Steve Bennett wrote:
On 03/05/06, Alphax (Wikipedia email)
<alphasigmax(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Oh yes, there's
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_User_scripts on en:
which has a heap of these sort of things (somewhere). I've crosslinked them.
It would be cool if there was a simple way where a user could click to
include all these functionalities. They're quite modular, and often
don't conflict with each other. So wouldn't it be nice if you could
just click to include some code, rather than copy-pasting. Personally,
I find after about 3-4 functions included, my monobook.js is totally
out of control. Or maybe it's possible to {transclude} subpages to
make it tidier?
There's [[Template:Js]], which unfortunately is rather underpublicized.
You use it by adding {{subst:js|Script to include}} to your
monobook.js; it expands to the code posted by Pete Bartlett. You may
also want to look at my own monobook.js for a slightly more compact
solution:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ilmari_Karonen/monobook.js
Of course, you probably shouldn't include the unprotected versions at
[[Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts]] directly. I've been thinking for
a while that the project ought to provide "stable" protected versions of
each script for ease of inclusion.
One possibility might be to register a dummy user account, such as
User:Scripts, for this purpose, and maintain the stable versions as js
subpages of that user. Besides providing shorter page names, that would
guarantee that the stable versions are always protected.
I think I'll propose something like this at [[Wikipedia talk:WikiProject
User scripts]]. Of course, any such stable version system requires
admins to promptly merge in any valid changes, but it seems to me that
there are enough active admins on that project to make this feasible.
There probably also ought to be an easy way for users to list their
personal forks of each script.
I think I'll sleep on it, and write up a proposal tomorrow.
--
Ilmari Karonen