TechInfoDepot:Tools/Navigation popups



Navigation popups is a script, written in JavaScript (source), that offers easy access to article previews and several TechInfoDepot functions in popup windows which appear when you hover the cursor over links.


 * Quick installation: Enter Special:Preferences and click "Gadgets", check the box to enable Navigation Popups, under the "Browsing" section, then click save. Follow the instructions on the page to bypass your browser's cache.
 * Other installation method: add  to your current skin's .js page. See below for full installation instructions.

If you're having trouble, you may like to peruse some frequently asked questions.

Features



 * Mouseover on articles (including user pages):
 * Preview the first part of the article text when mousing over a link to an article
 * Preview the first image on each article
 * Preview selected page information: size, number of links, number of images, number of categories and page age
 * Tells you about redirects, stubs and disambiguation pages
 * One click access to edit page, page history, most recent edit, edits by most recent contributor, changes since my edit, move page, what links here, related changes, watch or unwatch, protect or unprotect (for administrators), talk page, edit talk page and start new topic in talk page
 * Mouseover on image links:
 * Preview images
 * Preview file descriptions
 * Preview file links
 * Tells you if the image is on Commons
 * Mouseover on user links:
 * One-click access to user page, user space, user talk, edit user talk, new section in user talk, e-mail user, contributions and contributions tree, user log, (for administrators) delete user, (for administrators) block user, edit counter (X!'s Edit Counter), block log
 * Mouseover on footnotes:
 * Preview contents of footnotes
 * Mouseover on any wikilink:
 * Clear pop-up cache
 * Enable/disable previews
 * Enable/disable pop-ups
 * Preview diffs and access both revisions in watchlist, history and related changes
 * Preview selected wikilinks when editing (use the mouse to select one wikilink)
 * One-click revert of vandalism from history browser (see image)
 * TechInfoDepot search, global TechInfoDepot search and Google search
 * Shortcut keys (optional)
 * Automatically fix links to bypass redirects and disambiguation pages (optional)
 * Should work on all Wikimedia wikis

Installation
You must have a user account to install and use the Navigation popups feature. If you do not have an account, you will need to [ create one] and log in.


 * Automatic installation:
 * Go to My Preferences / Gadgets / Browsing gadgets, check "Navigation popups", and click Save.


 * Manual installation:
 * Add   to your common.js page. This will add the following code to your common skin file:

Alternatively if you wish to add this to a specific skin rather than a file that works for all skins (as above), then
 * Add   to your current skin's .js page. This will add the following code to your .js file:

Note: the link above is to skin.js, which should take you to the correct page if you have JavaScript enabled. For reference, the relevant file you will need to edit is listed below.
 * Classic skin: standard.js
 * Cologne Blue: cologneblue.js
 * Chick: chick.js
 * Simple: simple.js
 * Nostalgia: nostalgia.js
 * MySkin: myskin.js
 * Modern: modern.js
 * Monobook: monobook.js
 * Vector: vector.js

Add the following to your user script file:
 * Installation on remote MediaWiki installations

After saving the page, clear your browser's cache (on Internet Explorer Ctrl+F5; on Mozilla Firefox Shift+Ctrl+R; on Opera F5). Assuming that you have not disabled JavaScript in your browser, a popup should appear whenever you hover your mouse over an internal link in TechInfoDepot. If you use more than one web browser, or more than one PC, you may need to clear the caches for each so that the popup appears.
 * Notes

To install the script on the Commons or Wiktionary, repeat this procedure on those wikis.

To uninstall the script, delete the above lines from the same page and clear your browser's cache.

Usage guide
This tool generates "popup hints" when you hover the mouse pointer over active links and images. These popups provide information about the link's target and give quick access to a number of relevant actions.

If you hold the shift key then you can drag the popup around.

Popups depend on the type of link:


 * Links to ordinary articles: popup provides a preview of the first paragraph and image of the article; the Actions menu allows to view the History and Talk page of the article, to edit and watch the article etc.
 * In the edit box: Highlight a wiki link to get an article popup.
 * Diff links: On history or watchlist pages, hover over diff links like "(cur)" or "(prev)" to get a summary of the difference; the Actions menu allows you to revert or undo the edit.
 * User: links: information about the status of the user; User menu gives access to Talk page, recent contributions etc.
 * Image links: information from image's description page
 * In popups: most of the links in popup windows will open new popups when hovered over.

