User talk:Lupin/Anti-vandal tool

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[edit] Rervertin

How does one revert with this tool? I've looked but none of the links seem to allow reverting or rollbacks. Also, will this work with blue colgne? --Maru (talk) Contribs 07:31, 12 November 2005 (UTC)

  • The problem was that the RSS stream didn't provide a rollback button, but he's working on a solution. You can test it out in blue cologne, I don't know. — BRIAN0918 • 2005-11-12 12:30
  • Yes, you can use it in other skins, I think. I've added some info on this to the page. When you click the link from the article to see the most recent diff, you should see a rollback link. There's none from the page because I don't think it's possible to create one (I could be wrong here and would welcome correction, but Mediawiki seems to use a random number to create a hash, and I doubt that I could duplicate that from a client-side script). Lupin|talk|popups 23:34, 12 November 2005 (UTC)
  • To clarify: the link that you think should take you to the vandalized article actually takes you to a diff page, where you can rollback. Hope that makes sense! :-) Lupin|talk|popups 23:41, 12 November 2005 (UTC)
  • OK, I have hacked around this. The rollback link that's now generated by the tool runs a javscript function, which downloads the diff page in the background and extracts the real rollback link if there is one. Then it opens that link in a new window/tab. (This explains why it's often slow to respond - it's waiting for the diff page to download). Lupin|talk|popups 18:16, 13 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Safari

Just thought I'd let you know that this doesn't work in Safari. — ceejayoz talk 05:14, 13 November 2005 (UTC)

Nor Opera. Dan100 (Talk) 20:33, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
It just crashes on 8.51 :-( Dan100 (Talk) 10:12, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
Third time lucky! Seems to be running ok now - obviously just a bit wobbly on Opera. Dan100 (Talk) 10:13, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] An Uber-tool

Would it not be a good idea to combine this tool's rules with, say, the one that runs in the en-vandalism channel? Dan100 (Talk) 20:43, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

Agreed. This is possibly the best Wikipedia tool I've used so far. Would it be possible to add more words to the watchlist? Thanks, Mysekurity(have you seen this?) 21:54, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

I think that the Roomba vandal bot run by User:Gmaxwell in irc.freenode.net#wikipedia-en-suspectedits is the future. I'm waiting for him to give me some output that I can stick a front-end onto. Lupin|talk|popups 17:00, 11 December 2005 (UTC)
By the way, the wordlist is editable at User:Lupin/badwords. Please bear in mind that adding lots of words indisciminately will slow down the script even further - it runs rather sluggishly as things are on my machine. Lupin|talk|popups 00:29, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Warn

When I click "warn", it adds {{subst:bv-n|ARTICLE}} ~~~~ to the user talk page of the person twice. Anyone else having an issue with this? Am I doing something wrong? -Mysekurity(have you seen this?) 09:41, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

The code that does that is actually embedded in the popups script. Cunning,Daft eh? :P Anyway, it seems you're loading that script twice in your monobook.js. Search for =User:Lupin/popups.js. To get the script loading only in non-safari browsers, you probably want to remove the first "installation". Lupin|talk|popups 16:57, 11 December 2005 (UTC)
Warn doesn't seem to work for me, it only adds action=edit&autoedit=s#$\n{{subst:bv-n|Topography}}%20~~~~&autosummary=Your%20recent%20edits to the url but doesnt put anything in the edit box. Intinn 09:31, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
The standard solution is to add one (but not both) of the following to your monobook.js file. The first enables popups, the second doesn't.
  • {{subst:js|User:Lupin/popups.js}}
  • {{subst:js|User:Lupin/autoedit.js}}
Lupin|talk|popups 13:10, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
Hm, replying to myself :) I noticed that you're already using popups, so this should work for you. Which browser and which OS are you using? Do you see any javascript errors? Lupin|talk|popups 13:10, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
IE6.0 on Win2K at work --> doesn't work, at home using FirefFox I have no problems :) I haven't noticed any js. errors but our system administrators at work are very restrictive so It might just be that. Intinn 20:55, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
Same deal for me... everything else works OK, I can see the big long string in the URL, but the User's Talk Page comes up blank. IE6 on WinXP Pro at work. Gzuckier 20:59, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Safari, mk2

Works now! Awesome, thanks! — ceejayoz talk 00:35, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

Dosen't work on the safri computers at my school...CommonEditor2345 06:43, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Expand

Why not make this a total alternative to the Recent changes page? That is, why the filtering? I would love to be able to get all anonymous edits with this thing, not just the ones with specific strings that are common to vandals. —Simetrical (talk) 05:05, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

Done. If you clear your cache and refresh, you should see an "All recent changes" link in your toolbox. Lupin|talk|popups 16:13, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Toolbox how-to?

Nice how this adds itself to the toolbox. I have a set of JavaScript tools in my browser's personal toolbar folder that I'd like to put in my Wikipedia toolbox so I have them available on whatever machine I'm on. Got any links to a how-to for what I need to know to add functions to the WP toolbox? I'm trying to reverse-engineer your .js file but could use some pointers. Thanks. — Kbh3rdtalk 17:53, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

Look at the Installation section in the code, and copy the addlilink, addToolboxLink and simpleAddOnload functions. Adapt addMarvin to your needs (preferably giving it a sensible name) and then use simpleAddOnload(addMarvin). The addlilink and addToolboxLink functions come courtesy of the user scripts wikiproject. Lupin|talk|popups 14:59, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
Thanks! My results are documented at User:Kbh3rd/Vandal warning toolbox. --Kbh3rdtalk 21:11, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Monitor my watchlist...

crashes Firefox on OS X, for me, anyway.--jpgordon∇∆∇∆ 06:35, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

How odd. Do any of the other links added by this tool do so? Which version of firefox are you using? Lupin|talk|popups 00:01, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
  • I'm on 1.5. It is odd; the Javascript console gives me

Error: recent2_downloadComplete is not defined Source File: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Lupin/recent2.js&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript&dontcountme=s Line: 29 ...let's see what else (saving pre-crash)

--jpgordon∇∆∇∆ 06:37, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

  • nope, that's it. No more messages on JS console, just crash. Anything I can do to help debug? --jpgordon∇∆∇∆ 06:40, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
    • How many articles are in your watchlist?
    • Which skin are you using? I've only tested this in monobook, it's possible that other skins will confuse this part of the script. (Although javascript should never be able to crash the browser, so this is clearly a firefox bug. It'd be nice to pinpoint it so that a bug report can be submitted though).
    • Does it crash if you go to a random wikipedia page (not one of the special ones used by this tool) and type javascript:getWatchlist() in the URL bar? If not, then after a few seconds you should observe a burst of network activity as the page where you edit your watchlist, [1], is loaded. Following that, typing javascript:alert(watchlist) should give a list of pages in your watchlist. Lupin|talk|popups 13:05, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
      • 2122 articles on my watchlist; I don't prune it often.
      • Monobook skin (that's the default, isn't it?)
      • Let's see about the next one. --jpgordon∇∆∇∆ 18:24, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
      • The sequence of the two javascript commands gives me a quite long alert window. But works fine. --jpgordon∇∆∇∆ 18:26, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
      • Here's the relevant part of the crash dump:
Exception:  EXC_BAD_ACCESS (0x0001)
Codes:      KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS (0x0001) at 0x0428660c

Thread 0 Crashed:
0   libmozjs.dylib                      0x06058954 js_DestroyRegExp + 4980
1   libmozjs.dylib                      0x06059020 js_DestroyRegExp + 6720
2   libmozjs.dylib                      0x06059334 js_ExecuteRegExp + 284
3   libmozjs.dylib                      0x0605a7d0 js_regexp_toString + 2456
4   libmozjs.dylib                      0x0605a880 js_regexp_toString + 2632

