Cite Unseen is a user script that adds categorical icons to Wikipedia citations, providing readers and editors a quick initial evaluation of citations at a glance.

Full documentation can be found here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cite_Unseen

Cite Unseen is deployed on Meta-Wiki on the following page: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:SuperHamster/CiteUnseen.js

See the on-wiki installation instructions for how to install this user script for yourself, either globally on Meta-Wiki or on individual language versions of Wikipedia.

Cite Unseen is maintained as an npm project. Source files live under src/, and the deployable userscript is generated by the build script.

• src/main.js handles page lifecycle orchestration.
• src/citations/ contains citation parsing, rule matching, source data, and category data.
• src/ui/ contains icon rendering, reflist controls, dashboards, dialogs, dialog templates, and UI-specific CSS.
• src/i18n.js builds bundled translation data and owns language-variant conversion.
• src/config.js loads and applies user configuration from Meta-Wiki and the local wiki.

Build requirements:

• Node.js 22 or newer
• npm

Install dependencies and build locally:

npm ci
npm run build

The build writes:

• build/cite-unseen-bundled.js
• build/README.md

Do not edit generated files in build/ by hand. Edit files under src/, i18n/, or build.js, then rebuild.

The CI pipeline automatically builds a bundled version of the script (cite-unseen-bundled.js) and publishes it to deploy branches:

Note: deploy-mr-## branches contain unreviewed code from merge requests and should be tested/used with caution.

This project is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0).