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New reason for protection

Can "persistent spamming" be added to the reasons for protection? It is a default reason that admins often use. 4thfile4thrank (talk) 16:24, 1 January 2021 (UTC)

@4thfile4thrank, that would be covered under "disruptive editing" 🎄🎄 Ed talk! 🎄🎄 16:34, 1 January 2021 (UTC)

Just FYI, the "reminder" popup window makes it impossible to edit in Safari

Hey all. Some bug in the popup window when using the Timeless skin and Safari means you cannot close the "window" (which actually appears at the very bottom of the page) with either option, and there's some code in that "popup" that disables all editing. Seems like a pretty big bug! — 🦊 21:21, 1 January 2021 (UTC)

Hi @Fox, this is an issue with the old script at User:Ed6767/redwarn.js - the pop up is a final reminder for the users who haven't yet transitioned to the new RedWarn script at User:RedWarn/.js as I plan to request deletion of the original script page soon. There has already been nearly a month of notice via pop ups and alerts, but we've decided to close the grace period now hence the dialog prompting immediate action. Ordinarily there's a button to dismiss this, however Safari isn't supported by RedWarn so we don't test for it and we understand bugs do occur, but Safari support is something we're working on in the future. ✨ Ed talk! ✨ 21:27, 1 January 2021 (UTC)
Heh, still, to totally disable editing is a pretty bold step. ;) — 🦊 21:47, 1 January 2021 (UTC)
It's not meant to do that, so I'll just undo that change for now. Thanks for reporting the issue. ✨ Ed talk! ✨ 21:50, 1 January 2021 (UTC)
Awesome, thanks. :) — 🦊 22:14, 1 January 2021 (UTC)

Rollback from history page

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Am I missing a way to access RW's rollback directly from an article history page? --IamNotU (talk) 02:21, 31 December 2020 (UTC)

@IamNotU: The rollback options (as seen in contributions pages, for example) are not available in the page history. For that, please use the diff view shown by selecting the "prev" link of the latest revision, or use the Latest Revision button () in the page icons list (at the top right of the article, on the other side of the article title). Chlod (say hi!) 09:20, 1 January 2021 (UTC)
Ok, thanks. I guess it's a "feature request" then. I use Twinkle's "rollback/vandalism/restore this version" links from the article history much of the time (I wish it was available from my watchlist too). I rarely open a diff page because it takes several seconds on my old computer. I use inline diffs instead, which speeds up my work by an order of magnitude... having to go back and forth between the history and diff pages in order to use RW's rollback would slow things down for my workflow.
It could be done by putting RW's rvv/rb links, like on contrib pages, optionally in history and watchlist pages too. But if it's feasible, it would be even better if there was a link to pop up RW's customizable rollback toolbar directly from those pages. --IamNotU (talk) 14:04, 1 January 2021 (UTC)
Thanks for the suggestion @IamNotU - I've created a feature request here where you can track the progress of your suggestion: https://gitlab.com/redwarn/redwarn-web/-/issues/53 🎄🎄 Ed talk! 🎄🎄 16:38, 1 January 2021 (UTC)
Thanks, I left a comment there. --IamNotU (talk) 22:02, 1 January 2021 (UTC)

Just an idea: welcome templates?

Hello, I've recently started to edit again on Wikipedia after toning down the edits a bit, and I just thought it'd be nice to have welcoming templates like on Twinkle. That's the only reason I still have Twinkle; otherwise it would be gone in a heartbeat. Thanks, Thanoscar21talkcontribs 23:57, 8 December 2020 (UTC)

Thanoscar21, I think the script has prepackaged templates for welcoming. Check out WP:RW/QT. —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) (🎁 Wishlist! 🎁) 00:13, 9 December 2020 (UTC)
Tenryuu, I never knew that page even existed! Thanks for pointing it out! Thanoscar21talkcontribs 01:40, 9 December 2020 (UTC)
Thanoscar21, You might wanna try the welcome template pack I created. Walrus Ji (talk) 19:40, 2 January 2021 (UTC)

How can I install a pre existing Quick Template pack

Select Template Pack 

WELCOME 60 LINK BY WALRUS JI create

HELP / GET MORE TEMPLATE PACKS

CREATE NEW TEMPLATE PACK

Above are the only 3 options I see when I hit Quick Templates button. Where do I need to paste the Quick Template pack code I copied into my clipboard? Walrus Ji (talk) 19:43, 2 January 2021 (UTC)

@Walrus Ji, More Options > RedWarn Preferences > in the card to the left titled "Quick Template" click the install button ✨ Ed talk! ✨ 19:46, 2 January 2021 (UTC)
Ed6767, Thanks. I just updated Wikipedia:RedWarn/Documentation/Quick_Template#How_to_install_template_packs to make it less confusing. Walrus Ji (talk) 19:57, 2 January 2021 (UTC)

Is there a way to rollback and warn user without adding the user page to watchlist permanently/temporaily/none at all?

