User talk:Henna

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Contents 1 Welcome to the Wikipedia 2 Lambic images 3 vandalfighter 4 Barnstar 5 VF page layout and manual 6 VF improvements 7 Links not working 8 VF 9 VandalProof 1.1 is Now Available For Download 10 VF integration 11 VF on Mac 12 VandalProof 1.2 Now Available 13 Vandalfighter redirect 14 VF 15 Still on break 16 Thank you, Henna 17 vf dead links 18 Category watch 19 api 20 Retropatrolling tool 21 Barnstar 22 VF Bots 23 First of all, nice to meet you 24 ???

[edit] Welcome to the Wikipedia

I noticed you were new, and wanted to share some links I thought useful:

• Wikipedia:Tutorial
• Wikipedia:Help desk
• M:Foundation issues
• Wikipedia:Policy Library

For more information click here. You can sign your name by typing 4 tildes, like this: ~~~~.

Sam Spade Apply now, exciting opportunities available at Spade & Archer! 23:21, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Lambic images

Those images you added are excellent: thank you for finding them! – ClockworkSoul 13:25, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)

hehe, I had a lot of fun taking them and trying them, will upload more of the series to commons later this week with a bit of help from user:eloquence. I've also uploaded several pictures of beerglasses and beers to commons under the same nick. henna

That sounds like alot of fun to me! If you ever find yourself with a little free time, we sure could use a hand at the newly created WikiProject Beer :) – ClockworkSoul 21:34, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)

oh my, I'll need help with translations for that :) I don't know all the names in english :( henna

I'll be happy to help where I can.  :) – ClockworkSoul 15:12, 10 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] vandalfighter

Hi Henna, v3.0 didn't work, but I'm now running 3.1.1 which works perfectly. All the bugs I reported have been fixed (for me at least) and I have struck out my reports on the VF page. I'll get round to trying v3.2 at some point and will let you know of any problems. Thanks for all your work on this, keep it up. Cheers. --Cactus.man ✍ 06:11, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

Update: I think the problem with VF3.0 was an incompatible JRE version. I was running 1.4.2.09 but updated to 1.5.0.06 before running VF3.1.1. I just tried VF3.0 again and it worked without problems. I presume you are using some new classes / methods that are not available in older JRE versions? I have added a Troubleshooting section to the VF page regarding the JRE version - please modify it as necessary. --Cactus.man ✍ 07:50, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

I'm pretty sure the problem was the incompatible JRE version. All working well now though, so that's good. --Cactus.man ✍ 16:19, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

Tried the 3.2.1 version, and it does work on Windows ME, unlike the 3.0 version. Thanks, Henna. Colocho 22:04, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Barnstar

[edit] VF page layout and manual

I added the manual to the main page and moved bugs/feature requests into sub-pages.

Please let me know if you want a different layout for the VF related pages. I won't be offended if you would prefer it to be done in a different manner.

—-- That Guy, From That Show! ^(talk) 2006-03-24 04:27Z

yay, I like the link at teh top :) Henna 09:09, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] VF improvements

Hi there! Good to see someone is maintaining this fantastic tool. Anyway, I thought you might be interested in my improvments. Here's a patch for the vf.java file:

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<                                                            .openURL("http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Vandalism_in_progress");
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>                                                            .openURL("http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Administrator_intervention_against_vandalism&section=1");
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<                                                                            + " http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Vandalism_in_progress");
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>                                                                            + " http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Administrator_intervention_against_vandalism&action=edit&section=1");
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<                                                                                    + ".org/wiki/User_talk:" + str);
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>                                                                                    + ".org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:" + str + "&action=edit");
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<                                                                                    + ".org/wiki/User_talk:"
<                                                                                    + str);
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>                                                                                    + ".org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:"
>                                                                                    + str + "&action=edit");

It does two things:

1. The "B" column leads to the WP:AIV page instead of WP:VIP (and actually straight to editing the "Alerts" section), because RC patrol is a fast-paced "game". You'll also need to change the description in the GUI.
2. The "T" column goes straight to editing the talk page instead of viewing it.

