Wikipedia talk:WikiProject JavaScript: Difference between revisions

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:The parentheses creates a [https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/RegExp#grouping-back-references capturing group]. The first match is the whole matched string, while the second one is the captured group. Try with <code>RegExp(RegExp.quote(redlinks[i]),'i')</code> and see if it works. [[User:Syockit|Syockit]] ([[User talk:Syockit|talk]]) 12:57, 5 May 2017 (UTC)

== Use of Wikipedian programmer categories ==

*{{Reply to|The Transhumanist}} '''''Was it really appropriate to spam over 500 users with a notice of this discussion using [[WP:AWB]]?''''' That seems to me to be an inappropriate use of that tool. [[User:Murph9000|<span style="color:white;background-color:purple;padding:0.1em 0.1em 0.1em 1em;">Murph</span><span style="color:white;background-color:black;padding:0.1em 1em 0.1em 0.1em;">9000</span>]] ([[User talk:Murph9000|talk]]) 13:21, 5 May 2017 (UTC)

::: 90% of them haven't logged in for months or years, but were still listed in the js users categories. It's the only feasible way I could think of to reach the other 10%. You wouldn't happen to know of a script that can sort or screen a user list by the date of their last edit, would you? That would be very helpful. [[User talk:The Transhumanist|<i>The&nbsp;Transhumanist</i>]] 15:07, 5 May 2017 (UTC)