I'm just curious. How can wikis get the Profile feature and Avatar features
that are used at halo.wikia?

2008/2/19 Jack Phoenix <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> (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
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