Looks to me like the regular expression parser is getting something passed to it that it can't quite handle, trashing the heck out of the heap or possibly the stack. How long a regexp is this thing being passed? --jpgordon∇∆∇∆ 21:13, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

A long one in your case - the one that appears in the alert window. If you type javascript:alert(watchlist.toString().length) then you'll get an exact number. Maybe I could just store the watchlist entries in an array and loop over it each time, although I suspect that'll be less efficient performance-wise than using a regexp. My watchlist has over 1900 entries, and seems to work OK though. Would you be comfortable in sharing your watchlist with me so that I can try to reproduce the crash? Don't worry if not, I understand there are privacy concerns. You should be able to save it to a page by going to an edit page, executing javascript:getWatchlist() and then
 javascript:void(document.getElementById('wpTextbox1').value+=window.watchlist.toString().split('|').join('\n'))

You could then paste it into an email to me.Lupin|talk|popups 13:09, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

  • It's on the way. For some reason I've never been able to fathom, regexp code has always been a hotbed of buffer overruns. Maybe some of it is still arcane code from days before people thought much about such dangers. --jpgordon∇∆∇∆ 16:56, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
    • No offense, but -- are you using the regexp parser just to match a string to any entry on the watchlist? That's pretty inefficient, I'd think -- after all, they're in alphabetical order; wouldn't a binary search be way faster? --jpgordon∇∆∇∆ 17:15, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
      • FWIW, removing all the "votes for deletion" entries did not fix the problem; removing all the User:IP entries reduced the size of the watchlist to 1600 or so, and now it works. Quite well. --jpgordon∇∆∇∆ 17:49, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
I expect you're right about the binary search thing. Using regexes was the easiest thing to code up, so that's what I used. Lupin|talk|popups 00:22, 14 January 2006 (UTC)
I've changed this to avoid regexes. Lupin|talk|popups 00:59, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Camino

Just FYI, everything appears to work just fine in Camino as well. --Aaron 06:39, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

  • "monitor my watchlist" crashes Camino for me too! Yeek! (I know, same engine.) (I woulda really shrieked if it crashed Safari too! --jpgordon∇∆∇∆ 06:54, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
    • I didn't have trouble running "monitor my watchlist" myself; I'm running 10.4.4 on an 800MHz 17" gooseneck G4. I'm using my Windows laptop now, but I'll let "monitor my watchlist" run for a couple of hours on Camino tonight and see how stable it is. --Aaron 18:10, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
      • The problem's fixed now anyway. I don't know if was caused by the size of the watchlist or some entry in the watchlist, but Lupin made the entire issue go away. Thanks Lupin! --jpgordon∇∆∇∆ 04:02, 14 January 2006 (UTC)
  • The toolbox links don't show up at all for me in Camino and the pages don't seem to do anything either, though everything is great in Safari. Tadpole9 23:31, 25 December 2006 (UTC)
    • Update: After moving the InstaView script to the end of my monobook.js, this and all my other scripts work fine. Maybe that script does something strange in the end. Yay! Tadpole9(☎•✎) 04:53, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Scope of "Monitor my watchlist"

Just a quick question: Is "Monitor my watchlist" supposed to not be alerting us to changes to User talk pages on our watchlists? Thanks, --Aaron 00:12, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

No, if that's happening then it may be a bug. I say may be, since it's possible that these changes are being skipped by the rss feed. Lupin|talk|popups 00:20, 14 January 2006 (UTC)
FWIW, it did alert me to this change, the one you just made above. Whether it's because it's a subpage of User talk:Lupin or an rss bug, I don't know. I'll post again after I see another change to a top level User talk page I'm watching. --Aaron 00:26, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] anti vandal tool

I cannot get it to work ILovePlankton 03:06, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

 :-( Lupin|talk|popups 02:37, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Question

I'm not familiar with the internals of the tool, but might it be possible to adapt it such to monitor pages created by users who don't have a user page, or satisfy a number of other criteria? -- Koffieyahoo 14:30, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

That particular criterion would be hard to check - the only data readily to hand is all used by the tool, I think. Do feel free to suggest other possible filters if you think of any, though. Lupin|talk|popups 02:36, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] blocking

I've got a question. Do you have to be a sysop in order for you to block someone via. using your Anti-vandal tool? Please respond to me on my Talk page. Please and thank you! Funnybunny 06:24, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

One more thing. When I try to revert vandalism, it shows a message that says "rollback is only for admins or, this might be a bug." Is there a secret to reverting vandalism that I missed out on?
No, there's no secret. The rollback and block links provided by this tool are only useful for admins. Lupin|talk|popups 00:20, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Reverse ordering?

First off, excellent tool, saves a huge amount of time ... However, I feel it would be more useful if the new changes were listed most current at the top(inserted above earlier edits). Is this possible/easy/totally insane? tepid 02:35, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

The tool was originally set up like this, but it meant that the new content pushed the older content down the page. This meant that you often clicked the wrong links with the mouse, which made the tool hard to use. I think the code is still in there to get things set up as you describe, but it does make things considerably more inconvenient.
Anyway, if you're still not convinced, then try typing javascript:void(recent2.outputPosition='top') into the location bar and hit enter. Lupin|talk|popups 02:46, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
Ooh, ta, much obliged. It's just that I have all of my other tools with time-sensitive info setup that way, it's what I'm used to. tepid 02:50, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] internationalization

If I already have compiled a list of badwords for spanish, could you tell me if this would work at es:, and how to use my own list? -- Drini 21:31, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

I've made a few changes to make this easier. I think you should be able to make a copy of User:Lupin/recent2.js and customize it to your liking by editing the stuff at the top. In particular, you should dump your badwords list somewhere on the spanish wikipedia and tell the script where with the badwordsUrl variable. The page references refer to whichever wiki the script is run from. Only mediawiki wikis are currently supported. I haven't made the interface translatable (yet). Lupin|talk|popups 13:25, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Rollback link position

Lupin, I've just recently started testing this great tool out. The only thing that bothers me slightly is the proximity of the "rollback" link to the "show details" link. I'm worried about hitting rollback by mistake when closing the details again. Any chance of spacing them out a bit to avoid this? Thanks. --Cactus.man ✍ 10:18, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

I've put a couple of dots before the rollback link. Also, I've added a css style to the link. This means that you can add something like this to your monobook.css file to make it obvious that you're about to click something significant:
a.recent2_rollback:hover{ background: red; color: white; }
Lupin|talk|popups 15:30, 27 May 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Presets

Hi Lupin. Great tool you've created here, but I was wondering whether it's possible for a user to preset their settings. e.g. I patrol recent changes ignoring ignoring talk pages/outside the article namespace and I need to use non-admin rollback. Is there any way for me to have those settings already enabled before the feed starts?

Netsnipe 14:51, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

No, that's not currently possible. Good idea, though. Lupin|talk|popups 11:54, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
Did you implement presets, or has Firefox 1.5.0.4 gotten smarter? If so, thanks a lot! --  Netsnipe  (Talk)  14:20, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Problems

Hi. I've been using your great tool for a while successfully, but today for some reason it is not working. When I go to the filter recent changes page, in both FF and IE (and I tested it on another account), nothing happens below the line. All the other pages, like All recent changes, Recent IP edits, etc., work. Is anyone else having this problem? Michael WhiteT·C 13:49, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

It's working for me. I suggest you try clearing your browser cache if this persists (especially after any wikipedia downtime). Lupin|talk|popups 11:54, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Other wikipedia

Hi, I'm trying to set this tool up on the Dutchlanguaged wikipedia, I assume this is ok with you, if not I'll remove it. However I can't get it fully functional. The pages which are used are

I've noticed that the rollback feature doesn't work, at least not as a sysop, I haven't tried the non-admin rollback, since I'm a sysop. Do you have any idea what I've done wrong? Thanks in advance, Erwin85 18:58, 20 June 2006 (UTC). PS I assumed this was ok, since a few months ago you said it was ago to use parts of popups' code.

