User talk:Lupin/Filter recent changes/Archive 1

Please go to User_talk:Lupin/Anti-vandal_tool to discuss this script.

Warn

My Warn button gives me {{subst:bv-n|ARTICLE}} ~~~~ twice. Anyone else getting this? -Mysekurity^{(have you seen this?)} 09:33, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

I'm not getting anything up at all, have you taken my missing {{subst:bv-n|ARTICLE}} ~~~~. T.A Stevenson 15:46, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

Mine also doesn't seem to be functioning at all. Is there something in that code that you need to be an admin to use? ESkog | ^Talk 00:15, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

I wish I'd taken yours, so I could give it back... I've checked the code, it doesn't seem like you need to be an admin, only for the rollback button (unless you have it from elsewhere). -Mysekurity^{(have you seen this?)} 00:41, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

" - please include this line" needs to be removed, I think? NSLE _(T+C+CVU) 06:30, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

No, this is a red herring. Lupin|talk|popups 01:06, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

To get the warn button working correctly, you need to have a bit of code lodged in my popups script. If you don't want the popups, you can get this separately in User:Lupin/autoedit.js, installed the same way as this tool, but replacing recent2 with autoedit twice. (You should add this to your javascript file, not replace the current recent changes installation). If you get the warning twice, it probably means that you've got this code installed twice, perhaps with two installations of my popups script. Lupin|talk|popups 01:06, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

Problem

I've been using your Filter recent changes tool for a while but for the last few days all I'm getting is row after row of "updating...done". Recent IP edits and All recent changes are working OK. Have all the vandals taken a holiday or am I doing something wrong? Gimboid13 08:38, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

Neither - the format of the feed changed, and I hadn't updated the script. Many thanks for bringing this up - it should work now. Lupin|talk|popups 16:10, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

Sweet. Thanks for fixing it up. I'm still not getting the Revert button to appear on the page comparing the 2 versions though. Gimboid13 19:13, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

Do you mean the "rollback" button? It works for me, although it only appears if the edit in question is the most recent one made to that article. Lupin|talk|popups 00:30, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

Yes, when you click on the article name and you get the page showing current and previous versions, there was a link to the left of the heading 'Current revision' that ran the rollback function. It's not there now, at least for me. Gimboid13 01:48, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

I expect that's coming from godmode-lite. My script doesn't give non-admins revert links. Lupin|talk|popups 02:01, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

D'oh! Of course. Sorry to bother you. Gimboid13 02:44, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

I am getting this problem now...it never finds anything? What is going on? The IP edits still works though.Voice-of-All^T|@|ESP 01:25, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

Seems the devs have been playing with the format again. Thanks for letting me know - I've tried to fix the script. Lupin|talk|popups 02:35, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

So it's not working again yet?? Because the vandals appear to have disapperaed??.Blnguyen 03:52, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

It seems to be up now. BTW, Lupin, I have a "revert as vandalism" rollback that I use...but it does not work when I add you pop-up tool. It always things the vandal is "undefined" and so it can't revert. I had to remove the pop-up script.Voice-of-All^T|@|ESP 04:29, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

Maybe you would get some luck reading on the godmode-lite fix for this? Fetofs ^Hello! 15:14, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

For me the vandal pick-ups is only about 1/6 of what it was before (roughly).Blnguyen | Have your say!!! 07:30, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

Hopefully now fixed. Thanks again. Lupin|talk|popups 13:42, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

Filter words

Why 'babajobu'? (ESkog)^(Talk) 01:00, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

Search me :-) you can remove it if you want. Lupin|talk|popups 03:23, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

Damn...I tried to update the list but it was blocked by the spambot.Voice-of-All^T|@|ESP 15:54, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

I know this is really late, but if that happens in the future, you can just remove whatever the spambot tagged - it's not going to be a part of any edits anyway, so we don't need the script to watch for it. (ESkog)^(Talk) 15:35, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

Other criteria

Would it be possible to trigger an alert if an edit is made adding material all (or maybe more than x% of more than x characters) in capital letters? And also maybe the same in lower case? Would this bring up too many false positives?--Cherry blossom tree 12:02, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

I can't think of an efficient way to do this, and the script is already pretty slow. Sorry. Lupin|talk|popups 13:43, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

No problem. Good tool, all the same. --Cherry blossom tree 21:27, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

