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VandalProof now uses a tabbed browser interface (pictured right), similar to that of Opera, IE7 or Firefox, which should make navigation a bit easier. To open a link in a new window, simply hold down the Ctrl key and click the link. To close a tab, double-click on it.
VP can now retrieve recent changes from the RSS feed, which offers a lot of new features. For one, it now uses Lupin's badword list to identify catchwords, such as obscenities, and report them in the recent changes list under "Filter" to make spotting vandalism easier. It will also now report the number of characters added or removed in the list, and it will display any particularly large removals in boldface. You can then scroll through the edits, using up and down arrows or clicking, and they will load instantly in the main browser window as you can see to the right. While it isn't as attractive to look at as diffs, they load with almost no delay so you can review 50 edits in less than a minute. If you would rather view the diff in the old, more attractive format, you can either click on the item in the list with the Shift key pressed or you can click "Last diff" in the main browser window.
Also in the interest of making things faster, I've now implemented precached rollbacks, whereby it retrieves the oldid of the last version by the previous user to which you can revert and then prepares to revert long before you click the Rollback button. This way, when you click Rollback, the reversion is almost instantaneous. It will also disable the rollback if someone else, such as User:Tawkerbot2, has edited the page following the change you are reviewing, which helps to prevent edit and warning conflicts. It's all still a bit shakey, but coming along quite nicely.
VP now also has the functionality to filter recent changes for edits coming from an IP range.
After griping about VP's bad log-in for so long, I finally did something about it! In v1.3, when you load up VP you will see this screen. It will now automatically identify under which account you are logged in on Wikipedia and what rights you have there, and if you are not logged in correctly (due to odd IE cookies, etc.) you can then click "Chg," enter your password, and click "Log-in to WP" to log you in on VP's internal browser and bypass any cookie problems. Note that you do not have to provide your password if you choose not to, and most users will not have any problems if they are correctly logged in on IE; this feature was provided merely to make things easier--the passwords are not stored or sent anywhere, not even on your own computer. Once you have verified that you are correctly logged in, you can click "Verify Authorization" which then checks if the username is on the approved user list and will then load up the typical VP form. Thanks to Yurik's fabulous Wiki API I've been able to make this process lightning fast!
I've now also implemented some of my first sysop tools. Under "User tools" there is now a "Block User" menu, from which you can select an expiry time, and it will automatically block the user for that time and post an appropriate block message on the user's talk page.
Following the recent AOL DoS attacks and the ceiling cat vandal, I and others agreed that the ability to pull up all on-top contributions from an IP range would be a very useful tool, so I decided to give it a shot. My first idea was to load up the contribs of every single IP address in a given range and add them to a list--then I decided I didn't feel like waiting an hour for the results, and I also didn't want to be the one responsible for bringing down Wikimedia's servers. So I came up with a much better approach that involves eliminating those IPs with no edits on top and then retrieving contribs from the remaining IPS, the results of which method proved quite successful.
As you can see at the right, this tool is now a quasi merge of the former "Rollback All" tool and another tool to retrieve the contribs from an IP range. When you load the dialog, you can input a username, an IP address, or a series of usernames and IP addresses (each divided by "&&") and click "Retrieve Contribs." This will then populate the list with all on-top contributions from the given IPs and usernames sorted by date from most recent to oldest. Double-clicking on an item will load the diff in a new browser window, and clicking "Rollback" at the bottom will then use bot rollback (admins only) to revert all checkmarked contribs from the given users or IP addresses, which goes quite quickly--much quicker than the former Rollback All tool could.
To load the contribs from an IP range, click on "Load IP Range." This will open an input box requesting the range to use, which you should enter in the following format: "STARTADDRESS::LAST". For example, "172.0.0.0::255" would equate to all IP addresses between 172.0.0.0 and 172.0.0.255. Note that all ranges must be smaller than 256 IP addresses. Once you enter the range and hit OK, the edit box at the top of the form will be filled in with a series of IP addresses ("172.0.0.0&&172.0.0.1 ... &&172.0.0.255"). Now you must be thinking that retrieving the contribs from 256 IP addresses must take a long time; however, as I hinted above, my method of elimination has resulted in a very quick query. If you look at the image to the right, you'll see that retrieving all of the on-top contribs from the AOL IP range 207.200.116.0/24 (or 207.200.116.0::255 in VP notation), quite likely the most active of all IP ranges Wikipedia, took only 52.10726 seconds; however, since I've uploaded that screenshot, I found a couple of foul-ups I made and have been able to reduce this query time even further. When I just ran this exact same query at 06:46, 28 June 2006 (UTC), it took only 37.38973 seconds.
Yes, that's right, ON WHEELS!!! VandalProof now has the ability to clean up page-move vandalism in just a couple of clicks. It's really quite simple to use — not too much to explain. You type in the username (or there will also be a menu item to load this when looking at a user's talk page, etc.) and click "Retrieve Log." This will return all the page-moves by a user and generate a list of actions to complete to undo the page-moves (as you can see to the right). Should you feel that any of the provided actions need not be performed for whatever reason, you can uncheck the item. When you click start it will go through the list, moving pages back to their original location and deleting the resulting redirect.
I actually just got to use this tool for real the other day, as you may be able to find in my log, reverting the page-move vandalism by Villy van der Veelen. There are still a couple of things I'd like to tweak on this, but for the most part, it worked flawlessly.
In the rare instances when two users attempt to revert and warn for the same edit, we often see cases of warning stacking. In v1.3, VP will be able to detect any other VandalProof warnings for the same edit and prompt you if the user has already been warned for the edit. I'm also working with Joshbuddy and Tawker to prevent stacking on top of Tawkerbot2's warnings.
I'm working on making VandalProof available on as many wikis as I can; however, to do that I need your help! Please see User:AmiDaniel/VP/Interwiki or contact me for more details.
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Most of the anti vandal tools/methods I've seen don't have any capabilities for keeping an eye on things that are listed in the user 'log' rather than 'contributions'. This makes sense because page moves get listed in both places and deletion, protect/unprotect, and most other 'log' actions are available to admins only. However, image uploads are available to everyone and can be used to vandalize by overwriting an existing image with a new one. We now protect images displayed on the main page due to this problem, but it is always possible for someone to forget to protect an image or a vandal to hit an image on the 'article of the day' or other high traffic page. If this tool could (or already does) detect cases where an existing image file has been 'updated' I think that would go a long way towards stopping such attacks. -- CBDunkerson 13:41, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
For a very, very future release in my dreams: Have a way where you can see if other users of the tool have cleared an edit, or added a user to the blacklist, and maybe an internal IRC component so you can alert other users in the vandalism wikipedia channel? :) -- Mboverload 00:01, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
I'm not sure if this is a problem obviously, since I haven't used the program. However, I would advise you to be careful with detecting the vandals' past warning histories, as some people use non-standard warning templates (such as Mine. Just out of curiosity, how do you detect what warnings they have received? — Ilyan e p (Talk) 23:43, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
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Hi, one thing that would be a very useful addition to the programme would be having button to add vw and bv tags, not just the test, test2 etc. as the bv is often a lot more appropriate than test. -- Wisd e n17 11:51, 9 April 2006 (UTC)
Would it be possible to insert a tab or new window feature (preferably a tab feature) into the program? I revert vandalism mainly using my watchlist as a base from which I open up a new tab or window, as I go up my watchlist. I tried it with the current program, but it opened up a new window in the regular IE. tv316 11:49, 9 April 2006 (UTC)
There is quite a bit of grey space doing nothing to the left and right of both the tabbed section and the browser section. I don't know if there is anyway of removing this (i.e. expanding the width of the tabbed section without reducing the browser width. Petros471 16:33, 9 April 2006 (UTC)
Is there a chance you can write a linux version fo the application or pass the code on to someone who can? -- MyNameIsNotBob 11:27, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
I've started a project to do this: VandalSniper -- Chris (talk) 22:58, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
Javs is bad times on Windows. Windows doesn't need any help crashing. I recommend C or C++. Stormscape 07:31, 2 September 2006 (UTC)
In the spirt of the tabs suggestion above, I have another idea. Going down each article in the list means there is alot of wait time for when you are checking out the next one. To make sure that what you are seeing is current it should only go one ahead. You can have this in an "hidden tab" which it changes to when you go down.
In a related idea, instead of having a static list of edits to check, make it load 3 new ones on the bottom for every 3 you check. AJAX-like. Thanks for the great program!-- Mboverload 19:58, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
See #precacheing but I have some more ideas =). Does VandalProof get the user page AND the actual article at the same time? I think it should first get the article page, display it, then get the user page.
I would also like a forward and back button with a loading status bar.
ALSO: Maybe a small button that says "PageInClip" or something shorter. What ever would this do? Well, it would surf to the URL that is in the clipboard at the momment. It would be able to parse regular urls AND [[links like this]]. Since it's just getting it from the clipboard you don't even need an address bar. Can you say pimptastic? -- Mboverload 20:10, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
How about some hotkeys? Ctl+Shift+V brings VandalProof to the top. Plus with that combination you can do it with just one hand or have a keyboard that does macro support hit it for you - while you hit only one button! Pimptastic! -- Mboverload 20:10, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
How about a column showing(in the recent changes tab) how many characters where added/removed in an edit? Since a lot of the vandalism seems, to me at least, page blanking/blanking, and adding random insults, and/or profanities.--
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Just a suggestion: if you manage to correct everything on here (including my problem) should the next version number (currently 1.0.1) really be that low? F e tofs Hello! 01:53, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
Is it possible to have one added to the next version at all? (or is it here and I'm blind!) :) Thanks again! - Gl e n T C 18:11, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
Sorry I should be more clear.
Thanks Daniel, - Gl e n T C 11:50, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
How about a built-in article whitelist? Things like the sandbox shouldn't show up in the recent changes. Well, that's the only one I can think of right now =P -- Mboverload 20:02, 14 April 2006 (UTC)
If you add a user to one of the lists, such as a user on the blacklist to the white list, their entry on the black list should be deleted.-- Mboverload 20:06, 14 April 2006 (UTC)
With VandalProof's ever expanding features and the increasing number of users I think that it is imparative that it is easy to contact any of the moderators (especially for when AmiDaniel is not online) in the event that a user is abusing the tool. It doesn't really matter if the user is intentionally abusing the tool or is having trouble using it, but they could be stopped before the damage gets out of control. The problem is that if someone notices an issue where the software is being abused, they may post it on AmiDaniel's talk page and if AmiDaniel isn't online, but another moderator is, they easily may not be aware of it. Basically, the page that I am suggesting would be an emergency page that listed the contact information for the moderators and people could list any abuse. Also, administrators could add this page to their watchlists and if they see a problem user listed, they could block the user until the user is able to fix the software problem (or in the case that is being intentionally abused, they could be stopped). I guess it would work similar to WP:AIV which basically acts as a 911 system to get into contact with administrators when a user is on a vandlism spree. Obviously I hope this wouldn't be needed very often, but I think something like this would be useful. If it is a bad idea, feel free to say so, or if it can be improved, speak up. I just don't want the community to start looking down upon this software if there becomes an issue with either troublesome users or users having trouble using the software. -- PS2pcGAMER ( talk) 07:49, 16 April 2006 (UTC)
Sorry to bug you with another issue. This is a low priority request, but would consider modifying the program to be able to adjust the widths of the display window? Right now I have an extremely wide "my watchlist", "recent changes", etc section that uses quite a bit of white space. Part of the problem is that I am running at a low resolution, but the other part is that I have a lot of tabs at the top of the page (both user added and admin tabs) that creates some horizontal scrolling. As I said, not a big deal, but I think it would be a nice ability to have. -- PS2pcGAMER ( talk) 09:07, 16 April 2006 (UTC)
I would love to have an option or workaround to make the viewing pane automatically scroll to the far right of every viewed page, so that i can see the maximum possible bit of the page at the cost of the standard wikipedia left-side bar. Also, its more useful for me to see the new edit (right side) than the old edit (left side) assuming one has to be cut off. Thanks! Great tool!- Lanoitarus (talk) .:. 05:34, 17 April 2006 (UTC)
Would it be possible to change the recent changes part of VandalProof to join an IRC channel which updates the recent changes list in real time (like on #vandalism-en-wp)? I think that'd be pretty cool, considering that there is no way to get links from an IRC client to open up in vandalproof. (Not that i've seen yet, anyway) :) Adrian( Talk) 05:39, 17 April 2006 (UTC)
I need some back and forward buttons. Really small buttons somewhere. But I need em. Related to the status bar request -- Mboverload 06:55, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
Is there some way you can prevent images from loading in the pages in the VandalProof browser? I mean, I use a dial-up connection & the Rollback buttons won't highlight till the page has completely loaded ( Adolf Hitler took nearly a minute & a half to completely load). Even on broadband, the image-filled pages take quite sometime to load. I suggest that there be some way to keep the images from loading or the Rollback buttons getting highlighted before the page has completely loaded. I always get to the vandalism & wait for the page to load only to see that someone else reverted before me! Hope you have a solution.
