Developers
- You may want to see System administrators on Meta.
Developers are the people who write the MediaWiki software. They are said to have "commit access" (or to be "committers") if they have access to commit changes to the central Subversion or Git repository where the latest copy of the software is stored. (This is in contrast to having shell or root access to Wikimedia Foundation servers, for instance, which would make them system administrators.) Sumana Harihareswara, as volunteer development coordinator, is usually the one to grant commit access. Information about staff developers can be found at Foundation:Staff.
A list of developers with commit access is reproduced below with some commentary. A full list of people with access to at least one of our Subversion repositories is available at http://svn.wikimedia.org/users.php or http://toolserver.org/~krinkle/wikimedia-svn-users.php.
Those with "root" or "shell" access might not really be developers, but rather system administrators of Wikimedia servers, where the Subversion repository is stored. In many cases they rarely use their commit access, or if they do, only to maintain non-MediaWiki things in the repository. In principle they probably have admin access on Subversion, Bugzilla, and so on if they have some reason to use it, at least in the case of roots.
To see which developers are actually active, try http://www.ohloh.net/p/mediawiki/contributors, which gives nice stalkerish summaries of all sorts of fun statistics.
[edit] Subversion and GIT accounts
This table may be outdated, because newly created accounts in GIT are inserted manually. If you do have access to GIT and you aren't in this table, please insert your name
| Commit name | Real name | IRC nick | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| 80686 | Manuel Schneider | root-80686 | |
| a_engels | Andre Engels | Pywikipediabot developer. | |
| aaron | Aaron Schulz | AaronSchulz | General-purpose developer. Maintains CheckUser, FlaggedRevs, ConfirmAccount, Renameuser and some other extensions. |
| aaronpk | Aaron Parecki | SEO Title Tag extension, Changelog Graphs extension, Glossary extension | |
| abernala | |||
| abigor | Huib Laurens | Abigor | Wikiportrait. Administrates MediaWiki-l and wikitech-l mailing lists. |
| aboostani | Arash Boostani | Former member of Wikimedia Usability Team. | |
| adam | Adam Miller | adam_miller | Usability Initiative developer |
| adammck | |||
| adamw | Adam Wight | Extension:Offline | |
| aigerim | Aigerim Karabekova | aigerim | Release Management (Summer of Code 2011 student) |
| aj | Andreas Jonsson | Yet another parser project | |
| ajvol | Alexander Sigachov | Russian localization updates | |
| akshay | Akshay Agarwal | Summer of Code 2011 student | |
| alexsh | Shih Han Lin | lin4h | Chinese localization updates, Pywikipediabot developer. |
| algorithmix | Gero Scholz | DynamicPageList extension | |
| allyunion | Jason Y. Lee | Pywikipediabot developer. | |
| alnokta | Mohamed Magdy | Arabic Planet Wikimedia | |
| amidaniel | Daniel Cannon | amidaniel | Mostly API stuff. |
| amir | Amir Sarabadani | Amir1 | Pywikipediabot |
| ankitgarg833 | Ankit Garg | Summer of Code 2011 student | |
| aphid | Working on MetaVid | ||
| appy | Apekshit Sharma | Article Highlight extension | |
| ariel | Ariel Glenn | atglenn | Wikimedia staff |
| asher | Asher Feldman | Wikimedia Foundation operations | |
| ashley | Jack Phoenix | ashley | ShoutWiki staff member. Maintains SocialProfile extension, other social tools, WikiForum extension and many other delicious extensions, including some from Wikia. Sometimes Finnish i18n too. |
| aude | Kate | aude-wiki | OpenStreetMap, SlippyMap extension, and other geodata-related goodies. |
| avar | Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason | avar | Shell. Formerly very active general committer, author of Extension:Cite and a fair bit of MediaWiki as we know it. Fourth-highest overall commit count after Brion, Tim, and Rob. Mostly started to work on other projects, hangs around on IRC, commits sporadically planning his triumphant return. |
| awjrichards | Arthur Richards | awjr | Mobile (WMF staff member) |
| bachsau | Sven Heinemann | ConfirmEdit extension | |
