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Fix this redirect
Lupin -- the popups are a great tool! Thanks for doing this. One minor suggestion, for fixing double-redirects. Suppose "[[Foo]]" is a redirect to "[[Bar]]" and "[[Bar]]" is a redirect to "[[Baz]]". If I am on the [[Foo]] page and use the pop-up to fix the redirect, it wants to change #REDIRECT [[Bar]] to #REDIRECT [[Baz|Bar]]. The |Bar part isn't necessary in this context and might be confusing to anyone else who is tracing redirects. --Russ Blau (talk) 13:36, 20 October 2005 (UTC)
Popups not working for me
My mouth is watering at the prospect of getting your popup tool, but for some reason it won't work for me. I'm using Safari on Mac OSX on an iBook. Do you have any idea what the problem might be? RMoloney 18:13, 20 October 2005 (UTC)
Never mind - it was just taking its time to start working. RMoloney 18:22, 20 October 2005 (UTC)
Thanks
Lupin, thanks for your support on my RFA. I very much appreciate it. If you ever need anything, don't hesitate to ask. See you around! —thames 18:28, 20 October 2005 (UTC)
Also thanks for the nice work separating out the
Popups question
Would it be feasible to auto-update the popup window when you hover over links inside the pop-up? This would make it feasible to navigate through Wikipedia without ever clicking a link. Oh, and of course you deserve a barnstar for this fantastic tool.--
- Thanks for the idea and the barnstar! It's a nice idea... I'll think about doing this. A more intuitive UI (IMO) would be to have separate popups appearing over the existing popup, but this requires fundamental changes to the code to make it more modular. I am reworking the code from scratch with stuff like this in mind, so this may eventually materialise! (Eventually being the operative word here as I'm going very slowly). Lupin|talk|popups 22:17, 20 October 2005 (UTC)
- Good luck, refactoring can be a pain. I'm not sure it's more or less intuitive to have popups upon popups. In effect, your popup system is kind of a "mini-browser", so I think some of the same considerations apply as in traditional browser UIs. Imagine your browser would open every link in a new window, for example. But it's hard to tell without testing it. My guess is that, if the popup was refilled using the same time delay as used for the initial popup, and only the links in the "content area" (below the title and menu) would be active in this way, it would be reasonably intuitive. In fact, I sort of expected it to already work this way ;-).--* 23:36, 20 October 2005 (UTC)]
- Good luck, refactoring can be a pain. I'm not sure it's more or less intuitive to have popups upon popups. In effect, your popup system is kind of a "mini-browser", so I think some of the same considerations apply as in traditional browser UIs. Imagine your browser would open every link in a new window, for example. But it's hard to tell without testing it. My guess is that, if the popup was refilled using the same time delay as used for the initial popup, and only the links in the "content area" (below the title and menu) would be active in this way, it would be reasonably intuitive. In fact, I sort of expected it to already work this way ;-).--
- Hi Lupin, I am testing the Dev version right now. This was a question I was going to ask, but Eloquence beat me to it. I tend to agree that a new popup (with focus) over the existing popup would be more intuitive. This could then be lost when the mouse moves back over the existing popup to allow a new link to be previewed. Sounds like a lot of work, but I am no JS guru. Multiple cascading popups would in theory be possible. I like the new dev version BTW, very clean, and the Options facility is fantastic. Keep up the good work. --Cactus.man ✍ 11:42, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
- This is kindof related... once the code is modularised, would it be possible to create a "sticky tabs" option, where the popups can be left on screen instead of closing? It would be quite useful to be able to pull up a few of them, move them around... Alphax τεχ 09:22, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
JS
The problem with using monobook.js is that I absolutely hate monobook. If you have the popup for classic, that'd be better.
