Wikipedia talk:Third opinion/Service award log

Initial comments

There are a number of early volunteers — specifically, Fagstein, Adrian M. H., Hetar, Krator, and NJGW — who have had more than 50 edits at 30 but who did not have, and have not since had, an edit at 3O within the last six months at the time I created this award and began using it for service awards. None of them have been, moreover, regularly active at Wikipedia for a considerable period of time. If any of them returns and edits at 3O they should be given a service award, of course. — TransporterMan (TALK) 14:12, 8 July 2014 (UTC)

Oh, one more: There is one editor, SergeWoodzing, who might appear to deserve an award having 62 edits. However, all or substantially all of those edits were requests for 3O's, or modifications of his requests, not edits as a volunteer. When counting 50 edits, I have not generally made a close examination to see if all 50 were as a volunteer and have overlooked the situation where a couple might have been as a consumer of 3O's rather than as a volunteer, but this is a different case altogether. — TransporterMan (TALK) 21:37, 8 July 2014 (UTC)

I assuming X's page history generator which is linked in the view history option is the best way to monitor this, it even has an option to view edits by each user listed. Here is its report of the 3O page. The next one will probably be awarded by me (gee...wonder who could that be), though unfortunately it will take a few more months). -Ugog Nizdast (talk) 16:50, 10 July 2014 (UTC)

Yes, exactly correct about the history generator. It used to be the "Contributors" tool on that page, but that has taken its place and serves the same information, plus some. Best regards, TransporterMan (TALK) 16:59, 10 July 2014 (UTC)

Xlinktool not working for 3O Service log

(moved from User talk:TransporterMan 09:30, 17 August 2015 (UTC))

Looks like 3O Xlinktool page has not been working for quite some time. Any ideas on how we manage Wikipedia:Third opinion/Service award log? If I'm not mistaken, at least two more editors should be eligible by now. -Ugog Nizdast (talk) 12:43, 21 July 2015 (UTC)

The tool seems to come and go. (Aside: Ever since those tools were moved, edit count, page stats, and other tools have been a royal PITA. I'm not a coder so I have zero insight as to why that is, but I've seen scads of people griping about it and nothing seems to be done to fix it on a long term basis. Most recently I saw — I don't remember where, but it's been in the last few days — an appeal for additional maintainers for those tools, which I presume is because they keep breaking down and sit there with no one to fix them.) Until it starts working again we may have to just put the awards on hold or do it the hard way using the edits by user tool, which is also linked on the 3O history page but which is having its own set of fits and starts currently; if you use it, it will redirect from an old tool to a new tool, but drop the username and pagename in the process; be sure to insert the page name as "Wikipedia:Third opinion" exactly as to spacing, punctuation, and capitalization or you'll get a false negative. Best regards, TransporterMan (TALK) 13:46, 21 July 2015 (UTC)

I'm on a partial Wikibreak hence the delay. Okay, this works out too, I've found one eligible editor and another one nearing. I'll post on the log.

@Erpert: would you be interested in maintaining this with us? There's one 3O Service award to be given out, would you do the honours? Just take a look at the log. ‑Ugog Nizdast (talk) 10:52, 3 August 2015 (UTC)

Unfortunately, I don't really have the time right now. :/ Erpert ^{blah, blah, blah...} 07:11, 4 August 2015 (UTC)

I've moved this to the project talk page for future ref. ‑Ugog Nizdast (talk) 09:30, 17 August 2015 (UTC)

(moved from User talk:TransporterMan 09:30, 17 August 2015 (UTC))