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19:20, 1 January 2021 (UTC)

I just switch over from Twinkle, however I notice that whenever I rollback vandalism and issues warning to the user. RedWarn would automatically add that user page to my watchlist permanently. In Twinkle, there's option to specify if you would like to add the user page to your watchlist permanently, for 1 week, for 1 month, for 3 months, for 6 months, or don't add.

Hopefully, this feature could be added onto RedWarn asap. – Paper9oll | Talk:Paper9oll 13:58, 21 December 2020 (UTC)

As of now, there's no way to customize the addition of pages onto your watchlist. The setting in your Watchlist preferences is applied when creating/editing user talk pages. You may disable "Add pages I create and files I upload to my watchlist" in case you would like to stop adding user talk pages you create to your watchlist, however this will also stop you from getting watchlist updates for pages that you create on your own if you happen to write pages. We do hope to get this setting done soon enough though, as this is a problem I've personally run into as well. Cheers, and happy holidays! Chlod (say hi!) 14:10, 21 December 2020 (UTC)
Thanks for the reply, I think I just wait for the feature to roll out. Cheers and happy holidays to you as well! – Paper9oll (📣 • 📝) 15:13, 21 December 2020 (UTC)
Hi @Paper9oll, just an update: I decided to close your feature request as we want to favour the watchlist preferences that have already been set by a user in their preferences at Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-watchlist in order to reduce confusion, although we may reconsider this in future. Thanks again :) ✨ Ed talk! ✨ 20:46, 2 January 2021 (UTC)

Accidental blanking while sending messages using RW

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#55
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8:22, 5 January 2021 (UTC)

Hi RedWarn community, I have started to use RW quite recently and I must say that its extremely user-friendly and I find it very useful while patrolling the recent changes log. However, on a few occasions something really weird keeps on happening. When I tried sending a new message on an editors's talk page using RW, if the net connectivity is poor (so it takes a log time to load the page) and I either close the tab or refresh the page, I accidentally end up blanking that talk page. This has happened now on three different occasions, see [1] and [2]. Can anyone explain what is happening? Thank you. --Ashleyyoursmile! 07:53, 5 January 2021 (UTC)

Ashleyyoursmile, Hi, an GitLab issue has been opened here and we hope we'll be able to fix it soon. Asartea Talk | Contribs 08:19, 5 January 2021 (UTC)
Hi Ashleyyoursmile, that is very odd. Have you experienced this issue while warning users? I could only assume that each time this happens it has to be because your internet connection, or the connection between you and Wikipedia drops to a very very slow speed as each of these changes seem to be made of pages that are already quite big, so while RedWarn is reuploading the page content when you close the tab or refresh the page your browser closes all active connections. If this is during the process of the page contents being transmitted, I assume Wikipedia thinks that that's the end of the request, hence the large removals. Either way, we're going to work to mitigate the issue by replacing the existing algorithm with one that only appends the new content to a page as the existing one is old and evidently buggy. We'll aim to get this new algorithm out with the next update. Thanks for letting us know of this issue! ✨ Ed talk! ✨ 08:20, 5 January 2021 (UTC)
@Ed6767: Thank you so much for your prompt response. Actually yes, I did experience this issue once while warning an IP yesterday [3]. I concur with your hypothesis and hope you'll be able to crack it soon. Asartea, thanks so much for opening the community discussion. Happy New Year to both of you. :) Ashleyyoursmile! 09:01, 5 January 2021 (UTC)

Template modified

Hi. I modified Template:Uw-attempt4im in order to make it more in-line with the other templates. Can someone add/update it to RedWarn? Steve M (talk) 19:42, 5 January 2021 (UTC)

@Steve M: Thanks for improving the template! We've added the template to our database and it will be available in the next update. ―sportzpikachu my talkcontribs 00:52, 6 January 2021 (UTC)

Non-english warning templates

Hi, is it possible to add all the warnings in Category:Non-English user warning templates? I have seen people add content in other languages and would like to show them the appropriate notices.4thfile4thrank (talk) 16:20, 29 December 2020 (UTC)

@4thfile4thrank: Thanks for the feedback! We are currently working on a system that can let users customize their warnings, so when the feature is finished we can also add the non-english uw templates. ―sportzpikachu my talkcontribs 02:53, 30 December 2020 (UTC)
Awesome! I'm not that tech-proficient but if anyone ever needs help for this kind of stuff, I can assist in French, Spanish and Romanian. Happy New Year! Double Plus Ungood (talk) 18:12, 6 January 2021 (UTC)

Quick Templates on Articles/Drafts/any page

Can quick templates be on any page? This is good for CSD nominations, copyright redaction requests, and more. Steve M (talk) 20:42, 6 January 2021 (UTC)

Steve M, it's being worked on. Thanks, Thanoscar21talkcontributions 17:20, 8 January 2021 (UTC)

Bug?

