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edward

2 Feb 2006 2 Feb '06

9:15 p.m.

Hello, I have developed a couple of MediaWiki extensions and I was wondering how I would go about finding out if they would be useful to the MediaWiki community, and if they are, how I might go about contributing them to the MediaWiki project? thanks, Andrew.

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Rob Church

3 Feb 3 Feb

1:34 a.m.

Might I recommend posting on the mediawiki-l mailing list? Also put things like this on Meta, and announce it here if it might be useful to Wikimedia. :) Rob Church On 02/02/06, edward <molasses-one(a)shaw.ca> wrote:

Hello, I have developed a couple of MediaWiki extensions and I was wondering how I would go about finding out if they would be useful to the MediaWiki community, and if they are, how I might go about contributing them to the MediaWiki project? thanks, Andrew. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

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edward

2 Feb 2 Feb

10:56 p.m.

Thank you Rob. I suppose i'm not so sure what you meant by putting it on Meta. Do you mean to post a link to my extensions on a Meta page that describes extensions? But in any case, yup, i will post my question to mediawiki-l. thanks, Andrew. On February 2, 2006 08:34 pm, Rob Church wrote:

Might I recommend posting on the mediawiki-l mailing list? Also put things like this on Meta, and announce it here if it might be useful to Wikimedia. :) Rob Church On 02/02/06, edward <molasses-one(a)shaw.ca> wrote:

Hello, I have developed a couple of MediaWiki extensions and I was wondering how I would go about finding out if they would be useful to the MediaWiki community, and if they are, how I might go about contributing them to the MediaWiki project? thanks, Andrew. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

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Rob Church

3 Feb 3 Feb

7:47 a.m.

Link to it, write about it, post the code...whatever. Adding a page about it, categorising it, and perhaps using it as a springboard to link to further discussions sounds good to me. Re mediawiki-l; I meant you ought to "announce" it and see what sort of emails come back. ;-) Rob Church On 02/02/06, edward <molasses-one(a)shaw.ca> wrote:

Thank you Rob. I suppose i'm not so sure what you meant by putting it on Meta. Do you mean to post a link to my extensions on a Meta page that describes extensions? But in any case, yup, i will post my question to mediawiki-l. thanks, Andrew. On February 2, 2006 08:34 pm, Rob Church wrote:

Might I recommend posting on the mediawiki-l mailing list? Also put things like this on Meta, and announce it here if it might be useful to Wikimedia. :) Rob Church On 02/02/06, edward <molasses-one(a)shaw.ca> wrote:

Hello, I have developed a couple of MediaWiki extensions and I was wondering how I would go about finding out if they would be useful to the MediaWiki community, and if they are, how I might go about contributing them to the MediaWiki project? thanks, Andrew. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

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edward

3:47 p.m.

Thanks very much for the help Rob, Tels and Steven. Ack, but yes of course, i see i should have announced what the extensions are on mediawiki-l! Silly me. I will do that. thanks again, Andrew. On February 3, 2006 02:47 am, Rob Church wrote:

Link to it, write about it, post the code...whatever. Adding a page about it, categorising it, and perhaps using it as a springboard to link to further discussions sounds good to me. Re mediawiki-l; I meant you ought to "announce" it and see what sort of emails come back. ;-) Rob Church On 02/02/06, edward <molasses-one(a)shaw.ca> wrote:

Thank you Rob. I suppose i'm not so sure what you meant by putting it on Meta. Do you mean to post a link to my extensions on a Meta page that describes extensions? But in any case, yup, i will post my question to mediawiki-l. thanks, Andrew. On February 2, 2006 08:34 pm, Rob Church wrote:

Might I recommend posting on the mediawiki-l mailing list? Also put things like this on Meta, and announce it here if it might be useful to Wikimedia. :) Rob Church On 02/02/06, edward <molasses-one(a)shaw.ca> wrote:

Hello, I have developed a couple of MediaWiki extensions and I was wondering how I would go about finding out if they would be useful to the MediaWiki community, and if they are, how I might go about contributing them to the MediaWiki project? thanks, Andrew. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

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Tels

10:22 a.m.

Moin, On Thursday 02 February 2006 23:56, edward wrote:

Thank you Rob. I suppose i'm not so sure what you meant by putting it on Meta. Do you mean to post a link to my extensions on a Meta page that describes extensions? But in any case, yup, i will post my question to mediawiki-l.

Rob: I always posted announcements for my graph extension (low-frequency) to wikitech-l, is mediawiki-l better for that? Or is there an announcement list? Andrew: Look here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Mediawiki_Extensions Best wishes, tels -- Signed on Fri Feb 3 11:18:39 2006 with key 0x93B84C15. Visit my photo gallery at http://bloodgate.com/photos/ PGP key on http://bloodgate.com/tels.asc or per email. "Let's say there are a thousand. But there are 284 million people in this country. You can't have public policy that is aimed at 100,000 people when the other multi-multi-millions are also involved. You can't do it that way." - Jack Valenty in http://tinyurl.com/2y65n

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Rob Church

11:22 a.m.