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Is it possible to add a button that lets you quickly got to the special:newuser?
And can you make it so we can put our own welcome messages in for the welcome button? (so when the welcome button i pressed it puts our personally made welcome there istead of the default.) I Lov E Plankton 18:20, 19 April 2006 (UTC)
Wondering if you can customize message buttons. There are a lot of test templates these days; and I make frequent use of the bv-n warning. - Roy Boy 800 07:34, 23 April 2006 (UTC)
The tool currently doesn't offer spam / advertising warnings in the User Tools | Warn menu (such as Template:spam). Similarly, such warnings aren't counted in users' vandalism warning counts. Can this be rectified? (Otherwise, superb tool by the way!) Waggers 16:37, 23 April 2006 (UTC)
Is it possible to change the default edit count from 20 to 12? Rlevse 22:13, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
P.S. this is a Feature request... not a bug:-) Eagle ( talk) ( desk) 20:34, 21 April 2006 (UTC)
Just a thought, but I have ran across several vandals that have been warned by tawkerbot, and I subsequently revert and warn with test1. As tawkerbot is "on" all of the time and reverts who knows how many edits, perhaps your program should recognize tawkerbot's warning as well. This would help "us" in recognizing whether a vandal has had "first contact" with any members of wikipedia.
distinct parts of tawkerbot's warning are...below
What do you think??? this warning is probably as commen as any other (test1-4). Sorry to bug you but hope you give it a thought. Eagle ( talk) ( desk) 05:43, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
yes, "it" makes the same message, I put it above in bold, (was there on the original post) thanks!!! Eagle ( talk) ( desk) 02:34, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
When patroling the recent changes, you come across alot of short "stubby" articles, It would be nice if we could have a button that added "xx-stub" to the bottem of a page, or just "stub".
Nice tool!
I have a suggestion, when clicking on a article in one of the left boxes, if the user that made that edit have done more consecuetive edits, it would be nice to default to show the diff of them all, it also makes reverting to the correct version much faster. Stefan 12:38, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
Is it too complicated to modify the software to fit to other Wikipedias? The guys in the Russian one, for instance, don't even have warning templates... I'm willing to write them, but not for a while - currently, I'm involved in domestic translations (microwave manual : ). -- Chodorkovskiy (talk) 10:30, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
An updatable shared blacklist. -- George Mon e y Talk Contribs 05:02, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
Okay, blacklists are grabbed from a text file, so how about the black list for everyone is shared centrally, and when a user is added to the local blacklist, it goes on the universal one. And the universal goes onto the local one. Same for whitelists.
Also, you could have a watchlist anyone can edit of highly vandalised pages. This is also importated and reflected in the RC view.
Thoughts? Computerjoe 's talk 16:17, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
I just thought, wouldn't it be cool if the software could detect what warnings (the {{ test}} series and the like) a vandal has recived, and then issues the next one, without having the user check first? Of course, a user would have to investigate before blocking someone (not to mention be an admin).
And are the recent changes updated in real time? How cool would it be to have RSS-based live collaboration with other editors weeding out vandalism?
Also, could you make it so any user with "wheel" or "communism" in their name was automatically blacklisted?
Just some ideas.-- Here T oHelp 02:00, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
How about a new pages feed? Computerjoe 's talk 17:09, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
Could you make this work with Firefox and/or Opera? I feel that IE gives me too much trouble and I don't like how it renders some pages. My guess is if you're working on this tool for Mac and/or Linux you're probably incorporating a different browser anyway, but it was just a thought. This would probably also help you with your "tabs" feature. Thanks --– sampi ( talk• contrib• email) 04:54, 12 May 2006 (UTC)
I have Lupin's anti-vandal tool and it has an option where it can filter recent changes in order to recognize "clear" vandalism. It works wonderfully. This tool combined with VandalProof would be great. Lupin filters the recent chages using this list of "vandal" words. Hope it helps! --– sampi ( talk• contrib• email) 19:57, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
Do not display edits by a user on one of his own subpages (including main and talk). You might even be able to get away with this as default if you don't want to code in a menu to turn it off and on. Cheer mate! -- mboverload @ 00:35, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
Have an option to screen out registered users who post on Wikipedia: pages. -- mboverload @ 00:40, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
An option to not add users you BL to one's own watch list. I don't want to watch them and have to constantly go in a remove them from my watchlist. Rlevse 14:12, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
I would like to suggest the addition of the db-band Speedy Deletion template to the drop-down menus. I find myself using this template a lot. -- cholmes75 16:40, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
Specifically:
Thanks matey, - Gl e n T C (Stollery) 00:37, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
It would be nice to have a confirmation button before a "Report to AIV" request is made. Something like "Are you sure you want to report User:XXXX ?"
A feature like this would have cut waaaaay back (and probably eliminated) my accidental reportings of users like Curps and Tawkerbot. -- Zpb52 03:40, 19 May 2006 (UTC)
It would be nice to be able to add a custom comment into a popup box for warning vandals or people simply in error. HighInBC 03:53, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
Hi, I see that this program uses the IE ActiveX control, I wonder if you are aware that it is very easy to use the Mozilla ActiveX control instead? See http://www.iol.ie/~locka/mozilla/control.htm for more details, there is even a very simple section called "Porting a VB project from IE control". I found that this control did not have the functionality I needed for AWB, but maybe you will have more luck. Martin 11:18, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
Hi, I would like VandalProof to ask a conformation message after I press the buttons / command buttons on the top-right side. I pressed welcomeg by accident.
Adding code shouldn't be too hard. Just add a message box that have yes and no buttons.
I'm afraid that I will rollback and warn myself by accident. lol -- Starionwolf 19:59, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
Is there any chance of improving the navigation, such as adding back and forward buttons? Apart from this it is a brilliant tool that I have been making good use of. Thanks. -- Beno1000 23:23, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
Please skip Wikipedia:Sandbox =) -- mboverload @ 06:03, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
No matter how fast I am, the amazing tawkerbot sometimes gets there first. To give his edits a real meaning, I propose that if you come apon a revert done by tawker and hit a warn button, it will warn the user tawker reverted and not him. I think this is a fairly important feature. -- mboverload @ 06:22, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
Along this same line of thought, it would be nice if a check was made right before the revert, to see if someone beat you to it. Then, if someone had, it would alert you and stop the process. Otherwise it would continue as normal. The current programming results in double warnings for the same revert (two users revert the same edit, but only one shows up, and both end up warning the user)-- SomeStrang e r( t| c) 21:04, 11 June 2006 (UTC)
Make a menu where we can add our own messages, just like we can do now for the main buttons.
On a related note, you could fit a whole new row of buttons if you made them 40% of their current size, which would perfectly fit their text. PS: Please get on IRC =) -- mboverload @ 03:10, 24 May 2006 (UTC)
Not sure if this has been asked before, if it has - sorry. Is it possible to get the program to work when "Enhanced Recent Changes" is set under User Preferences? Thanks in advance. -- Cactus.man ✍ 15:12, 28 May 2006 (UTC)
Just a thought- I'd like to be able to select the namespace for Recent Changes. In my case, I just want to see (Main). Looks like that's already been suggested, though. Also, is there an FAQ as to what all of the buttons do? BTW - I've been using VandalProof as of this morning, and I'm really liking it ^_^ -- Disavian 01:19, 3 June 2006 (UTC)
Would it be possible to have it filter out various Namespaces, i.e. not show the Talk:, User Talk: etc? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Crazynas ( talk • contribs)
It's on my list. Thanks for the suggestion. AmiDaniel ( talk) 09:40, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
I was wondering if it was possible to maybe add the feature of describing the different user warnings. What I mean is that when I do a "Rollback {{test1-n}}" for example, not always I remember what that warning is. Maybe if you can add a mouseover description of the warning it would probably decrease the number of wrong warnings I put in user talk pages just like it is done on the "C", "T", "W" and "B". Thanks. Gadig 13:53, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
Using a splitter control instead to divide the lists from the browser half would be more convenient, as I could resize them to suit my monitor size. Currently all controls seem to be resized proportionally.
FWIW this would make a kick-ass GTK+ application. -- Chris (talk) 09:27, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
I'm pretty sure I've seen this discussed elsewhere... would it be possible to get a version of the program that uses admin rollback as well as issuing warnings? I've liked the tool so far, but it seems somewhat redundant if I have one click rollback. A couple of other suggestions: button to block for n hours and add a {{ test5-n}} warning with n hours as the parameter. A series of block buttons for set amounts of time? There wouldn't necessarily need to be a seperate program for admins, since if non admins would click the buttons, MediaWiki would just tell them they couldn't do it, right? Anyway, I like the program! -- Lord Deskana Dark Lord of the Sith 21:14, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
I'd like to be able to import my counts/log from Wikipedia because I run VP on my laptop and desktop. I'm afraid one may overwrite the other - or has that been tested? -- RevRagnarok Talk Contrib Reverts 12:18, 2 June 2006 (UTC)
Not difficult to do at all. I kept all of VP's file access linear, so that any user knowing what he's doing can easily modify it. You can simply copy the Wikimark-up code of your /VandalismLog to your "VandalismLog.txt" leaving out any extra header information that VP adds in automatically. Then you can open up "MyCount.txt", where the first number is the number of edits you've reverted, and the second number is the number of mistakes you've made. You might also want to copy your /VandalismMistakes to your "VandalismMistakes.txt" as well. As long as you update it after logging off and copy it when you log in on a new machine, it shouldn't be a problem at all. If you'd like me to add in a little feature to do this automatically, I probably could quite easily. AmiDaniel ( talk) 09:05, 3 June 2006 (UTC)
Could the "Warning user using VandalProof" edit summary be changed to say which warning it was? "Issuing test3 to user using VandalProof" or something? -- Tango 18:09, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
I know many of us using VP would like to be able to use our custom signatures when we post our test templates and other assorted warnings. Any way it can be worked in to use '~~~' optionally instead of '~~~~?' -^ demon [yell at me] [ubx_war_sux] / 19:24, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
As an aside, I have to say I'm something of a signature nazi and don't at all approve of excessive sig cutomization. (So you know, your sig, with timestamp, is a ridiculous 382 characters long--the message of your post occupied two lines and your sig three--excessive, if you ask me.) However, you can customize this in VP already if you'd like. Open up your "CustomButtons.txt" and append to the end of each template message "~~~##NOSIG". The "##NOSIG" will tell VP not to append your sig to the message. AmiDaniel ( talk) 02:43, 11 June 2006 (UTC)
This tool or the related bot should also leave a message on the user talk page pointing to Wikipedia:Vandalism.