| bartek | Bartek Łapiński | Former Wikia technical staff member, author of SpamRegex, RegexBlock, EditSimilar and RefreshSpecial extensions. | |
| bawolff | Brian Wolff | bawolff | Various Wikinews-related extensions, Google Summer of Code 2010 student |
| beckr | Extension:SlippyMap | ||
| ben | Ben Hartshorne | Wikimedia Foundation staffer (operations engineer) | |
| benjamin | Benjamin Peterson | EditCount extension | |
| bhagya | QA engineer for Calcey Technologies, will be committing Selenium tests to /trunk/testing/selenium; account disabled on August 2, 2010 [1] | ||
| bigsmoke | Rowan Rodrik van der Molen | Extension:Semantic Gallery | |
| bkaempgen | Benedikt Kämpgen | Semantic MediaWiki, Selenium, Maps | |
| blobaugh | Ben Lobaugh | blobaugh | FileRepo refactoring, Azure support |
| borgo | Alle Borgo | Pywikipediabot stuff | |
| brezelben | Ben Romberg | Intopedia | |
| brion | Brion Vibber | brion | Former Wikimedia Foundation Chief Technical Officer, lead developer, admin access on Bugzilla etc., final say over everything MediaWiki-related, etc., may he live forever. In the distant past, has committed under the name "vibber". |
| bsitu | Benny Situ | bsitu | Wikimedia Features engineering developer |
| btongminh | Bryan Tong Minh | Bryan | Miscellaneous API and media related stuff. Pywikipediabot developer. |
| catrope | Roan Kattouw | RoanKattouw | API lead developer since September 2007, also working on Usability Initiative stuff |
| cdangerville | Cyril Dangerville | DynamicPageList2 and Intersection extensions | |
| cervidae | Tim Weyer | Tim_Weyer | HelpCommons, ReassignEdits, GlobalUserGroups and some Wikiunity-only extensions |
| charlie | Charlie Melbye | chuck | SharedUserRights extension |
| churchofemacs | Tobias | Church_of_emacs | General bug fixes, Extension:FlagPage |
| ckepper | Christoph Kepper | PediaPress developer, working on Collection | |
| cneubauer | Christian Neubauer | cneubauer | FCKeditor, SpecialUploadLocal |
| cobi | Jacobi Carter | Cobi | ClueBot |
| cogden | Chris Ogden | WikiCitation extension | |
| collinj | Jimmy Collins | collinj | German localization updates & misc patches. |
| conrad | Conrad Irwin | cirwin | Extensions, particularly for Wiktionaries, MetaKeywords extension, Transliterator extension, Extension:CategoryLabel |
| cosoleto | Francesco Cosoleto | ||
| cryptocoryne | Alexander K. | encephallon | AutoProxyBlock extension |
| cydeweys | Cyde Weys | Pywikipediabot developer. | |
| dale | Michael Dale | mdale | MetavidWiki extension |
| daniel | Daniel Kinzler | Duesentrieb, Daniel_WMDE | Extension:CategoryTree, ContactPage, Gadgets and various other extensions; Wikimedia Deutschland staff |
| danny_b | Danny B. | Danny_B | Planet Wikimedia; cs i18n; mostly front-end tweaks; minor patches |
| dantman | Daniel Friesen | Dantman | Title casing alternate branch; author of C Style Wiki Includes, Description2, MessageCommons, Negref, OpenGraphMeta, ReplaceSet, RudeProxyBlock, SidebarDonateBox, Sudo and WikiCategoryTagCloud extensions |
| dasch | Daniel Schuba | dasch88 | Lots of extensions |
| david | David McCabe | davidmccabe | Exclusively working on Extension:LiquidThreads |
| declerambaul | Fabian Kaelin | Editor trends research | |
| demon | Chad Horohoe | ^demon [2] | General-purpose developer; author of a few extensions; wears lots of little hats these days |
| devayon | Devayon Das | Semantic MediaWiki (Summer of Code 2011 student) | |
| devunt | June Hyeon Bae | devunt | LogoFuctions extension; extensions for special wikis |
| dfinzer | Devin Finzer | Wikimedia Foundation intern working on pending changes data analysis | |
| diebuche | Leo Koppelkamm | diebuche | Core JavaScript |
| diederik | Diederik van Liere | Contractor working on data dump analysis | |
| djbauch | DJ Bauch | Microsoft SQL Server support | |
| dom | Dominic Arkwright | Worked as a contractor on multilingual MediaWiki back in 2006. | |
| downchuck | Charles Pritchard | Worked on multilingual MediaWiki branch | |
| drtrigon | DrTrigon | Pywikipediabot developer. | |
| dschwen | Daniel Schwen | WikiMiniAtlas extension | |
| edyskant | Erek Dyskant | WMF contractor working on community analytics | |