Rollback

When I try to use the rollback function on your vandal fighter, I get a message that tells me "no rollback link found. Sadly rollback is only available to admins. Alternatively, this may be a bug". I just came to find out if its because I'm not an admin or if its a bug, because it would really be useful in times of lots of vandalism. But its an awesome tool; thanks! _-M ^o P-_ 01:23, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

It tries to hook through the admin rollback function, so you don't get it unless you're an admin. The popups script has a pretty efficient revert option. (ESkog)^(Talk) 22:00, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

I may be able to add GML and a special JS to add a revert button to Lupin's filter for you...when I get around to it. I plan on doing it for myself sometime so that I can have "rv vandal" in the summary, rather than my admin "reverted edits by X..." summary.Voice-of-All^T|@|ESP 20:24, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

Love the new non-admin rollback feature. Although I feel its quite powerful & in the wrong hands can be quite dangerous. Maybe an authorization for using the tool should be put in place. --Srikeit^{(talk ¦ ✉)} 18:21, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

Hi; admin roll-back seems not to work. Tom Harrison ^Talk 17:41, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks. It should work again. Lupin|talk|popups 13:02, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

All better, thanks. Tom Harrison ^Talk 13:34, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

Hi there! Im a non-admin,and I'm using Safari 1.3 on Mac OS X 10.3. When I click the Rollback button under recent IP Edits, nothing happens. No Log of my change is recorded in my contribs- nothing. Is this an incompatibility with my computer/Browser? or just a bug? Any answers' a good answer!  MichaelHenley _{(Page-Talk-Contribs)} 09:17, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

Delay

First of all, I love this tool - a couple hours on it and I've done more vandal reverts than most whole weeks. One comment. During non-peak hours, aka the middle of the night, it works great. But during the daytime, there are so many edits per minute that the tool's scanning all the new ones locks up my computer briefly every time it updates. (Admittedly, this is only on my old laptop - my newer comps probably wouldn't have a beef). Perhaps the delay between updates could be shortened, so it doesn't have to scan as many changes at once? -Goldom (t) (Review) 16:58, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

Actually I'd expect more frequent updates to slow your computer down the same amount, but more frequently. Lupin|talk|popups 19:38, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

Really? I figured since it only did it during the day, it was related to how many it was trying to do at a time, so lessening that... but I know nothing about js, so I'll take your word for it. -Goldom (t) (Review) 01:21, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

Proposed removal of "Yankees" plural

I think that the plural of "Yankee" should be removed because more often than not when "Yankees" pops up while using the filter, it is just refering to the New York Yankees baseball team.--Conrad Devonshire ^Talk 10:08, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

Sounds good to me. Lupin|talk|popups 22:15, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

The

Remove the. It is used in the good sense 99.99999999999999% of the time, and it shows up on almost every Recent Change. GangstaEB (sliding logs~dive logs) 01:47, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

Was placed there by a troll and has since been removed.--Conrad Devonshire ^Talk 03:45, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

Non-admin rollback

I click 'rollback', adn by the time the page loads, the "This version is not the current version. Any edits will be removed" red box tops the edit text area. However, under my contribs, it says I've successfully rolled back x articles. I;m confused. --glasnt^<3 05:11, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

Non-admin rollback works by editing an old revision and then saving it immediately. When you edit an old revision, the big red warning box appears. So this behaviour is by design. Lupin|talk|popups 14:14, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

Gosh, my spelling was horrible in that post. Sorry! Erm, yeah, thanks for that. The computer I was using was stalling badly when the windows were popping up after clicking 'rollback'. Is there any way to disable the popup windows? I know that an unsucessful rollback has a javascript popup saying who edited the page since etc... is there anyway to have visual confirmation of a successful rollback, without the window popup? Maybe as an added feature? --glasnt^<3 00:46, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

There's no way to do that at the moment - it'd be possible, but not easy. If you're using firefox, you may find it more efficient to get the windows to open in tabs (it's in the firefox preferences somewhere). Lupin|talk|popups 01:11, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

All sorted. I just turned on "Pop-up Blocker". :) --glasnt^<3 03:07, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

Vandal credit for non-admin revert

Sometimes when I rollback using the non-admin revert, the vandal will get the credit for erasing the vandalism that I have just reverted. Its happened about 4 times since I started using this tool 2 days ago. A few times it could have been the vandal realizing their mistake but I highly doubt most vandals will immediately delete their vandalism. Its not really a problem but can make vandals look more forgiveable since it would look like they deleted their own vandalism when that is not the case.--Gdo01 03:34, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

