Developers
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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 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.) Brion Vibber, as lead developer, is usually the one to grant commit access, but Tim Starling has done so sometimes as well, possibly along with others.
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.
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/projects/mediawiki/contributors, which gives nice stalkerish summaries of all sorts of fun statistics.
| Commit name | Real name | IRC nick | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| 80686 | Manuel Schneider | root-80686 | |
| a_engels | Andre Engels | Pywikipediabot developer. | |
| aaron | Aaron Schulz | VoiceOfAll | General-purpose developer. |
| abernala | |||
| aboostani | Arash Boostani | Member of Wikimedia Usability Team. | |
| adam | |||
| adammck | |||
| ajvol | Alexander Sigachov | Russian localization updates | |
| alexsh | Alex Shih-Han Lin | lin4h | Chinese localization updates, Pywikipediabot developer. |
| algorithmix | Gero Scholz | DynamicPageList extension | |
| allyunion | Jason Y. Lee | Pywikipediabot developer. | |
| alnokta | Arabic Planet Wikimedia | ||
| amidaniel | Daniel Cannon | amidaniel | Mostly API stuff. |
| aphid | Working on MetaVid | ||
| ariel | Ariel Glenn | atglenn | Wikimedia staff |
| ashley | Jack Phoenix | ashley | Maintains SocialProfile extension and other extensions 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. |
| bartek | Bartek Łapiński | Wikia technical staff, author of SpamRegex, RegexBlock, EditSimilar and RefreshSpecial extensions. | |
| beckr | Extension:SlippyMap | ||
| benjamin | Benjamin Peterson | EditCount extension | |
| bigsmoke | Rowan Rodrik van der Molen | Extension:Semantic Gallery | |
| borgo | Alle Borgo | Pywikipediabot stuff | |
| brion | Brion Vibber | brion | Wikimedia Foundation Chief Technical Officer, lead developer, admin access on SVN/Bugzilla/etc., final say over everything MediaWiki-related, generally the one who appoints new committers, release manager, etc., may he live forever. In the distant past, has committed under the name "vibber". |
| btongminh | Bryan Tong Minh | Bryan | Miscellaneous API and media related stuff. Pywikipediabot developer. |
| catrope | Roan Kattouw | RoanKattouw | Works mostly on the API and the apiedit branch. |
| cdangerville | Cyril Dangerville | DynamicPageList2 and Intersection extensions | |
| charlie | Charlie Melbye | chuck | SharedUserRights extension |
| churchofemacs | Church_of_emacs | General bug fixes, Extension:FlagPage | |
| collinj | Jimmy Collins | collinj | German localization updates & misc patches. |
| conrad | Conrad Irwin | Extensions, particularly for Wiktionaries, MetaKeywords extension, Transliterator extension, Extension:CategoryLabel | |
| cosoleto | Francesco Cosoleto | ||
| cydeweys | Cyde Weys | Pywikipediabot developer. | |
| dale | Michael Dale | mdale | MetavidWiki extension |
| daniel | Daniel Kinzler | Duesentrieb | Extension:CategoryTree, ContactPage, Gadgets and various other extensions |
| danny_b | Danny B. | Danny_B | Planet Wikimedia; cs i18n; mostly front-end tweaks; minor patches |
| dantman | Daniel Friesen | Dantman | Title casing alternate branch |
| david | David McCabe | davidmccabe | Exclusively working on Extension:LiquidThreads |
| demon | Chad Horohoe | ^demon | General-purpose developer; author of a few extensions; Bugzilla admin |
| dom | Dominic Arkwright | Worked as a contractor on multilingual MediaWiki back in 2006. | |
| downchuck | Charles Pritchard | Worked on multilingual MediaWiki branch | |
| dschwen | Daniel Schwen | WikiMiniAtlas extension | |
| eloy | Krzysztof Krzyżaniak | Wikia technical staff | |
| emil | Emil Podlaszewski | 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. |
| fenzik | Fenzik Joseph | fenzik | Core and integration with jasperforge.org, forge.openbravo.com & monitoringforge.org. |
| filnik | Filnik | Filnik | Pywikipediabot developer and botwiki founder. |
| flominator | WikiBlame, some extensions | ||
| 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 | Wikimedia system administrator. |
| gerardm | Gerard Meijssen | GerardM- | Regression testing software |
| gerrit | Gerrit Holl | ||
| gmaxwell | Greg Maxwell | Creator of many very delicious tools. | |