| eloy | Krzysztof Krzyżaniak | Wikia technical staff; author of the WikiFactory extension and some other Wikia extensions, such as HAWelcome and TaskManager | |
| emil | Emil Podlaszewski | emil^ | Wikia technical staff |
| emiller | Evan Miller | Google Maps extension | |
| emufarmers | Benjamin Lees | Emufarmers | General/easyish bug fixes, extensions |
| erik | Erik Moeller | Eloquence | Shell. Wikimedia staff member. Former IRC nick Xirzon. |
| erwin85 | |||
| evan | Evan Prodromou | EvanProdromou | Runs Wikitravel. Maintains various bits and pieces, including the OpenID extension. |
| ezachte | Erik Zachte | Working on Wikistats scripts | |
| fabianh | Fabian Howahl | Semantic MediaWiki, Semantic Result Formats | |
| faurethomas | Thomas Fauré | faurethomas | WikiTweet, Categorize, SphinxSearch extensions |
| fde | Frank Dengler | Semantic Result Formats, other SMW extensions | |
| fenzik | Fenzik Joseph | fenzik | Core and integration with jasperforge.org, forge.openbravo.com & monitoringforge.org. |
| filnik | Filnik | Filnik | Pywikipediabot developer and botwiki founder. |
| finlay | Olivier Beaton | finlay | Realnames extension |
| flohack | Florian | CollaborativeWatchlist extension | |
| flominator | WikiBlame, some extensions | ||
| foxtrott | Stephan Gambke | Semantic Forms Inputs extension | |
| fptc | Tobias | FrequentPatternTagCloud extension | |
| freakolowsky | Jure Kajzer | freakolowsky | Oracle support |
| fredck | Frederico Caldeira Knabben | fredck | Project Manager for FCKeditor, one of the authors of FCKeditor extension |
| fvassard | Fred Vassard | aZaFred | Former Wikimedia system administrator. |
| gbruin | Garret Bruin | FBConnect extension | |
| gerardm | Gerard Meijssen | GerardM- | Regression testing software |
| gerrit | Gerrit Holl | ||
| gicode | Rusty Burchfield | gicode | Various extensions (AuthIMAP, AutomaticREMOTE USER) and core functionality as issues come up. Generally bug/security/logging fixes. |
| gigs | Jason Giglio | Working on GoogleNewsSiteMap | |
| giovanni | Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia | Gciampaglia | Editor trends research |
| gmaxwell | Greg Maxwell | Creator of many very delicious tools. | |
| gpaumier | Guillaume Paumier | guillom | Wikimedia Foundation staff, maintaining the blogs' skin |
| grace | Grace Pastorelly Ruiz | Worked as a contractor on multilingual MediaWiki back in 2006. | |
| grafzahl | Alexander | Extension:Score and Extension:JHilbert | |
| greenreaper | Laurence Parry | GreenReaper | Output/page rendering; skins/graphics; extensions (Extension:MediaWikiAuth) |
| greg | Greg Sabino Mullane | G_SabinoMullane | Exclusively providing support for PostgreSQL |
| gregchiasson | Greg Chiasson | Extension:ArticleFeedback | |
| gri6507 | Paul Grinberg | ||
| grondin | Bertrand Grondin | Grondin | Translating MediaWiki. One of the French translation mainteners. Admin on translatewiki.net. |
| gslater | Grant Slater | Extension:SlippyMap | |
| gszorc | Gregory Szorc | Original author of Farmer extension | |
| gurch | Matthew Britton | gurch | API. Author of the Huggle anti-vandalism tool. |
| guyvdb | Guy Van den Broeck | guyvdb | Google Summer of Code 2008 student, wrote the Visual Diff feature |
| guz | Gunther Zehetner | Extension:SemanticQueryFormTool (soon to be renamed to SemanticPropertyTools) | |
| gwicke | Gabriel Wicke | Original author of the MonoBook skin, introduced MediaWiki developer team to Squid. Introduced user scripts and -styles. His CVS commit name was gabrielwicke. Former root. Works on the parser for the visual editor project. | |
| halfak | Aaron Halfaker | Editor trends research | |
| happydog | Mark Clements | CodeReview extension, various other extensions | |
| happy-melon | Happy-melon | Core stuff, DeleteQueue extension etc. | |
| harddisk | Marco Schuster | HardDisk_WP | Author of SMS notifier bot |
| hartman | Derk-Jan Hartman | thedj | File and media handling |
| hashar | Ashar Voultoiz | hashar | General-purpose committer. |
| hcatlin | Hampton Catlin | hcatlin | WebstatsCollector |
| hhappel | Hans-Joerg Happel | Semantic MediaWiki and related extensions | |
| hippietrail | |||
| holek | Mike Połtyn | Extensions, e.g. LiquidThreads | |