Yes, reuse of the code is fine. It's possible that the dutch wikipedia does things sufficiently differently that it confuses my rollback function. Please could you email me the source of a page such as [2] when logged in as an admin? (Hopefully that page has a rollback link on it - if not, please locate one that does and send me the url of that page too). Lupin|talk|popups 11:54, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
An update on this: it turns out that admin rollback was broken on en, too, due to changes in mediawiki. Please try updating from User:Lupin/recent2.js and see if it works. Lupin|talk|popups 13:07, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
I copied the latest version and the admin rollback works now. Thanks! --Erwin85 17:40, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

I've got another question. How does the badwords page work? I'd like to place a message encouraging others to edit the list, is that possible? And does foobar also match ..foobar, foobar.. and ..foobar.., where the dots stand for any character, or only foobar? Thanks in advance, Erwin85 19:04, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

Yes, others can edit that page. There's no really good comment syntax at the moment, although lines which start with a < character are ignored. So you could put instructions in a <span>.
The matches from that list are made at word boundaries only, and are case-insensitive. A word boundary is defined as whatever your browser's javascript engine thinks a word boundary is :-) Lupin|talk|popups 11:54, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
Ok, thanks. --Erwin85 17:40, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hungarian Wikipedia

Hi, I tried to localize your tool on huwiki, but I have a problem: the "Live spellcheck" page lists a lot of edits, but none matches the examples on the list, it writes only "matched" and nothing else in the lines. When I click on the "details", the HTML source code of the difflink page is displayed. Do you have any advice? -nagytibi ! ? 19:28, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

Could you provide a link to your attempt so that I can take a look? Thanks, Lupin|talk|popups 19:50, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

-nagytibi ! ? 07:48, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

I got the error :) in the spelldict one word's correct form was missing (the line was " mindíg->" not " mindíg->mindig") -nagytibi ! ? 18:47, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
Great! I'm surprised that an error in the spelldict was messing up the recent changes filter though. Lupin|talk|popups 23:38, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] BattleTechWiki

  • I'm an admin (but not a Bureaucrat) over at BattleTechWiki and I've been messing around with the installation instructions you provided here. What confuses me, however, is the installation instruction to, "find the code to use in your monobook.js file by first using the above instructions on this wiki, then copying and adapting the resulting code. You'll also have to copy and adapt the script for your wiki." I've taken the resulting code:
           + 'http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Lupin/recent2.js' 
            + '&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript&dontcountme=s">');

and tried various adaptions, including changing the url to BTW's, then chaging Lupin to my name. I'm not getting the additions to my toolbox. What am I doing wrong? (Thanks for any assistance.) --LeyteWolfer 00:14, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Anti-vandal working?

I've recently installed it in my monobook, it's been about 5 minutes. Should I be seeing updates in the recent changes area? Should I just wait longer? --DREW 20:15, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

Special:Recentchanges isn't affected by this tool - please see the usage instructions. Lupin|talk|popups 21:44, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Summaries missing

When I use "non-admin rollback" with the Anti-Vandal Tool, it's not inserting anything in the summary field. I've never had this problem before; it's only been going on since July 6. See my contributions. ... discospinster talk 19:51, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

This works properly for me. Which browser, browser version and operating system are you using? Lupin|talk|popups 20:59, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
I use Firefox v1.5 on Windows ME on one computer, or Firefox v1.5 on Windows XP Professional on another computer. FWIW, I also have Wikipedia toolbar installed, AfD Helper, and Vandal Warning Toolbox. The autosummary shows up in the URL, but not in the summary field itself. It appears to work OK in Internet Explorer v6.0. ... discospinster talk 21:22, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
Please try removing all that stuff and see if it helps. Lupin|talk|popups 21:38, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
OK, I've done that, and now I can't rollback at all. I have "non-admin rollback" checked, but when I click "rollback" nothing happens. No window comes up (I have popups allowed for Wikipedia) and there's no error message to tell me what's wrong. I'm stumped! ... discospinster talk 17:33, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
You should have a popup message window telling you to install popups for rollback functionality. I don't know why you don't. Can you try with a clean firefox profile and a pristine js file? Lupin|talk|popups 22:34, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
I've created a new Firefox profile, and set it to accept pop-ups from Wikipedia (and it does). I've cleared out my monobook and only installed Anti-vandal tool. I can revert, but there is still no summary. One thing to note: On June 15 I installed Cacycle's editor tool. It still shows up when I edit a page, even though I've taken it out of my monobook. I can't find any instructions on "uninstalling" it. I've left Cacycle a note in his/her talk page. ... discospinster talk 01:10, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
Delete everything in your cache and restart firefox. Assuming you're not using a caching proxy, that should clear any recalcitrant scripts. Lupin|talk|popups 01:33, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
I've cleared out my monobook and the cache, and re-installed the anti-vandal tool. The summaries have reappeared. Maybe there was a conflict, but darned if I can tell what it was. Thanks for your help! ... discospinster talk 01:08, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Rollback Dead?

I've used the tool alot in the past month, and up until recently, everything's been dandy. Every time now I try to click the rollback link, nothing happens. I've got "Use Non Admin Rollback" checked like I always do, and it's still not working. I've also re-installed it on my monobook. Any suggestions?--Fractions 06:00, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

I too am having this exact problem. --24fan24 22:38, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
Which browser are you using? It works for me with firefox 1.5.0.5 on OS X. Lupin|talk|popups 23:09, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
I am using firefox 1.5.0.5 on XP home, I tested with portable firefox 1.5.0.3 and got the same problem. Also tested it in IE with no results. On ie I was able to find the error it read:
Line: 549
Char: 3
Error: 'autoEdit' is undefined
Code: 0
URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Lupin/Recent_IP_edits
--24fan24 01:00, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
I have a work around for this problem. Installing the popups user script makes the nonadmin rollback link work. --24fan24 02:06, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
Which popups? The navigational ones? Fractions 16:42, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
Yes navigational popups --24fan24 19:41, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Warn Text

Is there any way to change the text that is inputted when you click the warn link? --24fan24 02:23, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

Yeah that would be great, as I only get random text!--Katieh5584 21:56, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

Do you have the popups script installed? I had a similar problem and installing popups solved it.24fan24 22:20, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Now on uncyclopedia

I have copied this over to uncyclopedia under my username, and after adapting it very slightly it now works there. Is this ok? If you wanted to have it put under your username on there (which I think doesn't exist) then I could do that for you. Otherwise, thanks for a great tool! --Spang 16:23, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

That's a laugh. Still, have fun fighting the spammers with it. --  Netsnipe  (Talk)  20:29, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Add option to watchlist monitor

Would it be possible for you to add an option to User:Lupin/Monitor my watchlist so it ignores edits by oneself? I know perfectly well what my edits to articles on my watchlist are... --maru (talk) contribs 16:45, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

Done. Lupin|talk|popups 07:58, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Anti-Vandal tool

Could you please install this tool for me, I want to use it. I've tried you instructions, I can't follow it. -- Lego@lost EVIL, EVIL! | 06:26, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

I'd much prefer you to tell me how the instructions are unclear so that I can remedy that. Lupin|talk|popups 14:29, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Autosignature with warning

