As a translator of UI messages, I switch between skins a lot so as to find out how translations look like in various skins. Also, I have a lengthy list of additional buttons in the edit bar supporting translationsal work. They are loaded via JavaScripts in subpages of my user page, one for each skin.

Despite the fact that all look alike, I have to keep an identical copy for each skin.

#redirect [[User:.../common.js]]

{{:user:.../common.js}}

both were useful and make scripts easier to maintain, but unlike everywhere else, do not work for these JavaScripts.

My scripts do something useful only on edit screens. Else, they detect that there is no editbar, and quit. Imho, they should better not be loaded into other pages. This could be had e.g. by having specific action dependent scripts, such as:

:user:.../skinname.js/action=edit
:user:.../skinname.js/action=move

etc.

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Severity: enhancement