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[edit] Fixed Bugs

Note only bugs that are fixed in the current version of Vandal proof are in these archives.


[edit] Temporary Fix for Javascript Error Messages (hopefully fixed in v1.2.0)

For all users experiencing annoying though non-fatal "Internet Explorer Script Error" messages, I regret to inform you that I have yet to find an absolute cure for this problem. I originally hypothesized that it was a component installation problem; however, after multiple rendentions of setup files on several machines experiencing this problem, I have concluded that the problem does not result from the actions of my program, but rather from the incorrect rendering of Wikipedia pages by Javascript engines. When navigating Wikipedia (and likely other java-enabled sites as well) in Internet Explorer, you may notice a small exclamation point icon on the status bar and/or the text "Error on page." This is the subtle and non-intrusive way that IE handles non-fatal JS exceptions, by supressing them to the toolbar, yet the browser control incorporated into VandalProof often handles the errors by displaying an annoying message with confusing and misleading text. As I cannot modify the.ocx distributed by Microsoft, I cannot change the way that the browser control deals with Javascript errors.

Now for all the users asking, "I thought this section was titled Temporary Fix for Javascript Error Messages," I have indeed found a highly unorthodoxed way to fix this problem. I have created a very simple Windows API application that can run in the background while VandalProof is running that, upon identifying IE script error messages, will close the warnings immediately. While the background application is running, you may see a slight flicker on the screen and perhaps hear a beep (though this hasn't been the case on the machines where I've tested it), but the messages will no longer impair your ability to use VandalProof.

If you are having Javascript error messages, please download and save the file CloseScriptErr.exe (also available here and here) to the same directory as VandalProof. Whenever you want to run VandalProof warning-free, simply run the CloseScriptErr executable, and then run VandalProof. Only close the dialog it loads once you are done using VandalProof.

Whether or not the simple app helps you, or if you have any other, perhaps more orthodoxed, solutions to the IE script error problem, please let me know in this section. Thanks, and I hope this helps. AmiDaniel ( Talk) 03:58, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

By the way, for those of you interested in the source code for this simple app, I have made it availabe at User:AmiDaniel/VP/CSE Source. And I should also give some credit to allapi.net, about the only resource for API programming, and where I learned everything I know about API. AmiDaniel ( Talk) 04:52, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

Good News! I've found a way to cure the JS error messages, so in the next release this problem won't exist at all (hopefully). AmiDaniel ( Talk) 07:25, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

I use the new IE7 beta, and i'm not getting any script errors. However, as IE7 is a beta, I advise you to take caution with it. MPN 23:43, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

I'm not using IE7 beta; everything I've developed has been using IE6 and a lot of the OLE automation and techniques I'm using were developed for IE5. I'm not going to touch IE7 for at least another couple of years — Microsoft has this tendency to take simple and useful software, like word processors for example, and make them perpetually more complex and less functional with each release. Everything I've seen of IE7 has been graphics, graphics, graphics, which, as you can tell from the bland and ugly interface of VP, doesn't interest me at all (I'm probably the only person still using XP with a modified "classic" look). So, not to worry — I won't touch the IE7 beta; thus there's no reason to be afraid! Thanks for the comment though — perhaps MS did manage to fix something with their new browser. AmiDaniel ( Talk) 00:20, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
Make that two of us! (I prefer the start menu format of the classic look) - Gl e n TC (Stollery) 00:24, 4 May 2006 (UTC) PS: Just out of here and back to studying you!
Make that most of humanity! me too! Eagle talk 04:18, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
I only use XP on my laptop, and I've only allowed it to remain because people are always asking for help with XP boxen. All my other active machines run 2000, except 1 Red Hat. Rich Farmbrough 09:22 7 May 2006 (UTC).
I am now using 1.2 - but I am getting the JS error messages... Ian13/talk 10:39, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
Make us two, AmiDaniel, even with the script. Fetofs Hello! 23:04, 24 May 2006 (UTC)
Make three!!!Eagle talk 02:41, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

I have an even quicker fix for this problem, delete all the contents of your monobook.js file and then slowly readd them until you find the script causing the messages. Wikipedia should only give an occasional JS error, repeated errors are caused by buggy user-scripts.--SomeStranger(t|c) 01:34, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

(reset indent) I've found a fix for some of the problems causing the IE script errors. Open IE, Go to Tools > Internet Options, 'Advanced' tab, and click 'Restore Defaults'. This may not always work, depending on the issue causing the script errors, but it works for me. --Draicone (talk) 08:27, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Instaview

It isn't a huge bug, but if you have Pilaf's InstaView in your monobook, the application lags a lot and an error message pops up every time you change pages. _-M o P-_ 15:35, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

What version of IE do you have installed? InstaView doesn't work with 5 and below so that might be triggering it. Also, what version of Java are you using? Do the error messages say something to the extent of "document.getobjectbyid(...) is null"? AmiDaniel ( Talk) 02:34, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
I confermed that it is instaview... (using IE6). For now I will leave this as a unfixed bug. Eagle talk 23:33, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
Temporary fix: Remove insta view, from your monobook.js and the problem will go away. Eagle talk
I removed it, and it didn't go away for me. Эйрон Кинни (t) 21:45, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Problems (Watchlist, RC, Contribs, RB Malfunction)

I just tried VandalProof, and encountered the following problems:

  • Couldn't get the "My watchlist", "Recent Changes" and "User Contribs" tabs to list anything.
  • I tried Rollback + {{test1-n}} option. It issued a warning message to the IP, but didn't rollback.

Hopefully, I'm doing something wrong that can be easily corrected (as opposed to there being a bug in the code that's hard to trace.) Regards, deeptrivia ( talk) 03:48, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

PS: Also, could VandalProof be made to leave edit summaries for all its edits? deeptrivia ( talk) 03:53, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

I might be able to the core of it, but if you could please answer a few questions: 1) What OS are you running? 2) What version of IE are you running? 3) What Wikipedia skin are you using? 4) What other scripts/tools are you running? 5) Are you using Enhanced Recent Changes (that will cause VP's RC to malfunction)? and 6) How did you install the tool (saving the.exe or using the cab)? VP actually does (or should) leave edit summaries for all of its edits, so if it didn't for you, that's another bug. P.S. I hope you don't mind that I moved this up to bugs; I'm just trying to keep things organized. AmiDaniel ( Talk) 05:05, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
NOTE this user is currently on a wikibreak... return time is unknown. Eagle talk 01:26, 11 May 2006 (UTC)
I am experiencing the same problem so I'll answer the questions for you:
  1. Win XP SP 2
  2. 6.0.2900.2180 etc etc. The latest full release, basically.
  3. Monobook
  4. None
  5. Never heard of it, so I guess not
  6. I used the full installer, this is my first time using the tool.
Any help appreciated :) Soo 23:46, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
Aha, problem solved. Is Enhanced Recent Changes on by default? I don't remember enabling it. Anyway I turned it off and now all is cool. Sorry for the confusion. Soo 19:04, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Question. adding approved users

Just a wee bug for when you return from your break (not earlier!!) Seems VP when you approve a user will clear the entire list of those waiting approval instead of just the approved user. Thanks mate - Gl e n TC (Stollery) 06:12, 30 April 2006 (UTC)

I assume you're referring to this diff. What happened there was that there was no line break between the two names, so it merely listed the first name in the awaiting approval list, and when you approved one user it assumed the list was empty. I'll stick a note on that section later on (you may have noticed that any notes, etc., placed in that list get lost with the next list update), and I'm sorry about that. I sure don't understand why it's so difficult for users to put their names in the right format... AmiDaniel ( Talk) 22:55, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
Easiest way would be to add an * to the front of the {{user2 | YOUR_USERNAME}} instructions so it reads: *{{user2 | YOUR_USERNAME}}. I did do this but yes the update reverted it which is no prob:) - Gl e n TC (Stollery) 23:01, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
      • Can we have the program check to make sure that the format is followed?? If it is not it can alert the moderator before he blanks the new user list? Eagle ( talk) ( desk) 14:55, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Moderator update is not working

Updates to Commen problems by me, are not showing up when I go to double check the program output. Frankly I havent a clue... unless it is not recognizing me as a moderator...(how that can be I'm not sure as I can access mod tools as I type). Have fun with this new buggie... I have more when the new version comes out. Eagle talk 08:09, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

Okay, I did a null edit to reset the page to your version. It appears to be because of the space; I think I've fixed it in my version, but I'm not quite sure. I tested the mods out with User:AmiDaniel TestAccount (which has a space) earlier and had no problems, but for some reason Wikipedia renders the space in your user name as a space rather than an underscore when linking to your userpage... strange... AmiDaniel ( Talk) 08:21, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
Gee, all the modern programming apps and we still get bugs from formatting...great:-).

Oh and by the way, I just added a user with no problems to add to the confusion:-) Eagle talk 08:34, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

This is still not resolved. Prodego and I have found it is still not recognizing me. Eagle talk 23:42, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

I presume fixed in future version. —— Eagle (ask me for help) 17:31, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Not Reverting

Alright. I have a problem here. When I use vandaproof, I am able to log in and edit normally fine... but when I hit any of the rollback buttons, it doesn't revert. anyone know why?-- A c1983fan ( talk • contribs) 19:18, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

This is usually the result of not having popups installed, but I see you already have it in your monobook. Try doing a hard refresh (Ctrl + F5) and try again. AmiDaniel ( Talk) 20:59, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
I tried that, but it didn't make a difference. for some reason, the edit simply saves the latest version, creating a null edit which is not added to the history.-- A c1983fan ( talk • contribs) 22:05, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
Ok two things,
1) can you give us an idea of what your settings are??? (in "my preferences") and what operating system and internet explorer version are you using??
2) Have a look at this page, User talk:AmiDaniel/VP/FAQ, It is in the works, but perhaps you may find something useful. If you do put it up here!!. Eagle talk 21:24, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
Oh and do you have Enhanced recent changes (JavaScript) in your preferences turn on, turn it OFF.
--Hope this helps Eagle talk 21:24, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
You aren't, perchance, using IE7-beta are you? AmiDaniel ( Talk) 21:45, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
That was why I asked for what version of IE he was using:-) Eagle talk 21:47, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
I don't use IE, I use Firefox. Also, I haven't touched my preferences. Finally, I am using Windows XP.-- A c1983fan ( talk • contribs) 22:12, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
(edit conflict again) Well, you have to be using some version of IE. Go to Start/Run, and type in "iexplore". Then goto Help / About Internet Explorer, and get back to me with the version number. Also, what Wikipedia skin are you using? (It should be set to monobook) Also, try clicking this link, and tell me if it reverts the page. Thanks. AmiDaniel ( Talk) 22:19, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

Ok, you do you have IE on your computer, you need that because VandalProof uses IE's cookies. Get IE and your problem is fixed:-) Check your preferences and make sure enhanced recent changes is off. Good luck Eagle talk 22:15, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

I still have IE on my computer, I just don't use it. And there isn't anyway I will switch back to the Horror that is called IE.-- A c1983fan ( talk • contribs) 22:17, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
Hey thats ok, Can you do me a favor, log into your account using IE, and click the "remember me" check box. Eagle talk 22:21, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
  • To Eagle:I am logged in under IE, and it automatically logs me in everytime I go on IE, because I used to use it to edit wikipedia.
  • To AmiDaniel: Version 6, SP2.-- A c1983fan ( talk • contribs) 22:24, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
Ok look at AmiDaniel's other two instructions. Also, what Wikipedia skin are you using? (It should be set to monobook) Also, try clicking [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php? Eagle talk 22:26, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

I am using Monobook, and yes, it worked when I clicked the link.-- A c1983fan ( talk • contribs) 22:31, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

Ok, As I have no access to source code I am SOL, one last comment from me, please look at User talk:AmiDaniel/VP/FAQ#Automatic "Save page" not working (FAQ). See if there is anything you are not doing. After that its all up to AmiDaniel, unless I come up with something Eagle talk 22:38, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

It's saving the page, it just isn't changing it.-- A c1983fan ( talk • contribs) 22:42, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

Oh... have you tryed reverting agian??? It may be fixed!!!, revert me if you want! Eagle talk 22:42, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Question. AIV report

I tried reporting a user to AIV tonight [1], and it posted the AIV notice to the vandal's userpage. -- Zpb52 03:38, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

