User:Dodger67/Sandbox

Is there a way to sort my watchlist so that I can get it down to a more reasonable size? Firstly to remove all the redlinks and secondly to sort by when last I edited the pages, so I can remove those I have not touched since <date x>. It's rapidly heading towards 20,000 pages, most of which I no longer care about. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 10:39, 24 October 2015 (UTC)

I use the raw watchlist for this purpose.Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 11:32, 24 October 2015 (UTC)

That's unfortunately useless, it gives no meaningful information about the items in the list, not even identifying redlinks. It seems the "primitiveness" of watchlists is a perennial issue, I've found quite a few posts like mine dating back years. How difficult is it really to take a watchlist entry, search a user contributions log for the most recent occurrence of the page title and return the diff or even just the timestamp - rinse, repeat, all the way down the list - then sort the output list by the timestamp? It seems on the face of it to be a fairly simple database query operation. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 13:51, 24 October 2015 (UTC)

This is some Javascript I was handed a while ago by someone on Wikidata.

$('#editwatchlist-ns0 .mw-htmlform-flatlist-item').each(function (x, y) { if ($('a:first', y).is('.new')) { y.firstChild.checked = true; } })

The above, if executed from the browser console line (ctrl + shift + k in Firefox), checkmarks every page on Special:EditWatchlist which is redlinked and in the main namespace. (You could change ns0 right in the beginning for other kinds of pages based on their namespace ID e.g. ns1 is talk space.) Requires jquery. Not guaranteed to work because I've had it for a while... --Izno (talk) 14:17, 24 October 2015 (UTC)

Thanks Izno, unfortunately "executed from the browser console line" is gobbledygook to me. I use Chrome, if that helps. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 17:19, 24 October 2015 (UTC)

@Dodger67: In Chrome, when on page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:EditWatchlist, use ctrl + shift + i to open the developer tools. Click Console (the right-most tab across the top of the developer box). Paste the above code after the input cursor ">" at the bottom and press enter. Presto, all article-space red links on your watchlist have been selected. Worldbruce (talk) 04:36, 26 October 2015 (UTC)