Wikipedia talk:STiki/Archive 17

Vandalism only account
It would be great if we could have a link to automatically post a vandalism report on the noticeboard WP:AIV for a specific user. -  Cwobeel   (talk)  14:11, 28 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Correct me if I am wrong, but if we use STiki to revert vandalism by a user, and that instance of vandalism is after the final warning, doesn't STiki automatically report them to AIV? I definitely have reports in my log that I did not manually make......Vanamonde93 (talk) 14:20, 28 June 2014 (UTC)
 * STiki does report users to AIV if the "revert" button is pressed, the "warn" option is checked, and they already have a level4 or level4-im vandalism warning on their talk page in the current month. This is standard practice for anti-vandalism tools. Policy states you shouldn't report someone to AIV who hasn't received these last chance warnings, so there is no point in a button to report someone directly from the STiki interface. See also tracking ticket T#041 above that will allow one to hasten that escalation in cases of egregious vandalism. Your title mentions a "vandalism only account", but they need to get warned at least once and have the opportunity to change their behavior before we block them. Thanks, West.andrew.g (talk) 13:26, 29 June 2014 (UTC)

Special Request
I don't have enough edits since I do editing in a different language Wikipedia as well. Does anybody think I could be given a trial period? Chocom (talk) 18:36, 30 June 2014 (UTC)


 * -- I am willing to assess your global sum of contributions for purposes of determining STiki access. However, "Chocom" is not a unified login name. Do you edit with a different username on other projects? Assuming that is the case, I'll need to know those usernames and you'll need to prove you own both accounts in some way (i.e., editing your non-English user page to note the association with this account). Thanks, West.andrew.g (talk) 19:10, 30 June 2014 (UTC)

My other user is here. I once tried to unify them but that wasn't a big success. I'm posting a copy of my original request to my user page, is that enough? גידיל (talk) 19:18, 30 June 2014 (UTC)


 * ✅ -- -- That is sufficient evidence to demonstrate the accounts are shared. I show ~250 Hebrew contributions and another ~150 in English. Your English contributions are focused around a pretty narrow topic space, and not speaking Hebrew myself, I am in no position to assess what you've been doing over there. However, I did notice you just added a userbox regarding "Lupin's Anti-Vandal Tool" today and have not had much experience using that tool in English. Do your Hebrew edits showcase this skill set better? How do they handle vandalism warnings over there?  The multi-year age of your accounts is an indication of good intentions, though, so while I have potential doubts about your experience, I am going to assume good faith, approve your account, and monitor to ensure I haven't made a mistake. I highly encourage you digest WP:Vandalism and WP:STiki. Good luck and happy reverting. West.andrew.g (talk) 20:08, 30 June 2014 (UTC)

Thanks. You are right, I don't have much (if any) experience in this but I have good intentions and hope that you will not regret putting your trust in me. Since I am relatively new, I hope that you will give me feedback on any thing needed. Chocom (talk) 20:20, 30 June 2014 (UTC)

I'm impressed - new user
I'm a new user, a week old I believe, and I just wanted to say how impressed I am by this software now that I'm coming to terms with it. I had previously only been involved in a narrow area of interest, and suddenly whole new vistas have opened up because of the diffs served up to me. I'm not watchlisting my changes, but I have been dropping out to make edits occasionally, and my list has suddenly become much more interestingly varied.

I have noticed that once in a while, aside from the article title, the diff-browser is totally empty - I have marked the page "innocent" and moved on. Does this happen if somebody has already noticed a problem and done something about it in the meantime, outside of STiki?

All this constant judging of edits really makes you work hard though, keeps my ageing brain sharp.

I really only wanted to say thanks though, great contribution. -Roxy the dog (resonate) 22:21, 3 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Glad you liked it! Stiki is a pretty cool tool. And those empty diffs are null edits which in the Known Bugs and Feature Requests above this page. Best, ///Euro Car  GT  23:25, 3 July 2014 (UTC)

Permission
I have extended knowledge of related policies and I want to get involved in stopping vandalism. The easiest way for me to do this is using STiki. For this reason I would like permission to use STiki. StudiesWorld (talk) 15:39, 6 July 2014 (UTC)
 * You have only 754 edits, you need at least 1000 on main space articles.  Occult Zone (Talk • Contributions • Log) 15:47, 6 July 2014 (UTC)
 * If you have 1000 mainspace edits, you automatically have permission to use STIKI, and west.Andrew.g often grants permission to those who have a history of reverting vandalism. Grognard 123chess456 (talk) 17:04, 6 July 2014 (UTC)
 * ✅ -- -- This user's count of mainspace contributions is closer to 200. However, nearly 800 edits across all namespaces demonstrates prior reviewing work and a willingness to discuss matters with others to get things right. A well-aged account that has demonstrated multiple proficiencies meets the threshold for me. However, do your prior reading at WP:Vandalism and WP:STiki before diving in. Happy reverting. West.andrew.g (talk) 04:43, 7 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks! StudiesWorld (talk) 10:24, 7 July 2014 (UTC)

STiki Concerns
Hi there. STiki asks me to log in so I logged into my Wikipedia account from STiki. I am afraid that this software may steal my log in information or compromise my account. I just want to confirm, but does anyone have access to what I put into the login box? Thanks. A 2 16:16, 6 July 2014 (UTC)
 * If there were any chances or any danger with this tool, why it would've been approved? Common sense. So answer is that no one has access to the information that you have added to login box.  Occult Zone (Talk • Contributions • Log) 16:30, 6 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I just wanted to confirm.   A 2  16:31, 6 July 2014 (UTC)
 * I'll note that STiki is not "approved" in any way; nor is any other editing assistant/tool to the best of my knowledge. This is a very valid question. I make STiki's source code public so that others can audit exactly how your information is handled (it is passed directly from your computer to Wikimedia's servers, and is never touched by the STiki infrastructure). Others can, and have, looked at this code and are then able to 'build' a version of STiki on their personal machine. When one sees that the version built from audited code matches byte-for-byte the build I make publicly available, it can be taken as reassurance that I am doing everything ethically and as promised. Of course you are also trusting the auditors in this situation, unless you do it yourself. There are lots of other players in this ecosystem if you want to get paranoid, but I'll stop there. Thanks, West.andrew.g (talk) 04:31, 7 July 2014 (UTC)
 * If it helps, I can confirm as an independent developer who has looked at the STiki source code and has built binaries from it, that your login is not at risk when using STiki. Ijon (talk) 04:09, 14 July 2014 (UTC)

