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[edit] Popups memory usage—is there a leak?

I'm running IE 6.0.2900 on Windows XP. I notice after a while (a few hours) that memory usage of IE has climbed into the 100's of megabytes, even if I close all but a single window. I don't notice this behavior on other sites, so it led me to a suspicion that perhaps Popups has a memory leak. I'll admit that I haven't tried uninstalling Popups yet to see if this fixes the problem—I thought I'd ask first in case you already knew of an issue. Thanks, —Doug Bell talk 08:28, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

I believe that IE6 has issues with ajax requests causing a memory leak, and the script uses these quite intensively. I don't know of a workaround in the script, since the leak is in the javascript engine itself. Lupin|talk|popups 21:19, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
OK, thanks for the reply. That's probably the problem, and certainly rewritting to not use Ajax would not be a worthwhile solution. I'll be upgrading IE soon anyways as the compatibility testing issue with my work that's kept me from doing to so far is about to become a moot point. —Doug Bell talk 23:51, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Category:Geometry Proofs

You created the Category:Proofs. A subcategory called Category:Geometry Proofs is being considered for deletion or renaming. Please comment on what structure you deem is appropriate. It is the bottom entry on here: Wikipedia:Categories for deletion/Log/2006 December 2. Cheers! Royalbroil T : C 15:45, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

Sorry, I've no strong feelings on this matter. Lupin|talk|popups 21:20, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Request

Hi Lupin:

I was wondering, as I usually am when I wander this way, if you could lend your amazing scripting talents to a task for me. I'm looking for the ability to add a new sidebar box (like the navigation and toolbox) and put normal static links to frequently used pages in it (for me, things like the /Pending pages for RFCU & RFM, etc.) I'm sure this is a two-second task for someone like you, but you were the first person who popped to mind when I thought "I need a javascripter." Any help you could offer would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, as always, Essjay (Talk) 21:59, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

Ignore the above, please; User:Glen_S was kind enough to sort this out for me. However, while I'm here, might I turn the tables and offer to do you a service, namely, having EssjayBot III provide help with talk page archiving? Essjay (Talk) 00:27, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] UTC with popups

Hi, I'm using the normal version of popups (en:User:Lupin/popups.js) at the Korean Wikipedia (ko:User:Kjoonlee/monobook.js). It works very nicely at there, but I noticed it uses UTC instead of KST in the edit summaries when I revert. Links: edit summary, reverted to this version. Could you consider changing popups so that I can configure the timezone, please?

It's not important here, but I'd love it if I could use a different timezone with the Korean Wikipedia. Thank you very much. --Kjoonlee 12:48, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Please delete my talk page

Please get rid of my talkpage. I don't want it anymore. If you delete it, I will leave.--Wokid ‡ 21:41, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Redirection and popups

There are a number of articles where the first link of the page is to a disambiguation page. If I hover over a link to a page like that, could the popup please offer me the opportunity to disambiguate to one of the entries on the disambiguation page? Josh Parris#: 06:08, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Your expertise is needed

We're hosting a discussion on vandalism at the Virtual classroom. Your anti-vandal tool is one of the subtopics being discussed, and I was wondering if you would drop by and share the benefit of your experience and expertise in fighting vandalism on Wikipedia. Feel free to check out the other sections too - I'm especially interested in learning what interfaces you use to work on Wikipedia.  The Transhumanist   08:24, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] A great tool of yours, but...

I must confess, a few parts of your pop-ups need to be fixed ASAP.

  1. Interiot's External Editcounter is no longer reliable, especially for the EN wiki. Please replace with the Wannabe Kate.
  2. The Contribution Tree is not working at this time either. It reads "Software error: No data found in database", and has already been superseded by Wannabe Kate.
  3. When trying to access the history of any page by editor using Tim's tool with IE and Opera, it now reads, "Error! A database error has occured: (1049, "Unknown database 'enwiki_p'") -- please try again later." The author, TDS (talk • contribs • count), has not edited actively since July, preferring to be contacted via email instead. In the meantime, nothing has been done to repair the tool. For a replacement (EN / DE only), see [1].

I would like to see these problems resolved and the tool improved when you have the time. You can post me a message if you like. --Slgr@ndson (page - messages - contribs) 22:34, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] History popups need to handle markup

I wanted to point out that the popup history window does not process any wiki markup like the standard history page does. It ignores templates and <nowiki> tags, but most other mark is handled including links, bold, and italics. The links would be helpful. All would make the items that use markup easier to read. Also included, translation of /* ... */ into section links. Will (Talk - contribs) 04:54, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the feature request - this should now be in the dev version. Lupin|talk|popups 13:32, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Conflict with IPA Quickhelp Templates

First, very sorry for the crosspost. I humbly suggest that you indicate which page, this one or Wikipedia talk:Tools/Navigation popups, is appropriate for such comments. If you want us wikignomes to do any clean-up, merge, or such tasks, just tell us exactly how and we'll take over the busywork.

I have an idea for making IPA symbols more comprehensible, using tooltips. I have made a template {{Ʒ}} that contains [[ʒ as in beige=beɪʒ|ʒ]], and then a redirect at [[ʒ as in beige=beɪʒ]] to the appropriate phonetic page. (Here it is without nowiki: ʒ, and here's a link to edit the template page: {{Ʒ}}. The discussion of this concept is here: template talk:Ʒ. Without popups, this works wonderfully: someone who doesn't know IPA sees blue text, moves their mouse over the link, then sees the quickie pronunciation help in the tooltip, and if they want to know more, they click and get the appropriate article. But popups makes it a major pain in the neck. Is there some easy way to tag the template so popups ignores these links? Or if not, could you please add a <span class="nopopups"> (or suchlike) feature to do this? Thanks, --Homunq 22:00, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

Hi, either page is fine for such suggestions. Sorry I didn't get around to replying until now... I've added the nopopups span feature as you describe to the dev version. Give it a try, and let me know if you have trouble with it! Lupin|talk|popups 13:34, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Revert problem at Wikia.com

I noticed that when I attempt to revert pages at Wikia.com, it does not quite work. It seems the edit page ignores the AutoClick parameter. Any chance you could come up with a fix? If not, what should I tell their management? Will (Talk - contribs) 04:33, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Popup bugs report

On certain pages the following line: var plaintext = ""; var i=0; var c=c1=c2=0; results in the error "This property or method is not supported by this object."

This happens because the page contains an HTML element with id equal to c2 or c1. This behaviour is not unexpected. A fix would be: var plaintext = ""; var i=0; var c, c1, c2=c1=c=0; That would (hopefully) solve the problem.

Yours faithfully, Shinobu 22:49, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

Or why not simply: var plaintext = "", i = 0, c = 0, c1 = 0, c2 = 0; Much simpler. Just an afterthought. Shinobu 22:51, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

Ta, I've applied your fix to the dev version. Lupin|talk|popups 23:23, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Popups problem

Just today I started to get a whole bunch of white space above and below the titles in the popups (see screenshot at right). Any ideas? —Mets501 (talk) 02:49, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

No - I don't see this with FF 2.0 on OS X. Which browser/OS are you using? Do you see it only in popups with images? Lupin|talk|popups 09:37, 15 December 2006 (UTC)
I see this on both IE7 and FF 2.0 on XP. —Mets501 (talk) 11:51, 15 December 2006 (UTC)
I also just updated the image on the right to show a different popup to a redirect, which looks even weirder. —Mets501 (talk) 11:53, 15 December 2006 (UTC)
You're loading two versions of the script: popups.js directly from your monobook.js and popupsdev.js from your admin_monobook.js file. Try commenting out one of these invocations and see if that helps. Lupin|talk|popups 18:38, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
Good idea, but no help. It may be worth noting that when I select the text, the line-height for the spaces seems to be extremely large (see screenshot); maybe I have something wrong with my fonts? —Mets501 (talk) 12:08, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
Maybe. Does setting popupNavLinkSeparator='' help? Lupin|talk|popups 12:38, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
OK, it's definitely my computer that's the problem, not your code. It works fine on other computers. Sorry for bothering you, and thanks anyway for all the help! —Mets501 (talk) 20:00, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Popup

It could be good to add a parameter to specify a non-default value for : Insta.conf.wiki.default_thumb_width
Say to me your answer on fr:User:Kyle_the_hacker

[edit] Script modification

Hi Lupin. Some many months ago, I had requested you to write me some customised scripts. I need a small minor update. I need to change http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/count_edits? to http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/Tool1/wannabe_kate? in my monobook.js. I'm not sure what parameters it needs to pick up. Thanks in advance. Regards, =Nichalp «Talk»= 13:14, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

Just change
 if (!nichalp_isIpUser(user)) {
   addToolboxLink('http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/count_edits?dbname=enwiki&user='+user, user+"'s edit count", 'toolbox_katestool');
 }
to
 if (!nichalp_isIpUser(user)) {
   addToolboxLink('http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/Tool1/wannabe_kate?username='+user+'&site=en.wikipedia.org', user+"'s edit count", 'toolbox_katestool');
 }
in your personal js. —Mets501 (talk) 15:24, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
Thanks! =Nichalp «Talk»= 15:50, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] bug with & char and disambiguation

Hello Lupin,
I'm using your Navigation popups to perform disambiguation on french wikipedia. Just a little bug to report :
When I want to fix a link with your popup (using autoedit, right ?), there's no match if the regexp contains a `&` character.
$pooky 22:32, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

Trying to disambiguate a link from Law and Order to Law & Order also fails. The diff shows no changes and the edit comment gets truncated to "Disambiguate [[Law and Order]] to [[Law" Ewlyahoocom 04:30, 17 August 2007 (UTC)
Thanks, this bug should be squashed in the dev version. Lupin|talk|popups 08:35, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Problems

Hey Lupin. I'm currently experiencing the following problems:

  • I'm getting this notice when no one has reverted a user:

Page rollback error: Last editor is <>, not <>. The user may have already been reverted. I waited about 5 minutes, thinking the server may need to catch up or something, but no one showed up in the history as reverting a user

  • Your live lists of all recent changes, filter recent changes, and recent IP edits aren't working for me. It just keeps adding another yellow bar every 30 seconds saying it's updating, but no pages show
  • And now when I go to the regular recent changes (the one in the navigation sidebar) to do patrolling, I don't even see any recent changes either. (I don't know if you can help with this)

Thanks for checking these out. TeckWizTalkContribs@ 23:04, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

I am having the same problem. All three of the anti-vandal tools display "updating...done up to 19:00:00" indefinitely until I leave the page. The time never changes. Thanks, PullToOpenTalk 04:27, 23 December 2006 (UTC)
Same here with Filter Recent Changes. I've also had that Page Rollback Error, but that seems to have gone away. Nwwaew (Talk Page) (Contribs) (E-mail me) 04:31, 23 December 2006 (UTC)
My page rollback error hasn't gone away. TeckWizTalkContribs@ 02:53, 24 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] FAC of Schizophrenia

Hi! On 31 January 2006, you added {{featured article}} to Schizophrenia. However, it has been noted that there is no Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Schizophrenia page, and I can't find an FAC in the logs. Could you help me out? Maybe you'd like to respond here. So long and thanks for the popups! /skagedal... 22:57, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Popup won't go away

You may have a conflict with George Money's AutoWelcome script. When I middle click a [welcome] link on my watchpage, Firefox opens a new tab in the background (where George's script runs). It also commonly opens one of your popups -- and it won't go away until I refresh the watchlist page. Will (Talk - contribs) 03:50, 24 December 2006 (UTC)

note this script is not the auto new user log script you wrote for me earlier, it is completely different with different code, so maybe that might have some kind of effect (I might have added the links wrong, who knows). GeorgeMoney (talk) 04:16, 24 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Orphaned fair use image (Image:Mckellen gandalf ttt poster.jpg)

Thanks for uploading Image:Mckellen gandalf ttt poster.jpg. I notice the 'image' page currently specifies that the image is unlicensed for use on Wikipedia and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently orphaned, meaning that it is not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable under fair use (see our fair use policy).

If you have uploaded other unlicensed media, please check whether they're used in any articles or not. You can find a list of 'image' pages you have edited by clicking on the "my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "Image" from the dropdown box. Note that any fair use images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. Kimchi.sg 05:47, 25 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Safari crashing with popups

I may be late, but I read "Lupin would be interested to hear if this is still the case or not, and would greatly welcome assistance from someone who knows some javascript in getting to the bottom of these problems." on the WP:POP page. I've been using the popups for a while and experienced no disturbances! I have 2.0.4, the newest, on an Intel Apple. X [Mac Davis] (DESK|How's my driving?) 01:44, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] RE: Lupin's pop-up tool

User:Davidbspalding wrote on Wikipedia_talk:Lamest_edit_wars#Links_to_lame_edit_wars:

Hrm ... I use Lupin's pop-up tool (sorry, don't have link hand, try User:Lupin I think), which allows 1-click access to the history. Usually a History page is quite transparent about an edit war. But I see your point, it would be helpful if the listing said, "Little Bunny Fru-fru, editor war Jan - Mar, 2006; is the tail white or pink, like tailbones, everyone had an opinion,...." David Spalding (☎ ✉ ✍) 22:26, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

Mr. Lupin what is Mr. Davidbspalding talking about, and where can get access to this tool?

(Later): Oh, I C from your snazy barnstar award above: Wikipedia:Popups NEVERMIND! Travb (talk) 11:16, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] New Years Honours' list...well mine anyway!

The Graphic Designer's Barnstar
For your academic shield contributions. Timrollpickering 17:43, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Your Anti-vandal tool

I use Internet Explorer and your anti-vandal tool doesn't seem to work. It says that there is an error. This means that it doesn't work for Internet Explorer. If there is any way to make it work for it, I would like you to do that. Jason12345 19:18, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

I believe that it does work. Please let me know if you're still having trouble. Lupin|talk|popups 07:27, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Popup diff shows no changes, yet changes were made

Please exlain why the popup tool insists these edits are empty. All were by User:Alan Shatte.

Will (Talk - contribs) 23:23, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Because if you click on the links you get MediaWiki error pages. Lupin|talk|popups 07:27, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

I wonder if an admin deleted the edits. Will (Talk - contribs) 07:37, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Another Popups bug?

I see you haven't posted anything on-wiki in two weeks. I hope you're doing okay. Is Popups malfunctioning or something? It simply seems to have stopped working, for me at least. Thanks. --Cyde Weys 21:13, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

I figured out what caused the error. Apparently there was a conflict between this mod and Popups. I'll just stick with Popups for now, but it'd be nice to get them both working simultaneously eventually. --Cyde Weys 01:04, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] popupModifier='ctrl'

Hi Lupin, thanks for your popupModifier='ctrl' function. I have now been testing it for several weeks. It turnes out that it is essentially useless if the popup it not invoked when clicking Ctrl while already hovering over the link. It would be great if you could add that missing ctrl button handler. Thanks in advance and thanks for your great tool, Cacycle 04:00, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

Sorry, I don't understand the problem you're having. Please could you explain again? Lupin|talk|popups 19:00, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
The popup is not triggered if you already hover over a link and then press Ctrl. I guess you have to add an event handler for Ctrl. Pressing Ctrl while already being over a link is what you automatically try and what feels normal. However, in the current implementation you have to press Ctrl and then move the cursor over the link, thereby often producing unwanted popups, especially on a link-crowded page like the watchlist. Cacycle 04:42, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
I agree that this would be the best solution, but I don't know if it's possible, since pressing control alone doesn't seem to generate keypress events :-( Lupin|talk|popups 07:25, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
Good to see you back :-) Setting up addEventListener('keydown', Handler, true); and trapping event.ctrlKey == true works fine for me under Mozilla (SeaMonkey 1.1 and Firefox 2.0.0.1). Cacycle 15:48, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for the suggestion. I've done something of the sort to the latest dev version, and it does seem to work well in firefox. Fixes for other browsers would be welcome - it sort of works in Safari, but not at all in Opera for some reason. I haven't tried in IE. Lupin|talk|popups 09:16, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
Thanks, works like a charm for me under Mozilla. Cacycle 13:29, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

Hi. Sorry if this is the wrong place (I couldn't exactly follow this discussion), but was wondering if there is a way to cancel popups if a certain key is pressed while moving cursor around page? Something to add to my monobook.js page? Thank you. Sammyj 20:38, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Popups - Disambiguation misbehaviour

I was disambiguating in the article RGameScript Pro, section v1.2 the SMF link I attempting to disambiguate to Simple Machines Forum, I found myself at http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=RGameScript&action=edit&autoedit=s~\[\[\s*([Ss]MF)\s*\]\]~[[Simple%20Machines%20Forum|$1]]~g;s~\[\[\s*([Ss]MF)\s*[|]~[[Simple%20Machines%20Forum|~g;s~\[\[Simple%20Machines%20Forum\|Simple%20Machines%20Forum\]\]~[[Simple%20Machines%20Forum]]~g&autoclick=wpDiff&autominor=true&autosummary=Disambiguate%20[[SMF]]%20to%20[[Simple%20Machines%20Forum]]%20using%20[[:en:Wikipedia:Tools/Navigation_popups|popups]] which ain't right. It looks like the "Pro" part got dropped off. I'm not going to dab at this time, so that you can have a play. Josh Parris#: 02:56, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for reporting this bug. It should work in a soon-to-appear dev version. Lupin|talk|popups 07:09, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Barnstar

The Original Barnstar
This is for helping people fight vandalsim batter with your ati-vandalism tool. great job. Sir James Paul, La gloria è a dio 01:53, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Popups for Wikia.