No one list is necessarily better than the other, but I'd be inclined to recommend announcing on mediawiki-l regardless, since a MediaWiki extension might be of use to several others using the software. If you consider the extension is potentially useful to Wikimedia, or you're announcing the update of one we already use, I'd be inclined to advocate mentioning it here (wikitech-l) too. The possibilities are endless when it comes to getting the message across. Rob Church On 03/02/06, Tels <nospam-abuse(a)bloodgate.com> wrote:

Moin, On Thursday 02 February 2006 23:56, edward wrote:

Thank you Rob. I suppose i'm not so sure what you meant by putting it on Meta. Do you mean to post a link to my extensions on a Meta page that describes extensions? But in any case, yup, i will post my question to mediawiki-l.

Rob: I always posted announcements for my graph extension (low-frequency) to wikitech-l, is mediawiki-l better for that? Or is there an announcement list? Andrew: Look here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Mediawiki_Extensions Best wishes, tels -- Signed on Fri Feb 3 11:18:39 2006 with key 0x93B84C15. Visit my photo gallery at http://bloodgate.com/photos/ PGP key on http://bloodgate.com/tels.asc or per email. "Let's say there are a thousand. But there are 284 million people in this country. You can't have public policy that is aimed at 100,000 people when the other multi-multi-millions are also involved. You can't do it that way." - Jack Valenty in http://tinyurl.com/2y65n _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

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Tels

12:04 p.m.

Moin, On Friday 03 February 2006 12:22, Rob Church wrote:

No one list is necessarily better than the other, but I'd be inclined to recommend announcing on mediawiki-l regardless, since a MediaWiki extension might be of use to several others using the software.

I think I'll do that.

If you consider the extension is potentially useful to Wikimedia, or you're announcing the update of one we already use, I'd be inclined to advocate mentioning it here (wikitech-l) too.

I think (of course! Thats why I created it :-) it is usefull for the wikipedia/wikimedia, but since it is currently not in use I always found it a bit odd to announce it here.

The possibilities are endless when it comes to getting the message across.

Yes, but of course I'd not want to annoy people or "spam" the list with announcements: While there were about 40 releases in the last year, but I did sent only about 4 or 5 anouncements. But getting it to more "ordinary" users of mediawiki might be a good idea. Best wishes, Tels -- Signed on Fri Feb 3 13:01:45 2006 with key 0x93B84C15. Visit my photo gallery at http://bloodgate.com/photos/ PGP key on http://bloodgate.com/tels.asc or per email. "My other computer is your Windows box." -- Dr. Brad (19034) on 2004-08-13 at /.

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Tels

5 Feb 5 Feb

6:31 p.m.

Moin, On Friday 03 February 2006 13:04, Tels wrote:

Moin, On Friday 03 February 2006 12:22, Rob Church wrote:

No one list is necessarily better than the other, but I'd be inclined to recommend announcing on mediawiki-l regardless, since a MediaWiki extension might be of use to several others using the software.

I think I'll do that.

I send over two days ago an email: Announce: Graph extension updated From: Tels <nospam-abuse(a)bloodgate.com> To: mediawiki-l(a)wikimedia.org Date: 03.02.2006 13:41 So far it hasn't made it to http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/2006-February/thread.html , nor did I get a bounce. Are these delays normal? Or do I need to be subscribed to post there? Best wishes, Tels -- Signed on Sun Feb 5 19:26:20 2006 with key 0x93B84C15. Visit my photo gallery at http://bloodgate.com/photos/ PGP key on http://bloodgate.com/tels.asc or per email. "What you have to have faith in is human beings being able to work together." -- Larry Sanger

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Rob Church

6:49 p.m.

You need to be subscribed. Rob Church On 05/02/06, Tels <nospam-abuse(a)bloodgate.com> wrote:

Moin, On Friday 03 February 2006 13:04, Tels wrote:

Moin, On Friday 03 February 2006 12:22, Rob Church wrote:

No one list is necessarily better than the other, but I'd be inclined to recommend announcing on mediawiki-l regardless, since a MediaWiki extension might be of use to several others using the software.

I think I'll do that.

I send over two days ago an email: Announce: Graph extension updated From: Tels <nospam-abuse(a)bloodgate.com> To: mediawiki-l(a)wikimedia.org Date: 03.02.2006 13:41 So far it hasn't made it to http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/2006-February/thread.html , nor did I get a bounce. Are these delays normal? Or do I need to be subscribed to post there? Best wishes, Tels -- Signed on Sun Feb 5 19:26:20 2006 with key 0x93B84C15. Visit my photo gallery at http://bloodgate.com/photos/ PGP key on http://bloodgate.com/tels.asc or per email. "What you have to have faith in is human beings being able to work together." -- Larry Sanger _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

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Stephen Bain

3 Feb 3 Feb

9:44 a.m.

On 2/3/06, edward <molasses-one(a)shaw.ca> wrote:

I have developed a couple of MediaWiki extensions and I was wondering how I would go about finding out if they would be useful to the MediaWiki community, and if they are, how I might go about contributing them to the MediaWiki project?

Rob's suggestions are good. You might also consider putting them on MediaZilla: http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/ ..which is mainly for bug reporting but is also useful for tracking enhancements (set "severity" to "enhancement"). This will also automatically notify the relevant mailing lists and people on IRC. -- Stephen Bain stephen.bain(a)gmail.com

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