Permission to use STiki
It would be a great tool in helping my anti-vandalism efforts. Also, I have rollback right in English wikipedia. Thanks. Rijin (talk) 13:49, 14 July 2014 (UTC)
 * You can start using from now, you've got over 3,400 edits and more than 1,000 edits on mainspace articles. Happy reverting!  Occult Zone (Talk • Contributions • Log) 13:53, 14 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Thank you! Rijin (talk) 14:28, 14 July 2014 (UTC)

Can't run STiki via WinRAR
I reset my computer back to its factory date on the 16/17th, backed up my files (though I lost some), and reinstalled programs...including STiki. But now STiki doesn't open up as easily as it did before. I don't see the same file I used to click on to get it to start; I don't know the name of the file; it's engrained into my memory by its looks rather than name. Any solution? I tried unzipping STiki with other tools as well. Flyer22 (talk) 21:51, 21 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Re-download STiki. You can't run STiki via WinRAR, WinRAR is an archiving program meaning you could run the program via the software but it will only briefly run it with limited functionality, however the purpose of WinRAR is to extract the file to a user specified file location and from there you'll have to extract the .JAR file located in the .zip folder called "STiki_(release date).jar" and launch it from there. The file you download should be called "STiki_exec_2014_04_25.zip" On an unrelated note, did you change the date on your computer as you said you reset back to the factory date.
 * tl;dr: Once you download the program, you must use an archiving software to extract the file to run it. ///Euro Car  GT  23:03, 21 July 2014 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the reply. Yeah, I know STiki can't literally be run via WinRAR. As for running the file, the file (one of the ones I've downloaded since resetting my computer) is STiki_2014_04_25.jar. I click on it and then WinRAR opens STiki_2014_04_25.jar - ZIP archive, unpacked size 2,007,116 bytes. After that, I have the following folder options: com, core_objects, db_client, edit_processing, executables, gui_edit_queue, gui_menus, gui_panels, gui_support, irc_work, mediawiki_api, META-INF, offline_review_tool, org. And then there is a META-INF file. I don't see the file I would always click on to launch STiki after accessing/extracting the program via WinRAR. I'm not clear on what you mean by "did you change the date on your computer," other than the date going back to its factory date of 2012. Flyer22 (talk) 23:23, 21 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Okay then, did you make sure that the file is a .JAR and not .zip or .rar, also make sure that the WinRar is not selected as a default program for .JAR files. Ensure you have an updated Java and switch the date to the current time and date in your time zone. Hopefully Andrew.g is online and could help with this. ///Euro Car  GT  23:33, 21 July 2014 (UTC)

This sounds like an issue with file associations. A *.JAR file is indeed a packaged and compressed format (much like a ZIP), but one specially designed to hold Java files. Its not terribly surprising WinRAR wants to help you out with this, and it seems it has taken ownership of the file extension over Java. If you right click on the *.JAR file, does the menu give you an "Open With..." sub-menu that includes the option to launch with Java? You have a Java runtime environment (JRE) installed, right? There are Internet tests to ensure there is one present on your system. If this doesn't work you'll probably need to find yourself somewhere in the control panel correcting file associations. Thanks, West.andrew.g (talk) 03:22, 22 July 2014 (UTC)


 * EuroCarGT and West.andrew.g, several few minutes ago, I found out that the problem was that I hadn't reinstalled Java. Thanks for your help. The ping via WP:Echo above didn't work, West.andrew.g, but I have this page on my WP:Watchlist so the pinging isn't needed anyway in this case. Flyer22 (talk) 09:35, 22 July 2014 (UTC)
 * The ping did not work because Andrew posted the message with signature in one edit, then added the ping in a separate edit—notification only works if the user link and the signature are added in the same edit. Johnuniq (talk) 09:46, 22 July 2014 (UTC)


 * I didn't know that about West.andrew.g's post, but, a few weeks ago, I found out the matter you referred to regarding WP:Echo in general. Flyer22 (talk) 10:00, 22 July 2014 (UTC)

Edit presented not the most recent
Hello, could you check what happened here?

I'm certain that the edit presented by STiki yesterday, which I reverted via the STiki screen, was the one at 1841. It had already been reverted at 2037, so at 2107 STiki reverted the reversion and sent the automatic warning to the wrong user Noyster  (talk),  08:06, 22 July 2014 (UTC)


 * How/if something like this could happen hurts my brain a little bit. Edits that are not the most recent should not exist in the queues, based on replacement logic over page ids (PIDs). When an edit (RID) is first requested by the GUI a check is made to confirm it is the most recent on the page. While an edit's data is cached in the background this check is re-made every 10 seconds until the edit is popped to the user. When the "revert" button is pressed, the rollback token's validity will be checked, and that should invalidate if there was an edit between issue time and usage. I could imagine something happening at the millisecond or rep-lag scale that might be able to evade all this, but that is clearly not the case here. I'll need to pull some of the more detailed logs to audit this, and we'll see what they have to say. West.andrew.g (talk) 15:11, 22 July 2014 (UTC)

Leaderboard shows the same user twice
The leaderboard shows User:Jyoti.mickey as well as the users new username AmritsyaPutra. Just pointing it out. --Rsrikanth05 (talk) 20:04, 24 July 2014 (UTC)
 * If that user would like to request a re-mapping, they are welcome to do so here. I see no reason to automate that process, as a user may have many reasons for making a username change and we should make no assumptions about their intentions and why that occurred. If someone wishes to ping that user to this effect, it would be appreciated. Thanks, West.andrew.g (talk) 01:31, 25 July 2014 (UTC)

STiki is known to be down (7/27)
As part of planned maintenance at the University of Pennsylvania (where STiki lives), I just saw the server go down. In the past, the machine has had some difficulty automatically recovering itself when things come back online. Hopefully all will go well this time, or I'll ask a colleague to help out on Monday morning. Thanks, West.andrew.g (talk) 06:35, 27 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks, I wondered what was going on. Been using it a month - It has made a big difference to my contributions to wikipedia. Thanks. -Roxy the dog (resonate) 06:45, 27 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Same here. I thought my university was blocking the ports again till I saw this notice. --Rsrikanth05 (talk) 18:55, 27 July 2014 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the heads-up. Guess we'll have to keep a closer eye on recent changes, or use Vada as a temporary substitute. --k6ka (talk &#124; contribs) 16:16, 28 July 2014 (UTC)
 * I take it Stiki isn't back yet. Perhaps, it could be moved to the toolserver? --Rsrikanth05 (talk) 19:18, 28 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Problem remains unsolved as of 04:56 29 July 2014 (UTC) ALittle Que nhi  ( talk to me ) 04:56, 29 July 2014 (UTC)
 * I guess we should give Andrew some time to fix it. It's Tuesday noon here. :), I hope you know, we're waiting for you. --Rsrikanth05 (talk) 06:20, 29 July 2014 (UTC)

