Ranked #5 on the 2016 Community Wishlist Survey
The XTools suite of tools is currently very unstable and impossible to maintain. They are used upwards of 200,000 times a month in 185 languages. Complaints of instability have been ongoing since the author of the most recent rewrite retired in Augst 2014. On average, the tools go down every few hours or so, and we are currently relying on an automated script to monitor and restart them as needed. A complete rewrite is in order to ensure a reliable and stable service for the moderation community.
From T154551: Investigation: Plan for rewriting XTools:
The current components of xTools are as follows (I've already checked off the ones I've converted the code for):
- Edit Counter
- Article Info ("Page History")
- Pages Created
- Top Edits
- Range Contributions (not doing in favour of T145912)
- Article Blamer (not doing, see T165404)
- Autoblock (not doing in favour of T146414)
- AdminStats
- RfX Analysis
- RfX Vote Counter
- Quick, Dirty, Simple Edit Counter
In additions, there are three tools currently disabled but have the code still in the codebase:
- Automated Edits
- Bash Quotes
- Scottywong's AdminScore