Hi.

Some user of nonsensopedia (Polish uncyclopedia) reported that disamb an redir fixing doesn't work there. After some searching I found changeLinkTargetLink function. There you get the title for editing from the page title like this:

var title=document.title.split(' - ');
title[title.length-1]='';
title=title.join(' - ').replace(/ - $/, '');

But for Wikia the title is: Page name - Wiki name - A Wikia wiki

I've made a workaround by taking this into account. But that would be WikiaOnly-popups and maybe you could make this better by using the same link-getting procedure as in other places (I'm not sure where it is)?

Nux (talk) 22:05, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

The correct procedure is to use the handy javascript variables that are injected into pages for this very purpose (and have appeared since I wrote that horrible hack). I'll include this in the next dev version I upload. Lupin|talk|popups 07:07, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Suggestion for Filter RC

Hey there! I've been using the RC filter tool for a short while now, and I have a small tweak that I and maybe others would find useful. The initial string of text and links e.g.

08:29:44 (last) (hist) Light-frame construction matched stud . . User (talk | warn | contribs | block) . . (Materials -added space) . . hide details . . [rollback]

Can be broken up onto two lines (at least on my resolution) by long 'matched' strings like 'poooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooop'. This makes the (talk | warn | contribs | block) and [rollback] button breakup onto different lines. I think that moving the 'matched' to a new line below or to the end of the string easier to follow when the edit clearly needs reverting. Having to double take to find the [Rollback] and (warn) buttons usually slows me down when there is a vandalism flood. Just a suggestion - but apart from that, it's a fantastic tool :-) . --Sagaciousuk (talk) 08:41, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] SMILE

Jacroe has smiled at you! Smiles promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling to someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Happy editing!
Smile at others by adding {{subst:smile}}, {{subst:smile2}} or {{subst:smile3}} to their talk page with a friendly message.

[edit] Anti-Vandal Tool problems

Hi, Lupin. Positively great work on the RC filter scripts. I've been using them for less than five minutes and already reverted a few vandal edits. These tools are awesome! One little issue, though. I'm not an admin, so I checked the "Use non-admin rollback" box. I roll backed something, the previous (un-vandalized) version of which was contributed by Can't sleep, clown will eat me, but the username showed up as "Can't sleep%2C clown will eat me". It's not, for some reason, unescaping the comma. Is this intentional to protect the JS syntax or is it a bug? Just wondering, hoping I can help make your scripts better.

Great work, again! -- Tuvok^Talk|Desk|Contribs   00:29, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

I'm back again, with another series of issues a little more serious than that above. I use the Anti-Vandal Tool on FF2.0 under WinXP Tablet SP2. If I click around too quickly, it's almost as if the script is getting confused or something and the browser crashes. I have had this problem on two of the four RC pages you created. I love your tool; it would be nice if I could leave it running while I'm online, but I can't if it keeps crashing the browser. Has anyone else experienced trouble like this? -- Tuvok^Talk|Desk|Contribs   03:19, 15 January 2007 (UTC)
Some more-specific information about the bug. Firefox seems to crash if I click "show changes" and then click "hide changes". That is, the sequence goes as follows:
  • Load page
  • Wait for first update (usually)
  • Click "show changes" link
  • Read changes and decide whether or not to do something
  • Click "hide changes" link
  • See changes hide
  • Either watch browser crash or move on to another item, in which case its "hide changes" link crashes the browser
In other words, I can process no more than two items before having to restart the browser. -- Tuvok^Talk|Desk|Contribs  03:26, 15 January 2007 (UTC)
I've switched to the modified version by Gzkn for the additional links it provides. I just thought I'd let you know that Gzkn's version does not appear to have those problems. -- Tuvok^Talk|Desk|Contribs   01:15, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
That's pretty odd. Browser crashes point to bugs in Firefox though, not my script, since javascript shouldn't be able to crash a browser. (Not that this helps you particularly!) Lupin|talk|popups 07:02, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
Actually, I've had the same problems now with Gzkn's version of the script, so it's not immune. I would guess it is a Firefox problem, since I couldn't replicate the error in Internet Explorer (v.6). Should I submit a bug report to the Mozilla Foundation? Or maybe you'd prefer to do it, since you probably know more about what your scripts do than I? -- Tuvok^Talk|Desk|Contribs  23:35, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Popups, right to left?

Hi there Lupin! I've been translating Popups to be used on the hebrew Wikipedia. There is one thing that is bugging me - as the whole site is designed right-to-left (RTL) it is counter-intuitive there for the popups to be opened on the left. Is there a way to set some variable so that it always opens on the right side of the mouse instead? Thanks a million, --Nathanael Bar-Aur L. 01:46, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

Hm, I should have thought of this ages ago. At this stage of the game it'll be tricky I think. Patches welcome! :-) Lupin|talk|popups 06:59, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
I have been trying to go over the code, but have had some hard time figuring stuff out. Where should this functionality be found? What is responsible to the actual construction and display of the popup DIV? --Nathanael Bar-Aur L. 03:23, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Too quick to joy, I'm afraid

By chance I have tested it only on latin character values. Now that I had more time with it, it seems there are fundamental problems with unicode characters. I am attaching an image of the result I get when I move the mouse over hebrew-named articles. For some reason, Popups fails to pick-up on the article's name. Funny that it does load DIFF information perfectly when I move the mouse over a DIFF link! Please, could you check it?

Also, the Revert option in the hebrew version does not want to automatically send the reversion. IE7 gives me a security notice that the website wants to open a scripted window to ask for information. If I enable this, it just doesn't do anything - then I have to write an edit summary myself and press send. This is very different from the english version I use, which does this all by one click of a mouse in the Popups. Thank you for your attention to these issues :-) --Nathanael Bar-Aur L. 20:57, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

Does this non-latin issue affect you in Firefox as well? I can try to test it in IE7, but don't have it around right now... Lupin|talk|popups 06:58, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for taking the time to respond. I don't have Firefox installed, plus my system is pretty overloaded as it is (hoping to format the whole thing sometime soon). These results I got were using IE7. That "garbage" display would suggest to me that two-byte unicode characters are for some reason broken down to one byte. Very weird... --Nathanael Bar-Aur L. 03:23, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
Are you using the dev version of the script? I think this may behave better with IE7. It'd also be helpful if I need to test further to see the monobook.js file you're using - what's your user name on he? Lupin|talk|popups 22:51, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
Yessss the dev version works better! It displays the hebrew correctly, but it still doesn't automatically press the Send button when I try to revert an article. Instead, IE is cautioning that This website is using a scripted window to ask you for information. If you trust this website..... It also doesn't write an edit summary so I have to fill that manually too.
If you can check it out, my monobook is here. Thanks :-) Nathanael Bar-Aur L. 00:16, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Popups that won't go away

Could you add support for something like CTRL-ALT-F10 to cause all popups to go away immediately? User:GeorgeMoney's Auto-Welcome tool causes some popups to remain when you middle-click the [welcome] links in Firefox. As is, once such popups are visible, you can't get rid of them without refreshing the page. Will (Talk - contribs) 07:12, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

Pressing F10 makes the context menu appear for me. This uses control-alt-f9 instead.
function purgeHandler(evt) {
        evt && evt.ctrlKey && evt.altKey && (evt.keyCode==120) && purgePopups();
}
if(document.addEventListener) {
        document.addEventListener('keydown', purgeHandler, false);
}

—Preceding unsigned comment added by Lupin (talk • contribs)

It works, but only if I add the Shift key. BTW: I think you should add this as a compatibility note to WP:POPUP. Will (Talk - contribs) 06:34, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

I don't even need the work around anymore. Thanks. Don't know what happened, but there is no longer a conflict. Will (Talk - contribs) 04:11, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] AVT doesn't ignore sandbox

Hi again, Lupin. I've been using the AVT (see above for my reports) for a while, and I have checked "ignore safe pages". However, Wikipedia:Sandbox keeps appearing in my list. I thought it was supposed to be ignored. -- Tuvok^Talk|Desk|Contribs  01:35, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks, this should be fixed now. Lupin|talk|popups 06:57, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Igor Stravinsky

This article has been selected for Feature Article Review. Please see the talk page and discussion at FAR for improvements you can make to retain its FA status. Jeffpw 10:11, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] wikt:User:Connel MacKenzie/diff.js

Hi,

If you have a spare minute (ha!) could you give me some feedback on what a "better" user interface might look like? For example, see the "(diff)" link on the first line of wikt:color (directly above the table of contents.) Also, do you think it would be work the "expense" of finding the most recent revid, via ajax?

Thanks in advance,

--Connel MacKenzie - wikt 19:41, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

What does this code do and how do I use it? Lupin|talk|popups 09:21, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Changes to the revert function?

Hi Lupin! Thank you for Popups! It is helping a lot!

I have a question: Would you mind to change the revert message? On the German Wikipedia, our admins use a text like this:

(Änderungen von 217.13.165.68 (Beiträge) rückgängig gemacht und letzte Version von Enricopedia wiederhergestellt)

Translated it would be something like:

(Reverted edit from 217.13.165.68 (Contributions) and restored last version from Enricopedia.)

On that message, there are the IP(or username) and contributions linked to the appropriate page. I think it's more useful to have a link to the user page and especially to his contributions, than having just a revision number and timestamp of the old revision. What do you think?

On the German page there is also a user publishing scripts that might be interesting for you:

Greetings! --de:User:Enricopedia

Thanks from me too for Popups! I love it!
I would appreciate it if you would add one more reversion option, between "edit this revision" and "revert". I would like it to edit the revision and create the edit summary just as for reverting, but pause so the user can add additional information to the edit summary before clicking "save", so that the tool becomes useful for explaining reversion of good-faith edits as well as for reverting obvious vandalism.
By the way, for a while I was using a modified version of Popups before I realized I could just use some of the options you already provide. I apologize that at first I didn't think of changing the name of the program in the edit summary to reflect that it wasn't your version. As far as I know, no actual harm occurred. I edited it just the way I usually edit articles (on Mozilla); my edited version looks different (newlines were messed up by the editor or something?) but seemed to work. I'm not using it now.
Thanks again for a great tool, Lupin! --Coppertwig 13:31, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
Sorry, I hadn't seen this option: "popupRevertSummaryPrompt". so basically you do provide the functionality. Still, it would be nice to have it as two separate menu items, so you can choose to either revert in a single click, or be able to edit the edit summary. --Coppertwig 02:24, 10 February 2007 (UTC)
I agree. There should be both revert with standard message and revert and wait for me to screw with the message. And I should be able to configure my standard revert message. And I should be able to have two standard revert messages. — Randall Bart 11:17, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Unexplained JS error from popup code

I was checking my Java Console for errors when I found the error below. Will (Talk - contribs) 01:54, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

Error: pg is not defined

Source File: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Lupin/popups.js&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript&dontcountme=s Line: 1254
I don't understand this error either. For me it only appears occasionally and doesn't seem to cause trouble, though. Lupin|talk|popups 06:15, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Anti Vandal

Hello Lupin! I was just wondering on how i can monitor what i speak. (Ie. every time i warn some body i want it to say a common message such as "yadayadya.. you vandalized "x" website, and it occurred at this time. Contact me at..." I saw this other guy use it, it looked good. Thanks! F=IV3 05:39, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

Sorry, I don't know what you mean exactly. Are you asking me about one of my javascript tools? Lupin|talk|popups 22:59, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Pop-ups..like everyone else

Well, first of all I wanna thnx u for making that great tool! Second, my only problem is that I can't enable the popupRevertSummaryPrompt. The code I use is this...

// [[User:Lupin/popups.js]]
importScript('User:Lupin/popups.js');
popupRevertSummaryPrompt=true;

I dunno if it's correct, so I want you to help me, plz!  Armando.O  (talk|contribs) 01:10, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

I've forgotten the correct way to do this(!), but I think I've answered this question before somewhere and it is documented at WP:POP. Lupin|talk|popups 22:57, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
Lol, you created this and you forgot it too xD..it's rareanyway thnk u!  Armando.O  (talk|contribs) 22:04, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

[[Anti-Vandal Tool

Thank you for developing this tool, it is AWESOME!!

-Step trip 18:23, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Popups tool: Redlinks to subsections

The redlink removal feature refuses to touch redlinks that point at subsections, e.g. [[Deleted article#Spoon|asparagus]] - ∅ (∅), 01:20, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

Oh, and thanks for making the program, I love it :-D - ∅ (∅), 01:22, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
Thanks, this should be fixed in the dev version. Lupin|talk|popups 18:04, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Popup disambiguation outside main space

I am using User:Lupin/popupsdev.js for disambiguation. I believe it formerly worked correctly in Template and Category space, but I found it strips "Portal:" from the name, and when I tried "Template:" and "Category:", I found they are broken as well. — Randall Bart 01:54, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

Image too, of course. I'm impatient. I'm going to try to fix this. — Randall Bart 06:41, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

It's at user:Barticus88/popups.js. Get it before I start modifying the hell out of it. B^) Actually all I did was change wgTitle to wgPageName. — Randall Bart 07:33, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks, I've made a similar change in the latest dev version. I don't know any test cases of dab pages in those namespaces - could you tell me some so that I can check this sort of thing? Thanks, Lupin|talk|popups 09:14, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

I can't give you examples; I fixed them. B^) I fixed a Template and a Category and two Images. Okay, I'll go find some just for you. Chamberlain in Template:Mushroomhead. Conservative in Template:User conservative republican. Bell in Portal:Cycling/Selected picture. Subdivisions in Template:Serbian cities. Charity in Category:Charity fundraisers. Charity in Image:CSEA-AFL-CIO logo.png. — Randall Bart 22:26, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

Of course, those may end up fixed and you'll need new ones. This isn't important enough that you need to test for it every day. These wg vars are new, and you grabbed the wrong one. wgTitle is the name within the namespace; wgPageName is the one for URLs. This bugs me, because I come from a tradition (Burroughs) where title is the fully specified name. I see you used title. Also I notice you translated "_" to " ". Why? This is used for building URLs, where you want "_". — Randall Bart 08:37, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

Great, the latest version works with those test cases. I think wgPageName is not exactly the URL form; for example, on ? ? the value is '?_?' instead of '%3F_%3F'. I think it's actually the literal form but with spaces replaced by underscores; the Title object in my script, called with article: new Title(title), expects to be initialised with the literal form with spaces in it. Lupin|talk|popups 09:06, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

Maybe I have missed some details, but I think that if you are setting foo.href, wgPageName is good to go. It's only when building a string saying "<a href=...>" that it needs to be escaped. — Randall Bart 19:50, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Doesent work for me

I did every thing in the Faq page for this an it still doesent work. See this and tell me what is wrong with it please. --Darkest Hour • ¿? 02:34, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

I don't know, it looks fine to me. Lupin|talk|popups 22:55, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Anti vandal tool

Hey Lupin! I really love your tool, but i have been experiencing difficulties lately. When i filter recent changes, this happens: "User:Lupin/Filter recent changes Ignore talk pages Ignore pages outside the article namespace Automatically expand new content Only show edits unchanged after four updates Use non-admin rollback Ignore my edits Ignore safe pages" Ignore talk pages Ignore pages outside the article namespace Automatically expand new content Only show edits unchanged after four updates Use non-admin rollback Ignore my edits Ignore safe pages From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia < User:Lupin This may be a little confusing, but let me clarify: The places between the parenthese repeat! CAN you solve this in any way? Thanks! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Soul-mine (talk • contribs) 02:46, February 6, 2007 (UTC)

You probably have indirectly loaded the script twice. Please blank your monobook.js file and start again, adding one script at once. Lupin|talk|popups 22:54, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Popups - Disambiguation misbehaviour redux

As per Popups - Disambiguation misbehaviour, attempting to disambiguate the fraction link in Building 19 and I found myself at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Building#19&action=edit&autoedit=s~\[\[\s*([Ff]raction)\s*\]\]~[[Fraction%20(mathematics)|$1]]~g;s~\[\[\s*([Ff]raction)\s*[|]~[[Fraction%20(mathematics)|~g;s~\[\[Fraction%20%5C(mathematics%5C)\|Fraction%20%5C(mathematics%5C)\]\]~[[Fraction%20(mathematics)]]~g&autoclick=wpDiff&autominor=true&autosummary=Disambiguate%20[[Fraction]]%20to%20[[Fraction%20(mathematics)]]%20using%20[[:en:Wikipedia:Tools/Navigation_popups|popups]] Which is a dropped '19'. I hope this helps testing. Josh Parris 06:49, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the bug report - I think I fixed this a few days ago in the dev version. Lupin|talk|popups 22:53, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] You need to archive

188Kb! Your talk page is way too long. Josh Parris 06:49, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

Indeed - it's shorter now :) Lupin|talk|popups 09:19, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Redirection and popups

There are a number of articles where the first link of the page is a hatnote pointing to a disambiguation page. If I hover over a link to a page like that, could the popup please offer me the opportunity to disambiguate to one of the entries on the disambiguation page? Actually, that would kill performance wouldn't it. Could I turn it on? I mainly use popups for disambiguating. Josh Parris 06:49, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

I don't know what you mean by a hatnote exactly. Please could you explain and provide an example for me to test with? Lupin|talk|popups 09:19, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
Scratch that, I read WP:HATNOTE or somesuch page. Examples for testing would still be nice, though. I see a way to do this efficiently: recognize the common hatnote templates and/or boilerplate text and add append links with special popups which point to the relevant dab page but edit the grandparent page/popup instead of the parent page/popup. Then you could use a popup to disambiguate in the normal way. Of course, I'd need a list of likely culprit templates to make this work... Lupin|talk|popups 09:11, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wow!

