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@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello there,

I code in PHP, Javascript and Python and have a specific 'want', which is to improve the xtools gadget 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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