Please read the known bugs section when you first start up VandalProof =) Thanks for trying to let us know though! -- mboverload @ 04:23, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
Umm...I did read the known bugs, and that one's not listed. If you guys are going to hound me for not reporting bugs, then hound me when I do...what am I to do?-- Zpb52 06:06, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
Woa, calm down; nobody's hounding you. This is a bug that existed in v1.0 (thus why mboverload suggested it was a known bug), but that I believed I had fixed in the current version; however, it seems to still be occurring. Just a thought: Did you maybe load the user's talk page before WP:AIV finished loading? In the past what happened was that AIV would load and then go straight back to the user's talk page, but I believe that has been fixed. I'm just briefly dropping by right now and will likely be unavailable until late tomorrow, but I'll look into it a bit more once I get the chance. Thanks for reporting the bug! AmiDaniel ( talk) 06:14, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
No, I let VP run its course on this. I didn't click anything else until I saw it had stopped working on its own. As a matter of fact, if you'll look at the edit, you'll see it happened again when I tried to report the user again. -- Zpb52 15:08, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
Alright, let me try to replicate it and see if I can find a cause. AmiDaniel ( talk) 23:46, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
It happened to me too, but I was reporting an IP adress and VP wrote the report in the IP's talk without the {IPvandal|IP} template —Argentino (talk/cont.) 13:26, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Windows User Permissions

Hey AmiDaniel, I just installed 1.2 (not moments ago), and it seems that running under plain User permissions, I get a Runtime error '75' "Path/File access error" after the "You have sucessfully logged into VandalProof as Charlie Huggard" message displays. The error does not happen running under Administrator permissions, but it would be nice if I could use the tool under plain User permissions (I don't trust IE enough to allow anything using IE to run with Administrator rights). Like the Bad Title error, I'll note that I'm running Windows XP SP2, IE7 (can't get rid of the cursedthing >_<), and Full Control has been granted to the normal user to the VandalProof directory and all sub files. Regards Charlie(@CIRL | talk) 03:18, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

Problem noted. Unfortunately, I'm going to have to look into this tomorrow, as I suddenly have things to take care of in the real world right now. My apologies, but thanks for reporting the problem. AmiDaniel ( talk) 03:29, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
Tis cool. I completely understand:-) Charlie(@CIRL | talk) 03:36, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
I understand, too, and just for the protocol. I have the same problem and I will not use it with an Windows administrator login. JKW 09:12, 10 June 2006 (UTC)
Yup, same problem. Even when I install it in a directory that has read/write permission, then it hits this error 75, and peters out. -Patstuart 00:20, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
I am having this problem to. Lcarsdata (Talk) 05:33, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Runtime error

My current non-fatal errors.
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My current non-fatal errors.

Right - When I first loaded the program (1.2), I got JS script errors everytime recent changes was refreshed. I went to the Watchlist tab and told it to retrieve, at which point I had a fatal runtime error and it closed. Now whenever I use it, I get non-fatal runtime errors on both watchlist and on every recent changes refresh. Ian13/talk 10:53, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

You need to do a hard refresh of your monobook.js file in internet explorer. That should fix your problem. Tarret 14:12, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

Already tried that - and just tried again. No effect. Ian13/talk 15:36, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
Damn, I thought I fixed this problem, but it doesn't seem to be the case. Try the temporary fix at the top of this page--it's not a particularly elegant solution, but it seems to work. I may have to build that in if I can't find a better way to fix it--I understand how frustrating it must be. AmiDaniel (talk) 02:31, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
No problem, and will do. It could be to do with my seemingly dodgy monobook.js, I will check and report back. Ian13/talk 13:31, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

Right. This works fine when I blank my monobook. It seems likely that this problem is caused by some dodgy JS (I did just upgrade to 1.2.1 too). If this is the case, then it may be worth taking a look at my JS to find out whats wrong for fixing/to note it/add a catcher to the program. Thanks! Ian13/talk 13:37, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

Doing that now...Eagle talk 02:47, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

Appears to be fine... but you have a very large monobook. I suggest removing some of the functions in there that you don't use. (I noticed that VP has problems with monobook functions that change the appearnce of the edit box(window). For sure the toolbar tab changers that you have in there are ok. The rest I don't have time to read through sorry!Eagle talk 02:51, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
Thanks. I'll have a fiddle shortly. Ian13/talk 16:49, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
I seem to be getting the same problem. Except mine says something about Instaview. I used to have it, but then I got rid of it in my monobook.js. However, I am still having the same error repeatedly appear. Will you alert me when you find a permanent solution to this problem? Thanks. Эйрон Кинни (t) 21:43, 9 June 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Question. Multiple warnings for one edit

One problem that I have noticed is that if a user makes an edit, and multiple VandalProof users notice it and revert it all at the same time, only one actually does the revert but all give warnings. One example is old version of user's page at the point when the user had made only one edit. —Mets501talk 02:25, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, I've been aware of this problem for some time but am not entirely sure how to fix it. One thought that I had was that when posting a warning, it could search for a link to the diff that was just reverted (as VP warnings always contain a diff), and if the same diff is found, it would not post the warning. That, of course, would only work to prevent multiple VP warnings, but I think it's a start. Let me think on it a bit, and I'll see if I might be able to implement something. AmiDaniel (talk) 02:28, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

Make VP check and see if the user made an edit, by reloading the history after the revert. It will slow it down marginally and the gain is well worth it. Eagle talk 02:35, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

Ummm, no. I think the slow down is far more than marginal, and I'd rather have a few additional warnings than have everything lag even more. I think checking for the diff will likely suffice, or, if I feel really determined, I might try to work something out with timestamps. AmiDaniel (talk) 02:38, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
Oops, you are definatly correct... check the diff after each edit. I miss read what you wrote sorry:-)Eagle talk 02:53, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
Yeah, checking for the link would do the trick. —Mets501talk 21:54, 23 May 2006 (UTC)



[edit] Run-time error 13

When trying to import blacklists/whitelists I get "Run-time error '13' type mismatch" I get the error when selecting it from the dropdown menu, and Im on 1.2 Is this only me? Is there a way to fix it? Clq 17:45, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

Hm .. just wondering, how many users do you have in your local whitelist/blacklist? Looks like another instance of this that I forgot to trap. If you simply add one user to your whitelist and one to your blacklist and then click it, it should work. AmiDaniel (talk) 02:25, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

I tried again with three users on my whitelist and loads of IPs + two usernames on my blacklist, and it still gives me the same error. Clq 08:22, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Question. Report to AIV

NOTE: This appears to be a feature request and not a bug! —— Eagle (ask me for help) 21:31, 21 July 2006 (UTC) When you report a user to AIV, it does not provide an edit summary. Not a huge issue but it would be nice if that could be fixed. —Mets501talk 02:02, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

Also, adding to that; It would be nice if it also supported {{IPvandal|ip}} for adding ip adresses. (adds an whois link to the report). Clq 18:15, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
I was going to implement the IPVandal template but wasn't sure if that had become a permanent addition yet. As for not leaving edit summaries, the dummy that I am, the report to AIV function is still piggy-backing on top of Lupin's popups to leave the edit summary for that one. You can fix it by adding {{subst:navpop}} to your monobook.js file and doing a hard refresh, or you can wait until the next release where I really have made it independent of popups (as I claimed I did with this release). My apologies. AmiDaniel (talk) 02:23, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
I second this bug/feature request. --Disavian 18:21, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

Is this fixed in v1.2.1 ? A simple yes or no will do, thanks AmiDaniel. Eagle talk 23:25, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

No, it still uses {{vandal}} for IP vandals. For example, it adds
*{{vandal|222.112.15.79}} reason ~~~~
Which is rendered as
*222.112.15.79 (talk • contribs • logs • block user • block log) reason Disavian 18:21, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
to the AIV page, and uses an edit summary of
Report 222.112.15.79 using [[User:AmiDaniel/VandalProof|VandalProof]]
Which is rendered as
Report 222.112.15.79 using VandalProof
Disavian 18:21, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Question. Rollback (Custom)

This bug manifests itself whenever a user has made multiple changes to a page. If I try to issue a custom rollback, VP prompts me to review all of their changes. If I choose yes, VP does not do anything. --Alphachimp talk 17:52, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

Okay, let me look into it. The custom rollback is a little bit awkward because it operates from an external private routine contacting a private routine in another module, and so it's possible that certain variables aren't being passed right. An easy solution would be that when you see the same user has edited the page, right-click on a rollback button (to load a diff between the current revision and the last revision by the previous author) and then use custom rollback. A little messy but it works. AmiDaniel (talk)
That's what I've been doing. I just figured that I would give you the heads up on the issue. Thanks for all of your hard work on VP. --Alphachimp talk 02:27, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
Yep, no problem. Just wait until you see what I finished up during my all-nighter last night =). AmiDaniel (talk) 02:27, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
It isn't supposed to do anything, after you click yes you have to check the other edits from that user (atleast that is how it has always been for me). ILovePlankton ( L) 14:57, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Speedy Deletion using {{db-reason}}

I placed a deletion for the article Driwash, which is now deleted, using the {{db-reason|commercial advert}} tag. I was surprised to see that I wasn't auto-clicked to the correct display (nor did it show in my contribs). My next edit went through and the warning for User_talk:24.74.0.217 showed the {{db-reason|commercial advert}} that was added from the prior edit (the speedy deletion). I removed that tag and placed comments within that user talk page regarding the suspected bug.

Obviously I'm using VP 1.2.1 as 1.2 doesn't work. The update every setting was at 10 seconds (this sometimes makes menu drop-downs hard to use as each refresh blows away the drop-down menu). Hope this helps. --Geneb1955Talk/CVU 06:30, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

VP seems to have problems with adding db tags when you view the first edit to the page. I'm not sure why, but it does, and I'm working on fixing it. When it does that the next time, just click on the article tab and hit it again. AmiDaniel (talk) 03:04, 4 June 2006 (UTC)



[edit] Big Pages and VP

Whenever I click on big pages (Golf, Oprah Winfrey to name a couple) it seems to freeze for a minute, then it comes up. It would be nice if it could process the large pages without having a delay.

--AndreniW 03:19, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

that is because it loads the preview with the diff and it is being worked on. ILovePlankton ( L) 03:38, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
I understand that, but it doesn't take this long when manually doing RC Patrol. --AndreniW 04:14, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
It's possibly to do with the inbuilt IE control - what browser do you normally use? --Xyrael T 18:31, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

This is something that's annoyed the hell outta me as well, and so I'm now reworking it to (optionally, of course) retrieve RC from the RSS-feed, meaning that clicking on an item will load it immediately, though you will only see a plain-text diff without the preview. I've also now implemented a precached rollback that works twice as fast (and that by default reverts all edits by the on-top contributor). I guess this will probably be v1.3, and it's probably going to be a while (at least a couple of weeks) before I can release it, but it is suhweet :-). AmiDaniel (talk) 21:07, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Question. Barney & Barney & Friends

This is very strange. This is how the disambiguation article was on April 19 as 131.162.154.31 restored the deleted material. The next edit by Computerjoe with VP here is very strange as VP inserted the material from Barney & Friends. Also neither of the IP's (68.60.182.219 & 70.241.90.252) in the summary had edited the Barney article. Now look at this where I roll back the Barney & Friends article. Note that the two IP's are the same as that listed by VP. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 16:14, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

How on Earth could that've happened? Computerjoe's talk 16:21, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
VP could've gone crazy and ignored everything after the &. Look at User:AmiDaniel/VP/Bugs#Edit_summary --GeorgeMoney T·C 16:30, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
But in the examples you show it's just an odd edit summary and the reversion is OK. In this case an entire article (Barney & Friends) overwrote another (Barney). CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 16:56, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
What I think is that it saw vandalism to "Barney & Friends", but it thought the "&" was some special HTML code, so it ignored the "& Friends" and reverted it on "Barney" --GeorgeMoney T·C 17:04, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
I did an experiment: I vandalized Barney & Friends, then VandalProof reverted Barney. After that, I had to revert both of those by hand. So, instead of reverting vandalism, it made more vandalism. --GeorgeMoney T·C 18:48, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

Gahh... the damn ampersands again. I think I now have this sorted out in my local copy--it happens because of a bad stacking order in my html-ascii conversion routine. I'll put up a patch ASAP. AmiDaniel (talk) 21:02, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

This also happened to me. A pornographic image was placed on Barney & Friends, I tried to revert using VandalProof (twice). The vandal then mocked me on my user talk page, since it didn't work. I reverted it using Popups. After reading this info, I then went and reverted my inadvertent vandalism of Barney. Ted 02:43, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
The bug is still there see this. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 18:52, 3 June 2006 (UTC)
Yes, I'm the latest victim of this bug (thanks to CambridgeBayWeather for the heads up). I manually reverted it, and found that I changed the entire page. I received no vandal mockings myself, though. :P DakPowers (Talk) 21:15, 3 June 2006 (UTC)
Some of us have all the luck. I'm sure the vandal knew of the bug and was waiting for some hapless VP user. I guess you can't get any more hapless than me. I'm just glad I found out I had inadvertently vandalized Barney before someone else had discovered it. I'm not sure my fragile ego could have taken a test message on my Talk page. Ted 07:16, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

