I was wondering if there was any actual space for programmers who are creating MediaWiki extensions.
I've been working on MediaWiki extensions for awhile. Unfortunately, I don't get to complete many, or show them off at all because I never really have the resources. Basically for a variety of reasons; I have no webspace to show off the working of extensions, I migrate between two family computers, and the local servers there are configured in two different ways, and it's tough to sync a database, so I can't really keep the stuff with me and work on them when I have the time. As a result, between the two computers I have a variety of extensions which are half complete, and are either waiting for me to get back to them, or for someone to get interested enough in them for me to actually continue. ((A short list would be: WikiVid [http://mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:WikiVid] TransWiki [Allows for cross-wiki transclusions on wiki hosted together, better than Scary Transclusions does] (TransArticle got canceled, trying to do it in an article way didn't work out right RemoteMagic [Similar magic words to ones like {{NUMBEROFARTICLES}} which grab data from a remote wiki] AJAXRC [External tool for doing lightweight live RC on multiple wiki, 99.9% client based] SpamDelete [Deletes individual revisions and moves them to a specified "Trash" title to avoid cluttering up the deleted history of an article with revisions which cause issues when a page needs to be partially deleted at a later date.] AggregatedAttributionTransposer [Similar to Extension:ChangeAuthor, except it's meant to use the JobQue to reattribute a large number of edits (ie: Every revision made by a single user), without causing a lot of server load by doing the entire thing at once.]))
^_^ but off my semi-programmed extensions list... I haven't been able to get a good place to work on any of them. Me and JaeSharp used to have a site (Wiki-Tools.com as listed in my sig), which is now unfortunately offline and probably won't come back. Local servers aren't working that well for me, and it's going to be ages before I get a Laptop. I have been doing some Wikia oriented things... Unfortunately, no-one is getting around to making the Wikia Volunteer Development server to work at all.
So, my long e-mail cut short with the short version... Anyone know of a good way for me to find a place to develop MediaWiki extensions, test them, distribute them, and allow users to make use of them. I looked at the Wikimedia toolservers, but it looks like there was some notion of just Tools, not MediaWiki Extensions being done on there.
-- ~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)
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