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// ==UserScript==
// @name Advocate to Wikipedia citation
// @namespace Wikipedia
// @include http://www.advocate.com/*
// @description Create a Wikipedia formatted citation for an article in The Advocate
// ==/UserScript==
/*
Description
This Greasemonkey script takes any article page from the Advocate.com website and creates a
Wikipedia citation for it. The Advocate is the oldest gay newspaper in the USA.
Edit history
2009-10-22 Creation based on similar script for the BBC.
-23 Fix error for non-author articles.
*/
// Last update
var version='22 October 2009';
// Global variables
var utitle='', uauthor='', usummary='', udate='',
uyear='', uref=''; uurl='', uref='',
now=new Date(), monthNames=new Array(
"January","February","March","April","May","June","July",
"August","September","October","November","December");
var helpText='<p><b>Instructions</b></p>\
<p style=margin-top:0.75em;>The citation above is automatically populated \
based on The Advocate article you are currently viewing. You can edit the text on this page \
inside the text box. For more help on the citation parameters see \
<a style="font-size:80%" href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Cite_news target=_blank>\
[[template:cite news]]</a> or <a style="font-size:80%" \
href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Cite_web target=_blank>\
[[template:cite web]]</a>. Some handy buttons available are:<\p>\
<div style=margin-left:2em;margin-top:0.75em;>\
<input type=button value="Highlight text"> highlight all text ready for cut & paste\
<br><input type=button value="{}"> expand the text for more easily readable layout\
<br><input type=button value="}{"> collapse the text\
<br><input type=button value=«> <input type=button value=»> increase/decrease the size of the edit text box\
<br><input type=button style=color:darkblue; value="<ref>"> wrap the citation with ref tags to \
turn it into a footnote (click twice to remove automatic name)\
<br><input type=button style=color:red; value=Reset> undo all changes\
<br><input type=button style=color:darkblue; value=quote> add a quote (copy part of the article first, then paste it into \
the pop-up box)\
</div>\
<p style=margin-top:0.75em;><i>\
Feedback and bug reporting can be left on my Wikipedia user talk page \
<a style="font-size:80%" href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Ash target=_blank>\
[[User talk:Ash]]</a>. \
Before you report a bug check, you have installed the latest version available on \
<a style="font-size:80%" href=http://userscripts.org/scripts/edit/60299 target=_blank>userscripts.org</a>.\
</i></p>\
<p style=margin-top:1.5em;color:grey;>Release date of this script: '+version+'</p>';
/**
* Throughout, whitespace is defined as one of the characters
* "\t" TAB \u0009
* "\n" LF \u000A
* "\r" CR \u000D
* " " SPC \u0020
*
* This does not use Javascript's "\s" because that includes non-breaking
* spaces (and also some other characters).
*/
/**
* Determine whether a node's text content is entirely whitespace.
*
* @param nod A node implementing the |CharacterData| interface (i.e.,
* a |Text|, |Comment|, or |CDATASection| node
* @return True if all of the text content of |nod| is whitespace,
* otherwise false.
*/
function is_all_ws( nod )
{
// Use ECMA-262 Edition 3 String and RegExp features
return !(/[^\t\n\r ]/.test(nod.data));
}
/**
* Determine if a node should be ignored by the iterator functions.
*
* @param nod An object implementing the DOM1 |Node| interface.
* @return true if the node is:
* 1) A |Text| node that is all whitespace
* 2) A |Comment| node
* and otherwise false.
*/
function is_ignorable( nod )
{
return ( nod.nodeType == 8) || // A comment node
( nod.nodeType == 3); // a text node
}
/**
* Version of |previousSibling| that skips nodes that are entirely
* whitespace or comments. (Normally |previousSibling| is a property
* of all DOM nodes that gives the sibling node, the node that is
* a child of the same parent, that occurs immediately before the
* reference node.)
*
* @param sib The reference node.
* @return Either:
* 1) The closest previous sibling to |sib| that is not
* ignorable according to |is_ignorable|, or
* 2) null if no such node exists.
*/
function node_before( sib )
{
while ((sib = sib.previousSibling)) {
if (!is_ignorable(sib)) return sib;
}
return null;
}
/**
* Version of |nextSibling| that skips nodes that are entirely
* whitespace or comments.
*
* @param sib The reference node.
* @return Either:
* 1) The closest next sibling to |sib| that is not
* ignorable according to |is_ignorable|, or
* 2) null if no such node exists.