| hooft | Rob W.W. Hooft | ||
| huji | Hojjat | Hojjat | |
| husky | Hay Kranen | Wikiportrait | |
| ialex | Alexandre Emsenhuber | ialex | Misc. patches and documentation updates; main author of Extension:Configure |
| ilabarg1 | Iker Labarga | ||
| inez | Inez Korczyński | Inez | Wikia technical staff, author of AjaxLogin, LinkSuggest and PrivateDomains extensions |
| ipye | Ian Pye | Extension:WikiTrust | |
| ishidaJ | Noriyuki Ishida | Kyoto University student working on multilingual LiquidThreads | |
| ishimatsu | Masanobu Ishimatsu | Kyoto University student working on multilingual LiquidThreads | |
| ivanlanin | Ivan Lanin | Indonesian localization | |
| j | Jan Gerber | Developer of Firefogg. Will be helping out with some of the open video player & sequencer work with Michael Dale that Kaltura's sponsoring. | |
| jablko | Jack Bates | Extension:WebDAV | |
| jacquesroy7 | Jacques Roy | Informix support | |
| jamesur | James Alexander | Jamesofur | Fundraising |
| jan | Jan Luca | MediaWiki & Poll extension & misc. | |
| janesh | QA engineer for Calcey Technologies, will be committing Selenium tests to /trunk/testing/selenium | ||
| janpaul123 | Jan Paul Posma | Sentence-level editing | |
| jarnaiz1 | |||
| jarry1250 | Harry Burt | Jarry1250 | TranslateSvg extension |
| jasonr | Jason Richey | Former shell. Used to be Wikia technical staff. | |
| jayvdb | Pywikipediabot stuff | ||
| jdlrobson | Jon Robson | jdlrobson | Mobile |
| jdpond | Jack D. Pond | jdpond | Extension:DiscussionThreading, Extension:NSFileRepo (Namespace protection for files/images), maintaining Image Authorization |
| jeblad | John Erling Blad | Various extensions | |
| jeluf | Jens Frank | JeLuF | Root access |
| jeroendedauw | Jeroen De Dauw | JeroenDeDauw | Contractor for WMF and employee for WMDE. Working on Wikidata, Semantic MediaWiki and Education Program |
| jhb | Joerg Baach | jhb | Contractor who worked on Extension:FlaggedRevs |
| jhsoby | Jon Harald Søby | Jhs | |
| jimbojw | Jim R. Wilson | jimbojw | Author of various different extensions, including, but not limited to ArticleComments, PagesOnDemand and so on. |
| jitseniesen | Jitse Niesen | Blahtex extension | |
| jlemley | Jeremy | New Favorites extension | |
| jnatividad | Joel Natividad | Semantic MediaWiki & related extensions | |
| johnduhart | John Du Hart | johnduhart | API, CodeReview, ResourceLoader, and more |
| jojo | Johannes Beigel | PediaPress python parser & pdf stuff | |
| jonwilliford | Jonathan Williford | Extensions developed for http://neurov.is/on | |
| jpostlethwaite | Jeremy Postlethwaite | Wikimedia Foundation fundraising | |
| jprilusky | Jaime Prilusky | Extension:ContributionCredits and other extensions at Proteopedia | |
| juliano | Juliano F. Ravasi | Wikilog, KML Export, etc. | |
| junaidpv | Junaid P V | Junaidpv | Extension:Narayam |
| justizin | Justin Ryan | Wikia developer | |
| jvelezv | Worked on (now obsolete) ApiEdit_Vodafone branch | ||
| kaldari | Ryan Kaldari | Staff developer for fundraising | |
| karstenuil | Karsten Uil | Wikidata extension | |
| kbrown | Kevin Brown | Summer of Code 2011 student | |
| khorn | Katie Horn | K4-713 | Wikimedia Foundation staff |
| kim | Kim Bruning | kim_bruning, kim_register, kim | Working on OmegaWiki and related projects. |
| kipcool | OmegaWiki, Wikidata | ||
| krafes | Karima Rafes | LinkedWiki | |
| krimpet | Fran McCrory | franny | Lua extension |
| krinkle | Timo Tijhof | krinkle | General development (mostly Core JavaScript/ResourceLoader). |
| kroocsiogsi | Nils | Kroocsiogsi | Extension:SoundManager2Button |
| ktchan | Kwan Ting Chan | KTC | BoardVote extension |
| kwisatz | David Raison | Extension:QrCode, Extension:GeeQuBox, Extension:SlimboxThumbs | |
| laner | Ryan Lane | Ryan_Lane | Maintainer of the LDAP Authentication plugin. |
| lcawte | Lewis Cawte | Lcawte | Pywikipediabot |
| leogregianin | Leonardo Gregianin | ||
| leon | Leon Weber | LeonWP | |
| leonsp | Leons Petrazickis | leonsp | |
| lhridley | Lisa Ridley | lhridley | UserPageEditProtection, maintenance of various unmaintained extensions, core documentation |
| liangent | Liangent | CategoryMultisort extension | |