I just attempted to rollback an edit for vandalism and it looked like it did so and directed me to the vandal's talk page. A warning was issued, but it replaced the previous warnings instead of being at the bottom. When I returned to the page the rollback had not occurred. Diff of the warning and eventual reversion here, using *gasp* Twinkle.

Sdrqaz (talk) 18:46, 8 January 2021 (UTC)

@Sdrqaz, thanks for reporting. We're looking into it. ✨ Ed talk! ✨ 18:55, 8 January 2021 (UTC)

Uw-redirect3 not working

{{uw-redirect3}}, when used, simply results in mangled wikitext. I know this is short but I'm not really sure what else to add. --C o r t e x 💬talk 05:25, 9 January 2021 (UTC)

Cortex128, Hi, this appears to be a fault in the template, not RedWarn as even on manually applying it I'm getting errors Asartea Talk | Contribs 08:50, 9 January 2021 (UTC)
Hi, Cortex128! It was caused by a misplaced line break on the template. I've fixed it with this edit and it should be working properly now. Chlod (say hi!) 08:55, 9 January 2021 (UTC)

uw-defamatory

Hi, I just updated the uw-defamatory series of templates to make it more in-line with other templates. Can someone kindly see those changes and check if RedWarn can be updated with the edited templates? Steve M (talk) 01:22, 12 January 2021 (UTC)

@Steve M: If the edit doesn't involve changing the template title or moving the page, then there is no need for us to change anything. The latest version of the template is always used. Chlod (say hi!) 03:40, 12 January 2021 (UTC)

"No search results found for section" notice after user warning

After warning a user and being taken to their talk page, I always see some text like this immediately below "From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia": "No search results found for section "noticeApplied-999895695-999692148" in archives. It may have been removed or renamed, or you may have followed a malformed link." I don't see that when I'm not using RedWarn, and it goes away if I move elsewhere then come back to the user talk page. MichaelMaggs (talk) 14:16, 12 January 2021 (UTC)

This is a side-effect of User:SD0001/find-archived-section attempting to search for a noticeApplied-999895695-999692148 section in the talk page's archives, since the same string is used by RedWarn to determine applied notices. You can simply leave it alone or refer to here for a way to hide it. Chlod (say hi!) 14:21, 12 January 2021 (UTC)

Glitch when using Dark Reader

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17:28, 13 January 2021 (UTC)

Hi, I just installed RW. The first thing I noticed is that on every page there's a strange white bar stuck onto the page, a ways down from the top. It moves with the page as I scroll it. Here's a screenshot: [4]. I used Dark Reader in Firefox, and only see it when it's on. I can't select it using the DOM Inspector in the Web Console, it's like it's not there. Any idea what causes it, can it be fixed? --IamNotU (talk) 00:59, 31 December 2020 (UTC)

@IamNotU, we'd need to test, this is very odd and I don't see how it could be happening without some more investigation, I'd say it's the dialog but the dialog element isn't even created until you open one. cc @Chlod or @Prompt0259 if you could test 🎄🎄 Ed talk! 🎄🎄 01:03, 31 December 2020 (UTC)
@Ed6767: It's caused by the toast box which is (normally) hidden outside of the viewport. It stays there until a new toast is issued to MDL. On my personal projects, I make sure to delete the toast box's element after a toast is shown, and regenerate it when a new toast is about to be shown, but RedWarn doesn't do that (as of now). Chlod (say hi!) 01:10, 31 December 2020 (UTC)
Actually called the "snackbar" by specification. Toasts appear on the lower left hand corner, not the bottom of the page. Whoops. Chlod (say hi!) 01:13, 31 December 2020 (UTC)
Ok... well I'm kind of hungry now. But how do I kill it? I can add custom CSS to Dark Reader to fix bugs, but I don't know how to even select the element. Or maybe it's something that has to be fixed on the RW side? --IamNotU (talk) 02:27, 31 December 2020 (UTC)
@IamNotU: I'm on mobile right now, but you can use the #rw-toast selector - Ed6767 (talk · contribs) 92.40.190.8 (talk) 02:54, 31 December 2020 (UTC)
Thanks... I tried a few things, but I can't seem to affect it. --IamNotU (talk) 16:38, 31 December 2020 (UTC)
Ed6767, I had to uninstall RW because of this. Let me know if there's something else I can do to help, or maybe give me a ping if you manage to fix it sometime, thanks. --IamNotU (talk) 00:50, 4 January 2021 (UTC)
Hi, IamNotU! We're willing to give this a more in-depth check, so are you willing to go on Discord or some other off-wiki service (IRC, maybe?) so that we can run through things smoothly? If you'd like to do it on-wiki, it's fine too, but rather inconvenient. Let us know when you're available and we'll try to test some things out to fix the issue. Chlod (say hi!) 04:02, 4 January 2021 (UTC)

