 | This is aninformation page. It is not anencyclopedic article, nor one ofWikipedia's policies or guidelines; rather, its purpose is to explain certain aspects of Wikipedia's norms, customs, technicalities, or practices. It may reflect differing levels ofconsensus andvetting. |
 | You take full responsibility for any actions taken using Twinkle. You must read andunderstand all relevantWikipedia policies and abide by them when using this tool; failure to do so may result in beingblocked from editing. |
 | Twinkle 2019 Coolest Tool Award Winner |
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 A screenshot of Twinkle'sarticles for deletion feature | |
| Description | Tag pages, start discussions, leave messages, and provide a richer user interface for admin actions such as block and protect |
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| Author | AzaToth |
| Maintainer | Novem Linguae |
| Source | |
| GitHub repository | twinkle |
Twinkle is aWikipedia gadget that usesJavaScript. It allowsautoconfirmed users to have many extra options to assist them in common Wikipedia maintenance tasks and to help them deal with acts ofvandalism or unconstructive edits. It provides users with three types of rollback functions and includes a full library of speedy deletion functions, user warnings and welcomes, maintenance tags, semi-automatic reporting of vandals, and more. In addition, it givesadministrators more tools to help them carry out their duties.
For a visual demonstration of many of the aforementioned items, it may be useful to view the "Twinkle"video tutorial onWMF Labs.
Before using Twinkle, you should read itsdocumentation to familiarize yourself with its possibilities and functions. Experienced Twinkle users are welcome to expand or improve the documentation based on their use of the tool.
Never forget thatone takes full responsibility for any action performed using Twinkle. One mustunderstandWikipedia policies and use this tool within these policies or risk having one's accountblocked. Please take particular care with the rollback links provided by Twinkle. Only obvious vandalism qualifies for rollback without an edit summary. If you believe an editor's contribution is donein good faith, you should include an edit summary.
If a change is merely "unsatisfactory" in some way, undoing/reverting should not be the first response. Editors should either make a reasonable attempt toimprove the change, or should simply leave it in place for future editors to improve. Undo/revert is appropriate in cases where the contribution is arguably "wrong" (consider moving it to the Talk page), or is unreasonably difficult to fix (e.g. incomprehensible, and the author is unresponsive), or is actually harmful to the article (such as vandalism). A plain language edit summary (not merely tags) should be used when reverting changes that appear to have been made in good faith because many contributors will not recognize minimalistic tags and will not learn what the problem was and are likely to repeat it.
In the past, you could install Twinkle by adding the textimportScript('User:AzaToth/twinkle.js'); to your personal script page; however, this practice can make Twinkle load unreliably (Twinkle might not load on every page you visit, or it might show up but not work properly).
To fix this problem, you should remove the lineimportScript('User:AzaToth/twinkle.js'); fromyour personal script file, and then turn on the Twinkle gadget using the instructions above.
If you have any old configuration set up using TwinkleConfig or FriendlyConfig, it will still be effective. However, if you use thepreferences panel to modify your configuration, you are advised to remove all old Twinkle/Friendly configuration variables from your skin JavaScript file.
Twinkle has its origins as a reversion script based on ideas found inAaron Schulz's script collection. It was developed byAzaToth and released in 2007. It has grown into a tool with many more capabilities than its reversion roots. It is currently one of the most installed non-default gadgets on English Wikipedia, with around47,000 users. The toolset has expanded over the years: the collection of tools formerly known as Friendly, developed byIoeth, became part of Twinkle in 2011, and a new module to make user blocking a smoother process for administrators was developed in 2015. Other major contributors includeAmalthea,Amorymeltzer,MusikAnimal,SD0001, andThis, that and the other. The gadget continues to be updated and improved, in order to accommodate user requests and changes to Wikipedia processes.
Since 5 September 2020, edits and log actions done through Twinkle bear the "twinkle"tag.
A common request on the Twinkle talk page comes from those who wish to use Twinkle on other wikis. There are a couple options:
Twinkle is not officially compatible with the default mobile skin,Minerva Neue. However, you can install a third-party patch. Please follow the directions atUser:Plantaest/TwinkleMobile.
Twinkle users can add any of theseuserboxes to their user page.
Also, there is the Twinkle topicon{{Twinkle topicon}}.
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