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It's not uncommon to need to restore a discussion from a talk venue archive, but it's not easy to do it correctly and exceeds the ability of many editors. I wonder if anyone would be interested in creating a restore-from-archive script modeled after [[Wikipedia:One click archiving|OneClickArchiver]]. Instead of clicking an "Archive" link on a talk page, one would click a "Restore" link on an archive page. The coding would be a little simpler than OneClickArchiver, which has to worry about whether it's time to create a new archive page. Any taker? &#8213;[[User:Mandruss|<span style="color:#775C57;">'''''Mandruss'''''</span>]]&nbsp;[[User talk:Mandruss|<span style="color:#888;">&#9742;</span>]] 22:08, 27 November 2020 (UTC)

== JS on wikimedia is currently too antiquated to ever bloom ==

I would love to contribute code to wikipedia, but I'm once again failing at the same obstacle I did 6 months ago. Wikimedia is geared to a now over 10 years old version of JavaScript. Let's put that in perspective: Wikimedia is geared to a version of JavaScript that's that was released the same year as Windows 7! Back then I was barely a teenager. JQuery is now not much more than a relic, and all it does now is encouraging sloppy code-style and making debugging a lot harder. Combine this with the relatively large API of Wikimedia and the complete lack of modern comforts like Intellisense and TypeScript it becomes nearly unsurmountable to produce a functional script while keeping your sanity for someone who has become accustomed to the modern ways.

There is sadly no easy way to remedy this...

The changes necessary would be large enough to warrant an essentially total rewrite of the MediaWiki software. And while this would open up some awesome opportunities, I won't blame anyone breaking out in cold sweat when they just imagine it.

Any opinions on this?