I love the popup tool! Thanks Lupin! --Darkest Hour • ¿? 22:33, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] I figure it is probably GFDL, but I don't know that

Thank you for uploading Image:Yorkshire dales sheep.jpg. However, it currently is missing information on its copyright status. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously. It may be deleted soon, unless we can determine the license and the source of the image. If you know this information, then you can add a copyright tag to the image description page.

If you have any questions, please feel free to ask them at the media copyright questions page. Thanks again for your cooperation. Will (Talk - contribs) 09:39, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

Well, that page was vandalized, removing the license. I've reverted those edits. (It's probably a good idea to check the edit history before adding delete-me tags to the page!) Lupin|talk|popups 10:35, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

Duh. Sorry. Will (Talk - contribs) 23:35, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Semiautomatic edit to your talk page

I've responded here. — Tuvok[T@lk/Improve me] 10:16, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Subpages of subpages

Hi, Lupin! Thanks for the handy tool.

I was editing a list of links today when I noticed an odd malfunction of the "navpop" tool. Here's an example link where the tool malfunctioned for me.

Wikipedia:Bots/Requests_for_approvals/Archive2#SmackBot task approval

Anyway, the link leads me to the right spot when I click on it, but "navpop" fails to find the internal anchor tag. In fact, I get a "redirect" out of navpop even when I point it at the same page without an internal title.

Oh – I'm using Firefox 1.06 running under SuSE Linux 9.3. I'll try it out with some other browsers when I've got one of them running. I suspect that the existence of a sub-sub-page is muddying the waters, or something like that. Thanks again! DavidCBryant 21:40, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

1.06? That's ancient. Time for an upgrade. Don't tell me that the Linux version doesn't have newer builds. Will (Talk - contribs) 06:38, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
Note that the page you link to is a redirect, from ...approvals... to ...approval..., so there's nothing wrong there. What has changed is that internal titles on redirects now seem to work within mediawiki. They don't work in popups. Thanks for pointing this out - I'll add it to my todo list. Lupin|talk|popups 09:18, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
This bug should be fixed in the latest dev version. Lupin|talk|popups 09:33, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
That was fast! Thanks again for a great tool. And you have sharp eyes ... I didn't notice that extra "s" buried in the long URI string. DavidCBryant 11:56, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Unspecified source for Image:Rucksack1.jpg

Thanks for uploading Image:Rucksack1.jpg. I noticed that the file's description page currently doesn't specify who created the content, so the copyright status is unclear. If you did not create this file yourself, then you will need to specify the owner of the copyright. If you obtained it from a website, then a link to the website from which it was taken, together with a restatement of that website's terms of use of its content, is usually sufficient information. However, if the copyright holder is different from the website's publisher, then their copyright should also be acknowledged.

As well as adding the source, please add a proper copyright licensing tag if the file doesn't have one already. If you created/took the picture, audio, or video then the {{GFDL-self}} tag can be used to release it under the GFDL. If you believe the media meets the criteria at Wikipedia:Fair use, use a tag such as {{Non-free fair use in|article name}} or one of the other tags listed at Wikipedia:Image copyright tags#Fair use. See Wikipedia:Image copyright tags for the full list of copyright tags that you can use.

If you have uploaded other files, consider checking that you have specified their source and tagged them, too. You can find a list of files you have uploaded by following this link. Unsourced and untagged images may be deleted one week after they have been tagged, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If the image is copyrighted under a non-free license (per Wikipedia:Fair use) then the image will be deleted 48 hours after 11:55, 8 February 2007 (UTC). If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. 130.232.64.230 11:55, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

No, the page does specify who created the image, de:User:Sjr, and that they gfdl'd it. Lupin|talk|popups 18:18, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] NNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Spell checker has caused an error in Mozzila. Mozzila will now shut down. HEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLLP!!! --Darkest Hour • © 20:46, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

Eh? Are you saying that the live spellcheck crashes Mozilla? Or something else? Lupin|talk|popups 08:54, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Bug

No roolback link in antivandal tool (very neat by the way). Pop up revert does not know whos reverting. I have to input that manually or use the undo button. Please fix,--Darkest Hour • © 23:27, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

I don't understand - I see rollback links at the end of each line when using the antivandal tool. Lupin|talk|popups 08:55, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Disable popups for IE6

Could you specify a way for me to disable the popups in IE6 but keep them enabled in Firefox? I use IE as my default browser, but since it freezes a lot when I use popups, I have chosen to do my main wikipedia editing with your popups Firefox. I'm sure there is a way to make the script check which browser is being used, but my Javascript skills have failed me again. I would appreciate if you could show me how to totally disable the popups in IE6. Thanks in advance, theroachmanTC 05:42, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

Untested, but may work:
var isIE=(navigator.appName.indexOf("Microsoft")!=-1);
if (isIE) {
  var ieVersion=+navigator.userAgent.replace(RegExp('^.*MSIE (\\d+).*'), '$1');
}
if (!isIE || ieVersion >= 7) {
  importScript('User:Lupin/popups.js');
}
Lupin|talk|popups 08:40, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
Excellent, that works! It looks really weird on my monobook.js page but that doesn't matter, it works like a charm. Thank you!
theroachmanTC 16:04, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Re:Specification

Filter recent changes and Live spell check crash Mozzilia. Rollback links dont work in Mozzilla with popups. I love your antivandal tools. After a while of using the recent Ip and recent changes to revert vandalism things tend to slow down alot. I have DSL, and things really are never slow. Sorry for the wait. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Darkest Hour (talk • contribs) 00:50, 10 February 2007 (UTC).

That's not good, but it's certainly a Mozilla bug which you should report to Mozilla. (Any time the browser crashes, it's a browser bug not a javascript bug). Lupin|talk|popups 12:42, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] No Joy

FF1.5.0.9 Win98 ... perhaps PopUp is class conscious?

I have been using popups in my project page since 2002 (MouseOver !Q!)... never any problem. I recently installed SNAP popup preview in my "MozDawg" blog ... it was, truly, a snap. No problem. Here, with this, I have CTRL-SHIFT-R a number of times, I have gone into T)ools, O)ptions and cleared Cache. I have restarted. I have rebooted. I have no joy. Perhaps Firefox is not supported? (I bet it has something to do with popup blocker; mebbe needs to be white-listed? Nope ... no such luck.) --BenTremblay 21:08, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

The sites you link to don't appear to be running mediawiki. My popups work on sites which do run mediawiki, so I'm not sure that I can help you. Lupin|talk|popups 12:41, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
You're kind, but you mis-understood: my sites don't use MediaWiki and your lovely popup system. They use other popup code ... which work.I see the popups on other sites, but I do not see your popups here on WikiPedia. Contra-distinction; trouble-shooting: other popups on other sites work with this browner, but these does not work, here. I surely would like to help with this, but cannot get started. --BenTremblay 23:42, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
I don't think you've installed the script. Please see WP:POP for installation instructions. Lupin|talk|popups 10:48, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
Your patience is exemplary, thanks! NB: Having never ever bothered with my own personal WikiPedia styling, I though "Add to mono etc etc" referred to the skin for my MediaWiki on my own site! You see the context mis-match / ambiguity? cheers --BenTremblay 22:04, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Autosubmitting requires popups?

I'm trying to use the Live Spellchecker (On Firefox 1.5), and when I click the word to correct it, it goes to the edit page, and I see auto-stuff in the URL, but nothing like edit summary is done. I'd like to use the anti-vandal tool without pop-ups. Thanks in advance, SgeoT C 06:25, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

I believe there is a script somewhere called autoedit.js, upon which the auto-edit functionality of Popups is based. I think I've located this at User:Lupin/autoedit.js; try using importScript("User:Lupin/autoedit.js"); to add this to your monobook.js and try using Live Spellcheck again, after Shift-reloading your monobook.js. Hope this helps you! — Tuvok[T@lk/Improve me] 07:54, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] University of Nottingham shield

On Image:Nottingham_shield.png you say that you made it yourself in Inkscape (and a fine job you did too). Would it be possible to obtain the SVG by any chance? —Wereon 00:51, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

It's in Image:Shields.tar.bz2. Lupin|talk|popups 10:45, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Unicode problem?

Hello. I seem to be having a problem with popups with IE7. When I hover over a link with a diacritic mark (such as Miss España) I get an odd link (Miss España) that won't work to go to the article. Interestingly, when I hover over the link in an editing box, it works properly (in this case giving me the redirect to (Miss Spain). --After Midnight 0001 05:30, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

I've updated the script, and it should now work with IE7. Please let me know if you have trouble after shift-reloading and/or clearing your cache. Lupin|talk|popups 10:46, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
Thanks. That fixed it. Sorry for the late reply, I was traveling and just got back to the machine with IE7. --After Midnight 0001 22:11, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] This is a automated to all bot operators

Please take a few moments and fill in the data for your bot on Wikipedia:Bots/Status Thank you Betacommand (talk • contribs • Bot) 19:40, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

Done. Lupin|talk|popups 10:47, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Personal messages

Hi. The other day I was monitoring the recent pages and came across a group of users who have not made any contributions and it seems they are just using wikipedia as a personal messaging place. I told them about it, and so far a couple of them have tried to blank their page, but so far one of them, User Evermaaz has kept using his talk page for personal messaging. I'm just wondering what I should do, if anything, or if you could do something. If I'm reading the rules correctly, using wikipedia like this is not allowed. Thanks!--TheAlphaWolf 23:50, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

I've left a message on that talk page. If this continues, I'll block 'em and protect the page. Lupin|talk|popups 10:36, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

Ok thanks! I already have them in my watchlist, so if you want I'll tell you if they continue doing it, but this is the full list (or at least the most I was able to gather) of people that have been doing it: User:Bobbyj221, User:Bobness221, User:Evermaaz, User:Jrsas07, User:Lunadabay, and ‎User:Waterpolobob11 --TheAlphaWolf 15:16, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

Well, User_talk:Bobness221 is still being used like that. It was edited by an unregistered member, but if you look at the history it's clear that that he/she did read my warning, as it was he/she who deleted it.--TheAlphaWolf 15:56, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Getting "revision $1 dated $2 by $3"

Noticed you doing some updates [2]. Just a friendly FYI --Hu12 11:20, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

I'm not seeing this in Firefox - for example, see the history of User:Lupin/sandbox. Which browser are you using? Are you sure you've completely cleared your cache? Lupin|talk|popups 12:26, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
IE6 + cleared cache (in my case) --Van helsing 13:43, 14 February 2007 (UTC) PS. other computers with IE5.5 and IE7 working okay (this edit)
Same Problem Her..I think your dev version has some kind of a glitch because I think it malfunctions with Internet Explorer and I prefered the old version better--Cometstyles 17:56, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
Running IE 6 here, this must be the problem. strange--Hu12 19:48, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
I've installed IE6 and I don't see this problem. (Caveat: I am running IE6 and IE7 side by side with Multiple IEs and this may not be a reliable way to test). I still believe that this may be a caching issue. Please let me know if this issue persists in a week, as I hope it'll sort itself out as improperly cached things stop being cached. Alternatively, if you are really fed up with this then you can try importing the old version of the script by adding an oldid=... parameter in your monobook.js. Lupin|talk|popups 00:38, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
I've cleared the cache, full cleanup of drive reinsstalled java, think i need to use the old version. did itagain getting [3].--Hu12 00:44, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
Note that the caching may not be taking place on your computer - it could be the mediawiki servers. I don't pretend to fully understand this :-) (By the way, reinstalling Java will not make any difference here.) I realise that I may have messed up here, but previous experience tells me that after a few days, this sort of problem can just evaporate. Lupin|talk|popups 00:50, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
Could be the mediawiki servers. I rely heavily on popups for wide scale counter vandalism, and I'd hate for this to be permanate error. thanks for the reply.--Hu12 00:55, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
It is definitely true that running IE6 and IE7 side by side is not a reliable test. There are parts of IE installed deep in Windows, and installing IE7 changes some of those, changing Windows even if you never run IE at all. — Randall Bart 23:27, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

Hmm...I just got the exact same error. [4] ShadowHalo 05:31, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

May want to change the lines to this 'http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Lupin/popups.js&oldid=88729935' works for me (note the &oldid=88729935).--Hu12 05:55, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

That immediately solved it for me, thanks. --Van helsing 07:42, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
I was experiencing the same problem [5]. I use IE7. Hu12's suggested fix worked for me too (thanks). WjBscribe 20:16, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
Did this and it worked, but it's now reverted back for some reason. H2P (Yell at me for what I've done) 15:17, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
I;m using IE7. I also got the same problem [6] and it said I had a risk of being blocked, saying it was a malicious code or something. Just to be safe, I blanked it. All I have to do is cache? I'm afriad...what if something happens to the computer or something... Thanks, — ♥Tohru Honda13♥ 04:17, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
Use it because it wont actually affect your Computer and It is better if you used Mozilla Firefox because I also had the same problem and it only affects IE users.Try it out (Use Firefox) ..Cheers--Cometstyles 04:33, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
I don't understand what I'm supposed to do. JuJube 03:45, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
Every one is getting that, no need to worry. It'll go away when you change it.--Hu12 04:35, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
same error as well, here... going to try the workaround. Locriani 10:54, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
Tried the work-around above, and still getting the same error ($). Please don't say "use Firefox then", as I've tried it, and don't like it. Darkson - BANG! 11:12, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
Working now. Darkson - BANG! 22:18, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

I also had the problem, and i tried Hu12's suggestion but it did not work. This is my monobook.js file, could someone help me fix it so it will use the old version of popups. --DanMP5 (Talk | Contribs) 16:52, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

Never mind, I switched to Firefox and Popups are working great.--DanMP5 (Talk | Contribs) 05:25, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

I don't understand User:Hu12's comment above. Where do I put this string? I tried putting importScript('User:Lupin/popups.js&oldid=88729935'); into my monobook.js, but that didn't work either. How can I use an older version of this popups file, until the problem has been fixed?enderminh 00:43, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
Another one with the same issue here. I've taken the liberty to revert your sandbox in order to duplicate the issue.--   Avg    19:11, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Debugging

Looking at the code, revertSummaryQueried returns popupQueriedRevertSummary or popupQueriedRevertToPreviousSummary which are the only strings using the $ replacements instead of the printf % replacements. This is called in the first line of revertSummary where the string is returned without replacements performed. The rest of revertSummary deals with printf replacements and calls simplePrintf before returning the strings. (That first line is executed when the option 'popupUseQueryInterface' is true, which is the default.)