*/
function node_after( sib )
{
while ((sib = sib.nextSibling)) {
if (!is_ignorable(sib)) return sib;
}
return null;
}
/**
* Version of |lastChild| that skips nodes that are entirely
* whitespace or comments. (Normally |lastChild| is a property
* of all DOM nodes that gives the last of the nodes contained
* directly in the reference node.)
*
* @param sib The reference node.
* @return Either:
* 1) The last child of |sib| that is not
* ignorable according to |is_ignorable|, or
* 2) null if no such node exists.
*/
function last_child( par )
{
var res=par.lastChild;
while (res) {
if (!is_ignorable(res)) return res;
res = res.previousSibling;
}
return null;
}
/**
* Version of |firstChild| that skips nodes that are entirely
* whitespace and comments.
*
* @param sib The reference node.
* @return Either:
* 1) The first child of |sib| that is not
* ignorable according to |is_ignorable|, or
* 2) null if no such node exists.
*/
function first_child( par )
{
var res=par.firstChild;
while (res) {
if (!is_ignorable(res)) return res;
res = res.nextSibling;
}
return null;
}
/**
* Version of |data| that doesn't include whitespace at the beginning
* and end and normalizes all whitespace to a single space. (Normally
* |data| is a property of text nodes that gives the text of the node.)
*
* @param txt The text node whose data should be returned
* @return A string giving the contents of the text node with
* whitespace collapsed.
*/
function data_of( txt )
{
var data = txt.data;
// Use ECMA-262 Edition 3 String and RegExp features
data = data.replace(/[\t\n\r ]+/g, " ");
if (data.charAt(0) == " ")
data = data.substring(1, data.length);
if (data.charAt(data.length - 1) == " ")
data = data.substring(0, data.length - 1);
return data;
}
function cnvrt2title(str) {
return str.toLowerCase().replace(/\b\w+\b/g, cnvrt);
function cnvrt() {
if (arguments[arguments.length -2] == 0)
return arguments[0].replace(/^[a-z]/, cnvrt2);
else if (/^(a|about|after|an|and|at|by|for|from|in|into|nor|of|on|onto|over|the|to|up|with|within)$/.test(arguments[0]) )
return arguments[0];
else
return arguments[0].replace(/^[a-z]/, cnvrt2);
}
function cnvrt2() {
return arguments[0].toUpperCase();
}
}
function randomString(n) {
var chars = "abcdefghiklmnopqrstuvwxyz";
var string_length = n;
var randomstring = '';
for (var i=0; i<string_length; i++) {
var rnum = Math.floor(Math.random() * chars.length);
randomstring += chars.substring(rnum,rnum+1);
}
return randomstring;
}
function authorSplit(a, fl) { // Attempt to get lastname, first name ordered
a=a.replace(/\s+/g," ");
var myA=a.split(' '), myS='', myF='';
// check for organizations or oddities
if(a.match(/association|organi|inc\.|charity|trust|society|archive|[\(\[\{\,]| (&|&) /i)!==null){
return (fl==1 ? a : myF);
}
// check for nobiliary particles if name is more than one word
if (myA.length>1 && (myA[myA.length-2].match(/^von$|^van$|^de$/i)!==null) && (myA.length<5)) { // Needs expansion
myS=myA[myA.length-2]+' '+myA[myA.length-1];
myF=myA.slice(0,myA.length-2).join(' ');
} else if (myA.length<5) {
myS=myA[myA.length-1];
myF=myA.slice(0,myA.length-1).join(' ');
if(myS.replace(/[\.\s]/g,"").length<2){
var swap=myS;
myS=myF;myF=swap;
}
} else {myS=a}; // Skip strangely long names, likely organizations*/
return (fl==1 ? myS : myF);
}
function first_last(a,n){
if(a==''){return};
if(n==1||n==undefined){n=''};
if(authorSplit(a,0)!==''){ // i.e. there's a first name
return " |last"+n+"="+authorSplit(a,1)+" |first"+n+"="+authorSplit(a,0);
}else{
return " |author"+n+"="+a;
}
}
/*
<meta name="proximic_title" content="Hunt for girls after killing of gay man"/>
<meta name="icx_authors" content=""/>
<meta name="icx_byline" content=""/>
<meta name="icx_copyright" content="2009 Independent News Media"/>
<meta name="icx_deckheader" content="A gay man who was attacked by two teenage girls and a young man in a suspected homophobic assault in central London has died."/>
