[Toolserver-l] Is there an alternative to the tool server ran article assessments?

Forwarding mail from Sarah posted in another maillist. Danny B. --- CUT HERE --- Hi everyone, A key part of my residency work as a Wikipedian in Residence is article assessment related metrics for my GLAMs. I know that toolserver is having problems, and the problems seem to go in and out. I have been in the process of gathering metrics for the Smithsonian Institution Archives, and article assessments aren't "working" (for lack of a better word) at all. For example, my template has been stuck at 85 articles for weeks[1], and trust me, it is beyond that now. Are there any other options similar to this? I also use a hidden category, too, but, this chart gives a nice vision of what the status is of articles and how the quality can be shifted over time. Or even insight (in layman's terms) on when one thinks that this tool will be working again? I'm to a point where toolserver is nothing but a source of frustration for me (and I know I'm not the only one!). I have virtually no clue what is going on with it (I hear "rumors" about things but..) and for my residency work it's an imperative tool to me promoting aspects of the residency concept to organizations. Is there anything I can do to rectify this? If I could magically buy a new server I would. I don't even know if you can do that, but, seriously. And yes, I pinged people on the assessment tool talk page and was sent to some other page with a bunch of conversation by techies about the server that provided me little insight since I'm not a hacker. Thanks. Sarah [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/SIA -- Sarah Stierch Wikimedia Foundation Community Fellow