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Purpose

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This script extends TalkHelper to further help when reading a long talk page.

The script does not alter any article but it highlights talk posts so that they are easier to read and provides a table of contents to the new talk posts.

Use

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The script hunts for timestamps previously found by the CommentsInLocalTime gadget and selects any that are for yesterday and today.

It then adds a background colour and border around each of the posts.

If any posts were found, the script will:

  • add a menu button showing the count - clicking the menu item will scroll to the first post
  • build a table of the posts, sorted into time order, and add this table to the left-hand sidebar.

To provide space in the sidebar, the script also alters the existing sidebar menus so that they can be collapsed.

Prerequisites

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This script requires the CommentsInLocalTime gadget.

  1. Go to the gadgets tab of your preferences
  2. Enable "Change UTC-based times and dates, such as those used in signatures, to be relative to local time"
  3. Save

Installing

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Add the following line to your common.js file if you want version 2

{{subst:Lusc|User:GhostInTheMachine/TalkHelper2.js}}

or this line if you want the latest version

{{subst:Lusc|User:GhostInTheMachine/TalkHelper.js}}

Alternatives

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Version 1 of TalkHelper is simpler - it highlights posts from yesterday and today and maybe adds a menu button. It does not alter the sidebar or build a table of contents.

Bugs

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2022-07-27

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The TH2 script does not work on Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals), but is OK on the other VP pages.

investigating why this is, but it seems that the Wikipedia:Comments in Local Time gadget is not firing
2022-08-07
Cloned a fork of User:Gary/comments in local time.js so I could add debug etc.
Sussed — the VP page included the {{Skip to bottom}} template.
The template wraps the Skip to bottom button with a div that has the mw-parser-output class.
The CILT script intends to find the article body by looking for the div with the mw-parser-output class, and assumes there should only be one.
I removed the {{Skip to bottom}} template and all was OK again — see Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals) change 1102904261 → 1102906240)
2022-08-09
Gary altered the CILT gadget to search for the mw-body-content class instead — see User:Gary/comments in local time.js change 1103478700

2022-09-24

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Same issue for Wikipedia:Village pump (WMF)

the {{pp-pc}} was added – the padlock icon is (unnecessarily) wrapped in a div with the mw-parser-output class which causes a similar issue for my CILT clone
the mw-parser-output class was added by phab:T188443
2022-09-29
quick test to remove the {{pp-pc}} from Wikipedia:Village pump (WMF) — confirmed
need to alter TH2 to use the live version of CILT rather than my clone

June 2024

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Damage due to a series of changes to the HTML created for headings.

see T365736 and more details in mw:Heading HTML changes

Possible improvements

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  • Also add highlighting for all of my own posts
    • How should posts by me yesterday be highlighted? As by me or as yesterday or some hybrid of the two?
  • Maybe split the border and the background to highlight different aspects?
  • Add a lightweight border around all posts?
  • Improve logic for finding the full extent of a post.
  • Embed the awesome User:BrandonXLF/FloatSide to float the sidebar
  • Add a full navigation menu to all highlighted posts
  • Add {{Infobox Wikipedia user script}}?

See also

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