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Overwriting Twinkle edits?

In the past day or so, I've come across 2 instances of Huggle performing the same action as me immediately after I did so ([1], [2]). In both cases, my edit was overwritten by the Huggle edit. In the first case, it was reporting a vandal to AIV. The second case is me warning a vandal, then the user immediately vandalizing again and being reverted by a huggle user. In both cases, Huggle overwrote what I did. Although it makes little difference as far as the action itself is concerned, it might be a problem if Huggle overwrites an edit with a different intention than the Huggle edit. It might be caused by the server lag we're experiencing, though. —LedgendGamer 02:56, 15 July 2009 (UTC)

yeah, this used to not happen, but now it does. Things would indeed be a lot easier if it wasn't for lag of various varieties, but they would still go wrong sometimes Gurch (talk) 14:36, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

Crashing

Huggle is crashing on its second start up on every version whenever it loads the message files. Any ideas? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ipatrol (talk • contribs)

yeah, stop using it. use that abuse filter that you all love so much Gurch (talk) 19:58, 14 July 2009 (UTC)

Not... helpful. If you want to stop paying attention to Huggle, go ahead. We'll just keep on working.--Ipatrol (talk) 14:13, 17 July 2009 (UTC)

SSP

I received the following notification:

|I have undone your edits because WP:SSP has been merged with WP:RFCU into WP:SPI. Since you performed that addition using Huggle, you should inform the tool maintainer for this bug. OhanaUnited^{Talk page} 20:03, 11 July 2009 (UTC)

Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 03:49, 15 July 2009 (UTC)

You posted this exact same thing 4 days ago, 2 sections above... Ale_Jrb^talk 08:40, 15 July 2009 (UTC

And again right below it on the same day which I removed because it seemed accidental but not so much now. In case you did miss it, Calvin 1998 disabled the sock reporting abilities until Gurch gets a fix done. treelo _radda 08:45, 15 July 2009 (UTC)

Ah. My mistake. Something, probably Huggle and/or a notification while I was going through my watchlist must have notified me of a new talk page message and I must have, somehow mistakenly gone to that SSP section of my talk page. I'll try to keep this in mind in case that happens again. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 00:02, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

User Configuration Page

I've just been granted rollback rights and am attempting to use Huggle, however I get the message that "Huggle is not enabled for your account, check user configuration page". I'm not sure what I need to put on the config page, please help! Acather96 (talk) 10:26, 24 January 2010 (UTC)

It's a test to see if you read things before using them. Read the first line of Wikipedia:Huggle/Download :) Gurch (talk) 11:18, 24 January 2010 (UTC)

Proxy

I am using a College proxy with huggle and i can't find out how to get irc (api works) working could any1 help me? Avono♂ (talk) 15:24, 1 October 2009 (UTC)

The port that irc is more than likely blocked by your school. ·Add§hore· ^{Talk To Me!} 16:32, 10 January 2010 (UTC)

sr.wikipedia

How we can use Huggle at sr.wp? Johnny B. Goode (talk) 16:15, 3 November 2009 (UTC)

We will have to enable it for you *added to the list to do* ·Add§hore· ^{Talk To Me!} 16:32, 10 January 2010 (UTC)

What version of Wine should I install?

I'm intending to have Huggle on my Mac. Should I use Darwine 1.01, 1.1.21 or Wine 1.1.31.2 to make it work?  Merlion  444  12:20, 22 October 2009 (UTC)

Just a guess but the newest one :s If not try getting hold of someone that uses huggle on nix. ·Add§hore· ^{Talk To Me!} 16:32, 10 January 2010 (UTC)

Use mono... --Sidonuke (talk :: contribs) 09:45, 14 April 2010 (UTC)

Custom Mediawiki installation

Is there any chance of using this tool on a Custom Mediawiki installation? 195.209.74.66 (talk) 09:34, 10 April 2010 (UTC)

Huggle is open source so feel free to go to this page and edit the code for use on your wikis =] ·Add§hore· ^{Talk To Me!} 19:59, 18 May 2010 (UTC)

Weird issue

When I use Huggle, random tabs open up sometimes in my web browser. For example, I'll be just working on Huggle, but all of a sudden my web browser will open a window for National Geographic Kids, Cybersitter 11, AntiSpamSniper, etc. These are not malicious sites, but what makes them keep popping up? The Arbiter^★_★^★ 17:19, 26 November 2009 (UTC)

Some new sites popping up are now kideos.com, and Library of Congress. This is very weird, as I can't see anyone else that has this problem. The Arbiter^★_★^★ 17:02, 12 December 2009 (UTC)

Are you using the "view in web browser" button? Do the pages that appear bear some relation to the subject of the article you were viewing? If so, your web browser is probably mis-configured. If not, you must have some sort of malware or something installed. Gurch (talk) 20:18, 12 December 2009 (UTC)

Take a break

Awwwww!

I just found this, thought of the project. Enjoy it for what it's worth.... JoeSmack ^Talk 17:12, 24 January 2010 (UTC)

How cute!   — Jeff G. ツ 18:43, 8 February 2010 (UTC)

Request

May I add {{Gotcha}} to WP:HUGGLE? It produces this joke:

{{Gotcha}}

Thanks! Samwb123^{Please read} 23:48, 31 January 2010 (UTC)

No, you may not. Jack Merridew 07:49, 1 February 2010 (UTC)

Mac compatibility

Will Huggle be natively Mac compatible in the future? -NerdyScienceDude :) (✉ click to talk • my edits) 02:48, 6 February 2010 (UTC)

Define "in the future". No one currently intends to create a Mac-compatible version, although I believe some people have gotten huggle to work under Wine (see here). Calvin 1998 ^(t·c) 05:51, 6 February 2010 (UTC)

Only if you're volunteering to rewrite it in Objective-C (ewww) Gurch (talk) 08:27, 6 February 2010 (UTC)

Or Java (double ewww) Throwaway85 (talk) 06:43, 7 February 2010 (UTC)

Java isn't that bad. But it's owned by the evil ones now. Given I get bitched at every time I use a Microsoft product, I can't imagine the response will be any better. Also, he said "natively". If all you want is a bytecode that can be interpreted on Mac OS, then .NET fits the bill already, it's just Mono's Mac OS implementation is missing some GUI elements that Huggle needs. Gurch (talk) 12:18, 7 February 2010 (UTC)

Regardless of who owns them, Sun is still one of the biggest corporate pushers of open source out there, so they're still in my good books. Throwaway85 (talk) 02:53, 11 February 2010 (UTC)

In my experience Java is suitable for quite a few things, but I'm not sure near-real-time, on-the-fly tracking and editing of data streams is one of them. Most JVMs have too much latency. Granted, I've never had the luxury of a 64-bit system to play with, so I don't know how Java responds in that environment.

Java being "too slow" is a myth. Maybe it was in 1995, but not now. Sure, you wouldn't use it in performance-critical situations, but single-user GUI apps are not such a situation. .NET has a VM just like Java, and it's plenty fast enough. 64 bits makes virtually no difference for this sort of thing.

I looked at converting Huggle to VC# a while back, but some of the error-handling routines wouldn't translate directly using the online translation tools, and I don't speak VB well enough to re-code them by hand. Maybe later, after I put some time into learning the changes in .NET 4.0, I'll turn my attention back to it... --Alan (talk) 23:02, 7 February 2010 (UTC)

Converting to VC# wouldn't achieve anything. Both are .NET languages, both compile to (essentially) the same bytecode and both use the same run-time libraries. What's missing in Mono for Mac will still be missing regardless of what language the assembly was compiled from. What error-handling routines aren't working? It may be VB but it's pure .NET, it's not like it's using On Error Resume Next or any of that crap. Also, .NET 4.0 is neither here nor there; Huggle is and needs to remain .NET 2.0-only Gurch (talk) 11:52, 8 February 2010 (UTC)

Chat

I think that HG should have IRC chat built in on its own channel or on the vandalism channel, so users can communicate about highly vandalized pages and frequent vandals. Any Thoughts? ManishEarth^{Talk • Stalk} 06:56, 20 February 2010 (UTC)

Anything worth communicating about recent changes monitoring is worth communicating with the entire wiki, not the subset of contributors who happen to be using Huggle at the time. Gurch (talk) 20:54, 20 February 2010 (UTC)

What abt the first suggestion? Adding an IRC chat box where u can sign into any irc channel? ManishEarth^{Talk • Stalk} 05:33, 21 February 2010 (UTC)

If you want an IRC client... use an IRC client. Gurch (talk) 06:47, 21 February 2010 (UTC)

Updating message files

When I try to log into Huggle, it gets to the "updating message files" point and stops. I have never had a successful login. I leave it for a long time, but it does not make any more progress. E2eamon (talk) 00:21, 3 March 2010 (UTC)

Check that your firewall allows Huggle access to the Internet, and that there isn't a confirmation prompt or something similar being generated asking to confirm access. Gurch (talk) 06:26, 3 March 2010 (UTC)

Unable to login

Just a heads up, a recent change in the login system (see this bugzilla entry) has rendered Huggle unable to login to any Wikimedia Foundation wiki. The Thing // Talk // Contribs 01:47, 7 April 2010 (UTC)

Vandals must be having a field day Calmer Waters 02:33, 7 April 2010 (UTC)

Yea I'm having that problem right now too. Tommy (msg) 02:40, 7 April 2010 (UTC)

Yeah. Vandals are loving it, I'm sure. Time to do some good old fashioned recent changes patrolling I guess. Reach Out to the Truth 03:43, 7 April 2010 (UTC)

Bad timing to, as I was planning to start using Huggle again too. Maybe someone can fix the source code? It is open-source, so maybe someone could fix it. Narutolovehinata5 ^tccsdnew 06:08, 7 April 2010 (UTC)

I am very sad right now! Blue Rasberry 13:48, 7 April 2010 (UTC)

Cheer up, at least we got AVBOT and ClueBot! --Tommy (msg) 14:24, 7 April 2010 (UTC)

This is fixed in the current version. As the automatic update check only runs after a successful login, you will need to download the current version. Gurch (talk) 16:26, 7 April 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for quick fix. Working just fine again.  Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 19:18, 7 April 2010 (UTC)

I want to add my thanks, Gurch. Tiderolls 23:05, 7 April 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for that, was beginning to worry when I couldn't log in, Cluebot and AVBot must've been run off their feet! --5 albert square (talk) 01:46, 8 April 2010 (UTC)

Good job I noticed this thread! Was starting to wonder what was happening... Working fine again :) Orphan Wiki 12:47, 8 April 2010 (UTC)

Can't log in with new version 0.9.3

The new version worked for me yesterday, however I just tried logging in and received the "unable to log in" message again. - Stillwaterising (talk) 08:45, 9 April 2010 (UTC)

This is fixed in the current version. As the automatic update check only runs after a successful login, you will need to download the current version. Gurch (talk) 10:27, 9 April 2010 (UTC)

Just so everybody is clear, there's a new version released this morning, v0.9.4. A manual upgrade is required. - Stillwaterising (talk) 12:28, 9 April 2010 (UTC)

Warnings

Hi. Why does Huggle send warnings to talkpages when it hasn't reverted (another user did it early)? emijrp (talk) 21:11, 13 April 2010 (UTC)

It shouldn't do. Possibly the revert failed due to an abuse filter or something dumb like that. Gurch (talk) 13:34, 14 April 2010 (UTC)

Using Huggle at Wikimedia Commons?

