Wikia's stuff is closed source and Wikia has never shown off any of their features with code, except web search, they opened up web search but not MediaWiki improvements, how illogical is that? Sorry if that was rude or something.
When will the new skin be available to non-gaming-related wikis? Now for Wikia praise. I see that they are using the new skin discussed as the replacement for Quartz (hope it is, if not you know where to pull some design from), the new skin has both a MonoBook feel and an advanced feel, love it and I cannot wait for the skin to be rolled out to more wikis! -Timothy On Feb 19, 2008 10:33 AM, Jack Phoenix <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (cross-posted to wikia-l and wikia-tech-l, sorry for the spam bit ;-) > > The subject summarizes my question quite nicely... > > As some of you might know already, Halopedia, Wikia's Halo-themed wiki > (http://halo.wikia.com) was upgraded today - they got a cool new skin and > lots of fancy new features. The profile feature > (http://halo.wikia.com/wiki/Special:UpdateProfile) is very nice, and it > basically allows one user to have two userpages: normal at User:Your > username and the social one at User profile:Your username. Mine's at > http://halo.wikia.com/wiki/User_profile:Jack_Phoenix - I really like this > feature. :-) > > Needless to say, as a former active user on several discussion forum > (Invision Power Board/phpBB-based, mostly), I really liked the avatar > functionality, so it'd be cool to have UploadAvatar/RemoveAvatar extensions > released. Why? Well, firstly they are fun - something aimed for the > communities and not just admins. Sure, CheckUser > (http://mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CheckUser) is one of the most useful > MediaWiki extensions, but you quite can't let every single user of your wiki > access it...well, you can, but that'd lead to a chaos. ;-) > > The official MediaWiki SVN > (http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/extensions/) is full of all > kinds of MediaWiki extensions - from simple parser hooks to complicated > special pages. But it totally lacks social tools, like the ones that Wikia > has created. The closest thing on MediaWiki's SVN repository is the Gadgets > extension (which, by the way, is enabled on Wikimedia wikis) - and that > requires admin privileges to add / create these gadgets, too. > > That being said, if Wikia would release the source code of these extensions, > it might not only profit wiki administrators and the MediaWiki > community/developers, but perhaps Wikia itself too. Who knows, perhaps some > developer with SVN commit access could optimize the code further and make it > faster, stabler...and of course, the internationalization (i18n) updates > happen at least once or twice a day - you'll get i18n support for all kinds > of fancy languages you never have even heard of, such as Amharic, Gujarati > and Pashto. Yes, those all are real language - just check > http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/extensions/Gadgets/Gadgets.i18n.php?revision=31077&view=markup > for yourself. <g> > > Wikia has really outdone theirselves with these tools - thanks to the New > York Team and the Poland Tech Team. You guys do amazing job! > > -- > Jack Phoenix > http://www.wikia.com/wiki/User:Jack_Phoenix > _______________________________________________ > Wikia-l mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.wikia.com/mailman/listinfo/wikia-l > > _______________________________________________ Wikia-l mailing list [email protected] http://lists.wikia.com/mailman/listinfo/wikia-l
