Please activate Extension:DeleteBatch and Extension:UndeleteBatch on en.Wikisource.
The matter was discussed and a consensus to request implementation was reached (see discussion).
Any help in the interim towards restoring the now-defunct Gadget (below) to working order would be greatly appreciated as well.
See also: T61793
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stalled | None | T108501 Activate Extension:DeleteBatch and Extension:UndeleteBatch on en.Wikisource | |||
| Declined | None | T145966 Security review for Extension:DeleteBatch |
It would probably be much less work to have someone simply fix your gadget which did this.
I figured as much when I found the same request lingering from 2014 for Commons, but thought it best to go through the motions just in case.
Fwiw... if anyone is interested in fixing the gadget in question, its
I'm pretty sure its the deprecated sajax thing that finally killed it (but I've been wrong before).
The deprecated sajax thing's support will be removed in 1.26wmf18 (which hasn't made it to production wikis yet). The recent changes related to Gadgets and ResourceLoader is what made this broke probably.
Forgive my ignorance, but why are they more work? Is it likely these will ever be implemented? If not, could we have a note at MediaWiki to highlight this?
Extensions need to go through https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Review_queue before being deployed to Wikimedia wikis. This could take anything from weeks to months and would need someone interested to respond to the reviews and improve the extension.
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Gadget-massdelete.js
Replace sajax_init_object() with new XMLHttpRequest()
That should go a long way to fixing it...
Some deprecated API calls, but they should still work for now
Also, don't edit the description to add new different requests, put it as a comment :)
Sorry for that but I did make the same plea back on August 9th with no reply/interest since. Thanks for the pointer nevertheless :)
still no workie :(
https://en.wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Gadget-massdelete.js&diff=5968327 is wrong. It should be var req = new XMLHttpRequest(); (with new).
If there is still interest in this extension, please see my comment at T145966#3382152 (Basically, extension needs to be modernized. Also be good if usecase was clarified)