As far as I can see Huggle isn't supported on Wikimedia Commons as of commons:Commons:Huggle. What is missing getting it up and running there? Nsaa (talk) 21:45, 13 October 2009 (UTC)

Some effort is missing :P *added to the list of to do* ·Add§hore· ^{Talk To Me!} 16:32, 10 January 2010 (UTC)

Any news on making Huggle Commons-friendly? Mikemoral♪♫ 03:08, 14 May 2010 (UTC)

Dutch Wikipedia

Hello all, on some pages it's mentioned that Huggle is in a test fase on nl.wikipedia.org, at the moment for sysops only. However, I really don't know how to test it, as it's not possible in the first screen to select nl.wikipedia.org. Does anybody know how I could manage to get it working? Thanks, Lolsimon (talk) 20:55, 30 November 2009 (UTC)

You will more than likely have to talk to the admins over there to see if they think it should be open to rollbackers. ·Add§hore· ^{Talk To Me!} 16:32, 10 January 2010 (UTC)

How do you mean? At nl.wp we don't have rollbackers. I'm a sysop, but I don't know how to use it, as I can't choose it at start-up. Lolsimon (talk) 20:00, 12 January 2010 (UTC)

I can select nl.wikipedia just fine. Is it listed for you? If not, you may want to consider downloading the latest edition. As far as rollbackers go, on en.wp the rollback bit was made grantable, so non-sysops can use huggle. Not sure if that applies to other wikis as well. Throwaway85 (talk) 05:35, 13 January 2010 (UTC)

Strange, it (nl.wikipedia) is really not listed here. I'm using the newest version (huggle 0.9.2). Only bg, de, en, es, no, pt, ru, simple and test are listed. When I take a look in the source code, I don't see it listened: see here. Lolsimon (talk) 22:44, 16 January 2010 (UTC)

In the directory where you run the Huggle executable, you should find a folder named "Config". In that folder, you should find a file named "config.txt". In that file, you should find (or place) the following:

projects:
    bg.wikipedia;http://bg.wikipedia.org/,
    ca.wikipedia;http://ca.wikipedia.org/,
    de.wikipedia;http://de.wikipedia.org/,
    en.wikipedia;http://en.wikipedia.org/,
    es.wikipedia;http://es.wikipedia.org/,
    ko.wikipedia;http://ko.wikipedia.org/,
    nl.wikipedia;http://nl.wikipedia.org/,
    no.wikipedia;http://no.wikipedia.org/,
    pt.wikipedia;http://pt.wikipedia.org/,
    ru.wikipedia;http://ru.wikipedia.org/,
    te.wikipedia;http://te.wikipedia.org/,
    vi.wikipedia;http://vi.wikipedia.org/,
    simple.wikipedia;http://simple.wikipedia.org/,
    test wiki;http://test.wikipedia.org/,

Hope that helps!   — Jeff G. ツ 18:37, 8 February 2010 (UTC)

Thanks. Lolsimon (talk) 23:05, 25 February 2010 (UTC)

Crash

I recently experienced a crash while using huggle. I was skipping through edits, and noticing an unusual lag in performance. When I went to revert, it instead reverted the edit on the article I had just skipped. I attempted to stop the revert, and the entire program crashed. Upon opening the task manager, I noticed huggle was consuming 1.5 Gb of memory. I'm afraid there's not much more I can add. If you have any specific questions, feel free to ask. Thanks, Throwaway85 (talk) 08:59, 8 January 2010 (UTC)

Woo for memory leaks :s ·Add§hore· ^{Talk To Me!} 16:32, 10 January 2010 (UTC)

Lots of them. It appears to be a persistent problem. The pattern appears the same: I'll be using it, everything is fine. Starts to lag, no real problem. Takes a while to load new pages, fine. Then I will go to revert something and it will revert the wrong page. Attempting to stop it causes a crash, although I think that would happen anyway. Every time it crashes, it's got about 1.5 gigs of physical memory allocated to it. FWIW, I'm running win7 64 bit, 2 gigs of ram on a 2 gig core 2 duo. Throwaway85 (talk) 11:58, 11 January 2010 (UTC)

The question is, where are they all :P ·Add§hore· ^{Talk To Me!} 16:39, 11 January 2010 (UTC)

Actually, I've managed to narrow that down too. The problem seems to be confined to the "Cancel all pending actions" button. Every time I've hit that while Huggle was reverting, it crashed. Hopefully that's enough info to track it down. Throwaway85 (talk) 05:32, 13 January 2010 (UTC)

I too have experienced this problem. Whenever I tried to either a. stop pending action or b. revert something that is bending, it crashed completely. I am using Windows 7 Home Premium-64 bit, 4 gigs ram, 2.13 Ghz Core 2 Duo P7450. --Tyw7  (Talk • Contributions)   Changing the world one edit at a time! 07:55, 29 January 2010 (UTC)

I also am having this issue, whenever I click "cancel pending actions" or the self-undoing button, it crashes. This actually just happened again, when I accidentally started reverting a good edit, but thankfully another user took care of it. Lozeldafan (talk) 21:57, 25 March 2010 (UTC)

Whitelist?

I have been gone for about a year now, I came back and found my name on this list...What does it mean? Just curious, thanks Sirkad_talk^sign 16:00, 14 January 2010 (UTC)

From what I understand, Huggle whitelists users with edit counts above 500, indicating that they aren't run-of-the-mill vandals and that Huggle clients can safely ignore their edits when parsing Recent Changes. --King Öomie 16:13, 14 January 2010 (UTC)

It serves as a list of contributors with more than 500 contributions, because MediaWiki lacks any way to obtain such a list. This is not intended as a suggestion or endorsement of the concept that a certain number of contributions is required in order for a contributor to be considered trustworthy, and certainly not that that number is 500; the reason for this choice is that the list would otherwise be too big. Gurch (talk) 16:31, 14 January 2010 (UTC)

Ah got it, thanks guys. Sirkad_talk^sign 19:37, 15 January 2010 (UTC)

Can this be on the front of this page too? I have no idea what it means without coming to the talk page.— JediRogue (talk) 08:09, 6 March 2010 (UTC)

Overwriting reports in AIAV

2 users have informed me that their reports on the WP:AIAV page have been overwritten by the software. JovianEye (talk) 19:14, 14 January 2010 (UTC)

Any diffs we can look at? ·Add§hore· ^{Talk To Me!} 20:01, 18 May 2010 (UTC)

This discussion on my talk page should give you more details! --JovianEye (talk) 14:58, 2 June 2010 (UTC)

Invalid Token

Sometimes when I try to revert, I get the following response:

“Did not revert … Invalid token.”

What does this mean? Can I take any steps to correct it? Thanks! — SpikeToronto 21:00, 14 January 2010 (UTC)

Any ideas … ? — SpikeToronto 02:14, 7 February 2010 (UTC)

Token for the page reference is either missing, invalid, or generally broken. If it doesnt work, try again. KiraChinmoku _{(T, ¤)} 10:27, 16 March 2010 (UTC)

Can't get "Remove edits after.." setting to stick

I keep trying to set it to 1 minute, but after clicking the OK button.. it isn't set to 1. If I go back to the "Queues" window, it's set at 10 again! I've tried setting it to 12 for example, and it still goes back to 10! Rarely the setting will actually stay at 1, but it returns to 10 if I change any other setting. Am I doing something really obviously wrong? –  MissAlyx  talk  14:26, 17 January 2010 (UTC)

No, Huggle is just badly coded. Gurch (talk) 17:34, 17 January 2010 (UTC)

That was what I suspected. –  MissAlyx  talk  18:53, 20 January 2010 (UTC)

Well, apparently, I didn't see this very identical post until after I posted mine. I guess we're not the only ones who discovered this... Schfifty3 18:57, 20 January 2010 (UTC)

See Wikipedia:Huggle/Feedback/Archive_13#Behavior_with_5.2C000_edits_in_queue for a "fix"  Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 22:00, 8 February 2010 (UTC)

Removing edits after selected minutes

I'm trying to make it so that the filtered edits in my queue are removed after one minute (has happened in previous versions). However, whenever I click "OK" after saving my changes, the minutes reset to 10 minutes. Does anyone know why this is happening? I don't want my queues to overload! :-) Schfifty3 18:55, 20 January 2010 (UTC)

It is just badly coded. Anyway, your queues won't "overload", they'll just keep growing until they reach 5000 items, at which point older items will be bumped off the end. Gurch (talk) 22:34, 20 January 2010 (UTC)

Wait, is the 5000-item cue the reason for the memory sinks? That seems unnecessarily large. Throwaway85 (talk) 06:41, 7 February 2010 (UTC)

Edit summary changes

I just noticed on Wikipedia:Huggle/Config that the default revert summary is almost exactly the same as the manual revert summary. This change was done by Baseball1015 (talk · contribs), who probably went bold and changed them without consensus. I don't particularly agree with these new changes because it looks too confusing. Also, with these new changes, the only way to tell whether the edit was done by Huggle is by the last part - (HG). I am going to revert these changes for now and leave it until a discussion/consensus has formed. Feel free to leave your comments here! Thanks, Schfifty3 23:28, 25 January 2010 (UTC)

Is the last part not enough? The problem I have with the changes is making the summary longer for no good reason. Gurch (talk) 08:24, 26 January 2010 (UTC)

HOw to change the default summary? --Tyw7  (Talk • Contributions)   Changing the world one edit at a time! 08:10, 29 January 2010 (UTC)

To Gurch - What I meant was basically this appearance: Reverted edits by XXXXX (talk) to last version by YYYYY (HG). The user changed it to this before I reverted it to the current summary. Schfifty3 17:17, 29 January 2010 (UTC)

SD Tag

Why is HG having a hard time finding the page creator when I tag something as SD? CTJF83 chat 19:38, 28 January 2010 (UTC)

Maybe they're hiding. Or perhaps it just sucks. Gurch (talk) 11:16, 1 February 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for the "helpful" reply. CTJF83 chat 20:48, 2 February 2010 (UTC)

Custom Edit Summary as default

I would like a nicer more descriptive summary when I click on the revert button. THe current wording doesn't state anything about vandalism and huggle. First, I would like to ask that the default summary should be improved. Secondly, I would like to know how to make make my custom summary as the default everytime I press the big red revert vandalism button (Removing vandalism using Huggle Anti-Vandal tool. False positive? Please assume good faith and kindly tell this user about it. Thanks!)? --Tyw7  (Talk • Contributions)   Changing the world one edit at a time! 20:28, 31 January 2010 (UTC)