...do you? DS 00:22, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
- Ah, never mind, I see now. Thank you for your suggestions; I plan to implement them later on. Again, thanks. DS 00:47, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
Wow
I added that thing, and that thing is so far above me that I barely comprehend what it did.(It added the move tag, right?) Man, is there anyplace where someone who knows little to nothing about Java and CSS can learn this stuff? Even my HTML experience is fairly minimal. Karmafist 02:54, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
Subarticle bug
Titles of popups don't work on links like
- Yes, this is tricky. One idea that's just occured to me is to never do this for the article and article talk namespaces - maybe that's a way out. Lupin|talk|popups 21:20, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
- I've put this into the dev version, so kbit/s now works properly. Lupin|talk|popups 21:36, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
- Thanks again for this tool! :-) — Omegatron 23:02, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
Popups
Thanks for informing me of this useful tool. Wikiacc (talk) 19:15, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
Short Film/Subject
You recently moved Short film to Short subject. I was just wondering why you did it and if any discussion led to it, because to me Short film would seem the more common title, though I'm not exactly a representative sample. --
]- I'd tend to agree that short film is the more natural title. When I moved it, the article seemed to focus on "short subject" as the main topic, so I moved the article to reflect that. Feel free to reverse this if you like. Lupin|talk|popups 00:53, 22 October 2005 (UTC)
- I see what you mean. I won't switch it back now, but I might at some point get round to changing the article to more suit the original title. Thanks. --]
Wikipedia background color
Since you probably know, how can I change the background color used in Wikipedia? Is it something I have to add to a monobook.js or monobook.css file? I wanted to change the article space color, and the form background color. Thanks. — BRIAN0918 • 2005-10-22 20:34
- It'll be something in monobook.css. As for exactly what, I'd try using the document inspector (control-shift-I in firefox) and poking around. Lupin|talk|popups 22:26, 22 October 2005 (UTC)
Re: Popups tool
Hi Lupin. Thanks for letting me know about the popups tool. I tried it out for a while, and did find it useful. However, it was also a bit annoying: I found the popups worked only haphazardly; they often appeared when I didn't want them, or at times, wouldn't when I did. I think they may also have slowed my use of Wikipedia. I might return to them though. Thanks again, --
- IE, and occasionally Mozilla. I think the haphardness was pronounced in IE.--Talk 13:12, 23 October 2005 (UTC)]
- I'll try to give it a longer try over the next week and see if I can offer more descriptive feedback. The problems may just have been a by-product of my connection speed being throttled. --Talk 13:40, 23 October 2005 (UTC)]
- I'll try to give it a longer try over the next week and see if I can offer more descriptive feedback. The problems may just have been a by-product of my connection speed being throttled. --
Quick Watch/Unwatch?
Is it possible to provide a setting so that you can click on un|watch and it'll remove/add the item to your watchlist without having to go to another page? If it were possible to have it open up another window that closes either after a short amount of time or when it is finished loading, that might work. — BRIAN0918 • 2005-10-23 18:40
- Yes, this is probably possible, at least the version that opens up a new window which then evaporates. I'll put it on my todo list. Lupin|talk|popups 20:18, 23 October 2005 (UTC)
- Right, but the approach I was thinking of would still create tabs or new windows, which would be equally irritating. If you're trying to clean up your watchlist quickly, I think that checking checkboxes is more convenient than finding links in a popup, wouldn't you agree? I'm a bit unwilling to code this up (it's not completely straightforward) without seeing a good application for it. There are javascript tools that you can use to check lots of checkboxes at once if that's what you want... in fact, a nice tool would be to be able to filter your watchlist with a regex (eg remove all user pages) which would be doable I think, although separately from the popups. Lupin|talk|popups 03:27, 24 October 2005 (UTC)
popups with Essjay's monobook.js
Hi Lupin, sorry to bug ya, but I've been playing around with my monobook.js and I'd like to know if it's possible to use both your popups and Essjay's monobook.js stuff (adding links, tabs, etc.). Whenever I add your script, it just shows up as text across the top of my screen and doesn't actually work. There ought to be a way to close the popup command or something so that both work properly. Thanks for your help. --Spangineeres (háblame) 03:44, 25 October 2005 (UTC)
- Sounds pretty crazy. Could you tell me a revision of your monobook.js that I can try to see if I can duplicate this? Also, which browser do you use? Lupin|talk|popups 03:52, 25 October 2005 (UTC)
- Yep, really crazy, but it seems to be working now. Not sure what the deal was. Sorry for the trouble. --Spangineeres (háblame) 04:09, 25 October 2005 (UTC)
Popups killing godmode-light
Not sure what's going on here, but they aren't compatible. Alphax τεχ 01:03, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
- I've never used this script - what's it supposed to do, and what does it fail to do when it's running alongside popups? A very cursory glance at godmode-lite.js makes me think that we've named md5 hashing functions in the same way, so maybe this is causing problems. Nothing else leaps out at me, though. Lupin|talk|popups 02:19, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
- It's the non-admin rollback script; I believe that an MD5 hash is used to determine which version of the article to rollback to. When using popups it gives me the error "Error: undefined is not the last editor!", no matter what I do. I'm guessing that this is indeed due to an MD5 naming conflict, although it could be due to links generated by the popups interfering with the "last editor" detection.