✅ -- Should be back up now. New edits are being fed in. I'll report back here later with a full report. West.andrew.g (talk) 15:58, 29 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks a lot. :) --Rsrikanth05 (talk) 17:02, 29 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Here to report back, though there isn't much to say. Everything is stable and all reports have been re-run. Planned network maintenance took the machine offline and it failed to re-attach when network connectivity resumed. It's strange to think we can handle power failures better than network blips. Regardless, the (extremely simple) fix was slowed by the fact it was over the weekend (few people in the office) and my usual contact is outside the country. I've since leveraged some colleagues at UPenn so I now have a much broader and more reliable group of contacts who know how to fix these problems. That should only be required for an interim period of several months, until I am able to travel to PHL and bring the machine back to my local area. From there, it will be installed under my (speedy) home network under dynamic DNS, or I will see if my employer can volunteer the rack space. These considerations should reduce the scale of future downtime from "hours" to "minutes". Thanks, West.andrew.g (talk) 04:04, 30 July 2014 (UTC)

Edit presented not the most recent
Hello, could you check what happened here?

I'm certain that the edit presented by STiki yesterday, which I reverted via the STiki screen, was the one at 1841. It had already been reverted at 2037, so at 2107 STiki reverted the reversion and sent the automatic warning to the wrong user Noyster  (talk),  08:06, 22 July 2014 (UTC)


 * How/if something like this could happen hurts my brain a little bit. Edits that are not the most recent should not exist in the queues, based on replacement logic over page ids (PIDs). When an edit (RID) is first requested by the GUI a check is made to confirm it is the most recent on the page. While an edit's data is cached in the background this check is re-made every 10 seconds until the edit is popped to the user. When the "revert" button is pressed, the rollback token's validity will be checked, and that should invalidate if there was an edit between issue time and usage. I could imagine something happening at the millisecond or rep-lag scale that might be able to evade all this, but that is clearly not the case here. I'll need to pull some of the more detailed logs to audit this, and we'll see what they have to say. West.andrew.g (talk) 15:11, 22 July 2014 (UTC)


 * I have pulled the logs on this sequence of edits. I wish to be extremely tactful here, as I appreciate the work of all of our users -- but I also realize that a long session of revert work can sometimes erode our minds, patience, sanity, etc. All evidence here points to the fact that STiki behaved appropriately. I have run this RID sequence through the Offline Review Tool (ORT) and confirmed the rendering was handled correctly. All parts of queue logging indicate the user saw and classified (as vandalism) the second revision in the sequence (the revert). It's worth pointing out the initial vandalism scored only a 0.20669/1.0 in the CBNG queue (which the user was using), whereas the revert action scored a 0.834508/1.0 (its a function of CBNG why this is the case). Point being, STiki users weren't nearly deep enough in the queue for the vandalism RID to have ever seen the light of day, whereas the revert edit was quickly popped to a user for inspection. The timestamps associated with all actions corroborate this. I will not put words into anyone's mouth, but I'd be willing to wager this user interpreted this diff "backwards" ... it has certainly happened to me before. West.andrew.g (talk) 03:51, 30 July 2014 (UTC)


 * Well thank you for your investigation and response. I apologise if I have made a false report.  Fact is at the time of making the report I could clearly "see" in my mind's eye the "assassin" addition showing up on the green background to the right. Never mind, all cleared up and the incorrect warning was removed Noyster   (talk),  07:55, 30 July 2014 (UTC)

Getting STiki
My CVUA trainer says I need to request permission here to get STiki(even though I have over a thousand edits to articles).Wackyike (talk) 00:44, 31 July 2014 (UTC)
 * You have 1,026 mainspace edits. You should be able to download and start using. Melonkelon (talk) 01:46, 31 July 2014 (UTC)
 * ✅ - That's right. The edit count is sufficient and the user is able to (and has already) use(d) the tool, as demonstrated by recent edit history. West.andrew.g (talk) 03:43, 31 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Welcome to the STiki family! Happy editing. -_Rsrikanth05 (talk) 05:26, 1 August 2014 (UTC)

Whitelist
I had suggested this long ago, but I think Stiki needs a Whitelist, and it is of high priority. I keep seeing edits made by people who are rollbackers, reviewers, and even admins popping up on my screen. This needs to be fixed. Maybe the Huggle Whitelist can be utilised for this. --Rsrikanth05 (talk) 20:45, 2 August 2014 (UTC)


 * There is an already an option implemented in STiki for this. Menu checkbox "Displayed Edits" -> "Edits by Privileged Users", if unchecked, will effectively whitelist edits by users from precisely those groups you listed. Thanks, West.andrew.g (talk) 02:57, 3 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Thank you Andrew. I was blissfully unaware of this for some reason. I think it should be a default no? --Rsrikanth05 (talk) 16:44, 3 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Does 'privileged users' include the autoconfirmed? I seen many cases where autoconfirmed users with really long periods of inactivity and few edits, turn out to be vandals suddenly. -Ugog Nizdast (talk) 16:53, 3 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Autoconfirmed users are not included in the "privileged" set. Thanks, West.andrew.g (talk) 17:02, 3 August 2014 (UTC)
 * So, anyone who is in a usergroup other than autoconfirmed is in the Privileged set? --Rsrikanth05 (talk) 21:05, 3 August 2014 (UTC)

Without checking the source, I believe that admins, rollbackers, and reviewers are on the whitelist. It's no trouble to add additional groups, but I feel those groups have an implicit membership criteria of understanding vandalism (and therefore having the good sense not to commit it). There are no shortage of usergroups in software, (things like "filemover"), but I'd imagine these are comparatively rare (or at least rare that someone has them without one of the aforementioned). West.andrew.g (talk) 21:33, 3 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Aah, that seems good. I guess filemovers don't need to be part of it as the user rights given to them don't necessarily help in dealing with vandalism. --Rsrikanth05 (talk) 07:42, 4 August 2014 (UTC)

Approval
I'd like to get approval for using STiki. I'm very active in patrolling recent changes and in reverting vandalism. After downloading the module, it was suggested that I should apply here. Regards,   NQ    talk  01:27, 4 August 2014 (UTC)


 * ✅ -- A clear approval based on precedent. Happy reverting. Thanks, West.andrew.g (talk) 01:55, 4 August 2014 (UTC)


 * Thank you Andrew, that was really fast ! I was just reading up on you, and your contributions. Very impressive. Anyway have a great day !  NQ    talk  02:03, 4 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Welcome to the STiki family! Happy editing. --Rsrikanth05 (talk) 07:43, 4 August 2014 (UTC)

Deleting a page blocks classification buttons
A very rare issue, but one that might be worth looking into. At times STiki displays a page that, upon checking, requires removal of the page instead of reverting the edit to the previous version. After doing so it would seem that STiki's classification interface refuses to accept any classification in regards to the now deleted page. No matter what classification is selected STiki will not move to the next edit - the only method I found to solve this is quitting STiki entirely.