Actually, it is not uncommon for a vandal to do exactly this in my experience. My guess is that they've figured out how to display old revisions, and are sending links to the vandalised revision to their little friends. Lupin|talk|popups 22:42, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

I think this probably happens more on shared computers, where one person vandalizes and another person says "that's not cool" and reverts it, because they don't want the whole school or whatever to be blocked. — CharlotteWebb 20:35, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

This thing is great

Not to mention, it works even without having to stay logged in, which means no pesky vandals following you around after you revert them--64.12.116.9 16:31, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

• I kid you not--64.12.116.9 16:32, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

• Interesting--172.131.179.7 19:49, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

The main page will keep working, but stuff like rollback will be broken I expect. Lupin|talk|popups 22:45, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

• Yes on the filter, no on the popups, you can see vandalism, but you have to click 'submit' by hand when using rollback--152.163.100.138 00:42, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

Elephant?

This was added in response to that talk-show host asking his audience to vandalise articles related to elephants, right. Does it still belong in the list of flagged terms?--The Count of Monte Cristo ^Parley 01:34, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

I don't know - it depends on how useful it is. Bear in mind that this page is not intended to be a compendium of all "bad words" and no "everyday words"; it should be a list of words which are currently likely indicators of vandalism. My suggestion is that if you get annoyed by false positives then you remove it, but leave it otherwise. Lupin|talk|popups 01:45, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

"Except if"

Would it be possible to create a whitelist containing "innocent" expressions that contain badwords to decrease the number of false-positives? E.g. "cum" is a badword, but your tool would display it only if the text doesn't match the "summa cum laude" expression. Similarly Dick would be a badword only if it isn't followed by "Cheney", Butthead would be a badword except when the previous words are "Beavis and" etc. Thoughts? --Zoz (t) 20:19, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

This is a good idea... --Catz ^{[T • C]} 23:26, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

Non-admin rollback and FF2

Hi. I've recently upgraded to Firefox 2 and sometimes FF2 blocks the (non-admin) rollback popup, even if I explicitly allow popups from en.wikipedia.org. Is there a solution? --nkayesmith 09:33, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

Yes, this happened to me once, except it was only when i tried to do a certain page. When i refreshed, it worked... --Catz ^{[T • C]} 23:25, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

Ignore safe pages

How does this work? Are pages some automatically classified as safe? I looked for a list, like User:Lupin/badwords, but I didn't see any here. This could be very useful in preventing mistakes.--Werdan7^{T @} 01:19, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

The list is hard-coded into the script - see the top of User:Lupin/recent2.js. Currently there are just two pages, Wikipedia:Introduction and Wikipedia:Sandbox, but this can be changed. When the box is checked, all edits to these pages are ignored. Lupin|talk|popups 13:55, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

Doesn't seem to be working. I had the box checked and this showed up.--Werdan7^{T @} 23:28, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

"Error on page" with non-admin rollback

I have "non-admin rollback" checked. When I click on "rollback" I get "Error on page" in the lower left of the window. I'm using IE 6.0 SP2. Thanks. Tanaats 20:24, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

Not reverting... yourself

Hey, it's not terribly uncommon to accidentally hit a button and end up reverting yourself. Unfortunately, from then on, any time you make a change, it comes back up with your name, and worse, it's in green, meaning you're a repeat vandal. Anyway to stop this? It can't be too hard code. -Patstuart^talk|edits 02:52, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

Wow, it's implemented. Either that was quick, or it was in before I said something. Thanks. :) Patstuart^talk|edits 23:34, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

New warnings

Is there any chance of changing the warn link to incorporate the new user warning templates? I use that link a lot and it would save me a lot of copy and pasting! Jem 22:06, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

Barbra Streisand in list

Is Barbra Streisand supposed to be in this list, or was she added by a troll? May I remove her? -- BlastOButter42 ^See Hear _Speak 08:32, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

That entry was added by indefblocked user NBCBS. Based on that, and the talk page, I'm taking this entry off the list. Dave6 ^talk 00:23, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

Suggestion for the script

Hi. Would it be possible to make the list of options at the top of the "Filter recent pages" page into a 2-column list? This would allow more space at the bottom for the important details. Useful script BTW! --Smalljim

Jack

Why is Jack on the list, cos it's returning a lot of false positives? Stwalkerster 23:51, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