Thanks Chlod - I did a little more troubleshooting, here are steps to reproduce it, at least on macOS:

  1. In the latest Firefox, create a clean profile and install Dark Reader
  2. Log in to a Wikipedia account with RedWarn installed
  3. Set the Dark Reader mode to "Filter" or "Filter+"
  4. Scroll down the screen just a little, the white bar appears

It doesn't seem to happen in Vivaldi (chromium-based) or Safari. I suppose it may be a bug in Dark Reader rather than RedWarn. As I mentioned, I wasn't able to fix it by adjusting the CSS in Dark Reader, but maybe I just don't know the magic words. I'll see if I can work around it by using Dynamic mode, but that tends to slow down page loads a lot. --IamNotU (talk) 15:55, 5 January 2021 (UTC)

Bot Username warning message

Resolved
 – Will be available once the script is updated. See script history ―sportzpikachu my talkcontribs 06:36, 14 January 2021 (UTC)
Unresolved
 – Initial patch does not apply to all use cases, and thus, opened up another bug. Chlod (RW • say hi!) 09:40, 14 January 2021 (UTC)
RedWarn Web - Issue
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Tried to post a Bot Username warning to User talk:BarryBrownBot. The draft message read "I noticed that your username, "API", may not meet Wikipedia's username policy ... ". "API" should presumably have read "BarryBrownBot". I posted it manually. MichaelMaggs (talk) 10:47, 13 January 2021 (UTC)

MichaelMaggs, This is caused by how RedWarn applies the user warnings. While in preview it will show API, but when saving it will replace API with the actual username. Asartea Talk | Contribs 11:02, 13 January 2021 (UTC)
Asartea, OK, thanks. Might be worth considering something like [API] rather than "API". To me at least, putting something in quotes implies that it will be used as-is, not that it will be substituted. MichaelMaggs (talk) 11:58, 13 January 2021 (UTC)
@MichaelMaggs, technically we probably won't be able to do this as MediaWiki (the software that runs Wikipedia) generates the code for the preview through their API (hence the page name being "API" and this the username showing as "your username, 'API'...", but we'll look in to a way to not make it as confusing. Thanks for your suggestion :) ✨ Ed talk! ✨ 13:45, 13 January 2021 (UTC)
Possible with API:Parse's title parameter. Added to the Gitlab as issue #58. Chlod (say hi!) 14:08, 13 January 2021 (UTC)

Discretionary Sanctions alert

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18:42, 14 January 2021 (UTC)

Wikipedia:RedWarn/Documentation/Quick_Template/templates#Discretionary_Sanctions_alert_-_by_Walrus_Ji

Please take a look at this. You may need to try it out. The first attempt necessarily fails due to the prompt to check the log. The second attempt will succeed. Can this process be gracefully handled by RW without a fatal error for the RW prompt. Ideally the red coloured log screen could be shown to the user in the RW window, and then if the user wants to continue posting, then he can click submit button twice.

At the bare minimum, The RW should not have a fatal error while adding this temple. RW must allow the user to proceed to the second attempt without redoing the whole process. --Walrus Ji (talk) 12:30, 13 January 2021 (UTC)

 Confirmed, added to the Gitlab as issue #57. — Yours, Berrely • Talk∕Contribs 13:53, 13 January 2021 (UTC)
Pinging Walrus Ji — Yours, Berrely • Talk∕Contribs 13:57, 13 January 2021 (UTC)
Temporarily fixed with 9a689f99. A more proper way of handling edits that trigger abuse filters will be made in a future update. Chlod (say hi!) 17:35, 13 January 2021 (UTC)
@Walrus Ji: Patched with Special:Diff/1000340667. RedWarn will now do its best to show you edit filter warnings. Chlod (RW • say hi!) 18:41, 14 January 2021 (UTC)
Chlod, Great. I am surprised, how quickly you have added a solution to this. I checked the alerts and the flow was smooth as one would expect. Thanks a lot. Walrus Ji (talk) 18:57, 14 January 2021 (UTC)