When using this tool to warn users, it automatically signs the warning using ~~~~ (4) tildes. When I sign comments, the date is already included, so I use ~~~ (3). Is there any way for me to have this tool sign the warnings with only three tildes instead of four? -- AuburnPilottalk 06:00, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

No, this is not currently customizable. You could create a private copy of the script and change it there if you like. Lupin|talk|popups 14:29, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] A couple of problems

Hi, i just installed this (Internet Explorer by the way) and I've run into a few problems. Firstly, the rollback tool didn't work, even after I had checked the non-admin rollback box. I also was wondering... on the actual page of the tool it said that the links will show up in 'my toolbox'. What's the toolbox? Thanks- and nice tool- CattleGirl talk | e@ | review me! 09:39, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

OK, found the toolbox- on the left hand side of the screen, and installing popups did the trick for the rollback, don't ask me why though. Nice tool! I've been using it a lot lately- CattleGirl talk | e@ | review me! 08:31, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Anti-vandal tool (and RSS feeds) delayed couple of hours behind realtime

I know it is not your fault but anti-vandal tool is often delayed behind real time.Sometimes only couple of minutes, but right now it was several hours (it is 10:52 UTC and AVT was showing "done to 0:58"). I checked RSS feed on the recent changes and it was also showing time 0:58. I checked it was not a problem of different time zone. I know I should preferably alert developers but maybe it is the same bug you are linking from AVT page, so I prefer to contact you first. --Jan.Smolik 10:55, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

Delays of a couple of minutes are not unexpected, but delays of many hours point to something else being wrong. Usually this sort of thing starts working again after a little bit, though, so the wikipedia devs are probably aware of it. Lupin|talk|popups 14:28, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Problems with Anti-Vandal tool

The Anti-Vandal tool sometimes doesn't display the diffs completely. For example, large blocks of text cannot be displayed in the diffs. Sometimes, it even tricks me into believing the editor is blanking. What's the problem? --¿Exir?¡Kamalabadi! 07:08, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

There's clearly a bug here somewhere. Could you let me know the next time you see it happening, and mention the exact diff that the tool is having trouble with? Thanks, Lupin|talk|popups 14:25, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Request for a new features

Great tool. Wish I'd thought of it.

1) Is there any way that you could add a tickbox so that users can prevent pages that they have reverted form being added to their watch lists.

2) Can rolled back pages be automatically closed once rolled back.

3) Last week Iaccidentally rolled back a page with a legitimate edit because I clicked on "rollback" instad of "Hide details", a button to reverse the rollback and leave an appology message would be usefull.

4) I'm not an admin so I can't block a persistant vandal, but button to report them to someone who can do it would be usefull.

perfectblue 11:01, 13 November 2006 (UTC)


I have another request: I think that this tool should add a header before the test template which is inserted into a user's talk page when the warn link is used. Other similar antivandal programs do this and it is a good practice to follow in order to keep talk pages organized. For example instead of entering {{subst:test1-n|Title}} ~~~~, I think it would be best to enter:

    ==Your recent edits to Title==
    {{subst:test1-n|Title}} ~~~~

--24fan24 21:45, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

I second this request. -- Ben (talk) 04:44, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] admin rollback

Hi. This tool seems great; thanks to RC patrol for all their help. I do have a question. It appears that non-admins are exactly mimicking admin rollback using this tool. Is this possible and, if so, can something be done about it? I see the admin rollback syntax as shorthand - e.g. if I see a user that I know is at {{test4}} get rollbacked, I assume that the admin has followed up with a block. This obviously gets entirely confused if I can no longer tell who is an admin and just means that I spend more time doublechecking. Thanks, BanyanTree 14:28, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

I don't really see what can be done about this, or that there's a need for it. Sorry! Lupin|talk|popups 21:51, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Ignore edits to pages MEANT to be played with?

Made a goof when I rolled back Wikipedia:Introduction overlooking that users are asked to edit and monkey with the page. Is it reasonable to put in a feature req. that Anti-vandal tool ignore changes to special pages like that? TIA. ~DBS Talk/Contribs 03:15, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

Seconded! This would make an already great tool even better. I have to stop myself every time I see crap placed into Wikipedia:Sandbox and the like as well. —Krellis 00:34, 4 December 2006 (UTC)
Good idea. I've added another checkbox to control this which should appear if you shift-reload. It currently only ignores the two pages you mention - are there any others? Lupin|talk|popups 21:48, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
You're asking me? I wish I knew ... maybe there's a category (translation: fat chance). I'm sure there are plenty, and now I've got you wandering into the dark, scary woods of "WP pages which are intended to be edited...." Mua-ha-ha-ha. >;) — David Spalding ta!k y@wp/Contribs 05:09, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
A-ha, I found a few...
Thanks! Pages of the form Wikipedia:Tutorial.../sandbox should now be ignored. Lupin|talk|popups 14:34, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Auto subhead

Hi. Been using this amazing tool for a while now...one thing that might make life easier is to make the autosummary read "Your recent edits to NAME OF ARTICLE" and to include a subhead above the subst test to say "Your edits to NAME OF ARTICLE on DATE". Gzkn 12:29, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

After some fiddling around, I made the change at User:Gzkn/recent2.js. I decided the subhead should just include the date, since after some testing, the subhead often became rather long... Gzkn 02:46, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Monospace.js page

Hi I'm wondering where do I find the monobook.js file?Axle12693 21:58, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

Click the link on the installations and it will create yours. Please don't edit users' pages, add your questions on THE TALK PAGES. ;) — David Spalding ta!k y@wp/Contribs 23:16, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] rollback button not responding

Let me start by saying that I love this tool. It's great. It makes patrolling recent changes much easier.

I'm having some trouble with the rollback button. I can usually use it once (successfully). After that I move on to another change... and the button does not work. Is there anything that I can do to help debug what's going on here? Could it be that my browser is busy doing some other javascript at the time? I am using Firefox 1.5.0.8 under Windows XP. Is anyone else experiencing this? -- Ben (talk) 14:55, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

P.S. I understand that it *could* be slow (considering everything it has to do... but I don't think it's doing anything... I can try to be more patient. :) -- Ben (talk) 14:57, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

Are you using the admin or non-admin rollback? Lupin|talk|popups 15:21, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
non-admin. -- Ben (talk) 15:48, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
I've been using the non-admin rollback successfully just now with FF 2.0 on OS X, so I don't know what's going on here. Lupin|talk|popups 16:56, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

Is there anything that I can do to help debug what's going on here? What's a normal wait-time for it to perform the rollback actions? Will it update the window while it's "doing its thing?" -- Ben (talk) 18:19, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

It's usually a 1 to 2 second delay for me (although sometimes longer if the script is "updating" the new changes). I've had no problems with the non-admin rollback function. Try opening up the FF's error console (Tools --> Error Console) and seeing if something's amiss. You could also see if upgrading to FF 2.0 helps. Gzkn 02:07, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
I upgraded to FF 2.0. No help there. The error console seems pretty useless. I'm making do with some creative use of the popups... just a little slow-down. -- Ben (talk) 04:41, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
Actually, I suspect it might be your monobook that's causing you problems. VOA's monobook already includes Lupin's anti vandal tool and popups, so there's no need to include all three like you've done. Just remove the popups and anti vandal tool code and I think your problems may go away. Gzkn 05:08, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
Just saw that you had only added VOA's monobook stuff today, so I guess that wasn't the problem...hmmmm Gzkn 05:15, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
The first thing I'd suggest to start debugging this is to install the firebug extension. Then restart FF. If you click the green tick in the lower right corner of the browser then you should bring up a console. Make sure that the "Show XMLHttpRequests" option (in the options menu at the top of the console) is on, and try doing some rollbacks from the filter recent changes page. Each time you hit rollback, you should see a new line in the console containing "query.php" and "what=revisions". Do you see that line when the rollback fails? Do you see a very long line of data when you click the triangle to the left of those lines? Lupin|talk|popups 09:16, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