Where are the $ replacements made? Mark Hurd 14:40, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

I've answered my own question: these replacements should occur in the call to getRvSummary from autoEdit2. Mark Hurd 18:01, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
I have duplicated the popups script in my namespace and changed one minor thing (I don't know JavaScript well enough to know if it is a bug: removeTooltip had only one parameter, but was called with two See the second change here). I also added a string 'MEH ' in the front of the summaries so I knew for sure the code being used was mine, not a cache of yours. The revert bug is still present, so I think we can rule out a caching issue... Mark Hurd 13:19, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
The problem seems to be that getValueOf('popupUseQueryInterface') is returning undefined when called by autoEdit to determine if it should download the json stuff. That is, I have put an alert just prior to that if statement and it returns 'undefined', where as the alert prior to the first line of revertSummary returns 'true'!
I tried commenting out the check of getValueOf('popupUseQueryInterface') to see if that's the only problem, but then pg.wiki.wikibase is undefined as well, so the json URL has no base.
So we need to get everything initialised before autoEdit is called. For testing I've called setupPopups at the start of each autoEdit(n), and it works: [7].
My guess is that the order of application of hooks defined by hookEvent('load', hookfunction) is either not defined or has been screwed up by Microsoft or someone else... - Mark Hurd 18:01, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

Many thanks for finding this bug! I still can't replicate it, though, so I'd appreciate you trying the following: can you take my popupsdev.js and add a single setupPopups() call on the first line of autoEdit() but not calling setupPopups in autoEdit2, autoEdit3 or autoEdit4, and see if things remain fixed? I'd prefer to make a small change if possible. Lupin|talk|popups 01:31, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

I see you've already added it to your popupsdev.js, so I just changed my monobook.js to point to that, and, after a couple of cache refreshes, it works. [8] - Mark Hurd 06:20, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

I read all this stuff and understand none of it. Can someone help me fix it? User:Poorleno/monobook.js (i feel like a total newbie) → p00rleno (lvl 84) ←ROCKSCRS 11:40, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Popups:Selective previews

Hey, great job on popups, but I have a problem with it. I noticed this morning (I assume there was an update) that when you select text while editing a page, it provides a preview for it (not a popup, rather it shows what the page will look like once saved above the editing box). However the "Show preview" button is disabled in that it doesn't show the preview and the edit box is all that is present it does show a preview of your edit summary though. I'd like to know if there's a way to disable this, I tried adding popupOnEditSelection=false to my monobook and it did work (selecting code no longer shows what it looks like when the page is saved) but when I click the "Show preview" button it still doesn't show me what the page will look like if I save it. Is there something else I need to add to my javascript page? Thanks, James086Talk 11:22, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

Sorry if I caused you some effort, I don't think it's popups. I completely cleared my js page and I still cannot preview my edits. Popups is great. Thanks, James086Talk 12:33, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
I had a similar issue with this feature; it's particularly bad if you click either side of the edit box. Then when you reenter the edit box with the mouse, you're in highlight mode, and there's no obvious way out of the highlight mode, except by clicking on the edit area anywhere: which causes the preview feature to activate, which causes the whole screen to jump. I added the popupOnEditSelection=false to my monobook.js and reloaded, and the issue went away. In my opinion this feature should be off by default; it can make editing unbelievably painful and somewhat unpredictable. Unpredictable is usual bad.WolfKeeper 03:41, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Bad words

Can you add variants of "Brian Peppers" to your bad words list? (If you aren't familiar with the saga, just google it. Peppers-related usernames and vandalism is going to start to get really bad, really fast.) Thanks. --BigDT 01:51, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Was "revision $1 dated $2 by $3", updated, now hung and can't login

and can't login as me. Help me, Help me! Could you please remove the lines

   // User:Lupin/popups.js
   importScript('User:Lupin/popups.js');

from User:Shenme/monobook.js

I'm running IE 7 and tried to follow your modified instructions with the {{subst}} which introduced those two lines. Popups didn't work, and I then wanted to try the fix under Getting "revision $1 dated $2 by $3" but could not get back in. Shenme (talk • contribs) 72.177.90.33 04:20, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

Suggestion. Any admin can do this for you surely? It'd be quicker to ask one who's presently online (or at WP:ANI) than to wait for Lupin to next be online... WjBscribe 04:40, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
I think you're right. User:Lupin's last edit was awhile ago. I will go ask over there. Though, I wonder if any good (non-anon) soul might be able to do this. Shenme (talk • contribs) 72.177.90.33 04:50, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
No, I tried :-). Your monobook.js is just has the "view source" tab when I visit it. Sorry, WjBscribe 04:51, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
Thank you very much for trying! Looks like WP:RAA is the more correct venue - I'll try that. Shenme (talk • contribs) 72.177.90.33 04:54, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
I asked Antandrus to make the change for you and he has. Does your account work now? WjBscribe 05:04, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
WJBscribe did indeed find me an administrator, Antandrus, who could remove the importScript() line. And then I was able to alter the original usage using the fix cited above. All's well thanks to Antandrus and WjB. Shenme 05:38, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] A Bug Specific to me I think

Hi. I'm having a problem with your popups. If you check my contributions you will see that the edit summaries say (Revert to revision $1 dated $2 by $3 using popups) rather than the correct variables being put in. I think I'm the only one having this problem, but I'm not sure. If you can fix this that would be great, but since everything else about it works fine it isn't imperative. Cheers, 声援 -- The Hybrid 06:11, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

You are not the only one ..Look at the above discussions [9]--Cometstyles 06:16, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, someone pointed me to those after I wrote this message, and I have already applied the solution. Thanks, 声援 -- The Hybrid 06:21, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Pop-ups

I don't get what they're doing. (Sorry if you already have said this to somone) – SmiddleTC@ 16:32, 18 February 2007 (UTC) Edit: I use Internet Explorer (6, I think)

I get it, that's cool. – SmiddleTC@ 16:40, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
Good for you. I don't get it, though. I've been getting the $1 $2 $3 scenario for a week or two now. How do I fix this damned problem? Grimhim 01:29, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
There is a section below devoted to this, but my suggestion is to simply switch to Mozilla Firefox, if you're using IE (any version). — Tuvok[T@lk/Improve me] 02:13, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
Thanks Tuvok, but I can't see anything "below" that appears to offer a solution. I use Firefox at home, but have no choice but IE6 at work. Thanks Grimhim 02:59, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
Below, I believe, it was established that the problem lies in Internet Explorer. Being stuck with a "managed" computer myself, I developed a workaround that might work for you, if all you're stuck with is a "Limited" Windows XP user account. When Firefox's installer comes up, choose the custom install and change the directory to a subfolder of "C:\Documents and Settings\[USERNAME]\", where "C" is your user folder's drive. Firefox should install. If you have any other questions, just post back here. Hope you can get Firefox running at work! — Tuvok[T@lk/Improve me] 03:27, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Partial popups

I installed your tool a month ago, with excellent results. Thank you for all your efforts.

Recently, however, the popups have stopped showing the first paragraph of linked articles when I hover over them. I still get the basic popup box—but no text from the article. It's as if I'd implemented simplePopups=true, which I haven't. Any suggestions?

PS Hovering over Diff or Hist on my watchlist still works fine, with text in the popup. --NigelG (or Ndsg) | Talk 17:14, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

PPS I've deleted everything else from my Monobook, & flushed out the cache, but the problem still persists. I do get the first image of any article, however. Most mysterious. Please help! --NigelG (or Ndsg) | Talk 10:32, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

Stop press: Working now, after closing & re-opening Firefox. Can't explain this, but no matter! --NigelG (or Ndsg) | Talk 11:27, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WP:FU

I am very sorry, but you cannot use this template {{Special:Newimages/1}} in your userspace because some of the images contain fair use material. If you believe that this should be reverted, please contact me. — Meteoroid ←  01:45, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Section links in popups preview

Hi! I find popups.js cool; it saves me a lot of time. There’s currently a couple of small problems with the rendering of links to sections in the history preview:

  1. Spaces are encoded as ‘.20’ instead of ‘_’. I think this should be handled as a special case in Previewmaker.prototype.editSummaryPreview or Title.prototype.anchorFromUtf.
  2. Too much wiki markup is interpreted, e. g. ‘* foo bar’ as ‘<li> foo bar’ (screenshot: [10]). This is not too annoying; other wikicode is worse, though. AFAIK only wikilinks should be interpreted (without the pipe trick). I’m not sure what the best way to fix that would be.

I’m using the stable version of popups (loaded from [11]) and Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.1. Sorry if this is already known or not considered a bug, but your talk page is too long to read. (Is there an index of bugs somewhere?) —xyzzyn 23:03, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

…Any opinion, particularly on the second point? A five megapixel image that shows up in a history popup makes the whole thing rather hard to read. —xyzzyn 04:38, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] safari

It said on the popups page that you wanted to hear if the pops work in safari.

The pops work fine, execept for ocasionally when loading a page the pops log me out, but this is fixed by purging the pages.


[edit] Anti vandal tool

When people make reverts after having used this tool, their edit summary always looks like this (Revert edit(s) by 38.139.36.109 to last version by Qxz) . is there a way to generate this automatically and/or make the revert automatically? hope you understand me... Jmac 22:44, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

Agree with you there, maybe a script with a button incorporated into the history RyanPostlethwaiteSee the mess I've created or let's have banter 22:46, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] popupModifier='ctrl' again

Hi Lupin,

I have one more feature request related to "popupModifier='ctrl';". Since the Ctrl-hovering sometimes interferes with a Ctrl-click to open of a link in a new tab, I was wondering if you could implement the following scheme:

  • Ctrl pressed, then hovering over a link (with the intention to click it): no popup, for opening a link in a new tab
  • Hovering over a link, then pressing Ctrl: trigger popups

Thanks, Cacycle 00:09, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Automated message to bot owners

As a result of discussion on the village pump and mailing list, bots are now allowed to edit up to 15 times per minute. The following is the new text regarding bot edit rates from Wikipedia:Bot Policy:

Until new bots are accepted they should wait 30-60 seconds between edits, so as to not clog the recent changes list and user watchlists. After being accepted and a bureaucrat has marked them as a bot, they can edit at a much faster pace. Bots doing non-urgent tasks should edit approximately once every ten seconds, while bots who would benefit from faster editing may edit approximately once every every four seconds.

Also, to eliminate the need to spam the bot talk pages, please add Wikipedia:Bot owners' noticeboard to your watchlist. Future messages which affect bot owners will be posted there. Thank you. --Mets501 03:11, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] FYI: Suggestion for another script tool involves popups. Please comment.

I made a suggestion at User talk:GeorgeMoney#Overriding the welcome message with popups that involves popups. You might want to go there and provide your own comments. Will (Talk - contribs) 04:59, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] "Reverting edit by"

When specifying the revert summary, can we get $4 to return the name of the user whose edit I am reverting? If user X made the change I am reverting, it would be nice to say "Reverting edit by User X (talk)..." That puts a handy talk link into the summary. Then if I forget to warn the user, others might warn them. Will (Talk - contribs) 05:57, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] IE popups are NOT working!

I am now fed up that my popup tool is not working properly, on either IE6 or IE7. The page previews are not showing (save for images), the summaries look as though they were never filled out, and worse of all, the "Revert to $1 dated $2 by $3" bug is creeping in! (See these recent reverts of mine for an example.)

I may or may not know about the Firefox situation, except to infer that all should be fine with the tool on this browser. But on the other software, it's getting out of hand. Could you (or some other developer) fix this? Until such issues are resolved, I will switch back to reverting by hand. --Slgrandson (page - messages - contribs) 21:17, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

I would like to fix this, but I am unable to duplicate these bugs. Can you find a way to trigger them reliably? Lupin|talk|popups 21:22, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
For me in IE7 on both Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP SP2, it happens every time I click the rv link in the popup. It didn't change when I tried my own copy of popups.js - Mark Hurd 15:32, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] I have this in my monobook

What is wrong with it?

popupDelay=0.1;
popupHideDelay=0.1;
popupFixRedirs=true;
popupRedirAutoClick='wpPreview' ← error no (;)
popupRedlinkRemoval=true;
popupFixDabs=true;
popupOnlyArticleLinks=false;
popupMaxWidth=false;
popupEditCounterTool="kate" ← error no (;)
popupThumbAction="sizetoggle";
popupPreviewRawTemplates=true;
popupPreviewFirstParOnly=false;
popupHistoryPreviewLimit=250;
popupContribsPreviewLimit=250;

My issue: Edit counter "kate" does not work, popupRedirAutoClick='wpPreview' does not work --Darkest Hour|DarkeBot 22:07, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

  • never mind ;)

[edit] Sorting

Is there any way to specify a sort key or any other workaround when making a sortable table? - Peregrine Fisher 22:58, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

Do you mean that you want to specify a column by which the table should be sorted whenever the page loads? I don't think that's possible, but I haven't looked at the code for a while. You could file a feature request on bugzilla if you like. Lupin|talk|popups 21:25, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Messages moved from your bot's talk page

I moved the three messages below from your bot's talk page, because they were confusing the script that generates Special:Brokenredirects. Jesse Viviano 17:18, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Lucerne_dot.png listed for deletion

An image or media file that you uploaded or altered, Image:Lucerne_dot.png, has been listed at Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion. Please look there to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. Nv8200p talk 17:32, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Lugano_dot.png listed for deletion

An image or media file that you uploaded or altered, Image:Lugano_dot.png, has been listed at Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion. Please look there to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. Nv8200p talk 19:17, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Lyon_dot.png listed for deletion

An image or media file that you uploaded or altered, Image:Lyon_dot.png, has been listed at Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion. Please look there to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. Nv8200p talk 01:00, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fuzzy Zoeller edit controversy

Hello, there. As you may or may not know, the Miami Herald recently revealed that professional golfer Fuzzy Zoeller has filed a lawsuit against Josef Silny & Associates, Inc. for adding false statements to his Wikipedia biography.

For data gathering purposes, an SRS of 20 administrators has been created, you being one of them. I would like you to comment on this situation and its possible implications to Wikipedia, the accused company, and the general welfare of the community in general. (To what extent will this impact Wikipedia? To what extent will this impact those who use Wikipedia often? To what extent is the company guilty? Who do you believe is at fault?) Feel free to comment however you wish. I ask that you email me your responses via my emailuser page so as to reduce bias in your responses. (Again, don't post your responses on my talk page.)

The following are articles from various news agencies that you may use to inform yourself about the situation: Miami Herald, Herald Tribune, Web Pro News, The Smoking Gun.

I thank you for taking your time to express your opinion. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me at any time. └Jared┘┌talk┐ 18:23, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] edit count

popupEditCounterTool="kate";

This string does not work as way described in the nav pop description page. It links directly to wikimedia and then says user has no edits. I was wondering if you could give me an example as to code the custom edit counter. I would like to use Essjays edit counter. Than you for your consideration on this matter. --MTFBWY, Darkest Hour ǁ 01:02, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

The Essjay edit counter I found doesn't seem to work. Can you give a URL for an edit counter you want to use? Lupin|talk|popups 21:31, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
Sure, http://countervandalism.org/Count.php . --MTFBWY, Darkest Hour ǁ 18:11, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
Try this:
popupEditCounterTool='custom';
popupEditCounterUrl='http://countervandalism.org/Count.php?username=$1&submit=Count';

Also, my sub popups arent working even though I have the addition in my monobook saying its enabled.

They work for me. Which browser are you using? Lupin|talk|popups 22:50, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Help

I tried everything for popup to appear but still it is not working. Any tips. --- SAndTLets Talk 19:35, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

Here are some tips. Lupin|talk|popups 21:30, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Popups working except...

lastContrib and sinceMe Aren't working, I'm using Internet Explorer. Everything else is working; when I try to use sinceMe, it just comes up with "someting fishy happened, please try again" and when I try to use lastContrib, it doesn't do anything. PhotoNikonMan 16:47, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

Odd, works for me in Firefox. Does it work for you with Firefox? Lupin|talk|popups 22:52, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Popups

Hello, it is great to have a program as great as popups here on Wikipedia. I was wondering how come it is that popups isnt available on other wikis? Thanks.

