I don't think a rewrite is going to happen. If there's anything that needs
attention, it's the articleinfo tool, but we do have working alternatives
for that (WikiHistory, Sigma's tool, WikiChecker, etc). Feel free to take a
stab at it if you're up for it. You can get some technical info on how far
people have gotten at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:XTools
All the other tools are more or less stable, so long as the cronjob
continue to gives it an occasional restart.
Thanks
On 24 September 2015 at 19:29, John Montegra <mabandalone(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hello there,
I code in PHP, Javascript and Python and have a specific 'want', which is
to improve the xtools gadget
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Hedonil/XTools> browser plugin-like
thing (which I think will involve the file xtools/api.php) that currently
shows revisions/authors etc. so it can show more data on hover dropdown
(like top 10 authors). I've been using this gadget for a year, and it still
works but I notice that the full page statistics and pageviews links no
longer seem to work.
I don't know much about the current state of these tools, but I may also
be up for making some other contributions if needed, depending on their
complexity.
I've had a brief look over the mailing list archives and it looks like
there is some dissatisfaction with the old code and a rewrite is in
progress? (I see the xtools-rebirth repo on github). If someone could give
me a brief overview of what's happening with xtools and where things are
going that would be great, and an idea of how I can contribute my idea.
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