I'm going to put out a patch for this ASAP. Bear with me a couple of days, and I'll hopefully have it fixed. Thanks for all your patience! AmiDaniel (talk) 03:03, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

This is STILL happening--the & problem. It is 16 June, more than a "couple of days" from June 4. You done this several times, say you'll put a patch or new feature up in a few days and not do it. I'd much prefer a more realistic time prediction on these things. Rlevse 00:09, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

I also accidentally crapped all over Barney (many thanks to CambridgeBayWeather for pointing it out to me; predictably enough, I didn't notice it myself). Guess I'd better be sure to refrain from using VandalProof on any article with an ampersand on the title, until it gets fixed... -- Captain Disdain 20:39, 19 June 2006 (UTC)



[edit] Runtime error 76

As soon as I get to the "You have successfully logged in" page, I get an error that says

Runtime error '76':

Path not found

And VandalProof immediately exits as soon as I click OK. I did a hard refresh on my monobook.js, deleted my files in IE, and made sure I was logged in, but I still get that error.--Donbert 10:36, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

Someone else had file access problems using a Windows account that didn't have admin rights. Have you tried running VP on an administrator account? AmiDaniel (talk) 03:02, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
I'm using it with an administrator account and I still get that error.--Donbert 09:04, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
Sounds like an incorrect install... but I thought that was fixed... What is your operating system and version of IE?Eagle talk 03:02, 6 June 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Question. Rollback

I am having a problem with the rollback feature. If I attempt a rollback, Vandalproof will sometimes ask whether I want to reverse all changed by this particular user. So far so good. But if I then press "Yes", Vandalproof roll back to the next IP user ignoring any changes made by logged-in users in between, i.e. if I press rollback I will revert those changes as well. E.g. : The Break-Up When I wanted to revert the changes by 66.43.140.33 Vandalproof wanted to revert back to the version by 205.206.30.148, completely ignoring the cleanup by Empty2005. Travelbird 13:52, 3 June 2006 (UTC) I should add that this problem only appears when there were multiple edits by an anonymis user, if there was only one, then rollback works fine. Travelbird 13:55, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

Well, that's not good. I'm guessing your browser (which version of IE do you use by the way?) may be rendering the history pages strangely. I had some problems with this a while ago, but I thought I fixed it. In the next (or perhaps after-next) version, I'll have everything working with Wiki API which is a lot more consistent than screen scraping, but until then, please just try to be careful with it. Sorry about the inconvenience, but thanks for letting me know. AmiDaniel (talk) 03:01, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Problem with edit summary

When I rollback any vandalism, my edit summary comes up as:

"Reverted edits by 201.247.187.82 (talk) to version 56652499&action=edit&fakeaction=autorevert&byuser=Masterjamie&o" [2]

I'm using Internet Explorer 7 beta, I just thought I should mention it if it's anything to do with the browser. -- Masterjamie 02:55, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

Same ampersand bug a lot of people are getting. I'm working on a fix. AmiDaniel (talk) 02:56, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
Question. Amidaniel -- I presume that you have this fixed, but this is the 3rd or fourth occurrence of the same problem. Can you give me a status report on this group of problems? Thanks —— Eagle (ask me for help) 21:45, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Question. Navigate back bug

If i press Navigate back (ctrl+b) several times, so that it tries to go back further then to the first page, Vandal proof will display an error message and shut down. You might consider changing it to doing nothing. Anka.213 10:23, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

Confirm, this actually does happen. AmiDaniel, I would sugest putting pending butten clicks on a stack, as to make sure that all clicks are accounted for. If this is too much work, than just make the program ignore multiple rapid clicks as suggested above.Eagle talk 02:58, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
No clue as to the status of this! —— Eagle (ask me for help) 21:46, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Question. Global WL/BL problem

Whilst on IRC chatting with Tawker we updated the BL and saw a Large Removal warning pop up in the vandalism channel for both our edits - not sure what happened but I reverted the edits. Can you take a look for me please? - Glen TC (Stollery) 06:57, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

PS: Tawker semi-protected both pages :)

Let me look through the diffs (which take ages to load--I worry the page has gotten a bit large) and get back to you--I wonder if this may be similar to the mod list bug we had a while ago. Re: ps. I also move-protected the page, but thanks Tawker for protecting it! I'm shocked I never requested protection of it, as I figured I already had. AmiDaniel (talk) 07:05, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] A Different Edit Summary Bug

Look at this edit. Notice how the equal signs do not create a new heading, but rather show up as two sets of back-to-back equal signs. On the next edit, I pressed enter between the equal sign and the HTML paragraph break, and the wiki heading showed up. Any idea why this happened? It's happening to me every time I use the {{summary}} editing hint. --Zpb52 06:55, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

Sorry for taking so long to respond; I've been quite baffled by this one and so have tried to find the source. Apparently the devs must have made some changes to the way the Wiki Mark-up is being rendered--previously the "==Headline Text== Body Text" construction would work just fine, but now it seems to require:

==Headline Text==
Body text

I've noticed that User:VoABot has had similar problems with this as well. I know how to fix it on my end, but it's really getting frustrating how frequently changes are being made to the MediaWiki software without anyone being told... AmiDaniel (talk) 00:27, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

This is effecting me EACH TIME with the subst:preview tip. I have to manually go back and edit it to add an enter. Really embarrassing when you have to fix an edit when you're telling someone to use the preview button so they won't have to fix their edits. --mboverload@ 09:30, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

Question. Is this fixed or a remedy provided? if so change the status amidaniel! —— Eagle (ask me for help) 21:49, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Bug

Please see this diff [3] and the history [4] -- it appears Marysunshine reverted to the last version by Sampi, but in fact, that is not what happened. -- Stbalbach 19:25, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

I'm absolutley baffled. I have no idea what happened here. My one guess would be that Marysunshine might have some strange cookie settings whereby it loaded the edit page from cache rather than actualizing it, but it seems quite strange to me. Thanks for pointing this out. AmiDaniel (talk) 00:30, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
Note the edit times are exactly the same -- it' possibly an error with MediaWiki when two edits arrived at the same time. If that's the case it should be replicable (I don't run VP or I would try it). -- Stbalbach 17:32, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
Interesting, I just came here and saw my own problem already noted! I'm having a few issues with VP at present; such as the above, a lot of error messages when I try to use the "rollback" buttons to leave warnings, etc. The only advice I can offer is that I'm running IE 6.0.2800.1106 (which is old, I think -- I use Mozilla usually...), so maybe it's just a browser issue on my end. I'll update and comment in more detail if the problems persist. --Marysunshine 19:07, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
You may want to try clearing out your tifs and cookies, which may be corrupt and causing a lot of your problems. Open up an instance of Internet Explorer, go to Tools / Internet Options, and click both "Delete Cookies" and "Delete Files." AmiDaniel (talk) 21:06, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

Question. I presume this is unfixed. AmiDaniel if you know more let me know. (I will also check with Marysunshine. Thanks! —— Eagle (ask me for help) 21:56, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Question. IP edits all coming up as admins

Every last change I inspect at the moment comes up with a green admin admin admin admin... box at the top meaning all the rollback buttons grey themselves out. I've updated my admin list to no avail so for now I'm gonna blank my admin txt file in the hope this fixes it. Any idea what's happening or if this is happening to anyone else? Thanks again matey - Glen TC (Stollery) 21:00, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

Still testing with the files you sent me; I'll get back to you as soon as I can. AmiDaniel (talk) 21:04, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
Do you know any more Ami? —— Eagle (ask me for help) 21:57, 21 July 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Question. Vandal Log Crash

When updating my stats page I started getting the error "User error '438': object doesn't support this property or method. The crash does not seem to occur when updating other lists. --Phoenix Hacker 23:00, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

This sounds like the kind of error you would get editing a protected page, but your stats page is not protected. Let me look over that function again and see if I can replicate the bug. AmiDaniel (talk) 21:03, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
Ami, what is your verdict? —— Eagle (ask me for help) 21:59, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Persistent Crash @ Startup

Today I decided to get into VP after a few weeks off. I tried to log on, but I'm getting a persistent crash whenever I get to the welcome screen. In somewhat of an ironic twist, the welcome screen (which I am unable to click) gives a link to a workaround for this problem.

I have reinstalled 4-5 times and restarted this computer.

Thanks. --Alphachimp talk 04:44, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

Same problem here. --Zpb52 05:08, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
Good to see I'm not the only one. Any ideas? --Alphachimp talk 05:11, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

The crash is actually resulting from popups--as you may have already noticed popups and Internet Ixplorer don't get along very well. A simple fix would be to remove popups from your monobook.js, which I couldn't live without; thus, I just put up with an occasional crash. You can also try clearing your IE tifs and cookies, which may help somewhat, or I have a little diddy I could e-mail you to disable startup rendering, which will stop the crash altogether. Note that because of this bug, I've now completely reworked the log-in method for VP 1.3 to fix it, which you can find out more about at User:AmiDaniel/VP/Upcoming release. Thanks for your patience; this bug's been around since the very beginning. AmiDaniel (talk) 21:01, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

I'm getting the same problem. When can we expect 1.3 to be out? --Phoenix Hacker 23:57, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Rollback bug in 1.2

When I tried to rollback a page with a "/" in the name it replaced the "/" with a " : ". This is harmless (it does not create a new page), but still very annoying. (Try Farenheit 9/11 for an example)--SomeStranger(t|c) 13:41, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

Yep, this is one that I've fixed in 1.3, another stacking order bug in the html conversions. I'll probably put out a 1.2.2 patch sometime soon to repair this and the ampersand bug. Thanks for your patience, and sorry about the inconvenience. AmiDaniel (talk) 20:54, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] All contributions before rolling back

When using the normal rollback buttons at the top of the page, when it says "would you like to see all contributions by this user before rolling back", if you click OK, it shows you all of that user's contributions. When using the custom message warning box, however, the "would you like to see all contributions by this user before rolling back" dialog box still appears but if you click OK nothing happens. Also, sometimes on pages in the User: space when showing all contibutions to a page by a particular editor, and the editor before that editor was the person whose user page it is, it reverts back to the last change on the page not by the user who owns the user page, but the editor before that. For example if 000.000.000.000 edits User:Foo, and the contributions list is 000.000.000.000, 000.000.000.000, 000.000.000.000, Foo, Foo, 111.111.111.111, it will revert back to the version by 111.111.111.111 when rolling back instead of the more recent version by User:Foo. —Mets501 (talk) 20:53, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

The former bug I'm still working on fixing (it got reported somewhere up above, can't remember where though), and the latter is one that I've now repaired in 1.3 with the help of Yurik's query API interface. Thanks for reporting it! AmiDaniel (talk) 20:57, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Reporting a page for speedy deletion recreates it

I just ran into a user using vandalproof recreating a page that I had just deleted: [5] The sequence of evens was:

  1. Keanu2 creates page
  2. Mr. Lefty tags page with {{unreferenced}} tag
  3. I delete it
  4. Alphachimp recreates it by tagging it for speedy deletion
  5. I delete it again

No biggie, really, but it's a bug, nonetheless -Obli (Talk)? 19:42, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, that's quasi an edit conflict--in the split second between when he loaded at the page and clicked {{db}}, you deleted it. I've run into this before myself, and I think I know how to prevent it in the future. Thanks for your note. AmiDaniel (talk) 20:37, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

Question. If status is fixed or done, please update the title bar thanks! —— Eagle (ask me for help) 22:38, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Question. Problem with subpage reverts.

Whilst browsing, I attempted to revert blanking on Wikipedia:Requested articles/Applied arts and sciences/Transport, but vandalproof attempted to rollback Wikipedia:Requested articles:Applied arts and sciences:Transport (which doesn't exist). It looks like a problem with subpages. --GW_Simulations|User Page | Talk | Contribs | E-mail 20:32, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

See #Rollback_bug_in_1.2 above. This is a stacking order problem in the html-ascii conversion routines, similar to the problem with ampersands. I'm going to put out a very minor patch for this soon. AmiDaniel (talk) 20:35, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
Thanks. --GW_Simulations|User Page | Talk | Contribs | E-mail 22:06, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

This is the third one (i think) with a report of an ampersand bug. is this Done = {{done}} or = {{fixed}}? —— Eagle (ask me for help) 22:40, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Question. Run time error 91

New VP user, downloaded, installed, updated to 121, run...

Run time error 91 - Object variable or With Block variable not set".

I haven't done more than connect, and it's just displayed the 1st page. Not clicked anything yet. WinXP. Any ideas?