Yay!!! Thanks for all your help, guys. I added firebug and played around with it a while. That got me looking down into the lower right hand corner of my window. You know what else is over there? The little red window thingie that indicates that firefox blocked or is blocking popups. (Yeah. Good times.) So I set it to allow pop-ups from en.wikipedia. And all seems right with the world. Thanks again, guys, for all your help. -- Ben (talk) 14:42, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

This solution fixed the same problem for me. Good work. JoeSmack Talk 06:33, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] New feature request: query rc on button

I admit it... I am a slow reader. Usually I don't get through a group of recent changes before the next set is loaded. It seems to me that there is a lot of stuff getting downloaded that I'm not getting to. Would it be possible to add a button to allow the user to indicate when they are ready for the next group of changes? Maybe at the bottom of the group (or at the head of the next group before it is loaded. -- Ben (talk) 04:50, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

I would find this helpful as well. Tom Harrison Talk 15:29, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

I third. --24fan24 20:38, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

I've given this a little thought. I don't think it can really be that much of a burden on the servers. I just feel guilty seeing all that content go by that I'm not dealing with. If the end result of this is that there is no change, I will not be too upset. The tool is the bee's knees already. -- Ben (talk) 22:07, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

The pause button works great. Thanks, Tom Harrison Talk 20:33, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Feature Request: Newbie edits

Well, I find myself usually watching either ip edits or those of newbies. I also sometimes do new page patrol. Is it possible to add either of those 2 into the tool. Great job, thank you. Xiong Chiamiov :: contact :: 01:20, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] User:Gzkn/recent2.js

Hey there Lupin...added a few more options at my recent2.js that I've always thought might be useful. Take a look if you're interested. I added:

  • Two report to AIV buttons (one for IP and one for regular Vandals)
  • four more test warning messages (so now it looks like t1 | t2 | t3 | t4 | bv)

Not sure if those are useful for the everyone who uses your tool though. Those interested can include User:Gzkn/recent2.js. Gzkn 05:52, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Problem with anti-vandal tool

I am using the anti-vandal tool on firefox 2.0 on windows XP and when I go to filter recent changes I always get the same thing:(0) updating...done up to 18:00:00 remove earlier output. I first noticed this about 5 minutes ago.--Res2216firestar 00:58, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

This seems to be about right, there may just be no edits that passed through the bad word filter. Try going to All recent changes and see if any changes are displayed. If not than there is something wrong. --24fan24 02:12, 23 December 2006 (UTC)
It seems to be fine now, I was just worried because I was using it at 00:50 not 18:00 UTC.--Res2216firestar 16:55, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] One too many

I think I installed your tool twice by accident because everything is on there twice. How do I uninstall one of them? Sooner Dave 05:25, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

I've had the same problem for a while but I have no idea how I would have installed it twice. Does anyone notice anything that would cause this in my monobook.js? --Michael WhiteT·C 15:10, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
Yes, you have included VoA's monobook. This already includes this tool, I believe. Lupin|talk|popups 08:06, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] User box needed

How about a user box? Just installed it and expect to use it regularly. Will (Talk - contribs) 06:08, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] question

How does the non-admin rollback work?is it a way to re-load the original draft of an article or comment before it was vandlized? Best regards Nadirali 08:19, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

It gets the last revision before the last editor edited (I don't think I explained that well :) ), then saves that and adds a nice summary. example Xiong Chiamiov :: contact :: 03:50, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] question2

I have tried to use Anti-vandal tool on ro.wp but it didn't work (here on en.wp it worked). Why ? Do I have to change the name space: User to Utilizator, Talk to Discuţie, .... ? What else do I have to change ? Why the script is not shown the same as yours, please see mine [8]. :-) Thanks --Pixi 08:09, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] New warning templates

See WP:UTM. Cheers. --Brad Beattie (talk) 21:51, 23 January 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Problem with Anti-vandal rollback

I'm having some trouble with the anti-vandal rollback (non-admin). Whenever I try to use it , no matter the circumstances, it gives me the following error message:

"Page rollback error: Last editor is <>, not <>. The user may have already been reverted.".

Even if this isn't the case. I'm not sure how to fix this... nothing has changed for me. I'm using Windows XP SP2, Firefox 2.0.0.1. --ElaragirlTalk|Count 10:32, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

Please try installing popups and see if it makes the problem disappear. Lupin|talk|popups 08:08, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
Tried that, nothing. Could you glance at my monobook.js and see if something is screwed?--ElaragirlTalk|Count 05:42, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Problems

I'm translating AntiVandal-tool (last version) to portuguese, but I have some problems: The code
safePages:'[Ww]ikipedia:(P(á|%C3%A1)gina[_ ]de[_ ]testes|Esplanada*|Café*|Contato*|[Pp]áginas[_ ]para[_ ]eliminar*)',
doesn't work, I tried everything.

The safe pages are:

  • Wikipedia:Página de testes
  • Wikipedia:Esplanada
  • Wikipedia:Esplanada/anúncios
  • Wikipedia:Esplanada/propostas
  • Wikipedia:Esplanada/geral
  • Wikipedia:Café dos categorizadores
  • Wikipedia:Café dos tradutores
  • Wikipedia:Café das exatas
  • Wikipedia:Café das humanas
  • Wikipedia:Café das biomédicas
  • Wikipedia:Café dos novatos
  • Wikipedia:Café dos robôs
  • Wikipedia:Contato/Linha direta
  • Wikipedia:Páginas para eliminar/26 de Janeiro
  • Wikipedia:Páginas para eliminar/27 de Janeiro
  • Wikipedia:Páginas para eliminar/28 de Janeiro
  • Wikipedia:Páginas para eliminar/etc

You can see the test code on pt:Usuário:Mosca/antivandaltool.js Mosca2 16:31, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks, and sorry for wasting your time on this. It was a stupid bug which should be fixed in the latest version. Lupin|talk|popups 07:55, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Rollback Tools Have Disappeared

Hello Lupin. Recently something strange has developed with the script for me. I have all the functionalities of the tool that normally would be there, but now I am missing all the rollback links. I am using IE 7 as a browser, just as I have in the past. Is this a recent bug with the tool or is my browser bugging with the script?¤~Persian Poet Gal (talk) 02:45, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

Rollback links appear for me in IE7. Lupin|talk|popups 01:15, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

I've also noticed increasingly less functionality with IE7, which is unfortunately what my work computer uses. Still works on Firefox, though. Any chance you find a way to make it work on IE? Coemgenus 19:16, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

I've just tested the script briefly with IE7 and didn't notice anything amiss - I could filter recent changes, perform non-admin rollback and warn successfully. What is giving you trouble? Lupin|talk|popups 01:15, 10 February 2007 (UTC)
When I hit "rollback," nothing happens. Coemgenus 22:56, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] What is live spell check?

what is live spell check?

Ps: thanks for the great tool! --'•Tbone55•(Talk) (Contribs) (UBX) (autographbook) 02:45, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

It's similar to filter recent changes, as it checks the rss of recent changed against a list of commonly misspelled words and displays these recent changed. --24fan24 (talk) 03:03, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Are these problems caused by the tool?

I notice that I have new links in the last couple of days, so I assume that the tool has been recently changed. After the new links showed up I started to get significant browser hangs when using the tool. For example, when using the tool there are hangs when scrolling the page down, and in getting an insert cursor after clicking on the text box when issuing a warning. When I hover the mouse over a link there is often significant delay before the arrow cursor turns into a hand cursor. Sometimes when I click somewhare on the "tool page" the brower shifts focus to a completely different window.