You are not a bot, you are a human. If you're making mistakes often enough that you need a "what to do if there's a false positive" line in your edit summaries, then you should be taking more care. Gurch (talk) 11:17, 1 February 2010 (UTC)

Just in case I make one when reverting vandalism with Huggle... Not that I do often. It's like: I've undid your edits due to vandalism. If not happy, feel feel to drop me a message. --Tyw7  (Talk • Contributions)   Changing the world one edit at a time! 16:39, 1 February 2010 (UTC)

Even this edit summary by Twinkle seem better Reverted 1 edit by 91.73.80.70 identified as vandalism to last revision by Epeefleche. --Tyw7  (Talk • Contributions)   Changing the world one edit at a time! 06:46, 2 February 2010 (UTC)

How is that better? The only difference is it calls the edit vandalism; since people also use Huggle to remove test edits, spam, and no end of other things, that would be misleading. Gurch (talk) 07:09, 2 February 2010 (UTC)

If you notice if I select the down arrow on the big red triangle, I am able to select whether the edits are test, spam, vandalism, etc. THerefore, I don't think the edit summary should be a generic one. --Tyw7  (Talk • Contributions)   Changing the world one edit at a time! 19:42, 2 February 2010 (UTC)

The "big red triangle" is the warning button, not the revert button. The warnings already have specific edit summaries. One would assume that if you're warning someone for something. you've already reverted it, so knowing after the fact what you identified it as doesn't help. A case could be made for specific summaries on the combined revert/warn function, but I still don't think the minimal value in that outweighs the problems caused by people giving the wrong reason for reverting something. There's a reason MediaWiki's default summary doesn't specify a reason, which applies equally to Huggle. Gurch (talk) 06:32, 3 February 2010 (UTC)

Need's to close issue

Hello, i have been unable to revert WP:VANDALISM with WP:HUGGLE because everytime i run Huggle it says Huggle has encountered a problem and it needs to close. I dont know whats wrong with it. So until, the bug is fixed i guess im going to have to fight Vandalism with WP:TWINKLE--Written by GeneralCheese 20:42, 31 January 2010 (UTC)

How about delete the Huggle program file you have and redownload a freshcopy from the website? --Tyw7  (Talk • Contributions)   Changing the world one edit at a time! 22:04, 31 January 2010 (UTC)

Ive tried that, still not working.--Written by GeneralCheese 02:24, 2 February 2010 (UTC)

Not sure why Gurch reverted my edit, although I assume it had something to do with my poor attempt at humour. At any rate, I'm having the same problem. Huggle is now crashing after, at most, 5 minutes of use, rendering it unusable. Windows7 64bit, 2 gig core 2 duo, fwiw. Throwaway85 (talk) 19:48, 2 February 2010 (UTC)

I could not get Huggle to run for very long with Windows7, and as there was a couple of other programs that failed to run that I wanted to keep, I've gone back to XPpro for the forseeable future.  Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 22:57, 19 March 2010 (UTC)

Problems with login

Since some days, when I try to connect, I get the following error: "URI no válido: se esperaba un puerto porque hay presentes dos puntos (':') pero el puerto no se pudo analizar" ("Invalid URI: port was expected because there are two points (':') present but the port could not analyze.")

What can I do? Greetings. --Banfield - Amenazas aquí 17:23, 6 February 2010 (UTC)

Try changing huggle to run / work off a different port if you can. KiraChinmoku _{(T, ¤)} 10:29, 16 March 2010 (UTC)

More Crashing

Different steps to replicate than issue above. Huggle crashes fairly constantly when trying to revert+warn an edit from a user's history bar that is not their latest. I suspect some of the edits may have been previously reverted, and this is what causes the problem, but I couldn't say for certain. As above, win7 pro 64, POS Dell. I just deleted and redownloaded the program file, still crashing. This one does not appear to be tied to performance or memory usage, as the above one does. Let me know if there's any other info I can provide. Throwaway85 (talk) 11:25, 8 February 2010 (UTC)

Multiple edits by same user

I think that if there are multiple edits in a row on a page by the same user, Huggle should show them as a group instead of just one to the other. What do you think? P Carn (talk) 01:29, 15 February 2010 (UTC)

To do this, every time you wanted to view a diff Huggle would have to fetch the page history first, in order to see which revisions to include. This would make things much slower. And what would happen when you want to revert some, but not all of those revisions? Gurch (talk) 02:43, 15 February 2010 (UTC)

nl.wikipedia

Hi, When will the test on the Dutch Wikipedia end? Who's leading the test? When will 'normal' users be able to use Huggle at WP-nl? Kind regards, Timk70 (talk) 17:21, 15 February 2010 (UTC)

Hi Timk, there are currently some issues that make the usage of Huggle a bit complicated. At the moment vandalism patrolling with huggle isn't working fine at nl.wp. Lolsimon (talk) 23:05, 25 February 2010 (UTC)

IRC-->API

Lately, whenever i login to HG, it gives this message :" -- Unable to connect to IRC recent changes feed. Using slower API queries instead". This happens even when I reconnect. Is the IRC feed down? ManishEarth^{Talk • Stalk} 06:58, 20 February 2010 (UTC)

No, the feed is working. Try connecting to #en.wikipedia on irc.wikimedia.org using an IRC client; if you cannot do that, you are behind a firewall, proxy or some other configuration that is blocking IRC. Gurch (talk) 20:56, 20 February 2010 (UTC)

Over-writing another AIV report

Not sure what Huggle did here, but it shouldn't have overwritten another AIV report. Bradjamesbrown (talk) 19:49, 22 February 2010 (UTC)

It's happening on eswiki too [3] --by Màñü飆¹5 ^talk 21:52, 16 May 2010 (UTC)

Patrolled edits

I saw that patrolling pages is implemented in Huggle. However, patrolling edits (meta:Help:Patrolled_edit) seems to be not implemented. On some wiki's, such as nl.wikipedia, vandalism patrolling is working with edits patrolling. Is there a simple way to patroll edits with Huggle? If not, it might be a good idea to implement this in a new version of Huggle.. Lolsimon (talk) 23:05, 25 February 2010 (UTC)

It's a lot more difficult to implement than it should be. See MediaWiki bug 17237 for details of why. Gurch (talk) 06:00, 26 February 2010 (UTC)

Well, isn't it possible to implement it in the browserview of Huggle? Lolsimon (talk) 15:02, 26 February 2010 (UTC)

Only to the extent outlined in that bug report. So, patrolling of edits made during the session is possible, but more advanced stuff like patrolling of arbitrary revisions, or checking which of a user's edits are patrolled, is not. This limits the usefulness of a patrolling mechanism in Huggle, as the whole point of Huggle is supposed to be to make recent changes monitoring more efficient. Gurch (talk) 15:10, 26 February 2010 (UTC)

Warning nonsense article

I use Huggle for the German Wikipedia. The warning, that the user receive, when he makes a nonsense article, is not saved. So when he makes once again a nonsence article, I can't see, he has already a warning. That's very irritating. Could you correct that? Regards, Timk70 (talk) 15:04, 1 March 2010 (UTC)

Problem is the deletion notification given to users on en.wikipedia is not considered a warning, and there would be complaints if it was. At some point things will have to be rewritten to allow different treatment of the same function on en.wikipedia and de.wikipedia. Gurch (talk) 15:53, 1 March 2010 (UTC)

Revert conflict

[4] [5] In both cases there are 2 consecutive edits I get warned about this by huggle and order it to revert but meanwhile another user reverts but huggle continues and reverts the last of the 2 original edits and the reversion. --Egmontaz♤ ^talk 16:10, 2 March 2010 (UTC)

Are you selecting, or has Huggle selected, an intermediate revision in the series of consecutive revisions by the same user, and is Huggle's warning message along the lines of "This will revert to an earlier revision by <name of vandal>"? If so, Huggle is doing as asked -- the behaviour of reverting all consecutive revisions by the same user only applies when rollback can be used to do so, and once someone else has edited the page that is no longer the case, so you will have to manually select the first of the vandal's contributions and then revert to that -- or if, as in this case, the edit that is interrupting you is a revert anyway, simply do nothing (or 'Cancel' when you get the warning message), as the bad revisions have already been reverted. Gurch (talk) 18:25, 2 March 2010 (UTC)

Well I really don't remember so I may not be helpful. The case is probably that the message was "This will revert to an earlier revision by <name of vandal>" and I misread it without giving attention because I found out that I had removed the option to get warned for the case of someone having consecutive edit. Usually when someone else reverts first I get the message "Are you sure you want to revert whitelist user <X>" or something like that, but in this case Huggle has already shown the newest edition of the page on screen. Anyway. Thank you for answering and sorry for wasting your time. Regards. --Egmontaz♤ ^talk 19:11, 2 March 2010 (UTC)

Follow #redirects on user talk pages

Bots have their talk pages #redirected to their owner's talk page. Huggle should follow the #redirect before leaving a message, for examples see: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:WildBot&curid=25358825&action=history Josh Parris 00:57, 4 March 2010 (UTC)

Why are you sending bots warning messages in the first place? Gurch (talk) 11:45, 4 March 2010 (UTC)

A very good question. Perhaps no messages ought to be left for bots? Josh Parris 11:38, 5 March 2010 (UTC)

Reordering of Whitelist

Please stop the reordering in edits like this one. Thanks!   — Jeff G. ツ 02:18, 4 March 2010 (UTC)

I've tried to fix that before, nothing I try seems to work. Either it's conflicting locale settings on different users' computers using different sort orders, or the default sort order isn't actually stable in the first place. At some point it might have to be completely rewritten to do an item-by-item comparison and only make an edit if the items differ, that is slow though. Gurch (talk) 11:47, 4 March 2010 (UTC)

I may be barking up the wrong tree... But I see you have TWO Sortlist.vb routines at

1. svn/ branches/ anole/ SortedList.vb
2. svn/ branches/ lite/ SortedList.vb

Now the "lite one has

• n = CInt(Math.Ceiling((b + a) \ 2))

and the other has

• 'CInt rounds .5 to the nearest even interval, but we need to round up

n = CInt(b + a + 0.1) \ 2

So is a "lite" user making one sort and a "normal" user the other?  Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 22:23, 5 March 2010 (UTC)

First, nobody should be using the 'lite' version any more, since it doesn't even work. Second, that code has nothing to do with the sort order of the whitelist, it is determining where to insert revisions in the revision queue. Gurch (talk) 12:00, 7 March 2010 (UTC)

Server OS Compatibility

I don't expect this to go anywhere, but... Any chance that future versions may include Windows Server OSes? (Of if anyone knows how to get Huggle to work on a Server OS, short of using WinXp on VirtualBox...) I expect that an extremely small number of people (probably only me) edit from Server OSes, so this is not really critical or anything. ^Avicenna_sis @ 08:33, 7 March 2010 (UTC)

I was under the impression that Windows Server wasn't hugely different from standard Windows, architecturally speaking. Assuming you have .NET Framework installed, what is the issue? Does it fail to start altogether, or is functionality missing? Gurch (talk) 12:01, 7 March 2010 (UTC)