Good point whenever I sign my name it appears on this list - Jack Naven Rulez Talk 19:03, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

wikidefcon

would it be possible to add the wikidefcon thing to the page, so we can see the level of vandalism? just on the right or something, one of the smaller versions to keep it out of the way. Stwalkerster 21:08, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

Wikidefcon means nothing, it's just a cute little bobble to put on your page. It has absolutely no relationship with actual vandalism levels. Mak (talk) 02:46, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

Unfortunately, that's true. Whilst sometimes it can give yo an indication of vandalism, It can't really show you what's going on. You need to see it. Dfrg.msc 05:38, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

May 16, 2007

Filter recent changes is not showing any edits at this time. Is there a problem or are we truly suddenly vandal free??—Gaff ^ταλκ 19:53, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

Problem

"Monitor my watch list", "live spell check" and "Filter recent change" is not showing any edits. "All recent change", "Recent IP edites" works OK. —KGV 11:02, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

The watchlist seems to work for me, but the rest is indeed broken since yesterday. Did the RSS change lately (it seems it is still at the same place)? -- lucasbfr ^talk 11:39, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

I don't know if that's intended, but when you try in a javascript console "window.badWords.test('xx is a lesbian')", you get false. I think this is why the script is not working. But I fail to see why it is not. Seems the badwords are loaded, the RSS seems ok, I don't get it... -- lucasbfr ^talk 21:47, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

The watchlist function works for me as well. Several other people have mentioned this bug at the Village Pump. Somebody emailed Lupin. Does anybody know how to fix it? —Gaff ^ταλκ 15:44, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

I found what the exact problem is (it's a RSS change). I'll try to correct it. -- lucasbfr ^talk 11:27, 19 May 2007 (UTC)

I'm wrong about the watchlist. Sorry! —KGV 04:55, 19 May 2007 (UTC)

Seems someone fixed it. Well done that person! CIreland 17:35, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

It is fixed. I had to clear the cache, though. There are instructions to clear the cache of the brower. (IE is Cntl+F5). — Andy W. ^{(talk/contrb.)} 18:15, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

Filter empty...

Filter Recent Changes is empty... Miracle? Probably not. What's wrong!?!?!?! -Billy227, Review my account!! ^{talk contribs sndbx usbx} 20:15, 19 May 2007 (UTC)

I can confirm this. Navou 00:23, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

See the above thread. Folks are working on it. (ESkog)^(Talk) 03:33, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

I think the problem is fixed. I cleared my browser cache and it worked. See above section. — Andy W. ^{(talk/contrb.)} 18:16, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

Rollback Not Working

When I click the Rollback button nothing happens. I have the Use Non Admin Rollback box checked.--Katieh5584 21:04, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

I have the same problem. Also using the Use Non Admin Rollback. --Smokizzy ^{Review Me! (Please!)} 02:35, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

Weird it's working here (and there was no change in the rollback code lately). Which browser do you both use? Do you have an anti-popup activated? -- lucasbfr ^talk 06:11, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

I'm using Internet Explorer 7.0 and my anti-popup software is disabled. --Katieh5584 10:33, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

Hmm. Rollback doesn't work for me in Internet Explorer 7.0, Opera, OR Firefox, with pop-up blockers turned off in all three. --Smokizzy ^{Review Me! (Please!)} 23:04, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

Same here: It doesn't work in FF 2.07.--Oneiros 11:37, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

Correction: It works in FF 2.08; I had to enable popups for Wikipedia.--Oneiros 00:34, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

Filter Recent changes not working very well...

The Filter Recent Changes tool is not working properly. I is missing a LOT of stuff (Go through Recent I.P. edits, look for vandalism, then compare to the Filter and you'll see what I mean). Although it does not actually work, unlike a couple days ago, it is still not operating as well as it should be. Could somebody please fix this? Thanks! -Billy227, Review my account!! ^{talk contribs sndbx usbx} 19:50, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

Can you find some specific examples of edits which should have been caught, but weren't? Without that it's going to be hard for anyone to pinpoint the problem. (ESkog)^(Talk) 20:25, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

I'd like to point that the RSS feed the page is reading only takes a handful of edits every 30 seconds. So you don't process every change. -- lucasbfr ^talk 23:17, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

I'm addressing this complaint too. It use to catch 3x the vandalism then it is the today. So it is missing a lot of stuff then it uste to.--PrestonH^{(Review Me!) • (Sign Here!)} 03:01, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

I am working on it, it might not work at all for a while. When it is done you have to click Shift-Reload to update. Cacycle 05:18, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