I haven't experience these problems when not using the tool. Could these hangs be because of the tool? My browser is Firefox 1.5.0.9. Thanks. Tanaats 15:57, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

The fun definitely doesn't start until I launch the tool, and then starts happening immediately, and goes away again when I drop the "tool window". Tanaats 05:42, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Looking For Keywords

Does your tool automatically seek out changes like do > don't or adding 'not' or vice versa? Basically, sneaky changes to change a positive to a negative and negative to a positive? Although there will be some legitimate cases, such changes appearing on their own seem pretty suspect to me. --Seans Potato Business 18:04, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

If you added those words, you would get a hit every time they were used in a change, whether by themselves or with other words. It would definitely flood the tool. RJASE1 Talk 18:12, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
Is it impossible to code it so that these edits have to be alone in order to get a hit? --Seans Potato Business 20:39, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
So far as I know - your best bet is probably to watch the articles you are particularly concerned about. RJASE1 Talk 20:48, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Suggestion

Could you add into the anti vandal tool, so that at some point during using rollback(non-admin included), preferebly on the filter recent chnges/recent changes page, there would be an option to leave a pre-defined message on the vandals talk page? there is a tool to do this, but you have to be on the talk page to use it. writing this into the code would save some time, and allow more vandalism to be reverted. the_jmac! | Talk 21:34, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

There is currently a warn button on the Filter recent changes page, its to the right of the suspected vandal's user name. Currently this loads their editable talk page with {{subst:test1|Article Name}} preloaded. I do agree, it would be nice if this could be done automatically with the rollback button. I imagine that would be difficult to implement though, as you should be warning with an appropriate level (e.g. test1, test2) based on past warnings issued to that user. I gather that this is the reason why the tool is designed the way it is now. --24fan24 (talk) 21:55, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

For anyone interested, the above has been done, and can be found at User:Gzkn/recent2.js.

[edit] Quick question

Lupin, is there a particular line of text that automatically presses the save button when using rollback? i want the same to happen when using User:Gzkn/recent2.js as an add-on to your tool, could you tell me how to code this please? the_jmac! | Talk 21:54, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] nl:Gebruiker:Erwin85/AVT

Dear Lupin,

On the Dutch Wikipedia I am trying to use the "Dutch version" of your AVT. For some reason the "rollback" links in that version just won't work. Erwin85 told me to ask you for assistance, as they don't work for him either ;) I don't know about him, but I have tried both Internet Explorer 6.0 and Mozilla Firefox (latest update), so the problem seems to be somewhere inside the script... Hope you can help!

Thanks in advance! Kind regards, Erik1980 20:54, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

(nl:Erik1980 / Dutch talk page)

[edit] New warning

Have you considered changing the warn message to the new {{uw-test1}}?--Kubigula (talk) 02:59, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

To be fair, if we change it to the uw system, we might use {{uw-vand1}}, or maybe a link for both? Personally I have my own version of the tool that uses {{uw-test1}}, {{uw-vand1}} and {{uw-delete1}} -- lucasbfr talk 08:40, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] I don't see it.

I don't see the tools on my monobook.js file. Why can't I? Coastergeekperson04 21:04, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Popups not popping

Lately, after using "Recent IP edits" for about 15 minutes or so, my browser (Firefox 2.0) will start blocking popups (meaning I can no longer revert), even though en.wikipedia.org is in my exceptions list. If I close Firefox and re-open, it'll work fine for another 15 minutes, and then block the Wikipedia popups again. Is anyone else having this problem? What could be causing it? ... discospinster talk 00:33, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

It must be a problem with your installation of firefox, it is working well here. Try uninstall, remove all the files and reinstall it. -- lucasbfr talk 08:42, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] broken?

The filter recent changes function is no longer working. No pages are coming through...—Gaff ταλκ 16:49, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

And I thought it was just me! Thank you! It must be something rather subtle; neither the badwords nor the Filter recent changes pages have changed since yesterday. Philip Trueman 18:05, 17 May 2007 (UTC)
It wasn't working for me last night (about 14 hours before this writing) but I chalked it up to little vandalism activity. Yet, the filter continues not to spit out pages today, and others are seeing the same. Charlie 22:00, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Some problems with the tool

I seem to be having some problems with the tool on FireFox. Whenever I have it working, after a few minutes I get an error telling me that firefox must shutdown. Wikidudeman (talk) 09:09, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

I've just encountered this same issue, starting last night, on two different computers. Both are running Firefox 2.0.0.4. --Ckatzchatspy 22:00, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] How to use the tool?

Well a dumb question? How to use the Live spell-check tool? The page on Anti Vandal tool dosent have any information on that. Thanks. --Siddhant 11:31, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

Click on "Live spellcheck" on the left in the toolbox. Wait for the misspelled words to load and then you can click on their articles and correct them.Wikidudeman (talk) 12:17, 30 May 2007 (UTC)
Well i have already tried it but when u reach the page you first need to got to "edit this page" and then find the mistake which is time consuming. How can i directly reach the editing page and if possible the wrong spelling be highlighted.

thanks. --Siddhant 11:39, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

That's how it must be done. Simply go to the page in question and click "edit" and if using firefox (which you should be using anyway) simply click "Ctrl+f" and type in the word and then fix it.Wikidudeman (talk) 20:39, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Disappearance of check boxes at top

Why have the set of check boxes disappeared at the top? I don't understand. It contains "Use non-admin rollback", "ignore my edits", "ignore safe pages" etc. Under my account at least, I don't see it. I cannot revert without selecting those check boxes. (non admin rollback). — Andy W. (talk/contrb.) 15:14, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

Same for me. I'm using IE7 and the previous edit works fine. I've tried debugging the new version (in my user space) but I didn't get the checkboxes or button to appear.
(Debugging detail:
  • I tried using 'bottom' location because the monitoring stuff works fine, even though it seems to use the same routines.
  • I removed the Top Edit tool in case it was causing the problem -- where is nextSibling of H1?
  • Otherwise I just used alerts to see if there were any errors, etc.)
Also, using <br /> instead of <p> in recent2.doLine means the extra line that is left over after showing and hiding details goes away, as I've mentioned previously. Mark Hurd 13:21, 9 June 2007 (UTC)
Just confirming the latest edits have fixed the checkboxes for me on IE7 (although they have a white background, not the monobook book background). (I'm still copying the script into my user space to affect the change of p to br as mentioned above.) Mark Hurd 19:26, 15 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] twinkle

will this tool conflict with TWINKLE? -007bond aka Matthew G aka codingmasters 01:26, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

Why? Twinkle uses some questionable programming techniques that may brake other scripts and its author has been contacted. Cacycle 13:06, 25 June 2007 (UTC)
I actually recommend using it with twinkle. The two together are extremely efficient. J-stan Talk 16:58, 1 August 2007 (UTC)
I use TW for AIV reports and if I have to use a warning other than uw-vand or uw-test. They work good. —Coastergeekperson04's talk@12/10/2007 05:14

[edit] How?