Steps to reproduce

 * 1) Start STiki as usual and login. Stiki will load and display a diff for a page to check.
 * 2) Open this page in a browser and subsequently delete it. (Without a classification in STiki)
 * 3) Try and classify the now deleted page as innocent, vandalism or anything else. None of the buttons will react after the page was deleted.

I am not certain if this can be reproduced 100% of the time. Until recently I did not specifically check if this always occurs when a page is removed. The issue itself is easily evaded (Just classify a page before deleting it) and mitigated (just restart STiki). Excirial ( Contact me, Contribs ) 07:06, 4 August 2014 (UTC)


 * (1) Hope you don't mind that I shortened the title for cosmetic reasons. (2) I believe you, but logically I do not understand why the invalid/expired rollback token just doesn't cause the edit to fail (something STiki is prepared to handle). I wonder if this isn't something weird in the underlying MediaWiki software and its API. Are you able to run STiki from the terminal, and does it vomit any exception text when this situation is encountered? All (almost all?) of STiki's network calls are wrapped with exception handling should something weird happen in the communications department. The buttons become blocked almost immediately, w/o network lag? Thanks, West.andrew.g (talk) 03:20, 5 August 2014 (UTC)

Quick Edit
While doing the usual patrolling with STiki, I noticed a lot of edits are innocent but with a minor typo. It would be quite useful with a quick edit button like in AWB, so you could manually fix the typo and continue. I just hate when seeing a perfectly helpful edit with a typo. I hate when typos go away when i press the innocent button. TheQ Editor    (Talk) 00:30, 31 July 2014 (UTC)
 * A philosophy in STiki's development has always been to maintain the anti-vandalism/anti-damage focus. Can you describe this AWB feature in greater depth? Regardless of whether or not something like that is implemented, the links in the metadata panel should provide relatively straightforward access to article editing. Thanks, West.andrew.g (talk) 03:41, 31 July 2014 (UTC)\
 * I actually got this idea when doing RCP patrolling at another wiki. There, they have a quick edit button when patrolling so that if there is an edit that is constructive, but contains a typo, instead of passing, or marking it as innocent. You could fix the typo while patrolling. I took a screenshot below. What do you think?  TheQ Editor    (Talk) 15:21, 31 July 2014 (UTC)



I understand the button, but what does it do? Does it allow you to edit inside the diff interface? Or does it just provide a shortcut over to the standard WP edit page? West.andrew.g (talk) 00:33, 1 August 2014 (UTC)
 * It creates a popup TheQ Editor    (Talk) 02:05, 1 August 2014 (UTC)
 * I agree. This would be a great feature. You can perhaps make it optional, for those who want to focus purely on Anti-vandalism, they can turn it off. --Rsrikanth05 (talk) 05:25, 1 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Strong support as this would be an incredibly useful feature to have. APerson (talk!) 14:41, 6 August 2014 (UTC)
 * It would be nice to be optional, but edit inside the diff interface. I don't want some pop-ups cluttering my screen.

Feature Request (mobile app)
Perhaps STIKI could have a mobile app? The kind of bare bones interface that STIKI has (essentially 4 buttons and the diff) could probably be adapted easily to mobile. Jfmantis has made WikiPatroller, which is an android app, so I think we could port STiki onto mobile, if we were to use his layout. We'd just do it with the essential parts. Grognard 123chess456 (talk) 23:53, 6 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Just wanted to point out, this would probably take(at least for me) about 100 hours to do. I am not a strong android programmer, though android coding is effectively Java coding. I asked Jfmantis for a copy of the source code, though I'm sure you can decompile the apk, I haven't bothered to do that yet. But, I wanted to add that, west.andrew.g, that if you do port to android, you will be absolute god. I use android for editing more than 75% of time, and haven't found a good way to do that. /end runaway paragraph. Cheers and Thanks,  L235 - Talk Ping when replying 23:17, 8 August 2014 (UTC)
 * If you do make an android app, it will be better than those annoying freemium apps that clutter the market. STiki will take up all of my time! Grognard 123chess456 (talk) 23:54, 8 August 2014 (UTC)
 * This is a good idea, and I'd be happy to help out. The source for WikiPatroller is on GitHub. I suppose that some of the UI code could be useful, since an STiki app would have a very similar interface, but most of the internals are pretty specific to the Wikimedia API, and the app's particular use of it. Jfmantis (talk) 00:27, 9 August 2014 (UTC)
 * A mobile version is the last thing on my radar. We are likely to integrate foreign language queues before *I* get to a mobile version. However, I would support anyone who undertakes this endeavour (and yes the Java <-> Android transition is helpful). Thanks, West.andrew.g (talk) 15:54, 9 August 2014 (UTC)
 * I had suggested this two years ago, and I agree with what I was told then, that not only is a Mobile version going to be a lot of effort, but I think we should wait for more editors to start using the Wikipedia mobile apps to edit first. --Rsrikanth05 (talk) 18:35, 9 August 2014 (UTC)

User
ANI have suggested I bring this over here. Am unsure where to report this (if not here) but it appears that an ip editor is either using WP:STiki to resolve vandalism edits or is proporting to be doing so in their edit summaries. My understanding was taht someone required a WP account to run this so an Ip editor would be unable to. Advice/assistance would be appreciated. Amortias (T)(C) 17:19, 10 August 2014 (UTC)


 * Investigation done. I am responding at WP:ANI momentarily. An interesting case. West.andrew.g (talk) 22:40, 10 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Please immediately get someone to oversight this, as I have easily figured out who the user was in a very quick manner. I have also taken the liberty of redacting the IP in the heading. Grognard 123chess456 (talk) 10:22, 11 August 2014 (UTC)