Keep up the good work! Regards, Misza13 ^{T C} 11:11, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

I've integrated the direct to edit links in the next version (3.4) Henna 08:32, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Links not working

At 21:12, 30 March 2006 (UTC) I tried to click on the link on the VF page to download it and it said that the file doesn't exist. Could you correct the link or something please. --Leon2323

21:12, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

yeah, the host crashed today :(,sorry, If it's not up again tomorow I'm going to look for another place to host it temporarily. Henna 21:31, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

temporary mirrorsite found Henna 23:16, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] VF

Henna, I'd like to discuss a few things with you about VF. I've hacked a workaround, but I'd like to see it well done. I've added you to my MSN, please accept. The main topic of discussion is the integration of VF in another UI. Best regards, Nuno Tavares 00:08, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

you're added, shoot :) Henna 08:33, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

==Welcome to VandalProof== Thanks for your interest in VandalProof! You've been added to the list of authorized users, and feel free to contact me or post a message on VandalProof's talk page if you have any questions. AmiDaniel (Talk) 00:14, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] VandalProof 1.1 is Now Available For Download

Happy Easter to all of you, and I hope that this version may fix your current problems and perhaps provide you with a few useful new tools. You can download version 1.1 at User:AmiDaniel/VandalProof. Let me warn you, however, to please be extremely careful when using the new Rollback All Contributions feature, as, aside from the excessive server lag it would cause if everyone began using it at once, it could seriously aggitate several editors to have their contributions reverted. If you would like to experiment with it, though, I'd be more than happy to use my many sockpuppets to create some "vandalism" for you to revert. If you have any problems downloading, installing, or otherwise, please tell me about them at User:AmiDaniel/VP/Bugs and I will do my best to help you. Thanks. AmiDaniel (Talk) 06:45, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] VF integration

Hi Henna. Haven't seen you lately on MSN. I'd like to get back to our previous discussion. If you can, please send me the most up-to-date version of the Vandal Fighter so I can remake the changes I did to integrate it on JMWE to send you a correct diff. There is another suggestion to make. If you lost my MSN contact, here it is: nunotavare at hotmail.com. Best regards, Nuno Tavares 01:35, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] VF on Mac

No problem.

Is there an option to view the diff between current and previous instead of between to oldid's? Because after a long time using Lupin's tools, comparing oldid's seems awkward... --M1ss1ontomars2k4 18:33, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] VandalProof 1.2 Now Available

[edit] Vandalfighter redirect

Howdy! I saw that you created a VandalFighter redirect in mainspace that pointed to userspace. I've deleted it, this type of cross-namespace redirect isn't appropriate. Good tool, but you should keep the documentation in your userspace. Regards, CHAIRBOY (☎) 06:17, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

Did I create that? when? Henna 14:46, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

My mistake! It was User:Mac Davis. Please disregard, I picked the wrong day to stop sniffing glue. - CHAIRBOY (☎) 14:49, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

no problem :) Henna 14:56, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] VF

Hi! I'm an user from es: Wikipedia. I'd like to tell you a problem that I'm having with the vandl fighter.

Well, let's begin, I downloaded and executed the 3.5 Vandal Fighter seeing the es: RC . The next day, I put it again, but it worked on the en: wikipedia. I decided to change the configuration and it didn't work, though. I run more times the VF with configuration on es:, but it always doesn't work... it only works on en:

It happened to another Wikipedian friend... Do you know what it could be or shall I use the 2.2 version? =P

I downloaded the 3.3 version, but it work in the same way...

Thanks and sorry for my english, --Equi 23:02, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

Now, I found out that if I download the 3.3 version, in the first time, it works... When I close it and execute it again, it lose the configuration... Equi 01:58, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

I'll look into it, but will be a bit longer due to suddenly finding myself with a holliday job. Henna 15:21, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Still on break

Thought I'd drop by and say hi. I have a lot of Real Life stuff going on still but will be back soon.

-- That Guy, From That Show! 15:37, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thank you, Henna

A special thank you for having fixed the "0" bug in VF. :-) Ciao, M7it 17:02, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] vf dead links

hello,

as you may have noticed every link is dead on VF's page. first, would be nice to resurrect them. then, would you somehow like to have some mirrors? if you can make the dirs reappear notify me and I'll start a daily mirror on the site, just in case your server decides again to stop. --grin ✎ 13:49, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

fixed the links, had forgotten to repair them yesterday when rescuing stuff of a slightly malfunctioning drive. Mirrors are greatly appreciated. Henna 19:58, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Category watch

Hi Henna,

I was reading User:Henna/VF - note it still says you are doing pre-wikimania stuff, probably needs some update :-).

