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This is the talk page for discussing improvements to the WHAM page.

Use group-wide?

I know this is meant to be used personally and not site-wide, but can this be used group-wide, ie Mediawiki:Group-sysop.js? If not, no big deal; no harm in asking. DEmersonJMFM 16:53, August 9, 2013 (UTC)

The vast majority of scripts that are designated for personal use are done so because they violate Terms of Use, not because they work best as a personal script. I'd email Wikia at Special:Contact/general to confirm if this was permitted before enabling it. cqm 23:31, 9 Aug 2013 (UTC)

Rollback

Hi, I am using this script and it's very helpful but there is something that's bothering me. This script only works with administrators. Is it possible to use the rollback all edits button when a user is a rollbacker on a certain wiki and not an admin? I know for a fact that it would save me much time when I revert vandals, bu if it's not possible, it's ok.  Staw-Hat Luffy  Talk  09:25, September 15, 2013 (UTC)

Anyone?  Staw-Hat Luffy  Talk  09:13, September 28, 2013 (UTC)
The permissions don't actually prevent anyone from using it. TRIPLEJAY 12:58, September 29, 2013 (UTC)
From WHAM#Usage:
"Generally, this script will only work if you have admin (bureaucrat for unbot) access to the wiki it's being used on. However, "rollback all edits" can be used by users with rollback rights."
—RyaNayR (talk) 09:17, November 22, 2013 (UTC)

Image Rollback

Is there any way to enable rollback/undoing of image uploads? It doesn't seem to work in Monobook; every time I select the "Rollback all edits" option, all their image uploads have a greyed out "[gone!]" next to it, where [rollback] would normally be. This feature is greatly needed, as we have a vandal on the Yu-Gi-Oh! Wiki who uploads images en masse (these uploads don't qualify as vandalism, but we revert because we don't accept their edits any more). --—Preceding unsigned comment added by UltimateKuriboh (talk • contribs) . Please sign your posts with ~~~~!

You'll need to delete them, not rollback them. They are separate pages. Ajraddatz (Talk) 17:05, May 28, 2014 (UTC)
AjaxBatchDelete will help with that by the way. —RyaNayR (talk • contribs) 17:11, May 28, 2014 (UTC)

Some ideas to improve this useful script

Hello,

First of all, thank to all peoples who made this script. This script is very useful. I have some ideas to improve this script, say me your feedback about them :

Tell me what you think about. Gguigui1 (talk) 11:29, June 8, 2014 (UTC)

Comments are pages, and admins should be aware of that. "delete all edits" would be misleading, but it doesn't do that. However, it might be useful to split it into "Delete all pages" and "Delete all comments", in case the comments should be left as evidence. But they can always be undeleted afterwards.
I don't think the red should confuse anyone, because anyone using this script should be aware of what it is. However, for consistency, it should probably be changed and moved to match the other links.
452 (talk) 14:38, July 13, 2014 (UTC)
I will be aware of that and further information about this in the script page can replaced the split. And, for the button, it doesn't confuse me but, as you say, for design, it would be better to change this. Gguigui1 (talk) 09:28, July 14, 2014 (UTC)

UnBot button

So, I tried using the UnBot me button on a place where I knew it wouldn't work (a place where I have sysop, but not crat, and tried to do it to my own account which was not marked as a bot), and it deleted everything on the right side of my masthead globally (birthday, occupation, etc) Schiffy (T|C) 13:16, June 20, 2014 (UTC)

Little problem with page deletion

Hello,

This script is awesome, and I was very happy with it until today ! I deleted all pages of a vandal user that had created a thread on his own messages wall called "Emma Watson" (it's on French Harry Potter Wiki). The thing is that the script didn't delete the said thread but the real article named "Emme Watson". So I'd like to know if someone noticed it yet, or if this has something to do with the fact that it's on a French Wiki. Thank you in advance for your answers ! Hulothe. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hulothe (talk • contribs) 09:44, July 4, 2014 (UTC). Please sign your posts with ~~~~!