I have the .NET framework. Same version as in on my WinXP machine that runs it fine. On the server, it throws up communication errors. I have put it in my routers DMZ, disabled all firewall/security software, and port-scanned it from another machine within my network and from an external website. All of this shows it should not be an issue. I have encountered similar problems, and usually this means that the program is not able to understand the network configurations on a Domain Controller. ^Avicenna_sis @ 17:44, 7 March 2010 (UTC)

That might explain it. Do you get an error message out of Huggle before it breaks, or does it just crash? If the former, could you copy the error message here? Gurch (talk) 19:02, 7 March 2010 (UTC)

I get an error message. I am currently at work, so I can't duplicate it now, but I will update when I get home this evening. (Around 0300-0400 UTC) ^Avicenna_sis @ 19:40, 7 March 2010 (UTC)

"Unable to connect to the remote server" ^Avicenna_sis @ 05:07, 8 March 2010 (UTC)

Re-created it on a virtual machine, turns out for some reason my DNS was losing forward lookup zone entries. It works fine on the OS platform. ^Avicenna_sis @ 05:31, 21 March 2010 (UTC)

Contact for whitelist issue

Who can I contact for an issue with the whitelist? -- Brangifer (talk) 03:32, 26 March 2010 (UTC)

So far you've contacted two places and haven't said what the issue is. Gurch (talk) 13:01, 26 March 2010 (UTC)

AIV

Hi, from where does Huggle obtains the template to report to AIV? --by Màñü飆¹5 ^(m†¹5™) 18:27, 29 March 2010 (UTC)

It doesn't use a template. Gurch (talk) 08:37, 30 March 2010 (UTC)

And what it uses? I need to change something in eswiki default report --by Màñü飆¹5 ^(m†¹5™) 18:24, 30 March 2010 (UTC)

Not really possible at the moment, if I ever get round to working on Huggle then report content will be configurable. Gurch (talk) 20:21, 30 March 2010 (UTC)

Crashing when req page protection

Hi there. Whenever I try to request page protection (under the page tab) huggle always crashes ("stops working").. It's done this about 5x and it's always after I req page protection. Does this happen to anyone else? Thanks Tommy (msg) 20:55, 7 April 2010 (UTC)

It does this to me sometimes, too, but I'm able to request page protection most of the time when I request page protection. - Zhang He (talk) 16:37, 11 April 2010 (UTC)

It's been doing this to me too today. I also tried Twinkle and even then requesting page protection was kind of glitchy. As both Twinkle and Huggle are having the problem I'm more inclined to believe that it's something on the page causing this as opposed to the applications --5 albert square (talk) 23:58, 13 April 2010 (UTC)

No, it is Huggle, which sucks. Gurch (talk) 13:35, 14 April 2010 (UTC)

Is there a fix planned for it? - Zhang He (talk) 01:23, 21 April 2010 (UTC)

Unable to log in with 0.9.4

I had no problem logging in with 0.9.3, but 0.9.4 is giving me grief. I gather by the lack of other posts that I'm alone in this and that no one else is having this problem with the latest version? --Rrburke^ekrubrR 23:36, 9 April 2010 (UTC)

I copied the newest version into the same folder as the old one along with the existing config folder. I'm not sure if that's why I'm not having trouble or not. - Stillwaterising (talk) 23:51, 9 April 2010 (UTC)

No luck. I can log in to de: with Huggle, oddly enough -- just not en. --Rrburke^ekrubrR 00:50, 10 April 2010 (UTC)

With me is it exactly the same. Regards --Jivee Blau (talk) 02:30, 10 April 2010 (UTC)

Currently Wikimedia's MediaWiki deployment is being updated, patched, re-patched, reverted, fixed, broken, and otherwise generally tossed around, hence the two breaking changes that necessitated Huggle changes in the last week. No doubt this is a third. I will look into it when I have time, which unfortunately is not immediately. Gurch (talk) 12:39, 10 April 2010 (UTC)

Hi, Gurch. Thanks for replying. It was something in my prefs: when I restored the defaults the problem disappeared. When I get a sec I'll re-customize my prefs one item at a time, running Huggle in between each change to isolate the culprit. Rrburke (talk) 16:49, 10 April 2010 (UTC)

Luckily, it didn't affect the Helper-Bots this time. - Zhang He (talk) 16:37, 11 April 2010 (UTC)

Don't know what it was: I re-enabled my prefs one-by-one, but the login problem didn't recur. I'd be tempted to say it had nothing to do with my prefs, but I tried using Huggle immediately prior to resetting them and couldn't log in. -- Rrburke (talk) 16:46, 12 April 2010 (UTC)

Italian localization

I'm working at an Italian localization at meta:User:Snowolf/Huggle it. Just dropping a notice. Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 04:35, 14 April 2010 (UTC)

Automatic edits to whitelist reversing each other?

I noticed that on the whitelist one automatic edit will place "ABCxyz" under "ABCXYZ" (there are other examples), and the next edit will put "ABCxyz" back on top. Is this supposed to happen and what purpose does it serve? NotAnonymous0 did I err?|Contribs 05:23, 14 April 2010 (UTC)

Unlisted config options?

On my huggle configuration page, there are options which do not appear in Wikipedia:Huggle/Configuration. Is the linked page slightly out of date? NotAnonymous0 did I err?|Contribs 23:48, 15 April 2010 (UTC)

Unable to login 2

I have rollback rights and have used Huggle many times before but I try to log in this time and receive the error message "Unable to login". Does anyone have any ideas to what is going wrong? Andrewmc123 16:16, 16 April 2010 (UTC)

Have you downloaded the most recent version? (0.9.4) See this discussion - it was introduced only a few days ago, so you may need to update. Orphan Wiki 16:33, 16 April 2010 (UTC)

Yes I have downloaded version 0.9.4 but it still doesnt work

Mmmm, that's strange. I can log in, and I can see that others are using it too at the moment. You may want to contact Gurch, unless anyone else has any suggestions? Orphan Wiki 16:55, 16 April 2010 (UTC)

I too am facing the same problem for a few days...I keep getting the error "Unable to Login". I am using the latest version (0.9.4) and have used it several times in the past. --JovianEye (talk) 23:04, 16 April 2010 (UTC)

I downloaded v 0.9.4 this morning as a new user but am unable to log in. I have rollback rights and have .NET 3.0. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Jimmy Pitt (talk) 15:52, 25 April 2010 (UTC)

IRC RC feeds problem

Hi, I don't know if this is an issue with Huggle (because I heard it could be related to Internet connection speeds and I'm a relative newbie at using the application) but when Huggle starts up, RC feed updates. However it doesn't update as I work, so eventually I have to reopen Huggle to get more changes to look at. My wireless broadband speed is 1.5mbps, so I'm not sure about the nature of the issue. Reconnecting IRC feed just doesn't work, and there aren't any messages at the bottom to say what is wrong. Thanks for your help. Deagle_AP (talk) 12:17, 21 April 2010 (UTC)

"Remove after" time resets to 10 minutes

I like having recent changes removed after 1 minute to avoid clutter, but it always resets to 10 minutes. I think this is new because it was fine in 0.9.2. NotAnonymous0 did I err?|Contribs 18:37, 25 April 2010 (UTC)

Dumb question

I just started using this. Suppose I find a new IP has changed the article on a band to say it is not "Schlock Rock" but "Slurp Metal". I have no idea whether that is just a technical correction that all fans would agree with or an extreme insult and pure vandalism. If I click on the green arrow, does that mean ""Not vandalism - whitelist the editor" or does it mean "I don't know - someone else should decide"? Then I see another edit that is clearly an improvement, maybe correcting a typo or fixing a redlink. I want to say "this is not vandalism". How does it work? Aymatth2 (talk) 23:11, 25 April 2010 (UTC)

The green arrow goes back to the previous page. The blue arrow button next to the Revert and Warn button will skip the edit and move to the next edit in the queue. Other people will still get a chance to see it and act on it if necessary. Reach Out to the Truth 18:16, 26 April 2010 (UTC)

Thanks - that is what I was hoping was the answer. (When I said green I meant blue). I did not want to flag edits as "not vandalism" when I have no idea if they are or not. Aymatth2 (talk) 18:45, 26 April 2010 (UTC)

Additional options to report user [B]

Can we somehow get an additional option to report a user based on a violation of username policy? (As opposed to only reporting based on vandalism past 4/4im) Tommy²⁰¹⁰ 23:02, 26 April 2010 (UTC)

I agree. That would be useful. Especially as it isn't a rare occurance... Orphan Wiki 23:03, 26 April 2010 (UTC)

I'd also like the option to report users and fill in more details, similar to twinkle's ability. Tommy²⁰¹⁰ 23:06, 26 April 2010 (UTC)

Re-added username reports, they were disabled because they broke a while ago. You already can fill in more details when you report a user, if you use the report button on the toolbar. If you want to be prompted to fill in more details every time a user is reported, rather than it reporting automatically, go to System -> Options and under "Reporting" change the "Auto-report" setting to "Prompt for report". Gurch (talk) 14:26, 27 April 2010 (UTC)

Bug report

Whenever I try to undo an action using the undo-button the program crashes. --MrStalker ^(talk) 16:54, 27 April 2010 (UTC)

Join the club :-(. You might want to note above Wikipedia:Huggle/Feedback#Crash, and other sections. You are not alone...  Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 21:48, 27 April 2010 (UTC)

Unable to log in (0.9.5)

I am having a problem with Huggle since last week. When I try to log in, the message "Unable to log in" appears. Today I downloaded the 0.9.5 but the problem remains. ThiagoRuiz (talk) 16:03, 30 April 2010 (UTC)

New bug

Huggle crashes when a user is reverting 2 or more edits at the same time and a more recent edit is reverted before the first reversion is completed. It gets "confused" I guess you'd say. It seems to crash when it says "Warning... (vandalism from user 2)" while still trying to revert the latter vandalism. Tommy²⁰¹⁰ 14:35, 2 May 2010 (UTC)

Error

The IRC RC feed still doesn't seem to work properly for me, even though I can go on #en.wikipedia on irc.wikimedia.org on Chatzilla. So it switches to API queries. However, after a while it generates this error:

NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.

  at Huggle.Misc.FindString(String Source, String From, String To)
  at Huggle.Processing.ProcessRc(String Result)
  at Huggle.Requests.RcApiRequest.Done()
  at Huggle.Requests.Request.ThreadDone()
  at Huggle.Misc.CallbackInvoke(Object TargetObject)

Can anyone explain? Thanks. Deagle_AP (talk) 08:34, 3 May 2010 (UTC)

Whenever I can't access IRC I also get this error after an amount of time. Help would be usefull. Spitfire19 (Talk) 14:30, 18 May 2010 (UTC)

Suggestions for Huggle.