('nother typo for you - help: "english language [ua/au] wikipedia"...) FT2 (Talk) 21:11, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

We have no response to this. I am going to contact the user to see if it still exists. —— Eagle (ask me for help) 22:42, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

  • I've been getting this quite often. I haven't been able to determine an exact case to replicate it but it usually happens when I click an article in the RC list. -- Fizban30<c.t> 01:16, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
  • Same here. I've managed to get it at least once every 20 minutes. It's quite distracting. -- dhp1080 (u·t·c) 02:49, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
  • I also get the same, about every 10 minutes. --MichaelMaggs 22:11, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Question. Talk page buttons posts broken style

Buttons like {{anon}} and {{summary}} are posted with broken style --WinHunter (talk) 15:10, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

There was some change in the MediaWiki software that doesn't let titles render on the same line as text. AmiDaniel said he's going to try and find a workaround for the next release. —Mets501 (talk) 17:27, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

What is the current status of this? —— Eagle (ask me for help) 22:49, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Question. Timing issue

minor problem. I pressed rollback t-2 on [this edit]. Vandalproof [warned] the user but missed that the user had [reverted] the edit in the meantime and did not revert the article ( I didn't see an edit conflict message - Peripitus (Talk) 11:15, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

I will check with the user to double check if this is still occuring. But amidaniel, what is the status on this? —— Eagle (ask me for help) 22:51, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Question. Custom rollback can't go back

When you use the custom rollback and try to rollback an edit where the user also had the edit before it, it just stops and doesn't do anything. Always effects the Rollback (Custom) button. --mboverload@ 09:32, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

What is the status on this? —— Eagle (ask me for help) 22:52, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Question. Still not showing up as a mod

I still haven't been recognized as a moderator for a few weeks now in VandalProof =D --mboverload@ 09:32, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

What is the status on this? —— Eagle (ask me for help) 22:52, 21 July 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Done Watchlist and Changes

All the articles in the watchlist listinghave a ? after them and it loads pages like this. As you can see there are two ? there, which is the source of the problem. If you remove the extra ? it works correctly. --mboverload@ 23:18, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

Having the same problem. Not sure where the extra question mark is coming from, but it's screwing up the functionality of VandalProof in several ways. -Big Smooth 23:21, 19 June 2006 (UTC)
I'm getting it too. The devs changed yet another thing on me without any goddamn warning at all--why is it so difficult for them to just simply say "Hey, by the way, we're making changes to the watchlist!" Looking into it, and please, this is not an urgent problem. AmiDaniel (talk) 23:24, 19 June 2006 (UTC)
Sorry, I just thought that anything that makes VandalProof completely useless was kinda urgent =D --mboverload@ 23:40, 19 June 2006 (UTC)
This is ALSO happening on the RC list, the pages load and have a ?, but it shows the article pages, not the diff page. Rlevse 23:26, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

They stuck a &lrm;; after the watchlist item for some reason, an item which is not being recognized by VP, thus why it is rendering as a question mark. Fixing it, please hold your horses people. AmiDaniel (talk) 23:27, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

We love you AmiDaniel =D --mboverload@ 23:29, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

Does "‎" render as anything for anyone? According to the mark-up directory, it's supposed to be "left-to-right" mark; I see nothing. AmiDaniel (talk) 23:32, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

I don't see anything in FF or IE. According to this[6], it is a zero-width directionality control and is not visible. -Big Smooth 23:36, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

Alright, I've talked to Rob Church and now understand what the character does (it controls the direction of text). I'm patching this up as we speak. AmiDaniel (talk) 23:56, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

Patch is now available. AmiDaniel (talk) 05:46, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

I presume this is done, as Ami said a patch is avialable. —— Eagle (ask me for help) 17:33, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Done Edit/article lists omitted

Can you help figure out why VP isn't appearing to do anything?

Right now I'm logged in, click "recent changes" and nothing appears. What should I try next? Thanks.

Edit: It was the "enhanced recent changes" issue. Suggestion for next version of VP: check that setting and if it's on, alert "VP is not compatible with the script used for Enhanced Recent Changes. Do you want to disable this preference so that VP will work? [yes / no]" FT2 (Talk | email | contribs) 09:41, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
Easier said than done :). Glad you got it fixed. AmiDaniel (talk) 09:56, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
Will you even need to turn off "enhanced recent changes" when VandalProof gets edits from the RSS feed? —Mets501 (talk) 20:33, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
No, you won't. Unless you prefer to default to the old method, which will still be available. AmiDaniel (talk) 23:29, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

What about a warning that doesn't check preferences. Instead if nothing's loaded on updating a list, it pops up a message saying "none found, this may be because....."?

Sadly it also appears there are other things I need help to get working right.

  1. For example, clicking an item on watchlist persistently gets a URL like this:
    URL = http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Jkelly??diff=cur&oldid=prev
    and a message: The database did not find the text of a page that it should have found, named "User talk:Jkelly‎ (Diff: 0, 0)".
  2. Also, clicking an item on RC sometimes pops up a URL like this:
    URL = http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/mb_Marengo_County,_Alabama??diff=cur&oldid=prev
    and a message "Mb Marengo County, Alabama ... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name"
  3. Other times it does find the article, but displayes the current article rather than a diff (which I assume it's supposed to show?):
    URL = http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Animal_testing??diff=cur&oldid=prev
  4. Finally, user contribs refuses to list for any user.

Sorry to dump these on you... maybe you've seen them before and know what some of them relate to? FT2 (Talk | email | contribs) 10:07, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

Please read the big yellow box on the welcome page. You need to download the patch that I just threw together this evening. That will fix your problems. AmiDaniel (talk) 10:12, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Question. Buttons for user talk pages

Just letting you know that in the updated MediaWiki software titles on the same line as other text are not rendering as titles. You should probably work out a workaround for this. Also, the {{anon}} template already has a title in it, so you don't need to add another header to that. —Mets501 (talk) 20:47, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

See above, somewhere. AmiDaniel (talk) 23:35, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

Question. Where is somewhere? —— Eagle (ask me for help) 17:36, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Error with VP ( or me) in adding speedy tag

Tried to {{db-attack}} Nic Wells, VP created new article Nic Wells&oldid=59970792 and tagged that one leaving the original article untouched. I made the mistake of having a non-current version open - Peripitus (Talk) 14:04, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, I need to fix that. What happens is it tries to open "/w/index.php?title=Foobar&oldid=Oldid", and since Foobar no longer exists and Oldid no longer exists it tries to create "Foobar&oldid=Oldid". I can fix this by simply querying the page for MediaWiki:Newarticletext when posting templates, should fix it. Thanks for letting me know; someone else had a similar problem a while ago. AmiDaniel (talk) 23:34, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Done Error with VP

Enlarge

This message appeared when I pressed the "update" button. Anonymous__Anonymous 16:23, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

You need to clear your tiffs and cookies. In Internet Explorer, go to Tools / Internet Options, and click "Delete Files" and "Delete Cookies." You may also need to restart your computer. That will make the warnings go away. AmiDaniel (talk) 21:58, 26 June 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Done "Sort Stub" bug

Whenever I click the "Sort Stub" option, this appears: [7]. After clicking "OK", the application closes. -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 17:11, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

That's occurring because you're missing the needed stubtypes.txt file. Open up User:AmiDaniel/VP/StubTypes, click edit, and copy and paste its contents into a file called "stubtypes.txt" in the same directory as you have VandalProof installed. AmiDaniel (talk) 22:01, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

Move this to FAQ soon —— Eagle (ask me for help) 17:38, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Bug

These errors show up every 2 seconds when I run VP:

Line: 57
Error: Object doesn't support this property or method
^^The above occurs when I try to look at an edit

Line: 514
Error: 'undeleteLI' is undefined
^^The above occurs at any update, whether manual or automatic.--May the Force be with you! Shreshth91(review me!) 13:13, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

You can try the fix for javascript errors or just blank your monobook.js entirely. Normally that is the problem. fetofs Hello! 12:26, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

Need to check the status of this with the original poster. —— Eagle (ask me for help) 17:39, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

This doesn't occur, if, as fetofs suggested, I blank my monobook.js entirely. --May the Force be with you! Shreshth91($ |-| ŗ 3 $ |-| ţ |-|) 15:24, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Done Update not working

I cannot use any of the sidebar features pretty much. When I press either of the "Update" buttons nothing happens at all.

I am using VandalProf v1.2.2, Windows XP, IE 6 SP2.--Konstable 11:02, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

Are you sure you were logged in? I just submitted the same bug (possibly) a few bugs down with more description of how my "Update List" button stopped working. -- RevRagnarok Talk Contrib Reverts 15:36, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
I've worked it out. I was using enhanced recent changes which it couldn't handle (it is in the troubleshoot FAQ).--Konstable 11:59, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Question. Moderator hang

When approving two users, and welcoming them, the edits are made to the talkpages but the progress bar hangs so I have to close the window manually. However, if I do one user, three or four, it changes over to Done once they've been posted. This has been occuring for ages, but since it is so trivial to work around it, I didn't bother reporting. Also, when I rejected a user, I got User:, in my summary instead of the username - go see this diff. Thanks. —Xyrael / 17:55, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

I have already told AmiDaniel about both of these, I believe they will be fixed in 1.3. Prodego talk 20:10, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
Thanks Prodego. —Xyrael / 09:43, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

Are these fixed in 1.3 AmiDaneil? —— Eagle (ask me for help) 17:41, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Green_check.png doesn't show up

Hi, the image Green_check.png doesn't show up on the main page. I used to see a check box next to the message "You have successfully logged into VandalProof as Starionwolf."

I'm using MSIE 6 on Windows XP service Pack 2.

Me2. -- RevRagnarok Talk Contrib Reverts 15:30, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
seconded (or rather: thirded)... --Mbimmler 09:21, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Random logout

Every now and then, I get logged out. It may be related to hibernating the PC, not sure. I won't notice unless I go and click any article I already had in my watchlist update list, and then in the top I see that I am my IP address. I assume it is MSIE "under the hood" with the problem. However, when logged out, the "Update List" button acts as if it worked, but really does nothing. I think VP should notice that the watchlist doesn't come back with my username in it anymore, and notify me in some way it is not working. here is an example.

As an aside, I see the comment changed to "...using VP" - why not VPRF since that is the 'official' shortcut?

-- RevRagnarok Talk Contrib Reverts 15:35, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

Something similar happened to me [8]. It seems I got logged out between a revert and a warning. --Zoz (t) 23:16, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
And I can continue using VP even if I'm practically logged out. --Zoz (t) 22:09, 9 July 2006 (UTC)
Yes, you can, but it won't update your Watchlist, which is my original 'bug' report. ;) — RevRagnarok Talk Contrib Reverts 01:16, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
Yes, but it does update the recent changes. By the way, I think it's a php session timeout problem and this could be fixed by having the VP software send some sort of NULL command every 5 mins or so. --Zoz (t) 12:42, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

Question. --- Ami, what is the status of this? —— Eagle (ask me for help) 17:30, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Question. Vandalism Log

The Update Log feature is not working for me. I can open the update window, I can even press the update stats and update log buttons, and after about 5 seconds a little window pops up saying 'Log Updated'. But when I got to User:Tobes00/VandalismStats or User:Tobes00/VandalismLog it says I have only reverted 5 counts of vandalism. This is because I orginally updated them after I had been using it for a while, but since that original update it appears to be broken. Enhance Recent Changes is off so that isn't the problem. And the .txt files in my VP directory all say that I have reverted 143 counts of vandalism, even the VandalismLog.txt file has 143 entries. My main browser is Firefox, but I have IE7, my operating system is Windows Vista Beta 2. If you need any more info just ask. Tobes (talk) 11:53, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

It's ok now, it appears I needed popups. Tobes (talk) 10:30, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

[[Question}} --- needed popups? That should not be needed... —— Eagle (ask me for help) 17:29, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Done Getting around the error messages problems

I am using Opera with a lot of scripts that IE does not support. So when I run VandalProf, even with v1.2.2 I need to use that extra CloseScriptErr.exe to block the errors. Of course you could delete your scripts and then revert them after you've done with VP. But there is an easier way - I worked out a way to block off scripts for IE while they would still work with Opera (I think it should work with Firefox, etc, also).

var detect = navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase();
var IE;
var place = detect.indexOf('msie') + 1;

if (place) IE=true;

if (!IE) {

... your scripts go here ...
}

Works like a charm for me.--Konstable 02:35, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

Will be moved to FAQ in near future. Thanks —— Eagle (ask me for help) 17:28, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Using VP

When I try to use VP, first it says I am not logged in. I visit the login page, login successfully, at which point I am given two runtime errors (which I do not experience when logging in directly through IE) and another error, at which point the browser section of the interface is white. If I try and visit the main WP page (Main_page), I receive the two runtime errors, have the page displayed, and immediately I receive the same third error message, at which point the browser object wipes the page and is white again. Any suggestions? I'm a fairly experienced dev so give me a complicated explanation if you have one. --Draicone (talk) 07:05, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