Rollback all edits

When we press the Rollback all edits button, I notice three possible edit summaries are generated (the first one of which is essentially the standard system-generated one):

I do not know the algorithm it uses to determine which one to choose. However, I notice that it often gets it wrong, especially when it applies the spam one. It is somewhat embarrassing to have it label as “spam” a rolled back edit that should have been labelled “vandalism”, and to assign that edit summary to the name of whoever was rolling it back.

I would like to suggest, therefore, that it not choose between three different edit summaries. Instead, I would like to recommend that we simplify it, and it just use the standard system-generated one, in all cases:

Reverted edits by $2 (talk | block) to last version by $1.

Thanks! :) — SpikeToronto 18:06, July 7, 2014 (UTC)

Just checking the source, the Rollback All button clicks all links with ".mw-rollback-link a". You might be having some personal js that's causing it?--~UltimateSupreme 06:48, July 8, 2014 (UTC)
@UltiSup: That’s a bit complex for me. I would not have knowingly changed .mw-rollback-link a. To do so would be quite beyond my skillset. However, if someone knowledgeable in JS wanted to have a look through the site JS and my personal JS at Scratchpad, and my global JS at Central Command, I wouldn’t object. ;) Thanks! — SpikeToronto 07:33, November 17, 2014 (UTC)

Board Thread functionality

The "delete all pages" button doesn't work with forum threads. We've been dealing with a lot of forum spammers lately and it would be extremely useful to have this working on forum posts. Please look into adding this functionality. Kelerik (talk) 15:35, August 26, 2014 (UTC)

I have made a new revised version of WHAM which includes that functionality - you can replace the old script with the new one, which may be found here. – Ozuzanna 21:43, October 3, 2014 (UTC)

New WHAM Styling

The buttons for the new version don't align as nicely as those for the first one. I know it's not really a function issue but it's worth mentioning. DEmersonJMFM 23:33, October 3, 2014 (UTC)

If you know how to fix that, feel free. The old version is still around for those who prefer that one. Maybe I'll get around to it at some point when I have the time. – Ozuzanna 09:48, October 4, 2014 (UTC)
Should be fixed. -- sqm talk 10:02, 10.04.2014

version 2 bug

I recently updated to version 2, and i noticed that you can always access the WHAM menu,even if you are not an admin or rollback. -- Rider ranger47 02:43, October 5, 2014 (UTC)

It's not really an issue since if the user has no rights then they're unable to do anything with WHAM. However, I've added a check in to see if they're rollback or admin, so thanks for the feedback. – Ozuzanna 09:30, October 5, 2014 (UTC)

Thread/board deletion

I tried the deletion out on a spammer and it worked, so thanks for that. What I didn't know is that it deletes the message wall comment like any other page and gives a deletion log entry. I didn't know threads could do that. Is there a way delete like this on a per message/per thread basis instead of doing it all en mass for 1 user? 3cooldog92 (talk) 02:18, December 15, 2014 (UTC)

Yes it's possible to do through API, as this script does. – Ozuzanna 17:34, December 15, 2014 (UTC)
Thank you. Is there a help page or how to guide on this? I'm not really familiar with this stuff. 3cooldog92 (talk) 20:50, December 15, 2014 (UTC)
The only page I can think of is mw:API:Delete. – Ozuzanna 21:26, December 15, 2014 (UTC)

Delete selected functionnality issue

Hello, the new functionnality seem to not work, I checked the checkbox, I clicked the bouton, we asked me a reason and the script wait about 2s and then refresh the page without deleting the comments. Gguigui1 (discussion) 09:50, January 10, 2015 (UTC)