| lrbabe | Louis Rémi-Babe | lrbabe | Maintainer of the Quiz extension. |
| luca | Luca de Alfaro | Extension:WikiTrust | |
| lupin | |||
| maarten | Maarten van Hoof | Working on Wikidata | |
| macbre | Maciej Brencz | Wikia's CSS and JavaScript guru, author of many delicious extensions (such as IE6PhaseOut and ProblemReports) and contributor to many, many Wikia extensions, such as AjaxLogin, AjaxPoll, EditEnhancements, Follow, ImageLightbox, JSSnippets, MyHome, Oasis, Phalanx, RecipesTemplate, SharedHelp, WikiaPhotoGallery and many more | |
| magnusmanske | Magnus Manske | Original author of MediaWiki. | |
| mah | Mark A. Hershberger | hexmode | Working for Wikimedia Foundation. |
| maikmerten | Maik Merten | maikmerten | Working on Cortado |
| malafaya | André Malafaya Baptista | Maintaining some code for Wikidata under extensions/Wikidata | |
| malvineous | Adam Nielsen | Extension:FlvHandler, Extension:MassEditRegex | |
| mark | Mark Bergsma | mark | Root. Wikimedia network manager. |
| markcdeckert | Mark Deckert | MetaVid work | |
| markj | Mark Jaroski | RdfRedland extension | |
| marooned | Maciej Błaszkowski | Wikia developer, author of SiteWideMessages extension, contributor to many Wikia extensions, such as AjaxPoll, AutomaticWikiAdoption, Blogs, CommunityMessages, EditEnhancements, ImageLightbox, InterwikiDispatcher, MyHome, RandomWiki, Rich Text Editor, ScavengerHunt, SharedHelp, WikiFactory, WhereIsExtension and more | |
| matsuno | Jun Matsuno | Kyoto University student working on multilingual LiquidThreads | |
| matthew.ja | Matthew April | EditGuard Extension, User Merge and Delete extension | |
| mattj | Matt Johnston | MediaWiki core | |
| maxsem | Max Semenik | MaxSem, OuKB | SQLite support |
| mbrad | Meadowlark Bradsher | Quiz extension | |
| mej | Mark Johnston | Uniwiki extensions | |
| mfarag | Meno25 | meno25wiki | Arabic localization updates |
| mglaser | Markus Glaser | Selenium testing framework, PagedTiffHandler extension | |
| mgrabovsky | Matěj Grabovský | mgrabovsky | General-purpose developer, basic extension |
| michaeldaly | Michael Daly | ImageMapConversion extension | |
| midom | Domas Mituzas | domas | Root. Database engineer at Facebook; Volunteer Wikimedia data, performance and operations engineer. |
| mikaellindmark | Mikael Lindmark | ArticleToCategory2 extension | |
| mikeb | |||
| misza13 | Misza13 | Misza | Pywikipediabot developer. |
| mrbluesky | MrBlueSky | core and extensions enhancements, fixes, unit tests, comments & documentation | |
| mkroetzsch | Markus Krötzsch | Semantic MediaWiki developer | |
| mrzman | Alex Z. | MrZ-man | Core stuff, Wikimedia extensions |
| mulligen | Erik van Mulligen | Wikidata/OmegaWiki | |
| multichill | Maarten Dammers | Pywikipediabot stuff | |
| nad | Aran Dunkley | Various extensions (i.e. NewUserMessage) and SQLite database backend support | |
| nadeesha | Nadeesha Weerasinghe | New Calcey employee | |
| nagelp | Patrick Nagel | padde | Notificator |
| neilk | Neil Kandalgaonkar | neilk_ | Multimedia, uploading, new editor & parser, editing concurrency, frontend message internationalization, general JS hackery. UploadWizard, jQueryMsg, etc. |
| nelson | Russ Nelson | nelson | Core MediaStore |
| nephele | New extensions, improvements to existing extensions | ||
| nhuffschmid | Norbert Huffschmid | ||
| nicdumz | Nicolas Dumazet | NicDumZ | Pywikipediabot stuff |
| nick | Nick Sullivan | Formerly a member of Wikia technical staff | |
| nickj | Nick Jenkins | Formerly an active core developer | |
| nikerabbit | Niklas Laxström | Nikerabbit | Internationalisation supremo! Admin of translatewiki.net. |
| nikola | Nikola Smolenski | Interlanguage extension | |
| nimishg | Nimish Gautam | Developer with Wikimedia Usability Initiative | |
| ning | Ning Hu | Semantic NotifyMe, Semantic Aggregation, Simile extension, Exhibit extension and flv player extension | |
| nobody | |||
| nojhan | Maintains French Planet Wikimedia | ||
| nord | Elancev Michael | Nordth | ElmEasyRef extension |
| op_daniel | Daniel Hansch | Ontoprise developer working on Semantic MediaWiki extension | |
| op_freddy | Freddy Pfisterer | Ontoprise developer working on Semantic MediaWiki extension | |