<meta name="icx_headline" content="Hunt for girls after killing of gay man"/>
<meta name="icx_pubdate" content="10/15/2009"/>
<meta name="icx_pubyear" content="2009"/>
<meta name="icx_section" content="Crime"/>
*/
function infoFromPaper() { // *********************
var s = '';
var meta=document.getElementsByTagName('meta');
if(meta!==null && meta.length>3){
var mtitle='', msummary='', mdate='';
for(var i in meta){
switch(meta[i].name){
case "Title": case "title": case "TITLE":
mtitle=meta[i].content.replace(/\s/g," ").split("|")[0].replace(/\s+/g," ");
break;
case "Description" : case "DESCRIPTION": case "description" :
msummary=meta[i].content.replace(/"|"/g,"'")
.replace(/<.*?>/g,"");
//GM_log("usummary = "+usummary);
break;
case "Doc_Date" :
udate=meta[i].content.replace(/\s/g," ").split('T')[0].replace(/\D/g,"");
if(udate.length==8 && udate.match(/\d{8}/)!==null){
udate=udate.match(/\d\d$/)[0]+" "+
monthNames[udate.replace(/....(\d\d)../,"$1")-1]+
" "+udate.match(/\d{4}/)[0];};
break;
}
}
if(mtitle==''){mtitle=msummary;msummary=''};
if(msummary!==''){usummary=msummary};
utitle=mtitle;
}
var spans=document.getElementsByTagName('a'); // Hunt for author link
// Get byline
if(spans!==null){
for(var i in spans){
switch(spans[i].className){
case "Byline":
uauthor=spans[i].innerHTML
.replace(/\s+/g," ").replace(/^( *)by /i,"")
.replace(/\s*$/,"");
if(uauthor.search("Advocate")<0 &&
uauthor.length>2){
s+=first_last(uauthor);
}else{uauthor=''};
break;
}
}
}
if(utitle==''){ // default to web page title
utitle=document.getElementsByTagName('title');
utitle=(utitle==null?'':utitle[0].innerHTML).replace(/\|/,"-");
}
var accessDate="20"+now.getYear().toString().substr(1)+"-"+
(now.getMonth()>8?now.getMonth()+1:"0"+(now.getMonth()+1))+"-"+
now.getDate();
if(udate!==''){uyear=udate.match(/\d{4}/)};
uref=(uauthor.length>5?authorSplit(uauthor,1):"Advocate")+uyear;
if(udate.match(/\d{4}/)!==null){uyear=udate.match(/\d{4}/)[0]};
s+=(udate==''?'':" |date="+udate)+" |title="+utitle+
" |newspaper=[[The Advocate]] |accessdate="+accessDate;
GM_log("udate:"+udate+"//utitle:"+utitle+"//uref:"+uref+"//uauthor:"+uauthor);
return s;
}
function sortResult(s){
var ord=new Array("accessdate=","newspaper=","date=","author=","first1?=","last1?=","title="); // Reverse order
for(var i=0;i<ord.length;i++){
if(s.search(ord[i])>0){
var m='\\| ?'+ord[i]+'[^\\|]+';
if(s.match(m)!==null){
var mm=s.match(m)[0];
s=s.replace(/(\{\{cite (news|web) )/,"$1"+mm);
s=s.split(mm)[0]+mm+s.split(mm)[1]+s.split(mm)[2];
}
}
}
return s;
}
function showCitationFromInfo(info, url) {
var s = '{{cite news';
s += info;
s += ' |url=' + url.replace(/\/$/,"") + '}}';
// sort into preferred order
s=sortResult(s);
// Toggle pre-existing citation box
var test=document.getElementById('cite');
if(test!==null){
test.parentNode.parentNode.removeChild(test.parentNode);
with(document.getElementById('myCite').getElementsByTagName('input')[0]){
value="Show citation";
//style.backgroundColor="transparent";
}
} else {
with(document.getElementById('myCite').getElementsByTagName('input')[0]){
value="Hide citation";
//style.backgroundColor="lightblue";
}
// Create citation box buttons
var tb = document.getElementById('citearea'); // insert before this div
var cite=document.createElement('div');
var taRows=parseInt(s.length/70)+1;
var plusRows=0; // How many rows are too long for text box
for(var i=0;i<s.split(' |').length;i++){if(s.split(' |')[i].length>75){++plusRows}};
s.replace(/'/g,"’"); // change single quotes
// Create summary / abstract
var sSummary=s.replace(/}}$/,(usummary!=='' ? " | quote="+usummary+"}}" : "}}"));
var search=utitle.split(':')[0].replace(/\s/g,"+");
var gnews="http://news.google.com/archivesearch?q="+search;
var gyear="&as_user_hdate="+uyear+"&as_user_ldate="+uyear;
var guardian="http://browse.guardian.co.uk/search?search="+utitle.split(':')[0];
