User talk:Ais523/catwatch.js
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[edit] Script not working
This script looks like it would really useful, particularly in keeping track of new additions to one of the WikiProjects I'm on. But -- I can't seem to get it to work. I've tried both importing the script, & just copying & pasting the whole thing into my monobook.js file. I don't know any javascript, but I am pretty good at following the basic directions. I'm wondering if the problem might have to do with page WatchedCategories.js created by the script. When opened for editing, I get this: "Warning: There is no skin "WatchedCategories". Remember that custom .css and .js pages use a lowercase title, e.g. User:Foo/monobook.css as opposed to User:Foo/Monobook.css." Does that mean my page should be named "User:Yksin/watchedcategories.js" rather than "User:Yksin/WatchedCategories.js"? But if so, the script should create the page with that name, shouldn't it? Please advise; I'd really like to use this script. Thanks. --Yksin 21:29, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
- (copied from my talk page):
- I have no error messages. I get the standard stuff on my watchlist -- changes to actual pages. But, I understood that this script was intended to show when a new item was added to a particular category. So, for example, if I add Category:Alaska Natives to a particular article, the name of the article shows up on in that category and also, thanks to the script, in my watchlist as an addition to that article. But that's not happening. Perhaps I'm misunderstanding what the script is intended to do? --Yksin 18:45, 9 April 2007 (UTC)
About the time you fixed the code that was generating that incompatability error message with java-enhanced watchlist, this script stopped working for me. Not sure if it's related.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 22:49, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
[edit] How to get started
How do I actually get started with the script? What do I type, and where? Do I have to specify a category to watch or how is it decided which categories are watched? Thanks, Tiddly-Tom 06:02, 3 September 2007 (UTC)
- Once you install the script and clear your cache, the first time you visit your watchlist you get an alert asking if you want to set up a category to watch. Click ok, and you will be taken to this page, which will be preloaded with instructions on how to add categories to your watchlist. --Waldir talk 13:03, 19 April 2008 (UTC)
[edit] instructions; where's it show?
Great idea! A suggestion and a question:
It'd be good to mention in the instructions that the category names have to be in quotes (the examples that initially appear are quoted, which is how I figured out that that's what to do, but it was a bit of a guess).
It doesn't look to me like the script is working for me. I keep getting the 'you don't have a category watchlist message. I tried adding my sandbox to a would-be-watched category, but see no change in my watchlist.... but is that where I would look? I don't know where the watchlist is supposed to show up. — eitch 00:42, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
- The script was broken for a while. Try bypassing your cache to see if it works then (yes, the categories appear on your watchlist). (If you use Internet Explorer, you may have to delete your temporary internet files instead; cache bypasses don't always work for this script on IE for some reason.) --ais523 11:47, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
