User talk:Lupin/Anti-vandal tool

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Filter recent changes works in FF again

So, I'm not sure if it's due to the changes mentioned above, or whether Mozilla redid the Firefox regex engine again, but Filter Recent Changes now works in Firefox as of FF 10.0.2. —Darkwind (talk) 16:38, 9 March 2012 (UTC)

Red coloring in diff display

So for a while now, the diff display in AVT has not been coloring the added/removed text in red. Turns out this is because MediaWiki moved the CSS for diff display to a separate call to load.php, which is not loaded unless you're viewing an actual diff page.

To resolve this, and restore the red coloring in diffs in AVT, you can add the following CSS code to your common.css (or vector.css or whatever), with no linebreaks:

table.diff,td.diff-otitle,td.diff-ntitle{background-color:white}td.diff-otitle,td.diff-ntitle{text-align:center}td.diff-marker{text-align:right}td.diff-lineno{font-weight:bold}td.diff-addedline{background:#cfc;font-size:smaller}td.diff-deletedline{background:#ffa;font-size:smaller}td.diff-context{background:#eee;font-size:smaller}.diffchange{color:red;font-weight:bold;white-space:-moz-pre-wrap;white-space:pre-wrap;text-decoration:none}table.diff{border:none;width:98%;border-spacing:4px; table-layout:fixed}table.diff td{padding:0}table.diff col.diff-marker{width:2%}table.diff col.diff-content{width:48%}table.diff td div{ word-wrap:break-word; overflow:auto}

—Darkwind (talk) 01:55, 10 March 2012 (UTC)

While adapting the script for Portuguese Wikipedia, I found some bugs in the MediaWiki code which formats the RSS feeds (34798 [fixed] and 34800) which I believe may be affecting the coloring of the diffs used by this script. I think it should be migrated as soon as possible, to stop using something like

• en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php ?title=Special:Recentchanges &feed=rss &action=purge

to get the list of recent changes, and start to use the API to get lists (in JSON) such as these:

• en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php ?action=query &list=recentchanges &format=json
• en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php ?action=compare &fromrev=29138786 &torev=29138799 &format=json

Helder 00:21, 11 March 2012 (UTC)

I absolutely agree that the script should be converted to use the API as soon as possible -- it will be more responsive, less resource intensive, and so on. However, that's not the cause of the diff problem (although the problem might go away after conversion, it probably won't as long as the script is run by viewing a User: page).

The current problem is that although the diffs are already being returned with the correct <span> wrappings with the right CSS classes to display the diff colors (i.e. span.diffchange.diffchange-inline), there's no CSS style information included on the page for those classes.

There is specific CSS styling in the MediaWiki software for diff color display. In the past, this CSS was downloaded for every page request. However, at some point, the decision was apparently made to stop providing that particular stylesheet unless the URL being requested contains a &diff= argument. To be more specific, the following HTML tag only appears when you actually view a diff by using a (diff) link: <link rel="stylesheet" href="//bits.wikimedia.org/en.wikipedia.org/load.php?debug=false&lang=en&modules=mediawiki.action.history.diff&only=styles&skin=vector&*" type="text/css" media="all" />. That tag does not appear on User:Lupin/Filter recent changes because the server thinks it's not actually a diff page, which means the diff-specific stylesheet never gets loaded.

The workaround is to force the issue by copying the CSS style information from that sheet to your common.css (or $skin.css, whatever). Doing this means the CSS classes already being used by AVT would now have the corresponding style information, and the diffs are magically red again. It's probably possible to trim down that style info from what I provided (I just pasted the whole of the stylesheet in question), but it's an effective workaround. —Darkwind (talk) 10:08, 11 March 2012 (UTC)

Actually, this is just a dependency issue: any gadget or user script which depends on a module (e.g. "mediawiki.action.history.diff") should indicate this explicitly in order to allow the Resource Loader to make sure that the content of the module (in this case, mediawiki.action.history.diff.css) is available. You can check this by typing the following on Google Chrome console (other browser may have similar tools):

mw.loader.load('mediawiki.action.history.diff');

(it will insert the <link> tag you have mentioned). Since the AVT is not a gadget, some part of it should be wrapped in

mw.loader.using('mediawiki.action.history.diff', function(){
    /* Here goes the AVT code */
});

Helder 22:51, 11 March 2012 (UTC)

Actually, the above will not work, because the Mediawiki RSS feeds for some reason contain hard-coded "style=" attributes instead of using the CSS classes to format the diffs; even if the correct CSS stylesheet is loaded, the hard-coded font colors and other styles will still be used. The only real solution seems to be to convert to using the API instead of the RSS feed. --R'n'B (call me Russ) 16:21, 17 May 2012 (UTC)