I'm at Wikimania in London
Apologies for being latent in posting here (there are about 1.25 days left in the conference), but I am at Wikimania in London. User:Jmh649 gave a presentation about WP:MED and utilized some of the recent statistical work I've done for him (and an academic paper is in progress). Besides that, I've largely been hanging out in the research/analytical/"social machines" tracks. If your a user/supporter/fan of WP:STiki, WP:5000, or anything else I've done -- I'd love to meet you, so don't hesitate to reach out. West.andrew.g (talk) 16:10, 9 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Dang, would have loved to be part of it. I have a bunch of ideas [some stupid ones] which I wanted to discuss with you. --Rsrikanth05 (talk) 18:38, 9 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Och. Missed you.  Didn't check this talk page while I was down there.  Yaris678 (talk) 11:44, 14 August 2014 (UTC)

Bug report (sometimes the red doesn't show up in changed text)
I have a picture of a glitch in the STiki software. It doesn't highlight the clearly changed text in red. Why is that? Grognard 123chess456 (talk) 03:58, 9 August 2014 (UTC)
 * First, for cosmetic reasons I've replaced your picture with a link. Second, this is not a bug. Observe how Mediawiki stylizes its own diffs, for example, in . The exact stylization depends on your theme, but it should be the case that bolded text is only used as an indicator of intra-paragraph word-level changes. When entire paragraphs are added/deleted, the absence of a corresponding box in the other column at the same horizontal level is the visual indicator of the change. The image you displayed is in keeping with Mediawiki style, which STiki emulates. West.andrew.g (talk) 16:07, 9 August 2014 (UTC)


 * The comparable native diff is [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Andreas_Berger&diff=620455339&oldid=542876032 this one]. On my machine, the highlighting is similar to 123chess456's screen grab.  Beyond the choice of colours, the difference is that the native diff highlights the space added to the end of the existing line.  This highlighting of spaces is not possible in the colour scheme currently used for STiki.  STiki highlights changes within a paragraph with a change of text colour, not a change of background colour.  A space is all background and so the change can not be highlighted.  Yaris678 (talk) 17:16, 14 August 2014 (UTC)

Feature Request
I propose that there be the ability to add more custom AGF messages. For example, there are a lot of edits, such as BLP violations that aren't vandalism, addition of non-notable people to disambiguation pages, removal of content without explanation, refactoring of content that removes important information, obvious POV-pushing that isn't really vandalism and is obviously made in good faith, trades that haven't been finalized yet in sports and the like. While the problem is, I need maybe 6 or 7 AGF slots, but STIKI only supports 4. Grognard 123chess456 (talk) 23:45, 6 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Yea, this has come up before at Wikipedia talk:STiki/Archive 15 and further information can be found at STiki/Good-faith-revert messages. -Ugog Nizdast (talk) 09:37, 7 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Basically, it would be a button, that maybe said "add new AGF message". Maybe you could have a feature where you could import your own AGF messages? I could go into STiki and click a button that would allow me to import additional AGF messages from STiki/Good-faith-revert messages or from my own userspace. People that want a barebones interface would get that, and other people who want lots of AGF messages would get that also. Grognard 123chess456 (talk) 02:06, 9 August 2014 (UTC)
 * I may be able to add a few more of the "current style" slots at the next release (but I want to keep that drop-down of reasonable length). Those are easy to add. Designing a workflow to add/modify/delete an arbitrary quantity of messages would take a lot more cycles; which aren't abundant right now. Are there other users who find the current quantity a limitation? If many people are fighting this, I may be able to give more priority. Thanks, West.andrew.g (talk) 15:45, 9 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Tracked as T#045. Thanks, West.andrew.g (talk) 15:52, 9 August 2014 (UTC)
 * , may I add upon slightly to 123Chess456's suggestion? Allow users to create a page in their userspace, similar to Huggle which creates a *.css for storing config on wiki, where the user can add an AGF template? Sounds good no? --Rsrikanth05 (talk) 18:37, 9 August 2014 (UTC)

The messages in STiki/Good-faith-revert messages will all end up in STiki, probably in the next release. Are there any messages that you think would be particularly useful that aren't there at the moment? If you add them to STiki/Good-faith-revert messages then everyone will be able to use them. Of course, it is a wiki page so there may be some discussion about what is and is not right to go in, but be bold and stick in some messages. Yaris678 (talk) 17:31, 14 August 2014 (UTC)

2 (Possible) Feature requests

 * 1) Keyboard shortcuts would be useful. (It would be much easier to use and navigate around). At least for innocent and the pass button. I press those often and it is pretty tiring using the track-pad to alternate between those.
 * 2) Sometimes, when I hold the vandalism button (by accident) instead of just pressing it, I accidentally revert the next edit too, which is really annoying to solve.

Thanks,  TheQ Editor    (Talk) 16:44, 14 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Shortcuts already exist, V for vandalism, G for good faith, P for pass, and I for innocent. The second feature request can't be solved, unless there was a feature that made you wait a second between classifications. Grognard 123chess456 (talk) 16:54, 14 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Oh really? Thanks!  ΤheQ Editor   Talk? 19:46, 15 August 2014 (UTC)

Request for permission
I have been reverting vandalism and giving warnings with Twinkle. STiki would help me revert vandalism a lot faster. TranquilHope (talk) 23:13, 16 August 2014 (UTC)
 * You have done quite a lot in vandal-fighting. I suggest you request for rollback permissions. It can give you permission to other tools as well, for example WP:IGLOO and WP:HUGGLE both very useful counter-vandalism tools. But applying for STiki here is okay too. I support.  ΤheQ Editor   Talk? 17:13, 17 August 2014 (UTC)
 * User got Rollback. So no need for an extra permission. -- Pr at yya  (Hello!) 15:39, 19 August 2014 (UTC)
 * You have about 388 mainspace edits and you need a total of 1000 mainspace edits.  Occult Zone (Talk • Contributions • Log) 19:47, 19 August 2014 (UTC)
 * The 1,000 main-space edits are required to get automatic qualification. If TranquilHope had those, there would be no need to request permission.  As it is, the user now has rollback so can use STiki anyway.  Yaris678 (talk) 17:22, 20 August 2014 (UTC)

✅ -- By virtue of automatic qualification. I see User:TranquilHope has made his first classifications and I welcome him to the STiki community. Thanks, West.andrew.g (talk) 02:35, 23 August 2014 (UTC)

