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Hello! Thank you for using Cite Unseen. We are excited to share details about a big update we just deployed.

First: User:SuperGrey is joining User:SuperHamster as a maintainer (it is a coincidence that we both happen to have "super" in our usernames!).

With grant support from Wikimedia CH, we've added several new features:

Filtering dashboard in action
  • Source lists and categorizations now live on Meta-Wiki rather than GitHub, making them easier to view and collaboratively edit.
    • Feel free to be bold and help expand the lists, but review the criteria on each list first. For debatable additions, use the suggestions page so others can weigh in.
    • Changes to lists don't go live immediately, as Cite Unseen references specific rev IDs. This helps avoid issues of vandalism, and allows for changes to be reviewed before going live.
    • Our sources lists also support date ranges, allowing us to handle sources whose nature or reliability has varied over time.
  • A new filtering dashboard appears at the top of references sections, showing counts for each source category.
    Category suggestion dialog
    • Click a category to display only those citations. This can be useful for exploring specific types of sources, and pinpointing potentially unreliable sources.
    • You can disable the dashboard in the settings (more on configuring settings below).
  • Cite Unseen now injects two links in References section headers:
    • "Suggest Categories", which adds ⊕ icons next to citations. Click on one to open a dialog box that allows you to select recommended categories and leave a comment; your suggestion is posted to Meta-Wiki for review.
    • "Cite Unseen Settings", which allows you to toggle the filtering dashboard and suggestion buttons mentioned above, and modify your custom domain or string categorizations.
      • You can save your settings globally (Meta-Wiki, applies to all language Wikipedias) or locally (current language only).
  • Internationalization is in progress. We currently have Chinese and Japanese translations; contributions of additional languages are welcome (see m:Meta:Cite_Unseen#Internationalization).
  • Cite Unseen has been updated to better capture citations across more Wikimedia projects, including various language versions of Wikipedia.
  • The user script is now hosted on Meta-Wiki, as part of our effort to internationalize and support various Wikimedia languages and projects. You can find our updated installation instructions here.
    • To run Cite Unseen across all Wikimedia sites, you can import it into your Meta-Wiki global.js page.
    • The English-Wikipedia script now redirects to the Meta-Wiki version, so no action is required to stay up to date (but it's probably a good idea to update your JS to point directly to the script on Meta-Wiki to avoid hitting the redirect.

We're continuing active development and expanding our source categorizations, especially for non-English sources. If you have feature ideas, notice any issues with our new updates, or have any questions, please get in touch via our project talk page.

Thanks,

SuperHamster and SuperGrey

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