Daniel and Jack, Thanks for the kind words. I will talk with our folks internally and see how much we're able to support your generous offers. Please be patient with us, as there's a ton of customer requests in our queues already and we need to figure out where this fits in!
gil DanTMan 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
