User:Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason

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My Userboxes This user has a number of bugs and votes reported at Bugzilla.

I used to contribute a lot to MediaWiki and have some code in it still, see below for a list of stuff I've poked in it.

Now I'm mostly doing dayjob programming stuff or working on my own projects, such as toying with my cpan stuff.

Contents 1 Work on MediaWiki 1.1 Main code 1.1.1 Special pages 1.2 Extensions 1.2.1 Installed on Wikimedia 1.2.2 Not installed on Wikimedia 1.3 Bad stuff 2 Licensing 3 Links

[edit] Work on MediaWiki

I began contributing to MediaWiki in early 2005 and got CVS access in March 2005, my first commit was on March 24, 2005.

I started contributing after came out and most of my work was in the REL1_5 and HEAD which then became 1.6, although I backported a lot of stuff into REL1_4 while we still ran the Wikimedia sites on it. I mostly did maintenance and plugin things not very deep in the core.

[edit] Main code

• {{CURRENTMONTHABBREV}}, {{FULLPAGENAME}}, {{FULLPAGENAMEE}} and {{NAMESPACEE}}
• Various fixes to make MediaWiki XHTML 1.1 compliant, I make my wiki send pages with the application/xhtml+xml header and used to get fatal XML parsing errors on every other page.
• Removed confirmation checkboxes from action=delete, action=move and Special:Upload.
• The Exif metadata feature.
• TOC on Image: pages.
• The license selector on Special:Upload.
• Date format in the UI for non-English languages.
• ISO 8601 date format in history pages, recentchanges etc.
• Enabled full wikisyntax in <gallery> (used to use the limited parser used for revision comments)
• invert in Special:Allmessages, Special:Recentchanges, Special:Prefixindex and Special:Contributions (although I think Kate rewrote the one in Special:Contributions).
• Customizable sidebar at MediaWiki:Sidebar
• Thousand seperators for numbers (e.g. for {{NUMBEROFARTICLES}})
• Use the content language date format for signitures.
• There used to be a great deal of whitespace above categories and interwiki links on pages with a lot of them, changed the parser to strip it out.
• Special:Random/Namespace
• Configurable thumbnail size in Special:Preferences
• Removed a political statement against amazon.com from the Afrikaans language file. I did find it funny though;)
• Count of the percentage of administrators of all users on Special:Statistics

[edit] Special pages

• Special:Wantedcategories
• Special:Mostrevision
• Special:Mostlinkedcategories
• Special:Mostlinked
• Special:Mostimages
• Special:Version - already existed, rewrote it from scratch to display information on extensions and hooks.
• Special:Unwatchedpages - now activated on Wikimedia sites.

[edit] Extensions

[edit] Installed on Wikimedia

• Special:Renameuser - Rename a user
• Special:Cite - Provide citation information for a page
• Special:CrossNamespaceLinks - List links from the main namespace to other namespaces that it shouldn't link to.
• Newuserlog - A log of new users
• Special:Filepath
• Cite - inline citations with <ref> and <references>

[edit] Not installed on Wikimedia

• Special:AdvancedRandom - Get a random page from the set of pages whos talk or subjectpage links to a given page, can be used to get a random featured article for example.
• Contributionseditcount - Display an edit count on Special:Contributions
• HTTPRedirect - Replace the normal wiki redirects with HTTP 302 redirects.
• nopurgeRC - skips the purging of the recentchanges table every ≈1000 edits (for development).
• Special:Editcount (not Kate's edit counter but a cheap, ripped of version that's only avalible in selected theaters)
• Special talk, adds a talk tab to Special pages (i.e. a talk link to Wikipedia talk:Cite from Special:Cite)

[edit] Bad stuff

Stuff I'm responsible for that I'm not too proud of (in order of badness, feel free to add to the list):

1. MediaWiki Code Execution Vulnerability - That input checking code made sense at the time >:(
2. Crashed the site a few times, but evidently it came back up:)

[edit] Licensing

Licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License, and nothing else
I license my text contributions only under the GFDL.

[edit] Links