User talk:DerHexer/revisionjumper

Thanks, but...
I am looking forward to using your gadget and was going to install it right away: "For activating the script with default setting simply click at Special:Preferences on the slider “Gadgets”." This doesn't seem to work at the moment. Meanwhile I am probably going to try the manual method.

In any case, thanks a lot! Hans Adler 11:22, 7 September 2010 (UTC)
 * I first asked before adding that gadget; I've done so now and will finalize that howto (soon). Kind regards, —DerHexer (Talk) 22:28, 16 September 2010 (UTC)


 * ... and now it works. (I think I had put it in the wrong place in my vector.js, so that it didn't work from there.) Thanks for the shiny new tool! And it's nice to see you here for a change. Hans Adler 00:18, 17 September 2010 (UTC)

Funktioniert nicht mehr auf en.wikipedia.org/https
Ich benutze das Tool seit einigen Monaten auf en.wikipedia.org über https. Seit kurzem funktioniert es jedoch nicht mehr: ich bekomme nur eine leere Dropdown-Box neben "← Previous edit". Ich vermute mal, dass es mit den kürzlichen Edits vom 8./9. Jan. zusammenhängt? Danke für dein Feedback, Nageh (talk) 10:55, 17 January 2011 (UTC) For anybody wondering, I was assuming to be editing on the German wikipedia, hence German language. I was asking why the tool doesn't work anymore for a few days now. Nageh (talk) 10:57, 17 January 2011 (UTC)


 * Sorry for bothering again... I always get an error now. Firefox error console says "configrevisionjumper is not defined" in MediaWiki:Gadget-revisionjumper.js, line 120. Nageh (talk) 13:46, 19 January 2011 (UTC)

Conflict with Twinkle
A heads-up: apparently revisionjumper is conflicting with Twinkle under the most recent version of MediaWiki. See the report at Wikipedia talk:Twinkle. Tabercil (talk) 01:27, 19 February 2011 (UTC)

How to install for another wiki
Hi, I am in another wiki, but their admins say they will not be installing the Gadgets extension, so I have to manually install the script in my vector.js page, but since I'm not installing on Wikipedia, I need the url that installs the script. Or can I do it another way? - M0rphzone (talk) 01:56, 26 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Hi! You can copy the content from MediaWiki:Gadget-revisionjumper.js directly into your gadget system because it can be used on all wikis with this small code. You can provide a translation of the setting here: de:MediaWiki Diskussion:Gadget-revisionjumper-config.js, otherwise the texts will be in English. Kind regards, —DerHexer (Talk) 14:34, 29 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the response! I'll try this and see if it works. - M0rphzone (talk) 03:17, 31 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Update: Unfortunately, the code from MediaWiki:Gadget-revisionjumper.js does not work because I don't think I can just load the script directly. The wiki doesn't have the Gadgets Extension, so I think I need to use importScriptURI? How do I install the script if the wiki doesn't use the Gadget Extension? - M0rphzone (talk) 04:08, 31 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Sorry, I used the wrong code. After copying the whole page of code and clearing cache, it works perfectly. Thanks very much for your help. - M0rphzone (talk) 04:15, 31 January 2012 (UTC)

IPv6 edits
Please see my question at WP:VPT. Thanks, Dismas |(talk) 03:16, 4 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Now at Village_pump_(technical)/Archive_133. Will have a look at it soon. Cheers, —DerHexer (Talk) 01:14, 16 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Thank you so much for your patience and reporting this bug! At mw:Wikimedia Hackathon 2015 I finally found time to look deeper at it. Upper- and lower-case hexadecimal letters did not match. That is now fixed. Cheers, —DerHexer (Talk) 16:27, 23 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Thank you!! Dismas |(talk) 23:14, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

Revisionjumper option in Firefox kills section anchor links to oldid revisions
FYI, see Help talk:Link. - DVdm (talk) 15:22, 31 May 2015 (UTC)

(Note - Copied from Help talk:Link, to be continued here.)