Changing the appearance of your popups
By editing your user CSS file, you can change the appearance of the popups. Your user CSS file has exactly the same name as the javascript file, but with "css" instead of "js" at the end. So you should edit your current skin's .css page.

Here is an example which gives an orange-flavoured popup with a border and changes the font used. This makes the popups look pretty silly, but it shows the sort of thing you can do if you feel like it.

Options
There are some options that you can set. To do so, edit your user javascript file and add a line of the form
 * window.option = value;

where option and value are chosen from the table below. For example, to turn on extensive menus and turn on admin links, you need to add something like this in your javascript file:

More options may be added, and requests for more configurability are welcome.

Adding filters
You can define custom filters for articles. These are javascript functions which are run after the page statistics are generated, and their output is appended (as HTML) to that part of the popup. (Note that if simplePopups is true or popupSummaryData is false, then nothing will be displayed).

The way to set this up is to write a filter function which accepts a string (the wikitext of the article) as input, and returns a fragment of HTML. Repeat for as many filters as you want, and then create an array extraPopupFilters which contains all of the functions, in the order in which you want them to be run.

For example, let's say you want to be told whenever the wikitext of an article contains a table written using HTML tags rather than wiki markup. One way to do this is to add the following to your user javascript file:

Then when a popup is generated for a page containing an HTML table, you should see &lt;table&gt; in the popup. (It may also appear for other pages, such as this page. Correcting this defect is left as an exercise for the reader).

Other examples
If you want to enable popupRedlinkRemoval, popupFixRedirs and popupFixDabs</tt> features in all pages except the special ones, histories and previews (where those features are obviously useless) you can add this lines

to your user JavaScript file.

Translations
Please see this page for translations of the script interface and of this page into other languages. You'll also find instructions for creating a translation yourself.

Google Chrome
If the user is using the Virtual Keyboard (by Google)extension, the popups may sometimes appear in the wrong locations, sometime off the screen entirely. Frequently, popups appear in the same location as the first, leading to a several overlapping popups since the pop-ups do not disappear even when the mouse no longer hovers over a link. This conflict with popups is present as of Version 0.9.8.8 of the Virtual Keyboard extension.

Internet Explorer
Pages with "–" in their titles will not display correctly in the popups. This bug does not exist in Internet Explorer 9, so upgrading will fix the bug.

Firefox
If a user on Firefox with the Adblock Plus extension installed cannot see the popup, only the normal tooltip, Adblock Plus may be blocking the operation of navigational popups. This can be solved by adding an exception to the filtering rules – go to the Main Page, right click the icon in the status bar and check Disable on www.techinfodepot.info.

Safari
The menus do not function correctly in some older releases of Safari. Using a version 3 or higher is supported.

Opera
Using a current version (11.0 or higher) should give correctly functioning popups. Using an earlier version, you may experience problems, such as popups not loading or not disappearing after the mouse is moved away.

This tool should not be affected by any browser popup blocking settings.

Userboxes
Also, there is the Navigation popups topicon. Navigation popups topicon.

Feedback
Please see.

Credits and external links
This tool was primarily written by Lupin, who is currently no longer active on TechInfoDepot. It depends on some other people's work: Older versions of the tool used overlib by Erik Bosrup.
 * User:Pilaf/InstaView (née Live Preview) by Pilaf for article previewing
 * a JavaScript MD5 hash function by Paul Johnston and others, available here
 * domdrag by Aaron Boodman
 * An implementation of a diff algorithm by John Resig

TechInfoDepotians who have helped

 * Brian0918 – a little code and lots of inspiration
 * Eddideigel – translation work
 * IceKarma – aborting download code, making much better use of bandwidth
 * Mike Dillon – the page age code
 * Yurik – with his fantastic MediaWiki BotQuery extension
 * Zocky – the menus
 * Zyxw – preview enhancements
 * TheDJ – conversion from BotQuery to API.
 * ....and many more with helpful suggestions, comments and bug reports