When hit "edit this page" on the vandal page (just to view it's source and see how it works) I saw no script. Is this scrip programmed in the js page? Coastergeekperson04 19:12, 28 June 2007 (UTC)

See User:Lupin/recent2.js. Cacycle 03:17, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] watchlist

The watchlist monitoring function just stopped working for me, in that it continues to "update", but shows no activity, even though the static watchlist does. Help would be greatly appreciated, TewfikTalk 19:15, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

I've noticed this as well. (I'm using Firefox 2.0.4, BTW.) --Ckatzchatspy 22:24, 12 July 2007 (UTC)
Experiencing this on Firefox 2.0.0.4 as well. --24fan24 (talk) 22:57, 12 July 2007 (UTC)
Any progress on this? TewfikTalk 07:13, 12 August 2007 (UTC)
I've tried to fix this. I'm not sure if it's worked, though... please test and let me know. Lupin|talk|popups 19:58, 14 August 2007 (UTC)
Seems to be working for me now. Thank you! --24fan24 (talk) 04:23, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Not in Toolbox

The Lupin features don't appear in my toolbox. Anyone else having this problem? Ryan(talk/contribs) 05:23, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Created an image for the AVT

For anyone that wants to know, I uploaded an image I created for the AVT.

Image:Lupin's Anti-Vandal tool 1.png
Image:Lupin's Anti-Vandal tool 1.png

I do plan to userbox this soon. Yes, it's supposed to look hand-drawn. The background was made to mimic the readout format of the real tool.
--FastLizard4 (Talk|Contribs) 02:12, 21 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Rollback admin

Hola. He copiado la última versión de este módulo y a pesar de ello veo que el rollback directo para admins no funciona. Podrian revisarlo?. Saludos y gracias de antemano. --Axxgreazz (consultas?) 03:14, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Template:X1

If I've ticked both boxes for watching the Template namespace and excluding safe pages, shouldn't Template:X1 be excluded? Philip Trueman 10:53, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Filter Recent Changes

The filter bit is working, but whenever it ID's a match, it lists it as punctuation. (Ie, matching ...{{{{). Odd... anyone else see this? --Bfigura (talk) 22:13, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

Yep, you're not alone. I brought it up on Lupin's main talk page too. ~Eliz81(C) 04:28, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

(outdent)UPDATE:The problem has been fixed. ~Eliz81(C) 03:11, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Non-admin Rollback

Heck, this is one annoying problem I have: I can automatically warn vandals, but cannot roll back as I am invited to, even though I'm using the non-admin rollback! It states I need the popup tool for auto-edit functionality, but there is no change when I add it and try again! INFO: I am using Internet Explorer 7, on Windows Vista Home Premium 32-bit. Thanks in advance, M1N 16:56, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

I have exactly the same problem, I am using Safari 2.0.4, on Mac OS X Tiger 11:25, 2 November 2007 (UTC)Harland1

[edit] Help

I have installed Lupin but I am slightly confused as to how to use it, when I click on Filter recent changes I get something that says updating and when it has finshed it doesn't give a list so how can I revert them? Also if I click on All recent changes then I get a list of changes but there is istll no button to click on to revert them. Can anyone help me out of my stupidity please? Harland1 10:26, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] It doesent fix spelling errors

Great, it can find them, but it doesent fix them.

I looked at an article it read and found errors on 5 minutes ago, and the error was still there.

I don't know if its supposed to only report, but it would be nice if it could "talk" to anohter bot, and have the toher bot fix the errors.

Sure it does. Try using Mozilla Firefox, perhaps? Xiong Chiamiov :: contact :: 05:56, 14 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Re:Help

I have discovered the problem: it doesn't work on Safari or Internet Explorer. Harland1 16:21, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

As is the problem with many scripts, the makers of web browsers tend to ignore the guidelines the W3C has set down. Since this is a completely volunteer project and most users use Mozilla Firefox, that is the only one it has been tested on (I'm speculating). Of course, if you have some knowledge of JavaScript and are brave, you can dive on in and help Lupin out! Xiong Chiamiov :: contact :: 05:54, 14 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Twinkle compatiblity?

I use Twinkle, can I use your Anti-vandal tool with it? Dalekusa 16:38, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

AFAIK, it's perfectly alright. Xiong Chiamiov :: contact :: 05:48, 14 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Warnings

I'm having the same problems these guys were having from way back when. Was this ever fixed? I'm also using IE6 from Windows XP. The warning template just never shows up, I have to do that manually. --SGT Tex 19:18, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] '&' in article title

I think there's a problem when attempting non-admin rollback of an edit to a page whose title contains an ampersand. I've just tried to revert an edit to Merck & Co., and the rollback was aborted with a message that the article had been changed since the vandal, by User:VVVBot. Not true, but VVVBot is the last editor of Merck. Now, I think I should come clean and admit that I'm running with a modified version of AVT, but I haven't changed this bit. Philip Trueman (talk) 15:08, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

Just had the same experience at Deere & Company. Philip Trueman (talk) 14:54, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] All edits showing

When this happens, and refreshing/closing my browser doesn't correct it, what can I do? By all edits I mean literally, apparently all, with no filtering. • Lawrence Cohen 16:42, 18 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] "Revert" button does not revert

When I'm monitoring the recent IP edits, I click "rollback" to effect a non-admin rollback, but instead of reverting I get a new window with the diff showing. This also occurs if I click "history" or "last" or even the name of the article itself. I do have "Use non-admin rollback" checked and I haven't changed any settings anywhere since I last used the Anti-vandal tool successfully. ... discospinster talk 03:03, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

  • I can confirm this one. Roll-back simply takes me to the diff instead of rolling back automatically. Similar to the previous user i didnt change any settings, and it appears that the lupin scripts havent been updated today. Perhaps this is a wikipedia problem? (EG: Preventing malicious rollback?) --Excirial (Talk,Contribs) 07:39, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
It's not just the revert button. Also the (last) and (hist) options take you to the highlighted diff, instead of either the most recent edit or the article history. I think something's wrong with the tool. ~Eliz81(C) 07:58, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
Also per this, is anyone else having problems with the "unchanged after four updates" option still picking up diffs that were reverted right away? ~Eliz81(C) 08:25, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Rollback

It used to be that when I hit rollback, it would immediately rollback the page. Recently it has taken me to the diff page and I have had to hit rollback from there. Do you know what the issue is? I am using TW with Lupin.--Jab843 (talk) 17:56, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

I am having the same issue, and I am using non-admin rollback. I am using firefox. Funnyfarmofdoom (talk) 22:45, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

When I'm monitoring the recent IP edits, I click "rollback" to effect a non-admin rollback, but instead of reverting I get a new window with the diff showing. This also occurs if I click "history" or "last" or even the name of the article itself. I do have "Use non-admin rollback" checked and I haven't changed any settings anywhere since I last used the Anti-vandal tool successfully. ... discospinster talk 03:03, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

  • I can confirm this one. Roll-back simply takes me to the diff instead of rolling back automatically. Similar to the previous user i didnt change any settings, and it appears that the lupin scripts havent been updated today. Perhaps this is a wikipedia problem? (EG: Preventing malicious rollback?) --Excirial (Talk,Contribs) 07:39, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
It's not just the revert button. Also the (last) and (hist) options take you to the highlighted diff, instead of either the most recent edit or the article history. I think something's wrong with the tool. ~Eliz81(C) 07:58, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Rollback Temporal fix (NON OFFICIAL!)

Ok, for everyone here who has this problem, there is a Temporal Fix available(Non official though!). Out colleague reverter Philip Trueman uses a modified version of Lupin, which can be found here: User:Philip_Trueman/recent2.js. This versions rollback button still functions as intended, along with the other buttons. Philip notes that his version might contain bugs and might not always work, but so far i have encountered nothing that prevented me from reverting. It might not be a perfect solution, but at least it works.