Have you tried logging in plus cookie'ing your login from a normal IE window, then booting VP? It's been known to work. —Xyrael / 20:12, 5 July 2006 (UTC)
I've tried that, and that lets me login at least but all the buttons are still disabled (although the captions along the top seem to have changed). Now as I write this from within VP, I get a yellow bar at the top saying 'AmiDaniel has received no vandalism warnings.' but I still don't seem to be able to do anything. I'm not getting those runtime errors (or haven't yet at least, I'm yet to recreate a situation in which I know I used to get them) so I may try restarting VP, trying a combination of IE settings etc. --Draicone (talk) 07:05, 9 July 2006 (UTC)
What version are you using? v1.2.2 is the most current, although 1.3.0 will be released shortly. That may fix this for you. AmiDaniel (talk) 22:24, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
I'm definitely using 1.2.2. However, now I have reason to believe my IE engine is broken and I'm installing SP2 so that I can try to use IE7 Beta 3 and see if this fixes the problem. Don't worry about this for now. Thanks for your help. --Draicone (talk) 12:07, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
I won't be installing SP2 for a while, so I may stick to Lupin's anti vandal tool for now. Thankyou for your assistance with this issue. --Draicone (talk) 07:56, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

Unfixed pending response from Dralcone —— Eagle (ask me for help) 17:27, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Done Admin has not recieved any warnings

It lets me log in and updates, but whenever I click on an edit it goes to the page without showing the diff and says "Admin has not recieved any warnings" on the top... savidan(talk) (e@) 22:54, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

same error with 1.2.1 but seems to be fixed in 1.2.2 --Mbimmler 09:23, 6 July 2006 (UTC)
I take it that this is fixed in the current version? —— Eagle (ask me for help) 17:26, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Bot flag

Using VP 1.2.2, VP doesn't seem to be picking up the bot flag in the RC feed (which is a bold "b" before the page name, just like the m for minor and N for new pages). It listed the page as "b Pagename" and clicking the edit takes you to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/b_Pagename?diff=cur&oldid=prev (which obviously won't exist). It's no biggie since there's nto really any need to check bot edits anyway, but it's a bug (for me) none-the-less. :) --james // bornhj (talk) 15:25, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

I was wondering what that b was... I've hit this bug too... -- RevRagnarok Talk Contrib Reverts 15:26, 6 July 2006 (UTC)
Fixing it. Thanks for reporting the bug. AmiDaniel (talk) 22:23, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
I presume due to the simplicity of this bug that it is fixed in future versions. If it is not, let me know, and or change the status in the title. —— Eagle (ask me for help) 17:25, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Question. VandalismLog

When I click on the button to update my VandalismLog file, it says it's updated, but the file doesn't actually change. The VandalismStats file does get updated when I do that button. Rlevse 02:14, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

It still doesn't work. I tried in both IE and FF. Something is amiss, but I don't know what. Rlevse 10:20, 7 July 2006 (UTC)
Any ideas anyone? Rlevse 22:44, 7 July 2006 (UTC)
AmiDaniel is the only one with access to the source code, and would be the only one who could answer this. Unfortunatly, he is currently on break, so you may have to wait a while. :-( Sorry! Prodego talk 23:48, 7 July 2006 (UTC)
I am having the same problem with both updating VandalismLog and VandalismStats. Jibbles | Talk 18:02, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
The only work around I found is to copy the text from the file on your hard drive into your wiki VandalismLog. What upsets me the most is that more and more we don't even get a response to our bug reports, we are just left dangling.Rlevse 18:08, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Question. New VP User with problem

I've now got vandal proof 1.2.2, thank you, which says welcome and shows 1.2.2 and my name at the top left, but it keeps telling me I can't use that version and to upload a newer one? (NB: I start VP then login within the page shown). However before I can do anything it switches to the User page. but repeats the newer version warning. All the tabs above are inactive. I have just gone into it for the first time when the tabs were active and it actually came up and did something? I pressed update and it showed a list of items in the top left box, one of which was this:-

 [:http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:STOP_MAKING_NAMES_IN_BINARY_YOU_STUPID_FUCKTARDS%21%21%21%21111%21%21&action=edit]

I clicked on the item within that box and a heavily vandalised talk / history page flashed up and in the space bar above a yellow bar with the wording no Admin warnings have been given, or something like that, quickly flashed on and off. Then the whole page / programme locked up. Is it prone to do things like that or am I doing something wrong? I use Firefox. Richard Harvey 08:35, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Question. rollingback duplication

I have twice done a rollback only to find the system flash up that I was editing a prior version. Each case was due to having another editor spot and roll back the same edit as I, virtually at the same time. Is it not possible to have the system spot the revert message from the first rollback and abort the second, until visual confirmation confirms the edit needs to be reverted? This will save some embarrassing cleaning up of each others talk pages. Richard Harvey 18:21, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

I thought when it said "old version" that was because to do the revert, it simply edited the old version and saved it. That's how the popups do it too... — RevRagnarok Talk Contrib Reverts 18:51, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

Question. Do we still have a bug here? —— Eagle (ask me for help) 17:22, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] "Notify Contributors" doesn't work

When I try to "Notify Contributors" under "User Tools", the user list is empty; after I click "Notify Contributors", nobody is listed under the "Users" section of the new popup window. -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 21:58, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

It should load all of the users who have edited the page--may I ask what page you were on when it didn't work for you? AmiDaniel (talk) 22:22, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

Comment: This problem is also occurring for me. It has never worked on either system I'm using (I have VP installed on two). In both cases, I installed 1.22, then upgraded to 1.3 - is that part of the problem? SkerHawx 11:10, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Redirect article tagging

I was trying to tag the article Cavanagh Farrell with {{db-repost}} which was a recreated redirect. After clicking back from the target article to get back to Cavanagh Farrell, I tagged the article using VP and it tagged Cavanagh Farrell&redirect=no instead. Can VP ignore this text? Thanks for the great program, mattbr30 07:44, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

FYI I'm using v1.2.2. mattbr30 07:47, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
Working on fixing it. Sorry about that. AmiDaniel (talk) 22:22, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] URL character escapes show up in reversion messages

Like in this diff — the second username shows up with URL escape codes instead of the actual UTF-8 characters. æ² ✆ 2006-07-13t14:31z

Yeah, that happens sometimes. I'll try to fix it. Thanks for reporting the bug. AmiDaniel (talk) 22:21, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Question. Persistent AIV Bug and Welcome Anon Issue

Let me preface this (as I do with everything I post on this page), by saying that VP is awesome. I have over 1100 vandalism reverts with this version alone.

I've been having tons of trouble with reporting people to WP:AIV. I saw this bug referenced above, but it's still sort of a problem. Today I even accidentally reported myself, which was a little bit embarrassing. I've found that if I activate the report to AIV warning from any page other than a user's contribs, it will probably end up on his userpage, not the AIV page. AIV warnings are also posting without an edit summary.

I've also had a lot of trouble with the welcome anonymous user function. Check out this. That's exactly how all of my anon welcomes have appeared since 1.2. I would change the template, but it's locked to anyone but admins.

Regards, Alphachimp talk 05:20, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Titlebar spelling error

VP status bar says "Satus: &username etc" when should be "Status:". ShaunES 11:56, 25 July 2006 (UTC).

[edit] 1.3 problems found (part 1)

The following were checked with 1.2.2 open alongside as a comparision:

  1. When displaying last edit of a page 1.3 seems to show the editor on the left in the colored bar above rather than the right. This means if he/she is an admin VP wont revert
  2. Rollback all function is always greyed out
  3. For some reason my watchlist takes aggggeeesss' to load
  4. When using RSS Feed for Recent Changes often the same edits are listed repeatedly causing a significant lag behind realtime edits

I have more but those are it for now - Glen 10:04, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

  1. When you're viewing a diff, or when you're viewing an RC item? And there's nothing prohibiting reverting admins that I'm aware of. I find this bug quite odd, and I think I must be misunderstanding something.
  2. I reworked Rollback All to use bot rollback, which is available to admins only, and there were many concerns raised about the risk of making Rollback All available to non-admins. However, after some discussion with User:ShaunES, I've agreed to put the non-admin rollback all back in in the actual 1.3 release.
  3. Maybe because you have a lot of items on your watchlist? =P Let me take a look at it, and see if I may have screwed something up.
  4. Yes, I'm aware, and I'm not sure how to fix it. The RSS feed has a lot of problems with browser caching, whereby it sometimes will need to be loaded twice before it is actually up to date. Typically as long as you engage in other activity, i.e. looking at and reviewing edits in between loads, it will clear your cache such that the feed will be loaded real-time. I've been trying to find a way to fix this, but have had no luck, which is much the reason that the 1.3 release has been so delayed.
Let me know of any other fun buggies you find =D. You always do seem to find the good ones. AmiDaniel (talk) 19:17, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
  1. Yes when viewing an edit from the RC list, if an admin was the 2nd to last editor, their name would be listed on top and buttons grey out when that occurs. However I will try this on another PC as you know probs I've had...
  2. That explains it :) Can I have a beta with the function restored?? ;)
  3. Yes but 1.2.2 loads it NP
  4. Righto - sorry to hear. How does the AWB and VF do it?

Thanks mate - another follows - Glen 00:53, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 1.3 problems found (part 2)

This is quite a serious one:

  1. When warning a user, if their talk page is already open (for editing) then VP actually creates another page with the &action=edit on the end (eg [[User talk:xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx&action=edit]])
  2. I do not know but I assume the above may occur when tagging open articles for speedy delete also.

Thanks mate - Glen 00:53, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] RC Feed

(header formerly 'VP fails to log me in') When loading VP, while logged in under IE6 and it appearing so in the top right hand corner, I am taken to a page which temporarily has: $$LOGINMESSAGE$$ DONOTALLOW V1_0_0. I have my VP clearance, I am logged in correctly, it does the same when logged in under another account that does not have VP clearance (User:DraiconeBot, I happened to be logged in with it under IE to test AWB) yet it fails the identity check. Is there a workaround, a previous fix that I've missed or something? --Draicone (talk) 08:32, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

Somehow, by clicking places and logging out/in again, I've got into VP. However, now my RC Feed refuses to load. I have the latest version of VP, I've managed to test it by rv'ing an edit I found under Lupin's Anti Vandal tool and everything is fine, yet my RC feed in the left pane is always blank, even if i set it to auto update or update it manually. Any suggestions? --Draicone (talk) 08:51, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
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I can't login at all even though I'm logged in and have VandalProof clearance. I have tryed on 3 computers (Windows Vista, Windows XP Home and XP Pro) since i thought it maybe something to do with my computer.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Robertmyers (talk • contribs).
Try clicking the 'logging in to Wikipedia' link it provides, log in normally again, see if it doesn't display that image anymore. --Draicone (talk) 10:46, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
Thanks. Working now. Sorry about not signing my comment. -- Robertmyers 11:25, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
Thanks to alphaChimp for solving this issue for me. --Draicone (talk) 06:11, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 1.3.1 rollback - multiple edits from same user

Similar to the "Custom rollback can't go back" reports above, with 1.3, when I hit "rollback" (regular rollback) when an editor has made 2 or more edits in a row, I first get the normal "the previous edit was by the same user..." prompt. Upon hitting "yes" I hear a couple "IE clicks" like it's changing page, but nothing happens - I'm still left looking at the current edit compared to the edit immediately preceding (same user). --AbsolutDan (talk) 04:25, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

Noticed that if I have my watchlist tab open, the watchlist flashes briefly, for what it's worth... --AbsolutDan (talk) 04:27, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
I am having the same issue. I have worked around it by navigating manually back using the "older edit" link, until I get to the one I want. Then it will let me do the rollback. --Brian G (Talk) 23:46, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

Issue still occurs in 1.3.1 --AbsolutDan (talk) 13:56, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

I see the same problem. --MichaelMaggs 11:10, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

Same thing here --MarkS (talk) 13:20, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Warnings not linking correctly

When I warn a user the links don't come out correctly. I have to manually make a second edit to fix the links. here is an example. link SirGrant 21:31, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

Oh I just noticed I was using version 1.2 I'll try updating to 1.3 and seeing how things go SirGrant 21:35, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Set RC Limit

Hi - the "Set RC Limit" function doens't seem to work on my PC in v 1.3 - does anyone else have this problem? Martinp23 11:55, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

I have the same issue. alphaChimp laudare 13:29, 13 August 2006 (UTC)
As do I. hoopydinkConas tá tú? 12:58, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Times Appear Off

The times between RSS feed loads seem to be too short. Usually the same set of diffs loads twice before the next set of diffs appear. This is in 1.3, btw. alphaChimp laudare 13:29, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Notify contributors

The notify contributers feature seems to be sending the warning to User:Contribs, rather than the list of users on that page's contribs list. --GW_Simulations|User Page | Talk | Contribs | Chess | E-mail 20:10, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Runtime error 91 - VP 1.3

 Run-time error '91':
 Object variable or With block variable not set

Hi! I recently downloaded VP1.3 and I am receiving a runtime error which closes the program after ~five minutes after actively using the program hoopydinkConas tá tú? 07:44, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

Hi - I had the same problem until about 15 minutes ago! I've solved it by running it as administrator in Windows Vista (if that's what you're using). Hope this helps. Martinp23 08:00, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
I get this too, under XPSP2. Haven't found a solution yet. I only run VP from an admin acct, so this workaround wouldn't work in my case. --Rrburke 13:56, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
Me as well. I started using VP1.3 this morning, and after an extended period of time I got the run-time 91 error. I simply re-opened the app and started again. It occurred more and more frequently, and now VP isn't usable for more than 2 minutes. I've hard cleared my monobook.js in both IE and FF. I've cleared up some gunk in it; it currently has LastDif/AddTab, interiot's tool2, picture popups and nav popups. Problem still persists. JoeSmack Talk(p-review!) 20:43, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
I just tried it with only Zocky/Lupin's popups in my monobook, hardcleared and still get the crash. It happens btw when the app is checking for previous templates/tags from a user/ip. JoeSmack Talk(p-review!) 23:18, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Question. Problems with the edit summary editing hint

Whenever you give a user the "edit summary" editing hint, there are two problems:

1. The first div tag is on the header's line, preventing it to turn to a header.

Like this:

==Please Use Edit Summaries== <div style="background-color:#F9F9F9; border:1px solid #AAA; padding:5px;"> [[Image:Information_icon.svg|20px|left]] Hello. Please don't forget to provide an [[Help:Edit summary|edit summary]]. Thanks, and happy editing. <!-- Template:Editsummary --></div>

Which results in this:

==Please Use Edit Summaries==

Hello. Please don't forget to provide an edit summary. Thanks, and happy editing.

