User:Alexis Jazz/Factotum

Factotum
Description	Edit, reply, feature-rich
Author(s)	Alexis Jazz
Updated	February 9, 2024; 9 months ago
Skins	All
Source	User:Alexis Jazz/Factotum.js

Now available as a gadget on Albanian Wikipedia!

Demonstration of various features on an 11-year old Samsung Galaxy S4. Factotum runs even better on desktop, but this is all we had budget for. I don't even notice the cracked screen anymore.

Some features of Factotum: (most can be enabled/disabled as desired)

Edit pages
Edit sections
Create new sections on talk pages
Move sections
Comment on talk pages, automatically signed, automatic addition of em dash if not already present
Edit comments
Show signature dates in local time
Display editnotices
Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Typos
Native Web2Cit support
Multiline SyntaxHighlight support (unlike mw:Help:DiscussionTools#Limitations)
Allows posting most tables in comments (unlike mw:Help:DiscussionTools#Limitations)
Custom inserts (create buttons for text or replacements you often use)
Custom automatic replacements (regular expressions)
Side-by-side preview (similar to m:Community Wishlist Survey 2021/Real Time Preview for Wikitext, but can even be used on a phone)
Smart live preview (saves bandwidth and shows changes almost instantly in many cases)
Plugin/add-on support (modules), for example the Picture of the Day module that shows the POTD on the background of the edit window
~200 settings to configure (not all visible by default, can be enabled on the advanced tab)

How to install

Add this to m:Special:MyPage/global.js to load the script globally:

mw.loader.load('//en.wiki.x.io/w/index.php?title=User:Alexis_Jazz/Factotum.js&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript');

To load the script on a specific Wikimedia project, add the line to Special:MyPage/common.js on the project in question instead. On Albanian Wikipedia Factotum is available as a gadget.

Gadget registering instructions

Create MediaWiki:Gadget-Factotum.js with the contents of User:Alexis Jazz/Factotum.js
Create MediaWiki:Gadget-Factotum-extra.js with the contents of User:Alexis Jazz/Factotum-extra.js
Create MediaWiki:Gadget-Factotum with a description
Add this line to a relevant section in MediaWiki:Gadgets-definition:

Factotum[ResourceLoader|targets=desktop,mobile|supportsUrlLoad]|Factotum.js

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