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Mastodon: https://wikis.world/@NovemLinguae

Stuff I work on

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Technical

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Link to TechContribs

Project

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Content

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User scripts I created

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Watchlist User:Novem Linguae/Templates/Scripts to see when I create new scripts.

Novem Linguae's user scripts (V • E)
# of users Name Description S++ US/L
679 CiteHighlighter Highlights 1,800 sources green, yellow, or red depending on reliability. Mainly pulls its data from WP:RSP, WP:NPPSG and WikiProject reliable sources lists. x x
524 GANReviewTool Quickly and easily close good article nominations and good article reviews. Takes care of {{atop}}ing the discussion and changing the talk page templates. x x
196 DraftCleaner.js Fix formatting of new articles. x x
111 UserHighlighterSimple Highlights usernames based on permissions and edit count. User data updated daily by NovemBot. Highlights former admins. x x
109 VisualEditorEverywhere Displays the Visual Editor "Edit" tab and "Edit" section link on pages that don't normally have them: templates, talk pages, Wikipedia namespace. x x
106 ReviewStatus Displays whether or not a mainspace page is marked as reviewed x x
101 NPPLinks Adds WP:BEFORE, copyvio check, duplicate article check, and other useful New Page Patrol links to the left menu. I like to mouse wheel click these links, which opens them in new tabs without losing focus on the current tab. Includes a professor h-index search. x x
94 DetectSNG Scans a list of 1,600 SNG keywords such as "National Football League" and, if found, displays them at the top of the article page, to help with determining SNG eligibility. x
86 VoteCounter.js Display keep and delete counts in XFD discussions. Also display counts in talk page discussions. x
73 SpeciesHelper For species articles, tries to add the correct speciesbox, category, taxonbar, and stub template. x x
71 DetectPromo.js If promotional words are detected, displays them in orange at the top of the article.
67 ReFillLink.js Adds a "ReFill" link to the "More" menu. Clicking it opens the page in refill.toolforge.org/ng so citations can be cleaned up.
60 DetectG4G5.js If an unreviewed article was created by a blocked user, or has had an AFD, displays a warning, so you can investigate if it needs CSD G4 or G5.
59 anrfc-lister.js Effortlessly submit RFCs to the RFC closing noticeboard, WP:ANRFC. (Updated version of User:Ajbura/anrfc-lister.js) x
51 UserRightsDiff.js When viewing Special:UserRights, easily see what perm was added or removed. x
51 DontForgetG12.js Puts a big orange "Copyvio check" button at the top of unreviewed drafts and articles
51 UserTalkErasedSectionsDetector.js Detect if a user is whitewashing their User Talk by deleting warnings
41 WatchlistAFD.js Automatically watchlist the AFD pages of your AFC accepts and NPP curations for 6 months, so you can see when stuff is AFD'd and you can calibrate your reviewing. By default, the patroller is not notified of AFD nominations, so this helps fix that. For user profiles, can also "Watchlist SPI" and "Watchlist RFA". x
32 UnblockReview.js Easily respond to unblock requests from blocked users. (Updated version of User:Enterprisey/unblock-review)
25 Links.js Adds links to the left menu, including a user's common.js/global.js/vector.js, central auth, subpages, rename log, global lock log. Also adds pending changes.
22 MarkFreeUseRationale.js Add |image_has_rationale=yes to enwiki-hosted image files containing non-free licenses
19 ShowAdminMessages.js Reveal and highlight hidden messages for admins and other user groups.
19 CWWEditSummary.js When copying within Wikipedia, makes it easier to leave an edit summary mentioning attribution
12 TemplateTaxonomyCreator (renamed from TemplateTaxonomyAddCite) Create subpages of Template:Taxonomy more easily by clicking a button and filling out 3 prompts.
10 BlockedUserHistory.js In Special:History, when clicked, show only edits by blocked users
5 UserScriptUserCount.js Visit a user script's .js page to see exactly how many people have installed it, and click a link to see whom.
2 QuickVandalBlock.js A tool to help WP:AIV admins. In diffs and filter logs, places ( indef ) links next to usernames, and ( 31h | proxy ) links next to IPs, for quick blocking. Forked from User:Enterprisey/quick-vand-block, with the "doesn't work on temporary accounts" bug fixed.
2 Superlinks.js Puts a bunch of useful links on the top right of pages, such as "Logs" to see the page's logs. For users, can see "Rights", "Blocks", "CTOP Alerts", etc. Forked from User:Bradv/Scripts/Superlinks.js, with many bugs fixed, and Vector 2022 skin support. x