- Also, the "fix redirect" thing doesn't work properly, or is confusing to use. Alphax τεχ 03:23, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
- OK, I'll investigate the godmode thing when I have time.
- Which browser do you use, and how is "Fix this redirect" confusing? It's meant to take a link [[Foo|Splat]] where Foo is a redirect to Bar, and change it into [[Bar|Splat]]. (In fact, it changes all links on that page of the form [[Foo|Anything here]] into [[Bar|Anything here]]). Lupin|talk|popups 12:04, 26 October 2005 (UTC)]
- I had similar problems using the current and dev versions of popups.js. The rollback feature in Godmode light would give the 'undefined editor' problem 90% of the time. I seem to have fixed this by reverting to the previous_version of popups.js (14:21, 8 October). I never have the same problem now. I also seemed to get a lot of random logouts, which is also cured, but this was probably just coincidental wiki problem. Hope this information helps. BTW I run Firefox 1.07 on Win XP. --Cactus.man ✍ 08:11, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
- Thanks for finding a working version. The biggest difference between that and the then-current versions was that I'd screwed up the copy-paste when installing the script, and the utf characters were all b0rk3d. I've fixed that, although I haven't yet looked at the godmode script specifically. Could you see if it works with the current versions now? Lupin|talk|popups 23:19, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
- OK, will test it out and let you know. --Cactus.man ✍ 13:19, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
- Bad news Lupin, the new current version still seems to conflict with the godmode rollback feature. The 'undefined editor' problems still happens consistently. --Cactus.man ✍ 08:32, 29 October 2005 (UTC)
- Thanks for the info, the revised fix definitely seems to sort the 'undefined editor' problem. The current version of popups still causes me strange intermittent problems though. Often popups do not work on new pages, phantom popups appear on some pages and the previous menu layout (minus the 'actions' heading) sometimes appear instead of the current one. Mysterious, I have cleared cache, cookies etc but the random behaviour persists. In the meantime I have gone back to the previous_version. Any ideas? --Cactus.man ✍ 09:37, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
- Sorry, this is not something I've encountered. Which browser are you using? You could try specifying oldid=26659024 (the current version), which may help to rule out caching problems. When you do see problems, please try typing javascript:alert(popupVersion) in the url bar, and see which date it says. It should match the first line of the version of popups.js that you're using. Lupin|talk|popups 13:28, 31 October 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for the reply Lupin, I am using Firefox 1.07 on WinXP. It certainly has all the hallmarks of some sort of cache problem which is why I repeatedly cleared cache, cookies etc and did a purge for each affected page - without luck. I will give your suggestions a try. Thanks. --Cactus.man ✍ 16:07, 31 October 2005 (UTC)
- Hi Lupin, none of this worked, but the browser is recognising the correct popupVersion ("Thu Oct 27 19:05:33 EDT 2005") via the javascript query. The "good news" though is that it works beautifully using Firefox in safe mode with all extensions and Greasemonkey scripts disabled, so I think there is a conflict there somewhere. Back to lots of testing for me :( I will let you know if I find the source of the conflict. --Cactus.man ✍ 08:56, 1 November 2005 (UTC)
- Hi again Lupin, I seem to have solved the problem. FYI, the culprit was the Redirect Remover Extension. I have updated this to the latest version and everything seems to work just fine now =:-) Thanks for all your help. --Cactus.man ✍ 10:10, 1 November 2005 (UTC)
Popups and Hebrew Wikipedia
Hello. Your popups are working great on Hebrew Wikipedia, but the namespaces aren't recognized, hence users and images are not treated as such. Can you fix that, please? Netan'el 12:32, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
- Done, I hope (utf silliness to blame). Sorry about that! Lupin|talk|popups 23:13, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
- It works well now, thanks very much. Netan'el 05:59, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
Problem with popups
When I try to open the submenus (actions, user, etc.) on the popups, they close immediately, because there's a one-pixel gap between the link and the sub-popup, so as I scroll down to click on something in the sub-popup, I move across empty space and the sub-popup disappears. — Omegatron 05:13, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
- This is because I'm lousy at CSS and the menus don't scale well at the moment. Please try putting something like this in your monobook.css:
span.popup_menu { top:2ex !important }