One little addition: don't go bugging Philip if you find bugs. He doesnt know its posted here, and remember that usage is at your own risk, so no complaints either please! --Excirial (Talk,Contribs) 08:45, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for that, Excirial. My version also stopped working yesterday - it looks as though the RSS feed for Special:Recentchanges now puts some extra stuff on the end of the string holding the article title, and that was feeding in to the URLs for rollback and so forth. It took me a while to sort it out.
This is not the first time this sort of thing has happened. Can anyone say where the developers document functional changes like these? I think we should have been told in advance.
Lupin is of course welcome to help himself to my code if he wishes. In the meantime, I'm happy for anyone who wishes to use my version. Constructive criticism at User talk:Philip Trueman/PILT please. Philip Trueman (talk) 11:58, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Customization

I know it's possible, but I don't know if you can do it. What I am thinking of is to be able to customize the feed colors. So for example, I want the feeds blue. I know I can make my own script and just edit the script (I know what I am doing) but how about a customizing page, so like Special:MyPage/avtconfig will have a list of options, and it can be edited with a box like TW or something. —Coastergeekperson04's talk@12/07/2007 22:27

[edit] didnt -> didn't replaced with didn't't

didnt -> didn't replaced with didn't't (Corrected manually before commit): http://en.wikipedia.org../../../../articles/d/u/m/Dumpster_diving.html --Jeremyb (talk) 15:46, 24 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Vanished

I've been using the Anti-Vandal tool, but for the Live spellcheck and it's vanished from the toolbox section until this gets fixed i'm currently on hold and can't perform WikiGnome tasks, i'm using Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.11 the latest version available. →Yun-Yuuzhan→ 19:54, 28 December 2007 (UTC)

Fixed. →Yun-Yuuzhan→ 22:07, 28 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Firefox

I've been using the tool on Firefox with pop-up blocker off. Revert will work for about the first 20 to 30 reports I get. After that, I will suddenly get a message that Firefox has blocked pop-up if I try to use revert function, when it still shows it is turned off in Tools-->Options. Has anyone else experienced this? How do I fix this? Redfarmer (talk) 14:23, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

Note that, if I close all Firefox windows and restart, it works again but starts the same error again after around 20-30 reports. Redfarmer (talk) 14:25, 4 January 2008 (UTC)
I have been experiencing the same thing for a few months now. It seemed to have started when I updated my version of Firefox. I even included en.wikipedia.org to my list of "popups accepted" sites, but it will eventually block again. I have yet to find a remedy for this. ... discospinster talk 14:47, 4 January 2008 (UTC)
OK here's a solution to the problem from Firefox: type "about.config" in your address bar and press enter. Next, type "popup" on the filter field on the page. Double click the value "dom.popup_maximum" and increase the value as high as you can get it. This is apparently something built into Firefox which assumes that a certain number of popups opened within a session equals spam. The highest I could get it to increase to was 1410065407. Hopefully this solves this issue. Redfarmer (talk) 00:20, 8 January 2008 (UTC)
That seems to be working for me, so far. Thanks! ... discospinster talk 03:06, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Anti Vandel

Um i cant get it to work on i follow the steps i dont know whats wrong can you hel pme or can you tell me what to do? Greenrico09 (talk) 23:42, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Not working

It doesn't seem to be working now, I logged on today and nothing, Twinkle, Friendly or Lupin was working, I am using Firefox on mac OS X. Harland1 (t/c) 09:17, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

By the way the links in the toolbar just don't appear on firefox, they appear on IE and safari but it doesn't work on those. Harland1 (t/c) —Preceding comment was added at 15:45, 7 January 2008 (UTC)
Seem to be fixed now. Harland1 (t/c) 19:21, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] No more Autosave?

When I rollback vandalism, the page no longer autosaves, it just sits there in edit mode. Has something been changed? (I am using Firefox 2.0 on Windows XP.) ... discospinster talk 02:18, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

I've just had this. The amazing thing is, rollback started working for me from within AVT at the same time, so turning off non-admin rollback solved the problem. Philip Trueman (talk) 18:42, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Flock Browser

I have used the main anti-vandal features on the Flock browser. Everything I've tried seems to work fine on both my XP home edition laptop, and my Vista home premium desktop.

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21:47, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] New user help

Hi!

I've followed the instructions on the front, and now have the toolbox functions on the left hand side. Looking that the live feed is helpful, but I can't seem to get any of the functions to work. For example, I can't automatically revert the edit (I assume that this is the rollback function). I have set it to non-admin roll back, but this doesn't work either. I'm not too hot on editing my monobook, and I am not sure if the order the text goes into the monobook is relevant, whether or not there has to be line breaks, etc. Basically, I don't want to play around with what I don't understand.

Also, does this tool automatically place warnings in the vandal's user page? I've tried clicking the uw-test and uw-vandal links, and aside from opening up the edit window, nothing else seems to be happening. The web address at the top does include what appears to be part of the warning, but none of that appears in the edit box.

I should add that I am using IE6.

Cheers! StephenBuxton (talk) 12:51, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

Have you added either popups or autoedit to your monobook? Rollback won't work without. Umm, there've been recent problems for others reasons, but look there first. No, it doesn't autowarn. Philip Trueman (talk) 21:43, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
Done that - seems to be working now. Cheers for that! StephenBuxton (talk) 16:49, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Automatic revert

Could it be possible for the tool to act sort of like how Twinkle works. What they do is that they automatically revert an article when you press rollback on the diff page. You are not brought to an edit page or anything. Maybe if the anti-vandal tool reverted pages without even navigating to a different page, it would be easier to use. Parent5446(Murder me for my actions) 23:25, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] watchlist

Why does the tool automatically add pages you use it on to your watchlist? It gets really annoying having to go through my watchlist and unwatch all the pages. Is there any way to disable this? Other than that, it's amazing! George D. Watson (Dendodge).TalkHelp 20:27, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

This is a preference you can set under "My Preferences" at the top right hand side of any wikipedia page. :) Tiggerjay (talk) 10:13, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Problem on Mozilla Firefox

I'm on the newest version of Firefox and I've noticed that when I rollback edits the save button is not automatically clicked anymore. Is this a known issue? I'm on Vista, and have never had problems before. phoenixMourning ( t - c ) 02:02, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

This seems to have been around since January in Firefox and IE7 - see [9]. I've tried and failed to understand what's causing it. You might want to see if an admin will grant you rollback authority - that will get you over it. Philip Trueman (talk) 11:36, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
But wouldn't that require me to become an admin? I'm pretty sure I'm not qualified -_- phoenixMourning ( t - c ) 17:43, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
No, not since a few weeks ago. Rollback authority is just that - you won't get the other stuff like deleting pages and blocking users, just a rollback link that AVT can find and use. Follow the link I gave and see if you think it's for you. Philip Trueman (talk) 18:45, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
Great! I applied and got accepted (not shocking from the history of the page...). Thanks for your help sir! phoenixMourning ( t - c ) 17:03, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Confusion and misunderstanding

I'm a little confused by the installation instructions provided:

Copy the following content into your monobook.js file. After it is saved, press CTRL+F5 (CMD+F5 for Mac OSX) to reload the monobook.js file. The "m" in "monobook.js" must be lowercase or this won't work!
Followed by the code, then:
Save the page and follow the instructions above the edit window to force-reload the page and clear your browser cache.

I copied the code, opened the page, pasted the code, and saved the page, and refreshed by pressing CTRL+F5 (I use Explorer and Windows ME, which may be why this isn't working, also). Here is where I am confused, however: underneath the code, it instructs "Save the page and follow the instructions above the edit window to force-reload the page and clear your browser cache". Hadn't I already saved the page? What instructions in the edit window? When I pasted and saved the code, there were no instructions above the edit window. Was I supposed to edit the page again? I'd appreciate any assistance anyone could offer. Mizu onna sango15/水女珊瑚15 01:37, 29 April 2008 (UTC)