71.170.20.215 19:26, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Image popups

I started getting an error about 12-15 hours ago when I try to view Image previews on en.wikipedia through popups:
"imagepage preview failed :( is the query.php extension installed?"
It's not clear to me if this is a problem at my end or the server. It is happening in both IE7 and Firefox 2.0.0.2. ~ BigrTex 16:23, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks, I can duplicate this bug. I think it's a problem with the mediawiki servers, and have asked Yurik to look at this. Lupin|talk|popups 22:44, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
You're referring to Wikimedia's servers, right? I'm having this problem, too. — Tuvok[T@lk/Improve me] 05:20, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
  • Same here And I'm getting it for history too. --Semper Fi, Darkest Hour 17:19, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
I see no problems with history previews, however. Lupin|talk|popups 22:44, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
  • No prolem now it was just the code I had in my js. --—Semper Fi, Darkest Hour 17:08, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
Yes, I know about this bug - it's not exactly my fault :-) As a workaround you can use popupUseQueryInterface=false, but you will then experience reduced functionality (eg no history/contribs previews). Lupin|talk|popups 04:29, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Popups overlap bug

Hi, Lupin. I feel like I'm spending a lot of time here, but I guess it's just me not liking to criticize people. Anyway, I've found a small bug with Popups. It involves Firefox 2.0.0.2 on WinXP and the "more..." link that appears when...what are the criteria for that link, anyway? And what's its purpose? Back to the point, when I hover over the link to Dr. Strangelove in the Trivia section of Back to the Future trilogy. If I do it while the next section, DVD release, is visible, and I click the "more" link, the popup expands in a queer fashion, with the text of the next paragraph overlapping the borders and padding of the bottom part of the popup. I will tell you now that I have a 1024x768 monitor. I have a screenshot, though I am not sure how to get it to you. Should I just upload it as a media file to Wikipedia? Anyway, I thought you might like to know about this bug. — Tuvok[T@lk/Improve me] 05:20, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

Yes, please upload it. Lupin|talk|popups 04:26, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
I have uploaded the image to Image:Popups overlap problem.png. — Tuvok[T@lk/Improve me] 23:17, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
My feeling is that this is a bug in firefox. Lupin|talk|popups 20:27, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] rv bug in nsummary

I've just reverted some vandalism to Emery Reves using popups, but it's marked the summary as (Revert to revision $1 dated $2 by $3 using popups) i.e. not substituting values for the $ variables. I can see from my watchlist that at least one other person has had the same problem (see Bakekang). Colonies Chris 13:40, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

  • I've been experiencing the same thing. My monobook.js imports 'User:Lupin/popups.js'. --Russ (talk) 22:53, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Redlinkremoval auto click?(save)

Is there such a thing? If so please let me know how I would code it. --—Semper Fi, Darkest Hour 17:12, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

  • All of my issues were fixed. I'm now using Firefox because pictures in mozzila arent working, but I was using VoAs script. it was messing something else up every day and I was constantly fixing something. Popupdevs, I dont know what the difference is between the stable version and this version. But I like iut nevertheless. Thanks for all the help, --—Semper Fi, Darkest Hour 17:21, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Article Size

Is there any code for calculating the size of an article if it does not say the size in the edit window.  ~Steptrip 02:06, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

Type
 javascript:alert(document.getElementById('wpTextbox1').value.length)
into your address bar while editing the whole page. Lupin|talk|popups 04:24, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Red link popups feature request

When a link is red (action=edit), there are two features on the resulting page that I am likely to click on, which would make seriously kewl features for the action menu: Special:Search/Foo Special:Log/delete&page=Foo — Randall Bart 20:39, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Subspace redirect name bug

If I hover this link, I see that it redirects, but the redirect appears to be to the exact same name (User:Ccool2ax/Notability hurts), rather than the correct place (User:Chris is me/Notability hurts). All the links work, it's just the display in the popup (the popup within popups) that is wrong.— Randall Bart 00:35, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

Are you sure? This works correctly for me: I see two links, the first pointing to the redirect page, and the second to the redirect target. Which browser are you using? Lupin|talk|popups 04:21, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
Ah, I should read what you write more carefully. The two links do indeed look the same, because by default the path is stripped and those two pages have the same name modulo paths. This is not really a bug, but I think you can change that behaviour (see WP:POP). Lupin|talk|popups 04:23, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

There really is a bug, I am just having trouble describing it. Hover this link A popup (your popup) window says "Notability hurts", then "redirect to", then "Notability hurts" again. If I hover over the first "Notability hurts" in your popup, another popup (not yours) comes up saying "User:Ccool2ax/Notability hurts", which is correct. If I hover over the second "Notability hurts" in your popup, the second popup says "User:Ccool2ax/Notability hurts", rather than "User:Chris is me/Notability hurts". It's not a big deal; the links are correct, so I can see what I am looking for on the status line, and I don't need that little popup. But if there's going to be a little popup, it should be right. — Randall Bart 18:57, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] problems when reverting

I use IE7. Whenever I try to revert vandalism, the edit summary comes up as Revert to revision $1 dated $2 by $3 using popups. I think others have been having the same problem. If you want to see an example, click here--Ed ¿Cómo estás? 17:03, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

This is a known problem, see User talk:Lupin#Getting "revision $1 dated $2 by $3" above. There is a workaround, but I'm hoping that an actual fix becomes available, since I can't use Firefox and also, the old version doesn't work with diagritics, etc. --After Midnight 0001 18:03, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
Can you try reverting User:Lupin/sandbox and see if the problem persists? Can you try this on a computer with IE7 which you have never used to browse wikipedia before? I'd like to be able to reproduce this problem myself, but can't do so (I saw it once and then it started working correctly, so I put the problem down to caching issues). I really need to reproduce this to figure out how to fix it. Lupin|talk|popups 04:20, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
I tried, but I had to test from my regular PC. I'm not sure how to get access to another computer with IE7. I have access to one other PC, but it has IE6 and can not be upgraded. --After Midnight 0001 05:02, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Error message on images

Just now (after having confirmed that I'd installed the JS!) on Wikipedia:Tools/Navigation popups I got the following on the first image:

 Image:Popup-preview.png
 ⋅ imagepage preview failed :( is the query.php extension installed?

Other images showed similarly. --BenTremblay 22:13, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

This is being discussed above at User talk:Lupin#Image popups. It appears to be a bug at the query.php level, so we're waiting on Yurik. ~ BigrTex 23:39, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Safari User

Hi Lupins, I love your tool by the way. The mouse over preview does not work effectively when hovering over diff. It sometimes has an transparent background so both the background text behind the popups window and the popups window text blend together. I found that it sometimes does this in the recent changes lists, but not always. It has not crashed my browser yet though. I am using OSX 10.3.9 Mkdwtalk 09:02, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Rollback button - RC Filter

Hey there! I'm having a problem with the RC Filter. I have to use non-admin rollback, and that worked until a couple of weeks ago - where the link simply did nothing once clicked. I tried de-selecting non-admin rollback, but get a 'No rollback link found' error. I'm using the latest version of Firefox. --Sagaciousuk (talk) 23:09, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Popups translation

Hi.

Sorry to bother you but what are "backlinks" (as in "No backlinks found")?

And a minor bug report: there are two missing strings in strings.js - used in navlinks.js:

this.text=popupString(pg.option.simplePopups ? 'enable previews' : 'disable previews');

I've added them after "toggle previews".

        'toggle previews': '...',
        'enable previews' : '...',
        'disable previews' : '...',

Best wishes, Nux (talk) 13:49, 11 March 2007 (UTC).

P.S.: Having look at this again, I think "toggle previews" is not really used (it's always either "enable previews" or "disable previews").

  • I can't address most of what is above, but I can tell you that the backlinks are "What links here". --After Midnight 0001 15:53, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Badwords list

Lupin, thanks for going through and fixing my screwups in the badword list. I hope you're not unhappy with the work I did on it. I had watched vandal patterns for about a week and tried to add some more terminology to catch them with the filter. I'm wondering now if re-ordering the list from its former alphabetical format was a bad idea. RJASE1 Talk 19:10, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] After update...

Strange but on preview popups sometimes give me this:

ERROR: window.document.body has no properties
http://pl.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedysta:Nux/popups.dev.pl.js%20&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript&dontcountme=s
Line 5310

That line seems to be in "Mousetracker.prototype.track=function (e) {"... Totally wired if you ask me - like it would fire before body is ready. Not sure if this is anything to worry about. Happened few times on previewing changes in pl:Szablon:JS (locked page). I'll let you know if it does again.

Best wishes, Nux (talk) 19:56, 11 March 2007 (UTC).

One more
ERROR: pg is not defined
http://pl.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedysta:Nux/popups.dev.pl.js%20&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript&dontcountme=s
Line 305

This is in "function mouseOverWikiLink2(a, evt) {", happens on loading the page. Yet another small thing, because it doesn't seem to be harmful, so I'm not sure if adding an additional "if" would be worth the trouble. I just wonder if popups doesn't fire itself too quickly (though I'm not sure how could that happen before "load" event).

Best wishes, Nux (talk) 14:48, 13 March 2007 (UTC).

[edit] No more "Revert to the revision prior to revision $1 dated $2 by $3 using popups"

It looks like it has been fixed. I just did a revert [12] and it looks like I had a proper edit summary. Others should test this out, but it looks like thanks/credit to Markhurd and Lupin for getting this fixed. --After Midnight 0001 21:31, 11 March 2007 (UTC)


[edit] TfD nomination of Template:GBmap

Template:GBdot and Template:GBmap have been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the templates' entry on the Templates for Deletion page. Thank you. -Pit-yacker 19:14, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] A barnstar for you

The da Vinci Barnstar
I award Lupin the da Vinci Barnstar for Lupin's Pop Up tool Cocoaguy ここがいい contribstalkTodays Pick 16:48, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Stoping pop-ups

Great tool Lupin, but I would like to turn it off now. I removed the script from my monobook.js, cleared the cache a few times, and closed all open browser windows, but it just doesn't stop. I am currently using Safari 2.0.4 Any ideas? Wolphii 06:37, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

Actually, by some odd timing, the issue seems to have resolved itself. Wolphii 07:27, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Bugreports

Hi Lupin, I don't know if you've noticed that several people have left bugreports at User talk:Lupin/popups.js instead of here? I'm only mentioning this because you don't appear to have replied to them, so I'm not sure you've noticed them.

I'd like to request a small change to your script. Currently it appears to try to place the popups near the mouse cursor. Do you think you could instead calculate the placement based on the position of the link I am pointing at that triggers the popup? The reason I want this is because the popup often covers the link and it becomes difficult or impossible to click it; if it was positioned so that its top edge is aligned with the bottom of the link, this problem would be solved perfectly. Thanks! — Timwi 10:19, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Barnstar

The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
This is for creating popups and anti-vandal, two tools that hugely contribute to the fight against vandals! Thank you! --Theunicyclegirl 23:23, 17 March 2007 (UTC)


abc‎ This user is armed with Lupin's Anti-vandal tool. Vandals, beware!

Code: {{User:Theunicyclegirl/antivandal}}-- Theunicyclegirl 17:50, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] SVG Image

Regarding Image:RamseyTheory_K5_no_mono_K3.PNG (and possibly other images also), since you say you made it in Inkscape, why don't you just upload the plain SVG file instead of converting back to a bitmap? That image is still tagged with

This image was uploaded in a raster image format such as PNG, GIF, or JPEG. However, it contains information that could be stored more efficiently and/or accurately in the SVG format, as a vector graphic.
If possible, please upload an SVG version of this image. After doing so, please replace all instances of the previous version throughout Wikipedia (noted under the “File links” header), tag the old version with {{Vector version available|NewImage.svg}}, and remove this tag. For more information, see Wikipedia:Preparing images for upload. For assistance with converting to SVG, please see the Graphics Lab.

, but since you apparently already made an SVG of it, that's one step avoided.

Cheers, Mazin07C₪T 02:44, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

When I made it, MediaWiki did not support SVG. I don't know where the source for that image is now, but it's not terribly hard to recreate... Lupin|talk|popups 22:32, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] bug in query.php

Hi, I am still traveling, without much web access. Has anyone else from the dev team was able to help? --Yurik 23:00, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Seeking your comment

Dear Lupin,

I would be glad to have your comment here: Wikipedia_talk:Tools/Navigation_popups#Updates

Regards, huji—TALK 10:34, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Non-Admin Rollback

It seems as though the non-admin rollback for Recent IP edits is not working today for me. The edit page does not launch although everything else works properly. (Popups not blocked) AssistantX 21:19, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] popup transparency

is there any way you can do to control popup transparency? — zero » 23:47, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] TfD nomination of Template:GBmap-named and GBdot-small

Template:GBmap-named and GBdot-small have been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the templates' entry on the Templates for Deletion page. Thank you. — Pit-yacker 14:04, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Popups and Template:Ref

Popups breaks Template:Ref, as noted here. It seems to have to do with the section naming "endnote_{{{1}}}" used by Template:Note and Template:Ref, which perhaps conflicts with the line "if ( ! /^(_note-|endnote)/.test(anch) ) { return false; }" in User:Lupin/popups.js? It would be possible to change Template:Ref and associated templates, but if you can fix Popups that would probably be easier. Thanks, Λυδαcιτγ 18:18, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] suggestions for popups

I was wondering if you could consider adding links to the move log, as well as the "cite" and "purge" functions. I think that they would be very useful.

Thanks in advance. --Ixfd64 00:36, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Including InstaView

Hi Lupin,

I have created a copy of InstaView for embedding this tool in other applications (like Popups and wikEd) under User:Pilaf/include/instaview.js. Feel free to use this instead of the popups-embedded code. This could save users from downloading the same code twice. I am not sure if the Popups-embedded or the "official" InstaView has more bugfixes. It might also be cool if somebody could add the existing bugfixes from the currently non-functional User:Pilaf/InstaView/Devel to this copy. Cacycle 02:44, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Suggestion for anti-vandal tool

On my system (IE7 WinXP SP2) after showing and then hiding a difference, a p tag 'stays behind' using up too much vertical space. (I don't believe it happened when I started using the tool, but I can't determine a recent enough change on my system or your script, so may be I just didn't notice before.)

Anyway, I've tested changing it to a br tag and it works for me. Mark Hurd 16:55, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Help?

Hi, I've followed the instructions for getting the Anti-vandal tool to work and nothing appears in my toolbox. Are you able to look at my monobook file and tell me what I have stuffed up? Thanks Gillyweed 03:11, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Popups on my wiki?

Hi, Lupin! I like your Popups tool so much, I want to use it on my own wiki. I tried copying the JS and CSS codes to my wiki, linked them into the JS file with the importScript() function (which I "borrowed" from Wikipedia; I hope that's allowed), and got them to appear, but every page "appear[ed] to be empty." What gives? Is there something I need to change? Thanks in advance for the help! — Tuvok[T@lk/Improve me] 01:22, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

Since you seem to be editing more lately, I was wondering if you could look into this for me? I'd appreciate it greatly. Thanks! Tuvok[T@lk/Improve me] 04:53, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Popups failed to remove quoted redlink

Namely "Stooky Bill" on this page. - ∅ (∅), 17:15, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

For me, it seems to work OK (using MSIE6), although the "Show changes" won't work - it just shows the editing window, with headings for "Current revision" and "Your text" immediately above it, with no old/new extracts at all. - Fayenatic london (talk) 19:30, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Popups redlink removal: suggested additional option

I first tried the redlink removal on a spam link, and was a bit taken aback when it simply removed the brackets. Now that I know what it does, I agree that it is useful, but it would also be good to have another popup option to delete what is inside the brackets too.- Fayenatic london (talk) 19:30, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

Sorry, I don't see how this would be useful. Could you give a specific example? Lupin|talk|popups 13:58, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

Sometimes I trace spam links that want removing altogether, e.g. an article is deleted but red links are left pointing to it from the "See Also" section of other articles. In these cases, the text needs removing as well as the brackets. - Fayenatic london (talk) 22:13, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] False negatives for "What links here" on deleted articles

Hi, I tried using Popups in the deleted article log to look for "what links here". If it worked, this would show links going red after the article deletion, as I'd like to inspect and remove or replace them. However, Popups always shows "No backlinks found", even if there are incoming links for the deleted page. Is it possible to fix this, please? - Fayenatic london (talk) 19:07, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Popups Color Scheme?

Hi Lupin. I have been using your popups for a while, and I recently saw a picture of someone using them, but the popup in the picture is blue (line) and turquise (fill), and mine is light grey (line) and white (fill) because of another change I made to my monobook. Is there a way to change the colors of the popups without affecting anything else? Thanks, Ryan Got something to say? 12:33, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

I can awnser that, Read this. I hope that helps!  Razorclaw ⊚ 20070420195806

[edit] Your images are being deleted!