According to WP:ANCHOR, "anchor links can also be added to external URLs and to interwiki links, again using the # syntax". I'm trying to make a link to a section (or subsecion) of an old version of an article. Clicking the link takes me to the old version of the article, but the section anchor seems to have no effect. The cursor always ends up at the top of the page. Example: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:DVdm&oldid=655052178#Proper_length. If indeed this does not work, shouldn't that be reflected on this help page? But perhaps I missed something. If so, any idea what I can do? - DVdm (talk) 08:57, 31 May 2015 (UTC)
 * The link is correct. What is your browser? My Firefox jumps to an anchor when a page finishes loading but that never happens for https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:DVdm&oldid=655052178#Proper_length. The whole page is visible but Firefox keeps displaying an icon like [[File:Throbber allbackgrounds cyanblue.gif]] on the tab to indicate something is still loading. If I stop the loading by clicking X at the right of the adress bar then it jumps to the section. Lately I have experienced many Wikipedia pages which never finish loading in Firefox. I can also jump to the section by clicking anywhere in the address bar and then hitting enter. In this case the loading icon continues to spin. Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Opera and Safari all finish loading and jump to the section for https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:DVdm&oldid=655052178#Proper_length. I wonder whether my Firefox issue is because I have NoScript. PrimeHunter (talk) 09:36, 31 May 2015 (UTC)
 * HA! Yes, same here. I tried a bunch of browsers and all do it fine. I tried a number of PCs with Firefoxes ranging from versions 36.x.x up to 38.0.1. Most do fine (without add-ons), but mine does not. I have add-ons Adblock Plus, Classic Theme Restorer, Cleeki, Cookie Exporter, Cookie Importer, eID, UnMHT, YouTube Flash Video Player. Disabling all add-ons and restarting Firefox does not help. Must be something different. - DVdm (talk) 10:52, 31 May 2015 (UTC)
 * When I log out from Wikipedia and work as an IP, the problem does not occur. So this could be related to a user preferences setting, which are quite non-standard for me. I'll try to find the guilty setting... - DVdm (talk) 13:21, 31 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Restoring all default preferences settings solves the problem. Now using screenshots of previous settings to pinpoint the culprit... - DVdm (talk) 14:26, 31 May 2015 (UTC)

Bingo! Go to Preferences, Gadgets, Browsing, option "The revisionjumper creates an interface which allows you to jump between different revisions."

Turn it off and the problem is solved. User pinged. Thanks, for having pointed me in the right direction! - DVdm (talk) 15:08, 31 May 2015 (UTC)


 * It also worked for me to disable revisionjumper. PrimeHunter (talk) 15:44, 31 May 2015 (UTC)
 * But disabling the script can only be a temporary solution, right? ;-) Could you please enable the Firefox AddOn Firebug and tell me the errors it reports for the script? I don't get these errors here. Cheers, —DerHexer (Talk) 22:21, 31 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Forgot to ping you. —DerHexer (Talk) 22:22, 31 May 2015 (UTC)
 * I have just installed Firebug but either I don't know how to use it or it reports no revisionjumper errors. Anyway, I didn't really use revisionjumper and will just disable it. PrimeHunter (talk) 01:11, 1 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Installed Firebug. Don't know how to use it either. Reports no revisionjumper errors. By the way, is this on-topic here? Shouldn't this be moved to User talk:DerHexer/revisionjumper? - DVdm (talk) 15:30, 1 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Indeed, it should be moved to the user talk page. I do have these issue on Firefox with long-loading pages on several wikis, some of these without revisionjumper. Will have a look at it later. Cheers, —DerHexer (Talk) 15:59, 1 June 2015 (UTC)

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 * Ok, discussion copied. Thanks for looking into this. Cheers - DVdm (talk) 16:30, 1 June 2015 (UTC)

Note - Diffs also never finish properly loading with revisionjumper enabled. The firefox tab-icon does not get replaced with the standard Wikipedia icon. - DVdm (talk) 11:59, 3 June 2015 (UTC)

