User:Tizio/Tools and tricks

Parameters

Actions in Wiki.php

• &action=edit&wpPreview=true&live=true

  gives only the preview of the content; for example:

  curl ".../w/index.php?title=Whatever&action=edit&wpPreview=true&live=true" -F "wpTextbox1={{CURRENTTIMESTAMP}}"

  gives the current timestamp (works also for action=submit)

• &title=Special:Export&pages=Whatever (MW:Parameters_to_Special:Export)
  • &offset=timestamp

    give revisions from timestamp on; use the last timestamp of the result of an export to get the next page of revisions

  • &limit=x

    gives x revision from timestamp on (max 100)

• &action=raw
  • &templates=expand

    the raw page with templates already expanded

  • &oldid=20694244

    raw version for an old revision

  • &direction=next, &direction=prev, &direction=cur

    gives the revision preceeding or following the specified one, or the last version

  • &gen=css, &gen=js

    for css and js

• &action=render

  rendering of the page in html, but without buttons, toolbox, etc.

BibTeX

User:Paolo Liberatore/Bibtex is a script for converting BibTeX citations into wiki format; actually, it should convert into journal, conference, etc template, but currently does not

Javscript

The bookmark selector and the section 0 edit link.

My javascript file does the following:

1. adds a bookmark selector between the preferences and the watchlist (the list of bookmarks has to included in the program itself)
2. adds the text "WP:CSD" at the beginning of the "reason for delete" field
3. adds an "edit section 0", similar to the other section edit links
4. adds "purge" to the toolbox