Less than 5 users: CopyTitle.js, EditRequestReadFAQ.js, RequestedArticleSifter.js, SpecialNewPagesFeedBetaTestLink.js, TopicSubscriptionsTab.js, Vector2022NoWhitespace.js, Vector2022NoFloatingTopBar.js, OldDiffColors.js, CentralNoticeHelper.js

Deprecated (built into MediaWiki now): NotSoFast

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Bling cabinet

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2021

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BERJAYA The Special Barnstar
This barnstar is for you, who always helped me improve as an editor in Wikipedia. Thank you so much for the help. Please let me know if I can return the favour. YehWolf 🐺 10:16, 21 April 2021 (UTC)
BERJAYA Thanks for good vandalism patrolling with Huggle. I checked some of your edits and thought they were great. Blue Rasberry (talk) 23:22, 26 April 2021 (UTC)
BERJAYA Thank you for all the very helpful issues opened on GitHub! Although I may not be able to get to them that quickly, I really appreciate the effort. Please have this pixelated cookie. Enterprisey (talk!) 08:53, 27 April 2021 (UTC)
BERJAYA The Articles for Creation Barnstar
For constantly reducing the AfC Backlog CommanderWaterford (talk) 13:53, 28 April 2021 (UTC)
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A goat for you!

Thanks for your global Visual Editor!

― Qwerfjkl|✉   21:06, 5 May 2021 (UTC)
BERJAYA The Original Barnstar
Thanks for creating VisualEditorEverywhere!!! —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 20:34, 7 June 2021 (UTC)
BERJAYA Thank you for helping with the query for the AfC backlog drive leaderboard, and for helping to keep it updated! Enterprisey (talk!) 07:56, 28 July 2021 (UTC)
BERJAYA The Articles for Creation Barnstar
Congratulations! You have earned The Articles for Creation Barnstar for reviewing an outstanding 225 drafts during the WikiProject Articles for creation July 2021 Backlog Drive. Thank you for your work to improve Wikipedia!
On behalf of WikiProject Articles for Creation, Enterprisey (talk!) 00:17, 5 September 2021 (UTC)
BERJAYA The Technical Barnstar
For putting together User:Novem Linguae/Scripts/CiteHighlighter.js, which is immensely useful. Elli (talk | contribs) 05:17, 18 September 2021 (UTC)
BERJAYA The Working Man's Barnstar
For reviewing at least 10 articles during the November 2021 new page patrol backlog drive.

Thank you for reviewing or re-reviewing 11 articles, which helped contribute to an overall 1276-article reduction in the backlog during the drive. (t · c) buidhe 12:51, 3 December 2021 (UTC)

BERJAYA The Barnstar of Diligence
Thank you for alerting me about that situation. A plethora of non notable possible undisclosed paid promotional articles (over a dozen) as of now have been unearthed due to that singular act of yours. Thank you for your diligence. Celestina007 (talk) 22:57, 19 December 2021 (UTC)

2022

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BERJAYA The No Spam Barnstar
Article spamming is an existential threat to the collaborative project and I also find that most editors tend to shy away from this area of editing, but not you! A critical ping you made to me, led not only to the utter deletion of two third of the dubious articles they created, but also led to the nabbing of an LTA. Thank you so much for striving to maintain and sustain the integrity of articles on mainspace. Celestina007 (talk) 19:20, 2 January 2022 (UTC)
BERJAYA The Technical Barnstar
Thanks for all your contributions to Twinkle! – SD0001 (talk) 16:46, 4 February 2022 (UTC)
BERJAYA The Userscript Award
For all your hard work developing amazing userscripts! Thanks for your contributions. ––FormalDude talk 12:33, 9 March 2022 (UTC)
BERJAYA The Technical Barnstar
This barnstar is for your awesome knowledge about coding and for the nice script that you made for me on my request. This is highly appreciated. Thanks a lot for all your service here. The community wants people like you very much. Keep up your good work. Regards, Itcouldbepossible Talk 15:14, 11 June 2022 (UTC)
A Wikimedia t-shirt!
You deserve a thank you!
BERJAYA The Working Wikipedian's Barnstar
This award is given to Novem Linguae for 16 reviews in the July NPP backlog reduction drive. Your contributions played a part in the 9895 reviews that took place during the drive. Thank you for your contributions. Zippybonzo | Talk (he|him) 09:16, 3 August 2022 (UTC)
BERJAYA The Defender of the Wiki Barnstar
For having taken on the thankless task of being a coord of NPP and especially for your volunteer developer work at Phab for it. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 00:53, 22 August 2022 (UTC)
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"Ass In High Gear Award"

