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Anyone come across a way of doing this?  Redirecting a page via an interwiki link?  See here; apparently it's possible, since it's done here, but I guess they've made some server-side modifications or something.

[Known issues]

I actually initially wrote this a long time ago (page histories give 10th October 2009 as the date of the initial version...), but I didn't know any JavaScript and was just making stuff up as I went along, looking up what I needed.  Unsurprisingly, the result was pretty terrible code - but it worked, for me, and I was happy with that.

A few weeks ago, I borrowed a JavaScript book from the library and took a weekend to actually learn it; now, I've got around to rewriting this, and it should be ready to use.

This is a script to, as the name suggests, toggle namespaces in the recent changes.  A checkbox for every namespace (and things like deletion log, new accounts, page moves) gets added to the top, and ticking/unticking it shows/hides changes for that namespace (once you've put the right CSS in place as well).  You can set initial values so that certain namespaces start hidden; and there are buttons to toggle all/invert the selection/restore the initial selection.  Here's a live version.

To use it, follow the instructions here.

Known issues

- When using enhanced recent changes, hiding/expanding the edits for a page removes the class applied by my script to hide it.  Therefore, this is only a problem when the CSS you set up doesn't hide the 'hidden' changes (but does something else - makes them small and grey like the example, say).  This'll be fixed when I get the time, and I'll see if they'll accept a patch in MediaWiki to make the enhanced recent changes more flexible with regard to manipulating classes.

- If this is employed site-wide, the user can't have their own settings for the initial namespaces hidden because user JS loads after site JS.  I'll try to think of a way this could be done; I have an idea that would work, but be messy and increase page load time - anyone have any suggestions?

- I haven't been able to test this in IE as VirtualBox has suddenly decided it doesn't want guests to have internet access and I can't be bothered to set up a local page.  If anyone finds this doesn't work in IE (not unlikely), there'll probably be an error-type icon somewhere that you can double-click or something to get the details I'd like to know about; and I'd like to know the version you're using as well.  Update: reported to work fine in IE7.

Bug reports and feature requests are welcome.

This is just a script thing I wrote that I thought others might benefit from (though its function is quite specific, not something you'd really want to do very often).  It adds little buttons to specified columns in a table that hide the column.  It works fine with sortable tables, and in most cases with multi-column cells (in particular, cells that span multiple headers aren't attached to a specific one, so they get hidden/shown with either's buttons), but not with multi-row cells.

Information, live example.  It's as simple as putting the code at a CSS page (Mediawiki:Common.css, User:yourname/monobook.css, etc.) and changing the image paths at the top (upload the images somewhere rather than linking to mine - try ImageShack, TinyPic).  Then give the first row in a table column the 'hideable' (and maybe 'hidden') class; here's the example on the information page I linked to in MediaWiki terms:

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{| class="wikitable"
! class="hideable" | hideable header
! class="hideable hidden" | hideable header that starts hidden
|-
|cell
[...]
|}

Bug reports and feature requests (not that there's much potential for expansion here) are welcome.