- You can change 2ex to another length, or a percentage, like 100% if that works better for you. Better yet, if you find an adjustment to the settings in User:Lupin/menus.css that works more generally, please let me know. Lupin|talk|popups 12:35, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
Current article regex
Hi Lupin. I made some changes to your current article regex in my local copy of popups.js. It allows spaces at the beginning of the link as well, since I've seen such links get missed by your tool. This diff shows the changes from the current version of popups.js (just the first two hunks, the other change is for my preferred display of the last mod stuff). Mike Dillon 23:20, 29 October 2005 (UTC)
- Looks sensible to me - this is going into the dev version. Thanks! Lupin|talk|popups 03:30, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
Firefox extension
Would you happen to know how to make a firefox extension? It would be very simple and used to fight vandalism. The basic idea is to feed RC diff's into firefox, and let it determine which pages contain text (such as an obscenity) listed in a file. For pages that don't contain anything on this list, the tab is closed. The others remain open and ready to be examined. If you can't figure out how to hookup the IRC RC output into firefox, then it could be used with CDVF to open new tabs in firefox to be checked. I found a guide to making extensions, but it says you need to know Javascript. Thanks. — BRIAN0918 • 2005-10-30 03:45
- Coincidentally, I read that link for the first time a day or two ago to see what was involved in writing extensions, so I don't really know much about extensions at all. By the way, javascript is not a hard language to learn if you've done any programming before - I basically taught myself while writing the popups script. You've got lots of nice ideas, and it may be a good idea to try it out!
- I'm not sure how easy such an extension would be at all. It could be done in pure javascript (no extension needed) if you just want to grep for Bad Words in a bunch of pages on wikipedia (say all the pages on Special:Recentchanges), but the integration with CDVF/IRC business worries me. Maybe CD is the person to ask for this? Lupin|talk|popups 04:12, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
- How could it grab the text without first loading the page? The CDVF/Firefox connection wouldn't be anything, it would just be the user clicking on selected edits and letting it load in Firefox (as it already does). So it would just need to be a script that watched for new tabs, checked the text against a list, kept the tab if there was a match, removed it if not. — BRIAN0918 • 2005-10-30 04:16
- If I understand you correctly, you want to know how a script can use the data on a page other than the one being displayed. That's not so hard provided the other page is on the same website as the page the script is running on. My script does that to get page data and previews using ]
- Well, then, could it be possible to make a script that would somehow work internal to Wikipedia, checking RC continually, adding page diff's to a list that match words on another list, or something like that? If this is any motivation, several people are interested in this tool. :) — BRIAN0918 • 2005-10-30 04:42
- Well, to answer that question, we'd need to experiment :-) --> Lupin, do you want to work together on this, and perhaps move some of this discussion over to WP:US? --HappyCamper 14:07, 30 October 2005 (UTC)]
- Well, to answer that question, we'd need to experiment :-) --> Lupin, do you want to work together on this, and perhaps move some of this discussion over to
- Well, then, could it be possible to make a script that would somehow work internal to Wikipedia, checking RC continually, adding page diff's to a list that match words on another list, or something like that? If this is any motivation, several people are interested in this tool. :) — BRIAN0918 • 2005-10-30 04:42
- If I understand you correctly, you want to know how a script can use the data on a page other than the one being displayed. That's not so hard provided the other page is on the same website as the page the script is running on. My script does that to get page data and previews using ]
- How could it grab the text without first loading the page? The CDVF/Firefox connection wouldn't be anything, it would just be the user clicking on selected edits and letting it load in Firefox (as it already does). So it would just need to be a script that watched for new tabs, checked the text against a list, kept the tab if there was a match, removed it if not. — BRIAN0918 • 2005-10-30 04:16
User:Pile0nades had this to say:
You could try this code for loading the diffs:
function getDiffLinks(){ var links = document.getElementById("a"); var diffs = []; var c = 0; //counter variable // this will go through all links in the page looking for diff links and add them to the diffs array for(var i=o; i<links.length; i++){ if(links[i].innerHTML="diff") { diffs[c] = links[i].href; c++; } } // this will open the diffs in new tabs for(var i=0; i<diffs.length; i++) { window.open(diffs[i]); } }
If you have the Tab Mix Plus extension, you can set new windows to open in tabs.
