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Welcome to themesopedicWikiProject JavaScript. If you would like to use or writeuser scripts, or learn or writeJavaScript, or about JavaScript, for the betterment of Wikipedia (and beyond), including improving the coverage of JavaScript-related topics and support pages, you've come to the right place.
This is a central resource depot and organization hub for everything having to do with JavaScript on Wikipedia, includinguser scripts. This WikiProject provides a place for editors to share knowledge and ideas (on thetalk page) about JavaScript, improve their JavaScript programming skills, and collaborate (get help) in developinguser scripts. If you would like to get involved, add your namehere.
To get a bird's eye view of what Wikipedia has about JavaScript seeIndex of JavaScript-related articles. If you are likewise interested in scripts, see theOutline of scripts.
This WikiProject ismesopedic, meaning that it operates on articles in the encyclopedia and on pages in project space. Basically, we create and maintain articles related to JavaScript, and do the same for every page in the Wikipedia community about using and creating user scripts on Wikipedia. Some members actively build upon the collection of user scripts itself.
All articles aboutJavaScript or the JavaScript ecosystem. They are in the process of being listed on the following pages (please help find and add them in):
Anything and everything aboutuser scripts, including but not limited to:
This project has three main goals:
Toward this end, this WikiProject identifies, gathers, and rates all articles about JavaScript. It also identifies, gathers, and creates redirects to all article sections about JavaScript (for example, the linksComment (JavaScript) andComments in JavaScript redirect toComment (computer programming)#JavaScript). In addition, we identify gaps in JavaScript coverage, and plan coverage for missing topics by maintaining a list of needed articles and article sections.
To "gather" an article about JavaScript, add it to theIndex of JavaScript-related articles.
This goal entails identifying and listing all user scripts and pages about user scripts, as well as developing support pages for writing and maintaining user scripts. They should all be easily findable, starting from theOutline of scripts.
Do you know JavaScript? No? Doesn't matter. Because with all the resources (knowledge and JavaScript programs) that we have at Wikipedia, we can learn it and improve our skills together.
If you are writing scripts and are stuck, post a message explaining your problem onWikipedia talk:WikiProject JavaScript (this project's talk page). In addition to posting a discussion thread there, you may also wish to post a link (to your discussion thread), on the following pages:
If you don't know how to program in JavaScript but need a user script (or gadget) to do a particular thing, you can post your ideas and requests at the following page:
Mapping the subject means identifying and organizing its topics.
That entails building reference pages with topic links: the 3 main types of pages on Wikipedia for mapping out a subject are Outlines, Glossaries, and Indices.
By mapping out the subject, we can easily see the gaps in coverage because links that don't lead anywhere turn red.
As they grow more comprehensive, they become powerful tools for navigating and monitoring the subject.
Your help is needed in building Wikipedia's subject maps on JavaScript...
It is being built into a comprehenisve list of all articles or article sections about JavaScript on Wikipedia. Once it is completed, it will serve as a map of the entire subject's coverage. A JavaScript-experienced editor will be able to spot gaps in that coverage. And the list will also allow monitoring of all JavaScript-related pages.
Among the uses of an outline are as a composition and revision tool. As a topic tree, the outline can be used to plan and improve the structure of the subject, from filling gaps to deciding what topics should be covered in what articles, to spotting redundant articles, to choosing the best names for the branches and leaves of the subject.
The descriptive annotations are included to aid in topic selection, but they also make the outline a de facto classified glossary (not to be confused with the "Glossary of" pages, which are of the alphabetical sort). Therefore, using and working on the outline naturally improve one's vocabulary and fluency in the subject. (Comment from the Transhumanist: "Names are much more useful when you know what they belong to, and things are far more visible once you know their names. When I built theOutline of chess, my game improved from winning 50% of the time to winning 80% of the time. Once I knew the tactics by name, I could see them coming a mile away.").
Index of JavaScript-related articles is an alphabetical list of all articles in the encyclopedia about JavaScript or any part of the JavaScript ecosystem.
In the editor, precede your JavaScript code with this:
<syntaxhighlight lang="javascript">
and follow it with this:
</syntaxhighlight>
and it will turn out looking something like this:
// Here is the regular expression for matching the scoop target (to "scoop up" the redlinked entry with direct (non-piped) link, plus the whole next line)constnodeScoop2=newRegExp('\\n((\\*)+)[ ]*?\\[\\[\\s*'+(RegExp.quote(redlinks[i]))+'\\s*\\]\\].*?\\n(.*?\\n)','i');// To actualize the search string above, we create a variable with method:constmatchString2=wpTextbox1.value.match(nodeScoop2);alert(matchString2);// for testing// Declare match patternsconstpatt1=newRegExp(":");constpatt2=newRegExp(" – ");constpatt3=/$1\*/;
We are building a list of web resources on JavaScript atWP:JSRL, to help editors find useful links to add to articles, and to provide reliable sources on JavaScript. Feel free to add to it.
If you would like to join this WikiProject for developing user scripts and Wikipedia's JavaScript-related pages, please add your username here:
All JavaScript-related articles should be listed in theIndex of JavaScript-related articles. If you find any that are not, please add them to that list.
Please feel free to list your new JavaScript-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them, are at least over 1,500 characters, don't have any dispute templates on them,and cite their sources, should be suggested for theDid you know? box on the WikipediaMain Page.
| JavaScript articles by quality and importance | |||||||
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| Top | High | Mid | Low | NA | ??? | Total | |
 GA | 1 | 1 | |||||
| B | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 8 | ||
| C | 2 | 1 | 13 | 62 | 3 | 81 | |
| Start | 1 | 2 | 7 | 119 | 4 | 133 | |
| Stub | 1 | 2 | 34 | 2 | 39 | ||
| List | 1 | 3 | 4 | ||||
| NA | 1 | 2 | 6 | 59 | 68 | ||
| Assessed | 5 | 8 | 24 | 229 | 59 | 9 | 334 |
| Total | 5 | 8 | 24 | 229 | 59 | 9 | 334 |
| WikiWork factors (?) | ω =1,250 | Ω = 4.77 | |||||
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The following categories contain Wikipedians that identify as JavaScript programmers.
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