The edit counter has a limit on it. Make it able to be set unlimited so we can get accurate counts. Rlevse 20:38, 10 June 2006 (UTC)
For me, it would be really helpful if there were a way top revert an edit and report the editor to WP:AIV in one action. I find that I have to open a new window with the article and do the revert by hand while I report the editor in VandalProof. Also, is there a back button for the browser? -- David.Mestel 05:47, 11 June 2006 (UTC)
Can you stop it being able to use {{delete}} as it quite cleary states that the tag is obsolete. Have it so it the user must use one of the Deletion templates instead. Thanks. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 01:31, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
I think the rollback buttons would be more useful if they added a section header, like so:
=== [[Article Name]] === {subst:test1-n|Article Name}} ~~~~
Otherwise things just kind of blend together like here. -- RevRagnarok Talk Contrib Reverts 01:32, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
I would like to have the ability to set that my VP edits should not go to my watchlist, after having used VP for a while now Im getting more and more especially user talk pages of other users varning common IP vandal cluttering my watch list. I can go and remove these pages, but I would rather be able to set it in VP, I also would not like to have the articles themselves on my watchlist. Except for that, wonderful tool, keep up the good work, looking forward to the next version!! Stefan 06:26, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
I'm always comming across articles that need this speedy deletion tag: {db-group} (with the other two { }) -- mboverload @ 05:56, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
Is there any way that the reporting feature for AIV could differentiate between IP users and logged in users so that it could use the correct templates? (IP users should be marked with {{ IPvandal}}, not {{ vandal}}).-- SomeStrang e r( t) 21:53, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
This feature would be great to find vandalism and revert it. Anonymous_ _Anonymous 17:21, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
It would be useful if the program had two versions (admin and non-admin) and could tell whether you were an admin or not. That way, it would automatically give you admin tools if you were an admin (including "real" rollback), or non-admin tools if not. -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 18:14, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
Would it be a bad idea to release a "lite" version (with limited features) that doesn't require authorization to use? -- Ixfd64 21:40, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
I've got another suggestion. As you probably know, some authorized users (including myself) are having trouble with the authentication due to browser/cookie issues. An idea to solve this problem is to allow users to verify themselves by entering their username and password into VandalProof. This implementation can also potentially prevent unauthorized users from using VandalProof on an authorized user's computer. The only problem is that some users may not feel comfortable about entering their password into third-party programs. -- Ixfd64 22:41, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
You haven't thought of using a Gecko layout engine, instead of IE, have you? — Mets501 ( talk) 18:54, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
Was about to suggest tabbed browsing, but I see that's covered. What about a button to the effect of "Rollback, then go to user's contribs"? Apologies if something already works that way, I'm not in a position to check at the moment. Though part of me also wonders if tabbed browsing would, in itself, render that function silly. Food for thought. Luna Santin 09:45, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
When I click buttom to "see all edits by this user" or whatever when a ip or user has made multiple edits in a row, VP re-retrieves the warning information that it had already pulled up a second ago. maybe this could be eliminated. I'm not familiar with the code, but it seems logical. savidan (talk) (e@) 18:16, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
Just a suggestion, but could the tool be modified to allow custom warnings to be saved for future use? Also, could we have a "preview warning" feature. Thanks - GW_Simulations |User Page | Talk | Contribs | E-mail 21:10, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
I dont know if this has been raised but...sometimes when I warn a user on a cetain topic a different person warns the user at the same time...so is there a way to check to see if the current articles the vandals or someone reverting it when you click one of the warning buttons? I think Lupin has something like that? Dspradau 21:47, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
One additional problem - strikes me again and again. Is VP warning a user where I didnot revert as someone else was faster. Often I leave the warning as the other reverter does not leave one but I think that VP should check that it actually edited the article before leaving a warning - lovely program though - Peripitus (Talk) 12:01, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
I don't vandalproof much, so this may be foolishness, but can we have a feature with the different deletion tags? That would be helpful for Special:Newpages patrollers. GangstaEB~( penguin logs) 19:00, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
If you were to implement an option for the sections to be over-under rather than side-by-side, perhaps room could be made for a display of the number of charachters changed, like in Anti-Vandal tool. -- Scienceman123 04:59, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
I think you should implement a feature that adds a new section for each warning (chackbox maybe?) so that it says "Your recent edit to XXXXX" instead of just slapping it on the bottom of the page. Also, for the article tools, maybe a feature to tag for NPOV, cleanup, accuracy, etc. -- Scienceman123 02:58, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
<Rollback 0> Rollback <ROLLBACK 1> Rollback {{test1-n}} == Your Recent Edits to [[%P]] == {{subst:test1-n|%P}} <ROLLBACK 2> Rollback {{test1a-n}} == Your Recent Edits to [[%P]] == {{subst:test1a-n|%P}} <ROLLBACK 3> Rollback {{test2-n}} == Your Recent Edits to [[%P]] == {{subst:test2a-n|%P}} <ROLLBACK 4> Rollback {{test2a-n}} == Your Recent Edits to [[%P]] == {{subst:test2a-n|%P}} <ROLLBACK 5> Rollback {{test3-n}} == Your Recent Edits to [[%P]] == {{subst:test3-n|%P}} <ROLLBACK 6> Rollback {{test4-n}} == Your Recent Edits to [[%P]] == {{subst:test4-n|%P}} <ROLLBACK 7> Rollback (Custom) ##CUSTOMWARNING <TALK 0> {{welcomeg}} ==Welcome== {{subst:welcomeg}}##NOSIG Welcoming user <TALK 1> {{anon}} ==Welcome== {{subst:anon}} Welcoming anonymous user <TALK 2> {{summary}} ==Please Use Edit Summaries== {{subst:summary}} Advising user to use edit summaries <TALK 3> {{Adw}} {{subst:Adw|%P}} Warning user that [[%P]] has been nominated for AfD <TALK 4> {{Drmafd}} ==Do Not Remove AfD Notices== {{subst:drmafd}} Warning user not to remove AfD notices <TALK 5> {{Nn-warn}} ==[[%P]]== {{subst:Nn-warn|%P}} Warning user that [[%P]] has been tagged for speedy deletion <TALK 6> {{drmspeedy}} {{subst:drmspeedy}} Warning user not to remove CSD notices <TALK 7> {{wr}} ==Do Not Remove Warnings== {{subst:wr}} Warning user not to remove warnings Am I doing something wrong? -- Scienceman123 23:15, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
Would it be possible to have pop-up messages on buttons in the next version - it would be very helpful for people like me with a poor memory and new users? By that I mean if you hoover over the "rollback test n-1" button, it previews what the text would be (it does not have to be dynamic but just an indicator of the standard text that would appear?
-- Charlesknight 16:38, 6 August 2006 (UTC)
Maybe a second row. I'd like a few buttons for speedy deletion and notification (specifically one for db-copyvio and sd-nothanks1), a button for rollback/blatentvandal, etc. St.isaac 05:07, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
I was looking for the same thing that Scienceman123 was, and I think I know the problem. When you have a ==Header== followed by other text on the same line, the header ceases to work. As the custom buttons only allow you one line for the warning, it's currently impossible to add a header with the warning. The suolution? Instead using a new line to detect the start of the next button parameter, use some symbol, like a * or ^. That way, headers can be added and VP will add a much nicer looking display to vandalpages. -- Daniel Olsen 21:39, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
I know that I can do a find in the right-hand pane by using ctrl-f or doing a right click, but.... would it be possible to add the ability to do a find in the left-hand pane? In particular, I would like it for finding an article in my Watchlist. Thanks for your consideration. -- Brian G ( Talk) 23:31, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
Hi: do you have anyway of adding a feature to VP whereby it would flag up (in a different colour, say) edits made to articles in certain categories? We have had a bit of trouble tonight with edits made to Christine Jennings, who is running for US Congress later this year. I've done a bit of detective work and it seems to me that Jennings and the woman she is running against, Jan Schneider, have both had people make edits to the articles which serve their own interests. I've discussed this with User:Jkelly, and he is of the opinion - and I agree with him - that this sort of thing is only going to get worse as we approach the election in November. I've created a category, Category:2006 US Congressional Election Candidates, and would love it if VP could flag up all edits to articles from this category. Any chance you could do that? Perhaps the best way would be to give users of VP the option to watch whatever category they wanted, then they could choose whether certain edits were flagged or not. -- Jim ( Talk) 00:24, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
How about making it easier to import the blacklist and the whitelist more convenient. Might I suggest putting an import button such as the one above the administrator list next to each list and then the global list gets updated automatically when you log out. Tarret 19:53, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
What I would like is you know the bar where we can see the users warning.. If we could fly off and have a list of what the users warning with each dates in order... If you know what I mean.. right now we can have 2*t1, t2, t3 9 September, 2006.. but the list would give
t1: 30 March, 2006 t2: 30 March, 2006 t3: 1 April, 2006 t1: 9 September, 2006...
I know it would be kind of hard.. but anyway that would get us the exact dates of warnings, or the order.. it would be great :) -- Deenoe 14:21, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
It seems from the above that we're going to get some really great enhancements in the next version. I can't wait! Can you give any idea when it's likely to be released? -- MichaelMaggs 16:59, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
AOL users in those IP bands that are often assigned differently on each page load should not be warned. Doing so will almost never reach the right person and will just serve to annoy. Instead, {{ AOL}} should be added to the top of the page if it's not already there. The full list of AOL proxy IPs is here. — Simetrical ( talk • contribs) 02:46, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
Any chance you can create an instruction manual for new people? -- AAA! ( talk • contribs) 06:34, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
The Rollback {{test1-n}}, {{test2-n}}, etc buttons should have a division when placing the warnings, i.e. "----", so it doesn't seem related to other messages on the talk page. Take a look at this diff and you should see what I mean. -- AAA! ( talk • contribs) 07:11, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
Hello,
First off thanks a lot for making such a great vandal-fighting tool! It works great and it makes RC Patrol a lot easier.
With that said, I have one or two suggestions...
1) Give an option to not display edits to user/talk pages. I'm finding that these are less commonly vandalized than the mainspace articles. 2) Give an option to bold featured articles that are edited. I'm finding that edits to these made by anonymous users are quite often vandalism, or reduce the quality of the article and require attention.
That's it for now! My apologies if these have already been suggested. — Lantoka ( talk | contrib) 08:51, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
I edit and create articles on a iMac G5, and i would like to do anything to prevent vandalism on wikipedia. Can you please possibly make a VP Version capable for the Mac? If you can, i will apply to get it!
KING ALEX 56 RULES!!!!!!!! 01:06, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
You guys may be interested in WikiGuard. -- Chris (talk) 17:12, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
VP will never be Mac-capable, I'm afraid, but if you're interested in a similar tool that will run on a Mac, I'm currently working on a Java port of the WP:VP2 client, which will be available soon. AmiDaniel ( talk) 19:41, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
The current template {{anon}} is somewhat different in the information it gives compared with {{welcomeg}}.
I have just created template {{Anonwelcomeg}} using the {{welcomeg}} details, but without any usernames included. Could this be substituted for the current {{anon}} template so that the information in each is the same? Richard Harvey 10:05, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
I'm sorry if this has been brought up before, or even exists in the tool, but can there be an option to scan and list the recent changes for IP edits that have warning messages in their talk page? the same way it does this when you select a diff. - Tutmosis 00:56, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
What about making the program calculate some kind of a Score for every edit telling users how probable it is that the edit is vandalism? This combined with the planned feature of network cooperation (so every edit gets checked only once or twice) would make it a lot easier. You could for example make a (automated?) list of "known good contributors" or give positive scores to users (the more a user edits without vandalism, the bigger the score) and give edits by this users a lower spam probability. You could also allow everyone to use VP for voicing his opinion, the opinions of users with a high positive score being given more weight (just add up the scores of all users that say "this is vandalism" - if the sum is over the value of x, revert) and other nice things. Would be really a lot of coding though, that would require a whole trusted dev team. -- 195.145.172.242 13:04, 3 December 2006 (UTC) (I do not have an account in the en wiki, just de)
Are there any plans about #VandalProof in other languages? Version for de.wp would be very nice :-) Greetings, Pill- 21:39, 16 December 2006 (UTC)
Wouldn't it be sort of better if VP could tell whether you have been beaten to reverting and will therefore not add it to the log? Go Futurama! Us e r:Sp3000 05:47, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
You know how there's an option to hide WL Edits, Bot Edits, etc. Would it be possiblt to add in an option to hide talk pages as well? I'm always abotu to hit ollback on an opinion until I realize it's a talk page.-- Wizardman 15:46, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
I wonder if it has been considered, but why not adding an option to display the last recent change made since the last other user before the current suspected vandal, quite frankly there are some vandalism that I can spot only through going through the last records. Could that be added ? -- Esurnir 00:44, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
Although I'm a WP:VP user and not an admin, its frustrating to have to take an admins time up to do blocks in repeat ongoing vandal attacks. It would be nice if WP:VP allowed its users to do a 1 hour or possibly 1 day temporary block on anon vandals after a T4 warning has been ignored. That would allow us to prevent much of the 'school dinner break' and 'Office dinner break' vandalism spree's! Richard Harvey 20:23, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
It would be nice if there was this option as it would be very useful if you're dealing with say a spam bot that has just spammed 100 pages. Of course it should check if his change was succeeded by someone else's.