Your image Image:England-Richard-I-Arms.svg was apparently moved to the Wikimedia Commons last year; it has just been deleted there! [13] This is a common story; they can be very zealous at the Commons. You may want to track down this and any other deleted images that you've uploaded, then restore them if you still have the files. The more information you can give about your source, the better. (And remember that fair-use images are OK here but not on Commons.) —Toby Bartels 19:43, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Edit summary issue

popupRevertSummary='Revert to revision %s using [[conifer cone|PINECONES]]';
popupExtendedRevertSummary='Revert to revision dated %s by %s, oldid %s using [[conifer cone|PINECONES]]';
popupFixDabsSummary='Fix [[Wikipedia:Disambiguation|Dabs]] using [[conifer cone|PINECONES]]';

Yet see here: [14] The first one is without the summary and the second one is with the .js summary. What did I do wrong? Should I (unquote/doublequote) it? Or do something else? Regards,  Razorclaw ⊚ 20070420200158

[edit] feature request

Hi, i'd like to suggest a feature for navigation popups. I think it would be nice to let the user decide separately on popup delay and data loading delay. For example user sets popupDelay to 3 and fetchDelay to 1 (or some other name, it would store the delay of downloading data after mouseover, it's value should be within <0, popupDelay>). In this case user gets the popup with all information instantly after 3 seconds because data would be downloaded before showing the popup. It could be done simply by first running the standard procedures after fetchDelay seconds, but with "display:none" applied to popup, and after popupDelay seconds since mouseover changing display to block or whatever it is now. Maybe there is a better way to do that, it was just my first idea ;) Jan Winnicki * 13:06, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Your (oooold) image Image:Catz crest.png

You mention this was created in Inkscape. Do you have an SVG version available? There are other derivative works scattered all over Wikipedia, some of which have been listed at Category:Images which should be in SVG format, but they appear to be based on the raster version. All and any help appreciated :-) Cheers, Stannered 18:48, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Re: England-Richard-I-Arms.svg (from Commons)

The image isn't fully deleted, we can still recover it. You were listed as the uploader, but someone else had transwikied it. I will be happy to undelete the image if you then make a statement on the page that you agree to the license and that you are the author. Let me know if you agree with this. MECU≈talk 14:23, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Marked for delete

[edit] Image:High_Wycombe_-_Buckinghamshire_dot.png listed for deletion

An image or media file that you uploaded or altered, Image:High_Wycombe_-_Buckinghamshire_dot.png, has been listed at Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion. Please look there to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. Eddie (talk/contribs) 18:54, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Popups: un|watch - feature suggestion

At the moment, popups offer an un|watch option, where the user must select either to watch or unwatch the page. It works fine, however it doesn't offer the single option corresponding to the current watch status of the page; to check whether the page is already watched, the page has to be opened and the tab checked. Clearly this isn't a huge issue, but it could be changed to check the previewed page for existing watch status.

This is easily implemented (or at least I would assume it is - I don't know the ins and outs of the preview script); the element 'ca-watch' is present if the page is not watched and 'ca-unwatch' if it is currently watched. Presuming the preview script works on some kind of XHR implementation, then a couple of if clauses could decide whether or not the watch or unwatch option is shown in the popup menu.

Don't know whether or not it would be worth it.

haz (talk) 19:53, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Popups: bug when using default image wikitag name on local wikis

The problem is with articles when someone uses [[image:]] construct in local wiki article and someone else preview this article with popups (while hovering a link to it).

The problem occurs when a length of 'image' string and a length of local name for image wikitag is different. I've found a bug and fixed it in parse_image() in livepreview.js diff.

Best wishes, Nux (talk) 08:17, 28 April 2007 (UTC).

BTW: Isn't imageBracketCount and categoryBracketCount hardcoded too and might generated errors in local wikis? I'm asking because I didn't debugged it yet and not sure what is going on in there.

[edit] Script hogs CPU

Hi Lupin, thanks for a great script. I have concern about the CPU usage the recent changes script takes up though. Sometimes it will take up a full 50% (I'm running a dual core CPU) and cause Firefox to totally lag out, and become unresponsive. Is there a way to counteract this? Thanks again for a great tool, and I anticipate your reply. Regards, Jsc83 20:52, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Anti-vandal tool

Thank you very much for your work on the Anti-Vandal tool! D0t 05:30, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

I would also like to thank you for your Anti-Vandal tool and the Popups tool. Thanks to them, its far easier for me to find and revert vandalism than it was before Life, Liberty, Property 09:02, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Disabling the "edit on double click" feature.

When the navpops are enabled, it seems that double-clicks (or two rapid single clicks caught be a timer maybe? not quite sure) put you in "page edit" mode. Is there a way to disable this "feature"? If not, can one be added?

Nbougalis 09:47, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

That is a Wikipedia option. Look in Special:Preferences for "Edit pages on double click (JavaScript)" in the editing section/tab. Mark Hurd 09:53, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] EditCount

Hey, so I was trying out your edit count program - and for some reason I can't seem to get it started, could you have a look here and tell me what I'm doing wrong - or maybe I'm just not sure how to use it, whatever the case, appreciate it.danielfolsom 16:09, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Barnstar

The da Vinci Barnstar
I award you this barnstar for creatating your antivandal tool, it is the best! Lwarf 10:28, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] FixDabs localization

Hi Lupin,

As the Italian translator of your navigation popups, I received a complaint by an Italian user regarding the disambiguation links correction tool – he noticed that the regular expression included in the source code works with pages containing the Disambigua template only. However, in our Disambiguationspage system message, templates "Sigla2" and "Sigla3" are also mentioned. Could you please add them to the regex, in order to make life a little bit easier for the Italian users? Thanks in advance! :) --Emc² • contact me 14:52, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Lupin's vandal tool

If it would be possible could you make a tool that looks only for user page vandalism. thank you for your tools, They Are Great!!! Cocoaguy ここがいい contribstalk 21:47, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Adding a barnstar

Image:Original Barnstar.png

The anti vandal tool is great. Your popups.js tool is also great.

Cocoaguy ここがいい contribstalk 21:53, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Orphaned fair use image (Image:Dolby-logo.png)

Thanks for uploading Image:Dolby-logo.png. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently orphaned, meaning that it is not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable under fair use (see our fair use policy).

If you have uploaded other unlicensed media, please check whether they're used in any articles or not. You can find a list of 'image' pages you have edited by clicking on the "my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "Image" from the dropdown box. Note that any fair use images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. BetacommandBot 21:04, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Disambiguation using popups: distinguish red links?

Today I used popups to disambiguate the link David Bates on the page Intellectual History to David Bates (intellectual historian). Within the disambiguation section of the popup, there was no way to tell that the latter was a red link to an article that does not yet exist. When disambiguating, Popups automatically shows Changes rather than Preview.

I think it would generally be desirable to exclude red links on the disam page from the options in the Popup window. However, my example does show a weakness in that suggestion: if David Bates (intellectual historian) had not been shown in the popup, I would have selected David Bates (historian) -- which would have been incorrect.

The most desirable position would be for Popups to show redlinks on the disam page coloured red within the popup. - Fayenatic london (talk) 20:22, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Orphaned non-free image (Image:Waterloo-logo.png)

Thanks for uploading Image:Waterloo-logo.png. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently orphaned, meaning that it is not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).

If you have uploaded other unlicensed media, please check whether they're used in any articles or not. You can find a list of 'image' pages you have edited by clicking on the "my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "Image" from the dropdown box. Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. BetacommandBot 00:28, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Redirects

Using popups when correcting redirects, it works fine with everything I have used it on apart from changing "Sky Digital (UK)" to "Sky Digital (UK & Ireland)", it just doesn't work clicking on fix this redirect goes to the submit page with only "Redirect bypass from Sky Digital (UK) to [[Sky Digital (UK " in the edit summery box, clicking on save the link still remains "Sky Digital (UK)". Please tell my why this happens, thanks. AxG ҈ ►talk 19:48, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Dolby-logo.png

Thanks for uploading Image:Dolby-logo.png. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in Wikipedia articles constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.

Please go to the image description page and edit it to include a fair use rationale.

If you have uploaded other fair use media, consider checking that you have specified the fair use rationale on those pages too. You can find a list of 'image' pages you have edited by clicking on the "my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "Image" from the dropdown box. Note that any fair use images uploaded after 4 May, 2006, and lacking such an explanation will be deleted one week after they have been uploaded, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you.Betacommand (talk • contribs • Bot) 19:15, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Unspecified source for Image:Dolby-logo.png

Thanks for uploading Image:Dolby-logo.png. I noticed that the file's description page currently doesn't specify who created the content, so the copyright status is unclear. If you did not create this file yourself, then you will need to specify the owner of the copyright. If you obtained it from a website, then a link to the website from which it was taken, together with a restatement of that website's terms of use of its content, is usually sufficient information. However, if the copyright holder is different from the website's publisher, then their copyright should also be acknowledged.

As well as adding the source, please add a proper copyright licensing tag if the file doesn't have one already. If you created/took the picture, audio, or video then the {{GFDL-self-no-disclaimers}} tag can be used to release it under the GFDL. If you believe the media meets the criteria at Wikipedia:Fair use, use a tag such as {{non-free fair use in|article name}} or one of the other tags listed at Wikipedia:Image copyright tags#Fair use. See Wikipedia:Image copyright tags for the full list of copyright tags that you can use.

If you have uploaded other files, consider checking that you have specified their source and tagged them, too. You can find a list of files you have uploaded by following this link. Unsourced and untagged images may be deleted one week after they have been tagged, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If the image is copyrighted under a non-free license (per Wikipedia:Fair use) then the image will be deleted 48 hours after 19:15, 16 May 2007 (UTC). If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you.Betacommand (talk • contribs • Bot) 19:15, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Early-learning-centre-logo.png

Thanks for uploading Image:Early-learning-centre-logo.png. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in Wikipedia articles constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.

Please go to the image description page and edit it to include a fair use rationale.

If you have uploaded other fair use media, consider checking that you have specified the fair use rationale on those pages too. You can find a list of 'image' pages you have edited by clicking on the "my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "Image" from the dropdown box. Note that any fair use images uploaded after 4 May, 2006, and lacking such an explanation will be deleted one week after they have been uploaded, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you.Betacommand (talk • contribs • Bot) 19:50, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Unspecified source for Image:Early-learning-centre-logo.png

Thanks for uploading Image:Early-learning-centre-logo.png. I noticed that the file's description page currently doesn't specify who created the content, so the copyright status is unclear. If you did not create this file yourself, then you will need to specify the owner of the copyright. If you obtained it from a website, then a link to the website from which it was taken, together with a restatement of that website's terms of use of its content, is usually sufficient information. However, if the copyright holder is different from the website's publisher, then their copyright should also be acknowledged.

As well as adding the source, please add a proper copyright licensing tag if the file doesn't have one already. If you created/took the picture, audio, or video then the {{GFDL-self-no-disclaimers}} tag can be used to release it under the GFDL. If you believe the media meets the criteria at Wikipedia:Fair use, use a tag such as {{non-free fair use in|article name}} or one of the other tags listed at Wikipedia:Image copyright tags#Fair use. See Wikipedia:Image copyright tags for the full list of copyright tags that you can use.

If you have uploaded other files, consider checking that you have specified their source and tagged them, too. You can find a list of files you have uploaded by following this link. Unsourced and untagged images may be deleted one week after they have been tagged, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If the image is copyrighted under a non-free license (per Wikipedia:Fair use) then the image will be deleted 48 hours after 19:50, 17 May 2007 (UTC). If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you.Betacommand (talk • contribs • Bot) 19:50, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Anti-Vandal Tool

You may have heard this already, but the tool is not working. It has stopped filtiering RC. It looks like you have not been active lately. If you come around and can help out, it really was a terrific tool. —Gaff ταλκ 00:41, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] MD5 calc

I accidentally ran across this page while I was searching for something else and was wondering how to use it. I know how hashes work and stuff, but I know nothing about javascripts. Is there a way to encrypt messages just by using that script that you have? Do you use that js to actually do things, or is it just lieing around? This is not urgent, so you can take your time to respond, but I would like to know a little about it. You can repsond here. Thanks a lot!! - Hairchrm 02:03, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

It is a hash algorithm to calculate the path for uploaded images. Cacycle 03:14, 18 May 2007 (UTC)
Why would you need a MD5 hash for uploading an image?? - Hairchrm 04:17, 18 May 2007 (UTC)
In order to evenly distribute them into folders, check the url's of images in articles and you will understand. Cacycle 01:51, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Filter Recent Changes not working!!

Your Filter tool has glitched; it broke; something happened! WHAT'S WRONG!?!?! -Billy227, Review my account!! talk contribs sndbx usbx 22:50, 19 May 2007 (UTC) I'm not showing any recent changes in filtered. I'll cross post this to VPT. Navou 00:26, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

I have fixed the recent2.js script and filter recent changes works again. Cacycle 06:21, 20 May 2007 (UTC)
I have also added some anti-freeze code, it now pauses for 50 ms after processing each changed article. Lupin: I hope that is OK for you. Cacycle 20:41, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Orphaned non-free image (Image:Meccano-logo.png)

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[edit] Spurious "stylesheet" insertion by popups

I was saving an edit to Massacre of the Innocents and found that the following had been inserted: <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Lupin/navpop.css&action=raw&ctype=text/css&dontcountme=s">. Please investigate this. That article refers in the Notes section to cite.php, which I don't understand; is that a hidden function which has an undesirable interaction with popups? I have seen this before, and if you search for e.g. "dontcountme" you will see other instances. Fayenatic london (talk) 21:54, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

This is still happening, e.g. this edit. - Fayenatic (talk) 18:05, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Suggestion for NAVPOP: Keep on screen?

I'm using your Navigation popups quite often and usually I just get carried away when reading the popup's contents, i.e. I'm looking at links inside the popup, then at links inside the new popup, ...

The problem with this is that the new popups always move downwards and to the right. Even if you start at the top of the screen, you'll end up at the bottom right, with the popup hidden. Interestingly, on my system (Window or Ubuntu and Firefox/2.0.0.3) the popup does not leave the screen to the right, only to the bottom.

  • Is it possible to add an additional if-branch to the positioning code of the popup, testing if the popup in its final size (i.e. all content loaded) will be (partially) outside the window; moving it up/left if required?
  • Or would it be possible to add code that allows for dragging the popup while pressing the mouse button in an empty area of it? This would allow moving it out of place, should it occlude something interesting as well (instead of letting it close and then re-walking the chain of 10 or so links...)

I've seen both with other popups, my main problem here is that I don't really know JavaScript (well, really, not at all...). Thus, I have not been able to check wether anything like this is already present in the script. I haven't had the time to check all your discussion pages as well, so I might have missed a similar discussion (in this case just ignore my post or add a one-line response if you've got too much time ;-) ). tebloraf 09:45, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

Pressing the shift key, you can drag the popup by its header. Is this sufficient? Fayenatic london (talk) 18:22, 31 May 2007 (UTC)
Yes, that's absolutely fine. Thanks! tebloraf 20:33, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] "Undo"

Hi Lupin, I hate to bother you on your personal talk, but perhaps you could help me re: the undo feature. Thanks, TewfikTalk 04:32, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Dillo.png listed for deletion

An image or media file that you uploaded or altered, Image:Dillo.png, has been listed at Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion. Please see the discussion to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. Sherool (talk) 14:01, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Non-free use disputed for Image:Early-learning-centre-logo.png

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[edit] Weird bits of text

Hi Lupin, I was using POPUPS for a while, but encountered a strange problem that seems to result from it. I reported it at the Village Pump here before I realized it had to do with POPUPS. I have a fairly slow Internet connection, and often overload my computer with too many tabs/programs open, so often it takes a while for pages to load. I have a hunch that the problem has something to do with that. Hope this is useful info... -Pete 00:52, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Non-free use disputed for Image:Gringotts goblin.jpg

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[edit] Anti-vandal tool

Hi Lupin, I was thinking about adding a non-word-bordered plain string search to recent.js. This could be indicated in the badwords list by enclosing in backslashes instead of the forward-slashes for word-matches. This would allow to detect the currently excluded repititions and could be useful for the detection of certain bad words or strings inserted into other words. What do you think. Cacycle 22:04, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

Sounds good to me! Lupin|talk|popups 22:31, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
OK, I'll add it. :-) Cacycle 00:45, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Popups

I suggest the following change to popups so that wikEd can linkify diffs during page load without an error message:

// setup Popups: basics
setupDebugging();
setSiteInfo();
setTitleBase();

function setupPopups() {
    // NB translatable strings should be set up first (strings.js)
    setOptions(); // see options.js

instead of the current:

function setupPopups() {
    // NB translatable strings should be set up first (strings.js)

    // basics
    setupDebugging();
    setSiteInfo();
    setTitleBase();
    setOptions(); // see options.js

I think there is no preset involved in those setup functions, but I am not absolutely sure. Cacycle 02:13, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Your anti-vandal tool

I can't find any checkboxes on your anti-vandal tool and as a result, I can't rollback any vandalism from your tool. If there are any checkboxes, could you make it a little more visible? Thanks in advance.--PrestonH(Review Me!) • (Sign Here!) 03:47, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Non-free use disputed for Image:Paiste-logo.png

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[edit] Non-free use disputed for Image:Ottawa-citizen-logo.png

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[edit] Userbox

Hey Lupin. First of all, I want to say I love your tool, and I use it regularly. What I wanted to tell you is that I made a template which users utilising your tool can stick on their talk page: User:Salaskan/AVT. I also added it to the info page. If you have any objections, just remove it from the page. If you'd like to alter the template, feel free to do so! SalaSkan 13:35, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Wimbledon logo.png

Thanks for uploading or contributing to Image:Wimbledon logo.png. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in Wikipedia articles constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use. Suggestions on how to do so can be found here.