Could you show me where this happened? – Ozuzanna 11:35, January 10, 2015 (UTC)
In Clash of Clans French Wikia. I looked at console but no error or anything else. Only a refresh some seconds after the Delete selected click. Gguigui1 (discussion) 11:40, January 10, 2015 (UTC)
Thanks for the feedback - checkboxes should now appear next to comments too. – Ozuzanna 12:48, January 10, 2015 (UTC)
I have the checkbox near comments before but deleting comments doesn't work. Gguigui1 (discussion) 15:06, January 10, 2015 (UTC)
I can't seem to find a problem with it, I've added revision delete support - does it only happen for you on French wikis? – Ozuzanna 17:41, January 10, 2015 (UTC)
I've just tested on English wikias and it doesn't seem to work as well. Gguigui1 (discussion) 18:13, January 10, 2015 (UTC)
Can you give me a screenshot of what it looks like for you on a contributions page? I think it may be because of extra tools that helpers have there. – Ozuzanna 18:28, January 10, 2015 (UTC)
Oh yes ! It is Quick Management that might be cause the issue. Gguigui1 (discussion) 18:47, January 10, 2015 (UTC)

images and threads

would it be possible to add options to delete all threads (forum and messagewall) created or files (iamges and video) uploaded besides using selective deletion? selective deletion doesn't allow deleting all of those sometimes and I have to resort to using batchdelete. Nerfmaster8 (talk) 20:38, April 13, 2015 (UTC)

resolved Nerfmaster8 (talk) 04:38, April 14, 2015 (UTC)

Integrative window

My design:

Expiry:

1 hour ▼

Reason:

Vandalism ▼
✓ Delete ( ● all    selected ) pages created by this user
✓ Delete selected pages created by this user
✓ Rollback all edits done by this user
✓ Ban this user from chat
✓ Block this user

Blocking options:

✓ Prevent account creation
✓ Prevent this user from posting on their own Message Wall while blocked
✓ Automatically block the last IP address used by this user, and any subsequent IP addresses they try to edit from
✓ Watch this user's user and talk pages
✓ Prevent logged-in users from editing from this IP address


Execute Reset Cancel

You can also see it on Talk:FasterBanModule. --yhynerson1 (talk, contribs) 11:31, April 24, 2015 (UTC)

I like it, but I think you have two delete buttons that do the same thing. Rider ranger47 11:58, April 24, 2015 (UTC)
Block = ban. — Jr Mime (talk) [VSTF] 02:40, April 25, 2015 (UTC)
I don't think I'll be making bespoke styles of this script, though anyone else with adequate JS knowledge can feel free to do the above as another script. – Ozuzanna 10:04, April 25, 2015 (UTC)

Installation script?

is this the exact script you use? I don't know coding and I'm trying to find out so I can install it on two of my wikis. Thanks :)

Global w:Special:Mypage/global.js Personal Special:Mypage/common.js WHAMDelay = 100; importScriptPage('WHAM/code.2.js', 'dev');

--Tiria Wildlough Ee aye eeeh!! 13:31, July 21, 2015 (UTC)

Yes, you can put the bottom two statements in any personal JS page such as here if you want it to work globally for you. – Ozuzanna 14:47, July 21, 2015 (UTC)

Not working for me

I'm not sure what the problem is, but this isn't working for me anymore. It used to work fine, and I just made sure that all of the code was what was said on here, but nothing. I tried it on my personal page on the Grimm Wiki and the global page, but neither one work. {{SUBST:User:PDXBlazer/Sig2|16:06,11/7/2015}}

Have you Opted In for personal scripts? Recent changes in response to security threats caused Wikia to add an Option checkbox to your Personal Preferences. Love Robin (talk) 21:17, November 8, 2015 (UTC)
I knew there were changes, but I missed that one. That was the problem, thank you. {{SUBST:User:PDXBlazer/Sig2|23:12,11/8/2015}}

Monobook

The first version works fine on MonoBook. The second one works, but its interface is broken. PiotrekDdyskusja 18:40, February 3, 2016 (UTC)

I don't see the button. Where is it located? Super-toad 65 18:07, May 14, 2016 (UTC)

Deleting Comments

If the vandal spamming comments the page that existed, what shall I do since I cannot remove comments from the page. Please help me. {{SUBST:User:Bp101697/Sig}} 02:59, July 5, 2016 (UTC)

Cannot rename

WHAM should be renamed to WHAM! (along to its talk page), since this template is called WHAM! and not just WHAM.