Another suggestion is to let you revert vandalism even if there was an edit after the vandalism IF the edit after the vandalism was done by the same user that did the original vandalism. Yonatanh 20:01, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
Are there any plans to update VandalProof to use the new standardised warning templates at WP:UWT? WJB scribe 17:30, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
Does your tool automatically seek out changes like do > don't or adding 'not' or vice versa? Basically, sneaky changes to change a positive to a negative and negative to a positive? Although there will be some legitimate cases, such changes appearing on their own seem pretty suspect to me. -- Seans Potato Business 18:06, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
I suggest that when you are RC patrolling, the revert buttons should be: Rollback {{test}}, Rollback {{vandal}}, Rollback {{delete}}, Rollback {{spam}}, 2 more various options, and Rollback (custom). Each of the four rollback buttons would open a small popup window which would ask the warning level (1, 2, 3, 4, or 4im), and then would post the appropriate warning using the new system {{subst:uw-warningtype#|Pagename}}. Administrators would use one of the extra two buttons for Rollback {{block}}. This would allow over 20 warning templates to be accessed quickly and easily without use of the custom warning button, while still leaving one or two buttons open for customization. Pyrospirit Flames Fire 00:56, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
It would be nice if there was an edit summary when reporting someone on the AIV page. Instead, it makes me look like I neglect to add an edit summary. Thanks. Wikipediarul e s 2221 01:21, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
It would be nice if going to 'Article Tools' > 'Search Google' would either open a new window using the user's default browser or open it in a tab within VandalProof. I know that there are no plans to use Firefox, or any other browser, instead of IE for VandalProof but this wouldn't effect the people with IE as their default browser and would be nice for thoes of us that prefer another browser.
It would also be nice if we could set it to open in a tab within VandalProof. -- Credema 05:41, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
It would be nice to omit talk page edits from the recent changes list, since fighting vandalism on user pages isn't really a priority (for me at least). This can be implemented as a "Hide talk page edits" option in the Update drop down menu -- Davidkazuhiro 07:46, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
Some more templates to put on articles would be nice. Maybe, NPOV, sources, cleanup/wikify. Things like that would be helpful, maybe under a misc. section in Article tools. Mr.Z-man talk ¢ 21:57, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
It would really help vandalism fighting on RC patrol if the RSS feed showed the whole contribution of the editor in the diff rather than just the last edit. I've made a good number of mistakes this way, and it's really annoying when I have to go to the normal Wikipedia history to get the right diff. Pyrospirit Flames Fire 02:24, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
My preferences are set so that any article I edit is automatically added to my watchlist. However, whenever I use VP, I really don't want to watch those particular articles because I have no interested in doing so. Can we possibly have a feature in which we choose whether or not we want to watch those articles we edit?-- Ed ¿Cómo estás? 18:06, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
Very quick suggestion: There should be a button that allows you to hide the left pane with a click. I often use this program to normally read Wikipedia, but the left pane often causes display issues outside of Recent Changes. Pyrospirit Flames Fire 02:45, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
Is there any chance of a version of VandalProof being released that uses Mozilla Firefox rather than Internet Explorer? It would work much better for many people because a lot of user javascript only works for Firefox. Pyrospirit Flames Fire 02:49, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
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Michael Billington (
talk •
contribs)
09:23, 7 March 2007 (UTC)I've answered this before, but I'll answer it again. Mozilla's ActiveX control at present has a highly underdevolped DOM wrapper. Without a fully implemented DOM wrapper, it cannot be used for, well, anything except very, very primitive web browsing. It also has massive bugs in the software, causing massive memory leaks and making it almost completely unusable. It is also a highly complex and large component, requiring all users to not only have Firefox installed, but also to register a mass of dll's and ocx's (which has the risk of corrupting registries and interfering with IE components). I too would like to see VP and WikiMonitor and all other such softwares make use of the Gecko engine, which I find to be far superior to IE's, but the options Mozilla has provided to do this are simply not stable nor fully-compatible to actually use. In short, as Mike said, don't hold your breath. It likely will never happen. AmiDaniel ( talk) 22:10, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
It's not particularly difficult to disable non-ie compatible scripts on your own:
var detect = navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase(); var IE; var place = detect.indexOf('msie') + 1; if (place) IE=true; if (!IE) { /* Your FF scripts here ... */ }
-- AmiDaniel ( talk) 06:14, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
It would be nice if the user box on the contribs tab would be a drop-down menu containing the last n (10?) users that have been used in that tab. I use vandalproof to revert spammers, and now I have to do quite some operations to switch between two spammers/vandals. -- Dirk Beetstra T C 15:15, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
Could VP automatically add an edit summary when reporting a user to AIV. I currently have enabled the force me to include an edit summary option which is a useful reminder but means I have to put one in myself when automaticaly reporting a user to AIV.
Goodnightmush
01:42, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
Seriously, it's been driving me crazy. Every time I clear my browser cache (Ctrl + F5), find something (Ctrl + F), undo something (Ctrl + Z), redo something (Ctrl + Y), print (Ctrl + P), cut/copy/paste (Ctrl + X/C/Z), or use any number of other common functions involving the Ctrl key, I end up inadvertently opening the next link I click in a new tab in VP.
It would be much appreciated if you did one of two things:
It's gotten to the point where it significantly interferes with editing, and a little thing like that shouldn't be too hard to fix. Pyrospirit Flames Fire 04:08, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
will VP be able to identify spam in newer versions? — ze ro » 04:50, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
I think you should include buttons that goes to the previous page and next page, instead of clicking ctrl+B or ctrl+W everytime. -- Jacklau96 13:53, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
I recently created a new template, {{ wlink}}. It's designed to simplify linking to edit pages, history pages, diffs, purge functions, redirect pages, etc. This template might be useful in VandalProof.
Basically, VandalProof's rollback warning messages currently link to the diff in the standard method (using as an example one of my recent VP reverts):
[http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Lorton%2C_Virginia&diff=next&oldid=113828317 link]
This appears as link.
The new template would replace that with this:
{{wlink|Lorton, Virginia|link|diff=next|oldid=113828317}}
This has the exact same function, linking to the same diff, but is simpler and appears as [1] instead.
In case you do decide to implement this template into the VP messages, there's a couple small differences you should know about in case they would affect VP's functioning. (Knowing the sensitive nature of programming, there's a good chance it would change some things.) For one, links that use this template replace spaces with +
in the URL instead of _
. Also, an extra &
is applied to the end of the URL.
One problem with this is that if someone messes up the template, it could cause chaos with VP-generated posts. (I've broken the template a couple times myself.)
Anyway, it may or may not be useful in VP, but I'd just like you to know about it now that it's there for use. Pyro spirit Shiny! 23:12, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
Can you make a bookmark tab for VP in the next version? If I want to concentrate in removing example.jpgs, I dont need to type the URLs any more. Thanks. -- Jacklau96 09:31, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
Please read before you tell me to edit the CustomButtons.txt
I know that I can customise the buttons on the top (i.e. {{test1-n}} etc.). I know, because I have customised mine (heavily). What I don't know, is why we can't customise the eigth button (Rollback (Custom)). I mean, we can customise it (I could change it to warn the user for some other random thing for example). But why can we not customise the list of custom warnings in that Custom button? Or if we can, how? If I'm not being too clear, I mean this:
<ROLLBACK 7> Rollback (Custom) ##CUSTOMWARNING
Note that when you press this button (Rollback (Custom)) you are provided with a list of custom messages (and you can, of course, specify your own message). But why can we not add our own messages to this list, or modify the list in any way? If it's obvious and I just can't see it, please point it out to me. I'm using 1.3.5, by the way (1.3.6 has way too many RSS related bugs). -- Razor ICE 13:12, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
Username reporting features should lead to WP:UAA now. This board uses the {{ userlinks}} template for reports. Thanks. GDonato ( talk) 21:37, 4 May 2007 (UTC) Well to be precise;
Ryan Postlethwaite 21:44, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
I'm not sure if this is a feature or not that's already been implemented, but I can't find it in any case. I suggest a button somewhere to allow you to report an individual straight to
Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism.
Mouse Nightshirt
19:05, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
Could there be a feature added that allows the user to ask that a page be either fully or semi protected (using much the same format as the WP:AIV tool)? C0N6R355 talk contribs 22:47, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
Would it be possible for Vandalproof to detect whether a page exists before placing a speedy template? I've often found that while I'm pondering, someone has already speedied the article, so I end up recreating it with just a speedy template. David Mestel( Talk) 07:31, 26 May 2007 (UTC)
Make this program compatible with twinkle as I know many users who have twinkle won't use this program else wise. — « ANIMUM » 23:10, 19 July 2007 (UTC)
I am requesting that my user page be semi-protected. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Threeonezero ( talk • contribs) 14:28, August 27, 2007 (UTC)
I previously used Twinkle as my anti-vandal tool, and after i preformed a revert, it would say wehter it was a vandal revert, or a good faith revert by saying "identified as vadalism" or "reerting good faith". I would like to see that feature hear at VP, b/c there have been problems with users thinking it was a good faith revert when it was really for vandalism. Tiptoety 23:03, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
Could warnings automatically be given out when tagging articles for speedy deletion (and prodded deletion for that matter)? Thanks. -- Michael Greiner 19:56, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
How about a button that shows up on older revisions that you can click that will restore that one. (Good for when there are many vandalism edits made by a lot of people that haven't been reverted.) Thanks! —Signed by KoЯnfan71 My Talk Sign Here! 00:18, 5 October 2007 (UTC)
Wikiproject User Warnings says that we should put the month and year into the headline text for each month of warnings.
Example:
==October 2007== (Warnings Here) ==November 2007== ETC
Why not make VP able to detect if the date header is there, and then put it in if there isn't one. Thanks! —Signed by KoЯnfan71 My Talk Sign Here! 00:23, 5 October 2007 (UTC)
Though I realize a Linux release would probably be next in line, has there been any consideration of a release of VP for Mac OS? Mr Senseless ( talk) 00:45, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
Calvin 1998 Talk Contribs 02:03, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
I saw many people asking for a Mac OS X version or a Linux version. I know a very simple solution for this: QT 4. It's a cross platform toolkit, and with KHTML and KIO you can easily port it, since it will no longer be dependant of Internet Explorer (KHTML renders the HTML page, KIO will be able to use HTTP). It's actually very easy to work with, it will be cross-platform (all you have to do is telling your compiler to cross-compile, GCC can do this), so Linux and Mac OS X users would be able to use it too. Note that a QT app looks like a normal, native toolkit-app on non- X11-platforms (Mac OS X, Windows). Yes, that means that your app could also be ported to Solaris or BSD.
