I was just about to suggest a team of volunteer Wikia insiders to clean up code for the public, I would love to volunteer (I have intermediate PHP experience, and still learning).
-Timothy On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 1:33 AM, DanTMan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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 > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Wikia-tech-l mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.wikia.com/mailman/listinfo/wikia-tech-l > > _______________________________________________ > Wikia-tech-l mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.wikia.com/mailman/listinfo/wikia-tech-l > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