Page looks strange

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00:02, 15 January 2021 (UTC)

So I've noticed today that now my icons appear on the left hand side of the screen so they now get in the way of the article name. Not only that but there's now a line across the screen which is annoying. Does anyone know how to fix this?-- 5 albert square (talk) 22:40, 14 January 2021 (UTC)

@5 albert square, what skin are you using? cc: @Chlod ✨ Ed talk! ✨ 22:43, 14 January 2021 (UTC)

Can you please provide a screenshot so we can try to see what's happening? Thanks! Chlod (RW • say hi!) 22:45, 14 January 2021 (UTC)

How do I send that?-- 5 albert square (talk) 22:52, 14 January 2021 (UTC)
@5 albert square, you can email it to me ed6767wiki (a t) gmail dot com or upload it to imgur (https://imgur.com/upload) and send it here ✨ Ed talk! ✨ 23:03, 14 January 2021 (UTC)
Thanks Ed6767, this is the link - https://imgur.com/a/OCEcuyZ -- 5 albert square (talk) 23:08, 14 January 2021 (UTC)
In fact the link isn't working and I've no idea what I'm doing with Imgur. I'll try emailing it to you instead-- 5 albert square (talk) 23:12, 14 January 2021 (UTC)
Don't worry @5 albert square, we've got it, we just removed the two erroneous dashes at the end. We're looking in to it now. ✨ Ed talk! ✨ 23:15, 14 January 2021 (UTC)
@5 albert square: I've created an issue to track this problem on GitLab. I'm a busy as of the moment, so I might not be able to patch it within the next hour like usual, however I will get back to you as soon as I've fixed the problem and as soon as Ed6767 updates the script. Chlod (RW • say hi!) 23:19, 14 January 2021 (UTC)
@5 albert square: Well, I was actually able to fix the issue within the hour, and Ed has updated the script with this edit. Problem solved! Chlod (RW • say hi!) 00:02, 15 January 2021 (UTC)

Feature request:Bad UAA report template

RedWarn Web - Issue
#61
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16:54, 15 January 2021 (UTC)

Just link the "Bad AIV report" warning, can there be a "Bad UAA report" warning that uses Template:Uw-uaa as the template? A lot of people may make mistakes when reporting promotional usernames. Steve M (talk) 19:31, 13 January 2021 (UTC)

Hi Steve M, thanks for your suggestion. An issue has been opened on Gitlab and we'll look into it Asartea Talk | Contribs 15:56, 15 January 2021 (UTC)

Create talk page with warning

It it possible to be able create a talk page with a warning as Twinkle does? Steve M (talk) 17:04, 15 January 2021 (UTC)

@Steve M: Right clicking a user while holding ⇧ Shift (which opens the user actions menu), or visiting any page on the user's user space or user talk space and using the toolbar are ways to add warnings to user talk pages that don't exist. Chlod (RW • say hi!) 17:13, 15 January 2021 (UTC)

Grammar

When you roll over the medium priority label in GitLab, disruption is misspelled as disurption. Any way to fix this? Steve M (talk) 17:00, 15 January 2021 (UTC)

@Steve M:  Done Chlod (RW • say hi!) 17:02, 15 January 2021 (UTC)
Moved from Wikipedia talk:RedWarn § Grammar

In the automation setting, extended-confirmed is misspelled as extended-confrimed. Steve M (talk) 20:19, 15 January 2021 (UTC)

Feature request: Mass rollback (Requires rollback rights (\due to the EXTREME damage it can cause if misused)

Is it possible to merge User:Writ_Keeper/Scripts/massRollback.js into this extension (as it is a very powerful tool if used right)? 4thfile4thrank (talk) 03:21, 12 December 2020 (UTC)

@4thfile4thrank, I wouldn't want to, but could with the rollback restriction. We'll think about it :) 🎄🎄 Ed talk! 🎄🎄 14:57, 12 December 2020 (UTC)
@Ed6767: What is the greatest issue with using the tool? 4thfile4thrank (talk) 23:39, 12 December 2020 (UTC)
@4thfile4thrank, we have a large user base and we'd have to be more careful as somebody could bypass the feature restriction and cause a huge amount of damage 🎄🎄 Ed talk! 🎄🎄 23:58, 12 December 2020 (UTC)
@Ed6767 and Sportzpikachu: I look a closer look at the script and it by nature required rollback permissions to use. It opens all rollback links, which only exists if you are a rollbacker. 4thfile4thrank (talk) 13:48, 30 December 2020 (UTC)
Moved from Wikipedia talk:RedWarn § Feature request:Mass rollback (Reposting for the sake it it being added to the gitlab)