Problem opening Stiki
I tried using it for the first time in a while and was unable to. I received a message in which the computer asked me what program to use to open it. Could that be the reason? Coretheapple (talk) 22:00, 25 August 2014 (UTC)
 * I'm guessing, but I think you need to have javascript on your machine, and you haven't. I'm sure an expert will tell us for sure before too long. -Roxy the dog™ (resonate) 23:19, 25 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Oh I definitely do – it would be hard to use the computer without it. But suddenly Java isn't recognizing it. I fiddled with the file asssociations so that Java (I think I have the right Java exe. file – there are several) is associated with it. But so far, no good. Coretheapple (talk) 02:05, 26 August 2014 (UTC)
 * You need Java, not Javascript (yes, they are completely different, despite the names....). if you run   in a command line, what does it display? -- Mdann  52   talk to me!  07:04, 26 August 2014 (UTC)
 * In my defence, I knew it was something to do with coffee. Roxy the dog™ (resonate) 08:06, 26 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Well I'm a little stunned, Mdann52, as when I run that on the command line I get a "not recognized" response. I don't get it. I thought I had Java installed. Stiki has worked in the past on this computer. Any suggestions on how to rectify this? Coretheapple (talk) 12:43, 26 August 2014 (UTC)
 * try turning it off and on again try reinstalling from - this should also update any outdated versions you have. -- Mdann  52   talk to me!  14:51, 26 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks I did, and I'm still being asked what program to associate it with. Hmmmm...... I guess I could associate it with Java, but am not sure how. Coretheapple (talk) 17:36, 26 August 2014 (UTC)

(resetting the problem description) Haven't used Stiki in a while, and just now I clicked on the jar file - same one I'd used in the past. Nothing. Couldn't open, got a msg. asking what program I wanted to open it with. I tried to associate it with Java, to no avail. Wondering if anyone can help with this. I'm using the latest version. Thanks, Coretheapple (talk) 21:06, 25 August 2014 (UTC)
 * ✅ -- Never mind. Fixed! Wrong version of Java. Coretheapple (talk) 17:39, 26 August 2014 (UTC)

Planned server maintenance; 8/16-8/17
The University of Pennsylvania department that houses the STiki server will be conducting network maintenance on late Saturday night (8/16) into early Sunday morning (8/17); EST timezone. Based on the description provided to me, it would not be surprising to see STiki knocked offline as a result of this maintenance. My contacts on the ground who take corrective action have been made aware of the planned outage. These frequent maintenance windows should slow shortly, as it is common for institutions to do most of their upgrades/maintenance during academic summers when most students (i.e., the core user-base) are not present. Thanks, West.andrew.g (talk) 03:07, 14 August 2014 (UTC)


 * I was wondering, could the STiki server be shifted to say WMF Labs [Toolserver equivalent] or something? --Rsrikanth05 (talk) 20:47, 15 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Wait, is that today? Because I couldn't seem to open STiki. I live in EST and it's not even Saturday yet.  ΤheQ Editor   Talk? 22:16, 15 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Yes it is, based on EST timezone, which I live in. --k6ka (talk &#124; contribs) 21:42, 16 August 2014 (UTC)
 * EST or EDT? As in, daylight savings time or not? Grognard 123chess456 (talk) 22:47, 16 August 2014 (UTC)
 * (why I hate DST) Eastern Standard Time + DST in effect. I think STiki's servers are hosted in Pennsylvania or something. --k6ka (talk &#124; contribs) 23:32, 16 August 2014 (UTC)
 * So the correct timezone is EDT, which is for EST that has daylight savings time. Grognard 123chess456 (talk) 17:54, 17 August 2014 (UTC)
 * I still cannot open Stiki today (Monday)? Is the program still in maintenance or is it my connection problem?--TerryAlex (talk) 16:11, 18 August 2014 (UTC)
 * No, it is still down with me as well..Super48paul (talk) 16:38, 18 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Same with me. I thought it was my connection problem too, and when I came on, 2 other users are experiencing the same thing.  ΤheQ Editor   Talk? 17:26, 18 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Still down so I suspect that something went wrong with the maintenance. Kev (talk) 21:39, 18 August 2014 (UTC)


 * Please indicate here whenever any of you can open the program again, because as of today (Tuesday) it's still not working yet for me. --TerryAlex (talk) 13:39, 19 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Well Andrew I think you should transfer STiki! to the tool.wmflabs (WMF Lab). It's reliable and useful. -- Pr at yya  (Hello!) 15:36, 19 August 2014 (UTC)

Originally posted at Wikipedia talk:STiki/Archive 16

WMF Labs isn't the most reliable either – a large number of bot outages (such as CBNG and CBIII outages), along with VoxelBot having a broken editing pattern (it only edits once or twice a day when it's supposed to edit every half-an-hour. Irritating) and bots editing whilst logged out so it trips dozens of edit filters in the process. All caused by WMF Labs troubles. --k6ka (talk | contribs) 22:28, 22 April 2014 (UTC)

So.... nty? --k6ka (talk &#124; contribs) 20:59, 19 August 2014 (UTC)


 * STiki is now up and running again. Thank god!  ΤheQ Editor   Talk? 17:59, 20 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Yep, also here, still running.Super48paul (talk) 07:16, 21 August 2014 (UTC)

To be honest, I have no idea what is going on where the server lives. I am getting nearly daily messages about maintenance going on there, and I am several time zones away on business travel. As I stated above -- I think this is a last crush to get work done before students arrive. If you search the archives many of the same suggestions have come up before. It is not my intention to transfer the system to WMF Labs or any other WMF infrastructure. Those are also imperfect, but more critically, this machine does much non-Wikipedia work for me, so I have a vested interest in keeping the whole operation up and running. I will travel to PHL in mid-September and there is a good chance I will bring the machine back with me and put it on my local network, or that of my employer. West.andrew.g (talk) 02:34, 23 August 2014 (UTC)

STiki seems to be down again..Super48paul (talk) 08:22, 23 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Just to confirm, it seems to be down. It seems to be up and down several times over the past few days.  Vertium '' When all is said and done 17:15, 23 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Yes it's still down with me ALittle Que nhi  ( talk to me ) 14:30, 24 August 2014 (UTC)
 * It's been a week since it last worked for me. --Rsrikanth05 (talk) 18:42, 24 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Been down for me, too, but I got it open and working today. ~ Boomur &#91;☎&#93; 21:43, 25 August 2014 (UTC)

Machine has been stable for the past several days with no planned downtime/maintenance imminent. Software is also been experimenting with to improve machine resiliency and have better luck at self-recovering. Thanks, West.andrew.g (talk) 20:10, 2 September 2014 (UTC)

STiki reverting under an IP address (again!)


