MediaWiki:Gadget-ShortDiff.js

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/**
 * ShortDiff-link
 * 
 * When clicking a diff-link shorten it to:
 * http://wiki.org/w/index.php?diff=1[&oldid=1]
 * Due to rewrite rules may not work by default on wikis outside Wikimedia.
 *
 * @source: //meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Gadget-ShortDiff.js
 * @author: Krinkle
 * @revision: 2
 */
// jQuery document ready
$(function(){
  $('a').live( 'click', function(){
    var href = $(this).attr('href');
    var diffVal = mw.util.getParamValue( 'diff', href );
    if ( !href || !diffVal ) {
      return;
    }
    var newHref = mw.config.get('wgScript') + '?diff=' + diffVal;
    var oldidVal = mw.util.getParamValue( 'oldid', href );
    if ( oldidVal ) {
      newHref += '&oldid=' + oldidVal;
    }
    $(this).attr( 'href',  newHref );
  });
});