There’s no “rename” button on this wiki. I have no idea why renaming pages is disabled on this wiki, but I’ll assume that sysops can do it, so can a sysop please move this page to its appropriate title?
―PapíDimmi [Template fetch failed for https://community.fandom.com/wiki/Template:papi?action=raw: HTTP 404] 21:41, July 5, 2016 (UTC)

I'm not 100% sure, but it might be disabled so that vandals can not move script's code pages. --Sharkie 02:03, October 23, 2016 (UTC)
Renaming pages can only be done by content moderators-- Cube-shaped garbage can 05:55, October 23, 2016 (UTC)

User Rights

Could a way to manage user rights like there is in Quick Management please be added, because I don't see the need to have two scripts that have almost the same things. --Sophie 02:02, October 23, 2016 (UTC)

Bot Button Not Working

When I use the bot button, the flag is never shown. Do I have to do something in order to get the bot button to actually work? WolfLord315*Talk*🐺 My Wiki 🐺*Message Wall*CC Profile*Discord Server                            12:57, November 20, 2016 (UTC)

Can you bot yourself normally? cqm 21:56, 20 Nov 2016 (UTC)
No. My user rights don't change at all. WolfLord315*Talk*🐺 My Wiki 🐺*Message Wall*CC Profile*Discord Server                            02:32, November 21, 2016 (UTC)
Just Fandom Staff can use that feature because Fandom Staff are the only ones who can add the bot right lol. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Doork (talk • contribs) . Please sign your posts with ~~~~!
Oh lmao. But the article talks about the bot button as if anyone should be able to use it... oh well, never mind xD. WolfLord315*Talk*🐺 My Wiki 🐺*Message Wall*CC Profile*Discord Server                            13:04, November 26, 2016 (UTC)
"Just Fandom Staff can use that feature because Fandom Staff are the only ones who can add the bot right lol" - this is false. Some wikis have local usergroups who can add the bot right. WolfLord315 I took your feedback and made the description more clear, thanks for bringing this up. — Ozank 21:41, November 26, 2016 (UTC)

Not Working

Currently this script is not working for me, as I don't see a "Quick Tools" button anymore. Is anyone else having the same problem? ~TheGoldenPatrik1 (Talk) 14:13, January 19, 2018 (UTC)

Still working for me. Fujimaru 19:20, January 19, 2018 (UTC)
Hm, that's strange. ~TheGoldenPatrik1 (Talk) 14:19, January 22, 2018 (UTC)

Quick Tools link

You could add the "Quick Tools" link inside the parenthesis separated by a pipe and use normal link font color instead of red. That would look much nicer, I guess.

That would look good, or you could just install ContribsButtons. ~TheGoldenPatrik1 (Talk) 14:11, February 21, 2018 (UTC)

Personal?

I don't think this documentation page needs a {{Personal}} template. The intended scope mentioned in the infobox might be personal, but I don't see this script violating Terms of Use or the customization policy in any way. Should the Personal template be removed? -- Cube-shaped garbage can 05:32, June 23, 2018 (UTC)

User pages

Could WHAM be made to delete user pages instead of rolling them back, only if Fandom created the page? Eg, a user posts spam somewhere else on the wiki, and then edits their userpage, and when I WHAM them using the "all options" button, it rollbacks their edit rather than deleting the page. --Sharkie 06:38, January 31, 2019 (UTC)

I've gone ahead and added this to the "do all" button, so now clicking on it will include deleting the userpage. --Sharkie 14:22, March 4, 2019 (UTC)

