I believe you are suffering from a miscommunication here.

Wiki history is only a temporary solution here because it is very restrictive by nature. It lacks info articleinfo has and the namespace issue. It I was adamantly built to only support article space. I'm still working on fixing this but it's a difficult task given the code.

The objective is to get articleinfo up and running as it provides extraordinary amounts of information. The point of the rewrite is to simply create code we can all understand and maintain. The HTML output will not change nor will the functionality. The current code is too hard to maintain, and articleinfo is a perfect example of that.

Picture it this way the problem with article info is like an oil leak in a car. You take it to service, where the services are maintainers. They look at it and find all the lines are intact. Your car continues to leak and nobody at any service center can figure out what is going on. This is the situation we are in. We are simply rebuilding the tool's core that does the labor of data retrieval and processing.

Cyberpower678

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On Jul 23, 2015, at 00:09, Chris <cs@edubkk.org> wrote:

"As for xTools, with a temporary solution now in place for articleinfo, I believe we can start working on a rewrite for xtools.”

Just mentioning that

a) No need for this to be a temporary solution. I do not understand the preoccupation with rewriting everything. We saw where that got us with the Edit counter.

b) The solution is still a major prority because the developers have ignored the fact that the ‘ArticleHistory’ tool is required for ALL namespaces.

Again, we have issues here of the devs, however much they are working voluntarily and in good faith, are doing what they want to do and not what the community /users need and want. This is a common problem in the whole world with all software development whether free, open source, or paid for. This may be a communication problerm where multiple devs are involved on the making of a single software application.

Kudpung.

On 22 Jul 2015, at 20:15, Maximilian Doerr <maximilian.doerr@gmail.com> wrote:

As for xTools, with a temporary solution now in place for articleinfo, I believe we can start working on a rewrite for xtools.

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