Is it possible to merge User:Writ_Keeper/Scripts/massRollback.js into this extension (as it is a very powerful tool if used right)? Based on tool examination, it uses the direct rollback links, which only exist if you have rollback privileges. For that reason, it is incompatible without rollback. It is highly useful for spambots and rapid-fire vandals that hit ten or more pages a minute, and are tedious to revert manually. I have had to mass rollback spambot vandals who typed the same thing on 5 pages every ten seconds, and it takes time for admins to block. Steve M (talk) 02:35, 16 January 2021 (UTC)

@Steve M, you might find it more convenient to make a GitLab account for feature suggestions at this rate lol - we appreciate them! ✨ Ed talk! ✨ 02:34, 16 January 2021 (UTC)
@Steve M: I'd rather appreciate it if you instead bumped this upper section instead of created a new one reposting the contents of the original. Additionally, we handle issues on a case-by-case basis (which may include internal talks, among other factors) and reposting this does not guarantee the fact that it will be turned into an issue on GitLab. If you want, you're more than free to create the issue yourself. Chlod (RW • say hi!) 05:43, 16 January 2021 (UTC)

New warning placed before older warning

RedWarn Web - Issue
#64
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19:55, 22 January 2021 (UTC)

Please check this edit using the tool. Looks like something needs to be patched to avoid this in future. --Walrus Ji (talk) 08:15, 22 January 2021 (UTC)

Hi Walrus Ji, thanks for reporting this bug. Currently the exact cause of this bug is unknown, however it only seems to occur when there is another section underneath the date header. Asartea has filed this bug as #64, as some of the RedWarn team are currently taking a break, this may takel longer to get fixed than usual. However, thanks for reporting it! If you notice any other bugs feel free to add it here. — Yours, Berrely • Talk∕Contribs 09:01, 22 January 2021 (UTC)
Berrely, Thanks for the note. I am fine with the delay. Enjoy the break. Walrus Ji (talk) 09:48, 22 January 2021 (UTC)
@Walrus Ji: Fixed with c43a9b25. Now we just have to wait for Ed6767 to update the script. Chlod (RW • say hi!) 19:06, 22 January 2021 (UTC)
Chlod, Thank you. Glad to know. Walrus Ji (talk) 19:11, 22 January 2021 (UTC)
Fixed with Special:Diff/1002085112. Chlod (RW • say hi!) 19:56, 22 January 2021 (UTC)

Up and down arrows next to the RW icons in Articles

Redwarn icons with up and down arrow

Hi RW team, I am seeing Up and down buttons to the RW icons in Article diffs. Not shown in User talk diffs. Is this intentional? what is the purpose of those up-down buttons.--Walrus Ji (talk) 16:14, 15 January 2021 (UTC)

Hi, Walrus Ji! Can you please provide us with a screenshot of what's happening so that we can look into it? Use any image uploading service you're comfortable with and paste the link here after you're done. Thanks! Chlod (RW • say hi!) 16:56, 15 January 2021 (UTC)
Chlod, this issue came up since yesterday. If you open the diff page, and hit zoom with ctrl +, you should be able to see the arrow buttons. It is easily reproduced. If you still need screenshot then please let me know. Walrus Ji (talk) 17:48, 15 January 2021 (UTC)
​ I've tried reproducing this issue, however the up and down arrows don't appear. The problem also doesn't appear with other browsers, according to other team members. It looks like we might still need that screenshot and possibly your screen resolution as well, in case this is a styling issue. Chlod (RW • say hi!) 18:06, 15 January 2021 (UTC)
Chlod, Please see the screenshot. Also check your email for settings. --Walrus Ji (talk) 18:16, 15 January 2021 (UTC)
​ I've attempted to reproduce this issue using the exact browser settings you sent over email, however to no avail. Because of that, I'm going to have to take a blind shot and ask you to put this in your common.css file. In case you don't want to create a common.css file, please inform me so that I can convert this into JavaScript code that you may use on your common.js file instead.
#rwCurrentRevRollbackBtns > div { overflow: hidden; }
Please report back if this happens to fix the issue. Thanks. Chlod (RW • say hi!) 18:35, 15 January 2021 (UTC)
Chlod, I created the common.css file with the line. It solved the issue and the icons are back to normal. Walrus Ji (talk) 18:40, 15 January 2021 (UTC)
​ Great! I'll have this patch be put in the next RedWarn update to avoid the same thing happening to other users. Thank you for your cooperation. Chlod (RW • say hi!) 18:43, 15 January 2021 (UTC)
Chlod, Thank you for the fix. Glad to help. Walrus Ji (talk) 19:07, 15 January 2021 (UTC)

