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Do a lot of people write their own user scripts for Wikipedia?
What sorts of functionality do such user scripts typically add?
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- 1 decade agoFavorite Answer
User scripts for Wikipedia have probably been written by about 40 or 50 people. As there are over 6 billion people in the world, I would summarize the answer as, "No, not a lot of people write their own user scripts for Wikipedia."
Source(s): User scripts: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject... - ...aria...Lv 41 decade ago
I don't know enough to write my own scripts, I just tend to import other people's.
These scripts, from what I know, tend to add one of two types of things:
1. Changes to the editing box, so that it looks different or there's more buttons, etc;
2. More links to do things that would take longer manually, like fix vandalism/spelling, or move a page, or edit a particular subset of templates to a preset setting; or watch live changes to things on your watchlist.
But this is just what's common, from what I've seen. Which is not much.
Source(s): 1 year and 1000 edits to the English Wikipedia.
