User talk:TheJosh/Scripts/New Page Patroller

Suggestion

Not sure if this is the best place to put this or not, but hey! It would be useful if it could be combined with the new patrol option, so patrolled pages would not appear in the box. I am not sure how easy or hard it would be to implement, just an idea. Thank you. Tiddly-Tom 17:30, 1 December 2007 (UTC)

I have tried, but there is not the necessary api functionality available at the moment, and I am not going to screen-scrape the whole page. Don't worry, when the api becomes available, it will be implemented. --TheJosh 05:03, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

Thank you very much. Tiddly-Tom 10:05, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

I was just about to suggest the same thing. It will be exeedingly awsome. Do you know if they plan to adjust the API soon? Maybe you can request it at the bugzilla. Martijn Hoekstra (talk) 16:50, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

Perhaps. I guess, if people really want this thing I can screen-scrape the recent pages page rather than go through the API. It will increase the bandwidth though (a request to the api is about 530 bytes, wheres Special:Newpages is about 7 kb), and it will be slower because it needs more processing. If people want this then I will do it. --TheJosh (talk) 21:53, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

Ignore bots?

This is a great script, I've been using it for about two months now. Is there a way to ignore bot edits? There are a few approved bots which create redirect pages, and they show up, but I'd rather not see them. Thanks Yngvarr 14:23, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

Done --TheJosh (talk) 06:30, 22 December 2007 (UTC)

Thank you! Yngvarr 14:54, 24 December 2007 (UTC)

Ampersands

The script hates ampersands (i.e. &). If an ampersand is in the name of a new article, the script will display the full title of the new article. However, when you click on the article, you are redirected to a page whose title consists of all characters before the ampersand. The ampersand and all characters after are ignored. Redfarmer (talk) 18:23, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

Chick skin

This does not seem to work on the Chick skin, at least not with Epiphany (browser). --NerdyNSK (talk) 19:44, 12 September 2008 (UTC)

Did you install into chick.js instead of monobook.js? --TheJosh (talk) 04:02, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

Vector Skin Compatibility

I might suggest changing the main page out like I have done with:

importScript('User:RandomStringOfCharacters/Scripts/NewPagePatrol.js');

Using both your version and my Vector skin friendly edit to improve the script's skin compatibility.

I love this script, so thanks for writing it! RandomStringOfCharacters (talk) 06:16, 17 July 2009 (UTC)

What changes did you make to make the box compatible with the Vector skin?

Native support for the vector skin has been added!

5 min delay

The script now has a 5 minute delay applied to it which causes articles to only show up after they have existed for at least 5 minutes, to give authors a chance to fix them up a bit first.

Please report all bugs/suggestions/etc on this change by sending me a message. --TheJosh (talk) 02:59, 26 May 2010 (UTC)

Simple English version

Hi, TheJosh. Just to let you know, many editors edit on both the Simple English and normal English wiki. So, it might be good to create a Simple English version of the New Page Patroller. I am a violinist (talk) 12:24, 1 October 2010 (UTC)

Script disabled?

Hi. Why has this script suddenly dissappeared from my Wikipedia interface? It's been working perfectly for a long time now. On 11 Oct it suddenly stopped. I'm using /monobook.js on Safari 5.0.2 on Mac 10.6.4 regards, --Kudpung (talk) 02:55, 13 October 2010 (UTC)

Why don't you answer?--Kudpung (talk) 11:35, 15 October 2010 (UTC)

Question

What is a "monobook.js" and where are each Editor's? I'd like to use this tool but I don't understand the installation instructions. Nwjerseyliz (talk) 18:58, 2 October 2013 (UTC)