It should work now, please click Shift-Reload to update. Cacycle 08:06, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

It is a bit slow, when it processes a new feed my browser freezes for a second or so. Was it like that before? Cacycle 08:16, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

It's always done the short-freeze thing for me (using Firefox). Bit of a pain. CIreland 08:34, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

I have added some anti-freeze code, it now pauses for 50 ms after processing each changed article. That changes the freezing into stuttering... Please click Shift-Reload to update. Cacycle 20:43, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

Rollback Still not Working

I have cleared my monobook.js file and re-entered the script, but rollback still doesn't work.--Katieh5584 20:26, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

Hmmm mine either. Error is my revision not equaling the revision to be reverted. (As if someone had already reverted, but is not the case.) Navou 02:40, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

It now works for me. Please update by Shift-Reload. If the problems persist then please report all relevant details (what exactly happens, JavaScript errors, browser version...). Thanks, Cacycle 05:07, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

When I click rollback nothing happens, I'm not using any popup blockers and I'm using IE 7.0.--Katieh5584 16:52, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

I'm getting same error. Navou 17:01, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

Have you updated to the latest version by clicking Shift-Reload (or pressing Shift-F5). Please provide all possible details so that I can try to fix this. This includes the exact sequence of steps to reproduce this with a description of what exactly happens at each step, JavaScript errors, popup error messages, browser version, or the respective Wikipedia articles. Thanks, Cacycle

The error is

Querying revisions.... Done

Evaluating revisions to see if 66.25.152.123 is the last contributor...

Latest revision doesn't equals our revision 134222574

Latest revision is made by 66.25.152.123, but we will stop reverting anyway.

I used the filter recent changes, and the sandbox showed up in the list of filtered recent changes, so I clicked on the "last" button, then the Rollback AGF button on the next page when reverting sandbox. I use Firefox latest version. No Javascript errors pop up.Some of the user scripts I have userfied. If you don't mind, tell me which ones I need to copy back over if need be, however, I think lupin is not one. You might have to take a look at the scripts in my userspace here. I'm not all that good at this stuff, so any assistance you can offer is most appreciated. Navou 02:17, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

You are using your own (possibly outdated) copy of popups. Please try the "official" way of installing Lupin's popups. Cacycle 03:06, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

Rollback finally works! After refreshing the cache twice, I got a message saying that I should paste this "{{User:Lupin/autoedit.js}}" (without the quotes) into my monobook.js page. So, I did, and it works! --Smokizzy ^{Review Me! (Please!)} 02:50, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

User blacklists gone?

What happened to the feature where when you revert a user, all their future edits show up, highlighted in green? Has it stopped working, or have I just not seen it in a while? -- BlastOButter42 ^See Hear _Speak 09:35, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

It had stopped working, but I think I've just fixed that. Thanks for letting me know! Lupin|talk|popups 16:15, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

Tool not working

I'm not getting any results on All recent changes or Filter recent changes tonight Drc79 19:18, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

Seems to have started working now. Drc79 21:02, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

New user warnings

Could the tool be modified to use the newer user warning templates like {{uw-vandalism1}} (at WP:UTM)? I find them to be better written and more suited to what I need to warn the vandals about. -- BlastOButter42 ^See Hear _Speak 04:01, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

Problem with AVT

This morning (June 7, 2007), I haven't been able to get the AVT to work. When I click "Filter Recent Changes," the seven checkboxes are not at the top of the page like they normally are. One update still occurs, but it is always empty. I am using Windows XP with IE 6. Can you fix this? RJaguar3 | u | t 01:26, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

It's fixed, please update (Shift-Reload). IE requires a tbody element. Cacycle 23:49, 10 June 2007 (UTC)

uw warnings

I took the liberty to replace the warn button by {{uw-test1}} and {{uw-vandalism1}}, what do you think? -- lucasbfr ^talk 23:37, 16 June 2007 (UTC)

Good, thanks. -- BlastOButter42 ^See Hear _Speak 04:50, 19 June 2007 (UTC)

Add Wikidefcon to page

Hi i think it would be a good idea to add wikidefcon template prefix=User:Misza13/|Vandalism information|prefix=User:Misza13 on the page. -- (Cocoaguy ここがいい _contribs^talk) 02:21, 14 July 2007 (UTC)

I said the same thing a while ago. It was turned down because it is not a true indicator of the vandalism, but a users perception of the amount of vandalism. :-) Stwalkerster talk 21:00, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

Roll back too far

I've recently been having a problem where the old version it reverts back to is incorrect. Say an editor makes two edits back-to-back, and the second edit it the one which looks like a vandal (since the tools only shows us the most recent edit). So for example, I may see edit 2 [1] and think there is something wrong, so I roll back. However, the tool does not roll back to the immediate prior edit, but rather will go back to the edit prior to this "suspicious" editor. So instead of rolling back only the second edit, it rolls both edits back, resulting in [2].