There are some warnings that Twinkle has, such as 3RR, that Huggle doesn't. I think they should be added. Also, on the "Send template message to user" button (one with the blue background and white exclamation mark), there should be an additional opition to link to said page. The way it is now, it just messages the user, but doesn't show them what page they messed up on. - Donald Duck (talk) 00:57, 4 May 2010 (UTC)

3RR might be a bit too much mission creep for Huggle. It's intended for vandal-fighting, nothing more. 3RR tends to be much more complicated, and issuing warnings for it is not suited to Huggle's rapidfire style. Throwaway85 (talk) 04:43, 8 May 2010 (UTC)

New pages

Hi, why huggle doesn't show the new pages on eswiki? Regards --by Màñü飆¹5 ^talk 08:10, 4 May 2010 (UTC)

Compliments

My goodness, this version of huggle is running so much more nicely than the older versions on my pc. Well done to the creator :) Ottawa4ever (talk) 14:42, 4 May 2010 (UTC)

Yes it is. Tommy2010 01:16, 13 May 2010 (UTC)

Automatic detection of blatantly inappropriate usernames

I think it would be nice if Huggle could automatically detect whether a particular vandal's username contains a blatantly offensive and/or disruptive string so that upon rolling back edits made by said vandal, Huggle would ask whether it should report/block the vandal immediately rather than leave a warning on the vandal's talk page. --SoCalSuperEagle (talk) 23:51, 4 May 2010 (UTC)

There is already automated reporting of "possibly offensive" usernames based on heuristics. Such a feature in Huggle would thus be meaningless as any usernames it picked up would have already been reported. Gurch (talk) 02:48, 5 May 2010 (UTC)

User talk link in edit summary

User:Donald Duck said that I should bring up the reason for my change at the Config page here. So, I do not think the "(talk)" in the reverting summary should be there because, well, it should be different than the manual revert summary. I don't have a lot to explain here unfortunately, although the appearance of the link makes it easier for users to view the user's warning history. Feel free to discuss! Schfifty3 03:27, 7 May 2010 (UTC)

You've pretty much covered what I was going to explain. We could always change the manual one since most users with rollback use Huggle. - Donald Duck (talk) 04:01, 7 May 2010 (UTC)

Error

Hi; when i open huggle; i see this error, and i dont log

ArgumentException: Value does not fall within the expected range.
   at System.Windows.Forms.UnsafeNativeMethods.IWebBrowser2.Navigate2(Object& URL, Object& flags, Object& targetFrameName, Object& postData, Object& headers)
   at System.Windows.Forms.WebBrowser.PerformNavigate2(Object& URL, Object& flags, Object& targetFrameName, Object& postData, Object& headers)
   at System.Windows.Forms.WebBrowser.PerformNavigateHelper(String urlString, Boolean newWindow, String targetFrameName, Byte[] postData, String headers)
   at System.Windows.Forms.WebBrowser.set_Url(Uri value)
   at Huggle.BrowserTab.InitializeComponent()
   at Huggle.BrowserTab..ctor()
   at Huggle.Main.InitializeComponent()
   at Huggle.Main..ctor()
   at Huggle.LoginForm.Done()
   at Huggle.Misc.CallbackInvoke(Object TargetObject)

Can anyone explain? Thanks Diegusjaimes complaints 19:31, 9 May 2010 (UTC)

Well first you do not have rollback rights on Wikipedia, which is required for huggle to work. You also need a custom .css page, such as mine here: user:tommy2010/huggle.css Tommy2010 01:12, 13 May 2010 (UTC)

You can copy and paste mine if you'd like. Tommy2010 01:15, 13 May 2010 (UTC)

It was a strange mistake on eswiki only happened to Diegusjaimes, it appeared from nowhere and was solved from nowhere --by Màñü飆¹5 ^talk 09:11, 14 May 2010 (UTC)

Countervandalism Blacklist button

A useful feature would be a button to add the user to the #cvn-wp-en blacklist. I often add vandals that I revert to the blacklist on that channel via my irc client so that twinkle users are aware of that user or ip vandal. It would be much easier if there was a button on huggle to add them. --Seahorseruler ^{(Talk Page) (Contribs) (Report a Vandal)} 23:17, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

What's going on

here? --John (talk) 01:19, 15 May 2010 (UTC)

It appears to be a dispute about whether the edit summary of a revert should link to the user page of the user whose revision was reverted to. NotAnonymous0 did I err?|Contribs 04:18, 15 May 2010 (UTC)

And as has been said many a time there is no link for a reason. ·Add§hore· ^{Talk To Me!} 08:37, 15 May 2010 (UTC)

There is also no need for a link. It is just the username of whoever happened to last edit the page before the vandal did, which could be anyone, often from months ago. The only reason it is included at all is so that it is unambiguous to someone viewing the page history exactly what was reverted. A link to the userpage is thus pointless because in the page history, there is already a link to their userpage on the very next line. Gurch (talk) 13:08, 15 May 2010 (UTC)

Undoing own actions bug

Whenever I try to use the "undo recent actions" button, huggle stops responding and has to close. What can I do to fix this? --Seahorseruler ^{(Talk Page) (Contribs) (Report a Vandal)} 18:52, 15 May 2010 (UTC)

Feature request

Can we add the uw-advert series of templates to our warning options? Maybe do something to specify that spam is for spam links. Thanks, Ray^Talk 07:00, 17 May 2010 (UTC)

Error message keeps popping up

Today I started getting this error message every minute or so (using 0.9.5):

NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
at Huggle.Misc.HtmlToWikiText(String Text)
at Huggle.Processing.ProcessDiff(Edit Edit, String DiffText, BrowserTab Tab)
at Huggle.Requests.DiffRequest.Done()
at Huggle.Requests.Request.ThreadDone()
at Huggle.Misc.CallbackInvoke(Object TargetObject)

If I press "Continue" I can keep editing, but then it'll come up again a short time later. I haven't changed any of my settings since yesterday. Any ideas? ... discospinster _talk 15:15, 18 May 2010 (UTC)

Me too! exactly the same message. Looks like WP must have changed something (again) - it does it more if you try to go back to an earlier revision (the "Z" command).  Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 21:05, 18 May 2010 (UTC)

I wonder if it has to do with the new "delete selected revision" thing that's just gone live? Maybe it conflicts with some other code. ... discospinster _talk 21:35, 18 May 2010 (UTC)

I started getting this a day or two ago with version 0.9.4 before I upgraded to 0.9.5 (and continued getting same error), so it's not a recent change to the Huggle code. -- Tom N (tcncv) talk/contrib 23:20, 18 May 2010 (UTC)

This problem might only occur for administrators. Revision delete markup in the edit summary is triggering the error. I submitted issue 192. -- Tom N (tcncv) talk/contrib 00:34, 19 May 2010 (UTC)

Hmm, I was getting this error but nolonger seem to be... Can anyone else confirm? ·Add§hore· ^{Talk To Me!} 10:13, 19 May 2010 (UTC)

Should be fixed in the next version. (Cannot easily test because I am not an administrator) Gurch (talk) 10:51, 19 May 2010 (UTC)

So far today I have not had the same problem as before. ... discospinster _talk 18:12, 19 May 2010 (UTC)

I have run the updated code in debug mode as an admin and confirmed that both the IF and the ELSEIF paths execute properly. The final ELSE is not being hit (as expected). Thanks for the super-fast turnaround and for an overall great product. -- Tom N (tcncv) talk/contrib 23:59, 19 May 2010 (UTC)

Huggle does not warn users correctly

Shortly after getting rollback, I began to use huggle to revert vandalism. However, I found that Huggle does not consistently warn users, sometimes completely skipping warnings. I no longer use huggle due to this. Please look into why this error is occurring, and, if possible, correct it. Best wishes. Immunize (talk) 18:52, 18 May 2010 (UTC)

Quick question, where you using the most recent version? ·Add§hore· ^{Talk To Me!} 19:58, 18 May 2010 (UTC)

Immunize, can you confirm that it's not due to a near-simultaneous warning by another user for the same vandalism/bad contribution (only one goes through), or a case where a user has already received four warnings, and an AIV report was generated and amended instead? TheFeds 21:36, 18 May 2010 (UTC)

I know that in at least some of the cases the edit itself was reverted, it was the users first vandal edit (ruling out the possibility that they have received 4 warnings) and no other editor had edited that users talk page (I then had to warn them with Twinkle). Immunize (talk) 22:20, 18 May 2010 (UTC)

Any links to these users or diffs? :P ·Add§hore· ^{Talk To Me!} 10:11, 19 May 2010 (UTC)

Cases where warnings won't be generated:

• You only selected 'revert' not 'revert and warn'
• User has not edited since their previous warning
• User's was previously warned less than 10 seconds ago
• User already has a final warning
• User has been reported
• User is blocked
• User's talk page is protected
• An error occured trying to edit the user's talk page (should be shown in the log)

If none of the above, something is wrong. Note that if a user is not warned automatically you can still use the 'warn' button to warn them. Gurch (talk) 10:38, 19 May 2010 (UTC)

Why would Huggle not warn a user if they have not edited since the most recent warning? Immunize (talk) 13:31, 20 May 2010 (UTC)

There would be no point - they haven't seen/responded to the warning since it was made. It is possible they will stop when they see the warning, or have read the warning and stopped, so further warnings would be counter-productive. Ale_Jrb^talk 14:07, 20 May 2010 (UTC)

Not loading revisions in version 0.9.6

I've just downloaded version 0.9.6, and Huggle no longer loads revisions. The filtered edits list is still working, and the history and contribution bars at the top function as before, but the revision window is stuck on the initial, default screen. Is anyone else having this problem? -- Lear's Fool (talk | contribs) 13:59, 19 May 2010 (UTC)

Login button greyed out

Just downloaded 0.9.6 and tried logging in. Even when all details are completed the login button is greyed out and unclickable. Any ideas? Thanks. – ukexpat (talk) 18:09, 19 May 2010 (UTC)

Follow up - but if I hit ↵ Enter, it logs me in... – ukexpat (talk) 18:16, 19 May 2010 (UTC)

Suggestion

Can there be like a stop button where if you go wrong and start reverting the wrong thing, you can stop huggle from reverting the page, would be very good for accidential reverts. Sophie ^(Talk) 18:18, 19 May 2010 (UTC)

It that big red "X" on the toolbar - mind you, it often causes my Huggle to crash...  Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 20:41, 19 May 2010 (UTC)

ahh ok :) Sophie ^(Talk) 20:52, 19 May 2010 (UTC)

Note though that once you've sent a request through the Internet, there's no way to "take it back", so if you try to cancel a revert when Huggle has already sent the request it will still succeed. You'll need to undo the revert (or just revert your own edit). What the cancel button is useful for is stopping additional edits such as warnings/reports being made. But yes, it usually causes an error at the moment, I haven't got round to fixing that yet.