There's only some bad thing about QT: you need to release your program as GPL, and should free the sources therefore. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.67.29.125 ( talk) 15:37, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
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VandalProof now uses a tabbed browser interface (pictured right), similar to that of Opera, IE7 or Firefox, which should make navigation a bit easier. To open a link in a new window, simply hold down the Ctrl key and click the link. To close a tab, double-click on it.
VP can now retrieve recent changes from the RSS feed, which offers a lot of new features. For one, it now uses Lupin's badword list to identify catchwords, such as obscenities, and report them in the recent changes list under "Filter" to make spotting vandalism easier. It will also now report the number of characters added or removed in the list, and it will display any particularly large removals in boldface. You can then scroll through the edits, using up and down arrows or clicking, and they will load instantly in the main browser window as you can see to the right. While it isn't as attractive to look at as diffs, they load with almost no delay so you can review 50 edits in less than a minute. If you would rather view the diff in the old, more attractive format, you can either click on the item in the list with the Shift key pressed or you can click "Last diff" in the main browser window.
Also in the interest of making things faster, I've now implemented precached rollbacks, whereby it retrieves the oldid of the last version by the previous user to which you can revert and then prepares to revert long before you click the Rollback button. This way, when you click Rollback, the reversion is almost instantaneous. It will also disable the rollback if someone else, such as User:Tawkerbot2, has edited the page following the change you are reviewing, which helps to prevent edit and warning conflicts. It's all still a bit shakey, but coming along quite nicely.
VP now also has the functionality to filter recent changes for edits coming from an IP range.
After griping about VP's bad log-in for so long, I finally did something about it! In v1.3, when you load up VP you will see this screen. It will now automatically identify under which account you are logged in on Wikipedia and what rights you have there, and if you are not logged in correctly (due to odd IE cookies, etc.) you can then click "Chg," enter your password, and click "Log-in to WP" to log you in on VP's internal browser and bypass any cookie problems. Note that you do not have to provide your password if you choose not to, and most users will not have any problems if they are correctly logged in on IE; this feature was provided merely to make things easier--the passwords are not stored or sent anywhere, not even on your own computer. Once you have verified that you are correctly logged in, you can click "Verify Authorization" which then checks if the username is on the approved user list and will then load up the typical VP form. Thanks to Yurik's fabulous Wiki API I've been able to make this process lightning fast!
I've now also implemented some of my first sysop tools. Under "User tools" there is now a "Block User" menu, from which you can select an expiry time, and it will automatically block the user for that time and post an appropriate block message on the user's talk page.
Following the recent AOL DoS attacks and the ceiling cat vandal, I and others agreed that the ability to pull up all on-top contributions from an IP range would be a very useful tool, so I decided to give it a shot. My first idea was to load up the contribs of every single IP address in a given range and add them to a list--then I decided I didn't feel like waiting an hour for the results, and I also didn't want to be the one responsible for bringing down Wikimedia's servers. So I came up with a much better approach that involves eliminating those IPs with no edits on top and then retrieving contribs from the remaining IPS, the results of which method proved quite successful.
As you can see at the right, this tool is now a quasi merge of the former "Rollback All" tool and another tool to retrieve the contribs from an IP range. When you load the dialog, you can input a username, an IP address, or a series of usernames and IP addresses (each divided by "&&") and click "Retrieve Contribs." This will then populate the list with all on-top contributions from the given IPs and usernames sorted by date from most recent to oldest. Double-clicking on an item will load the diff in a new browser window, and clicking "Rollback" at the bottom will then use bot rollback (admins only) to revert all checkmarked contribs from the given users or IP addresses, which goes quite quickly--much quicker than the former Rollback All tool could.
To load the contribs from an IP range, click on "Load IP Range." This will open an input box requesting the range to use, which you should enter in the following format: "STARTADDRESS::LAST". For example, "172.0.0.0::255" would equate to all IP addresses between 172.0.0.0 and 172.0.0.255. Note that all ranges must be smaller than 256 IP addresses. Once you enter the range and hit OK, the edit box at the top of the form will be filled in with a series of IP addresses ("172.0.0.0&&172.0.0.1 ... &&172.0.0.255"). Now you must be thinking that retrieving the contribs from 256 IP addresses must take a long time; however, as I hinted above, my method of elimination has resulted in a very quick query. If you look at the image to the right, you'll see that retrieving all of the on-top contribs from the AOL IP range 207.200.116.0/24 (or 207.200.116.0::255 in VP notation), quite likely the most active of all IP ranges Wikipedia, took only 52.10726 seconds; however, since I've uploaded that screenshot, I found a couple of foul-ups I made and have been able to reduce this query time even further. When I just ran this exact same query at 06:46, 28 June 2006 (UTC), it took only 37.38973 seconds.
Yes, that's right, ON WHEELS!!! VandalProof now has the ability to clean up page-move vandalism in just a couple of clicks. It's really quite simple to use — not too much to explain. You type in the username (or there will also be a menu item to load this when looking at a user's talk page, etc.) and click "Retrieve Log." This will return all the page-moves by a user and generate a list of actions to complete to undo the page-moves (as you can see to the right). Should you feel that any of the provided actions need not be performed for whatever reason, you can uncheck the item. When you click start it will go through the list, moving pages back to their original location and deleting the resulting redirect.
I actually just got to use this tool for real the other day, as you may be able to find in my log, reverting the page-move vandalism by Villy van der Veelen. There are still a couple of things I'd like to tweak on this, but for the most part, it worked flawlessly.
In the rare instances when two users attempt to revert and warn for the same edit, we often see cases of warning stacking. In v1.3, VP will be able to detect any other VandalProof warnings for the same edit and prompt you if the user has already been warned for the edit. I'm also working with Joshbuddy and Tawker to prevent stacking on top of Tawkerbot2's warnings.
I'm working on making VandalProof available on as many wikis as I can; however, to do that I need your help! Please see User:AmiDaniel/VP/Interwiki or contact me for more details.
None at this time
Most of the anti vandal tools/methods I've seen don't have any capabilities for keeping an eye on things that are listed in the user 'log' rather than 'contributions'. This makes sense because page moves get listed in both places and deletion, protect/unprotect, and most other 'log' actions are available to admins only. However, image uploads are available to everyone and can be used to vandalize by overwriting an existing image with a new one. We now protect images displayed on the main page due to this problem, but it is always possible for someone to forget to protect an image or a vandal to hit an image on the 'article of the day' or other high traffic page. If this tool could (or already does) detect cases where an existing image file has been 'updated' I think that would go a long way towards stopping such attacks. -- CBDunkerson 13:41, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
For a very, very future release in my dreams: Have a way where you can see if other users of the tool have cleared an edit, or added a user to the blacklist, and maybe an internal IRC component so you can alert other users in the vandalism wikipedia channel? :) -- Mboverload 00:01, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
I'm not sure if this is a problem obviously, since I haven't used the program. However, I would advise you to be careful with detecting the vandals' past warning histories, as some people use non-standard warning templates (such as Mine. Just out of curiosity, how do you detect what warnings they have received? — Ilyan e p (Talk) 23:43, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
Moved from Questions / Feedback
Hi, one thing that would be a very useful addition to the programme would be having button to add vw and bv tags, not just the test, test2 etc. as the bv is often a lot more appropriate than test. -- Wisd e n17 11:51, 9 April 2006 (UTC)
Would it be possible to insert a tab or new window feature (preferably a tab feature) into the program? I revert vandalism mainly using my watchlist as a base from which I open up a new tab or window, as I go up my watchlist. I tried it with the current program, but it opened up a new window in the regular IE. tv316 11:49, 9 April 2006 (UTC)
There is quite a bit of grey space doing nothing to the left and right of both the tabbed section and the browser section. I don't know if there is anyway of removing this (i.e. expanding the width of the tabbed section without reducing the browser width. Petros471 16:33, 9 April 2006 (UTC)
Is there a chance you can write a linux version fo the application or pass the code on to someone who can? -- MyNameIsNotBob 11:27, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
I've started a project to do this: VandalSniper -- Chris (talk) 22:58, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
Javs is bad times on Windows. Windows doesn't need any help crashing. I recommend C or C++. Stormscape 07:31, 2 September 2006 (UTC)
In the spirt of the tabs suggestion above, I have another idea. Going down each article in the list means there is alot of wait time for when you are checking out the next one. To make sure that what you are seeing is current it should only go one ahead. You can have this in an "hidden tab" which it changes to when you go down.
In a related idea, instead of having a static list of edits to check, make it load 3 new ones on the bottom for every 3 you check. AJAX-like. Thanks for the great program!-- Mboverload 19:58, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
See #precacheing but I have some more ideas =). Does VandalProof get the user page AND the actual article at the same time? I think it should first get the article page, display it, then get the user page.
I would also like a forward and back button with a loading status bar.
ALSO: Maybe a small button that says "PageInClip" or something shorter. What ever would this do? Well, it would surf to the URL that is in the clipboard at the momment. It would be able to parse regular urls AND [[links like this]]. Since it's just getting it from the clipboard you don't even need an address bar. Can you say pimptastic? -- Mboverload 20:10, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
How about some hotkeys? Ctl+Shift+V brings VandalProof to the top. Plus with that combination you can do it with just one hand or have a keyboard that does macro support hit it for you - while you hit only one button! Pimptastic! -- Mboverload 20:10, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
How about a column showing(in the recent changes tab) how many characters where added/removed in an edit? Since a lot of the vandalism seems, to me at least, page blanking/blanking, and adding random insults, and/or profanities.--
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Just a suggestion: if you manage to correct everything on here (including my problem) should the next version number (currently 1.0.1) really be that low? F e tofs Hello! 01:53, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
Is it possible to have one added to the next version at all? (or is it here and I'm blind!) :) Thanks again! - Gl e n T C 18:11, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
Sorry I should be more clear.
Thanks Daniel, - Gl e n T C 11:50, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
How about a built-in article whitelist? Things like the sandbox shouldn't show up in the recent changes. Well, that's the only one I can think of right now =P -- Mboverload 20:02, 14 April 2006 (UTC)
If you add a user to one of the lists, such as a user on the blacklist to the white list, their entry on the black list should be deleted.-- Mboverload 20:06, 14 April 2006 (UTC)
With VandalProof's ever expanding features and the increasing number of users I think that it is imparative that it is easy to contact any of the moderators (especially for when AmiDaniel is not online) in the event that a user is abusing the tool. It doesn't really matter if the user is intentionally abusing the tool or is having trouble using it, but they could be stopped before the damage gets out of control. The problem is that if someone notices an issue where the software is being abused, they may post it on AmiDaniel's talk page and if AmiDaniel isn't online, but another moderator is, they easily may not be aware of it. Basically, the page that I am suggesting would be an emergency page that listed the contact information for the moderators and people could list any abuse. Also, administrators could add this page to their watchlists and if they see a problem user listed, they could block the user until the user is able to fix the software problem (or in the case that is being intentionally abused, they could be stopped). I guess it would work similar to WP:AIV which basically acts as a 911 system to get into contact with administrators when a user is on a vandlism spree. Obviously I hope this wouldn't be needed very often, but I think something like this would be useful. If it is a bad idea, feel free to say so, or if it can be improved, speak up. I just don't want the community to start looking down upon this software if there becomes an issue with either troublesome users or users having trouble using the software. -- PS2pcGAMER ( talk) 07:49, 16 April 2006 (UTC)
Sorry to bug you with another issue. This is a low priority request, but would consider modifying the program to be able to adjust the widths of the display window? Right now I have an extremely wide "my watchlist", "recent changes", etc section that uses quite a bit of white space. Part of the problem is that I am running at a low resolution, but the other part is that I have a lot of tabs at the top of the page (both user added and admin tabs) that creates some horizontal scrolling. As I said, not a big deal, but I think it would be a nice ability to have. -- PS2pcGAMER ( talk) 09:07, 16 April 2006 (UTC)
I would love to have an option or workaround to make the viewing pane automatically scroll to the far right of every viewed page, so that i can see the maximum possible bit of the page at the cost of the standard wikipedia left-side bar. Also, its more useful for me to see the new edit (right side) than the old edit (left side) assuming one has to be cut off. Thanks! Great tool!- Lanoitarus (talk) .:. 05:34, 17 April 2006 (UTC)
Would it be possible to change the recent changes part of VandalProof to join an IRC channel which updates the recent changes list in real time (like on #vandalism-en-wp)? I think that'd be pretty cool, considering that there is no way to get links from an IRC client to open up in vandalproof. (Not that i've seen yet, anyway) :) Adrian( Talk) 05:39, 17 April 2006 (UTC)
I need some back and forward buttons. Really small buttons somewhere. But I need em. Related to the status bar request -- Mboverload 06:55, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
Is there some way you can prevent images from loading in the pages in the VandalProof browser? I mean, I use a dial-up connection & the Rollback buttons won't highlight till the page has completely loaded ( Adolf Hitler took nearly a minute & a half to completely load). Even on broadband, the image-filled pages take quite sometime to load. I suggest that there be some way to keep the images from loading or the Rollback buttons getting highlighted before the page has completely loaded. I always get to the vandalism & wait for the page to load only to see that someone else reverted before me! Hope you have a solution.