As a solution I would recommend one of a number of fixes:

1. only roll back the single edit
2. notify that there are multiple edits, and give a chance to cancel and review
3. instead of showing the last edit, show all of the changes that would be reverted

Thanks. Tiggerjay 02:15, 28 July 2007 (UTC)

Hello, Tiggerjay; the "problem" you are talking about is not actually a problem. It is how it was designed. Generally, vandals would contribute more than one edit. 9 out of 10 edits may all be bad. It would make more sense to revert all the user's revisions up to the last edit where another user edited. However, you do bring up three good points!— Andy W. ^{(talk/contrb.)} 01:22, 18 August 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the reply. I should have added that it is a great tool and I figured that it was designed "this way" on purpose, because the logic makes sense "most of the time". However, I've received complains from a few people (not many) for problems with too many reverts. Thanks again. Tiggerjay 15:58, 5 October 2007 (UTC)

Same changes appearing over again

I was using the filter, and I clicked a link, then clicked the link back to the filter. Then the very same changes that had appeared originally appeared over again, like the filter was stuck or something.--Avant Guard 19:06, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

IP Block

Hi there,

Would it be possible to change the IPBlock feature slightly so that if your not an admin it adds the IP address to WP:AIV?

Thanks Doyley Talk 10:05, 5 October 2007 (UTC)

I second this suggestion, however, try using Twinkle as well as Lupin. Very useful! :) RyanLupin (^talk/_contribs) 10:52, 5 October 2007 (UTC)

Not working right?

The tool appears to be "matching" things like <, !!, |, or -, and never any profanity or even words. I've tried refreshing my browser several times. Anyone else having this problem? ~Eliz81^(C) 17:15, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

I agree, there appears to be a lot of !!, |, and - appearing in the filter lately. I can understand double exclamation being filtered but the rest? RyanLupin (^talk/_contribs) 20:41, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

Same problem. I'd like to know what is causing it. I haven't got a single word, but I got lots of < > | [ ] Puchiko (talk • contribs • email) 20:44, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

I'm not getting words showing up, but if you click on "show details", the vandalism is encased in the < and >. Weird! Neranei (talk) 22:17, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

Same problem here, except I'm getting perfectly ordinary edits (when it updates at all), it's triggering on things like a single bracket in an ordinary non-vandalism wikilink. --Darkwind (talk) 06:15, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

Yes, it's gotten to the point now where I cannot use Lupin simply because it doesn't seem to be filtering out vandalism but merely legit edits. RyanLupin (^talk/_contribs) 06:18, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

I don't know when Lupin will be around to fix it. I looked at his User Contributions [3], and his last edit was on 5th September. I hope he will resume editing soon. Puchiko (talk • contribs • email) 17:00, 20 October 2007 (UTC)

I can still use it, it's just more annoying. Neranei (talk) 19:38, 20 October 2007 (UTC)

Fixed

I did some poking around, and neither the javascript page, nor the actual filter recent changes page, nor the form of the RSS recent changes feed had changed recently; therefore, the cause must have been the bad words list. I reverted to the Sept. 29th version of the badwords list and followed the instructions to force-reload the badwords page and the filter recent changes page, and the tool is now working normally for me. If you're still having trouble, visit the bad words page and follow the instructions for "To see the effects of changes" etc. --Darkwind (talk) 23:05, 20 October 2007 (UTC)

Never have I been so delighted to see profanity scrolling across my screen! Thank you so much Darkwind for taking care of this. ~Eliz81^(C) 03:10, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

*bows* Thank you so much! Love, Neranei (talk) 03:12, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

Thanks! This reminded me of how much I take for granted, I just expect to be able to use all the tools. Puchiko (talk • contribs • email) 13:19, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the fix! :) RyanLupin (^talk/_contribs) 17:32, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

Fix for another issue, kinda

Ever notice how sometimes the page will get "stuck" and only update with new changes two or three times in an hour? You can tell when this is happening because it will display row after row of "updating... done up to <a certain time>", and that time doesn't change for what seems like an eternity...