— BRIAN0918 • 2005-10-31 01:50
An idea...
... for when you get around to extracting bits of pages for the popups: it would be brilliant if there was a popup menu on the username in the top bar that listed all the pages in one's userspace, for one-click access to sandboxes etc.
In the meantime, it would be good enough if the menu displayed a certain page from the user's userspace, say, User:XY/Popup links, so that any user could construct a customized shortcut menu. Zocky 20:19, 31 October 2005 (UTC)
Bad words
To start out, I asked all the people in #wikipedia to join another channel and tell me bad words. I got a list of 134. I'll look up some more common official words later, I'm sure sites have them. Here you go for now: User_talk:Lupin/badwords. — BRIAN0918 • 2005-11-1 04:20
- Your Show Diffs feature worked in IE, but not in Firefox for me (in Firefox, nothing happened when I clicked the link). It just streams all RC diffs into the same page? If you could get it to go in reverse, that would be a start (popping the latest edits on top), but eventually it will have to be expanded to ignore known admins or people with high edit counts (of whom I have a list). — BRIAN0918 • 2005-11-1 04:24
- That's odd, I've been using firefox all along, and it works for me. Still, early days... for me, it just puts the diffs below the line containing the link to the diff page in recent changes, so the most recent diffs are at the top. It won't autoupdate at all at the moment - you have to reload the page.
- Thanks for that list - I've put (very primitive) filtering in. There are lots of false positives at the moment, as I'm not filtering on word boundaries (since vandals will tend to omit these, I think). It's also worth remarking that once the list of words becomes known, vandals will work around it. Lupin|talk|popups 04:37, 1 November 2005 (UTC)
- Ohh, I understand now. I'll work on getting you a more complete list of vandalisms (probably just by watching what people type in RC). Let me know how it progresses. It's working in Firefox now, I don't know what the problem was. I'm thinking that eventually the diffs will have to go on separate tabs, to deal with large size vandalisms, but maybe not. — BRIAN0918 • 2005-11-1 04:47
- On the other hand, I could (eventually, possibly) make it so that only the reason the diff is flagged is displayed, and clicking on the reason expands the diff. This is definitely possible, and would make the presentation nice and compact. Tabs are unwieldy beasts which I don't really know how to control well (probably an extension would be needed in that case). From a coding point of view I prefer to keep everything on one page. It's more cross-browser portable that way, too. Lupin|talk|popups 04:54, 1 November 2005 (UTC)
- Ohh, I understand now. I'll work on getting you a more complete list of vandalisms (probably just by watching what people type in RC). Let me know how it progresses. It's working in Firefox now, I don't know what the problem was. I'm thinking that eventually the diffs will have to go on separate tabs, to deal with large size vandalisms, but maybe not. — BRIAN0918 • 2005-11-1 04:47
I should also let you know that NullC is working on a truly unprecedented anti-vandal bot. He says that he took all the database histories, looked for the changes between any "Reverted edits from X to Y", and ran a bayes scan on all of them, to turn it into sort of a junkmail filter for vandalism. If it ever comes to life, it will probably be the last anti-vandalism tool we'll ever need, but he gave no indication as to when it would be done, or if he was in the process of starting it, so it could be months or years. Until then, I'm sure your tool will be do the trick for catching most of the vandalisms not caught by other tools. — BRIAN0918 • 2005-11-1 05:05
- One thing you might want to set into it is to flag the edit if the same character appears more than 3 times in a row. — BRIAN0918 • 2005-11-1 05:29
- I think I'm done adding to your list for now. I found a huge list of expletives in multiple languages, and added those, so your list should be pretty complete, I guess... — BRIAN0918 • 2005-11-1 08:00
- Great, thanks for your help. I've removed some words which seem to have been causing false positives. Lupin|talk|popups 15:20, 5 November 2005 (UTC)
- Let me know if you make any more progress with this tool. I've also posted a blurb about it on the talk page of • 2005-11-5 21:19
- I've added the common template messages such as "Headline text" that are often found in vandalisms. Two questions: does your list recognize phrases such as this? Also, is your list at User:Lupin/badwords a database that we can update in realtime, or are you copying them over into the real database? — BRIAN0918 • 2005-11-6 03:24
- Great, thanks for your help. I've removed some words which seem to have been causing false positives. Lupin|talk|popups 15:20, 5 November 2005 (UTC)
- At the moment, it matches lines in the badwords list which are surrounded by word boundaries and repetitions of 3 (or more) non-whitespace characters. So phrases are fine. It's also case-insensitive at the moment. This can be changed if desired. The answer to your second question is yes, the script fetches that page every time so that editing the list of badwords should result in updated behaviour without me having to do anything else. Lupin|talk|popups 03:51, 6 November 2005 (UTC)
- I've left some detailed comments at the talk page of • 2005-11-6 04:10
- At the moment, it matches lines in the badwords list which are surrounded by word boundaries and repetitions of 3 (or more) non-whitespace characters. So phrases are fine. It's also case-insensitive at the moment. This can be changed if desired. The answer to your second question is yes, the script fetches that page every time so that editing the list of badwords should result in updated behaviour without me having to do anything else. Lupin|talk|popups 03:51, 6 November 2005 (UTC)
bot
Thanks Lupin, I have already applied for a bot flag, hopefully you won't see it in recent changes soon! thanks Martin 08:54, 1 November 2005 (UTC)
Care to comment?