Filter IP Edits

Is it possible to include an option to filter edits only made by IP users? Thanks. FrigidNinja (talk) 12:20, 7 February 2013 (UTC)

Yes, there is. User:Lupin/Recent IP edits is what your looking for. However, Lupin doesn't seem to have been active since September 2009... jcc (tea and biscuits) 19:52, 1 June 2013 (UTC)

"Recent IP edits" is not filtered using the regexes a la "Filter recent changes". I think FrigidNinja (t c) was asking for an option that combines "Filter recent changes" with "Recent IP edits", which does not presently exist. TBQH, I doubt there will ever be any future substantial changes to this tool, because if it gets reworked to any degree, it should be converted to API, and that's just more effort than it's probably worth. —Darkwind (talk) 00:25, 2 June 2013 (UTC)

Updating Lupin??

I noticed today that occasionally when I do a 'rollback' on Lupin the edit appears to save. I then leave a warning on the editors page if necessary. However today I found several times that my edit rollback wasn't the one that went through - it didn't report an edit conflict but it was another editor who made the correction and also left a warning on the users page. So there were 2 warnings for the single edit. I have since then taken to checking that it was my edit before leaving the warning but it seemed to be a new situation, not one there a few days ago... Can anyone comment?-- 🍺 Antiqueight ^confer 18:34, 20 October 2013 (UTC)

Are you using the "non-admin rollback" option in the tool? —Darkwind (talk) 06:55, 23 October 2013 (UTC)

Yes - I started using the tool before I had rollback. If I turn off non-admin rollback will that make the difference? I'll try it out later -- 🍺 Antiqueight ^confer 08:48, 23 October 2013 (UTC)

Well - that certainly worked quickly. I'll have to pay lots of attention not to rollback in error!! But thanks - I hadn't thought of that.-- 🍺 Antiqueight ^confer 11:18, 23 October 2013 (UTC)

Also, if you use TW, if you open the vandal's talk page from the rollback success window, the Warn window will pre-populate with the vandalized article/page name. It doesn't automatically populate if you open the talk page directly from the anti-vandal tool. —Darkwind (talk) 19:58, 23 October 2013 (UTC)

Yeah - I have discovered I prefer to use TW for warnings rather than the Lupin tool - it lets me do the various levels as well. But I only discovered the tool prepopulates yesterday or today....Yesterday I think. Some of these tools are very clever and I just wish I had the skill to put all my favourite bits together into one! I am currently overdosing on tools :-)-- 🍺 Antiqueight ^confer 20:27, 23 October 2013 (UTC)

One of the modifications I added to PILT was to report the names of articles where my revert had been successful, so that I don't end up warning vandals I hadn't reverted myself. I think Antiqueight will find that although switching to MediaWiki rollback speeds things up, so that he has more chance of winning the race, the problem of someone else having got there first will remain. Philip Trueman (talk) 09:40, 24 October 2013 (UTC)

Idea for Anti-Vandal tool!

Hey Lupin,

I have an idea for your amazing Anti-Vandal tool: Verify that different things are closed off, like quotations, apostrophes, perentheses, brackets, etc. For example, if you were quoting Homer (the Greek poet):

Homer is a Greek poet, who is well-known for writing poems. One of his poems (The Iliad starts off, "Sing, O goddess, the anger of Achilles son of Peleus, that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans.

People using your Anti-Vandal tool would receive a message on your Anti-Vandal page saying that there are an odd number of parentheses and quotations. The user would add a closed parenthesis after "Iliad" and add a quotation mark after "Achaeans".

Regarding possession (for example, "Newyorkadam's") there is correctly a single apostrophe. If you were to implement this idea, the checker would ignore apostrophes before or after an 's'.

Thanks! Newyorkadam (talk) 23:41, 21 October 2013 (UTC)Newyorkadam

This would require a new mode of the tool to be written, since the "filter recent changes" mode uses regular expressions, which are computationally incapable of matching brackets/braces/parentheses. If someone wanted to go to the effort of making a new mode of the tool, I think the effort would be better spent converting the script to use the MediaWiki API instead.