| grace | Grace Pastorelly Ruiz | Worked as a contractor on multilingual MediaWiki back in 2006. | |
| greenreaper | Laurence Parry | GreenReaper | Output/page rendering; skins/graphics; extensions (Extension:MediaWikiAuth) |
| greg | Greg Sabino Mullane | G_SabinoMullane | Exclusively providing support for PostgreSQL |
| gri6507 | Paul Grinberg | ||
| grondin | Bertrand Grondin | Grondin | Translating MediaWiki. French translation mainteners. Admin on translatewiki.net. |
| gslater | Grant Slater | Extension:SlippyMap | |
| gszorc | Gregory Szorc | Original author of Farmer extension | |
| guyvdb | Guy Van den Broeck | guyvdb | Google Summer of Code 2008 Student |
| happy-melon | Core stuff, DeleteQueue extension etc. | ||
| harddisk | Marco Schuster | HardDisk_WP | Author of SMS notifier bot |
| hashar | Ashar Voultoiz | hashar | General-purpose committer. |
| hippietrail | |||
| hooft | Rob W.W. Hooft | ||
| huji | 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 |
| ipye | Ian Pye | Extension:WikiTrust | |
| 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 | |
| jan | Jan Luca | MediaWiki & Poll extension & misc. | |
| jarnaiz1 | |||
| jasonr | Jason Richey | Former shell. Used to be Wikia technical staff. | |
| jayvdb | Pywikipediabot stuff | ||
| jdpond | Jack D. Pond | jdpond | Extension:DiscussionThreading, Extension:NSFileRepo(Namespace protection for files/images), maintaining Image Authorization |
| jeluf | Jens Frank | JeLuF | Root access |
| jeroendedauw | Jeroen De Dauw | JeroenDeDauw | Maps, Semantic Maps |
| jhb | Joerg Baach | jhb | Contractor working 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 | |
| jnatividad | Joel Natividad | Semantic MediaWiki & related extensions | |
| jojo | Johannes Beigel | PediaPress python parser & pdf stuff | |
| jprilusky | Jaime Prilusky | Extension:ContributionCredits and other extensions at Proteopedia | |
| juliano | Juliano F. Ravasi | Wikilog, KML Export, etc. | |
| jvelezv | Worked on (now obsolete) ApiEdit_Vodafone branch | ||
| karstenuil | Karsten Uil | Wikidata extension | |
| kim | Kim Bruning | kim_bruning, kim_register, kim | Working on OmegaWiki and related projects. |
| kipcool | OmegaWiki, Wikidata | ||
| krimpet | Fran Rogers | Krimpet | |
| ktchan | Kwan Ting Chan | KTC | BoardVote extension |
| laner | Ryan Lane | Ryan_Lane | Maintainer of the LDAP Authentication plugin. |
| leogregianin | Leonardo Gregianin | ||
| leon | Leon Weber | LeonWP | |
| leonsp | Leons Petrazickis | leonsp | |
| lrbabe | Louis Rémi-Babe | lrbabe | Maintainer of the Quiz extension. |
| luca | Luca de Alfaro | Extension:WikiTrust | |
| lupin | |||
| maarten | Maarten van Hoof | Working on Wikidata | |
| magnusmanske | Magnus Manske | Original author of MediaWiki. | |
| 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 | |
| mattj | Matt Johnston | MediaWiki core | |
| maxsem | Max Semenik | MaxSem, OuKB | SQLite support |
| mej | Uniwiki extensions | ||
| mfarag | Meno25 | meno25wiki | Arabic localization updates |
| mgrabovsky | Matěj Grabovský | mgrabovsky | Core, general, maybe some extensions and localisation |
| michaeldaly | Michael Daly | ImageMapConversion extension | |
| midom | Domas Mituzas | domas | Root. Database engineer at Facebook; Volunteer Wikimedia data, performance and operations engineer. |
| mikeb | |||
| misza13 | Misza13 | Misza | Pywikipediabot developer. |
| 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 | |
| nephele | New extensions, improvements to existing extensions | ||
| nhuffschmid | Norbert Huffschmid | ||
| nicdumz | Nicolas Dumazet | NicDumZ | Pywikipediabot stuff |
| nick | Nick Sullivan | Wikia technical staff | |
| nickj | Nick Jenkins | ||
| nikerabbit | Niklas Laxström | Nikerabbit | Internationalisation supremo! Admin of translatewiki.net. |
| nimishg | Nimish Gautam | Developer with Wikimedia Usability Initiative | |
| nobody | |||
| nojhan | |||
| 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 | |
| overlordq | OverlordQ | Extensions, PostgreSQL support, trivial fixes | |
| peterchd | Peter Danenberg | WikiTeX extension updates | |
| philip | Philip Tzou | Patches for Chinese variant converter | |
| pinky | Nathaniel Herman | Pinky | GlobalUserrights extension, various core patches |
| pivwan | Pierre-Yves Gillier | Planet Wikimedia updates | |