| op_kai | Kai Kühn | Ontoprise developer working on Semantic MediaWiki extension | |
| op_michael | Michael Erdmann | Ontoprise developer working on Semantic MediaWiki extension | |
| op_robert | Robert Ulrich | Ontoprise developer working on Semantic MediaWiki extension | |
| op_thomas | Thomas Schweitzer | Ontoprise developer working on Semantic MediaWiki extension | |
| oren | Oren Bochman | Lucene | |
| otto | Andrew Otto | Wikimedia Foundation worker, data analytics | |
| overlordq | Brent G. | OverlordQ | Extensions, PostgreSQL support, trivial fixes |
| owen | Owen Davis | Wikia developer, contributor to Wikia's DevBoxPanel and RandomWiki extensions | |
| papyromancer | Andrew Davis | JS2/mwEmbed | |
| pcopp | Paul Copperman | PCopp | Core and extensions |
| peter17 | Peter Potrowl | Google Summer of Code interwiki transclusion project | |
| peterchd | Peter Danenberg | WikiTeX extension updates | |
| petrb | Petr Bena | petan | Huggle developer |
| pgehres | Peter Gehres | Wikimedia Foundation fundraising | |
| philip | Philip Tzou | Philip_Tzou | Patches for Chinese variant converter |
| pinky | Nathaniel Herman | Pinky | GlobalUserrights extension, various core patches |
| pivwan | Pierre-Yves Gillier | Planet Wikimedia updates | |
| planetenxin | Alexander Gesinn | UserAgent extension, plans to maintain existing extensions | |
| platonides | Platonides | Core and extensions | |
| pmwx | Viral Gupta | Purple Numbers extension | |
| preilly | Patrick Reilly | preilly | Mobile |
| proes | Peter-Jan Roes | Contractor, worked on Wikidata | |
| prolineserver | Holger Motzkau | prolineserver | civiCRM |
| purodha | Purodha Blissenbach | purodha | Initial version of wap branch, first Kölsch/Ripuarian localisation, also purodha on toolserver, and translatewiki.net, junior pywikipediabot developer. |
| py | Peter Youngmeister | notpeter | Wikimedia Foundation ops |
| questpc | Dmitriy Sintsov | QuestPC | Extension:QPoll |
| quistnix | Anton | ||
| raindrift | Ian Baker | WMF employee | |
| rainman | Robert Stojnić | rainman-sr | Works on Extension:Lucene-search. Maintains search servers. |
| rarohde | Robert Rohde | Extension:Minify, Extension:DelayedDefinition, Extension:FilePageMasking | |
| raylton.sousa | Raylton P. Sousa | Raylton | BookManager extension |
| raymond | Raimond Spekking | raymond_ | Maintainer of the German localization, internationalization of various sorts, fixing bugs and programming things he think they should be useful. |
| reedy | Sam Reed | Reedy | API engineer, Bugzilla Admin |
| remco | Remco de Boer | Extensions, especially those in the Semantic Bundle | |
| rememberthedot | General patches and awesomeness | ||
| rfong | Roger Fong | Wikinvest stock chart extension | |
| rfrisar | |||
| rikwade | Rik Wade | ||
| river | River Tarnell | [3] | Root, apparently also Bugzilla admin. Mostly maintains non-MediaWiki things like trainwreck. Has been known in the past as "Kate" or "Kate Turner". |
| rmoen | Rob Moen | rmoen | Wikimedia Features engineering developer |
| robchurch | Rob Church | robchurch | General-purpose committer, author of many extensions; retired from MediaWiki development in late 2007. |
| roberthl | Robert Leverington | roberthl | Extension:Babel, Extension:Mibbit, Uniwiki extensions |
| robin | Robin Pepermans | SPQRobin | WikimediaIncubator extension, i18n, misc. |
| robla | Rob Lanphier | robla | |
| rodasmith | Rod A. Smith | Wikidata extension | |
| roman | Roman Nosov | ||
| rotem | Rotem Liss | Mostly Hebrew localization, RTL languages and Internationalization | |
| rscheiber | Robert Scheiber | General extension cleanup/fixes/etc. | |
| rsterbin | Reha Sterbin | Extension:ArticleFeedback | |
| russblau | Russell Blau | RussBlau | Pywikipediabot development |
| rvogel | Robert Vogel | a web developer at Hallo Welt! and works on WindowsAzureSDK, WindowsAzureStorage, ClientSyntaxHighlighter, BibManager, and (probably soon) PagedTiffHandler | |
| salvatoreingala | Salvatore Ingala | ^Spider^ | Google Summer of Code 2011 student |
| sami | Sami Islam | Collapsmi extension | |
| samuellampa | Samuel Lampa | samuell | RDFIO (Google Summer of Code 2010) |
| sanbeg | Steve Sanbeg | Extension:Labeled Section Transclusion | |