Also, for well-meaning editors, there is already a bot which checks for unbalanced {, [, and ('s. If it finds an edit that results in unbalanced brackets of some kind, it leaves a message on the talk page of the user who made the edit. It doesn't do quotes, but it still lets people know if they accidentally make such a change. If you want to get a live feed of the bad edits BracketBot finds, there's apparently an IRC channel it streams to. —Darkwind (talk) 20:10, 23 October 2013 (UTC)

Thank you very much for the information! :) Newyorkadam (talk) 03:19, 7 November 2013 (UTC)Newyorkadam

Lupin's tool rewrite (sort of)

As per some of the discussions above, I tried my hand at updating Lupin's tool to use the API instead of the RSS feed, but ran into several difficulties. Lupin wasn't very reliable at commenting his code, so it's hard to follow in places. Also, unlike the RSS feed, the API doesn't provide a mode that provides a list of recent changes along with diffs for each edit -- you have to download the list of changes, then download each diff individually to match against the badwords list, which completely screws with the flow of Lupin's code.

I decided it's basically easier to start over again, so I've re-implemented the basic functionality as Darkwind's Anti-Vandal Tool. It's still in a very early stage of development (the only mode currently is equivalent to "filter recent changes"), but it's usable, and I'd appreciate any feedback and/or suggestions you all may have. You can read more about it and get installation instructions at User:Darkwind/DAVT. —Darkwind (talk) 05:45, 1 November 2013 (UTC)

Not working

Recently, I see no pages when I start the Anti-vandal Tool. I have to refresh the tool over and over to get it working. What could be going on? Cache problem? I tried Control + F5 but that doesn't help.- Gilliam (talk) 13:09, 29 January 2014 (UTC)

Same. I just discovered that on the revision history page of the tool, at the bottom the filter works and runs fine. It obviously isn't optimal, but it works for now. -Newyorkadam (talk) 13:32, 29 January 2014 (UTC)Newyorkadam

Thanks! I would not have thought to look there.- Gilliam (talk) 13:46, 29 January 2014 (UTC)

It seems to be working fine now. -Newyorkadam (talk) 20:00, 30 January 2014 (UTC)Newyorkadam

Suggestion

Hello, I have a easy suggestion for Your Anti-Vandal tool, Could you add a option to ignore words that are put in between Reference Tags? There have been a lot of instances where I look into a word and i see that it is in A reference. Thanks,

Happy Attack Dog (Bark! Bark!) 13:47, 13 May 2014 (UTC)

Some questions

• Why does "didn't" keep appearing as a misspelling? It is correct, whereas "didnt" would be incorrect. I think I am going to remove it from the list.
• Is there a way to update the word list, to not monitor certain words on the fly, instead of changing it for everyone? For example, in addition to the above, every time I see "wanna" it is correct, as part of a title.

Thanks, BollyJeff | talk 15:08, 13 October 2014 (UTC)

I think I have the answer to the first part. Someone recently added it to the list, citing MOS:N'T. So it is a style issue, not precisely a misspelling. Does anyone have opinions on keeping this as is, or putting back? It greatly enhances the number of hits on the tool. BollyJeff | talk 15:31, 13 October 2014 (UTC)

I think "didn't" should be removed from the list, since it is not a misspelling and despite the style guideline, there are situations where it is preferable to "did not". It also often appears in quotations which should not be edited. Likewise, "didnt" should suggest "didn't" as the correct form. Dwpaul ^Talk 01:29, 26 November 2014 (UTC)

Thanks. I just made the change. BollyJeff | talk 02:25, 26 November 2014 (UTC)

Thank you! (Now if we can just get it to stop checking within URLs in references ...) Dwpaul ^Talk 02:26, 26 November 2014 (UTC)

Exactly! This will continue to show 'didnt' in URLs. I don't know if the tool author is listening here. BollyJeff | talk 02:29, 26 November 2014 (UTC)

No misspellings are coming up.

Help? ThatKongregateGuy (talk) 02:00, 6 June 2015 (UTC)

It's working for me. BollyJeff | talk 02:45, 6 June 2015 (UTC)

Translation of the anti-vandal list and tool

Is it allowed for me to make a translation of the anti-vandal tool and list for use on Wikipedia in other languages? Dakar (talk) 01:56, 30 July 2015 (UTC)

Customization

Hello Cacycle--

I sent an email to Lupin, but I do not think he will be responding any time soon.

I wanted to ask, how might I go about creating my own badwords list? I use the Filter Recent changes script almost every day, and would like to perform testing on a custom badwords list, without interfering with the general list used by others.

With proper attribution, would this be okay to do? I am not a programmer by trade, would it be as simple as copying the script to my user page and then changing the pointers for the badwords file?

