CryptoDerk's Vandal Fighter (CDVF) is an open-source software that displays a live feed of recent changes (RC) and contains functionality to assist both admins and non-admins in fighting vandalism.
The last version of the CDVF is 2.2, released on May 31, 2005 works on all Wiki-projects but some features only work on English projects for now (see changelog).
CDVF connects to an Internet Relay Chat server where it reads the RC from Wikimedia's bots (which means it doesn't have to query the database at all). Relevant information is then added to a table ( see screenshot).
Note: Though you can use any browser, it's probably easiest if you use a browser that supports tabbed browsing (e.g. Firefox with Tabbrowser Extension) and set it to open links from an external program in a new tab.
To assist in sorting the good from the bad, the following features are present
Pattern
for help on making regular expressions. If you are having problems coming up with a proper regular expression, just ask on the talk page.
Additional behind-the-scenes functionality includes:
Features not yet present:
You will need either the Java 2 Runtime Environment (J2RE) version 1.4 or 1.5. If you do not know if you have either of these installed, you can attempt to run the program, but if it does not work, you will need to download the Java_Runtime_Environment.
The CDVF program can be downloaded at the following locations:
All you need to do is download vf.jar, run it, and click the connect button. If you're using command line, run java -jar vf.jar.
Autoscroll may be a bit "jumpy" and may not always display the last row in the table immediately.
When importing a list of admins to the whitelist, the list may look blank. The status will still indicate that the import was successful.
CryptoDerk's Vandal Fighter (CDVF) is an open-source software that displays a live feed of recent changes (RC) and contains functionality to assist both admins and non-admins in fighting vandalism.
The last version of the CDVF is 2.2, released on May 31, 2005 works on all Wiki-projects but some features only work on English projects for now (see changelog).
CDVF connects to an Internet Relay Chat server where it reads the RC from Wikimedia's bots (which means it doesn't have to query the database at all). Relevant information is then added to a table ( see screenshot).
Note: Though you can use any browser, it's probably easiest if you use a browser that supports tabbed browsing (e.g. Firefox with Tabbrowser Extension) and set it to open links from an external program in a new tab.
To assist in sorting the good from the bad, the following features are present
Pattern
for help on making regular expressions. If you are having problems coming up with a proper regular expression, just ask on the talk page.
Additional behind-the-scenes functionality includes:
Features not yet present:
You will need either the Java 2 Runtime Environment (J2RE) version 1.4 or 1.5. If you do not know if you have either of these installed, you can attempt to run the program, but if it does not work, you will need to download the Java_Runtime_Environment.
The CDVF program can be downloaded at the following locations:
All you need to do is download vf.jar, run it, and click the connect button. If you're using command line, run java -jar vf.jar.
Autoscroll may be a bit "jumpy" and may not always display the last row in the table immediately.
When importing a list of admins to the whitelist, the list may look blank. The status will still indicate that the import was successful.