Bug Report

Got a pop up, said to report the following:
NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.

  at Huggle.Misc.FindString(String Source, String From, String To)

  at Huggle.Processing.ProcessRc(String Result)

  at Huggle.Requests.RcApiRequest.Done()

  at Huggle.Requests.Request.ThreadDone()

  at Huggle.Misc.CallbackInvoke(Object TargetObject)

Sophie ^(Talk) 20:52, 19 May 2010 (UTC)

Probably a similar problem to the one a few sections further up this page. Will look into it when I have time. Gurch (talk) 13:33, 20 May 2010 (UTC)

Warns @ eswiki

Hi, on eswiki Huggle skip the warns left by others users, as you can see here, any idea about what is wrong? --by Màñü飆¹5 ^talk 21:31, 20 May 2010 (UTC)

Filtered New Pages

When using the IRC feed, the filtered new pages list never tags any filtered pages, but when using the API queries it does. Anyone know what the deal is? Falcon8765 (talk) 23:04, 22 May 2010 (UTC)

Enabling huggle for svwiki?

I'm a swedish Wikipedia user and administrator. What steps have to be taken to enable huggle on our Wikipedia? tetraedycal, tetraedycal 21:57, 24 May 2010 (UTC)

• Add the wiki code and URL under "projects:" on meta:Huggle/Config
• Create sv:Wikipedia:Huggle/Config, and copy the contents of Wikipedia:Huggle/Config to it
• Edit that page to set the necessary settings for sv.wikipedia. For example, you'll probably want the various edit summaries to be in your native language, and your project may not have some of the processes (e.g. speedy deletion, vandalism reports) that en.wikipedia has, so the parts of the config page relating to those can be deleted.

Gurch (talk) 22:44, 24 May 2010 (UTC)

Thanks. :) tetraedycal, tetraedycal 09:21, 30 May 2010 (UTC)

Some users cannot select sv.wikipedia in the list of projects. Any ideas of what the issue might be? tetraedycal, tetraedycal 19:00, 30 May 2010 (UTC)

HUGE suggestion that will change vandal-fighting

Please make a version of Huggle that is natively compatible with Mac OS X. I have been wanting to use Huggle for a while now, and it's disappointing it isn't natively compatible with Macs. ~NerdyScienceDude (✉ • ✐) 23:57, 25 May 2010 (UTC)

You do realise how much work that'd be? If WINE/Mono get themselves into gear, it should be able to "just run" —Reedy 00:41, 26 May 2010 (UTC)

By "native" I assume you mean Objective-C? There's no way I'm even going to attempt doing a large GUI app in that. Gurch (talk) 02:25, 26 May 2010 (UTC)

Yes, I want a Mac version that works without the use of additional emulation software. ~NerdyScienceDude (✉ • ✐) 03:20, 26 May 2010 (UTC)

Yes, a Mac OS X version would be extremely helpful for us Mac users. However I'm guessing it would be extremely difficult for someone to script from scratch again. Forenti^talk 23:59, 27 May 2010 (UTC)

You seem to be doing pretty fine with this Igloo thing you have - it seems like a good tool - I thought you were a Huggle user until closer inspection... Orphan Wiki 00:05, 28 May 2010 (UTC)

The point is a new language (not so much of an issue), but also a new development environment, a new operating system + hardware (not cheap if you're not already a Mac user). Without running it emulated, or converting it to say Java... —Reedy 01:10, 28 May 2010 (UTC)

Oh, there's no chance you'd ever get a supported Mac OS X version. Like I can afford a Mac at the moment. The best you could theoretically hope for is a platform-agnostic version that happened to work on a Mac. If I ever even had time to work on Huggle at all. Gurch (talk) 01:48, 28 May 2010 (UTC)

Cannot remove an item from a live fixed list

Queue--> Manage Queues--> List Builder--> Right click an item--> Remove--> Save and Close . . . Does not remove the item. It's still there even after restarting Huggle. kcylsnavS{^screech_harrass} 21:27, 31 May 2010 (UTC)

Error report by petiatil ^{»User »Contribs}

KeyNotFoundException: The given key was not present in the dictionary.
  at System.ThrowHelper.ThrowKeyNotFoundException()
  at System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary`2.get_Item(TKey key)
  at Huggle.Requests.RollbackRequest.Done()
  at Huggle.Requests.Request.ThreadDone()
  at Huggle.Misc.CallbackInvoke(Object TargetObject)
KeyNotFoundException: The given key was not present in the dictionary.
  at System.ThrowHelper.ThrowKeyNotFoundException()
  at System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary`2.get_Item(TKey key)
  at Huggle.QueueForm.get_CurrentQueue()
  at Huggle.QueueForm.QueueForm_FormClosing(Object s, FormClosingEventArgs e)
  at System.Windows.Forms.Form.OnFormClosing(FormClosingEventArgs e)
  at System.Windows.Forms.Form.RaiseFormClosingOnAppExit()
  at System.Windows.Forms.Application.ExitInternal()
  at System.Windows.Forms.Application.Exit(CancelEventArgs e)
  at System.Windows.Forms.Application.Exit()
  at Microsoft.VisualBasic.ApplicationServices.WindowsFormsApplicationBase.OnUnhandledException(UnhandledExceptionEventArgs e)
  at Microsoft.VisualBasic.ApplicationServices.WindowsFormsApplicationBase.OnUnhandledExceptionEventAdaptor(Object sender, ThreadExceptionEventArgs e)
  at System.Windows.Forms.Application.ThreadContext.OnThreadException(Exception t)
  at System.Windows.Forms.Control.InvokeMarshaledCallbacks()
  at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m)
  at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.OnMessage(Message& m)
  at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.WndProc(Message& m)
  at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam)

EventType : clr20r3     P1 : huggle 0.9.6.exe     P2 : 0.9.6.0     P3 : 4bf3c224
P4 : huggle     P5 : 0.9.6.0     P6 : 4bf3c224     P7 : d81     P8 : 1b0     
P9 : system.nullreferenceexception    

OS: Windows NT 5.1 SP3 (XP SP3 BUILD 2600.xpsp_sp3_gdr.100216-1514) 1024 MB system memory petiatil ^{»User »Contribs} 01:42, 1 June 2010 (UTC)

Getting Huggle to actually log in

First it tells me I need rollback; I go get rollback again. Then it tells me I need to approve the use of Huggle in my user preferences, though I cannot find such an option. Help? AliceSKD (talk) 19:51, 2 June 2010 (UTC)

I never remember having to fiddle with My Preferences - you have followed the first note / instuction on the Wikipedia:Huggle/Download page haven't you? The enable:true bit? Orphan Wiki 20:14, 2 June 2010 (UTC)

(Just as a side note; you seem to have very recently changed the name of your signature... that can be somewhat misleading...) Orphan Wiki 20:16, 2 June 2010 (UTC)

You have no huggle.css subpage. See the Note on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Huggle/Download and click the "this page" link. Never mind, I've created it for you, it should work now.  Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 00:37, 3 June 2010 (UTC)

Thanks, it's working fine now. AliceSKD (talk) 13:42, 3 June 2010 (UTC)

Invalid URI: The hostname could not be parsed.

thumb|left|300px That's the message I get when I try to log in through Huggle today. I was able to log in yesterday, but had a malware emergency last night and ran some Norton file scrubbing software to get rid of it. No Huggle since.

Any thoughts on how to correct? I have uninstalled and reinstalled the software, deleted the Config folder, and rolled my huggle.css back to the initial enable:true content. Still getting that URI error message. What do? Erielhonan 06:35, 6 June 2010 (UTC)

Are you sure you have removed all the malware - sounds like something is changing the URL on the fly to me. I have little faith in Norton myself, it's more bloatware than software. Anyway, why not try...

1. http://www.lavasoft.com/products/ad_aware_free.php OR
2. (assuming you have XP or later) System restore, back to before the malware was installed.

 Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 20:45, 6 June 2010 (UTC)

Note also Huggle is very self contained so will run in "safe mode with networking" - a good way to see if anything is affecting it as only essential Windows drivers will be loaded. Also a good place to start System Restore - stops any malware trying to prevent a restore.  Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 20:57, 6 June 2010 (UTC)

thanks will try & report results. I have been a Mac person so long, forgot what a challenge Windows can be! But wanted to try Win7.... now my depraved need for punishment has been sated. Erielhonan 23:41, 6 June 2010 (UTC)

Logging in

OK, just tried to download the new version 0.9.6 from Wikipedia. It won't let me log in though just comes up some weird error messages. So I bring back 0.9.4 to my desktop, log in from that, update and it logs me in fine!

Does anyone have any idea why I'm having trouble logging in? --5 albert square (talk) 22:12, 7 June 2010 (UTC)

Plans for Flagged protection and patrolled revisions

Does Huggle have any plans at this time for handling this new system? FinalRapture - † ☪ 00:39, 8 June 2010 (UTC)

No, Huggle is designed for use with wikis, not closed moderation systems. Gurch (talk) 02:31, 8 June 2010 (UTC)

Bug Report 2010-06-09

Dunno where to report this here goes. Happened after: 1. Starting Huggle 2. Clicking "Add" in the quite and looking at the setting for my dynamic watch list page, then closing the dialog 3. Clicking on a User:Username page in the filtered edits queue. I don't know how much of the above is relevant at this point. Here's the error:

NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
  at Huggle.Queue.RemoveViewedEdit(Edit Edit)
  at Huggle.Processing.DisplayEdit(Edit Edit, Boolean InBrowsingHistory, BrowserTab Tab, Boolean ChangeCurrentEdit)
  at Huggle.Main.QueueArea_MouseDown(Object s, MouseEventArgs e)
  at System.Windows.Forms.Control.OnMouseDown(MouseEventArgs e)
  at System.Windows.Forms.UserControl.OnMouseDown(MouseEventArgs e)
  at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmMouseDown(Message& m, MouseButtons button, Int32 clicks)
  at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m)
  at System.Windows.Forms.ScrollableControl.WndProc(Message& m)
  at System.Windows.Forms.ContainerControl.WndProc(Message& m)
  at System.Windows.Forms.UserControl.WndProc(Message& m)
  at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.OnMessage(Message& m)
  at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.WndProc(Message& m)
  at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam)

Every time I attempt to select a page in the queue I get the same error, even after restarting Huggle.

When attempting to open the diff directly (from the Page entry field), this error is returned:

NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
  at Huggle.Queue.RemoveViewedEdit(Edit Edit)
  at Huggle.Processing.DisplayEdit(Edit Edit, Boolean InBrowsingHistory, BrowserTab Tab, Boolean ChangeCurrentEdit)
  at Huggle.Processing.GotPageContent(RequestResult Result)
  at Huggle.Requests.Request.ThreadDone()
  at Huggle.Misc.CallbackInvoke(Object TargetObject)

To Reproduce

Uncheck "When refreshing, re-add pages that were previously removed" on the Watchlist dynamic list queue.

Um, I would prefer Huggle to leave my watchlist alone. At present, every page I edit is added to my watchlist (even though my enwiki preferences are not set that way) and I would not want the dynamic queue to touch my watchlist either.kcylsnavS{^screech_harrass} 22:42, 9 June 2010 (UTC)

kcylsnavS{^screech_harrass} 22:42, 9 June 2010 (UTC)

Is IE hardwired?