Your NPP work is extraordinaire,
Behind-the-scenes tasks that few are aware;
I'm one of the few who know what you do,
As our needs arise; it is you we look to.
And we're more than happy to buy you a beer,
A reward for you keeping your ass in high gear!
BERJAYA Atsme 💬 📧 21:53, 22 August 2022 (UTC)

BERJAYA The Minor Barnstar
This barnstar is awarded to Novem Linguae for copy edits totaling between 1 and 3,999 words (including bonus and rollover words) during the GOCE September 2022 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Miniapolis 19:27, 6 October 2022 (UTC)
BERJAYA The da Vinci Barnstar
For your great work on PageTriage and the Page Curation tool. It's greatly appreciated by the NPP reviewers. Hey man im josh (talk) 13:07, 18 October 2022 (UTC)

2023

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BERJAYA The Invisible Barnstar
Thank you for participating in Articles for Creation's January 2023 Backlog Drive! You reviewed 21 drafts, for a total of 23.5 points. — Ingenuity (talk • contribs) 00:35, 15 January 2023 (UTC)
BERJAYA The Citation Barnstar
For the CiteHighlighter. Fantastic. Paradise Chronicle (talk) 19:39, 17 February 2023 (UTC)
BERJAYA The Defender of the Wiki Barnstar
Dear Novem Linguae,
Please receive my belated but heartfelt appreciation for saving the day on the Wikipedia:Good article reassessment/February 2023 effort to re-assess Good articles, that aided in the DC Copyright contributor investigation.
When I first proposed the process in the January 2023 AN discussion, I envisioned it working something like procedural Featured article reviews; I had no idea that there wasn't really a GAR process in place to deal with several hundred deficient GAs, and the work turned out to be much more complicated than I thought. It simply would not have been possible--or at least, would not have been accomplished so seamlessly--without your effort, competence, thoroughness, and efficiency.
And besides all of that, you are just so nice to work with :) Best regards, SandyGeorgia (Talk) 19:51, 23 March 2023 (UTC)

red team

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Thank you for quality articles such as Red team, News Media Bargaining Code and 2010 transatlantic aircraft bomb plot, for coordinating new page patrol and reviewing articles for creation, for your helpful NovemBot, for volunteering to do dirtier work, - you are an awesome Wikipedian!

You are recipient no. 2860 of Precious, a prize of QAI. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:08, 16 June 2023 (UTC)

BERJAYA Hackathon volunteer
Thank you for volunteering for various roles at the Wikimedia Hackathon 2023 in Athens, Greece! Here is a small thank you token for your help. Thank you for being AWESOME; we look forward to your help in future events 🙏 Srishti (talk) 19:55, 16 June 2023 (UTC)
BERJAYA A baton for you!
Congratulations on becoming Wikipedia's newest administrator! I am pleased to present the traditional baton to you. I'm sure you'll find your way around the tools soon, but if you have any questions, feel free to ask! — Ingenuity (talk • contribs) 21:03, 17 June 2023 (UTC)
BERJAYA The Admin's Barnstar
Was glad to see your name on Rfx... Keep doing what you do [and more] around here. Cheers! Volten001 ☎ 05:45, 9 July 2023 (UTC)

