AjaxRC is a script for advanced auto refreshing recent changes and watchlist. This is based on the original script from Wowpedia.
Installation
What it does
- The code adds a checkbox at the top of non-JavaScript version Special:RecentChanges next to the header.
- Ticking this sets a cookie (specific to each wiki) and starts updating the list.
- This occurs silently every 60 seconds without a full page reload occurring.
Configuration
There are several configuration options:
| Option | Location | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ajax pages | window.ajaxPages
|
Pages that are automatically refreshed | [] |
| Ajax special pages | window.ajaxSpecialPages
|
Special pages that are automatically refreshed (language-neutral) | ['Recentchanges'] |
| Indicator icon | window.ajaxIndicator
|
Progress indicator | 
|
| Refresh time | window.ajaxRefresh
|
Interval in which the page is automatically refreshed | 60000 (60 seconds) |
| Display text | window.AjaxRCRefreshTextDeprecated; please override the message ajaxrc-refresh-text instead
|
Text displayed beside the checkbox on the page | "Auto-refresh" |
| Hover text | window.AjaxRCRefreshHoverTextDeprecated; please override the message ajaxrc-refresh-hover instead
|
Text displayed when hovering over the display text | "Automatically refresh the page" |
If you have functions that modify the content that's reloaded, they won't work after the first refresh unless you run them again after the content has loaded. You can do this by adding them to the ajaxCallAgain variable, like this:
window.ajaxCallAgain = window.ajaxCallAgain || [];
window.ajaxCallAgain.push(function1, function2, function3);
Example configuration
window.ajaxPages = ["Some Frequently Updated Page"];
window.ajaxSpecialPages = ["Recentchanges", "Watchlist", "Log", "Contributions"];
window.ajaxIndicator = 'https://images.wikia.nocookie.net/software/images/a/a9/Indicator.gif';
window.ajaxRefresh = 30000;
$.extend(true, window, {dev: {i18n: {overrides: {AjaxRC: {
'ajaxrc-refresh-text': 'AJAX',
'ajaxrc-refresh-hover': 'Enable page auto-refresh',
}}}}});
Using configuration options with Fandom Developers Wiki scripts
The instructions on this page describe how to use configuration options with a script. Here on the Fandom Developers Wiki, many scripts provide optional configuration settings as a mean to alter or enhance the default behavior of the script. When installing configuration options in your JavaScript file, please note that they need to go above the import statement in order to work — unless the directions say otherwise. In case MediaWiki:ImportJS is used to load the scripts, it will be executed last.
// 1. AjaxRC import statement
importArticles({
type: 'script',
articles: [
'u:dev:MediaWiki:AjaxRC.js'
]
});
// 2. AjaxRC configuration option
window.ajaxRefresh = 30000;
// 1. AjaxRC configuration option
window.ajaxRefresh = 30000;
// 2. AjaxRC import statement
importArticles({
type: 'script',
articles: [
'u:dev:MediaWiki:AjaxRC.js'
]
});