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Is it possible to add a button that lets you quickly got to the special:newuser?
And can you make it so we can put our own welcome messages in for the welcome button? (so when the welcome button i pressed it puts our personally made welcome there istead of the default.) I Lov E Plankton 18:20, 19 April 2006 (UTC)
Wondering if you can customize message buttons. There are a lot of test templates these days; and I make frequent use of the bv-n warning. - Roy Boy 800 07:34, 23 April 2006 (UTC)
The tool currently doesn't offer spam / advertising warnings in the User Tools | Warn menu (such as Template:spam). Similarly, such warnings aren't counted in users' vandalism warning counts. Can this be rectified? (Otherwise, superb tool by the way!) Waggers 16:37, 23 April 2006 (UTC)
Is it possible to change the default edit count from 20 to 12? Rlevse 22:13, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
P.S. this is a Feature request... not a bug:-) Eagle ( talk) ( desk) 20:34, 21 April 2006 (UTC)
Just a thought, but I have ran across several vandals that have been warned by tawkerbot, and I subsequently revert and warn with test1. As tawkerbot is "on" all of the time and reverts who knows how many edits, perhaps your program should recognize tawkerbot's warning as well. This would help "us" in recognizing whether a vandal has had "first contact" with any members of wikipedia.
distinct parts of tawkerbot's warning are...below
What do you think??? this warning is probably as commen as any other (test1-4). Sorry to bug you but hope you give it a thought. Eagle ( talk) ( desk) 05:43, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
yes, "it" makes the same message, I put it above in bold, (was there on the original post) thanks!!! Eagle ( talk) ( desk) 02:34, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
When patroling the recent changes, you come across alot of short "stubby" articles, It would be nice if we could have a button that added "xx-stub" to the bottem of a page, or just "stub".
Nice tool!
I have a suggestion, when clicking on a article in one of the left boxes, if the user that made that edit have done more consecuetive edits, it would be nice to default to show the diff of them all, it also makes reverting to the correct version much faster. Stefan 12:38, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
Is it too complicated to modify the software to fit to other Wikipedias? The guys in the Russian one, for instance, don't even have warning templates... I'm willing to write them, but not for a while - currently, I'm involved in domestic translations (microwave manual : ). -- Chodorkovskiy (talk) 10:30, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
An updatable shared blacklist. -- George Mon e y Talk Contribs 05:02, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
Okay, blacklists are grabbed from a text file, so how about the black list for everyone is shared centrally, and when a user is added to the local blacklist, it goes on the universal one. And the universal goes onto the local one. Same for whitelists.
Also, you could have a watchlist anyone can edit of highly vandalised pages. This is also importated and reflected in the RC view.
Thoughts? Computerjoe 's talk 16:17, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
I just thought, wouldn't it be cool if the software could detect what warnings (the {{ test}} series and the like) a vandal has recived, and then issues the next one, without having the user check first? Of course, a user would have to investigate before blocking someone (not to mention be an admin).
And are the recent changes updated in real time? How cool would it be to have RSS-based live collaboration with other editors weeding out vandalism?
Also, could you make it so any user with "wheel" or "communism" in their name was automatically blacklisted?
Just some ideas.-- Here T oHelp 02:00, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
How about a new pages feed? Computerjoe 's talk 17:09, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
Could you make this work with Firefox and/or Opera? I feel that IE gives me too much trouble and I don't like how it renders some pages. My guess is if you're working on this tool for Mac and/or Linux you're probably incorporating a different browser anyway, but it was just a thought. This would probably also help you with your "tabs" feature. Thanks --– sampi ( talk• contrib• email) 04:54, 12 May 2006 (UTC)
I have Lupin's anti-vandal tool and it has an option where it can filter recent changes in order to recognize "clear" vandalism. It works wonderfully. This tool combined with VandalProof would be great. Lupin filters the recent chages using this list of "vandal" words. Hope it helps! --– sampi ( talk• contrib• email) 19:57, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
Do not display edits by a user on one of his own subpages (including main and talk). You might even be able to get away with this as default if you don't want to code in a menu to turn it off and on. Cheer mate! -- mboverload @ 00:35, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
Have an option to screen out registered users who post on Wikipedia: pages. -- mboverload @ 00:40, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
An option to not add users you BL to one's own watch list. I don't want to watch them and have to constantly go in a remove them from my watchlist. Rlevse 14:12, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
I would like to suggest the addition of the db-band Speedy Deletion template to the drop-down menus. I find myself using this template a lot. -- cholmes75 16:40, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
Specifically:
Thanks matey, - Gl e n T C (Stollery) 00:37, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
It would be nice to have a confirmation button before a "Report to AIV" request is made. Something like "Are you sure you want to report User:XXXX ?"
A feature like this would have cut waaaaay back (and probably eliminated) my accidental reportings of users like Curps and Tawkerbot. -- Zpb52 03:40, 19 May 2006 (UTC)
It would be nice to be able to add a custom comment into a popup box for warning vandals or people simply in error. HighInBC 03:53, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
Hi, I see that this program uses the IE ActiveX control, I wonder if you are aware that it is very easy to use the Mozilla ActiveX control instead? See http://www.iol.ie/~locka/mozilla/control.htm for more details, there is even a very simple section called "Porting a VB project from IE control". I found that this control did not have the functionality I needed for AWB, but maybe you will have more luck. Martin 11:18, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
Hi, I would like VandalProof to ask a conformation message after I press the buttons / command buttons on the top-right side. I pressed welcomeg by accident.
Adding code shouldn't be too hard. Just add a message box that have yes and no buttons.
I'm afraid that I will rollback and warn myself by accident. lol -- Starionwolf 19:59, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
Is there any chance of improving the navigation, such as adding back and forward buttons? Apart from this it is a brilliant tool that I have been making good use of. Thanks. -- Beno1000 23:23, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
Please skip Wikipedia:Sandbox =) -- mboverload @ 06:03, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
No matter how fast I am, the amazing tawkerbot sometimes gets there first. To give his edits a real meaning, I propose that if you come apon a revert done by tawker and hit a warn button, it will warn the user tawker reverted and not him. I think this is a fairly important feature. -- mboverload @ 06:22, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
Along this same line of thought, it would be nice if a check was made right before the revert, to see if someone beat you to it. Then, if someone had, it would alert you and stop the process. Otherwise it would continue as normal. The current programming results in double warnings for the same revert (two users revert the same edit, but only one shows up, and both end up warning the user)-- SomeStrang e r( t| c) 21:04, 11 June 2006 (UTC)
Make a menu where we can add our own messages, just like we can do now for the main buttons.
On a related note, you could fit a whole new row of buttons if you made them 40% of their current size, which would perfectly fit their text. PS: Please get on IRC =) -- mboverload @ 03:10, 24 May 2006 (UTC)
Not sure if this has been asked before, if it has - sorry. Is it possible to get the program to work when "Enhanced Recent Changes" is set under User Preferences? Thanks in advance. -- Cactus.man ✍ 15:12, 28 May 2006 (UTC)
Just a thought- I'd like to be able to select the namespace for Recent Changes. In my case, I just want to see (Main). Looks like that's already been suggested, though. Also, is there an FAQ as to what all of the buttons do? BTW - I've been using VandalProof as of this morning, and I'm really liking it ^_^ -- Disavian 01:19, 3 June 2006 (UTC)
Would it be possible to have it filter out various Namespaces, i.e. not show the Talk:, User Talk: etc? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Crazynas ( talk • contribs)
It's on my list. Thanks for the suggestion. AmiDaniel ( talk) 09:40, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
I was wondering if it was possible to maybe add the feature of describing the different user warnings. What I mean is that when I do a "Rollback {{test1-n}}" for example, not always I remember what that warning is. Maybe if you can add a mouseover description of the warning it would probably decrease the number of wrong warnings I put in user talk pages just like it is done on the "C", "T", "W" and "B". Thanks. Gadig 13:53, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
Using a splitter control instead to divide the lists from the browser half would be more convenient, as I could resize them to suit my monitor size. Currently all controls seem to be resized proportionally.
FWIW this would make a kick-ass GTK+ application. -- Chris (talk) 09:27, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
I'm pretty sure I've seen this discussed elsewhere... would it be possible to get a version of the program that uses admin rollback as well as issuing warnings? I've liked the tool so far, but it seems somewhat redundant if I have one click rollback. A couple of other suggestions: button to block for n hours and add a {{ test5-n}} warning with n hours as the parameter. A series of block buttons for set amounts of time? There wouldn't necessarily need to be a seperate program for admins, since if non admins would click the buttons, MediaWiki would just tell them they couldn't do it, right? Anyway, I like the program! -- Lord Deskana Dark Lord of the Sith 21:14, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
I'd like to be able to import my counts/log from Wikipedia because I run VP on my laptop and desktop. I'm afraid one may overwrite the other - or has that been tested? -- RevRagnarok Talk Contrib Reverts 12:18, 2 June 2006 (UTC)
Not difficult to do at all. I kept all of VP's file access linear, so that any user knowing what he's doing can easily modify it. You can simply copy the Wikimark-up code of your /VandalismLog to your "VandalismLog.txt" leaving out any extra header information that VP adds in automatically. Then you can open up "MyCount.txt", where the first number is the number of edits you've reverted, and the second number is the number of mistakes you've made. You might also want to copy your /VandalismMistakes to your "VandalismMistakes.txt" as well. As long as you update it after logging off and copy it when you log in on a new machine, it shouldn't be a problem at all. If you'd like me to add in a little feature to do this automatically, I probably could quite easily. AmiDaniel ( talk) 09:05, 3 June 2006 (UTC)
Could the "Warning user using VandalProof" edit summary be changed to say which warning it was? "Issuing test3 to user using VandalProof" or something? -- Tango 18:09, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
I know many of us using VP would like to be able to use our custom signatures when we post our test templates and other assorted warnings. Any way it can be worked in to use '~~~' optionally instead of '~~~~?' -^ demon [yell at me] [ubx_war_sux] / 19:24, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
As an aside, I have to say I'm something of a signature nazi and don't at all approve of excessive sig cutomization. (So you know, your sig, with timestamp, is a ridiculous 382 characters long--the message of your post occupied two lines and your sig three--excessive, if you ask me.) However, you can customize this in VP already if you'd like. Open up your "CustomButtons.txt" and append to the end of each template message "~~~##NOSIG". The "##NOSIG" will tell VP not to append your sig to the message. AmiDaniel ( talk) 02:43, 11 June 2006 (UTC)
This tool or the related bot should also leave a message on the user talk page pointing to Wikipedia:Vandalism.
