User talk:קיפודנחש/cat-a-lot.js

Discussion at commons:MediaWiki talk:Gadget-Cat-a-lot.js[edit]

קיפודנחש and users of User:קיפודנחש/cat-a-lot.js might be interested in the discussion at commons:MediaWiki talk:Gadget-Cat-a-lot.js#MediaWiki:Mobile-frontend-return-to-page vs MediaWiki:Returnto.

What prompted that proposal is that enwiki lacks page MediaWiki:Mobile-frontend-return-to-page, which is one of the interface messages used by WP:Cat-a-lot. Without the page MediaWiki:Mobile-frontend-return-to-page, the interface of Cat-a-lot shows a button with "⧼Mobile-frontend-return-to-page⧽" as its text, which is understandable, but not ideal. Other messages used by the gadget (see commons:MediaWiki:Gadget-Cat-a-lot.js#L-323--L-336) already exist on enwiki:

—⁠andrybak (talk) 12:51, 4 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion has been archived, see commons:MediaWiki talk:Gadget-Cat-a-lot.js/Archive 3#Mobile-frontend-return-to-page. —⁠andrybak (talk) 10:26, 29 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Minor: false[edit]

Per Help:Minor edit:

What not to mark as minor changes
[...]

Adding or removing references/citations, external links, or categories in an article

User:קיפודנחש, I propose adding minor: false to the settings on enwiki:

window.catALotPrefs = {editpages: true, minor: false};

Side note: minor: false is broken in Cat-a-lot, see discussion at commons:MediaWiki talk:Gadget-Cat-a-lot.js#Minor edit unmarking feature not working. —⁠andrybak (talk) 16:46, 15 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

np. do many people use my shim? if so, maybe it would be better to move it to mediawiki space as a gadget. i'm in an awkward position here, and appear as "custodian" for a tool which is not really mine.

offtopic: many years ago (at least 12, prolly closer to 15) cat-a-lot which was written on commons for commons, handled categorization of files only, someone on hewiki asked me to "inherit" it (not your OO inheritance - simply copy the whole shebang and hack it locally) such that it will handle other pages, not just in namespace 6. though i personally am not interested in categorization (hewiki decided on categorization scheme that makes categories almost completely useless there), i took the challenge and butchered the code until it relented and worked on articles too. a while later the upstream also did it, probably much better or :more correctly" than my hack. it still took several more years before i could replace my hack on hewiki with the shim, but eventually i did. don't remember what prompt me to copy the shim to enwiki - i'm sure there was some legit reason... anywhoo, i don't think i used cat-a-lot on enwiki even once.

peace. קיפודנחש (aka kipod) (talk) 22:26, 15 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@קיפודנחש, re: do many people use my shim? – 113 active users as of 15 June 2024 according to Wikipedia:User scripts/Most imported scripts. You can also check Special:WhatLinksHere/User:קיפודנחש/cat-a-lot.js. —⁠andrybak (talk) 22:30, 15 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

For the record, minor: false has been fixed: commons:Special:Diff/884573384. —⁠andrybak (talk) 22:48, 16 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]