After some further poking around, I've discovered this is caused by the server-side caching of the RSS feed that powers the tool. One fix that will work is visiting the recent changes RSS feed URL in another browser window or tab and adding &action=purge to the end. I've found this will immediately cause AVT to update to a new time with new changes. However, you have to do this each time it's necessary to force an update.

Another option is to disable server-side caching for all pages you visit, which is an option in your preferences. The downside to this option is that it will cause slightly increased server load whenever you're browsing Wikipedia while logged in, as well as slightly longer delays in loading some pages.

A third option, which I'm about to try (mostly for S&G), is copying the script out into your own user subpage and editing the URL the script uses for the RSS feed to include the action=purge parameter. The downside to this is that you'll miss out on any changes the next time the script is updated.

The ideal option is for Lupin (t c) to edit the script to add the &action=purge, or for the server admins to disable caching for the RSS recent changes feed. However, neither of those is likely to happen any time very soon (Lupin has been MIA since the beginning of September, and I have no idea who to talk to about server-side issues). --Darkwind (talk) 00:35, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

Err, forget the preferences option. I already had it set, and it didn't work; probably because the script makes a direct connection to the server and downloads the page, bypassing your login the process. --Darkwind (talk) 00:48, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

Hmm. Copying the script to my userspace and editing the feed URL worked. I'm getting more changes to review than I ever have before, which seems to indicate this change also helps plug the "holes" mentioned in the script source. By extension, AVT will work in this new and enhanced way for everyone while I'm actively running my modified copy since my AVT will be telling the Wikipedia server to purge its cache of the recent changes feed every 30 seconds or so, but it will go back to "normal" when I stop RC patrolling.

So, if you want to make sure your AVT is always constantly updating with new changes to review, you can change your importScript line in your monobook.js to read importScript("User:Darkwind/recent2.js"); instead of "User:Lupin/recent2.js". Please note this should be a temporary fix only until Lupin updates the master copy of the script to include this change, or until the server admins stop caching the RSS feed. --Darkwind (talk) 01:19, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for investigating this issue. I've added action=purge to my copy of the script just now. Lupin|talk|popups 21:33, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

Admin rollback not working?

The admin rollback doesn't seem to be working. When clicked a little box pops up (not like popups, like the Windows boxes and the only button says "Ok"), it says:

"No rollback link found. Maybe you should try the non-admin rollback by checking the check-box above? Alternatively this might be a bug."

The non-admin rollback works fine so I'll use that but is this a known bug or would it be conflicting with something else in my js page? I'm not too good with javascript so I wouldn't know. James086^{Talk | Email} 13:16, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

Same problem over here. I'll try the non-admin rollback for the time being, then. CattleGirl ^talk 22:39, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

Should be fixed now, so holler if it's still not working for you. Lupin|talk|popups 21:33, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

It works for me now. Thanks! Great tool by the way. James086^{Talk | Email} 04:38, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

I am getting this bug too :( -- Naerii 23:27, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

Why "waking"

I have a question, Why exactly is "waking" a bad word? It has been bugging me for a while now. Rgoodermote(Respond Here) 20:29, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

I'm not sure, perhaps a mispelling of "wanking"? I don't know though, that's just my guess. James086^{Talk | Email} 01:35, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

Thought of that, come to think of it I haven't seen wanking come up in a while. Rgoodermote(Respond Here) 02:14, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

I'm not familiar with 'waking' but I'm sure you can adjust the script. —— Ryan ^{(t)•(c)•(review me!)} 15:13, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

I already tryed, but because of my unfamiliarity with Lupin's code I have no clue how to change the badword filter. Rgoodermote(Respond Here) 16:44, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

As stated at the top of the filter recent changes page, the bad word list is located at User:Lupin/badwords. It consists of a list of regexes; just edit the one that's causing the problem. --Darkwind (talk) 12:58, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

Here's the problematic line. I'll let someone else fix it. Lupin|talk|popups 21:37, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

 /(ja(k+|g+)|jerk+|wh?a[ck]+|wan[ck]+)(a|e[rd]|in[g']?)?[sz]?[- ]?(as+|off|up|wad|shit+)?(a|e[rsd]||in[g']?|ery)?[sz]?/

(last) and (hist) not working right

Also per WT:AVT, appears that a lot of options are taking to the highlighted potentially bad diff only, whether clicking on last, hist, or rollback. ~Eliz81^(C) 08:00, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

"Unchanged after 4 updates" working right?

