Hi all,
I have written an extension to give sysops the ability to change user passwords as our intranet doesn't allow mails from other applications than Lotus Notes, so password mailing is not possible.
I'd like to know if it is possible to have the source of such a "third party" extension stored in the MediaWiki CVS if it is published under GPL and/or contributed to the MediaWiki project. I could also make that a sourceforge project but I guess that an extension is more easily found and used by others if it is contained in the official CVS. If there are additional conditions (like code reviews, certificate of no criminal record :) I'd be happy to check if I can fulfill them.
Slightly other topic:
I'm also in the process of converting my external "wikifyer" script into an extension. It makes suggestions which words on a page can be wikified (based on which other page titles exist in the wiki) and edits pages based on the users decision which links to add. The current script can already be used from an external page for the German wikipedia. I'd like to contribute that extension to the MediaWiki project too. Anybody interested in such a thing?
Ciao, Michael.
Michael Keppler wrote:
I have written an extension to give sysops the ability to change user passwords as our intranet doesn't allow mails from other applications than Lotus Notes, so password mailing is not possible.
I'd like to know if it is possible to have the source of such a "third party" extension stored in the MediaWiki CVS if it is published under GPL and/or contributed to the MediaWiki project. I could also make that a sourceforge project but I guess that an extension is more easily found and used by others if it is contained in the official CVS. If there are additional conditions (like code reviews, certificate of no criminal record :) I'd be happy to check if I can fulfill them.
Sure, a GPL-family or BSD/MIT-family license would be fine. We've got a number of extensions in the extensions module in our CVS, some written by the main MW devs and some not.
I do like to make sure that anything in our extensions module is safe to have sitting around when not in use (eg if the whole module is checked out and sitting in the web root, even if none of them are enabled in the wiki's configuration) so expect at least a light code review for basic security.
I'm also in the process of converting my external "wikifyer" script into an extension. It makes suggestions which words on a page can be wikified (based on which other page titles exist in the wiki) and edits pages based on the users decision which links to add. The current script can already be used from an external page for the German wikipedia. I'd like to contribute that extension to the MediaWiki project too. Anybody interested in such a thing?
[[I]] don't [[know]] [[about]] [[that]]; [[we]] [[have]] [[so]] [[many]] [[pages]] [[in]] [[our]] [[Wikis]]. :)
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
Brion Vibber brion@pobox.com writes:
I'm also in the process of converting my external "wikifyer" script into an extension. It makes suggestions
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[[I]] don't [[know]] [[about]] [[that]]; [[we]] [[have]] [[so]] [[many]] [[pages]] [[in]] [[our]] [[Wikis]]. :)
Yes ;) The problem is not to add more [[link]]s (sic!) but to get rid of many a lot of them :-( Thanks to this "nice" edit buttons you can easily add all this markup.
Brion Vibber schrieb:
Sure, a GPL-family or BSD/MIT-family license would be fine. We've got a number of extensions in the extensions module in our CVS, some written by the main MW devs and some not.
Ok, I will visit the IRC channel to clarify this further. Should be easier than mail, I guess.
[[I]] don't [[know]] [[about]] [[that]]; [[we]] [[have]] [[so]] [[many]] [[pages]] [[in]] [[our]] [[Wikis]]. :)
Well, it has options for minimum word length, prefers word groups instead of words, links every occurance only once... and some other options to not make a page look like above. :)
The main use cases are: * support a human expert in fast wikification of dead end pages (which occur often in the new pages). * automatically link words from a glossary category in a wiki used as knowledgebase * avoid the creation of very similar pages or redirects especially for long words (it can tell whether "hypovitaminosises" or "hypovitaminosis" already exists).
I will just show it around, when the transformation to a special page is finished. The targeted audience are mainly users of smaller wikis than the Wikipedia. :)
Ciao, Michael.
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