2. Not really sure about this one, but all the words in the header begin with a capital letter, which is against the manual of style.

Michaelas10 14:13, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Crash on start-up

Hi, I've been off for a while. I'm still off, but I thought I'd prepare for when I'm on: VandalProof crashes on start-up. I've downloaded version 1.22, but it still crashes. Any thoughts? P.S. I know it says "see persistent crash on start-up", but since it crashes on start-up, I can't follow the link... --Chodorkovskiy (talk) 17:57, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Problem With VP and Anti Virus

Hi, I have to turn off my anti-virus software to get VP to work, I'm using Norton Internet Security 2005, is there a bug in the software? --Katieh5584 20:46, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

Has anyone else managed to use VP successfully with Norton Internet Security, because this is driving me crazy!!--Katieh5584 20:46, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] bot edits

when clicking bot edits in 1.2.2 i seem to get a broken link that leads to b Main Page instead of Main Page ST47 13:18, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Revert to C++ ending up in C

I attempted a revert to the article for C++ here[9] yet somehow it moved the text that was supposed to go into C++ to the article C here[10] resulting in a complete messup of the article. Sorry if it was a user error on my part but it seems like it could be a bug. Canadian-Bacon (contribs) 05:15, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

The exact same thing happened to me. --Daniel Olsen 21:46, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
The same thing happened to User:Ziusudra; the link left on the vandal's talkpage is interesting: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=C__&diff=next&oldid=78280157. TimBentley (talk) 19:05, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
Worth noting: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=C++ goes to C; http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=C%2B%2B goes to C++. TimBentley (talk) 19:12, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Bug with welcoming template

Whenever I try {{anon}} with VandalProof, I end up getting an edit that looks like this.

Can anyone tell me a way I can get around this?

--Nishkid64 22:49, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] VandalProof doesn't work with non-MonoBook skins

Several months ago, I was having trouble with VandalProof not recognizing me as an authorized user. I had been using the Classic skin, and VandalProof promptly worked today when I switched to MonoBook. Could you please make VandalProof compatible with non-Monobook skins? Thanks. --Ixfd64 08:00, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Constant crashing

I've tried resolve this bug by clearing my cookies and monobook.js, but VP freezes everytime I start it. I'm running it on an old 700 MHZ Celeron on Windows XP is it helps. -- Selmo (talk) 21:28, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

Try blanking your vandalism log, black, white and admin lists. I know this is very close to rain-summoning, but hey - worked for me : ).--Chodorkovskiy (talk) 06:53, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] freezes at startup

Please help me, it sometimes freezes at startup. -- FrostytheSnowman 'sup? 19:16, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

I have the same problem on another computer. Im might also be on the other one, so ill check here soon. --Actown e 00:50, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] VP frozen in timeperiod

Vandalproof seems to be stuck at 12:12pm (gmt) - if I click "update list" or "recent changes" - it just brings up the same entries over and over again. Suggestions? --Charlesknight 22:07, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

It's still stuck - any ideas?

--Charlesknight 14:15, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Login Request Keeps Failing

Whenever I login, my login request keeps failing and it says so on top. I am logged in to Wikipedia and VP through the browser, and I am definitely on the "Approved" list of users. Any way I can stop the login request from failing? I am entering the right username, and I have Version 1.2.2 of VP. Thanks. Thistheman 17:47, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

Never mind. I figured it out; it wasn't a bug at all. It worked after I shut it down and restarted it a few times. Thistheman 21:34, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
I am having the same problem. It's only a recent occurrence, so maybe it might be a "bug", even if restarting clears it up.
To clarify the problem: VP opens and announces that the login request failed. This is common. Then when logging in within the VP browser, it confirms successful login, but the page changes to report login failed.
I also was able to login after restart. PrometheusX303 17:25, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] VP 1.1 shows up when I open VP 1.2.2

When I try to open VP 1.2.2 I am asked to enter my username and when I enter it, I get the error message "Run-time error '55': File already open". When I click OK or the X button, VandalProof 1.1 shows up. (I am logged on to Wikipedia) Can you help me? -- FrostytheSnowman 'sup? 20:09, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

Never mind, I deleted my VP program and downloaded it again. -- FrostytheSnowman 'sup? 23:04, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Warning wrong user

It appears that there may be a problem with things that may result in a warning message being left on an inadvertent user’s page. I wanted to post a {{bv}} on a new user page due to some redirect vandalism. The talk page had not yet been created. I tried to post the warning on the talk page using the menu option (User tools --> Warn --> blatantvandal). When I did this, it posted the warning on another user's page. Obviously I reverted myself quickly and left an apology message. It turned out that the other user was an admin who had issued a block against the user just before I tried to issue the warning. Could this have caused the error? --After Midnight 0001 10:34, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Bad talk messages

See User_talk:71.244.79.165.

Thank you for experimenting with the page "Weird Al" Yankovic on Wikipedia. Your test worked, and it has been reverted or removed. Please use the sandbox for any other tests you want to do. Take a look at the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia. A link to the edit I have reverted can be found here: "Weird_Al"_Yankovic&diff=next&oldid=77548958 link. If you believe this edit should not have been reverted, please contact me. Andeh 16:02, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

I'm was guessing it was the bad article name with the " " in it. But was unable to reproduce the bug in pages in my user space.[11]. Possibly the bug can only be reproduced in the article space. Please look into it. Thanks.--Andeh 16:08, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] PROD tags being added to the wrong articles

I tried to use VandalProof to add {{prod}} to Musso & Frank's Grill, but the tag got added to Musso instead. I have no idea how this happened. I think it has something to do with the & in the article name - the program may be misreading it as the beginning of a tag. --Coredesat talk! 06:09, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Encoding of plus sign (urgent)

Apparently, when reverting vandalism to an article with a "+" in the title, this tool pastes the old version back at the wrong title, as if the plus were a space. See this edit from C (the letter C):

Now neither 137.122.201.76 nor Swalot had edited the C article, but they had edited the C++ article [13] (To make things more confusing, 137.122.201.76 reverted his own edit). A couple things to note:

— CharlotteWebb 19:19, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

This is using VP1.22 or VP1.3 right? —— Eagle (ask me for help) 13:15, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Plus signs not encoded

When I told VP to revert some vandalism on the article "C++", it edited article "C" instead. See comments on my talk page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Ziusudra.

--Ziusudra 00:28, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

See above error report. —— Eagle (ask me for help) 13:16, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Runtime Error 75

Once the program has started and the Welcome to VandalProof page loaded I get a message saying "Run-time error '75': Path/File access error". The program then closes. Lcarsdata (Talk) 18:43, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

Try to make sure the program has its own folder, if that does not work, report back here with your Operating system and your browser. —— Eagle (ask me for help) 13:17, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
I am still getting this error, a using Windows XP. Lcarsdata (Talk) 17:47, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

Yup, I just brought this up recently: we addressed it above at User_talk:AmiDaniel/VP/Bugs#Windows_User_Permissions. The user must have full Windows priveledges (sp?), even if the program is placed into a read/write ready folder (e.g,. c:\windows\temp, where I've run other programs). I suspect that the program tries to write a file in a directory somewhere that we don't have access to. -Patstuart(talk)(contribs) 17:49, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] No edit summary

When you report a user to AIV, there is no edit summary whatsoever. Michaelas10 (T|C) 18:50, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

Interesting "error". Perhaps make that a feature request? —— Eagle (ask me for help) 13:14, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
I just thought it should be something similar to "Reporting vandal using VP" by default, rather than making it a custom summary. Michaelas10 (Talk) 13:17, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] RC patrolling function no longer working

The RC patrolling function doesn't work no matter how much I click the "Update" button. -- FrostytheSnowman 'sup? 21:18, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

Make sure you have the setting in "my preferences" on the tab "recent changes" called "enchanced recent changes" turned off, a.k.a. not checked. —— Eagle (ask me for help) 13:18, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Start Page is Links as Tabs

The start page shows the Wikipedia links (at right) as tabs, which obscure the text at the top of the page. Prometheus-X303- 20:40, 21 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Question. VP 1.3: Custom Edit Summaries

I'm using VP 1.3, and whenever I try and do a custom rollback with a custom edit summary, VP just leaves the default edit summary no matter what I type in the edit summary box. Leuko 00:24, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Problem

I'm not so sure that this is a bug, but every now and then, a message box pops up saying "runtime '91 error occured: Object variable or with block variable not set", then the program closes. --AAA! 02:58, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

I am likewise getting, alternatively, RunTime 91 and Runtime 5 errors. These don't occur if I de-select "Use RSS feed". SkerHawx 12:30, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
I also disabled the RSS Feed and it fixed my 91 and 45 errors. --Kf4bdy talk contribs 21:57, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
Main trouble is, I like using RSS feed. Someone has to fix this bug. --AAA! (talk • contribs) 07:48, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] TABCTL32.ocx

Error starting "TABCTL32.ocx or one of its dependencies not corretly registered: a file is missing or invalid"

TIA

--DracoRoboter 23:35, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] RunTime 91 error

I too keep getting:

 Run-time error '91':
 Object variable or With block variable not set

and it is sporatic. By the way, this on my XP workstation. I also use VP1.3 on a Win2K pc without issues. I just got another error:

 Run-time error '438':
 Object doesn't support this property or method

when I hit ok, it then gives me this, which I debug. Sometimes it stays open and other times it closes.