cite.innerHTML = '\n<form name=cite id=cite><p style="'+
'font-size:12pt;margin:0px;">'+
'<span title="Edit and copy citation, useful additional fields include "quote" and "page"">'+
'Wikipedia citation</span> <input style="font-size:8pt" type="button" value="Highlight Text" title="Click to highlight all text for copying" '+
'onClick="javascript:this.form.citation.focus();this.form.citation.select();"> '+
// Newspaper droplist
' \
</SCRIPT>\
<SELECT NAME="droplist" id=droplist title="Search for "'+
utitle.split(':')[0].replace(/[^\w\s]/g,"")+'" at selected site" \
style="color:black;background-color:white;">\
<OPTION SELECTED="SELECTED" VALUE="'+gnews+'+'+gyear+'">Google News</OPTION>\
<OPTION VALUE="http://www.google.com/search?q='+search+'">Google</OPTION>\
<OPTION VALUE="'+gnews+'+site:independent.co.uk'+gyear+'">The Independent</OPTION>\
<OPTION VALUE="'+gnews+'+site:timesonline.co.uk'+gyear+'">The Guardian</OPTION>\
<OPTION VALUE="'+gnews+'+site:bbc.co.uk'+gyear+'">BBC News</OPTION>\
<OPTION VALUE="'+gnews+'+site:telegraph.co.uk'+gyear+'">The Telegraph</OPTION>\
<OPTION VALUE="'+gnews+'+site:thesun.co.uk'+gyear+'">The Sun</OPTION>\
<OPTION VALUE="'+gnews+'+site:cnn.com'+gyear+'">CNN</OPTION>\
<OPTION VALUE="'+gnews+'+site:nytimes.com'+gyear+'">New York Times</OPTION>\
<OPTION VALUE="http://www.wired.com/search?query='+search+'&siteAlias=all">Wired News</OPTION>\
</SELECT><INPUT TYPE="BUTTON" VALUE="Go" \
ONCLICK="javascript:location.href=this.form.droplist.options[this.form.droplist.selectedIndex].value;">\
'+
'</p>\n'+
'<p style="margin-top:2px;margin-bottom:0px;">'+
// +ref button
'<input title="Add automatically named reference tags for footnote; click again to remove name" '+
'style="color:darkblue;font-size:8pt" type="button" value="<ref>" '+
'onClick="javascript:this.form.citation.value='+
'(this.form.citation.value.search(/\\<ref name\\=/)>-1 ? '+
'this.form.citation.value.replace(/(\\<ref) name\\='+uref+' /,"$1")'+
' : '+
'this.form.citation.value.replace(/^{{|^\\*{{/,"<ref name='+uref+
' >{{").replace(/}}$/,"}}</ref>"))";> '+
// +(optional) summary
(usummary.length>0 ?
'<input title="Add summary of article as quotation" '+
'style="color:darkblue;font-size:8pt" type="button" value="Summary" '+
'onClick="javascript:var v=this.form.citation;if(v.value.match(/quote( *)=/)==null){'+
'v.value=v.value.replace(/}}$/," |quote='+usummary+'}}")};"> '
:'')+
// Add bullet
'<input title="Bullet" style="color:darkblue;font-size:8pt" type="button" value="*" '+
'onClick="javascript:this.form.citation.value='+
'this.form.citation.value.replace(/^{{/,"*{{");"> '+
'<input title="Reset the citation text, wiping out changes" '+ // Reset button
'style="color:red;font-size:8pt" type="button" value="Reset" '+
'onClick="javascript:getElementById("citebox").rows='+taRows+
';this.form.citation.value=\''+s.replace(/'/g,"’").replace(/"/g,""")+'\';getElementById("addfields").style.display=""";> '+
// Text area start
'<p style="font-size:medium;">'+
'<table style="background-color:lightblue;-moz-border-radius:3px;">'+
'<tr><td><textarea style="color:black;background-color:white;padding:0.5em;border-color:black;'+
'border-style:solid;border-width:1px;" rows='+taRows+
' cols=85 name=citation id=citebox>'+s+'</textarea></td>'+
'<td valign=top style="background-color:lightblue;">'+
'<input title="Reduce size by removing some spaces" '+ // Squeeze
'type="button" value="}{" onClick="javascript:getElementById("citebox").rows='+taRows+
';this.form.citation.value='+
'this.form.citation.value.replace(/\\n*\\s* /g," ")'+
'.replace(/\\n/g,"").replace(/ = /g,"=")'+
'.replace(/\\| /g,"|").replace(/ }}/g,"}}");"> '+
''+
'<input title="Long layout" '+ // Expand
'type="button" value="{}" onClick="javascript:this.form.citation.value='+
'this.form.citation.value.replace(/\\n*\\s*\\|/g,"\\n |").replace(/\\n*\\s*}}/g,"\\n}}")'+
'.replace(/\\?id=/,"idxxx").replace(/\\|(\\w*)=(\\w|\\[)/g,"|$1 = $2").replace(/idxxx/,"?id=");'+
