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Known Bugs and Feature Requests

STiki Outstanding Bugs and Feature Requests

ID	Contact	Type	Description	Status	Urgency
T#059	Adotchar	Feature Request	Identify a mechanism to notify users when they have a message within STiki, possibly with options regarding how prominent this notification should be.	Pending	Medium
T#060	Materialscientist	Bug Fix	After the STiki window has been left inactive for a period (hours), if the first edit classified is "vandalism" the "beaten to revert" message will be erroneously displayed. Interestingly, there is no issue if an AGF classification is applied. This is presumably due to a failed check/renewal of the expiration on the rollback token.	Pending	Medium
T#039	Ugog Nizdast	Feature Request	The user should have the capability to display some form of article history, primarily/all in the form of metadata, for the edit under inspection.	Pending	Medium
T#062	Benzband	Feature Request	Display the edit count of the user under inspection, perhaps with some notion of "recency", to help users determine if it is worthwhile to scrutinize the user's edit history.	Pending	Medium
T#061	Redhat101	Feature Request	For those who use STiki at night or simply prefer a darker interface, that option should be available alongside the other color-change options. Hopefully we can rely on a Java "look and feel" configuration to do this quickly and globally without having to modify individual components.	Pending	Medium-Low
T#045	Chess	Feature Request	Current custom AGF messages hide behind opaque names and are fixed in number. There should be a more dynamic CRUD + naming scheme for AGF messages, which if not an in-STiki interface, could depend on user editing of the configuration files.	Pending	Medium-Low
T#040	Yaris678	Feature Request	Rather than the current "last revert" message having a very "error" tone, shift that to something more positively reflecting the classification was still useful. Better yet, detect when conflicting edits are by STiki user to change message tone accordingly.	Pending	Medium-Low
T#010	Allens	Feature Request	There is a desire to somehow represent (possibly with underlining or a color) whether a wikilink has an existing article destination or is a "red-link". Some investigation is needed to determine how to best do this with the Mediawiki API, and the performance penalty it causes. Could also be a STiki option whether or not this should be done.	On Hold	Medium-Low
T#028	John of Reading	Feature Request	Expand processing to include some alternative namespaces, namely "portal" and "help". Existing classification models would be re-used and there would be an explicit new queue for these edits.	Pending	Medium-Low
T#027	Arc de ciel	Feature Request	More careful recording of "pass" actions. This would also permit a feature allowing a user to view, ex post facto, how the edits they passed on were eventually classified.	On Hold	Medium-Low
T#056	Materialscientist	Bug Fix	If the article currently being displayed in the STiki browser is deleted (i.e., by the STiki user in a traditional browser), it will cause the STiki browser to stall when the article is subsequently classified.	Pending	Medium-Low
T#004	West.andrew.g	Feature Request	The STiki client currently talks to the backend using only MySQL. MySQL communication could be firewalled by some organizations, making the move to HTTP/PHP communications a good idea. However, this remains low priority given that such little mention has been made of this shortcoming.	Pending	Low
T#003	Chicocvenancio and Meiskam	Feature Request	STiki exists only in English, and should perhaps put structure in place for localization. Meiskam wrote some initial structure for this, but I am holding on trunk integration. To move forward, we need someone who has the time, expertise, resources (a server), and willingness to run a STiki backend and do all text translation.	On Hold	Very Low
T#999	-	Feature Request	Note that all requests pertaining to the inclusion of back-end classifier features should be lodged and discussed in the sandbox at Wikipedia talk:STiki/Feature development	-	-

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)

Using STiki

Am I allowed to use this if I just have the rollback right, or do I need to also wait till I get 1000 edits and ask on the talk? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Berrely (talk • contribs) 09:35, 1 March 2020 (UTC)

No. If you meet any one of the three you can use it. ~~ Alex Noble - talk 13:05, 1 March 2020 (UTC)

Alex Noble, how come it says I have insufficient permissions when I log in with my bot password? I have rollback. Bᴇʀʀᴇʟʏ • ^Talk∕_Contribs 16:34, 23 March 2020 (UTC)

Nevermind, I have to use my own account. Bᴇʀʀᴇʟʏ • ^Talk∕_Contribs 16:35, 23 March 2020 (UTC)