Range block error using WHAM's fast block feature

I blocked an IP range by using fast block feature of WHAM, but it doesn't block an IP range instead it blocks an IP address without a range. (Can be seen in the block log, 120.21.0.0/16 is the IP range that I want to block, but it blocks 120.21.0.0 instead) -- DoCheonGong (talk · contributions) 10:28, February 7, 2019 (UTC)

v1

Please see https://dev.wikia.com/d/p/3100000000000000046 for a discussion about v1 of WHAM. --Sharkie 10:53, February 12, 2019 (UTC)

Undo Renames

The script doesn't undo renames, which a vandal once did. Could that be added to the script? THX! -ThePokegeek5000 02:44, May 16, 2019 (UTC)

Warn about using WHAM on yourself

Why shouldn't we add notice if someone's trying to use WHAM on their own account? Special:Block is displaying such a info at least since 2011 (according to this) and WHAM is even way more dangerous if someone accidentally click the button.

RAIL my talk 13:33, June 29, 2019 (UTC)

Not working properly

When I try to delete selected items from the user, the buttons do not work. Running on iOS12.2. HM100 13:02, July 11, 2019 (UTC)

This possibility in JS is too dangerous

Too much power... Botuczy the Candle, as expected, said "Don't ask." once again. 19:15, May 4, 2020 (UTC)

Additions

Hey, Thanks for this awesome script! I use it everyday to clean up spam/vandalism. I would suggest the Following Addition:

Example: <span id="wham-link" data-wham-user="Vandal1234">Quick Tools</span> This would cause the script to open when the link is clicked.

~☙Thundercraft5|💬|🔎|21|GuestbookVanguard-sig.svgLeft on

3:49 AM Jun 11 (Thu) 2020

This sounds like it could be easily abused when administrators don't know what they are doing and just get linked to a cleanup modal. In which case would you not need to check the contributions of the user you are cleaning up? -- Cube-shaped garbage can 07:13, June 11, 2020 (UTC)
From what you say, There is no reason not to check the targets contributions. I would suppose that to prevent abuse, This version of the link would take you to a seprate page that would display the user's name (and or contributions). Or we could add a header on top of the modal which says which user you are about to clean up (It could also have a warning to check the user's contributions).

9:46 PM Jun 11 (Thu) 2020

Sorry but I see exactly zero sense in providing possibility for on-page and per-user hardcoded WHAM modals. Some wikis indeed are using kind of „Vandalism report form” pages but you should link to contributions page there to verify whether it's really vandalism either way. On the other hand on-page WHAM may be abused badly. RAIL talk 07:34, June 12, 2020 (UTC)

New Features

Hey, I added took some time to add new features to this script. The new feature is a "Protect Deleted" button, which when selected, salts the deleted pages. I would like to here your opinions on adding this to the script. The full script can be seen here.

~☙Thundercraft5|💬|🔎|21|GuestbookVanguard-sig.svgLeft on

12:29 AM Jun 16 (Tue) 2020

WHAM does not work in a wiki after the UCP migration

Hello.

WHAM no longer seems to work in the Tenchi Muyo wiki after if was migrated to the UCP system:

https://tenchi.fandom.com/

I hope that this will be corrected soon, as it will be hard to protect the wiki against attacks otherwise. Thank you. Antvasima (talk) 15:11, August 20, 2020 (UTC)

It's working for me on Deltarune Wiki. Please move all scripts marked as "Done" on our UCP migration status page to the top of your imported scripts, because there may be other scripts breaking them. -- Cube-shaped garbage can 15:15, August 20, 2020 (UTC)
Can you place some brief instructions how to do so on my message wall please? I will likely not notice them here. Antvasima (talk) 19:45, September 2, 2020 (UTC)
I can reply here, and leave you a message on your talkpage that I replied. It seems that you don't actually have your global.js on the UCP, so you'll need to create that with a WHAM import if you need WHAM on UCP wikis. -- Cube-shaped garbage can 19:48, September 2, 2020 (UTC)
I have tried to fix it. Is it correctly applied? Antvasima (talk) 20:07, September 2, 2020 (UTC)
Yes, it is. Does it work for you? -- Cube-shaped garbage can 20:30, September 2, 2020 (UTC)
It seems so, yes, thank you, although the mass-categorising script isn't finished and active yet. Antvasima (talk) 20:08, September 4, 2020 (UTC)