 A runtime error has occured. Do you wish to 
 Debug?
 Line: 332
 Error: 'document.getElementById(...)' is null or
 not an object

Maniwar (talk) 16:01, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

For the first one, go to file, and disable "Use RSS Feed" --AAA! (talk • contribs) 07:04, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Grey rollback tabs

I keep getting grey rollback tabs. I tried clearing out my monobook, but that doesn't work. What should I do? Squirepants101 00:05, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

I also receive a message about not being logged in (which I am) and that I'm not an authorized user (which I am also). Squirepants101 01:10, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
The features on VandalProof returned (only because I reinstalled an older version of VandalProof). Squirepants101 01:32, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] VP login not working

Anyone else suddenly not able to login? I am getting the "set user name" - "make sure you are logged in" window when I try to start up VP.(and I am definitely logged in) It started yesterday on my work PC's. Now this morning I am unable to login on any of my home computers. If anyone can lend assistance it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! Anger22 10:39, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

I'm getting the same problem. In the past, it would often take two or three tries, but I haven't been able to get in at all for the last 10 hours - and I'd say at least thirty login attempts. Brian 12:24, 26 October 2006 (UTC)btball
Me too (I posted at the discussion page earlier.) Mr Stephen 15:11, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
Ditto --AbsolutDan (talk) 23:41, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
Same problem for me -- both on my work computer and at home. Dina 00:36, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
Same here. Whispering 02:52, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
Ditto on that. This is the screen I get (click to enlarge):
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I get this no matter what. I am logging in exactly the same as before. I promise I'm not some n00b retard. LOL This just randomly started, and no matter what I do, it occurs. --NMChico24 08:38, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
Same here. A problem with IE7 perhaps? -Nicktalk 20:54, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
Same for me, too; please someone let me know when this gets fixed.--Lord Kinbote 22:56, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
Me too now. --BostonMA talk 23:13, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
(deindent) Good, I'm not insane; it's not logging in and crashing when I try the last couple of days. Tony Fox (arf!) 04:35, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
I've got the same problem since I updated to IE7. --Charlesknight 09:19, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
Same here --ChoChoPK (球球PK) (talk | contrib) 19:36, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
Who am I to be different?
   Unhandled exception at 0x7dca207a in VandalProof 122.exe: 0xC0000005: Access violation reading location 0x00004210.
--Ziusudra 01:51, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

Might as well add my "Me too" as well. Also seeing the tabs like in the capture above. AFAIK, I haven't updated any Windows component recently. Prometheus-X303- 19:18, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

Exact same problem here too. --Wafulz 03:36, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

I'm also unable to login. I've been in the registered list for months. Dionyseus 20:39, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
Same here, I've been using it for months and haven't been able to log on for quite awhile. --cholmes75 (chit chat) 18:52, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
Adding my name to the list of 'cant log in anymore' Canadian-Bacon t c e 00:04, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
As am I. ⇒Bayerischermann - 20:33, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
Nor I. Now I am getting a User List is corrupt, contact moderator message. --Kf4bdy talk contribs 22:51, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Recent changes won't update

Hi there -- just downloaded VP and am having some trouble. For some reason "Recent Changes" won't load at all. My watchlist is fine, and none of my tabs are greyed out, but when I go to Recent Changes and click update, the windows on the left remain empty. Also, when I go to file --> RC Preferences I get runtime error 9, "subscipt out of range. I'm running 1.3 with IE 6.0.2, SP2 and monobook. Am I missing something? If so, I'd appreciate any gentle nudges in the right direction. I'd really like to start using VP. -- Bailey(talk) 07:08, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

the same is happening for me. --Shrieking Harpy......Talk|Count 02:08, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
Same here. My RC Prefs work, though. Prometheus-X303- 15:02, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
Update Restarted VP. Recent changes work now. Prometheus-X303- 15:09, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
After 4 or 5 updates, wouldn't update anymore. Restart didn't help. Prometheus-X303- 15:38, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

I haven't seen this mentioned here but I think it's connected. When I load my watchlist, I can't open recent changes and vice versa. The only way to open them is to exit VP 1.3.1 and then restart the program. Perhaps this is an old prob. Another person I know who uses VP has the same problem, different computer. --Pigman (talk • contribs) 19:20, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

Oops, I spoke too soon. If I update Recent Changes, I can look at my watchlist. But the watchlist then the RC seems to not work still. --Pigman (talk • contribs) 00:27, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] My vandalproof is not working

Hi, when I tried to log on, it would act like I was logged on, but the buttons would not work. I re-installed, and now it encounters an error and closes. [[User_talk:Dlohcierekim|Cheers, :) Dlohcierekim 14:37, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Clicking "Show preview" or "Save page" opens unwanted new tab.

Clicking either of these two buttons will sometimes open an identical tab instead of saving or previewing. It's an intermittent problem and I haven't yet found any pattern in when it happens.

[edit] broken revision links + other stuff

Using VP 1.3, when I use rollback and a warning together, it works fine but then in the warning there is a link given to the revision, and its always broken. One example at User talk:76.19.187.48. Also when I click on a difference in recent changes, sometimes the previous edits are by the same user, VP asks if I wish to review the previous edits, I click yes and it gives me the same broken page. The watchlist and recent changes tabs in VP do not work for me. I tried VP 1.2.2 but it freezes while loading. - Tutmosis 23:02, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Run-time error '91' Reoccurence

The run-time error mentioned in one of the bug reports above mine has reocurred. I'm running VP 1.3 on an Administrative account and refreshed my monobook.js making sure popups was the only code in it. I deleted my temp files and cookies as well but still no success. Has this error been resolved yet?¤~Persian Poet Gal (talk) 00:37, 4 November 2006 (UTC) Edit: Sorry didn't try the RSS feed solution, I'll update the status in a sec.¤~Persian Poet Gal (talk) 00:39, 4 November 2006 (UTC) Edit2: Phew, the RSS feed was the issue, problem seems solved for now.¤~Persian Poet Gal (talk) 00:41, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

I have tried similar things to no avail; turning off RSS feed for me results in a broken recent changes tab (nothing loads) :( JoeSmack Talk(p-review!) 00:55, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
  • Sorry to hear that, so far it hasn't reocurred for me just yet. Tis a strange bug.¤~Persian Poet Gal (talk) 02:00, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

I'm getting the error too. My system is running XP Pro with admin privileges. Just installed this morning and tested briefly, and it worked ok. Now it's taking several tries before it will log me in, and it's crashing randomly after no more than a few minutes with that error message. -- Jim Douglas (talk) (contribs) 02:57, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

I've disabled java and active scripting, no luck. JoeSmack Talk(p-review!) 04:41, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

Ok, in a short test, it doesn't seem to crash when the RSS feed is disabled. OTOH, it doesn't actually work when the RSS feed is disabled; the list won't update. I can fool it into working by (1) enabling RSS, (2) clicking update, (3) disabling RSS, then perusing the list and navigating to various pages. If I do much of anything while RSS is active, the program crashes fairly quickly. -- Jim Douglas (talk) (contribs) 05:34, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

Wow, good catch. I have found similar results: when updating the Recent Changes list, using RSS feeds is necessary but not required when perusing/navigating the list. Turning it off for this part eliminates the crashing, albeit also limiting the functionality of RSS features like contribs at the bottom of each list item, etc. JoeSmack Talk(p-review!) 07:22, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

Not my catch! Someone mentioned it above. In a longer test, RSS does seem to be the issue. If I leave RSS disabled most of the time, just enabling it briefly to refresh the RC list, the program works correctly. If I leave RSS enabled, the program crashes either immediately or within several minutes. -- Jim Douglas (talk) (contribs) 07:25, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

Hmm, I'm crashing VP every minute with this problem right now. Glad to find this discussion means I'm not alone! Budgiekiller 09:14, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
Using VP without the RSS feed isn't much fun either... Budgiekiller 09:54, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
Ok, Betacommand figured it out: make backups of your text files, but reinstall them all. VP must get choked up when then get too big. After you get some clean ones, it works again (but prolly only for a while before you need to do it again). But i have RSS features back, huzah! :) JoeSmack Talk(p-review!) 18:27, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
I didn't catch that. Can you say that a bit more simply? --AAA! (talk • contribs) 09:43, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
Ditto, can we have that 'for dummies' please? Budgiekiller 18:03, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
Sorry, sorry. Backup all the text files. Reinstall from 1.2. Throw in the new 1.3 app and addendum text files. Move in your backed-up RCprefs and blacklist. Attack. Should work. (keep in mind you'll have to re-do this when it degrades again). JoeSmack Talk(p-review!) 18:13, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
I still don't get it. (God, I'm dumb...) --AAA! (talk • contribs) 01:23, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

(newindent) Heh, it's cool. Ok, take all the text files that are in the VandalProof folder, and move them to another folder named "Backup", or something of that nature. Delete everything else in the VandalProof folder (should be just an application). Re-install VandalProof just like you never had it, in a new folder. Keep in mind this includes a 'RCprefs' text file and a 'badwords' textfile. Launch VandalProof and make an edit or two. Neato. Add like one person to the 'blacklist' and another to the 'whitelist'. Everything should be a-ok. At this point, close VandalProof and open the "Backup" folder. Copy the 'RCprefs' text file to the new VandalProof folder. Open the "backup" 'whitelist' and 'blacklist' text files and copy their contents into the newly installed 'whitelist' and 'blacklist' text files. Re-launch VandalProof and it should now feel like nothing was ever different than before you got the errors!

You still do get the errors eventually, but it won't be every time you make an edit. They'll still get worse and worse, and you'll have to do this whole process again, but it gives you about a day of using VandalProof before you need to do it again. If you still have any questions, I'd be more than happy to address them; the more vandal fighters we have out there the better! :D Also, keep in mind that the IRC channel #vandalproof is a good reference for some live help. JoeSmack Talk(p-review!) 01:33, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

Okay, I think I've done it. But still, a mod should look into this bug. -AAA! (talk • contribs) 01:58, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

I've contacted AmiDaniel. He said it should be fixed in the next update. --AAA! (talk • contribs) 06:24, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

  • I've finally had the chance to operate the new update, unfortunately the bug is not fixed. However, if people follow the possible solutions above, it usually corrects the error.¤~Persian Poet Gal (talk) 21:35, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] VP1.3 Broken User List

It seems that after a four hour break from vandal hunting tonight that I returned to find that I could no longer login. My name is on the user list but when I go to login it pops up a little box that says I am not on the user list. I ventured to the IRC channel and User:wizardrydragon and User:Luna-San also attempted to login using VP1.3 and also received the same error. It seems to be their consensus that the user list has become corrupted. Any help on this would be appreciated. --Kf4bdy talk contribs 07:57, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Barney bug

It's returned. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 19:29, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

What is the Barney bug? I can see that the VP revert had to be changed. Prometheus-X303- 19:34, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Whenever I Sign in I am Reflected as "not on the user list"

This is a very strange problem as of late. I recently was about to sign into VP (as I have been doing for the past week or so) and now I get the message "You are not on the user list." I have of course already recieved the message from Betacommand reflecting that I'm a VP member now, I'm scratching my head on this one. I've tried to restart my computer, sign in and out of my Wikipedia account, delete my temp files/cookies, and refresh my monobook.js. Is this just a bug on the VP admin front or is there a way I can correct this problem?

Edit: *looks above* seems like others are having this problem, glad I'm not the only head scratcher at the moment :P.¤~Persian Poet Gal (talk) 06:21, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

Confirmed, I'm having the same problem. →DancingPenguin 08:56, 11 November 2006 (UTC)
Guess what? me too. -Patstuart(talk)(contribs) 08:34, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
Uh.....yeah....you already know what I'm going to say.... JoeSmack Talk(p-review!) 17:49, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
Still is a problem. I am on the Recently approved list and even adding myself to the Approved list on the other page did not help. Nibuod 14:34, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

Still is a problem. I am on the “Recently approved” list and even adding user to the “Approved” list on the other page did not help. Does any one know what is going on? The Recently approved page says this page is not active click here. Nibuod 14:34, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

Alright this is quite an issue now. Not to be impatient, but will VP moderators get on this eventually?¤~Persian Poet Gal (talk) 16:57, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

I seem to be having this problem, too. I'm on the old approved list here but not the new one, for some reason. I'm not sure if that's the issue or not, but either way I'm not able to use VP. -- Bailey(talk) 19:23, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

Betacommand provided me with this response:


"See [14] Betacommand (talk • contribs • Bot) 19:44, 15 November 2006 (UTC)"


However, I encountered the same issue Bailey had. I found myself on the old list but not on the new one. I have sent another message to Betacommand to ask about this.¤~Persian Poet Gal (talk) 19:54, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

Recieved another response from Betacommand regarding that other list:


"that list is the VP 1.2.2 list and those list do nothing for access to VP. the actual list are encripted and stored else where. Betacommand (talk • contribs • Bot) 19:56, 15 November 2006 (UTC)"


¤~Persian Poet Gal (talk) 20:01, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

Interesting. I've readded myself to the approval list. Hopefully some good will come of it. -- Bailey(talk) 22:51, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
Well I finally downloaded the new 1.31 version and the problem is still persisting.¤~Persian Poet Gal (talk) 19:36, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
Same problem per above, even with 1.31. - Tutmosis 19:58, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
  • Alright, the best solution I have gathered from various responses is to just resubmit your username to the Awaiting Approval list here. They should be able to reprocess you promptly. Hopefully that should solve things.¤~Persian Poet Gal (talk) 18:35, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

[unindent]Ack, please reauthorize me. -Patstuart(talk)(contribs) 00:24, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

Patstuart approved. Prodego talk 00:31, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

Thanks. -Patstuart(talk)(contribs) 00:56, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] VP 1.31 problems

Changing the "Set RC limit" from the default of 20 doesn't not work. 20 still come up no matter what I set it to. We need the abiltiy to change this permanently so we don't have to reset it all the time and for it to work. Rlevse 18:54, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Recent Changes and Symbols

I downloaded VP 1.31, and my recent changes list doesn't work. Also, any article that has a symbol like quotes, or a letter like this é in the title can't be linked to by my watchlist. How do I fix this? Cheers, -- THLCCD 00:35, 21 November 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Too Many Tabs Open error

I continually get a 'too many tabs open' error - and yes, all 5 are open. The problem is that there is no way to close any of the ones not in use. Double clicking doesn't work, clearing my cache didn't work, swearing at them almost worked... Any other way to close them? SkierRMH 23:23, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

Me too. Mr Stephen 11:20, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Vandal warning error

I was giving a new user User talk:Rajngupta an {{anon}} welcome when the small 'Vandal has been reported' box appeared and then I was taken to the admin intervention page. But I don't know why.