I've submitted an include function for easy installation of tools like yours on
Popups.js pulldowns
First off, let me thank you for developing such a wonderful tool. I swear by it. After using the latest version(s) of popups.js for a while, I decided to revert back to an older version, one without pulldowns. The pulldown menus were driving me mad and causing problems when the popup window would appear on the right of the screen. For example, if hovering over certain text on the far right of the screen while reviewing two article diffs, parts of the popup pulldown window would be cut off and inaccessible. A similar problem would happen if the text is at the bottom of the screen as well. The other reason I've reverted back is that I preferred the simplicity of having everything I needed in one popup, rather than having to navigate and mouse over to an additional pulldown menu to initiate a task. The version I switched back to is the one you released on September 25, 2005 at 13:14:45 EDT; is this the most recent version before pulldowns were added? Best regards, Hall Monitor 21:02, 2 November 2005 (UTC)
- Did you try setting popupStructure='original';? See ]
- Thanks Lupin, I will give the latest Popups.js a shot with this setting enabled. Hall Monitor 22:59, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
Images on popups
Any chance that popups on image links could say how many times the image is used? It would be very useful for finding orphaned images... Justinc 11:29, 3 November 2005 (UTC)
- That's non-trivial, but by no means impossible I think, if you're prepared to accept what the image description page tells you (it seems to lie now and again). I'll put it on the todo list. Lupin|talk|popups 15:20, 5 November 2005 (UTC)
Autopreview
Any chances of finding out how that and autodiff work? Or should I ask someone else? Alphax τεχ 12:17, 4 November 2005 (UTC)
- The code responsible for all that is in one file, here. It's even moderately readable, so hopefully it answers all your questions. If not, let me know. To get "autodiff" and "autopreview" functionality, you have to set the autoclick parameter to the name of the button which you want to click, which you can find in the html source of an edit page (wpDiff and so on). Lupin|talk|popups 15:20, 5 November 2005 (UTC)
'Snap In' from Browser Borders
Hi Lupin, you must rue the day you wrote popups.js with all these requests for new features. Well, just to cheer you up, here's another =:-) When hovering over a link near the right hand edge of the browser the popup window 'snaps' back in so that it is fully visible. This doesn't happen if links are close to the bottom (in Firefox at any rate). Any chance that this could be fixed so that the popup window 'snaps' up so that it is fully visible? I know that I can shift-drag it if need be, but this would be a nice feature to match the behaviour at the right browser edge. Thanks. --Cactus.man ✍ 20:08, 5 November 2005 (UTC)
- I tried to do this, but couldn't get it working to my satisfaction. Sorry! Lupin|talk|popups 14:44, 27 November 2005 (UTC)
Sorry
Sorry for wrongly reverting one of your pages, my mistake :$ dr.alf 03:56, 6 November 2005 (UTC)
Popups
- You've missed the final line from the code for installation. Please check ]
Kate's Tool Has Moved
Kate's Tool has moved servers from [2] to [3]. Can you please change the navigation popups code to accomodate this? — MATHWIZ2020 TALK | CONTRIBS 01:07, 8 November 2005 (UTC)
- I can't get it to work on the new server. Can you? I'll change the code when it starts working - please ask me again if I forget. Lupin|talk|popups 01:15, 8 November 2005 (UTC)
- I can't get the new server to work at all, both with the popups and entering it in myself. See this section on Kate's talk page. — MATHWIZ2020 TALK | CONTRIBS 00:16, 9 November 2005 (UTC)
- It works now! — MATHWIZ2020 TALK | CONTRIBS 01:08, 9 November 2005 (UTC)
- I can't get the new server to work at all, both with the popups and entering it in myself. See this section on Kate's talk page. — MATHWIZ2020 TALK | CONTRIBS 00:16, 9 November 2005 (UTC)
Picutre popups
I've written a new javascript tools for images, see User:Zocky/Picture Popups. Testers and comments are very welcome :) Zocky 04:13, 9 November 2005 (UTC)
