This "User scripts" report covers material listed at
Wikipedia:User scripts from 1 January to 31 July 2016. Text may be adapted from the respective listings there; see the page's history for attribution.
User scripts allow registered users to customise almost any aspect of the Wikipedia interface. They can enhance the reading experience, assist with editing, or provide other functionality, supplementing the choices already available in
Special:Preferences. See
Wikipedia:User scripts for further information, including instructions.
Reading
"Link Redirect Title" links the title if you've come from a redirect
Serendipity[1] (
source) by
User:Mxn – Inserts alphabetically adjacent article content to distract you the way traditional print encyclopedias used to. Also disables newfangled hypertext features.
Link Redirect Title[2] (
source) by
User:Fred Gandt – Modifies the title heading of any redirect destination page, creating a link to the proper destination. Created for and only tested with the Vector skin.
Client-side MathJax[3] (
source) by
User:Esquivalience – Enables
MathJax rendering of mathematical notation within <math> tags. Preferences -> Appearance -> Math must be set to "LaTeX source". Fast once cached in your browser.
Page views graph for
Wikipedia article generated by "View statistics"
Section Footers[4] (
source) by
User:Fred Gandt – Adds subtle clones of all section headings (including [ ] links) to the end of their respective sections; allows section editing from the bottom of all sections (reported to be glitchy)
QuickLinks[7] (
source) by
User:Music1201 – Adds links to the toolbar for the following pages: Articles for deletion, Pending changes, New pages, and Random AFC.
"responsiveHistoryCompare" in action on a history page
responsiveHistoryCompare[9] (
source) by
User:Fred Gandt – Dynamically moves Compare selected revisions buttons next to the selected revisions on action=history pages.
Close XfD[10] (
source) by
User:Czar – Adds the latest semi-automated closure tools for XfD discussions, accessible either in-line or via a tab at the top of standalone XfD discussion pages
The
RevisionSlider beta feature can now be tested on mediawiki.org, German Wikipedia, Arabic Wikipedia and Hebrew Wikipedia.
Problems
Renamed users on some wikis were not connected to their account on other wikis between 20 July and 21 July. This has been fixed.
[2]
Changes this week
The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 August. It will be on all wikis from 4 August (
calendar).
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