'getElementById("citebox").rows=this.form.citation.value.split(/\\n/).length-1+'+plusRows+';"> '+
'<br>'+
'<input title="Take one row off textbox" '+ // Nudge -1
'type="button" value="«" onClick="javascript:'+
'var r=getElementById("citebox");if(r.rows>1){r.rows-=1};"> '+
'<input title="Add one row to textbox" '+ // Nudge +1
'type="button" value="»" onClick="javascript:'+
'getElementById("citebox").rows+=1;"> '+
'</td></tr></table>\n'+ // Text area end
// +help
'<p style="margin:0px;font-size:8pt;"><input id=showHelp title="Show instructions" '+
'type=button value="Help" '+
'onClick="javascript:var h=getElementById("helpText"),t=this.form.showHelp;'+
'if(t.value=="Help"){'+
'h.style.display=null;'+
't.value="Hide help";t.style.color="red"}else{'+
'h.style.display="none";'+
't.value="Help";t.style.color="black"}'+
';" > '+
'<span id=addfields> Add field: '+
// +author
'<input title="Add an author to the citation" '+
'style="color:darkblue" type=button value=author '+
'onClick="javascript:var a=prompt("Author","'+uauthor+'");if(a.length>0){'+
'this.form.citation.value=this.form.citation.value'+
'.replace(/ \\|( *)author[^\\|}]*|(}})$/," |$1author="+a+"$2")}else{'+
'this.form.citation.value=this.form.citation.value.replace(/\\|( *)author[^\\|}]*/,"")};" > '+
// +quotation
'<input title="Add quotation to the citation" style="color:darkblue" type=button value=quote '+
'onClick="javascript:var q=prompt("Quotation");if(q.length>3){this.form.citation.value=this.form.citation.value.replace'+
'(/}}$/," |quote="+q+" }}")};" > '+
'</p></span><div id="helpText" style="display:none"><p><table><tr>'+
'<td style="padding:2em;background-color:lightgreen;">'+
helpText+'</td></tr></table></p></div>'+
'</form>';
with(cite.style){
backgroundColor='lightblue';
border='solid black 1px';
padding='6px';
//cite.style.margin='2px';
//cite.style.marginTop='0em';
marginLeft='auto';
marginRight='auto';
width='700px';
}
tb.parentNode.insertBefore(cite,tb); // Insert before titlebar
}
}
function showCitationFromPage() {
var u = cleanURI();//location.href;
GM_log('Getting info from '+u);
var info = infoFromPaper();
showCitationFromInfo(info, u);
}
function cleanURI() {
return location.href.split('&')[0].split('?')[0];
}
//Add a main buttons to the top bar
function add_link(text, title, func, id) {
//Check this is an article
if(cleanURI().match(/\//g).length<6){return}; // Too high in the hierarchy?
var bar = document.getElementsByTagName('div');
if(bar!==null && bar.length>0){bar=bar[0]}else{
// Could be a very old page with no 'div's
// e.g. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/88831.stm
bar=document.getElementsByTagName('table');
if(bar==null||bar.length<1){return}; // Give up if no tables
bar=bar[0];
}
if(document.getElementById('TopHorizontalMenu')!==null){
bar=document.getElementById('TopHorizontalMenu');
}
var link = document.createElement('a');
var citearea=document.createElement('div');
citearea.id="citearea";
link.title = title;
link.innerHTML = text;
link.style.textDecoration = 'none';
link.style.fontSize='5pt';
link.id=id;
link.style.marginLeft='0em';
link.style.float='left';
var dofunc = function(event) {
event.stopPropagation();
event.preventDefault();
func();
};
link.addEventListener('click', dofunc, false);
bar.parentNode.insertBefore(link,bar);
bar.parentNode.insertBefore(citearea,bar);
}
//GM_log('Adding link to top');
add_link('<div style="margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;width:716px;\
background-color:lightblue;height:10pt;">\
<input type=button value="Show citation" \
style="height:4pt;font-size:6pt;text-decoration:none" \
onmouseover="javascript:;\
this.height="14pt";this.style.fontSize="8pt";this.style.backgroundColor=null;"\
onmouseout="javascript:this.style.fontSize="6pt";this.height="4pt;""></div>',
'Show a Wikipedia formatted citation for this article',
showCitationFromPage,'myCite');