| santhosh | Santhosh Thottingal | santhosh | WebFonts extension |
| sanyamgoyal | Sanyam Goyal | Semantic MediaWiki and related extensions | |
| saper | Marcin Cieślak | saper | Commonist, pywikipediabot, possibly core changes such as improved IPv6 support |
| satoda | Akihiko Satoda | Kyoto University student working on multilingual LiquidThreads | |
| sbachenberg | Simon Bachenberg | Semantic MediaWiki, Solr extension | |
| sburke | Sean Burke | Wikidata extension | |
| sean_colombo | Sean Colombo | Extensions related to Wikia and LyricWiki, possibly some core tweaks | |
| seanheavey | Sean Heavey | Extension:ArticleFeedback: UI designer/front-end developer | |
| sergeychernyshev | Sergey Chernyshev | Runs MediaWikiWidgets.org and a couple other wiki-based sites, developed Widgets, Header Tabs and a few other small extensions, contributes to OpenID, Semantic MediaWiki, Semantic Forms extensions | |
| shakataganai | Jon Davis | ShakataGaNai | Office IT |
| shimada | Masahiko Shimada | Kyoto University student working on multilingual LiquidThreads | |
| shinjiman | Man Ho | shinjiman | Mostly Chinese localization, Chinese conversion and Planet Wikimedia Chinese |
| shizhao | Shi Zhao | Chinese Planet Wikimedia maintenance | |
| shmichael | Michael Shynar | shmichael | From Kaltura; doing some add-media-wizard work. |
| siebrand | Siebrand Mazeland | siebrand | Localisation of core and extensions, minor changes in core. Co-author of Translate extension. Admin of translatewiki.net and bugzilla:. |
| sillyman | |||
| simetrical | Aryeh Gregor | AryehGregor | General-purpose developer |
| skierpage | S. Page | Extension:Semantic MediaWiki | |
| skizzerz | Ryan Schmidt | Skizzerz | A few extensions, some core stuff |
| smccandlish | Stanton McCandlish | Cite4Wiki | |
| smoke3723 | Sternograph extension | ||
| soxred93 | [X] | API, unit tests | |
| sql | SQLDb | ||
| stipe | |||
| strainu | Andrei Cipu | strainu | Romanian Planet Wikimedia maintainer |
| straussd | David Strauss | Fundraising reporting tools | |
| sumanah | Sumana Harihareswara | sumanah | Community management; Wikimedia Foundation staff |
| suuch | Paa Kwesi Imbeah | Extension:InstantCommons | |
| svemir | Svemir Brkic | SphinxSearch extension | |
| svip | Svippong | svip | NaturalLanguageList extension, TemplateAdventures extension |
| swalker | Shawn Walker | Editor trends research | |
| swiftlytilting | Andrew Fitzgerald | MediawikiPlayer, CustomSidebar | |
| synagonism | Kaseluris-Nikos | synagonism | Synagonism skin |
| tango | Thomas Dalton | Tango42 | |
| tbleher | Thomas Bleher | tbleher | |
| than4213 | Nathanael Thompson | Planning to rewrite the parser | |
| thedevilonline | Tom Maaswinkel | TheDevilOnLine | Mostly working on the Uniwiki extensions and on translatewiki.net related things |
| thenub314 | Nicholas Longo | thenub314 | Extension:Math |
| thingles | Jamie Thingelstad | Piwik extension | |
| thomasv | ThomasV | Extension:ProofreadPage | |
| tidan | Dan Rinkes | Various special page extensions | |
| tisane | Nathan Larson | RPED extension, possible core branch | |
| tkriplean | Travis Kriplean | Reflect extension | |
| tlaqua | Tim Laqua | TimLaqua | Author of PasswordReset extension |
| tomasz | Tomasz Finc | tomaszf | Wikimedia staff; also Bugzilla admin |
| toniher | Toni Hermoso Pulido | Extensions FollowButton, PopUpFile, CheckGroup, ImageRefer | |
| tor | Łukasz Garczewski | TOR_CNR | Wikia-related extensions such as EditSimilar |
| tosfos | Isaac "Ike" Hecht | AdManager and Semantic MediaWiki work | |
| tparscal | Trevor Parscal | TrevorParscal | Wikimedia staff |
| travis | Travis Derouin | Managed wikiHow until 17 August 2011[4]. | |
| tstarling | Tim Starling | TimStarling | Paid developer, root access, Bugzilla admin, release manager. Generally viewed as second-in-command. Has Subversion admin access and has sometimes given people commit access. |
| valhallasw | Merlijn S. van Deen | ||
| van-de-bugger | Van de Bugger | SubPageList, Semantic MediaWiki, Semantic Forms, other extensions, and localizing extensions to Russian | |
| varnent | Greg Varnum | varnent | AddThis extension |