My default browser (XP SP3) is Firefox. Yet every time I click on a link within a displayed diff, the page opens in IE (even though FF is already open), and opens with me being in a logged-out state to boot. Would like Huggle to detect my default browser and then always open links in FF instead of IE. Or at least just open in the link in my default browser.kcylsnavS{^screech_harrass} 23:33, 9 June 2010 (UTC)

New page open twice

My default browser (XP SP3) is Firefox. Every time I press "O" to open the page externally, Huggle opens two windows of the page instead of just one. kcylsnavS{^screech_harrass} 23:35, 9 June 2010 (UTC)

New Bug

I randomly get error messages like this:

NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.

  at Huggle.Queue.RemoveViewedEdit(Edit Edit)
  at Huggle.Processing.DisplayEdit(Edit Edit, Boolean InBrowsingHistory, BrowserTab Tab, Boolean ChangeCurrentEdit)
  at Huggle.Main.QueueArea_MouseDown(Object s, MouseEventArgs e)
  at System.Windows.Forms.Control.OnMouseDown(MouseEventArgs e)
  at System.Windows.Forms.UserControl.OnMouseDown(MouseEventArgs e)
  at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmMouseDown(Message& m, MouseButtons button, Int32 clicks)
  at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m)
  at System.Windows.Forms.ScrollableControl.WndProc(Message& m)
  at System.Windows.Forms.ContainerControl.WndProc(Message& m)
  at System.Windows.Forms.UserControl.WndProc(Message& m)
  at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.OnMessage(Message& m)
  at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.WndProc(Message& m)
  at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam)

You even tripped Windows Error Reporter:

Description Stopped working

Problem signature Problem Event Name: CLR20r3 Problem Signature 01: huggle 0.9.6.exe Problem Signature 02: 0.9.6.0 Problem Signature 03: 4bf3c224 Problem Signature 04: mscorlib Problem Signature 05: 2.0.0.0 Problem Signature 06: 47577b16 Problem Signature 07: 3404 Problem Signature 08: 15a Problem Signature 09: System.UnauthorizedAccess OS Version: 6.0.6001.2.1.0.768.3 Locale ID: 1033

System.UnauthorizedAccess??? I'm running this with UAC off and as the system Administrator! I did some research and CLR errors are caused by .NET issues... My system meets all of the System Requirements, could this be a Windows Vista glitch or yours? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Cit helper (talk • contribs) 04:23, 13 June 2010 (UTC)

You even tripped Windows Error Reporter

Nothing special, any unhandled exception not on the main application thread will do that.

System.UnauthorizedAccess???

UnauthorizedAccessException is the error thrown when the operating system denies I/O access to a .NET application. This might be because it just tried to do something bad like delete the Windows directory, but more likely it is something benign (as I suspect it was in this case). If you've ever had the Windows error message "Can't open/save/move/delete this file because it is in use by another process", this is how it manifests itself, and that can be caused by something as simple as having one of Huggle's configuration files open in a text editor, or by trying to run several instances of Huggle at once. I thought I had all file accesses catch this, but evidently I was wrong, which is a bug.

I'm running this with UAC off and as the system Administrator!

Probably a bad idea, in general. Huggle doesn't need administrative access, so you are exposing yourself to potential vulnerabilities.

I did some research and CLR errors are caused by .NET issues

The common language runtime (CLR) is the part of .NET that runs .NET applications, such as Huggle. If one of these applications crashes, this will be the result.

could this be a Windows Vista glitch or yours?

Almost certainly the latter. And even if not that, then a bug in the .NET runtime rather than Windows.

I will attempt to address these issues when I have time. I have an exam in 6 hours and three others later this week, so I do not currently have time. Gurch (talk) 05:13, 14 June 2010 (UTC)

Still Unable To Login

For about the last month I have been unable to login to Huggle. The error message "Unable To Login" appears every time I try to. I have used Huggle before in the past and I don't understand why I can't now. Can anyone help? Andrewmc123 08:37, 13 June 2010 (UTC)

I also have this problem. Even updated, Huggle doesn't word. I always used it and now I only can see the "Unable to log in" message. ThiagoRuiz (talk) 16:13, 13 June 2010 (UTC)

System -> Options -> Editing -> Add to watchlist

User talk pages are added to watchlist even though Warnings is not checked. kcylsnavS{^screech_harrass} 15:24, 13 June 2010 (UTC)

Namespaces

Manually editing huggle.css to set, for example,

namespaces:
    Article,
    Portal

has no effect. There seems to be no way to affect page title namespaces except by setting them every time Huggle is started. kcylsnavS{^screech_harrass} 02:47, 14 June 2010 (UTC)

Unable to log in

I am "Unable to log in." to 0.9.6. I tried clearing my huggle.css, but it did not work - can anyone assist? It Is Me Here ^{t / c} 11:12, 14 June 2010 (UTC)

Make sure huggle.css has at least the first line - "enabled=true" I think. kcylsnavS{^screech_harrass} 19:15, 14 June 2010 (UTC)

According to my huggle.css it's    enable:true    don't forget the old favourite of re-booting the PC, sometimes helps.  Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 20:43, 14 June 2010 (UTC)

User:It Is Me Here/huggle.css - you can check if you like, but I am still unable to log in, I'm afraid. I have also turned my computer on and off several times in the intervening period to no avail, it would seem. It Is Me Here ^{t / c} 11:59, 15 June 2010 (UTC)

Try this. Close Huggle. Rename your Config folder. Download Huggle again and try again. Huggle should Create a new Config folder. It if does not do this, or still does not work, then the problem probably lay somewhere within your own computer. Others may be able to assist but at this point yours truly is out of ideas. kcylsnavS{^screech_harrass}!

← Still can't log in, I'm afraid. Maybe I've been removed from the user list for it (or had the HG permission removed or something)? It Is Me Here ^{t / c} 17:35, 15 June 2010 (UTC)

Your flags show are an admin, that will do nicely. Silly question, when you try to login, do you just hit the login button (like I do) - have you tried re-entering the password (as all one sees are blobs) you might have hit a key by accident, and it's remembered it. Have you got another PC you could try? Have you installed any new antivirus (with firewall) software? Now I'm running out of ideas...  Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 19:52, 15 June 2010 (UTC)

I had a similar problem and through some debugging discovered that something had turned on the "Use a proxy server" setting in IE. I cleared it by: (1) starting IE, (2) Selecting menu Tools > Internet Options, (3) selected the Connections tab, (4) clicked the "LAN settings" button, (5) unchecked the box at the bottom, and finally (6) exited with OK, OK, and close. Your version of IE may differ. Hope this helps. -- Tom N (tcncv) talk/contrib 01:28, 16 June 2010 (UTC)

I can't login also, in german Wikipedia it works. Any tips? Thank you, Conny (talk) 14:10, 19 June 2010 (UTC).

I have the same problem as the other users above. Unable to log in. Can I find a previous version? /HeyMid (contributions) 10:55, 24 July 2010 (UTC)

"Spam" warning

Just a thought, couldn't we add the word "links" to that option in the context menu for issuing warnings? It would be much more clear, explaining exactly what type of spam is being warned against. Just a thought. --Pstanton (talk) 00:18, 20 June 2010 (UTC)

Huggle crashes on linux using wine.

It gives the option to continue or exit. If you continue it is unstable.

Here is the text from the dialogue:

NotImplementedException: Not implemented.

  at System.Drawing.Drawing2D.LinearGradientBrush.TranslateTransform(Single dx, Single dy, MatrixOrder order)
  at System.Drawing.Drawing2D.LinearGradientBrush.TranslateTransform(Single dx, Single dy)
  at System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripProfessionalRenderer.RenderBackgroundGradient(Graphics g, Control control, Color beginColor, Color endColor, Orientation orientation)
  at System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripProfessionalRenderer.RenderMenuStripBackground(ToolStripRenderEventArgs e)
  at System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripProfessionalRenderer.OnRenderToolStripBackground(ToolStripRenderEventArgs e)
  at System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripRenderer.DrawToolStripBackground(ToolStripRenderEventArgs e)
  at System.Windows.Forms.ToolStrip.OnPaintBackground(PaintEventArgs e)
  at System.Windows.Forms.Control.PaintWithErrorHandling(PaintEventArgs e, Int16 layer, Boolean disposeEventArgs)
  at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmPaint(Message& m)
  at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m)
  at System.Windows.Forms.ScrollableControl.WndProc(Message& m)
  at System.Windows.Forms.ToolStrip.WndProc(Message& m)
  at System.Windows.Forms.MenuStrip.WndProc(Message& m)
  at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.OnMessage(Message& m)
  at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.WndProc(Message& m)
  at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam)

Kiko4564 (talk) 18:03, 20 June 2010 (UTC)

They haven't implemented GDI+? Yeah... it isn't going to work then, along with a truckload of other Windows apps... Gurch (talk) 10:40, 21 June 2010 (UTC)

Bug reports

1. "Revert selected revision only" checkbox does not work. Instead, the page is rolled back as usual, reverting all edits by that contributor.
2. When a warning submitted in error is reverted, huggle does not recognize this.

Both bugs are demonstrated here. --MrStalker ^(talk) 11:13, 21 June 2010 (UTC)

Non-rollbacker support BADLY NEEDED

I want to fight vandalism, but I neither have AWB access nor rollback rights. T3h 1337 b0y ^{(talk • contribs • count)} 03:09, 27 June 2010 (UTC)

Non-rollbacker support is already implemented. If you want it, go here and change the line "require-rollback:true" to "require-rollback:false". But don't blame me if people start yelling at you. Gurch (talk) 09:08, 27 June 2010 (UTC)

Or you could just revert vandalism in the old school fashion, showing you know what you're doing, and then applying for rollback rights. Downloading the less competant WP:Twinkle will also serve this purpose. That'll save folk yelling at you. Rollback rights are granted when you have shown you'll be responsible with the tools. Orphan Wiki 11:04, 27 June 2010 (UTC)

Vandal Fighter and Twinkle make a god pair for no rollbackers.  Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 19:43, 2 July 2010 (UTC)

Not being one of our long term vandals would probably help, too. – iridescent 19:48, 2 July 2010 (UTC)

Going to next revision and nothing happens

Often I will need to hit the "Next Revision" button 3 times before a revision will load. What's the cause of this? It's not a speed thing - I can wait and nothing happens.
Windows 7 64bit. Work in IT - can get you any diagnostics information you need. Assuming it's not my fault.
Also, been a long time since I'd seen you Gurch. Good to see you're still on Wikipedia --mboverload@ 00:34, 28 June 2010 (UTC)

What's the difference...

