Re: [xTools] xTools rewrite underway

Cyber, I was designing web sites since before you started grade school and I am a mere retired professor of linguistics and author of books on communication skills. I appreciate that your finals may be a legitimate reason, but so was another excse a few days ago, and the excuses are rather frequent. A bit like the excuuses I used to get from my students who were late handing in their assignments. Sorry for droning on like an old man but I ‘am’ an old man and I devote a lot of time to Wikpedia and you did convince me at one stage that you had a team around you helping you with all this. So where are they all? Kudpung On 10Aug, 2015, at 23:48, Maximilian Doerr &lt;maximilian.doerr(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: Kudpung, I understand what you want. You want a usable tool, and I am trying to make that happen. You want a tool that works, that provides all the information you need in a timely fashion on a single page. Right now, I feel I am the only person who can spare time into dedicating the effort into restoring the tools to their former glory and getting them stable once and for all. If I had some assistance things could move faster. On a side note, you're talking apples and oranges here. Most sites are made by paid programmers, who are paid to devote their time to programming. I'm a mere student in college. Cyberpower678 English Wikipedia Account Creation Team Mailing List Moderator On Aug 10, 2015, at 12:39, Chris &lt;cs(a)edubkk.org&gt; wrote: No we don’t want to ‘think of it’ as anything, we want to know what we are getting. We still have’t got are complete answers to my questions And many others would like to know who the individuals are who are responsible for this suite of tools or suites of tools so that we can better get help when they don’t work which most of the time they don’t. As far as we are concered an edit counter is a tool and we end users are not interested in how many items they are made up of. It’s like visitors to a web site don’t care if it's a php content managed site or a static html page, they just want a web page that is readable and useable. Is that so hard to understand? Time these months old issues were addressed by people who are available and who don’t keep dodging the issues. Unfotunately as we are a volunteer organisation, there is no way of forcing pure code writers to understand what the end users need. Kudpung On 10Aug, 2015, at 21:48, Maximilian Doerr &lt;maximilian.doerr(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: To address that though, I have created multiquery functions, which don’t need redis and separate python scripts, which are as of now untested, which should speed up the tools. *From:* xtools-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org [ mailto:xtools-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org &lt;xtools-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org&gt;] *On Behalf Of *MusikAnimal *Sent:* Monday, August 10, 2015 10:30 AM *To:* Discussion list for xTools *Subject:* Re: [xTools] xTools rewrite underway xTools is a *suite* of tools, not just an edit counter. "Detailed edit counter" is not fitting, instead just think of it as the "xTools edit counter". There are LOTS of edit counters, not just Supercount and the one included in XTools (look at the labs directory). Naming them "simple" and "detailed" rids the authorship and originality aspect of the service. For xTools, you can open any tab in a new window by right-clicking and selecting open in a new tab. Supercount's tabs are part of a single-page app so this is not possible there. Internally, this makes sense, as you would not want to perform the same query on every page, so put it all on one page (by contrast each tab on xTools is a different tool). The speed of the counters is at the mercy of replication database performance and the size of the query. If you query for a user with less than 10,000 edits it will run reasonably fast. If you run the same query on a user with 50,000+ edits it's going to take considerably longer, and that's true for any edit counter. Some counters might be faster than others, but I'd guess that's purely how they construct the queries, which we can work to improve. Max, I have a counter of my own that I've been working on for which I borrowed many of the queries from xTools. I can get those to you shortly. On 10 August 2015 at 09:26, Maximilian Doerr < maximilian.doerr(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: Supercount: 1. It was and only has been under my maintenance. 2. If you want an edit counter that displays on a single page, use xTools. 3. Why? What purpose would that serve. That would leave you with the form on one tab and the results in another? 4. I have never seen the tool take more than 30 seconds to load. And quite frankly it never crashed during this fiasco either. 5. The name was given as I had intentions to make the edit counter more capable. But now that xTools exists I might as well rename it. xTools: 1. The xTools team, which seems to be primarily me once again at the moment. xTools is a bundle of tools, initially written by X!. 2. What pop-out cake parts? All information is on one page already. 3. Again. Why? 4. This tool is usually faster than supercount, when the tool isn’t overloaded. 5. In this case, we are preserving the name X!’s Edit Counter Cyberpower678 English Wikipedia Account Creation Team Mailing List Moderator *From:* xtools-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org [mailto: xtools-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org] *On Behalf Of *Chris *Sent:* Monday, August 10, 2015 4:34 AM *To:* Discussion list for xTools *Subject:* Re: [xTools] xTools rewrite underway The community has various uses for X-tools and user editing analysis. Also users are confused about what are X-tools and what are other tools, especially when there are perhaps several tools by different developers that do basically the same things I believe that the developers may possibly not be fully aware of these uses and therefore may not take them all into consideration. WE have some confusion because there are two edit counters. First and foremost there is the question of user edit counters. Some users consider these to be gimmiks or gadgets (toys) but there are situations were these are required for very serious research and they need to display in a manner that is appropriate for serious users. *Supercount* Who is now responsible for the maintenance of this tool? Can it be reverted to its former presentation without the pop-out cake parts and having all the information on one page? Can it be designed to open in a new tab? Can it be designed to load in a few seconds instead of a few minutes? Can it be given a name that tell us waht it does> e.g. Simple edit counter *Analysis X-tools* Who is now responsible for the maintenance of this tool? Or is X-tools a set of different tools? Can it be reverted to its former presentation without the pop-out cake parts and having all the information on one page? Cam it be designed to open in a new tab? Can it be designed to load in a few seconds instead of a few minutes? Can it be given a name that tell us waht it does e.g. Detailed edit counter Kudpung On 10 Aug 2015, at 10:37, Maximilian Doerr &lt;maximilian.doerr(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: Hi guys. I’ve been working on fashioning up the new file and classes for a more organized and less dependent code structure. T13, do you think you can dig through the edit counter and articleinfo codes and fetch me all the queries each use to gather the needed information on both the database and API? _______________________________________________ Maintainers: Cyberpower678, Technical 13, MusikAnimal, Elee, Nakon, L235 xTools mailing list xTools(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/xtools _______________________________________________ Maintainers: Cyberpower678, Technical 13, MusikAnimal, Elee, Nakon, L235 xTools mailing list xTools(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/xtools _______________________________________________ Maintainers: Cyberpower678, Technical 13, MusikAnimal, Elee, Nakon, L235 xTools mailing list xTools(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/xtools _______________________________________________ Maintainers: Cyberpower678, Technical 13, MusikAnimal, Elee, Nakon, L235 xTools mailing list xTools(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/xtools _______________________________________________ Maintainers: Cyberpower678, Technical 13, MusikAnimal, Elee, Nakon, L235 xTools mailing list xTools(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/xtools _______________________________________________ Maintainers: Cyberpower678, Technical 13, MusikAnimal, Elee, Nakon, L235 xTools mailing list xTools(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/xtools _______________________________________________