Is this still a problem? The Community Tech team is looking into this as part of our work on RevisionJumper (see https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T110159 for more details). I haven't been able to replicate this, however, so I'll need more information to be able to address this. If this is still a problem, please comment on the bug report with the version of Firefox you are using, your operating system, and whatever extensions you have enabled. Thank you! --Fhocutt (WMF) (talk) 02:17, 25 September 2015 (UTC)


 * no longer a problem. I re-activited revisionjumper and it seems to work properly—including the diffs in old versions. Now using Firefox 40.0.3 (with extensions from see above) and 39.0, both on systems with Win 8.1 Pro and on Win XP sp3 Pro. Thank you! - DVdm (talk) 07:31, 25 September 2015 (UTC)

Interested in working with Community Tech?
Community Tech is looking at some commonly used tools (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T108424 for revisionjumper) and seeing if they are good candidates for us to help improve them while we're getting our team and processes set up. Looking at the talk page, it seems that there aren't many feature requests or open bugs, though this one may still need work: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DerHexer/revisionjumper#Revisionjumper_option_in_Firefox_kills_section_anchor_links_to_oldid_revisions. Is there anything you have planned or that you'd be interested in working with us on? Any small things you've been meaning to do for awhile and haven't gotten around to? Any features you think would work better as an extension? --Fhocutt (WMF) (talk) 00:17, 15 August 2015 (UTC)

RevisionSlider prototype!
Hi all!

The Community Tech team has a new alpha prototype for a RevisionSlider feature/gadget, which you might be interested in. It's a slider on diff pages that shows the last 50 revisions to the page, and it helps you navigate through diffs without having to go back to the history page repeatedly. The prototype is really just a proof of concept to see if people like it enough to spend more time on it. So if you've got a minute, please come take a look and let us know what you think. The info/discussion page is on Meta: Community_Tech/RevisionSlider. And you can see the prototype on test wikipedia:

Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by NKohli (WMF) (talk • contribs) 22:32, 2 November 2015 (UTC)

Minor matter - captions in the wrong language
Looking at your documentation for revisionjumper I noticed that the illustrations for the last two items in the "Functions of the drop down menu" section have German captions though all the other illustrations are captioned in English. Thank you for this tool: I look forward to trying it. --Egmonster (talk) 23:41, 24 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Woops, nobody noticed, at least did not note, for more than 8 years. Thanks for letting me know! :) Best, —DerHexer (Talk) 19:48, 31 August 2017 (UTC)

Browser crashing
As of maybe a month ago, sometimes when viewing a diff the JavaScript takes a long time to load, and may eventually cause that browser tab to crash. While it is loading the page is completely unresponsive, which suggests maybe there's some synchronous AJAX going on? From the network tab I see it was getting stuck right after revisionjumper loads. This does not happen every time I load a diff, but it happens most of the time. I've tested in Chrome and Firefox, MacOS El Capitan, Vector skin. I guess I can just use revision slider now, but I want to thank you for your wonderful gadget, which has served me well for many years :) &mdash; MusikAnimal  talk  03:51, 12 February 2018 (UTC)

Jumping to incorrect page if title contains "&"
If the page title contains "&" and I use one of revisionjumper's functions (e.g. the "next-to-last-editor" link), it will jump to a page with the "&" and everything after it stripped off. On Thomas & Friends (series 11), when I viewed this diff and click "next-to-last-editor", it took me to the "Thomas" page; if I use the "jump X revisions" dropbox, it shows "Thomas & Friends" on one side and "Thomas" on the other.

On pages such as Eats, Shoots & Leaves (where the page "Eats, Shoots" doesn't exist), the jumping dropbox does nothing when clicked and "next-to-last-editor" or "changes since my last edit" links don't show up. (The "changes since my last edit" also shows up on pages that I have never edited before, where it often fetches the first revision of the page instead).

As a side note, the "next-to-last-editor" was exactly what I was looking for; it's faster than going into page history or using the revision slider when I want to view a user's consecutive edits before deciding whether to rollback or not. – Sonicwave talk  19:38, 29 July 2019 (UTC)