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CHANGELOG for 2016-08-04 release (and subsequent minor updates)
Greetings STiki-ers... The first update in a long time that isn't an emergency release! As always, your participation and continued feedback is appreciated. This is likely the STiki version that will take us over 1 MILLION reverts. This update brings us:


 * The "ignore" button (adjacent to the "user" line of the "metadata panel") enables a session-length ignore of edits made by a particular user (e.g., repeated maintenance tasks that are not vandalism). The ignore list resets when STiki is restarted. The link will change from a blue "ignore" to red "ignored" if the action succeeds (T#053).
 * Implemented API "thank" functionality. A revision/editor can be "thanked" by using the button adjacent to the "REVISION_ID" line of the "metadata panel". "Thanking" is tied to specific revision-ids, justifying this placement. It was not made an explicit classification button and tied to the "innocent" outcome as such a promotion seems like mission-creep for an anti-vandalism tool. The link will change from a blue "thank" to red "thanked" if the action is successful. Note that only registered editors can be thanked, and the link will be hidden for edits made by unregistered users (T#055).
 * The fact an article is CSD ("candidate for speedy deletion") can now be noted atop diffs, similar to how the "this will rollback 'n' edits" note already appears. This functionality is enabled by default, but is in "options" menu (T#052).
 * First attempt at solving macOS GUI layout issues. These seemed to stem from the fact macOS enforces a border on JButtons (T#054).
 * A situation was identified where rollback tokens were sometimes failing to be acquired. This was in turn causing those rollbacks to silently fail and block subsequent ones. This probably caused some of the "I did work; but made no edits" sessions.
 * Minor change w.r.t. to height of "watchlist options" drop-down, which seems to have no default minimum height
 * Minor change to make login error messages more descriptive

A minor update on 2018-04-10 brought: 
 * Edits made by STiki (reverts/rollbacks/warnings) will now be tagged with the "STiki" label. A backend process is available to label all prior revert/rollback actions in this manner, if this is determined desirable by community consensus.
 * Resolved the "milestone for blocked editor" issue; WP:BEANS (T#057)
 * The edit comment for an AIV posting regarding a registered user will link to that user's contributions, not their talk page
 * Minor changes and test suite for IRC feeds
 * Building in (redundant?) checks to ensure that rollback/edit tokens are acquired; still addressing session drop/fail issues
 * Added minor utility script that allows one to grant explicit access to users with Unicode characters in usernames

A minor update on 2018-12-08 brought: 
 * Added "Verify session at login" to the "Options" menu. This is an attempt to solve the "session dropped" errors experienced intermittently by some users. If checked, immediately after login, a test edit and AGF of that edit will be made to a dummy page in WP:STiki space (a workflow that shows promise in surfacing session issues). If successful, we proceed as normal. If not, credentials are available to transparently re-login and try again. Debugging information will be written to STDOUT. This option is disabled by default and should not be enabled by those not having issues. Hopefully this temporarily patches and helps in identifying the root cause of this ongoing bug.

Thanks for your continued participation and support. West.andrew.g (talk) 15:07, 12 April 2018 (UTC)

Toolforge as a replacement
I'm wondering what would be in the way technically to getting STiki up on Toolforge so that it's back up and it's less likely to go down hard like this in the future? Jerod Lycett (talk) 01:04, 15 July 2020 (UTC)
 * If the server source is up, I'd be happy to get it running again is the original author doesn't want to Ed 6767   talk!  15:15, 23 July 2020 (UTC)
 * STiki's source is on GitHub—I believe this is the full source. I know it's been two years since STiki has fizzled out and will likely need a lot of work to get it up to speed, but we might have a way of resurrecting the project. — k6ka  🍁 ( Talk ·  Contributions ) 23:41, 2 December 2022 (UTC)

Historical template
Should the page be tagged as historical for purposes of categorization? --SoledadKabocha (talk) 02:03, 31 October 2020 (UTC)
 * IMO there is a good chance this can be made to run again post-COVID, so I would be in favor of waiting some more months or until we had more definite information. Thanks,L3X1 ◊distænt write◊  15:56, 19 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Hopefully that will be the case. West.andrew.g said here that he would try to revive the service the next time he's in Philly, which is probably not going to happen anytime soon given the current state of affairs in the United States. As the tool is open source, though, I would certainly be interested to hear if someone with the technical knowledge might be able to revive it themselves. — k6ka  🍁 ( Talk ·  Contributions ) 16:41, 14 December 2020 (UTC)

The developer of the tool is about to lose admin privileges. Is there any way we can revive this tool without his help?
This tool was my personal favorite for reverting vandalism, it made making mistakes nearly impossible. Everything was clear-cut and refined and I'm really upset that we can't use this tool anymore. Is there any way we can revive this tool without the help of the developer, West.andrew.g? He is about to lose his administrative privileges due to inactivity and I think it's clear he is no longer interested in this project.  LJF2019    talk   08:00, 2 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Has anyone emailed him of late? Thanks,L3X1 ◊distænt write◊  13:50, 2 April 2021 (UTC)

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