2024

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BERJAYA The Socratic Barnstar
not to tempt the wrath, but, P13 is exactly what I'd hoped would come out of making this RfA review!! So happy to see you make a good push for this, hoping for the best :D theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 22:39, 23 February 2024 (UTC)
BERJAYA The Technical Barnstar
For your work on the various tools recently - much appreciated :) KylieTastic (talk) 11:21, 30 April 2024 (UTC)
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Thanks for signing my guestbook! Myrealnamm (💬talk · ✏️contribs) at 12:42, 30 April 2024 (UTC)
BERJAYA Happy second birthday
to the GANReviewTool. Its hard work continues to be very much appreciated. CMD (talk) 08:16, 7 June 2024 (UTC)
BERJAYA The Barnstar of Diplomacy
For your gentle approach to difficult discussion. I admire you. 9t5 (talk) 20:02, 10 June 2024 (UTC)
BERJAYA The Technical Barnstar
Your scripts are SUPER useful for everyone! xq 13:18, 15 June 2024 (UTC)
BERJAYA Project Editor Retention
This editor was willing to lend a helping hand!
Thanks for all you do to acknowledge others at the Editor of the Week Awards. Buster Seven Talk (UTC) 11:29, 1 August 2024 (UTC)
BERJAYA The Technical Barnstar
Thanks for working to get XFDcloser maintained! Happy that someone took on this task; I recall your involvement with Twinkle, so I'd imagine XFDcloser is in good hands! Steel1943 (talk) 18:54, 27 August 2024 (UTC)
BERJAYA The Admin Elections barnstar
It's happening! After all the time. After the strange closure in 2021 and its overturning to an only slightly less disappointing result. We finally have an admin election! And candidates that make me happy. Thank you. ☀️ ~ ToBeFree (talk) 02:19, 11 October 2024 (UTC)
BERJAYA The Barnstar of Diligence
I'm really grateful for all the time you spent on my script issue, and glad we got to a decent solution. Much appreciated, Novem Linguae! – Anne drew 01:14, 25 October 2024 (UTC)
BERJAYA The Barnstar of Diligence
Now that voting is over, I wish to thank you, Novem Linguae, for helping to steer the community through the admin election process, and comprehensively reviewing all candidates. Your time and efforts are greatly appreciated. starship.paint (talk / cont) 01:55, 1 November 2024 (UTC)
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Thanks for all your work with the admin elections, I really don’t think it would have happened without you! Have a nice rest of your Sunday :)

Zippybonzo | talk | contribs (they/them) 12:26, 3 November 2024 (UTC)

BERJAYA The Barnstar of Diplomacy
You've already received a couple of plaudits for this work, but you deserve this one as well. For diplomatically, tirelessly, gently moving the process forward. These admin elections would not have happened without you. Kudos. Now on to the debrief and (with luck) many more to come! —Ganesha811 (talk) 19:47, 4 November 2024 (UTC)
BERJAYA The Admin Elections barnstar
Thank you so much for all your hard work in organising the administrator elections. It would not have been possible without your efforts. – DreamRimmer (talk) 16:50, 5 November 2024 (UTC)
BERJAYA The Technical Barnstar
Thanks for your recent work on Twinkle getting rid of the backlog and technical debt. NightWolf1223 <Howl at me•My hunts> 04:15, 25 November 2024 (UTC)
BERJAYA The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
Thank you for this. Polygnotus (talk) 01:02, 2 December 2024 (UTC)
BERJAYA The Admin's Barnstar
Thanks for your help to the project! TheTechie@enwiki (she/they | talk) 02:57, 27 December 2024 (UTC)

2025

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BERJAYA The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
Happy New Year! I was reflecting recently on some of the folks that were welcoming when I first started here and am just taking a moment to say thanks. The way I did one of my very first GA reviews caused confusion, and you were quite positive and encouraging about how to make that situation more clear going forward. Hope you're doing well in 2025, Rjjiii (talk) 21:59, 1 January 2025 (UTC)
BERJAYA The Admin's Barnstar
I just noticed that you’ve created numerous scripts and gadgets that are incredibly useful for Wikimedia users. I've already installed most of them, and I must say, thank you so much for that! However, there’s something I’d like to apologize for. A while back, I copied and pasted one of your scripts from your user page onto my own without asking for your permission. I realize now that I should have sought your approval first, and for that, I sincerely apologize. Baqi:) (talk) 10:04, 16 January 2025 (UTC)
BERJAYA The Special Barnstar
Thank you for all your work at phab:T378287. You deserve a ton of appreciation :) – DreamRimmer ■ 13:45, 10 June 2025 (UTC)
BERJAYA The da Vinci Barnstar
Thank you for your asynchronous script, which helped me complete my one that I had no idea how to finish for several years! --𝐹𝑜𝑟 𝐸𝑎𝑐ℎ ... 𝑁𝑒𝑥𝑡 14:00, 21 July 2025 (UTC)
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Thank you for running AELECT, again. I couldn't find a barnstar that encapsulates how important this is to every aspect of the encyclopedia, so here's a cute kitten instead. Here's to many more elections and many more admins!