Please go to the image description page and edit it to include a fair use rationale. Using one of the templates at Wikipedia:Fair use rationale guideline is an easy way to insure that your image is in compliance with Wikipedia policy, but remember that you must complete the template. Do not simply insert a blank template on an image page.

If you have uploaded other fair use media, consider checking that you have specified the fair use rationale on those pages too. You can find a list of 'image' pages you have edited by clicking on the "my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "Image" from the dropdown box. Note that any fair use images uploaded after 4 May, 2006, and lacking such an explanation will be deleted one week after they have been uploaded, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. Ilse@ 01:00, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Nav popups

Hi Lupin, I've been working on the code for your popups and I've made several improvements I think you'll be interested in. At the very least I'd like your opinion. I've got it going on [{{fullurl:Special:Blockip|wpBlockAddress={{PAGENAMEE}}&wpBlockExpiry=indefinite&wpAnonOnly=0&wpEnableAutoblock=0&wpCreateAccount=0&wpBlockReason=Bot%20malfunctioning:%20}} this] MediaWiki installation. Just log in with the username "Guest" and the password "1234". Thanks. The hyper catt 12:02, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

Another silly autoblock attempt by someone who doesn't know ow to do it correctly. Cacycle 12:49, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Proposed AVT improvement

Could you please add "using Lupin's Anti-vandal tool" to the automatically generated edit summary? I had a little misunderstanding with another editor who got the impression that I made the reversion manually, and a line indicating that the reversion was made with a tool could clear up things in future. Aside from that, it gives you some free promotion ;-) SalaSkan 14:29, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

Pretty please? SalaSkan 17:44, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Auto-switch

Is there a way to make that when I click a fix, and it pops up, it should pop up in the background? --Smokizzy (talk) 18:31, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] A link for listing categories in popup preview

Hi,

Popups are great, but I miss a feature to see what the categories of a given page iare. I can see how many it has, but could you make the number of categories a link, that will show an additional popup listing these categories? Thanks in advance. :) --Morten Barklund [ talk / contribs ] 19:00, 11 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Browser slowdown experienced

Hi Lupin,

For a few days now (about 2) I have been experiencing a severe slowdown in page loading time on both my computers when logged in. When I disable JScript or am not logged in, this does not happen. There are no slowdown when using Internet Explorer (6 or 7). I am currently using Firefox 2.0.0.4 with a 4 mbps connection, and 375 ms ping to Wikipedia. I am currently using only Navigation popups. Any ideas?

Sincerely, and thanks for a great tool — G.A.S 11:47, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

It seems to be a bit better now, but Firefox is still considerably slower than IE. (Yesterday it took upwards of 2-3 minutes to revert a page! Even my userpage took minutes to open. Can slow international bandwidth make such a difference? Or if Wikipedia is very busy?) Popups' response themselves were as fast as always — i.e. to show history or diffs)
Regards, G.A.S 14:18, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
I copied the complete source into my monobook.js; it seems to work much faster now. Maybe it has something to do with how Firefox caches, and a combination of the above? Regards, G.A.S 16:11, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Question from it.wiki

Hi Lupin! I know that you are involved in monobook.js. Some time ago - in March, perhaps - editing page changed: when I highlighted text with a wikilink, it appeared in the same page, in a lighblue background. I liked it - it was smart - but it lasts just for a little time. Is there a code I can write in my monobook.js to have this option? I hope you understand, my English is not so good in technical speech ;P --AnnaLety 12:14, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Problems with Live Spellcheck

I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong...

When I use your spellcheck tool, I click on the link for the misspelled word, and then a new page (the article) loads. When I click the "Save Page" button, not only does it not add the edit into my contributions, but it also does not change the page in any way. I think I must be missing something here, because this seems so strange to me. Arknascar44 ¡Hablar Conmigo! 02:55, 19 June 2007 (UTC)

I don't know what's going wrong here. This still works for me. Lupin|talk|popups 21:32, 20 June 2007 (UTC)
Same thing here. — thesublime514 • talk • 01:59, July 12, 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Compass table alignment

Hi, I've just been requested to add a compass table to Chew Stoke as part of Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Chew Stoke. I have done this but wanted to align the table to the right & can't see how to do this - it was suggested I contact you as you created the original table - any ideas?— Rod talk 09:41, 19 June 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Watchlist flag

Hi, I'm a huge fan of your anti-vandal tool, but I was wondering if there is any way to deselect the "Watch this page" when AVT performs a roll-back? I had a look on the other discussions but I couldn't seem to find an answer as to whether this is possible? Many thanks - Firetrap (talk • contribs) 09:57, 24 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Confused on how to use edit counter.

I got the picture popups to work just fine by putting in my monobook.js, but I can't for the life of me figure out how to use the edit counter. Could you give me some advice please? Bassgoonist 19:46, 28 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Popups feature request - advanced controls for TOC

I looked around, and didn't see anything like it, so I'll ask here (on the assumption that if I'm wrong, someone will soon correct me, and point me in the right direction,) so here goes:

Is there a mechanism to put [+] or [-] signs on TOC levels? Automatically collapse levels, if more than 50 show on a page? Use JS to shunt the TOC to float right by default (a la {{tocright}})? I suppose these would have to (dangerously?) override wiki.js from the Media Wiki software itself, but these don't seem too impossible, right?

TIA. --Connel MacKenzie - wikt 22:00, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

I think these things wouldn't be hard to do. They don't have much to do with popups though :) You could try asking at WP:US/R or somesuch place - I'm afraid I don't have time to do it myself. Lupin|talk|popups 09:15, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Non-free use disputed for Image:Steinway-logo.png

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[edit] From query.php to api.php ?

Hello Lupin,
I use your navpopups on another MediaWiki (1.10). There is an old matter with the preview of images that returns "imagepage preview failed :( is the query.php extension installed?" : would it be possible to use the Yurik's api.php instead ? Any way, I've tried to put put "api.php" instead of "query.php" in the popups.js I created on my site, for example, var url=pg.wiki.wikibase + '/api.php?format=json&what=revisions&revids='+rvid; instead of var url=pg.wiki.wikibase + '/query.php?format=json&what=revisions&revids='+rvid;, but it doesn't work. Is the only solution to install the old query.php, though the api.php is now on the official version of MediaWiki ?
Thanks a lot !
--Henrique Diaz 23:10, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

Lupin, the API has been heavily improved, including image info, user contrib count, and lots of other things you might find useful. Take a look at mw:API. --Yurik 21:15, 13 July 2007 (UTC)
Sounds nice... unfortunately I don't have time to devote to a conversion in the forseeable future. Of course, patches are welcome, from you or anyone else! Lupin|talk|popups 00:05, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Safari update

Just for your information. Those crashes happen a lot less in Safari 3.0.2 but sometimes i get a "this javascript seems to be in an endless loop, do you want to stop it?" dialog. (i have debug mode enabled for Safari, which might be the cause). However the menu's now seem to work, whereas these could be problematic before. The old crash happened like this:

Thread 0 Crashed:
0   com.apple.JavaScriptCore    0x952644f7 match + 12
1   com.apple.JavaScriptCore    0x95264679 match + 398
... time 504
507 com.apple.JavaScriptCore    0x952e6679 match + 398 
508 com.apple.JavaScriptCore    0x952e73d1 match + 3814

Oh, and in previews, I don't see non-latin characters. Perhaps a utf-8 setting needs to be set somewhere? If you need specific things tested, let me know. I've been testing a lot lately to get Twinkle fixed on Safari 3. --TheDJ (talk • contribs) 13:02, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

Lupin, I've been thinking for a while. I have noticed several scripts on wikipedia were affected by a for( in ) problem. Twinkle had it, wikiminiatlas and several others. In investigating it, I found this link. I was rereading it just again, and noticed the following line: "Prototype also extends String with some methods for dealing with strings. If you try to use String as an associative array, your code will loop 20 times instead of three.". That caught my attention and I wonder if the same problem that I have found in all other user scripts so far, might more then likely be present in popups as well and explain this strange loop problem we have seen. --TheDJ (talk • contribs) 16:07, 20 July 2007 (UTC)
I don't know where that might cause problems in my script. (I do extend the String object in popups.js, but I don't think I make assumptions about how many attributes it has). Lupin|talk|popups 00:08, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Tavistock

Hi Lupin. Your old watchlist says you're !watching? [[Tavistock]]. Just so you know, the page has been moved to [[Tavistock, Devon]]. kthxbye, Tomertalk 16:56, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Imposter?

Hey there, Lupin. We've got an odd user over at the Homestar Runner Wiki, who claims to be you, and who seems to systematically copy your Wikipedia pages over to his user space. The guy doesn't even know how to use indentation, so we doubt it's you. It's not you, is it? Just making sure we don't accidentally hassle a perfectly cool guy. Cheers, Loafing 00:42, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

No, that's not me. Lupin|talk|popups 08:26, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Question

Hi Lupin, I was just wondering - is it terribly difficult to program something extra into my toolbox? There is a very useful subpage which I just created, and I want to make it as accessible as possible. So I thought of implementing it into my toolbox. Is that terribly difficult? -- Anonymous DissidentTalk 00:39, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

No - see WP:US. Lupin|talk|popups 08:28, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Orphaned non-free image (Image:Steinway-logo.png)

Thanks for uploading Image:Steinway-logo.png. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently orphaned, meaning that it is not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).

If you have uploaded other unlicensed media, please check whether they're used in any articles or not. You can find a list of 'image' pages you have edited by clicking on the "my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "Image" from the dropdown box. Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. BetacommandBot 21:14, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Barnstar for you

Image:Vitruvian Barnstar.png

The da Vinci Barnstar
For all your very useful scripts — thesublime514 • talk • 21:05, July 14, 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Anti-Vandal tool

Hi Lupin,

Sorry to bother you on your personal talk, but I was wondering if you had any ideas about this? TewfikTalk 19:01, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

Any progress? TewfikTalk 07:43, 3 August 2007 (UTC)
Hoping for some help on this. Cheers, TewfikTalk 07:16, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Single-click reverting

I've noticed that with my popups, sometimes the "Save changes" button is automatically pressed when I revert vandalism, but sometimes I have to click "Save changes" manually. It can be a real pain in the butt when you try to revert vandalism and someone beats you to the punch because you have to manually click the save changes button. Is there any way to make it so it always automatically presses "Save changes?" Savie Kumara 03:52, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

It should always behave in this way. How can you get it to not automatically press save changes when you revert? Lupin|talk|popups 20:00, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Quick Question

Hello Lupin, thank you very much for the anti-vandal tool. I've been using it, but I'm getting errors, and I would like to know if these are related to the tool, or some other issue.

When comparing edited versions of pages, I get errors with any of the following links: "Restore this version", "Rollback", or the "rollback(VANDAL)"
This is the error I get:

Querying revision....
Grabbing edit form..................
Updating the textbox...
couldn't grab element "editform", aborting, this could indicate failed respons from the server


(response is spelled incorrectly in the error)


I've searched through the long /alltalk page you linked, but I really don't understand much of what's posted there. :(

I'm using Firefox 2.0.0.5 and the pop-up things work (i.e. hovering over a link shows the page), but without being able to revert to a good version, I'm having to wade through sometimes 10+ vandal edits and undo-ing each individually to get back to the original version.

Any help you can give me would be much appreciated! ArielGold♥ (talk) 10:00, 21 July 2007 (UTC)

You might have to install Lupin's Popups Tool. Cacycle 12:47, 21 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Image loading failing

Hi,

Thanks for all the great scripts. Popups is slightly malfunctioning for me. Whenever I move over a thumbnail, popups comes up and instead of the image gives this message: "imagepage preview failed :( is the query.php extension installed". This happens on two different computers running different browsers. Any ideas?

Thanks! Isaac 14:16, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

This is due to bugzilla:9225. I'm waiting for this to be fixed. Lupin|talk|popups 20:13, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Filter list improvement

Hi Lupin,

I've been using your Filter recent changes -- I think it would be helpful if edits which changed numbers got caught in the filter. A lot of people right now are just modifying dates and such.

Isaac 14:18, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

Good idea, but tricky to implement efficiently, I think. Lupin|talk|popups 20:13, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Explanations of scripts

This might be a tall order (time-consuming) if you haven't done it already, but: Have you considered listing explanations for your scripts (at least those under User:Lupin/index), i.e. what they do, where none are available? I'm sure it'd be a big help for editors wishing to utilize them, and would free you from having to provide such explanations yourself. I'm personally wondering what "annoy.js" does. (BTW, this talk page is really long again....) Sasoriza 17:26, 27 July 2007 (UTC)

No, I haven't really considered explaining them all... annoy.js is designed to annoy you out of wikipediholism by periodically changing each link to point to the same page, thus shocking you out of your clicking frenzy. Lupin|talk|popups 20:15, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Popups and localised special page names

It would be great if popups worked for Special:Contributions and Special:Whatlinkshere on wikis that use localised special page names. /90.229.135.239 13:08, 28 July 2007 (UTC)

Yes - I wasn't aware that this was possible. Which wikis did you have in mind? Lupin|talk|popups 20:20, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Annoying Image warnings from bots (BetaCommandBot)

I've noticed you seem to be getting a continuous stream of warning on uploaded images. I think this is a defect in the Bots, rather than your fault. Images that are quite easily and obviously covered by fair use, and could be quickly edited by a human user, are entirely missed by bots. Do you have any ideas about this? Do you disagree? Should image bots be changed to require notification to admins or others, and not just to original uploader? Just thought I'd mention it. Cuvtixo 19:37, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Disambiguation in Popups

I would like a few features in Popups to make it easier for me to disambiguate.

1) Disambiguation links above the preview. When I am on a dab run, I have the dab page open in another tab, and I really don't need to see a preview at all. Some of the previews are kind of big, and I have to scroll down looking for the dab links. I can temporarily turn off all previews with popupPreviews=false, but then I don't have previews for other things, and previews for nearby links are often the best source of disambiguation hints.

2) An option to put "remove this link" at the top.

3) Something like popupFixDabsSummary for "remove this link".

4) An option to put "Wiktionary" at the top.

5) An additional option to change to [[Foo (disambiguation)]], even though it doesn't appear on the Foo page.

6) An option to add {{tl:dn}} after the link.

— Randall Bart (talk) 04:26, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

I've implemented (1) and (4) in the dev version. For (1), try popupStructure='dabshortmenus' or 'dabmenus'. For (4), set popupDabWiktionary='first'. Lupin|talk|popups 21:16, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
Excellent! — Randall Bart (talk) 07:45, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Anti-vandal tool

Is there a way to modify the anti-vandal tool to change the "...except in the Template namespace" option to "...except in the User namespace"? This way I could see IP edits to userpages and more easily find that kind of vandalism. This change shouldn't be difficult, I think, and this way I could transfer the modified script to somewhere in my userspace and import it from there. Thanks, — Bob • (talk) • 07:03, August 1, 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Marking popup reverts as minor

I've been testing the new Popup script, and found that any reverts will not be marked as minor. Is there a way to set it so it does so? I'd prefer to mark the vandal reverts as minor. Cheers.--Kylohk 07:22, 3 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Popup preview failure: Ghusl

Links to Ghusl don't preview correctly. — Randall Bart (talk) 16:12, 3 August 2007 (UTC)

I fixed the article. It wasn't 100% properly formatted. --TheDJ (talk • contribs) 18:40, 3 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Problem with anti-vandal

I installed the anti-vandal tool a while ago. It works fine on my Mac (Firefox for OS X) but when I run it on my laptop (Firefox for XP) it doesn't show any output. What causes this? Why wouldn't it work for XP?

[edit] Whither Lupin?