WHAM doesn't revert changes to renamed pages

Hi, I'd like to report an issue with the WHAM tool. It's generally been working very well for me in reverting mass vandalism, but today a user vandalized and renamed some pages on my wiki, which WHAM didn't catch in the mass reversion of this user's edits (neither reverting edits to said pages nor renaming them). See this page's history for a fairly clear-cut example of what WHAM didn't catch. If WHAM could be updated to revert these sorts of changes to these pages, that would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! Wikikinetic (talk) 04:15, October 20, 2020 (UTC)

WHAM also didn't catch changes to images, such as to this page (history). Reverting such image edits would be greatly appreciated as well, though I'd understand if this isn't feasible as images are rather finicky on the current platform. Wikikinetic (talk) 04:19, October 20, 2020 (UTC)
Actually, I just discovered that WHAM doesn't seem to have done anything at all on my whole wiki except for blocking the user in question. Wikikinetic (talk) 04:26, October 20, 2020 (UTC)
Never mind, triple-checked and it has, just not to everything, but I can't tell why. Wikikinetic (talk) 04:27, October 20, 2020 (UTC)

Selected rollbacks

So if there is this user who is making bad-faithed edits recently, is there any way to rollback only certain edits that happened Seeking Arrows of revenge (talk) 08:02, November 16, 2020 (UTC)

No visual feedback for bot/un-bot myself

Hey there, when using WHAM and using the button to bot myself, I get no visual feedback such as a pop up which states that the user right changes were successful. Also, when I bot myself, the text in the button does not change to "remove bot". – Nekky-chan (Message Wall | User contributions | Social Activity) 00:01, 21 September 2022 (UTC)

Huh for me the button doesn't even work. (also I've been a bot since the end of july without noticing rip) --Sophie ♦ 00:09, 21 September 2022 (UTC)

Rollback not working

Is it just me, or is the "Rollback all edits" function not working? ZioreRogue (talk) 02:45, 6 March 2023 (UTC)

Make sure you don't have "confirm rollbacks" or whatever it's called enabled in your preferences, WHAM's rollbacks don't work if it's enabled. --Sophie ♦ 02:48, 6 March 2023 (UTC)
Ohhhh, ok. I've disabled it and it works now, thank you! ZioreRogue (talk) 02:56, 6 March 2023 (UTC)
Np~ -Sophie ♦ 04:04, 6 March 2023 (UTC)

WHAM Not working

I have successfully imported WHAM to my Global.js page, but the thing does not show up on anyone's Contributions page on w:c:the-book-lovers where I am a Bureaucrat.
I tried out a different script: BacktoTop and it worked successfully.
I of course then contacted Fandom Staff, and after a while of experimenting at his ([https://community.fandom.com/wiki/User:Kirkburn George/Kirkburn) direction. he said "In that case, I think you may need to make a post on https://dev.fandom.com/wiki/Talk:WHAM to report this issue - I am somewhat stumped at this point."Winter (talk)

Its working for me. Maybe you overlooked the button, because its called "Quick Tools" written in italic font and not "WHAM". – Magiczocker (talk) 19:00, 10 July 2023 (UTC)

WHAM is not working

Pressing the buttons results in endless loading. The wiki with MW 1.43.0 is broken at all. Anti Sonic Forces ☣ (Talk)  latest?cb=20201009135821&format=original&path-prefix=ru2015 09:57, 26 February 2025 (UTC)