  • This has happened to me several times as well, but it's usually when I'm trying to warn an anonymous user. Malerin 15:08, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

I also noted that the {{anon}} puts up a double welcome on the header IE: _ Welcome== ==Welcome! Richard Harvey 08:58, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

I have solved the problem by editing the custombutton.txt file, I replaced the Talk 1 section with:-

<TALK 1> {{anon}}
==Welcome== {{subst:Anonwelcomeg}}
Welcoming anonymous user
. Richard Harvey 13:11, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] VP 1.31 bug RC repeats

I don't know why yet, but when you click on an article in the (top) RC pane, the RC windows flicker and the articles that were in the top pane are copied into the middle pane. So instead of having 3 listings that are all different, you get the top and middle panes the same and the bottom different. Then if you click on the pane again soon enough, all 3 panes will have the exact same set of articles listed. Rlevse 12:56, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

This happened to me too, when I used the "Turn off logged in users" function. Fix it please? Fredil 00:01, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Barney bug - New version

This time it turned Barney into Barney & Friends cast see here. Cheers. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 12:08, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

Had a different variation on the "Barney" bug this evening. Seems to have something to do with pages that have "&" in the title. Anger22 (Talk 2 22) 04:45, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] VP reading test2a-n template as a t1a in vandalism history

It seems as though VP is reading the use of a {{test2a-n}} template as a t1a in the vandalism history. For instance, see here - I gave a t2a, but the history at the top of the VP page shows it as a t1a. Malerin 00:35, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Auto update weirdness

Hi. Whenever I try to have the program auto update the RCs (like setting it to 60 seconds or 90 seconds), the program starts to update about every five seconds and the program often locks up (presumably because its trying to update as fast as possible for some reason). :( Manual update works fine though. Gzkn 06:07, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

  • Seconded. Happening to me too. XPSP2, IE7. Malerin 13:42, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
    • Forgot to post specs: XPSP2, IE 6. Also happens on my other computer where I have IE 7. Gzkn 13:54, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
      • Happening to me too. (Wikimachine 01:44, 30 November 2006 (UTC))

[edit] Anon template

There is an extra Welcome in the heading for the anonymous editor template, see User talk:66.30.108.183. ReverendG 04:42, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

See:- Vandal warning error above! Richard Harvey

[edit] Update button

It does not work when I try it manually, nor does it work automatically (every 10 seconds). I'm not sure why maybe it's just me.

  • IBM ThinkPad R40, Windows XP Pro SP2, 1.4MHz Pentium M, 512MB, 32MB ATI Mobility Radeon 7500, 40GB 4200RPM
  • Norton Internet Security 2006, Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer 7, Open Office, Microsoft Office

(Wikimachine 04:49, 29 November 2006 (UTC))

  • It works when I open it the second time (after computer starts). But take a look at the post above. Update goes crazy, every 5 seconds. (Wikimachine 01:46, 30 November 2006 (UTC))

[edit] Second Problem

The web results of Wikipedia sometimes show in messed up HTML instead of what wiki interface should look like. (Wikimachine 01:46, 30 November 2006 (UTC))

[edit] Run-time error '91' (again)

Grr, starting to become annoying now! I've tried "reinstalling" 1.2, 1.3 and 1.3.1 from scratch, I've tried deleting the text files etc, but I still get "91" again and again... Help! Budgiekiller 17:20, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

  • I've been getting a ton of those too. The "delete the text files" fix never seemed to work for me, but I've found that 91 seems to be caused by clicking on another recent change before the first one has loaded completely. If I wait and make sure it's loaded (that is, the history table of all the changes has loaded) and then click a new edit, my crash rate plummets. Might be something to try, anyway. Malerin 04:57, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hack?

Hey guys. I was editing with VP when Norton Internet Security popped up and said that a website was trying to change my homepage & asked for my permission.

I denied.

Then on VandalProof, I got this message about some "block xxx". I clicked ok. Then CPU warmed up & VP shut down.

I checked taskmanager but I couldn't find any malicious process nor VP. (Wikimachine 04:33, 2 December 2006 (UTC))

--Hu12 05:54, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] "Error retrieving warnings (9)"

I get on several user and IP accounts the error message ": Error retrieving warnings (9)". With this error message the buttons don't work, either. I tried to clean the install, and tried to empty my IE6 cache, to no avail. Any clue what is going wrong? --Dirk Beetstra T C 23:25, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

I am suddenly having the identical problem. Dina 02:13, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
I have the same problem also. Squirepants101 02:17, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
Guess I make it four so far. Seems its only when i load my watchlist for both for users and IP's.recent changes woks fine so far. Hu12 02:49, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
I'm the fifth to have this strange problem.¤~Persian Poet Gal (talk) 03:13, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
Number 6 signing in. Anger22 (Talk 2 22) 03:27, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
Yup, I'm also having this problem on both recent changes and my watchlist. --Coredesat 07:34, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
That makes eight of us. Budgiekiller 08:11, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
Nine. And that error 91 up there, that still too. ;) JoeSmack Talk 08:31, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
Oh, don't even get me started on error 91...! Budgiekiller 09:09, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
Make that ten - problem started last night. --Charlesknight 11:43, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

A bit more description, just before I get the yellow error message ": Error retrieving warnings (9)" there is shortly a message, sometimes in red, sometimes in green: "BL WL Admin (retrieving warnings...)". When I watch a user talk-page in normal view (so not in diff), correct info is retrieved from the page (both in yellow: "AmiDaniel has received no vandalism warnings.", "000.000.000.000: 1 * t2 (t2 2006-12-05 21:22)"). Hope this helps in finding the problem. --Dirk Beetstra T C 22:02, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

thanks " Persian Poet Gal Hu12 02:41, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

Just call me eleven. ReverendG 22:12, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

AmiDaniel left this response on the SMF forums: http://amidaniel.com/smf/index.php?topic=20.msg42#msg42 . Its still being worked on to correct.¤~Persian Poet Gal (talk) 13:00, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

still getting erors Hu12 05:54, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
Aren't we all Hu12? No worries though, whether it is fixed within a week or a month from now, I'm sure AmiDaniel's working on it. We got to cut him some slack however, the guy has a life just like the rest of us :P...¤~Persian Poet Gal (talk) 05:57, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
Thank you :D. Yes, unfortunately, I do have a life, and it's finals week at the moment. I'll do what I can to fix this as soon as possible, though--expect a patch in a week or two. AmiDaniel (talk) 21:05, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
Finals week? well with the greatest of respect - F**K OFF and don't come back until they are finished, don't worry about this stuff. :-) --Charlesknight 21:07, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
Second that, it's a free tool, and awesome, and if it seems we're clamoring for you to fix it, its only because it really is amazing. So do your important stuff, and I and everyone else will re-learn {-S-U-B-S-T-:-T-E-S-T-|....etc. until you're ready. Good luck with finals. Dina 02:55, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
Don't you just hate when you get a new toy and it's broken straight out of the box? It may be my first day with VP, but the short time it worked was great. AmiDaniel, great job on the program. I'm looking forward to the fix, but take your time. Good luck with finals! AuburnPilottalk 21:01, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Not on user list?

When I "verify authorization" using VP131, I am receiving a "You are not on the user list" message. I don't know where to check for the complete user list - I was added to the list on 10/23/2006 and am no longer on the "recently added users list."

Any recommendations?

By the way - how can I tell if VandalProof is successfully logging into Wikipedia? I click "ch", fill in my username/password, and then click "Log-in to WP". The application responds by clearing the password box and illuminating the "Verify Authorization" button. Does this mean I am successfully logged in?

Thanks for your help. dpotter 00:14, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

  • This problem has effected many users, the only way to correct it is to have yourself reprocessed by a VP moderator. Just readd your name to this list.¤~Persian Poet Gal (talk) 12:58, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Problem

Hey, none of my rollback buttons work. The talk page buttons do, but I can't rollback. ReverendG 01:41, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

Same for me, it just displays "error retrieving warnings (9)" on top. This appears in each version of VP now. Michaelas10 (Talk) 21:19, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
Same here. FireSpike Editor Review! 19:00, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
Also getting this issue. --Wafulz 03:30, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
Add me to this collection. Right before it goes to "error retrieving warnings" the warnings bar flashes full of "BL:WL WL WL WL WL WL WL WL WL WL WL WL WL WL...etc"Canadian-Bacon 08:00, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
Same here. Dionyseus 16:40, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
and here Bgold4 05:57, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Error retrieving warnings

I just went to revert some vandalism, and it said error retrieving warnings, and then, none of the rollback buttons were clickable. Thank You in advance. FireSpike Editor Review! 18:59, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

Well, nevermind, the discussion above me has the same problem. FireSpike Editor Review! 18:59, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Errors, Errors, Errors

I'm getting all sorts of funky messages. When I tried to leave a message in VandalProof on the Bugs page, I got a notification that I was banned. Huh? I've had VP close/crash on me often with the "Runtime error 438". It often ends my session before I've done more than load a page or two from the Recent Changes list. And now I'm getting the "Error retrieving warnings (9)" that I've see a few others post about. *sigh* I just wants to fightses the vandalses... --Pigman (talk • contribs) 22:31, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

I am also having these sorts of crashes. --Kathryn NicDhàna ♫♦♫ 06:42, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Custom Rollback leaves two messages

When doing a custom rollback, usually for bv (blatant vandal), it will leave the main bv message, but then add the "Here is a link to the edit I reverted" section twice, to the same link. It also logs these custom rollbacks as two edits. This doesn't really interfere with the use of VP, but it does look a bit odd. --Kathryn NicDhàna ♫♦♫ 06:42, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] The incredible '91'

Hey, good luck with the finals. Just wanted to let you know that using VP, I racked up about 4000 edits in two weeks, 99% of which were perfect, the remaining 1% weren't. That 1% was human (my) error. Your tool is top drawer. However the old '91' error happens more and more and the sooner you can take us to VP 1.32 the better! But ONLY WHEN YOU GET THE TIME!!! All the best, look forward to hearing how you've got on. Cheers! Budgiekiller 21:18, 14 December 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Not on user list

I can't get VP to verify my account name on the user list, I tried with accounts Tom.k and TomSwifty (the second one just being a test account to see if my original username was somehow wrong). I tried with IE6 installed, then I upgraded to IE7, nothing (cookies are enabled). Antivirus and firewall were disabled. I tried on two other home computers and on my friend's computer, still nothing. All those computers have Firefox installed though. But setting IE as a default browser doesn't help either and I can't imagine any other way FF could affect the system, since it's in one directory only, a simple program not bound to the OS like IE is.

You'll need to reapply - the list got corrupted somehow. See this. Budgiekiller 11:03, 15 December 2006 (UTC)
I getting the message as well. However, in the section just above this one Prodego says the user list is corrupt and it can't be fixed until AmiDaniel is back. I had assumed that AmiDaniel would have done some sort of roll back. Is this not the case? Does everybody affected need to reapply? --MarkS (talk) 14:23, 15 December 2006 (UTC)
The bug above is fixed (by AmiDaniel), and I removed it. These problems are unrelated, it is a bug where, due to some unknown incompatible configuration, some users can't log in. Prodego talk 01:06, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] backup for AmiDaniel

VandalProof is a great tool and I know that without it I find it much harder to fight vandals. AmiDaniel has done a fantastic job. What worries me is that AmiDaniel is currently unavailable (for a very good reason (see earlier section)) and in the meantime VandalProof isn't working for some users due to two significant problems (eg: Error_retrieving_warnings and Userlist_is_corrupt). I know that since the problems started I've virtually stopped fighting vandals. I guess that more vandalism is slipping through as a result of these problems. In view of the importance of VandalProof would it be possible to get somebody to provide full backup for those time when AmiDaniel isn't available? --MarkS (talk) 14:35, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

  • Let AmiDaniel breath for a minute people and continue a little with his normal life :P...I see no problem in fighting vandalism at the moment. For the past few days I have tried to manually scan Recent Changes and I am sure many others found this just as productive as before. Plus there are other freewares to rely on if VandalProof is down at the moment. With or without a backup, it does not hurt to become a little less anti-vandal tool dependent ;).¤~Persian Poet Gal (talk) 00:49, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Problem sending usernames with spaces to AIV

This has bitten me before, and now again. If I try to send a user with a space in his name to AIV, the wrong name appears in the post. eg, the correct name here is "Come and fuck me", not "Darkherox". I tried to correct it, but Antivandalbot reverted me twice, then the duty admin asked me what was going on. Glumly, Mr Stephen 14:50, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

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