I actually was looking for something a little different. Monitoring changes in real time, like VF is assisting, is helpful but not always possible. I was thinking of a different, complementary approach, of some way to make sure all "important" articles are monitored. It would be great if there were some mechanism to automatically enable WATCHING not just individual articles, but whole categories, complete with their descendent categories.

That way, if one user watches the articles contained in, say, Category: Engineering, he or she would be able to catch and revert vandalism in any of the articles in the category. Users who do nothave time to monitor a top-level category can of coures choose to watch sub-categories instead. This would make watch lists more systematic and not sporadic, as they are today.

I am mostly active in the Hebrew Wikipedia where I'm a sysop, so I hope you're the right person to ask - was such a tool already developed somewhere in wiki space? Thanks! Odedee 01:23, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

you could try the recent changes/category: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Recentchangeslinked&target=Category%3ALiving_people Henna 15:46, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks! I didn't know this could be done. This seems most helpful. Do you know if a removal of an article from the category would also show up using such a filter? E.g. if an article is blanked so that it is out of all categories, would it still show up? Odedee 15:53, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

dunno, you can also make 'related changes' lists by putting articles you want to watch on a page and then isiting the 'related changes' for that pageHenna 16:06, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

Well, those articles I have on my watch list already; however it is sporadic - I'm looking for a systematic way to ensure complete catgories are being watched, not just articles I edited in the past. We may need to write a bot for this. Odedee 18:01, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

No need for a bot, you can use Catscan. It is limited to listing 1000 articles per category/subcategory per query but, you could periodically scan main sub-categories to catch all of the articles. Doing this sort of scan can have unintended problems, like if another huge category is listed as a sub-category, and that one has another one, you could end up with a list of almost every article on Wikipedia :)

You may want to use the Category Tree tool to make sure that you won't end up in a loop like that.

Here is an example Catscan report for [[Category:Ancient Egypt]] and its sub-categories and articles.

Here is the category tree view for that same category

-- That Guy, From That Show! 19:52, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

Oh, this is superb. What a great tool! I will advertise this tool to the entire Hebrew wikipedia. Thank you so much, Odedee 21:41, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] api

had some thoughts and written samples at meta:API.. Let me know what you think. --Yurik 07:57, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Retropatrolling tool

First I apologize for my english... I encounter a bug in VPopSpeed tool on http://tools.wikimedia.de/~henna/VPopSpeed/ ... really I don't know where i have to report this bug. I see henna in URL, so... Problem appears to be only in this page [1] and occurs at another user, whom I ask to check for it. When in list appear an user page I have:

Warning: fopen(http://it.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Discussioni_utente:Stefanomencarelli&diff=0&oldid=5810435&action=render) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.0 400 Bad Request in /home/henna/public_html/VPopSpeed/showEditsChrono.php on line 111

Warning: feof(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /home/henna/public_html/VPopSpeed/showEditsChrono.php on line 112

Warning: fread(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /home/henna/public_html/VPopSpeed/showEditsChrono.php on line 114

Warning on lines 112 and 114 are diplayed in an infinite loop ... In my browser I can open that link... Thanks for your time. Good work. Bye. Elborgo 16:43, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Barnstar

		The Original Barnstar
		This is a barnstar for helping people fight vandalism better with VF. Sir James Paul, La gloria è a dio 01:49, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] VF Bots

Hey Henna, I've noticed you've had PIRC bots pop up from time to time in the #vandalism-en-wp-2 channel. They are usually named vf######, and seem to somehow relate to your vandal fighter. I've just wanted to let you know that we've now opened the main channel, #vandalism-en-wp up to everyone, and since the other channel no longer has a 24 hour reporting bot in there, and will likely become obsolete in the near future anyway, you might want to redirect the bots to #vandalism-en-wp. Just thought I'd let you know. —Pilotguy push to talk 23:59, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] First of all, nice to meet you

I´m an admin: from es: where your vandal fighter tool is quite popular. However, none of us know very much about the regex, so I couldn´t find out how to do this. I´d like the programe to hide all the edition whose summary includes [[w:es:User:Axxgreazz/Monobook-Suite|monobook-suite]] How should the regex be?--FAR 14:54, 15 March 2007 (UTC)Excuse my poor English

[edit]  ???

Hi there, I would kindly like to ask where you have been? I noticed a few weeks ago you had not been on here since November and I was a little worried - I was thinking of listing you at missing wikipeians but I thought I'd beter leave it and see if you come back, anyway good to see your back and happy editing!! Tellyaddict 15:57, 20 March 2007 (UTC)