All the evidence that you need to prove just how baffled a recent changes patroller here is. Looks like STiki is editing while logged out again, and IPs are tripping edit filters head-over-toes. West.andrew.g - could you take a look into this? --k6ka (talk &#124; contribs) 01:48, 26 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Oh dear. I just removed some vandalism and ruined K6ka's first link above. Try this. -Roxy the dog™ (resonate) 08:25, 26 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Is everyone having this issue? West.andrew.g (talk) 15:21, 26 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Are you sure that the edit was made with Stiki and someone is not just tampering with the edit summary? I had this issue in 2012, when an IP address I had reported was undoing my edit and using the Undid good faith edit by Rsrikanth05 (Stiki) type message in the edit summary. It could be bogus. --Rsrikanth05 (talk) 06:42, 29 August 2014 (UTC)
 * I confirm from checkuser logs that the diffs above are genuine STiki edits and not tampering with edit summaries. Materialscientist (talk) 07:13, 29 August 2014 (UTC)

Yes, this is similar to an earlier case reported at Administrators'_noticeboard/IncidentArchive850. I too can confirm these are legitimate STiki users who successfully logged in and had several (on-wiki) edits associated with their username. Then, suddenly, at some point, something breaks and the edits start to become associated to the user's IP address. I am not sure this is a bug in STiki, and we need all the details we can get to sort this out. It also seems to be happening quite infrequently.

When the log in succeeds, a cookie/session-key are given to STiki which it stores locally. How that session key is suddenly revoked makes no sense (and parallel interaction with WP inside a web browser should make no difference, as that would be using a *different* session key). I could always write code to confirm that the edits being triggered by STiki are mapped to the active username, but this seems to only treat the symptoms, and would require one "mistake" (and associated privacy leak) to occur for detection to take place. If you are an affected user, please try to run STiki from the command line and see if there is any unusual output. Thanks, West.andrew.g (talk) 20:52, 2 September 2014 (UTC)

Login error
I've got a login error multiple times today. It says Login failed, likely network error, thread thrown to exception or something of that sort. Will save a screeny next time it occurs. --Rsrikanth05 (talk) 13:25, 4 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Thank you, although I'll assume it to be an issue local to your machine/network unless we see corroborating reports from other users. Even then, this could be a WMF problem related to their server infrastructure. West.andrew.g (talk) 15:41, 4 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Alright. There were a few network outages today and I assume they had something to do with this. --Rsrikanth05 (talk) 16:49, 4 September 2014 (UTC)

Special Permission
Came across this tool while looking at my edit history under the automated edit section. Looks like something I would like to try but do not believe that I would qualify under the current guidelines on the main page. I have been editing since January of this year and have created numerous articles and participated in AfD discussions, but thought this would be great tool to try out. Let me know if there is additional information that I need to provide to request permission for use. Thanks in advance. --CNMall41 (talk) 17:58, 9 September 2014 (UTC)


 * -- Greetings! I thank you for your steady history of good-faith contributions. At the same time, you don't have much/any anti-vandalism experience. That gives me some mixed feelings towards a decision: I just need some evidence you can differentiate between vandalism, good-faith edits, test edits, etc. and are familiar with the warning hierarchy. I also noticed a newfound interest in editing assistants over the past day. Have you heard of or considered participation in WP:CVUA? If you complete that program, I will grant STiki access without hesitation. You've shown good judgement to this point, so I don't imagine that program being a significant hurdle for you. Thanks, West.andrew.g (talk) 03:20, 10 September 2014 (UTC)


 * Sounds good. How do I get started? --CNMall41 (talk) 18:34, 13 September 2014 (UTC)


 * I would post on WT:CVUA. West.andrew.g (talk) 21:40, 14 September 2014 (UTC)

Reclassifying edits under new username
I recently had a change of username, but there are 399 edits still under the username "Epicfailure 2". When I edit with STiki again, will they be re-classified under my username? If so, could all my other STiki edits under "Epicfailure 2" also be re-classified? (Note: this is an alternate account of .) Epic Failure (talk) 23:59, 10 September 2014 (UTC)
 * I can certainly do this. But can you clarify what username currently has the classifications, and which you want to have the classifications when I am done? I got a little confused with three usernames appearing in your post. Thanks, West.andrew.g (talk) 01:35, 11 September 2014 (UTC)
 * The username to be reclassified is from "Epicfailure 2" to "Epic Failure". Thank you. Epicgenius (talk) 13:07, 12 September 2014 (UTC)
 * ✅ -- Re-mapped 399 classification actions. Thanks, West.andrew.g (talk) 21:45, 14 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Belated thanks. Epicgenius (talk) 02:09, 18 September 2014 (UTC)

Weird (possible) bug?
I posted a non-english contribution revert, but the formatting was completely messed up by a space before the typing, however when I checked the page of pre-formatted message examples, it did not have the space. Probably just a fluke, but here is a copy of the original version. Asdklf&#59; (talk) 02:57, 16 September 2014 (UTC)


 * I have confirmed that the source code does not have a space in that location -- maybe just an accidental keyboard hit on your part? I don't really understanding why that space causes the format to parse the way it does, but that is besides the point. I am going to consider this closed unless we have something come up again. Thank you for the report, though, West.andrew.g (talk) 02:09, 18 September 2014 (UTC)

Username change
I am now User:Chess, not 123chess456 anymore. Please reflect in STiki leaderboard. 123chess456 (talk) 13:51, 15 September 2014 (UTC)
 * That's me. Grognard Chess (talk) Help:Getting rid of Media Viewer 13:55, 15 September 2014 (UTC)
 * ✅ -- Re-mapped 1160 classification actions. Thanks, West.andrew.g (talk) 01:56, 18 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks! Grognard Chess (talk) Help:Getting rid of Media Viewer 02:45, 18 September 2014 (UTC)

Prompt before reporting to AIV
I feel like this probably has been brought up before, so sorry for the repeat. Sometimes during peak hours I'll fly through vandalism, and not realize from the "last revert" box that I've reported a user to AIV. This is of course not a real problem but as an admin I'd rather handle it myself. Perhaps for admins we could prompt before reporting to AIV? Thanks &mdash;  MusikAnimal talk 20:51, 18 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Tracked in table as T#046. Thank you for your suggestion, West.andrew.g (talk) 19:53, 22 September 2014 (UTC)

Could you change the bug tracking table so that it is from User:Chess?
WP:USURP. Grognard Chess (talk) Help:Getting rid of Media Viewer 02:12, 26 September 2014 (UTC)


 * ✅ -- -- Completed per your request. Thanks, West.andrew.g (talk) 04:10, 26 September 2014 (UTC)

