User talk:NottNott/Archives/2016/January

Twinkle, Huggle, Stiki

Hi NnottNott, I noticed from your user page you use both Huggle and Stiki. As I am (still) using Twinkle, I was wondering if there is any major difference between the three antivandal tools as to, say efficiency or user interface? Cheers, Poepkop (talk) 17:22, 4 January 2016 (UTC).

@Poepkop: Hey there! Thanks for your question. I can relate to trying to choose the right tool, and in my case it was tricky to just give up STiki altogether and remove the userbox from my page as I've used it for a very long time. If you want to be efficient, unfortunately Twinkle falls behind as going through recent changes to find vandalism is slow when having to request a diff each time. Both STiki and Huggle preload recent changes allowing you to sieve through diffs much faster which is a huge advantage. With both of these tools you can also revert and warn in a single click all under three seconds if it's obvious vandalism, whereas with Twinkle you'd have to load the page, revert and warn separately. Twinkle is still well worth using when not hooked up to an anti-vandal tool in the moment however - it can make locating various templates and user messages a breeze all through the web interface.

You're left with two options, with advantages and drawbacks to each. STiki is more simplistic and purely for vandalism removal while Huggle is more of a swiss-army knife for anything - talk page stalking, vandalism, perhaps monitoring a recent changes to a high-traffic article you're interested in and so on. Try both and see which one you prefer - I prefer Huggle for its flexibility and perhaps more complex and useful interface. Bear in mind you'll have open pages externally through these tools and use Twinkle a lot anyway. Hope this helps NottNott talk|contrib 19:20, 4 January 2016 (UTC)

Hello NottNott, thanks for answering, yes I will give them a try. So far I used TW with an additional script for faster warning messages, and yes I guess recent changes is probably slower. I have to manually reload the recent changes page each time, not such a biggie, but if it can be done a bit faster, why not try. I'll come back later to report what I like best (this may take a while though :-). Cheers, Poepkop (talk) 13:26, 6 January 2016 (UTC).