Thank you for your time and any insight or assistance you may offer. Kind regards, Yamaguchi

Hi Yamaguchi, I think the only way to customize this script is to run your own copies of the script itself and the badwords page. Just copy the script to e.g. User:Yamaguchi先生/recent2.js and the badwords page to User:Yamaguchi先生/badwords and then change the line "badwordsPage: 'User:Lupin/badwords'," to "badwordsPage: 'User:Yamaguchi先生/badwords',". Cacycle (talk) 12:27, 6 February 2016 (UTC)

"Use non-admin rollback" - should check both "sysop" and "rollbacker"

Hi, in the script at User:Lupin/recent2.js, recent2.userIsSysop should include a check for whether the user is a rollbacker, because rollbackers can use admin rollback. (it's also faster than non-admin rollback javascript anyway). (recent2.userIsSysop) — Andy W. (talk · contrib) 17:46, 5 April 2016 (UTC)

Scratch that. I'm thinking that, due to updates in Wikimedia policy, only Lupin can edit the script now...? I made my own js at User:Andy M. Wang/recent2.js that takes that into consideration. Thanks anyway — Andy W. (talk · contrib) 18:52, 5 April 2016 (UTC)

@Andy W.:, you may request an edit by using {{editprotected}}. But I would ask that you get someone else to check your code before requesting, just to be safe — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 20:02, 6 April 2016 (UTC)

@Andy M. Wang: fixing the ping — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 20:03, 6 April 2016 (UTC)

Rollback function seems to have been changed

See also: Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical) § Rollback_function_has_been_changed

There is an ongoing discussion about a change in rollback behavior at the Village Pump. I currently believe the change breaks LAVT for admin rollback. Non-admin javascript rollback seems fine. The discussion is here. — Andy W. (talk · ctb) 00:02, 27 May 2016 (UTC)

Tag edits made by this gadget

This script should add a tag to its edits, so that users can filter them on recent changes (this is already possible for huggle, WPCleaner and ProveIt for example). Helder 17:08, 29 December 2017 (UTC)

@He7d3r: I'm not sure how useful this feature would be, but you would need to raise a Phabricator ticket. See Wikipedia:Tags. Though not quite the same thing, if you simply wanted to change the text that Lupin's tool leaves (as I've done) you can do this by making a copy of the .js file and then editing line 874 to suit your needs. Regards from the UK. Nick Moyes (talk) 23:24, 12 February 2018 (UTC)

Why would we need to use Phabricator? (bugs and feature requests for this script are still reported on-wiki as far as I can see).

Aside from creating the tag locally, the changes needed would be similar to these. Helder 18:00, 13 February 2018 (UTC)

Ignore safe pages

What does ignore safe pages mean?--Tyw7  (☎ Contact me! • Contributions) 10:47, 26 May 2018 (UTC)

Lupin's Spellchecker not functioning (or is it just me?)

The spellchecker script disappeared from my Tools menu back around October 2019. But I use my own copy which I've tweaked to give better edit summaries, and to run for longer). Having reinstalled the original Lupin script into my commons.js file, the Tool is visible again on the left side of every page, but still will not function.

Superficially, Lupin's tool appears to run and report likely spelling errors, as normal. So...

• ...clicking the highlighted 'error' in the Lupin report correctly opens a new edit page for the relevant article, and
• it also correctly populates the edit summary with the suggested change.

However:

• Very significantly, no change to the article text has been made, and 'Show Changes' which normally automatically displays the old and new suggestion does not load, nor will it do so by manually clicking the 'Show changes' button.
• The following bold text is displayed at the top of the page: The "Show changes" button has been automatically clicked. Please wait for the next page to load. But nothing happens.
• The edit summary field is correctly populated with the proposed change, despite the proposed change itself not having been entered.

Example: Lupin reported the word 'particulary' as an error in in this version of an article. Clicking particulary in the report led to this editing page Note the absence of any correction, and the bold warning message, plus the edit summary stating: Correcting spelling: particulary->particularly

I do know Lupin's tool is old, but I'm unaware of any better live-monitoring script, so it would be a shame to lose it completely - assuming it can be rescued. Pinging @Amorymeltzer, TheDJ, and R'n'B: who have all contributed to these script changes, one or more of which might have impacted on its functioning. (I'm not sufficiently clued up to know what does what, sorry!) Nick Moyes (talk) 18:39, 1 January 2020 (UTC)

Lupin not working after cache bypass

I performed all the installation steps, but nothing happened. Why is that? Firestar464 (talk) 03:49, 13 October 2020 (UTC)

Great!

This is such a great tool, thanks for making it! Mcguy15 (talk) 14:00, 29 April 2021 (UTC)

Is this tool still functional?

In the past few years I've noticed that I no longer get any hits on either recent changes or the live spellcheck. I've turned off any script blockers that may interfere and still nothing. Is it just me or is the tool finally down for good? Blue Edits (talk) 11:21, 28 July 2023 (UTC)

Uninstall

How do I uninstall this application? BenSmiththeGreat (talk) 18:46, 24 April 2024 (UTC)