I noticed Lupin wasn't replying to stuff on this page, so I looked at his contributions and noticed he has made 6 edits in two months. I hope all's well in Lupinville, and hope to see him back here working on my enhancements to Popups. — Randall Bart (talk) 10:31, 4 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Preview off mode

When preview is turned off, the popups should show "show preview" link, on clicking that, it should show preview of that popup. It is an enhancement im seeking in preview off and popups on mode. This "show preview" link should not turn on previews for all, but it should download(only that one desired page's preview) and show preview only on "clicking" this. (It should not be difficult technically as onclick of "show preview"it calls download preview function.) Thanks. Lara_bran 04:13, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

Lupin, I would be thankful to you if you could do this for me. I have little slower internet connection, and using popups in preview off mode, so it would be of great help. Thanks in advance. Lara_bran 04:45, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
I've implemented this feature in the dev version. To activate it, you should set simplePopups=true and also popupPreviewButton=true. Lupin|talk|popups 21:12, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
Thanks a lot, its working :) How'bout a minorest tweak: instead of onClick make it onMouseOver? (We can avoid mouse over "show preview", if we dont want preview.) Now this much is more than enough for me, thanks. Lara_bran 03:42, 17 August 2007 (UTC)
I saw the diff of dev code. There instead of s.onclick, could you make it s.onMouseOver? Thanks. Lara_bran 04:49, 17 August 2007 (UTC)
Note:I changed in my monobook, s.onclick to s.onMouseOver, but it did not work. Thanks. Lara_bran 05:10, 17 August 2007 (UTC)
OK, try the new dev version (clear your cache first) and set popupPreviewButtonEvent='mouseover' (case is important here). Lupin|talk|popups 08:24, 17 August 2007 (UTC)
Done. Yey, popups RULES!!! (even in slow net connection)Thanks a lot :) Lara_bran 08:39, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Popups

I was just wondering how to install popups on an account on another wikiAFUSCO 18:27, 10 August 2007 (UTC)

See WP:POP or WP:POPFAQ. Lupin|talk|popups 20:23, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Image:RamseyTheory_K5_no_mono_K3.PNG listed for deletion

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[edit] minor bug in redirected pages

In popup of a redirect, the target article's history etc. popup does not pops up. Example if i point to WP:RS, it shows redirects to Wikipedia:Reliable Sources(Even in non-dev version). In all menu items of target article(Wikipedia:Reliable Sources) popups does not pop up. Not so important, do it at leisure. Nice day. Lara_bran 09:06, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

minorIssue#2:In "popups" dropdown menu, include "about" below "disable popups", which should link to WP:POP. Lara_bran 14:54, 17 August 2007 (UTC)
minorIssue#3:showpreviewbutton.onmouseover function() {} should have extra command(first command) as showpreviewbutton.backgroundcolor=differentcolor. So that we can rest assured that download functions are called. Thanks. Lara_bran 05:50, 18 August 2007 (UTC)
Thanks, the first of your bugs should now be fixed in the dev version. Lupin|talk|popups 13:04, 18 August 2007 (UTC)
Actually we want history of target page of a redirect, donno how this bug survived from being zapped, for this long. Thanks for all the work. Lara_bran 03:41, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
minorIssue#4: Window.onClose = popupsDropdownmenu.reset() please. This is because, even if i close a tab in firefox, it saves all cache for "undo close tab" option. Some 10 tabs it(firefox) saves for this purpose and firefox slowed down a little. Thanks. Lara_bran 06:07, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Popups suggestion

Have you considered adding a link to Special:Deletedcontributions within the admin version of popups? Still fairly new, I believe, but I find myself using it more and more frequently. - auburnpilot talk 20:06, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

Thanks, this in now in the dev version. Lupin|talk|popups 13:04, 18 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Quick Question

In the scripts that I have been using, there is a "use non-admin rollback" checkbox. I was wondering if you could tell me the difference between admin rollback and non-admin rollback. --דניאל - Danielrocks123 20:08, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

Admin rollback is faster and easier on the servers, but you need to be an admin to use it. Prodego talk 18:13, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Help with disambig fixing via popups

Hi, was wondering how I would enable disambig linking via popups with the monobook script I have. I know you have to add popupFixDabs=true; but I don't understand where. i've been reading through you're help pages but they don't seem to mention where to add it. I would also like it, so I wouldn't have to preview the edit first, or am I being a bit thick, and this option (popupRedirAutoClick) is nothing to do with the disambig fixing :-/
Thanks in advance for any help you can provide. -- Halo2 Talk 01:15, 25 August 2007 (UTC)

I took the liberty of adding it for you. HTH --After Midnight 0001 03:35, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
Thanks, but it doesn't work properly. There's an explanation here. -- Halo2 Talk 13:23, 25 August 2007 (UTC)

I contacted the creator of the WikEd script, he said it might have something to do with this. The whole conversation is here. Could you shed any light on it? -- Halo2 Talk 21:29, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

Hey Lupin: I could add something that turns off wikEd if an edit page is opened automatically by your script, but I have no idea how your script works. It could probably be an URL parameter or a global variable. Any ideas? Cacycle 02:17, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Consult

I've written my script in my monobook page but I can't continue because I'm not very good at programming can you help me to finish it because I nearly get there but it doesn't work. Thank you very much. PS. I use Internet Explorer 7.0 and Mozilla Firefox but both doesn't work (OS:Windows XP Service Pack 2).--Passawuth 07:25, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] An interesting revert

As about five of us were all trying to fix page move vandalism last night (and tripping over each other, and possibly causing one of the two db locks) I tried reverting to the last good version of one of the pages with your script. Much to my surprise... I somehow reverted to the deleted diff text, not the edit by Mattva01. Have you seen this before? Picaroon (t) 19:21, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Your vandal tool

Is there a way to warn someone with one click of the mouse using your tool? --MKnight9989 12:34, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

No. Lupin|talk|popups 21:07, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Admin rollback problem in Lupin tool

Hi. FYI, it appears some of the generated HTML has changed in the Last revision page so the admin rollback is broken. It looks like a <br /> was removed and replaced by spans with classes. I mostly fixed it by changing the regex as seen here but now, if someone else has already reverted, the Javascript message doesn't show their revert summary. I can look further into that later (and after I find a better Javascript regex testing tool) but at least the rollback link itself works. —Wknight94 (talk) 16:00, 9 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Javascript/Template question

I thought you might have an answer to this. Is there a template that I can use that when placed on a page converts into the articles name? for instance if I put {{Page}}(an example) it would automatically convert into the name of the article which it's placed on? Does such a thing exist? If not, What javascript would be required to make such a script possible to create such a template? Wikidudeman (talk) 19:37, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

Use {{PAGENAME}}. Cacycle 02:25, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] I've haven't met you but, you deserve this:

The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
I, User:Sunny910910, award you this Barnstar for your continuious work, on editing and creation of JavaScripts Sunny910910 (talk|Contributions)Neither will alone, nor strenght alone 02:14, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Someone Told Me You Could Help

Karmafist, when he was not banned, put something that he said came from you in my monobook entry. I wanted something that could be made to scan a set of dictionarys, references, thumbnail sketches when I dwelled over a word and provide a small window that would vanish when I went to the next word. All he put in there was a translation of the english to spanish. I don't know where to go to modify this because the monobook entry for my name appears to be empty. Can you help me a bit? Thanks. Johnor 02:17, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

It is empty because you blanked it :) Prodego talk 02:52, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
Well, er ok I blanked it, but it is still displaying a translation in spanish everytime I dwell over a word. I want it to find a brief dictionary or geographical location image of the item if I dwell over it. Can anyone guide me a bit on this. I can do a bit of programming but I don't know where to begin.Johnor 05:38, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
Well, I'll be hornswoggled! It was Google translator switch which I had turned on inadvertently long ago that kept translating my English into Spanish. However, I'd still like to have at least a definition of a word that I dwell over. Can anyone help me with that please :)Johnor 06:14, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Popup persistent toggle switch

For a long time I've been looking for a way to disable the popups beyond the current page. I've searched through the options but haven't found one that does this. So I've made a small script that use a cookie to store the current status of the popup script (on/off). A link with a form checkbox is added to one of the portlets.
I haven't found a way to re-enable popups after disablePopups() has been called, so instead I've chosen to modify a variable used by popupsReady().
see http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utilisateur:Marc.B/popup-chkbox.js
So far the only minor disadvantage is that "natural" tooltips aren't restored on links where a popup was shown.
Marc.B from wikipedia FR —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.241.135.6 (talk) 12:53, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Request for SVG version of image

I'd like to ask for a SVG version of your St John's College shield image, to replace the existing PNG version, as per WP:PIFU#Use_SVG_over_PNG. This should be simple if the image is already a vector version in Inkscape. Thanks XLerate 12:51, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Ferret.png

I noticed this image has an out-of-date PD tag and the source is no longer there. Are you able to give a more specific definition of why this work is in the public domain? It is currently in use on the weasel-words template and it looks kinda bad to have no justification for the status. GreenReaper 19:34, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Barnstar

The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
That counter-vandalism thing is an awesome tool, so you deserve this Barnstar for helping Wikipedia fight vandalism and letting others fight vandalism! Congratulations! Regards, HyperSonicBoom 03:38, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Barnstar

The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
Thank you for making such a great anti-vandalism tool. It just makes dealing with vandalism so much easier. It also gives users a better chance to get an anti-vandalism barnstar. MacMad (talk · contribs)  15:06, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

In fact, you also deserve a SLIVER WIKI AWARD!

[edit] Anti-Vandalism Tool

When I try to use it on my Windows 98, the tools appear in my toolbox as usual. But when I go to use the tools, the tools from your anti-vandal thing are gone until I try to save the monobook page again. I have reloaded my cache and everything but it's still not working. Help please. Concrete Complex 15:29, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Anti-vandal tool admin rollback broken?

The admin rollback button seems to be broken. It says it couldn't find the rollback link when I try to rollback anything. Luigi30 (Taλk) 12:14, 3 October 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Replaceable fair use Image:Laura_fraser.jpg

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[edit] Installing popups on another wiki

Hi, Lupin. I am interested in using your popups on BhamWiki. What questions should I ask first in order to guess whether it will work? The wiki uses monobook. Can I just install the code in monobook.js, or is there something the server admin needs to do first? Thanks. -- Rob C. alias Alarob 23:14, 4 October 2007 (UTC)

This is more or less a FAQ. Lupin|talk|popups 21:05, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Template:DD

Hi, I just noticed that a template you created, Template:DD, is unused and appears to be abandoned. I've marked it as deprecated, meaning it'll be deleted in two weeks' time if nobody objects. If there's a reason to keep it please leave a note at Wikipedia talk:Deprecated and orphaned templates and feel free to remove the {{deprecated}} tag from the template. Thanks. Bryan Derksen 03:26, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Signature

Someone pointed out User:Lupin/sig. Substituted signatures like this are frowned upon, since anyone can vandalize them at any time (see WP:SIG#Transclusion_of_templates). It looks like your signature would fit just fine into the 255 character limit in your user preferences. — Carl (CBM · talk) 04:05, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

Yes, this is a historical relic. I do have the sig in my preferences. Lupin|talk|popups 21:04, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] AVT problem?

Hi Lupin, I'm a huge fan of your anti vandal tool, but something appears amiss... it appears to be only picking up punctuation related edits. I tried control shift R to no avail. Is something wrong with the badwords script? Thanks so much for a great tool! All the best, ~Eliz81(C) 06:04, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

I looked through the badwords list and didn't see anything that might have caused the problem. I thought at first that someone had vandalized the list to make the tool less useful, but I didn't see any entries that would obviously cause this problem. I don't know much about the syntax of the badwords list, so I can't fix it. Is it a problem with the tool? Somebody Else's Problem(aka Alethiophile)Ask me why 23:30, 17 October 2007 (UTC)
The tool appears to be functioning as normal, except that now in the feed where it says Article name matched X, instead of X ever being offensive words, it's either a single character repeated, or -, >, |, etc. It does seem as if '>' might be substituting for an offensive word that then gets displayed when you open the diff, but I'm still a bit confused at this change. ~Eliz81(C) 00:50, 18 October 2007 (UTC)
It also flags the open square bracket, [, and so all recent edits that dealt with wikilinks are flagged. Somebody Else's Problem(aka Alethiophile)Ask me why 02:39, 18 October 2007 (UTC)
It doesn't seem to be a problem with the list - I tried reverting the list to an old version to be sure, and it didn't help. :-( Hoping this can be sorted out, as I think the tool's great. Iain99Balderdash and piffle 18:55, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

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

[edit] I'm having a popups problem

I'm havin' a problem with the pop ups...I can't get them to work. I do everything that is says, I turn off my pop-up blocker and still nothin'!!! HELP!!!!! --Crash Underride 18:17, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

What browser are you using? Tuvok[T@lk/Improve me] 20:28, 18 October 2007 (UTC)
Internet Explorer for Windows XP Home Edition --Crash Underride 18:34, 19 October 2007 (UTC)
Internet Explorer support for most of the JS tools on Wikipedia is shaky at best. My suggestion would be to try Mozilla Firefox. Tuvok[T@lk/Improve me] 18:37, 19 October 2007 (UTC)
I may have to try that. Thank Mr. Vulcan.--Crash Underride 18:42, 19 October 2007 (UTC)
No problem. I believe they are supposed to work in IE, but versions and individual user settings sometimes mess them up. Using Firefox is just easier. Two years of Firefox and not looking back! Tuvok[T@lk/Improve me] 23:52, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] "No rollback link found."

I can't rollback anything, I could do the non-admin thing, but I would prefer not to load more javascript. - RoyBoy 800 02:51, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Lupin is out of the office

Lupin has not edited since 5 September. Please be aware that you may not get a reply to messages left here fro some time. -- Rob C. alias Alarob 19:35, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Roleplaying sympathizer

Any idea if this was meant to be you (User:Lupin) instead of Lupin? Since it was an IP edit, I can't tell what it was supposed to be. Cheers! -- JHunterJ 02:17, 20 October 2007 (UTC)

Dunno, nothing to do with me :-) Lupin|talk|popups 21:03, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Warning:Javascript security issue

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[edit] TfD nomination of User:Lupin/sig

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[edit] Thanks!

You've probably heard this so many times already but... thanks for the popups! --wj32 talk | contribs 09:09, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

You should hear it at least a million times more. Popups and Recent IP Changes are absolutely amazing. Thanks so much! JackSchmidt 20:57, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] article history popup

Whenever i visit some article in wikipedia, i wish to give a brief look at the article's history. I have to middle-click history tab for that now, which is cumbersome. I have nav-popups installed, can you change code so that a popup will come up to display history of the particular page im visiting? Like when i point the cursor on history tab button at top (of the article/talk-page im viewing), a popup showing history of that article should pop-up. Thanks in advance. Bista^map 08:39, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

You can already do this - set popupOnlyArticleLinks=false and then try hovering over a tab. Lupin|talk|popups 21:00, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
Thanks a lot. Do you need my help in archiving your talk page? :) If you incorporate dev version to main, change 2 defaults please - popupOnlyArticleLinks=false and popupPreviewButtonEvent='mouseover'. Bista^map 06:43, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Forking Popups for Citizendium - do you mind?

I am working on forking the pop-ups for Citizendium, specifically because we use a different URL structure (wiki?... as opposed to index.php?...), but also to personalize it for the site. I was under the impression based on talkpage for popup.js that you intend to license it under a "free" license. If you object, or if I'm mistaken about that licensing, please let me know, and I'll trash what I've done. Thanks --ZachPruckowski 05:56, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

No, go ahead. Let me know if you add any cool features :-) Lupin|talk|popups 19:32, 18 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Please archive your talk page

Please archive your talk page. --Foggy Morning 02:58, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Hello there.

I'm currently using your "filter recent changes" tool, and I noticed that clicking one of the 'test' buttons doesn't do anything except lead you to the person's talk page. I was wondering if there's any way to implement a way of just having to click a test template, with the code filling in the vandalized article's name and all? Master of Puppets Care to share? 02:58, 14 November 2007 (UTC)

Oh, and I'm using Internet Explorer 6. Master of Puppets Care to share? 02:59, 14 November 2007 (UTC)
When i hit the test button, it automatically comes up with {{subst:uw-test1|(article name already inserted)}} ~~~~ so i just have to hit save, i'm using firefox, so not sure if that makes a difference or not Ctjf83 03:56, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Personalizing

is there any way to personalize lupin...such as i'd like it when i hit the vand. warning button for it to use {{subst:uw-vandalism2|Article}} instead of what it uses, and the edit summary for that to say, "vandalism warning!" so i can find them easier for myself, on my contributions page, and instead of the page summary saying "(Reverted edits by (name) to last version by (name)) can i make it say "rv vandalism" Ctjf83 03:52, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

Short of making your own copy of the script and altering it, the answer for now is "no". Sorry! Lupin|talk|popups 19:31, 18 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Popups appear transparent in Konqueror and sometimes also in Safari

When using Konqueror 3.5.5 on KDE 3.5.5 and sometimes when using Safari 3 for Windows, the popups appear transparent; they have no background and mix up with the article text, themselves and other popus in a very messy way. They also don't seem to react to mouse events, so you can't get rid of them when they appear. Shinobu (talk) 09:05, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

This is typically caused by the popups css file failing to load. I don't know why this might happen, though. I have changed the way this css file is called in the dev version, so you might like to see if using that fixes your problems. Lupin|talk|popups 19:30, 18 November 2007 (UTC)