The edit counter has a limit on it. Make it able to be set unlimited so we can get accurate counts. Rlevse 20:38, 10 June 2006 (UTC)
For me, it would be really helpful if there were a way top revert an edit and report the editor to WP:AIV in one action. I find that I have to open a new window with the article and do the revert by hand while I report the editor in VandalProof. Also, is there a back button for the browser? -- David.Mestel 05:47, 11 June 2006 (UTC)
Can you stop it being able to use {{delete}} as it quite cleary states that the tag is obsolete. Have it so it the user must use one of the Deletion templates instead. Thanks. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 01:31, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
I think the rollback buttons would be more useful if they added a section header, like so:
=== [[Article Name]] === {subst:test1-n|Article Name}} ~~~~
Otherwise things just kind of blend together like here. -- RevRagnarok Talk Contrib Reverts 01:32, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
I would like to have the ability to set that my VP edits should not go to my watchlist, after having used VP for a while now Im getting more and more especially user talk pages of other users varning common IP vandal cluttering my watch list. I can go and remove these pages, but I would rather be able to set it in VP, I also would not like to have the articles themselves on my watchlist. Except for that, wonderful tool, keep up the good work, looking forward to the next version!! Stefan 06:26, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
I'm always comming across articles that need this speedy deletion tag: {db-group} (with the other two { }) -- mboverload @ 05:56, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
Is there any way that the reporting feature for AIV could differentiate between IP users and logged in users so that it could use the correct templates? (IP users should be marked with {{ IPvandal}}, not {{ vandal}}).-- SomeStrang e r( t) 21:53, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
This feature would be great to find vandalism and revert it. Anonymous_ _Anonymous 17:21, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
It would be useful if the program had two versions (admin and non-admin) and could tell whether you were an admin or not. That way, it would automatically give you admin tools if you were an admin (including "real" rollback), or non-admin tools if not. -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 18:14, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
Would it be a bad idea to release a "lite" version (with limited features) that doesn't require authorization to use? -- Ixfd64 21:40, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
I've got another suggestion. As you probably know, some authorized users (including myself) are having trouble with the authentication due to browser/cookie issues. An idea to solve this problem is to allow users to verify themselves by entering their username and password into VandalProof. This implementation can also potentially prevent unauthorized users from using VandalProof on an authorized user's computer. The only problem is that some users may not feel comfortable about entering their password into third-party programs. -- Ixfd64 22:41, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
You haven't thought of using a Gecko layout engine, instead of IE, have you? — Mets501 ( talk) 18:54, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
Was about to suggest tabbed browsing, but I see that's covered. What about a button to the effect of "Rollback, then go to user's contribs"? Apologies if something already works that way, I'm not in a position to check at the moment. Though part of me also wonders if tabbed browsing would, in itself, render that function silly. Food for thought. Luna Santin 09:45, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
When I click buttom to "see all edits by this user" or whatever when a ip or user has made multiple edits in a row, VP re-retrieves the warning information that it had already pulled up a second ago. maybe this could be eliminated. I'm not familiar with the code, but it seems logical. savidan (talk) (e@) 18:16, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
Just a suggestion, but could the tool be modified to allow custom warnings to be saved for future use? Also, could we have a "preview warning" feature. Thanks - GW_Simulations |User Page | Talk | Contribs | E-mail 21:10, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
I dont know if this has been raised but...sometimes when I warn a user on a cetain topic a different person warns the user at the same time...so is there a way to check to see if the current articles the vandals or someone reverting it when you click one of the warning buttons? I think Lupin has something like that? Dspradau 21:47, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
One additional problem - strikes me again and again. Is VP warning a user where I didnot revert as someone else was faster. Often I leave the warning as the other reverter does not leave one but I think that VP should check that it actually edited the article before leaving a warning - lovely program though - Peripitus (Talk) 12:01, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
I don't vandalproof much, so this may be foolishness, but can we have a feature with the different deletion tags? That would be helpful for Special:Newpages patrollers. GangstaEB~( penguin logs) 19:00, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
If you were to implement an option for the sections to be over-under rather than side-by-side, perhaps room could be made for a display of the number of charachters changed, like in Anti-Vandal tool. -- Scienceman123 04:59, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
I think you should implement a feature that adds a new section for each warning (chackbox maybe?) so that it says "Your recent edit to XXXXX" instead of just slapping it on the bottom of the page. Also, for the article tools, maybe a feature to tag for NPOV, cleanup, accuracy, etc. -- Scienceman123 02:58, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
<Rollback 0> Rollback <ROLLBACK 1> Rollback {{test1-n}} == Your Recent Edits to [[%P]] == {{subst:test1-n|%P}} <ROLLBACK 2> Rollback {{test1a-n}} == Your Recent Edits to [[%P]] == {{subst:test1a-n|%P}} <ROLLBACK 3> Rollback {{test2-n}} == Your Recent Edits to [[%P]] == {{subst:test2a-n|%P}} <ROLLBACK 4> Rollback {{test2a-n}} == Your Recent Edits to [[%P]] == {{subst:test2a-n|%P}} <ROLLBACK 5> Rollback {{test3-n}} == Your Recent Edits to [[%P]] == {{subst:test3-n|%P}} <ROLLBACK 6> Rollback {{test4-n}} == Your Recent Edits to [[%P]] == {{subst:test4-n|%P}} <ROLLBACK 7> Rollback (Custom) ##CUSTOMWARNING <TALK 0> {{welcomeg}} ==Welcome== {{subst:welcomeg}}##NOSIG Welcoming user <TALK 1> {{anon}} ==Welcome== {{subst:anon}} Welcoming anonymous user <TALK 2> {{summary}} ==Please Use Edit Summaries== {{subst:summary}} Advising user to use edit summaries <TALK 3> {{Adw}} {{subst:Adw|%P}} Warning user that [[%P]] has been nominated for AfD <TALK 4> {{Drmafd}} ==Do Not Remove AfD Notices== {{subst:drmafd}} Warning user not to remove AfD notices <TALK 5> {{Nn-warn}} ==[[%P]]== {{subst:Nn-warn|%P}} Warning user that [[%P]] has been tagged for speedy deletion <TALK 6> {{drmspeedy}} {{subst:drmspeedy}} Warning user not to remove CSD notices <TALK 7> {{wr}} ==Do Not Remove Warnings== {{subst:wr}} Warning user not to remove warnings Am I doing something wrong? -- Scienceman123 23:15, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
Would it be possible to have pop-up messages on buttons in the next version - it would be very helpful for people like me with a poor memory and new users? By that I mean if you hoover over the "rollback test n-1" button, it previews what the text would be (it does not have to be dynamic but just an indicator of the standard text that would appear?
-- Charlesknight 16:38, 6 August 2006 (UTC)
Maybe a second row. I'd like a few buttons for speedy deletion and notification (specifically one for db-copyvio and sd-nothanks1), a button for rollback/blatentvandal, etc. St.isaac 05:07, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
I was looking for the same thing that Scienceman123 was, and I think I know the problem. When you have a ==Header== followed by other text on the same line, the header ceases to work. As the custom buttons only allow you one line for the warning, it's currently impossible to add a header with the warning. The suolution? Instead using a new line to detect the start of the next button parameter, use some symbol, like a * or ^. That way, headers can be added and VP will add a much nicer looking display to vandalpages. -- Daniel Olsen 21:39, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
I know that I can do a find in the right-hand pane by using ctrl-f or doing a right click, but.... would it be possible to add the ability to do a find in the left-hand pane? In particular, I would like it for finding an article in my Watchlist. Thanks for your consideration. -- Brian G ( Talk) 23:31, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
Hi: do you have anyway of adding a feature to VP whereby it would flag up (in a different colour, say) edits made to articles in certain categories? We have had a bit of trouble tonight with edits made to Christine Jennings, who is running for US Congress later this year. I've done a bit of detective work and it seems to me that Jennings and the woman she is running against, Jan Schneider, have both had people make edits to the articles which serve their own interests. I've discussed this with User:Jkelly, and he is of the opinion - and I agree with him - that this sort of thing is only going to get worse as we approach the election in November. I've created a category, Category:2006 US Congressional Election Candidates, and would love it if VP could flag up all edits to articles from this category. Any chance you could do that? Perhaps the best way would be to give users of VP the option to watch whatever category they wanted, then they could choose whether certain edits were flagged or not. -- Jim ( Talk) 00:24, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
How about making it easier to import the blacklist and the whitelist more convenient. Might I suggest putting an import button such as the one above the administrator list next to each list and then the global list gets updated automatically when you log out. Tarret 19:53, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
What I would like is you know the bar where we can see the users warning.. If we could fly off and have a list of what the users warning with each dates in order... If you know what I mean.. right now we can have 2*t1, t2, t3 9 September, 2006.. but the list would give
t1: 30 March, 2006 t2: 30 March, 2006 t3: 1 April, 2006 t1: 9 September, 2006...
I know it would be kind of hard.. but anyway that would get us the exact dates of warnings, or the order.. it would be great :) -- Deenoe 14:21, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
It seems from the above that we're going to get some really great enhancements in the next version. I can't wait! Can you give any idea when it's likely to be released? -- MichaelMaggs 16:59, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
AOL users in those IP bands that are often assigned differently on each page load should not be warned. Doing so will almost never reach the right person and will just serve to annoy. Instead, {{ AOL}} should be added to the top of the page if it's not already there. The full list of AOL proxy IPs is here. — Simetrical ( talk • contribs) 02:46, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
Any chance you can create an instruction manual for new people? -- AAA! ( talk • contribs) 06:34, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
The Rollback {{test1-n}}, {{test2-n}}, etc buttons should have a division when placing the warnings, i.e. "----", so it doesn't seem related to other messages on the talk page. Take a look at this diff and you should see what I mean. -- AAA! ( talk • contribs) 07:11, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
Hello,
First off thanks a lot for making such a great vandal-fighting tool! It works great and it makes RC Patrol a lot easier.
With that said, I have one or two suggestions...
1) Give an option to not display edits to user/talk pages. I'm finding that these are less commonly vandalized than the mainspace articles. 2) Give an option to bold featured articles that are edited. I'm finding that edits to these made by anonymous users are quite often vandalism, or reduce the quality of the article and require attention.
That's it for now! My apologies if these have already been suggested. — Lantoka ( talk | contrib) 08:51, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
I edit and create articles on a iMac G5, and i would like to do anything to prevent vandalism on wikipedia. Can you please possibly make a VP Version capable for the Mac? If you can, i will apply to get it!
KING ALEX 56 RULES!!!!!!!! 01:06, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
You guys may be interested in WikiGuard. -- Chris (talk) 17:12, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
VP will never be Mac-capable, I'm afraid, but if you're interested in a similar tool that will run on a Mac, I'm currently working on a Java port of the WP:VP2 client, which will be available soon. AmiDaniel ( talk) 19:41, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
The current template {{anon}} is somewhat different in the information it gives compared with {{welcomeg}}.
I have just created template {{Anonwelcomeg}} using the {{welcomeg}} details, but without any usernames included. Could this be substituted for the current {{anon}} template so that the information in each is the same? Richard Harvey 10:05, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
I'm sorry if this has been brought up before, or even exists in the tool, but can there be an option to scan and list the recent changes for IP edits that have warning messages in their talk page? the same way it does this when you select a diff. - Tutmosis 00:56, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
What about making the program calculate some kind of a Score for every edit telling users how probable it is that the edit is vandalism? This combined with the planned feature of network cooperation (so every edit gets checked only once or twice) would make it a lot easier. You could for example make a (automated?) list of "known good contributors" or give positive scores to users (the more a user edits without vandalism, the bigger the score) and give edits by this users a lower spam probability. You could also allow everyone to use VP for voicing his opinion, the opinions of users with a high positive score being given more weight (just add up the scores of all users that say "this is vandalism" - if the sum is over the value of x, revert) and other nice things. Would be really a lot of coding though, that would require a whole trusted dev team. -- 195.145.172.242 13:04, 3 December 2006 (UTC) (I do not have an account in the en wiki, just de)
Are there any plans about #VandalProof in other languages? Version for de.wp would be very nice :-) Greetings, Pill- 21:39, 16 December 2006 (UTC)
Wouldn't it be sort of better if VP could tell whether you have been beaten to reverting and will therefore not add it to the log? Go Futurama! Us e r:Sp3000 05:47, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
You know how there's an option to hide WL Edits, Bot Edits, etc. Would it be possiblt to add in an option to hide talk pages as well? I'm always abotu to hit ollback on an opinion until I realize it's a talk page.-- Wizardman 15:46, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
I wonder if it has been considered, but why not adding an option to display the last recent change made since the last other user before the current suspected vandal, quite frankly there are some vandalism that I can spot only through going through the last records. Could that be added ? -- Esurnir 00:44, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
Although I'm a WP:VP user and not an admin, its frustrating to have to take an admins time up to do blocks in repeat ongoing vandal attacks. It would be nice if WP:VP allowed its users to do a 1 hour or possibly 1 day temporary block on anon vandals after a T4 warning has been ignored. That would allow us to prevent much of the 'school dinner break' and 'Office dinner break' vandalism spree's! Richard Harvey 20:23, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
It would be nice if there was this option as it would be very useful if you're dealing with say a spam bot that has just spammed 100 pages. Of course it should check if his change was succeeded by someone else's.