Milestones and Leaderboard pages

These seem to have stopped updating as of 3rd March? Orphan Wiki 21:06, 9 March 2020 (UTC)

I don't know if this is related as well, but STiki has only been giving me very old edits to look over. Is something wrong? ◢   Ganbaruby!   (remember to ping!) 06:58, 13 March 2020 (UTC)

@Ganbaruby: Same here, I'm getting old edits ranging from 19 days ago to even 252 days ago. If something is wrong hopefully it gets fixed soon. Edi7* ^{(Message Me! • 📜)} 10:46, 14 March 2020 (UTC)

• +1 True, very old edits. --Titodutta (talk) 23:23, 14 March 2020 (UTC)

Same here, getting 500+ day old edits on both queues. lavender|^{(formerly HMSSolent)}|lambast 04:14, 16 March 2020 (UTC)

• After finally cleaning up my act and cleaning up my Linux Mint VM to run STiki on it, I can indeed confirm that, yes, I'm only getting really old edits on STiki using either queue. Ping West.andrew.g. —k6ka 🍁 (Talk · Contributions) 22:00, 22 March 2020 (UTC)
  • I just noticed that Andrew has marked Stiki as inactive on his userpage. --Rsrikanth05 (talk) 10:11, 20 April 2020 (UTC)

Might that have something to do with this? lavender|^{(formerly HMSSolent)}|lambast 08:32, 21 April 2020 (UTC)

Could be the reason. I'm hoping there is someone in the community who can take over STiki. --Rsrikanth05 (talk) 08:47, 21 April 2020 (UTC)

'Your login session has been unexpectedly terminated'

The error message.

Hello there. When I try to make a revert, it comes up with this message. Is there a way for me to fix this? Thanks, Thatoneweirdwikier Say hi 13:34, 3 April 2020 (UTC)

Do you have "verify session at login" checked on the options menu? lavender|^{(formerly HMSSolent)}|lambast 04:36, 6 April 2020 (UTC)

That's done the trick! Thanks very much! Thanks, Thatoneweirdwikier Say hi 08:57, 7 April 2020 (UTC)

Use in another language

Can I use this tool in another wikipedia language? Nokōri^サクタ「令和2年4月8日11時55分24秒」 — Preceding unsigned comment added by N219 (talk • contribs) 02:55, 8 April 2020 (UTC)

At the moment, this tool is only for the English Wikipedia. lavender|^{(formerly HMSSolent)}|lambast 01:08, 14 April 2020 (UTC)

Thankyou for your answer. Nokōri^サクタ「令和2年4月15日08時37分34秒」 23:37, 14 April 2020 (UTC)

Leaderboard no longer being updated?

Hi Andrew, how come the leaderboard hasn't been updated in over a month? --Rsrikanth05 (talk) 19:09, 18 April 2020 (UTC)

Refer to discussion on this further up this page. West.andrew.g hasn't been active for about a month and half. I believe it has something to do with that. Orphan Wiki 13:51, 19 April 2020 (UTC)

Aaah, okay. I did not see that discussion. Apologies. --Rsrikanth05 (talk) 10:09, 20 April 2020 (UTC)

Requesting special perm for use

Hi, I am requesting special perm to use STiki as I don't have rollback perm or 1k mainspace edits. I am enrolled in the WP CVUA program which my trainer Cassiopeia (talk · contribs) can verify. I understand STiki is a prividledge and I'm responsible for how I use it. I've been working to improve WP against vandalism using recent changes, but I know STiki will help that greatly. Thank you for your consideration. ToeFungii (talk) 22:48, 5 May 2020 (UTC)

Hi, the tool is no longer being updated, and as such remains largely unusable until further notice, really. Not sure if there will be a resolution for now, unfortunately. Orphan Wiki 22:55, 5 May 2020 (UTC)

Wow. Thanks for quick reply although sad news. TY ToeFungii (talk) 23:02, 5 May 2020 (UTC)

No worries. Keep checking in, you never know. And well done on your anti-vandalism efforts so far :) Orphan Wiki 23:26, 5 May 2020 (UTC)