Other Projects
It would be great if STiki were compatible with other Wikimedia projects. If, you could work on that that would be great. StudiesWorld (talk) 10:45, 28 September 2014 (UTC)


 * This is being tracked as T#003, as far as different Wikipedia language editions are concerned. Different projects than Wikipedia are a different matter altogether, and admittedly very much on the back burner. However, I can report this ticket is actually in progress (albeit the preliminary planning stages) as I am collaborating with some WMF researchers on an edit scoring framework that is generic across language editions. I have a research paper out there that shows the portability of metadata features and their interpretations across natural languages, so were hoping to practically leverage this capability at scale. It is imagined that STiki will be a consumer of this framework, but the burden won't be on my infrastructure to produce these scores. Thanks, West.andrew.g (talk) 04:06, 29 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Okay, this is kind of weird. I just went thru my Global edits, and apparently, I used Stiki to undo an edit on the German Wikipedia. I'm hoping Andrew has an answer. --Rsrikanth05 (talk) 06:20, 29 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Hehe don't worry, we all have that. When I noticed it on my global contribs, I quickly checked a few other STiki users and found the same. I think it has something to do with articles in German Wikipedia having matching content with ours (what I'm saying is: low quality Ge articles seem to be copy-pasted from here) so our edits are getting "mirrored" there. I even made my German Wikipedia User page lol. This seems to happen with not only STiki edits. -Ugog Nizdast (talk) 10:36, 29 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Ah okay. At least I have a companion. :p. --Rsrikanth05 (talk) 10:57, 29 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Can someone link to the documentation on this behavior? West.andrew.g (talk) 14:20, 29 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Is Commons, or any other English-language Wikimedia projects, getting STiki any time soon? – Epicgenius (talk) 13:46, 29 September 2014 (UTC)
 * From what Andrew stated, I think it would require another dedicated server. The problem is that Stiki can't rely on a WMF server. It'd be dead most of the time, like half of Tools is. --Rsrikanth05 (talk) 14:16, 29 September 2014 (UTC)
 * It's important to realize "STiki" as we know it requires two things: (1) A backend that processes edits in real-time and produces a quality score (I have built my own "metadata" one, and CBNG does the same thing in an alternative way for en.wp), and (2) The logic that organizes those scores into queues and then presents them to users in a graphical fashion. If someone can give me #1 for a language/project, doing #2 is relatively straightforward. One goal is to create a completely generic #1 that is managed by the WMF. Making more #1 systems I will not take on alone; but given one of those (via the WMF or a language/project specific one-off written by an individual), I would be eager and prompt to integrate it via #2. West.andrew.g (talk) 14:19, 29 September 2014 (UTC)
 * To be blunt, I want another server (WMF servers are fine; a dedicated server probably is not necessary) and another code-capable team member with the patience to monitor (or write monitoring code for) these different project/language editions. There are a couple challenges here: (1) I need to make my back-end code generic, as it currently is hard-coded to hit resources for en.wp, and (2) I need to make the scoring model generic and scalable. I could easily consult on this project, but I have other research projects I am getting paid to do, so the free cycles don't come easily. Notice the bug/feature tracking table hasn't been shrinking significantly -- and I really enjoy coding when my schedule allows. West.andrew.g (talk) 14:33, 29 September 2014 (UTC)
 * To that end, I am vaguely aware of Individual Engagement Grants (IEGs) and Google's Summer of Code (GSoC) -- both WMF-supported, and possibly a means to obtain the programming labor, or funds for programming labor, that would be necessary to get such a project done. Does anyone have familiarity with these? Would a project like this fall within the scope? What is the acceptance ratio on those? Any first hand experiences? West.andrew.g (talk) 14:33, 29 September 2014 (UTC)

Given that we have one more day for the current round of IEG to end, I think it would a good idea if you can contact someone within the Tech community OR the Wikitech mailing list and put this suggestion out there. Who knows, it might just work out. --Rsrikanth05 (talk) 15:25, 29 September 2014 (UTC)

CBNG Feed Down?
This isn't a problem, just an observation during use of STiki today. I'm using the cluebot diff presentation, and virtually all of the diffs presented today have been ancient, most over ten days old, quite a lot over 80 days old. I've never noticed anything like that before in terms of age - has anybody else noticed it? Have the STiki Gods pressed a button that says "put Roxy on the far end of the curve"? I wouldn't want time wasted on investigation btw, but I have been fascinated by this and wanted to share! -Roxy the dog™ (resonate) 14:50, 5 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Same issue here.--Skr15081997 (talk) 15:28, 5 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Me 2. Hadn't really paid that much attention to it, but now that you've raised it here, today I've been getting mostly 30+ and 70+ days. --Technopat (talk) 15:51, 5 October 2014 (UTC) and a 90-dayer.--Technopat (talk) 15:57, 5 October 2014 (UTC) 91 days and 11 hours. Very few (if any) of these old-timers are vandalism or reverts. --Technopat (talk) 17:04, 5 October 2014 (UTC)
 * I suspect that something has gone wrong in the feed between CBNG and the STiki server. Maybe CBNG has changed the format of its rss feed or something like that.  Maybe Andrew can comment.
 * In the mean time, I recommend using the "STiki (metadata)" rev. queue. I'm finding plenty of vandalism on there.
 * Yaris678 (talk) 18:19, 5 October 2014 (UTC)

At around 9AM this morning I received notification that the CBNG feed had gone down (it reported "up" in the previous report 12 hours before). Due to real life, it took me a couple hours to get around to it, but the connection has been re-established and STiki is ingesting from CBNG. It's expected the queue would get a little drained, but it is surprising that it found itself popping 90 day old edits so quickly and with such frequency. Queue dynamics are near impossible to troubleshoot -- let me know if things do not return to normal. Thanks, West.andrew.g (talk) 03:14, 6 October 2014 (UTC)

Welcome message template
Using STiki, is there any option to add a welcome message for new users, while warning them or giving notification of good faith reverts. -- Vigyani talkਯੋਗਦਾਨ 04:56, 6 October 2014 (UTC)
 * STiki uses the standardized templates for vandalism warnings, and will continue to use these verbatim due to the fact much software depends on these formats for their "auto-escalation" logic through the warning hierarchy. There are no explicit welcome templates among the AGF messages, although I think the majority have a friendly tone. You could, of course, use the custom AGF message templates in order to author your own welcome message (in addition to the revert notification). If you want to become a "power welcome-r", I encourage you to check out WP:Snuggle, which actually builds atop the vandalism probabilities that STiki computes. Thanks, West.andrew.g (talk) 14:25, 6 October 2014 (UTC)