Another suggestion is to let you revert vandalism even if there was an edit after the vandalism IF the edit after the vandalism was done by the same user that did the original vandalism. Yonatanh 20:01, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
Are there any plans to update VandalProof to use the new standardised warning templates at WP:UWT? WJB scribe 17:30, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
Does your tool automatically seek out changes like do > don't or adding 'not' or vice versa? Basically, sneaky changes to change a positive to a negative and negative to a positive? Although there will be some legitimate cases, such changes appearing on their own seem pretty suspect to me. -- Seans Potato Business 18:06, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
I suggest that when you are RC patrolling, the revert buttons should be: Rollback {{test}}, Rollback {{vandal}}, Rollback {{delete}}, Rollback {{spam}}, 2 more various options, and Rollback (custom). Each of the four rollback buttons would open a small popup window which would ask the warning level (1, 2, 3, 4, or 4im), and then would post the appropriate warning using the new system {{subst:uw-warningtype#|Pagename}}. Administrators would use one of the extra two buttons for Rollback {{block}}. This would allow over 20 warning templates to be accessed quickly and easily without use of the custom warning button, while still leaving one or two buttons open for customization. Pyrospirit Flames Fire 00:56, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
It would be nice if there was an edit summary when reporting someone on the AIV page. Instead, it makes me look like I neglect to add an edit summary. Thanks. Wikipediarul e s 2221 01:21, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
It would be nice if going to 'Article Tools' > 'Search Google' would either open a new window using the user's default browser or open it in a tab within VandalProof. I know that there are no plans to use Firefox, or any other browser, instead of IE for VandalProof but this wouldn't effect the people with IE as their default browser and would be nice for thoes of us that prefer another browser.
It would also be nice if we could set it to open in a tab within VandalProof. -- Credema 05:41, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
It would be nice to omit talk page edits from the recent changes list, since fighting vandalism on user pages isn't really a priority (for me at least). This can be implemented as a "Hide talk page edits" option in the Update drop down menu -- Davidkazuhiro 07:46, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
Some more templates to put on articles would be nice. Maybe, NPOV, sources, cleanup/wikify. Things like that would be helpful, maybe under a misc. section in Article tools. Mr.Z-man talk ¢ 21:57, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
It would really help vandalism fighting on RC patrol if the RSS feed showed the whole contribution of the editor in the diff rather than just the last edit. I've made a good number of mistakes this way, and it's really annoying when I have to go to the normal Wikipedia history to get the right diff. Pyrospirit Flames Fire 02:24, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
My preferences are set so that any article I edit is automatically added to my watchlist. However, whenever I use VP, I really don't want to watch those particular articles because I have no interested in doing so. Can we possibly have a feature in which we choose whether or not we want to watch those articles we edit?-- Ed ¿Cómo estás? 18:06, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
Very quick suggestion: There should be a button that allows you to hide the left pane with a click. I often use this program to normally read Wikipedia, but the left pane often causes display issues outside of Recent Changes. Pyrospirit Flames Fire 02:45, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
Is there any chance of a version of VandalProof being released that uses Mozilla Firefox rather than Internet Explorer? It would work much better for many people because a lot of user javascript only works for Firefox. Pyrospirit Flames Fire 02:49, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
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Michael Billington (
talk •
contribs)
09:23, 7 March 2007 (UTC)I've answered this before, but I'll answer it again. Mozilla's ActiveX control at present has a highly underdevolped DOM wrapper. Without a fully implemented DOM wrapper, it cannot be used for, well, anything except very, very primitive web browsing. It also has massive bugs in the software, causing massive memory leaks and making it almost completely unusable. It is also a highly complex and large component, requiring all users to not only have Firefox installed, but also to register a mass of dll's and ocx's (which has the risk of corrupting registries and interfering with IE components). I too would like to see VP and WikiMonitor and all other such softwares make use of the Gecko engine, which I find to be far superior to IE's, but the options Mozilla has provided to do this are simply not stable nor fully-compatible to actually use. In short, as Mike said, don't hold your breath. It likely will never happen. AmiDaniel ( talk) 22:10, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
It's not particularly difficult to disable non-ie compatible scripts on your own:
var detect = navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase(); var IE; var place = detect.indexOf('msie') + 1; if (place) IE=true; if (!IE) { /* Your FF scripts here ... */ }
-- AmiDaniel ( talk) 06:14, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
It would be nice if the user box on the contribs tab would be a drop-down menu containing the last n (10?) users that have been used in that tab. I use vandalproof to revert spammers, and now I have to do quite some operations to switch between two spammers/vandals. -- Dirk Beetstra T C 15:15, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
Could VP automatically add an edit summary when reporting a user to AIV. I currently have enabled the force me to include an edit summary option which is a useful reminder but means I have to put one in myself when automaticaly reporting a user to AIV.
Goodnightmush
01:42, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
Seriously, it's been driving me crazy. Every time I clear my browser cache (Ctrl + F5), find something (Ctrl + F), undo something (Ctrl + Z), redo something (Ctrl + Y), print (Ctrl + P), cut/copy/paste (Ctrl + X/C/Z), or use any number of other common functions involving the Ctrl key, I end up inadvertently opening the next link I click in a new tab in VP.
It would be much appreciated if you did one of two things:
It's gotten to the point where it significantly interferes with editing, and a little thing like that shouldn't be too hard to fix. Pyrospirit Flames Fire 04:08, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
will VP be able to identify spam in newer versions? — ze ro » 04:50, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
I think you should include buttons that goes to the previous page and next page, instead of clicking ctrl+B or ctrl+W everytime. -- Jacklau96 13:53, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
I recently created a new template, {{ wlink}}. It's designed to simplify linking to edit pages, history pages, diffs, purge functions, redirect pages, etc. This template might be useful in VandalProof.
Basically, VandalProof's rollback warning messages currently link to the diff in the standard method (using as an example one of my recent VP reverts):
[http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Lorton%2C_Virginia&diff=next&oldid=113828317 link]
This appears as link.
The new template would replace that with this:
{{wlink|Lorton, Virginia|link|diff=next|oldid=113828317}}
This has the exact same function, linking to the same diff, but is simpler and appears as [1] instead.
In case you do decide to implement this template into the VP messages, there's a couple small differences you should know about in case they would affect VP's functioning. (Knowing the sensitive nature of programming, there's a good chance it would change some things.) For one, links that use this template replace spaces with +
in the URL instead of _
. Also, an extra &
is applied to the end of the URL.
One problem with this is that if someone messes up the template, it could cause chaos with VP-generated posts. (I've broken the template a couple times myself.)
Anyway, it may or may not be useful in VP, but I'd just like you to know about it now that it's there for use. Pyro spirit Shiny! 23:12, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
Can you make a bookmark tab for VP in the next version? If I want to concentrate in removing example.jpgs, I dont need to type the URLs any more. Thanks. -- Jacklau96 09:31, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
Please read before you tell me to edit the CustomButtons.txt
I know that I can customise the buttons on the top (i.e. {{test1-n}} etc.). I know, because I have customised mine (heavily). What I don't know, is why we can't customise the eigth button (Rollback (Custom)). I mean, we can customise it (I could change it to warn the user for some other random thing for example). But why can we not customise the list of custom warnings in that Custom button? Or if we can, how? If I'm not being too clear, I mean this:
<ROLLBACK 7> Rollback (Custom) ##CUSTOMWARNING
Note that when you press this button (Rollback (Custom)) you are provided with a list of custom messages (and you can, of course, specify your own message). But why can we not add our own messages to this list, or modify the list in any way? If it's obvious and I just can't see it, please point it out to me. I'm using 1.3.5, by the way (1.3.6 has way too many RSS related bugs). -- Razor ICE 13:12, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
Username reporting features should lead to WP:UAA now. This board uses the {{ userlinks}} template for reports. Thanks. GDonato ( talk) 21:37, 4 May 2007 (UTC) Well to be precise;
Ryan Postlethwaite 21:44, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
I'm not sure if this is a feature or not that's already been implemented, but I can't find it in any case. I suggest a button somewhere to allow you to report an individual straight to
Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism.
Mouse Nightshirt
19:05, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
Could there be a feature added that allows the user to ask that a page be either fully or semi protected (using much the same format as the WP:AIV tool)? C0N6R355 talk contribs 22:47, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
Would it be possible for Vandalproof to detect whether a page exists before placing a speedy template? I've often found that while I'm pondering, someone has already speedied the article, so I end up recreating it with just a speedy template. David Mestel( Talk) 07:31, 26 May 2007 (UTC)
Make this program compatible with twinkle as I know many users who have twinkle won't use this program else wise. — « ANIMUM » 23:10, 19 July 2007 (UTC)
I am requesting that my user page be semi-protected. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Threeonezero ( talk • contribs) 14:28, August 27, 2007 (UTC)
I previously used Twinkle as my anti-vandal tool, and after i preformed a revert, it would say wehter it was a vandal revert, or a good faith revert by saying "identified as vadalism" or "reerting good faith". I would like to see that feature hear at VP, b/c there have been problems with users thinking it was a good faith revert when it was really for vandalism. Tiptoety 23:03, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
Could warnings automatically be given out when tagging articles for speedy deletion (and prodded deletion for that matter)? Thanks. -- Michael Greiner 19:56, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
How about a button that shows up on older revisions that you can click that will restore that one. (Good for when there are many vandalism edits made by a lot of people that haven't been reverted.) Thanks! —Signed by KoЯnfan71 My Talk Sign Here! 00:18, 5 October 2007 (UTC)
Wikiproject User Warnings says that we should put the month and year into the headline text for each month of warnings.
Example:
==October 2007== (Warnings Here) ==November 2007== ETC
Why not make VP able to detect if the date header is there, and then put it in if there isn't one. Thanks! —Signed by KoЯnfan71 My Talk Sign Here! 00:23, 5 October 2007 (UTC)
Though I realize a Linux release would probably be next in line, has there been any consideration of a release of VP for Mac OS? Mr Senseless ( talk) 00:45, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
Calvin 1998 Talk Contribs 02:03, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
I saw many people asking for a Mac OS X version or a Linux version. I know a very simple solution for this: QT 4. It's a cross platform toolkit, and with KHTML and KIO you can easily port it, since it will no longer be dependant of Internet Explorer (KHTML renders the HTML page, KIO will be able to use HTTP). It's actually very easy to work with, it will be cross-platform (all you have to do is telling your compiler to cross-compile, GCC can do this), so Linux and Mac OS X users would be able to use it too. Note that a QT app looks like a normal, native toolkit-app on non- X11-platforms (Mac OS X, Windows). Yes, that means that your app could also be ported to Solaris or BSD.
There's only some bad thing about QT: you need to release your program as GPL, and should free the sources therefore. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.67.29.125 ( talk) 15:37, 18 March 2008 (UTC)