Cuteness vandalism
Lupin, There is continual vandalism on Cuteness. You missed one piece of vandalism, on your recent revert, as there were a string of changes from a few different IP addresses. I've reverted it again. ERcheck 01:10, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
Recent block
Hey Lupin! I'm unfamiliar with the block on that IP and the related style of vandalism. Perhaps you could unblock my 15 minute block that I placed so that it can be overridden with yours if it's more appropriate? Thanks! --HappyCamper 04:14, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
- Sorry, I don't understand what you're asking - I'm new to this blocking thing. Please could you explain? Also, which IP did you have in mind? Thanks. Lupin|talk|popups 04:17, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
- User talk:216.68.79.158 I only blocked for 15 minutes, and I think the shorter block takes precedence, so if this is a persistent vandal, perhaps a longer block is necessary. I'll leave it to your discretion :-) --HappyCamper 04:19, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
Popups
I won't bother with the thread this time, but it would be nice if you could respond on my talkpage, since it's really hard for me to keep track of all the comments I post. Thanks a lot.
It would be pretty nice if you could add a delete link to your navigational popups. I know what you may be thinking: 'why delete something if you haven't even seen it yet?' Keep in mind, though, that MediaWiki provide [rollback] even in places where the admin may not have seen the diff. Also, some articles have blatantly inappropriate titles, an obviously usefool application.
Thanks,
- There is a delete link, for admins. Have you enabled the admin features? Please check the documentation if not. Lupin|talk|popups 06:06, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
New anti-vandal tool
This is great! I did notice one oddity, it doesn't show the links to the names of the former and latter editors, like what you would see on a normal diff page. It's just blank there, so I can't rollback. — BRIAN0918 • 2005-11-11 06:37
- I've created a page to advertise this new tool, since everyone should be using it. User:Lupin/Anti-vandal tool :) — BRIAN0918 • 2005-11-11 07:01
- Some other suggestions people are making: it seems to break the custom tabs for User:RoyBoy and another person I talked to. Royboy also suggested that the tool only show diffs for which the more recent edit contains the flagged terms. — BRIAN0918 • 2005-11-11 07:45
- My other tool does these things (names of both editors, rollback links, only the relevant diff) but is slow as molasses... the RC feeds don't contain enough data to do this as far as I can see - they only seem to have the date, the editor who made the diff and the diff as HTML, with no reference to a revision ID. One of the main difficulties in creating this script was working out how to make something useful with such limited data! I agree though, these would be very handy features, so if you find someone with an idea for how to do this, please tell me. Lupin|talk|popups 12:36, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
- Another suggestion: have it obey the popupNewWindows flag. --jpgordon∇∆∇∆ 08:22, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
- Right, a new windows flag would be good. Although this tool is independent of the popups script, and actually doesn't work terribly well with it in the sense that there are no popups for the generated links (which is a little annoying and could be fixed). So it would be a new flag. Lupin|talk|popups 12:36, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
Stole my bike vandal
Feel free to block indef, they're all open proxies. Ral315 (talk) 06:38, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
Wiki spamfilter
I tried out your anti-vandal tool, but it shows the following error:
Line: 82 Char: 6 Error: 'textContent' is empty or not an object Code: 0
Cordially yours, Shinobu 12:44, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
- Yes, this is mozilla/firefox only, for now. I have done zero IE testing. Lupin|talk|popups 12:47, 11 November 2005 (UTC)