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 > > _______________________________________________ > Wikia-l mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.wikia.com/mailman/listinfo/wikia-l > > -- Leia Yeung Glacier Wolf @ en.wikipedia, wikia
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