Toadspike [Talk] 16:28, 31 July 2025 (UTC)

BERJAYA The Admin Elections barnstar
Thank you for managing the process of the second admin elections and writing code for SecurePoll. It is appreciated! Dreamy Jazz talk to me | my contributions 11:22, 2 August 2025 (UTC)
BERJAYA The Barnstar of Diligence
Reading the grouped debriefs and the workshopping which followed, I'm thankful you are still riding herd on this living process. There are many who deserve credit, not the least of which those who boldly put themselves forward for the mop this cycle. Those candidates owe yourself, theleekycaudron, and many others much gratitude for relentlessly breaking down the new process into bites which members of the community had opportunities to digest and even actively oppose, each and all respectfully. As a result, parties to the discussion became active supporters when !voting for their investment. I'm somewhat less stressed about the eventual politicization of these elections. Expect me to remain watchful to consequences of our choices. But MY hat is off to you guys.
BusterD (talk) 21:37, 27 August 2025 (UTC)
BERJAYA The Editor's Barnstar
I cannot put into words how much I appreciate you for creating DraftCleaner. As someone who spends a large chunk of their time on enwiki reviewing drafts, it is perhaps the most helpful tool I have ever come across. It is also particularly useful for articles in mainspace that need quick fixes like removing curly quotation marks or fixing citations before punctuation. I have a huge amount of respect for you and everything you do across the project. Thank you, thank you, and thank you again! Rambley (talk / contribs) 21:09, 9 December 2025 (UTC)

My userspace essays

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Administrator
Novem Linguae
 
Editor of the Week
for the week beginning December 3, 2023
His dedicated and excellent work is known by many. As an NPP reviewer and co-ordinator, a valued content creator and writer of many useful scripts and many software patches on Twinkle and the (ever-ailing) PageTriage. Has over 14,000 edits to Wikipedia mainspace along with numerous important contributions to the encyclopedia.
Recognized for
writing many useful userspace essays
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organized administrator elections
Novem Linguae
 
Editor of the Week
for the week beginning October 5, 2025
Novem Linguae deserves this second Eddy Award for his substantial work on Wikipedia:Administrator elections. WP:AELECT was proposed in RfA reviews, and he has been instrumental in getting the process over the line. From ironing out process details to setting up and running trial elections to implementing feedback to organizing more than twenty RfCs to setting up Phabricator tickets and fixing technical problems, his work in improving processes to get more Wikipedia admins has been well worthy of this recognition – and all that without properly touching on his constant useful technical work or his help in coordinating New Page Patrol.
Recognized for
helping out in the backend processes of Wikipedia
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Notability / AFC / NPP

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Sources / reliability

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Technical

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Conferences

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It's amazing to meet editors in person. Scholarships are available. Put the scholarship application deadlines in your calendar so you don't miss them.

Attended / Will attend

Admin stats

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I do a lot of technical admin stuff like editing the MediaWiki namespace. But here's a chart of my more traditional admin actions:

Admin actions for Novem Linguae
Type of action Percentage
Deletion/Undeletion 146
  
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Block/Reblock 71
  
 23.28%
Protection/Unprotection 28
  
 9.18%
RevDel 37
  
 12.13%
User rights 23
  
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Sock drawer

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  • User:NovemBot
  • User:NovemTest1
  • User:"NovemTest2"
  • I edited using a different account around 2005–2007. It had a couple thousand edits. I'd prefer not to disclose it as the username is googleable and can be tied to other parts of my online identity. The account was never blocked or sanctioned.

Species stuff

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Species cleanup links I find useful

Main lists
Other lists

Article ideas

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Notes

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  1. ^ https://quarry.wmcloud.org/query/101186
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