https://blog.river.me/tags/javascript/ RheingoldRiver's blog - MediaWiki development, Leaguepedia stories, and productivity hacks Hugo -- gohugo.io en ©2020-2026, All Rights Reserved Wed, 11 Sep 2024 06:19:54 +0000 https://blog.river.me/refreshing-cache/ Wed, 11 Sep 2024 06:19:54 +0000 Wed, 11 Sep 2024 06:19:54 +0000 https://blog.river.me/refreshing-cache/ Caching can be super complicated in MediaWiki because there are many different types of cache. This article goes over what to do for each kind. river caching mediawiki css javascript cargo https://blog.river.me/copy-title/ Tue, 19 Mar 2024 01:43:27 +0000 Tue, 19 Mar 2024 01:43:27 +0000 https://blog.river.me/copy-title/ A gadget that provides one-click buttons to copy the title or (or pageName) of a MediaWiki page river gadget_tools javascript css https://blog.river.me/toggleable-columns/ Tue, 18 Jan 2022 22:07:12 +0000 Tue, 18 Jan 2022 22:07:12 +0000 https://blog.river.me/toggleable-columns/ A simple interface to automatically let users toggle columns in any data table on the entire wiki. river lua widgets javascript css leaguepedia mediawiki https://blog.river.me/copy-category-members/ Tue, 10 Aug 2021 00:13:09 +0000 Tue, 10 Aug 2021 00:13:09 +0000 https://blog.river.me/copy-category-members/ A gadget to copy all members of a category river gadget_tools javascript https://blog.river.me/bookmarklet-stay-here/ Tue, 08 Jun 2021 11:38:23 +0000 Tue, 08 Jun 2021 11:38:23 +0000 https://blog.river.me/bookmarklet-stay-here/ A bookmarklet that enables a prompt before navigating away from your current location river firefox javascript https://blog.river.me/customlogs-use-cases/ Tue, 09 Mar 2021 02:33:50 +0000 Tue, 09 Mar 2021 02:33:50 +0000 https://blog.river.me/customlogs-use-cases/ Use cases for my extension CustomLogs river caching javascript leaguepedia python mediawiki_extensions https://blog.river.me/line-numbers-modules/ Tue, 15 Dec 2020 23:58:32 +0000 Tue, 15 Dec 2020 23:58:32 +0000 https://blog.river.me/line-numbers-modules/ I add line numbers to Lua modules with JS & CSS. river gadget_tools javascript css leaguepedia https://blog.river.me/cargo-pagevalues-improvement/ Tue, 01 Dec 2020 20:51:23 +0000 Tue, 01 Dec 2020 20:51:23 +0000 https://blog.river.me/cargo-pagevalues-improvement/ An improvement to the Cargo pagevalues view using just JS & CSS. river gadget_tools javascript css cargo https://blog.river.me/search-new-page-hotkey/ Tue, 17 Nov 2020 05:03:04 +0000 Tue, 17 Nov 2020 05:03:04 +0000 https://blog.river.me/search-new-page-hotkey/ Let’s make a gadget so that Alt+Shift+E creates a new page from the Special:Search screen when a page doesn’t exist! river gadget_tools javascript leaguepedia autohotkey https://blog.river.me/disable-display-title/ Tue, 03 Nov 2020 06:07:53 +0000 Tue, 03 Nov 2020 06:07:53 +0000 https://blog.river.me/disable-display-title/ A small JS gadget to disable display title for wiki editors river gadget_tools javascript leaguepedia https://blog.river.me/popups/ Tue, 02 Jun 2020 20:21:07 +0000 Tue, 02 Jun 2020 20:21:07 +0000 https://blog.river.me/popups/ Popup content can offer users a wide range of dynamic content options on a page - and lazily-loading popup content can do this without increasing loading times. Here’s how I’ve built a framework for both static and lazily-loaded popups. river mediawiki javascript css mediawiki_api https://blog.river.me/disambig-highlight/ Tue, 19 May 2020 13:21:48 +0000 Tue, 19 May 2020 13:21:48 +0000 https://blog.river.me/disambig-highlight/ Disambiguations are typically somewhat user-unfriendly, especially when a wiki has a relatively low percentage of pages that are disambiguated and so the presence of one is unexpected. Here I describe my method for improving quality of life when disambiguation links do appear. river mediawiki javascript lua cargo css https://blog.river.me/charinsert/ Tue, 05 May 2020 04:46:37 +0000 Tue, 05 May 2020 04:46:37 +0000 https://blog.river.me/charinsert/ CharInsert is one of my favorite extensions. Here’s how I made a Lua wrapper for it to create a user-friendly interface for anyone to add snippets they want. river mediawiki mediawiki_extensions javascript lua https://blog.river.me/gadgets-for-code-organization/ Mon, 23 Mar 2020 01:20:40 +0000 Mon, 23 Mar 2020 01:20:40 +0000 https://blog.river.me/gadgets-for-code-organization/ Though it’s mostly used as a way to let wikis have opt-in or opt-out CSS and JS features for users, the Gadgets extension is a great way to organize code instead of using Common.css and Common.js for everything. river mediawiki javascript css https://blog.river.me/cargo-docstrings/ Mon, 10 Feb 2020 04:16:35 +0000 Mon, 10 Feb 2020 04:16:35 +0000 https://blog.river.me/cargo-docstrings/ This is not a post about how to add Cargo docstrings on table pages. Rather, it’s a post about how to create workarounds in MediaWiki in a reasonably well-controlled manner. river mediawiki cargo lua javascript