Between Huggle, and Twinkle? Beam 23:58, 7 July 2010 (UTC)

One looks like this and the other looks like this. They do broadly similar things. Gurch (talk) 14:25, 8 July 2010 (UTC)

Huggle on commoms

hello, is there any possibility to use this program on wikimedia commons? It would be very useful, and we won't have to translate interface... I am ready to do all what necessary to activate Huggle on commons.--Gaeser (talk) 19:18, 11 July 2010 (UTC)

Can't log in

I tried to log into Huggle, but it's not letting me log in. I'm not sure what to do. The Utahraptor ^Talk/_{My mistakes; I mean, er, contributions} 20:49, 11 July 2010 (UTC) Working fine now, never mind. The Utahraptor ^Talk/_{My mistakes; I mean, er, contributions} 21:12, 11 July 2010 (UTC) And now it just crashed. Please help. The Utahraptor ^Talk/_{My mistakes; I mean, er, contributions} 21:14, 11 July 2010 (UTC)

Feature Request: Option to award a barn star

I know that Huggle is mainly about dealing with vandalism. However, sometimes when using Huggle I notice another user is obviously using it at the same time. On occasion I see they're beavering away hard at work. It would be nice to be able to slap a barn star on their talk page and just acknowledge their work. I'm not technical, but I hope that this would be fairly easy to implement as I guess it would utilise much the same code as is used to simply message people with warnings etc.

On the Strategy wiki and at Wikimania 2010 it has been acknowledged that people sometimes don't get the recognition they deserve. This could be quite an effective way of helping Huggle users to give thanks to one another and engender greater community spirit.

There are tons of different barn stars available, but perhaps just creating a special 'Great Huggling' barn star for this and adding it as a menu item would be a good solution.

And, in closing, thank you to Gurch for his continued support on Huggle. It is a fantastic tool and I use it a lot. It's incredibly useful. --79.65.40.98 (talk) 16:52, 12 July 2010 (UTC)

That's a nice idea, although one of the joys of giving out a barnstar is taking the time to add your own personal message to the recipient. Orphan Wiki 18:06, 12 July 2010 (UTC)

Ooops! I should add that message was from me. I wasn't logged in. Yes, I take your point. Perhaps a field could appear for one to fill in a message? Best of both worlds :O) --bodnotbod (talk) 20:43, 12 July 2010 (UTC)

Internet Explorer 8 (or 9)

It works on it. Does it? Alex ^discussion 22:55, 12 July 2010 (UTC)

Huggle is a standalone application, not a script or browser extension. Gurch (talk) 23:57, 12 July 2010 (UTC)

How about getting the WMF to support Huggle?

It's been reported recently that the WMF may as much as double its technical staff over the next year. I was wondering whether it's worth considering getting WMF support for Huggle; that's to say, see if we can get WMF staff to develop or assist to develop Huggle further?

My main question would be whether Gurch would be comfortable with this? Gurch, if you're reading, I would fully understand if you wished Huggle to be your project; it's your baby and you - as far as I'm concerned - should have a veto on this. You would get no argument from me. However, I dimly recall that there have been times when you've felt that you were having to do a lot of work on Huggle and, at times, were not particularly enjoying tending to the needs of your grateful users. So perhaps you would welcome either someone taking it off your hands or at least sharing the burden of the upkeep.

The second question would be if there is any value in this idea? Aside from the feature request I posted I'm not sure there's too much wrong with it; it works brilliantly for me and makes me tons more productive. Yes, there's the occasional kinks but I find little frustration with it and those I do experience I haven't got into the habit of reporting, so I can't complain until I do that.

I am not technically minded so perhaps I greatly lack vision with regard to what Huggle could become with WMF developer support. Who knows what's possible? I'd be very interested to hear Gurch's views on this proposal and apologise profusely if I've made any poor assumptions or judgement calls. --bodnotbod (talk) 01:15, 13 July 2010 (UTC)

Wikimedia do have plans for expansion, but Huggle support isn't on the agenda. Besides the fact that it has been a dead project for two years, it's not browser-based, it's not cross-platform, and its development platform and associated tools aren't considered sufficiently free by the sort of people who advocate such things. It doesn't fit with the direction this project is currently heading, and it never will because I refuse to support things like abuse filters and moderation systems. It was designed to allow one person to monitor the whole wiki; the ever-greater harassment of new and unregistered users through various means has reduced contributions enough that you don't even need Huggle to do this any more. In short it was designed for the Wikipedia of three years ago.

Any attempt to make functionality similar to that provided by Huggle official would be done as a MediaWiki extension. More likely, though, they will continue down the path of filters and moderation systems that they're currently on.

The source code is public domain, so anyone who wants to do something with it is free to and I couldn't stop them even if I wanted to. It is, however, badly-written Visual Basic, so I doubt there are many takers. Gurch (talk) 13:44, 13 July 2010 (UTC)

Yikes! OK, well, that's that idea comprehensively kicked to the kerb. No problem. As I say, I'm not technically minded so I hadn't even considered things such as cross-platform requirements and the other things you mention.

I'm saddened you feel so pessimistic about the treatment of new users. Have you written anything about this? Or do you have any links to hand where I can read up on this issue? And, similarly, have you written about abuse filters/moderation?

No need to respond if you're busy but it's clear you've done great work for the project and so I'd like to understand the issues that are of concern to you. --bodnotbod (talk) 15:56, 13 July 2010 (UTC)

Plenty of people have written lots about the fait accompli which turned 'the encyclopedia which anyone can edit' into 'the encyclopedia which anyone willing to register an account, have enough of a history to demonstrate "good faith", not want to edit on any remotely contentious topic, and not annoy any self-anointed Defender of the Wiki can edit'. If you're not saying what the WMF wants to hear, you'll be ignored, though, so you'll struggle to find the discussions. The archives of Wikipedia talk:Pending changes are a good starting point. – iridescent 16:10, 13 July 2010 (UTC)

What she said, although the real problem is before anyone even gets to the stage where they might have an edit history or want to edit any remotely contentious topic. It's more problems like:

• Anonymous users can't add external links -- even "internal" ones like diff links -- without solving a captcha. So patrolling vandalism is near-impossible for them because of the constant captcha-solving when they re-insert blanked content that contains references or links. Discussion involving posting diffs is similarly tedious.
• An anonymous user who wishes to edit a semi-protected article not only has to create an account, but then has to wait several days and make several edits elsewhere. Most people either give up after finding such a high barrier or, by the time they can edit the article, forget what it was they wanted to edit.
• The account creation screen has a wall of text three screens long unmatched by any other signup form I've seen on the Web. And this for a registration process that actually requires nothing more than a username and password.
• Patrollers who aren't paying attention revert useful edits from anonymous/new users claiming they are vandalism. This is a problem perpetuated by Huggle which is one reason I haven't been adding new features.
• The abuse filter deals with well-intentioned edits from new/anonymous users by denying them with a big warning message, rather than cleaning up after them and leaving them a polite message on their talk page.
• The abuse filter, spam blacklist, title blacklist and username blacklist rely on regular expressions, which are very easy to screw up and filter/blacklist everything. This functionality is available to any of a large group of people who have no particular knowledge of regexes and who screw them up every so often.
• A MediaWiki installation with flagged revisions enabled that shows only the moderator-accepted version to the vast majority of readers is fundamentally not a wiki, it is a moderation system. A relatively open one with a comparatively large number of moderators, maybe, but one nevertheless.
  • A wiki-based system assumes contributions are good until directed otherwise, by reverting, and (this is the crucial part) this reverting can be done by anybody.
  • Flagged revisions assumes contributions are bad until directed otherwise, by reviewing, and this reviewing can only be done by a small group of moderators.
• The whole idea behind a wiki system is to be as liberal as possible with what a user can do, in a way that was extreme compared to what came before it. "Anyone can edit anything" couldn't possibly work, except it did. Granted, that doesn't scale to such a large project and concessions have to be made. However, every single step made in the name of preventing vandalism, libel, errors or whatever since Wikipedia was set up has been a step away from that. New and anonymous users are hugely restricted in what they can do compared to in 2005, while the most active users have acquired ever more power to play with. And yet they continue to push for more restrictions -- flagged revisions being the latest in a long line -- and they get them, because they're the most vocal part of the "community". At no point does anybody seem to look back at how things were before the change and ask themselves if it was actually an improvement. When statistics are published showing the decline in new contributors and new/unregistered contributions they are dismissed as irrelevant.
• I more or less gave up any hope of having any say in things when the abuse filter went live. The abuse filter was written by a single developer, also an English Wikipedia administrator, and functions just as his admin friends asked it to. He ignored most criticisms, claimed the false positive rate would be far lower than it is, and also claimed it would only be used to deal with abuse (note how the name of it was quietly change to "edit filter" after it went live to hide its misuse). Admins are of course completely immune from the effects of the filters, whilst able to do pretty much what they like to new/unregistered contributors, knowing none of them are likely to be able to figure out how to report problems with the system. The implementation was badly done and full of bugs. Though nowhere near as bad as flagged revisions, which among other things slows MediaWiki's diff generation down by a factor of several hundred. Gurch (talk) 20:48, 13 July 2010 (UTC)

• You forgot "massive indiscriminate rangeblocks". Browse a Wikipedia page on a smartphone or Blackberry, spot an spelling mistake and try to fix it, and you'll be greeted with an enormous "this is a potential open proxy and has been banned from anonymous editing" box urging you to create an account. There may well be someone whose dedication to correcting "recieved"→"received" stretches to completing an incomprehensible form and solving captchas on a 2-inch screen, but I've yet to meet one. – iridescent 21:03, 13 July 2010 (UTC)

What happened to "Extending report for [vandal]"?

When trying to warn a user that already has a final/only warning, Huggle automatically reports them to WP:AIV, saying "Vandalism, including 1, 2, 3." where the numbers link to vandalism. However, when a user has already been reported, it used to add another number with the edit summary "Extending report for [vandal] (HG)". It doesn't do that anymore, at least not for me. Why has this stopped? dffgd [messages·edits] 19:51, 14 July 2010 (UTC)

I just saw another user do it. Is it something wrong with my copy, or does it just not do it sometimes? dffgd [messages·edits] 19:55, 14 July 2010 (UTC)

It worked for me when I used Huggle today. Not sure what could be wrong. Is it 0.9.6 you're using? Raptor ^{Let's talk}/_{My mistakes; I mean, er, contributions} 20:25, 14 July 2010 (UTC)

Yes, I only started using Huggle about a month ago, so I'm using 0.9.6. Maybe it's just a glitch that it doesn't always do it; the only reason I posted here was it missed it 2 or 3 times in a row. dffgd [messages·edits] 20:35, 14 July 2010 (UTC)

When I've seen it in the past, it seems to save them up - i.e you get 1,2,3,4, then the extending report will add 5 and 6.  Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 20:39, 14 July 2010 (UTC)

That's what I mean. For example:

1. Text:
   1. Report:
      • Example (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) Vandalism, including 1, 2, 3. [signature] [timestamp]
   2. Extension of report:
      • Example (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) Vandalism, including 1, 2, 3, 4. [previous signature] [previous timestamp]
2. Edit summary:
   1. Report:
      • Reporting Example (HG)
   2. Extension of report:
      • Extending report for Example (HG)

I think that's what it normally says. dffgd [messages·edits] 20:59, 14 July 2010 (UTC)