Chlod, the same fix should also be applied to the "Restore this version" icon of RW. i.e. the icon on top of the details of the previous version, on a diff screen. Your fix solved the problem for the icons above the current version on the diff screen. Can you suggest the line to append on my common.css for this? Walrus Ji (talk) 06:19, 16 January 2021 (UTC)

​ Replace the line from before with this:
#rwCurrentRevRollbackBtns > div, .diff #rOld2 { overflow: hidden; }
If that didn't work, please tell me. Thanks! Chlod (RW • say hi!) 06:23, 16 January 2021 (UTC)
Chlod, No. it did not work. I even tried this after restarting the browser. Walrus Ji (talk) 06:27, 16 January 2021 (UTC)
​ How's this?
#rwCurrentRevRollbackBtns > div, #rOld1, #rOld1 span, #rOld2, #rOld2 span { overflow: hidden; }
Chlod (RW • say hi!) 06:30, 16 January 2021 (UTC)
Chlod, yes. this time it worked. Thank you. Walrus Ji (talk) 06:33, 16 January 2021 (UTC)
Chlod, Is this fix included in the script. And can I remove it form my CSS now? If not do let me know whenever it does. Walrus Ji (talk) 19:13, 22 January 2021 (UTC)
@Walrus Ji: Included with Special:Diff/1002085112. You can take it out of your CSS file now. Chlod (RW • say hi!) 19:55, 22 January 2021 (UTC)
Chlod, Thank you. Walrus Ji (talk) 19:59, 22 January 2021 (UTC)

Uncyclopedia

I suddenly decided to try to port RedWarn to Uncyclopedia. It works... surprisingly well. And @Ed6767: that is why I needed to copy-paste the entirety of RedWarn to a new thing. JJP...MASTER![talk to] JJP... master? 12:19, 5 January 2021 (UTC)

No way! That's so cool! Double Plus Ungood (talk) 18:13, 6 January 2021 (UTC)
So would that work to other wikis? fr.wiki, ru.wiki, and others? I could translate, Ed6767. Thanoscar21talkcontributions 18:28, 6 January 2021 (UTC)
Yes, we're working on localisation features in a rewrite so it isn't as messy or risky, but expanding beyond enwiki is definitely on the roadmap ✨ Ed talk! ✨ 18:32, 6 January 2021 (UTC)
What about other WMF projects like Wiktionary or Commons? Granted, it would probably need to be reworked for Commons as it's not exactly a traditional wiki. --C o r t e x 💬talk 11:44, 23 January 2021 (UTC)

"More" reasons to revert panel not working

Whenever I try to revert an edit for any reason outside of the ones that appear outside of the "more options" panel (the three dots), nothing save for the "vandalism statistics", "RW prefs", and "RW talk" panels show up. Is this intentional? Thank you for your time. Opal|zukor(discuss) 14:24, 22 January 2021 (UTC)

