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WikiProject Little Star Newsletter: January 2025

The first full month of WikiProject Little Star has come to a close, and we have got a lot of work done! Here's all of the main projects we've worked so far:

OneClickWelcomer

This is a gadget that was designed to supersede MediaWiki:Gadget-Welcome.js, which has not worked for several years. This adds the ability to welcome users with a single click from Special:RecentChanges, Special:Contributions, or a user's talk page. It also allows for quickly warning users with {{Test1}}, {{Test2}}, or {{Blatantvandal}}.

Dark mode optimizations

Xeverything11 has spent a significant amount of time helping to ensure that templates and interface messages are accessible and dark mode-compliant.

markAdmins

JJPMaster (bot) has been summoned to keep a list of everyone's user rights across the English Wikibooks, which allows the markAdmins gadget to run with up-to-date data for the first time in about two years.

Miscellaneous gadgets

JJPMaster helped update the codebases of other outdated gadgets, including GetCollection, SidebarTranslate, BookCat, and markblocked, the last of which is the reason for the only time her account has ever been blocked on any Wikimedia wiki.

Unmerged transwikis

With the help of Graham87, Pppery, UtherSRG, and the Wikibooks community, JJPMaster led an initiative to complete the histories of old articles that were imported from the English Wikipedia. This investigation is responsible for the majority of history merges in Wikibooks history.

Luna

This is perhaps the biggest project that WikiProject Little Star has developed. Luna is a collection of user scripts that attempt to help users review new pages and patrol recent changes, similarly to what Twinkle used to do. It includes functionalities such as nominating pages for speedy deletion, making requests at RfD, tagging files for copyright problems, adding maintenance templates to books, removing all links to a particular page, and, most recently, a rollback-like feature. It can be used by all autoconfirmed users, but some features are limited to reviewers or administrators.

That's it for WikiProject Little Star's first newsletter! You can subscribe here if you haven't already. Thank you!

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