| vvv | Victor Vasiliev | vvv | Core (image moving etc.); also TitleBlacklist, AbuseFilter and CloseWikis extensions |
| vedmaka | Vedmaka | SocialProfile and Semantic Social Profile | |
| vitalif | Vitaliy | Various extensions, such as DeleteBatch | |
| vrandezo | Denny Vrandecic | ||
| vyznev | Ilmari Karonen | vyznev | |
| warddr | Warddr | ||
| warx | Artur Jan Fijałkowski | WikiWarX, WarX | Polish Planet Wikimedia |
| wegge | Anders Wegge Jakobsen | wegge | Danish localisation and other bits and pieces |
| werdna | Andrew Garrett | Werdna | General-purpose developer; author of Extension:AbuseFilter. Contract software developer at Wikimedia Foundation. |
| whiteknight | Andrew Whitworth | EmbedVideo and EmbedVideoPlus extensions | |
| whym | Yusuke Matsubara | Editor trends research | |
| wikinaut | Thomas Gries | Wikinaut | General, OpenID, LiquidThreads, email notification |
| wikipedian | Daniel Herding | Pywikipediabot developer. | |
| wwalc | Wiktor Walc | FCKeditor extension | |
| xqt | xqt | Pywikipediabot developer | |
| yaauie | Ryan Bies | yaauie | HipHop branch, MSSQL support |
| yar1 | Yaron Shapira | Video player, add media wizard, video editor | |
| yaron | Yaron Koren | Extension:Semantic Forms | |
| yonishostak | Yoni Shostak | Extension:ArticleFeedback: project manager | |
| yurik | Yuri Astrakhan | yurik | Original author of MediaWiki's API |
| YuviPanda | Yuvaraj Pandian | yuvipanda | Summer of Code 2011 student working on offline selection/assessment tools |
| zak | Zak Greant | zakg | Wikimedia Foundation contractor, working on documentation |
| zexley | Zack Exley | Wikimedia Foundation staff, analytics work | |
| zhenya | Zhenya Vlasyenko | Zhee | Summer of Code 2011 student working on writing the UserStatus feature for the SocialProfile extension |
[edit] History
Developers formerly had an important role in the Wikipedia power structure, since they were the only ones able to create sysops or ban users. This has since changed, with the formation of user classes such as bureaucrat and Steward, and the technical capabilities given to these classes.
Some developers had shell access to the California servers, but due to inactivity, weren't given shell access on the "new" Florida servers. Magnus Manske, Nick Reinking, Lee Daniel Crocker, Axel Boldt, Matthias Jordan, Neil Harris and Ed Poor are in this category. Note that Ed Poor was not involved with software development, but instead carried out what are now bureaucratic or sysop tasks, such as promoting sysops and locking accounts. Past MediaWiki software development activity level of developers may be found through CVS statistics.
The following users had CVS access on Sourceforge. From April 2006 to March 2012, Subversion was been used instead. Angela Beesley (expired shell), E23 (snok) (expired shell), Tomasz Wegrzanowski (expired shell and root), Guillaume Blanchard, Axel Boldt, Rowan Collins, T.D. Corell, Lee Daniel Crocker, The Cunctator, Johan Dahlin, Peter Danenberg, Michael Dill, Andrew Dunbar, Emmanuel Engelhart, Andre Engels, Fantasy, Tom Gilder, Gabriel Wicke (expired shell and root), Jan Hidders, Anders Wegge Jakobsen, Matthias Jordan, Shane King, Thomas R. Koll, Niklas Laxström, Christian List, Wil Mahan, Magnus Manske (CVS admin), Zoran Obradovic, Julian Ostrow, Nicholas Pisarro, Jr., Evan Prodromou, Nick Reinking, Derek Ross, Valerio Santinelli, Chris Seaton, Alexander 'Ajvol' Sigachov, Chuck SMITH, Bogdan Stancescu, Marian Steinbach, Tarquin, Timwi (MediaZilla admin), Anders Törlind, Zhengzhu, and Rob Church.
[edit] Notes
- ↑ Tim Starling's post to wikitech-l about new committers
- ↑ Or ^chad, Or ^demon|away, ^d, ^demon|lunch, ^demon|dinner, ^demon|zzz ^daemon and pretty much anything beginning in ^d. Also known to change nicks to relate to current conversation in channel.
- ↑ Whatever she feels like. A few of her past nicks have been: _syphilis_, larne, consanguinity, kate-, innocence, zwitter, flyingparchment, twincest, _mary_kate_, yksinaisyyteni, felicity_ (the one being used at the time of this writing). By the time you read this she may or may not be using one from that list.
- ↑ wikiHow engineer Travis is moving on — wikiHow Forums
[edit] See also
[edit] External link
Other languages: ja:Wikipedia:開発者