Maybe it's related to the problem above, but I like patrolling with this option to let the bots/speed demons catch the stuff first, and I can get what falls through the cracks. However, with this option checked, I now seem to be picking up a ton of diffs that were reverted a minute or less after the flagged diff was made. ~Eliz81^(C) 08:23, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

Filter recent changes not working?

The Filter recent changes tool does not show any edits. Is it because the vandals finally gives up on wikipedia (hurray!) or is it not working (boo)? KillerGorillaV (Talk) 02:12, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

It's working for me. Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 10:53, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

Problem?

Is there a problem with the tool? It seems that sometimes when I rollback an editor, it gives the vandal the credit for the edit. When I normally edit using Lupin's tool, the pattern in my contribs is usually revert edit, then warning to vandal's talk, then revert etc. It looks different when I looked last at my contribs, where it looks like I warned a vandal for no apparent reason. It seemed weird, so I thought I'd ask. Happy editing, Midorihana^{~いいですね？} 03:07, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

Is the tool adapted to the non-admin rollbacker group? Midorihana^{~いいですね？} 00:50, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

It shouldn't need too, if admin syntax is ok, just do not mark "non admin rollback". Anyway I never used its build-in rollback, I prefer to load the diff and then use twinkle. Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 13:28, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

It says "no rollback link found" sometimes when I try to use rollback. Midorihana^~iidesune? 05:59, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

Me too. It seems to be working at about a 75% success rate; the other times, it comes up with the above error message. And it doesn't appear to have anything to do with the 4 reverts per minutes throttle on my account. The Evil Spartan (talk) 09:01, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

Option

Perhaps you could add an option to remove a person from the "rolled back this editor previously" list. It would ideally show up only when someone came up in green. Do you think this would be a good option, or do you think it would add an unnecessary level of complexity? The Evil Spartan (talk) 09:25, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

Another problem,

I may have missed something important, but this isn't working with Safari, yet 'Monitor my watchlist' is, so... Daedalus (talk) 23:07, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

Show only edits made by anonymous users?

How about an option that only shows edits made by anonymous users? Gary King (talk) 04:31, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

There's one titled "Recent IP edits"; do you mean filtered and IP edits? Midorihana^{~いいですね? はい!} 05:00, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, filtered AND IP edits. Gary King (talk) 22:13, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

Rollback not working

The script is claiming that I don't have rollback when I do :( Helps? -- Naerii 00:37, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

I have the same problem too. :( Cheers, Midorihana^{~いいですね? はい!} 04:59, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

Do you two have the "non-admin rollback" box ticked? --Puchiko (Talk-email) 14:18, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

Well, no. -- Naerii 22:35, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

I raised this about two months ago, and honestly I'm becoming a bit befuddled that people aren't reading the previous posts: #Problem.3F. That's the point, we have admin rollback, even if not admins, and it only works about 2/3 of the time, which makes it not worth using, and makes reversions a lot harder. The Evil Spartan (talk) 18:49, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

Non-admin rollback isnt working for me at all-- Freshbakedpie ^{(Wanna talk?) \'_'/} 16:17, 12 September 2008 (UTC)

Anyone else getting an Internal Server Error with non-admin rollback? Looks like I'll be using my Rollbacker privileges for some time. SMC (talk) 09:32, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

I'm with the guys above. Autoedit rollback (i.e. what everyone can use) stopped working months ago; MediaWiki rollback (as available to rollbackers and admins) works when it can find the link, but it doesn't always find the link. Philip Trueman (talk) 14:31, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

bug

The antivandal tool doesn't work. Dagoth Ur, Mad God (talk) 08:00, 15 June 2008 (UTC)

Could you perhaps be a little bit more specific? ——Ryan | t • c 09:11, 15 June 2008 (UTC)

New [Show Details] placement

Lovin it! ~Beano~ ^{(talk) (contribs)} 22:21, 3 November 2008 (UTC)

Edit summary

What's showing up around the article in the edit summary is nonsense. It should be [[ and ]] instead to link to the article. Can someone fix this? Thanks! MathCool10 ^{Sign here!} 21:32, 1 January 2009 (UTC)

Please go to User_talk:Lupin/Anti-vandal_tool to discuss this script.

Login bug

File:Odd WP screenshot.PNG was shown at the help desk, and I tried the same, and got the same bug. Not a big issue, but thought it should be raised. -- Jack?! 03:11, 28 July 2010 (UTC)