Opalzukor, that's odd - what skin are you using and is this on a diff page where you can perform a rollback? ✨ Ed talk! ✨ 15:31, 22 January 2021 (UTC)
@Ed6767: I'm using the default skin, Vector. As for RedWarn skins, I'm using Minimal, but it doesn't work with WikiBlue either. This occurs on any diff on which I can perform the RedWarn rollback feature (I don't have the rollback perm). Additionally, rearranging the redwarn icons does not fix the issue. 11:42, 23 January 2021 (UTC) Opal|zukor(discuss)
Opalzukor, I am just a RW user, not the RW dev. I looked at User:Opalzukor/redwarnConfig.js and User:Walrus_Ji/redwarnConfig.js, your page looks much bigger. If I were you. I will try to reset the app and see if it works.
The reset steps will be,
  1. (take a back up of config.js page)
  2. uninstall the RW app.
  3. Blank the RW config.js page (if it is not already blanked)
  4. and then try installing RW a fresh.
It might solve the problem quickly. If not you can always restore your config.js from your back up.
Good luck. Walrus Ji (talk) 12:10, 23 January 2021 (UTC)
 Note: Whilst these would be the recomended steps, Opalzukor's config is likely bigger as they have installed more template packs. However please do follow the steps above, they will likely fix the problem. Another scripts may be conflicting with RedWarn as well, so you might want to try temporarily disabling some to see if it fixes the issue. — Yours, Berrely • Talk∕Contribs 12:50, 23 January 2021 (UTC)
@Walrus Ji and Berrely: Thanks for the advice. I followed the above steps, but RW still seems to be broken; this suggests that the issue is due to another conflicting user script. I shall test my config.js to see which one is causing the issue. Thank you all for your time. Opal|zukor(discuss) 14:37, 23 January 2021 (UTC)
@Opalzukor: If you happen to find the userscript causing the issue, please get back to us so we can add in a fix. If you couldn't find an offending userscript, also get back to us so we can investigate. Thanks. Chlod (RW • say hi!) 14:39, 23 January 2021 (UTC)
@Chlod:​​ Thanks, I just found it. It was User:Þjarkur/CleanDiffURLs.js which, per the doc page, changes diff links to Special:Diff. This would mean that the redwarn UI has a slight issue with special pages. Next, I'll check for an edit on a special page and see if the menu works there. I just realised how special pages work. Also, when viewing a diff via Special:Diff the redwarn tools don't even show up. Opal|zukor(discuss) 14:43, 23 January 2021 (UTC)
@Opalzukor: The tools should show up since Special:Diff is just a shortcut to /w/index.php?diff=. The problem, however, is that RedWarn relies on links within the diff viewer to lead to index.php instead of Special:Diff in order to determine whether a page is a diff page or not. If it's not a bother, you'll have to uninstall CleanDiffURLs until that check is changed, since plans to change it are set for way later (i.e. our ongoing rewrite, which is not yet complete.) Chlod (RW • say hi!) 14:55, 23 January 2021 (UTC)

Inappropriate edit summary warning levels

Is it possible to add Template:uw-bes1, and the related series (2, 3, 4, 4im)? I feel it would be beneficial to have a series of warnings for inappropriate edit summaries rather than two warnings that do not fit ever situation. It should be called "Using inappropriate edit summaries". Thanks, Steve M (talk) 18:29, 24 January 2021 (UTC)

Hi @Steve M, we already have uw-wrongsummary and that series only seems appropriate for admins/others who can remove edit summaries? Normal editors can't do that ✨ Ed talk! ✨ 18:32, 24 January 2021 (UTC)
Ed6767, I believe it says "may be removed", which implies the future. Uw-wrongsummary is only a 1-way warning, and it not sufficient for edit summary vandalism. I saw a racist edit summary, that deserved a stern warning, as it isn't a good-faith mistake to put a racist slur in the edit summary. uw-wrongsummary doesn't cover that, as it has the tone of a level 1 warning. It needs a series in order for good-faith mistakes as well as bad-faith summaries can be addressed. the summary in question got revdelled hours later, so if it is in future tense, it can be ok, as it implies that the summary may be deleted in the future. Steve M (talk) 18:36, 24 January 2021 (UTC)
Also, only 1 and 2 have that, while 3, 4, and 4im don't. Steve M (talk) 18:42, 24 January 2021 (UTC)

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I just reverted a edit using RedWarn on Kosovo-Montenegro relations . But while warning RedWarn replaced the hyphen with some weird text and made it a red-link .1 Is this a bug or do I have to manually edit to fix the links . Kpgjhpjm 06:00, 26 January 2021 (UTC)

Hi, Kpgjhpjm! I've tried to reproduce this on my end, but to no avail. To my knowledge, this is problem caused by a character encoding mistake. By default, this bug shouldn't be happening unless you're using a very old version of Windows, as all contact with Wikipedia from RedWarn should be encoded in UTF-8, the universally-supported character set. Because of this, the most probable thing we can assume is that your browser (or operating system) might be misconfigured to use the incorrect character set, and thus causing the en dash (–) to render as –. However, we'll still run some checks on our end to see if we can alleviate this problem and we'll get back to you when we've found something. Chlod (RW • say hi!) 10:38, 26 January 2021 (UTC)

Uncaught TypeError: callback is not a function

I get the following error when visiting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/2A00:23C4:EE81:9601:C66:FD43:2A17:8B6C?useskin=monobook and loading this script.

Following code is at fault: 

                if (noRedirect) { rw.config.templatePacks = rwConfigTemplate; callback(); return; }; // DO NOT continue if no redirect is requested
                window.location.hash = "#configChange";
                window.location.reload(); // we done

Jon (WMF) (talk) 19:01, 27 January 2021 (UTC)

@Jon (WMF), fixed - thanks for letting us know :) ✨ Ed talk! ✨ 19:20, 27 January 2021 (UTC)
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