I am...
Since jami_hari doesn't appear around much at all anymore, I'm perfectly
willing to become sysadmin for the Volunteer Server and help with
configuration, setting things up, and even setting up an maintaining a
setup of Subversion for the community to help out.
I've always been open for cleaning up any of Wikia's extensions and
turning them into something suitable for Wikimedia SVN, or even direct
for use from the Volunteer Wikia SVN.
I remember an E-Mail from John Q. where we discussed a few ideas for the
Volunteer Server, but it looks like those ones disappeared. ^_^ Though
John Q. still wants to hire me every time he sees something like the
hooks I had commited to core to help with Wikia's Listuser's change in
updates.
I pop in with a lot of suggestions, feedback, and comments, largely
un-noticed... Dunno if I rub people the wrong way, am as invisible on
the net as I am in real life, or if it's just the insanely long e-mails
I write >.< rofl...
BTW, if you're wondering about my latest exploits... I'm heading the
title rewrite for core (To allow extensibility of title normalization,
and also allow pages to be properly saved with tittles like _main_Page
instead of using the DISPLAYTTILE hack), and MixesDB contracted me to
create a PM system, inline mp3 player extension, and wants me to create
an extension to put a titleicon in the upper right for jumping to a
google search of the article title (Probably going to hook into the
TitleIcon extension I wanted to create), plus I'm probably going to be
doing some stuff in core for better integration of external libraries,
and native support for js/css concatenation (ie: Combining multiple
js/css files like Wikia's allinone.js does) and minification.
Oh ya... And hopefully once I'm able to get a credit card I can bring
Wiki-Tools back to life.
~Daniel Friesen(Dantman) of:
-The Gaiapedia (http://gaia.wikia.com)
-Wikia ACG on Wikia.com (http://wikia.com/wiki/Wikia_ACG)
-and Wiki-Tools.com (http://wiki-tools.com)
gil penchina wrote:
Jack,
Glad to hear the community is excited about the tools.
Our policy is to focus most of our resources on supporting wikia user
requests and then to submit code to the mediawiki SVN as time permits.
I'll talk to the engineers about scheduling another push later in the year.
Are you interested in helping set up and support a SVN as part of the
volunteer development wiki? I can check and see whether it's something
we can help with.
Thanks,
Gil
Jack Phoenix wrote:
It's been a while since Wikia released their social tools
<http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SocialProfile> and they became
a hit among the MediaWiki community, with many people praising the
tools...not to mention the i18n updates. UserProfile is currently
translated to 21 languages
<http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/extensions/SocialProfile/UserProfile/UserProfile.i18n.php?revision=32132&view=markup
<http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/extensions/SocialProfile/UserProfile/UserProfile.i18n.php?revision=32132&view=markup>>
- wow! Some of these languages are so obscure that I haven't ever heard
of them before MediaWiki...<g>
UserProfilePage.php file refers to a couple of special pages that aren't
currently included with SocialProfile:
$give_gift = Title::makeTitle(NS_SPECIAL, "GiveGift");
$friends_activity = Title::makeTitle(NS_SPECIAL, "UserActivity");
$similar_fans = Title::makeTitle(NS_SPECIAL, "SimilarFans");
For the less PHP-savvy of us, the code above refers to the special pages
Special:GiveGift, Special:UserActivity and Special:SimiliarFans. It
would be really cool to have the UserGift stuff added into
SocialProfile...and why not the points system that Halopedia, for
example is using.
Another issue I'd like to point out is avatars. Assuming a user uploads
an inappropriate avatar, the only way to remove that currently is to
delete the file - server-side. The web-based interface for avatar
deletions, Special:AvatarRemove would be an appropriate addition to
SocialProfile package - it just seems so logical.
And now, while we're at it...Wikia has some cool Ajax-based extensions,
namely AjaxLogin and the Poll extension - I'd like to suggest releasing
them to the official MediaWiki SVN. MediaWiki, while it's a great wiki
software (and the only one I'll use), is a bit behind the times when it
comes to Ajax features...MW has an Ajax-based search suggest (disabled
by default) and some Ajaxy features in Special:Upload by default - and
that's pretty much it. There aren't that many MediaWiki extensions that
make use of Ajax features, as far as I know. CategoryTree is one of the
most notable Ajax extensions.
I've also noticed that Wikia makes quite a heavy use of custom MediaWiki
hooks - that is, ones that Wikia's techs have added into Wikia's copy of
MediaWiki and that are not in the core software. I bet it'd make things
a lot easier for everyone if Wikia's techs would just go ahead and add
these hooks into the core software - I'd say that it's almost impossible
that such a change would be reverted. This would make upgrading Wikia's
copy of MediaWiki a bit smoother, wouldn't it? :-)
And yet another question related to extensions, Wikia and
MediaWiki...well, kinda. Whatever happened to the idea of having a
public SVN for volunteer developers? The development wiki is still up
and running, but there's no public SVN anywhere...it'd be something a
lot of "code junkies" would appreciate, I'd say.
P.S. UserProfile/UserProfilePage.js refers to Special:MiniAjaxUpload -
an extension that's not included with SocialProfile - and also hotlinks
http://images.wikia.com/common/wikiany/images/ajax-loader-white.gif -
nasty! You might want to change that to a local URL and add the image to
the SocialProfile package. And I'd like to *thank* Wikia's hard-working
techs for bringing us these fancy social tools - they really are great!
If you don't believe me...check MediaWiki.org and #mediawiki IRC
channel. ;-)
Regards,
--
Jack Phoenix
http://www.wikia.com/wiki/User:Jack_Phoenix
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