| pmwx | Viral Gupta | Purple Numbers extension | |
| proes | Peter-Jan Roes | Contractor, worked on Wikidata | |
| purodha | Purodha Blissenbach | purodha | Initial version of wap branch, first Kölsch/Ripuarian localisation, also purodha on toolserver, and translatewiki.net, junior pywikipediabot developer. |
| questpc | Dmitriy Sintsov | QuestPC | Extension:QPoll |
| quistnix | Anton | ||
| rainman | Robert Stojnić | rainman-sr | Works on Extension:Lucene-search. Maintains search servers. |
| rarohde | Robert Rohde | ||
| raymond | Raimond Spekking | raymond_ | Maintainer of the German localization, internationalization of various sorts, fixing bugs and programming things he think they should be useful. |
| rememberthedot | General patches and awesomeness | ||
| rfong | Roger Fong | Wikinvest stock chart extension | |
| rfrisar | |||
| rikwade | Rik Wade | ||
| river | River Tarnell | [1] | Root, apparently also Bugzilla admin. Mostly maintains non-MediaWiki things like trainwreck. Has been known in the past as "Kate" or "Kate Turner". |
| robchurch | Rob Church | robchurch | General-purpose committer. |
| roberthl | Robert Leverington | roberthl | Extension:Babel, Extension:Mibbit, Uniwiki extensions |
| robin | SPQRobin | WikimediaIncubator extension & misc. | |
| rodasmith | Rod A. Smith | Wikidata extension | |
| roman | Roman Nosov | ||
| rotem | Rotem Liss | Mostly Hebrew localization, RTL languages and Internationalization | |
| russblau | Russell Blau | RussBlau | Pywikipediabot development |
| sanbeg | Steve Sanbeg | Extension:Labeled Section Transclusion | |
| sburke | Sean Burke | Wikidata extension | |
| 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 | |
| shinjiman | Man Ho | shinjiman | Mostly Chinese localization, Chinese conversion and Planet Wikimedia Chinese |
| shizhao | Shi Zhao | Chinese Planet Wikimedia maintenance | |
| siebrand | Siebrand Mazeland | siebrand | Localisation of core and extensions, minor changes in core. Co-author of extension Translate. Admin of translatewiki.net and bugzilla:. |
| sillyman | |||
| simetrical | Aryeh Gregor | Simetrical | General-purpose developer |
| skierpage | S. Page | Extension:Semantic MediaWiki | |
| skizzerz | Ryan Schmidt | Skizzerz | A few extensions, some core stuff |
| soxred93 | [X] | ||
| sql | SQLDb | ||
| stipe | |||
| strainu | Romanian Planet Wikimedia maintainer | ||
| straussd | David Strauss | Fundraising reporting tools | |
| suuch | Paa Kwesi Imbeah | Extension:InstantCommons | |
| tango | Thomas Dalton | Tango42 | |
| tbleher | Thomas Bleher | tbleher | |
| thedevilonline | Tom Maaswinkel | TheDevilOnLine | Mostly working on the Uniwiki extensions and on translatewiki.net related things |
| thomasv | ThomasV | Extension:ProofreadPage | |
| tidan | Dan Rinkes | Various special page extensions | |
| tlaqua | Tim Laqua | TimLaqua | Author of PasswordReset extension |
| tomasz | Tomasz Finc | Wikimedia staff; also Bugzilla admin | |
| tparscal | Trevor Parscal | Wikimedia staff | |
| travis | Travis Derouin | Manages wikiHow. | |
| tstarling | Tim Starling | TimStarling | Paid developer, root access, Bugzilla admin. Generally viewed as second-in-command. Has Subversion admin access and has sometimes given people commit access (although usually it's Brion). |
| valhallasw | Merlijn S. van Deen | ||
| vasilievvv | Victor Vasiliev | VasilievVV (or VasilVV) | Core (image moving etc.); also TitleBlacklist, AbuseFilter and CloseWikis extensions |
| 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. |
| wikipedian | Daniel Herding | ||
| xqt | xqt | Pywikipediabot developer | |
| yaron | Yaron Koren | Extension:Semantic Forms | |
| yurik | Yuri Astrakhan | yurik | Original author of MediaWiki's API. |
[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. Since April 2006, Subversion has 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, 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
- ↑ Whatever she feels like. A few of her past nicks have been: _syphilis_, larne, consanguinity, kate-, innocence, zwitter, flyingparchment (the one being used at the time of this writing), twincest, _mary_kate_, yksinaisyyteni. By the time you read this she may or may not be using one from that list.
[edit] See also
[edit] External link
Other languages: ja:Wikipedia:開発者