tags do not work (with workarounds)

Bad faith accusations in response to a constructive process question about speedy deletion. Note to self: This is the at least the second time that defensive, reading-resistant admins have dragged me through the mud in response to an attempt to fix something that is clearly broken. Admins can be very territorial and possessive about "their" bailiwicks. – Jonesey95 (talk) 18:15, 4 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion and links to RFDs closed as "delete".

Tricks copied from VPT:

And of course there is always the workaround of Special:Relatedchanges: I use Special:Relatedchanges/User:Kusma/c to make sure edits to the articles I actually care about don't get lost in my (far too long and drama infested) watchlist. —Kusma (Кузьма · कुस्मा · 𐌺) 12:24, 27 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Twice in the last few days, you have made multiple edits to live templates that are transcluded in many pages, introducing breaking changes. I recently reverted erroneous edits at {{Flaglist}}, which happened after you broke {{UN population}}. For any but the simplest of edits, please make your edits to the template's sandbox, then use the template's testcases page to ensure that you have not broken anything, then explain your changes on the template's talk page. Feel free to ping me from a template talk page if you would like feedback on your proposed edits to a template sandbox. If there are no objections to your proposed changes, it is then appropriate to copy the sandbox code to the live template. Thanks.

From

I should write an essay.

• one reason (blank parameter ignored when the error is an extra pipe)

This fixed link-in-link errors.

Also fixed in non-Lua at {{Linescore}}.

Search results in template space for similar http string matching

{{replace}} can strip spaces: {{replace|09 7 61 000| |}} → 09761000

1. Revert the recent non-working edits to the live template, which is transcluded on 131 pages, in case you broke anything.
2. Create a sandbox version of the template.
3. Create and populate a testcases page.
4. Use Special:ExpandTemplates to figure out what the rendered version of the template's wikitext looks like.
5. Modify the sandbox and testcases page until you fix the problem or have a better idea of where the problem resides.
6. If necessary, repeat the previous two steps until you fix the problem or get stuck.
7. If you fix the problem, copy the sandbox code to the live template.
8. Post a note on the template's talk page asking for help.

Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion/Log/2020_July_12#Template:AFB_game_box_end

Template to close a table using wikitext or </table>. See also {{s-end}}.

OK to move userbox templates to User:UBX/xxyy.

In the template namespace, userbox names must begin with "User " (e.g. Template:User Brazil or Template:User en)

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:PageImages#Image_choice

Default page image in page information thumb thumbnail

Special:PoliticalParty

party color link abbrev shortname colour meta/color

Put image URL here: https://imagecolorpicker.com/

• page_links_updated by year, all namespaces
• page_links_updated by month, mainspace
• page_links_updated by date, mainspace

Query showing stale refreshlinks. Related to T157670 about pages not being refreshed and needing periodic null edits.

Figures are in thousands, so a page count reading "2942" is 2,942,000 pages.

Bot is operated by User talk:Wbm1058

Infobox template pages containing small tags

Infobox template pages containing small template

For the styles, you do this the style is the name of the module and the style2 is the table key in the name format in the Module:Adjacent stations/Istanbul Metro. if there is only one name format, you don't need the table (see Module:Adjacent stations/Sydney Metro). you can also get more fancy and use string.format like Module:Adjacent stations/Manila LRT which also keeps the colors in sync.

See Module:Adjacent stations/ÖBB and Module:Adjacent stations/Iarnród Éireann and Broombridge railway station for how to do branch lines.

How to set up a template to subst its parameters when converting it to another template.

This worked for {{

{{tooltip|1={{{2|}}}|2={{{1|}}}{{subst:<noinclude />#if: {{{link|}}}|{{subst:<noinclude />!}}link={{{link}}}}}{{subst:<noinclude />#if: {{{dotted|}}}|{{subst:<noinclude />!}}dotted={{{dotted}}}}}}}<noinclude>
{{documentation}}
</noinclude>

MediaWiki talk:Watchlist-messages

This works for History, Contributions, and Linter report pages.

Preferences > Recent changes > Number of edits to show in recent changes, page histories, and in logs, by default

[copied from Wikipedia talk:Database reports]

{{Database report}} template can now be used to set up one-off or periodically updating reports in userspace or project namespace, given an SQL query. The template doc lists the supported formatting options. Feel free to give it a try and let me know if you face any issues. – SD0001 (talk) 15:43, 28 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Module:Infobox mapframe

Help:Template#Problems_and_workarounds

c:Help:Purge

Add ?action=purge to the File URL

{{Terminate sentence}}: This template returns its first argument, after adding a full stop (or its second argument) if the sentence was not finished.

like this

or like this

{{Cite Q |Q15625490 |expand=yes}}

{{Database report}}

{{Plain text}}

{{Delink}}

• Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/VulpesBot - blanking stale IP talk pages

Module:Is infobox in lead to apply short description only if the infobox is in the lead (and a couple of other conditions)

• https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Featured_picture_candidates/Mexican_Wolf&oldid=204215959 (unclosed tag for 16 years turned the rest of the text blue)
• https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2000_Heineken_Cup_final&oldid=1206683145 (unclosed table broke formatting of following sections)
• https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Useful_idiot&oldid=1208211215#Origin (unclosed italics turned the rest of the section italic)
• https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:SniperSarge&oldid=1192919494#New_10,000_Challenge_for_Canada (unclosed table put the following sections inside a table instead of being their own sections)
• https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Requested_articles/Arts_and_entertainment/Visual_arts&oldid=1211377695 (unclosed div tag broke section header formatting, putting all subsequent sections into two columns)
• https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia%3AArticles_for_deletion%2FInsert_Disc_Two&diff=1219657864&oldid=1083195480 (unclosed b tag made the rest of the page bold)