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Hi - anyone else has problems with their scripts that make external requests due to updated CSP policy? Alaexis_¿question? 10:22, 6 March 2026 (UTC)Reply

@Alaexis: Have you read through Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)#Today's outage — user scripts are disabled? That's where most discussion is occurring. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 11:44, 6 March 2026 (UTC)Reply

Thanks! Will follow the discussion there. Alaexis_¿question? 12:07, 6 March 2026 (UTC)Reply

Hi all, I created a github action to scrape a user script's talk page every day and open issues on Github if feature requests or bug reports have been found. @ClaudineChionh thought that this might be useful for other script-builders, so feel free to re-use it [1] (it uses scrape_and_create.py where you need to specify for which script it should run). The tracker looks like this [2]. It's been running a few days and seems to work well. Alaexis_¿question? 13:38, 10 April 2026 (UTC)Reply

Are the titles and descriptions rewritten w/ AI? I'd prefer it included the original issue description (or at least a permalink to the relevant section). — DVRTed (Talk) 13:49, 10 April 2026 (UTC)Reply

Links to sections is a great idea, I've added them. For now they are not *permalinks* as that would change the script logic a bit: now the script relies only on the latest talk page contents while providing permalinks would require some work with revisions (is there an easier way?).

The descriptions are written by AI. The main puproses of the tool is to distill and deduplicate feature requests/bug reports from unstructured conversations, I don't think it can be done without AI. Alaexis_¿question? 21:19, 10 April 2026 (UTC)Reply

In Special:Diff/1351902364, I've created a new subsection Wikipedia:User scripts/List#Site-wide shortcuts for the scripts, which seem to qualify the last sentence of the description of section § Appearance and behavior: Scripts that do nothing other than add a link to a menu, panel, or toolbar are in § Shortcuts.

I'm not sure about some of them, like #User:Sapphaline/skinswitcherportlet.js, which technically creates a whole new panel of portlet links. Or #User:Novem Linguae/Scripts/VisualEditorEverywhere.js, which also adds links to section headers, which some might consider to not fall into the categories of a menu, panel, or toolbar.

Let me know what you think about the new subsection. —⁠andrybak (talk) 21:16, 30 April 2026 (UTC)Reply

 You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Village pump (technical) § Upcoming migration to Parsoid. , with instruction for its migration next week MSantos (WMF) (talk) 09:34, 18 June 2026 (UTC)Reply