Social tools
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Social tools is a term which refers to the SocialProfile extension and various other related extensions, most of which depend on the SocialProfile extension.
The social tools were developed by Aaron Wright, Ashish Datta[1], David Pean, Jeffrey Tierney[2] and Robert Lefkowitz for ArmchairGM. Currently the SocialProfile extension and other related social tools are maintained by Jack Phoenix.
For a complete list of social tools, see Category:Social tools.
[edit] History
- December 2005 — ArmchairGM is founded and eventually social tools are being developed
- December 2006 — Wikia, Inc. buys ArmchairGM for $2 million[3]
- 28 February 2008 — First public release of the SocialProfile MediaWiki extension [4][5]
- 21 June 2008 — Wikia opens its SVN to the general public, revealing that many SocialProfile features were taken out before the public release.[6]
- 1 July 2008 — Rob Lefkowitz's staff access on Wikia is revoked[7]
- July 2008 — slowly more features from Wikia codebase are being added into SocialProfile extension
- 12 August 2008 — Aaron Wright (Awrigh01), the co-author of SocialProfile leaves Wikia[8]
- 4 September 2008 — release of SocialProfile version 1.2 with merely one big changed thing: special page aliases[9]
- 20 September 2008 — release of SocialProfile version 1.3 with SystemGifts and UserGifts features and E_STRICT & E_NOTICE bugfixes[10]
- December 8, 2008 — Halopedia is moved back to the standard Wikia codebase [11]
- 22 January 2009 — Siebrand adds UserWelcome into core SocialProfile because he sees SocialProfile as an extension package, like the Uniwiki extensions.[12]
- June 10, 2009 — UserActivity and UserSystemMessages added into SocialProfile → version 1.4[13]
- 20 January 2010 — Jack Phoenix contacts Jimmy Wales (who in turns contacts Gil Penchina, who contacts Jack) about open-sourcing ArmchairGM's skin; in the end, nothing becomes of it[14]
- 8 February 2010 — In a private email to Jack Phoenix, Gil Penchina admits that Wikia "dropped support" for social tools
- February 2010 — PictureGame, QuizGame, PollNY, FanBoxes and possibly some other related extensions disabled on Halopedia per community consensus[15]
- December 2010 — Wikia begins to update their codebase to MediaWiki 1.16 and in the process social tools are removed from their SVN[16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26]
- Summer 2011 — Yevhenii Vlasenko (Zhenya) is working on the UserStatus feature as his Google Summer of Code 2011 project, mentored by Jack Phoenix[27]; Jack Phoenix updates social tools in the so-called "phase II of social tools"
- 1 August 2011 — with the kind help of Sean Colombo from Wikia staff, the ArmchairGM codebase finally sees the light of the day[28]
- 6 November 2011 — Markus Glaser completes his in-depth code review of Extension:SocialProfile
[edit] References
- ↑ Ashish Datta's résumé
- ↑ Reference to Jeffrey's e-mail address on the source code of the MarchMadness extension
- ↑ Wikipedia's article about Wikia
- ↑ Jimmy Wales' blog post about SocialProfle
- ↑ r31383
- ↑ Changeset 10 on Wikia's Subversion
- ↑ Changeset 150 on Wikia's Subversion
- ↑ Changeset 958 on Wikia's Subversion
- ↑ r41067
- ↑ r41068
- ↑ Blog:Halopedia upgrades on Halopedia
- ↑ r45982
- ↑ r51713
- ↑ Department of Justice: Idealism is dead
- ↑ Forum:Abolishing the Polls, Quizzes and Picture Games on Halopedia
- ↑ Changeset 31795 on Wikia's Subversion — eloy removes UserGifts
- ↑ Changeset 31796 on Wikia's Subversion — eloy removes UserProfile extension
- ↑ Changeset 31798 on Wikia's Subversion — eloy removes PictureGame extension
- ↑ Changeset 31799 on Wikia's Subversion — eloy removes PollNY extension
- ↑ Changeset 31802 on Wikia's Subversion — eloy removes QuizGame extension
- ↑ Changeset 31803 on Wikia's Subversion — eloy removes FanBoxes extension
- ↑ Changeset 31817 on Wikia's Subversion — Sean Colombo removes a lot of social code
- ↑ Changeset 31908 on Wikia's Subversion — Sean Colombo removes CommonNY.i18n.php from Wikia's SVN
- ↑ Changeset 31911 on Wikia's Subversion — Sean Colombo removes Wikia's version of RandomUsersWithAvatars
- ↑ Changeset 31947 on Wikia's Subversion — eloy removes FlickrImport extension from Wikia's SVN
- ↑ Changeset 39110 on Wikia's Subversion — Sean Colombo removes UserProfileStatus, a Wikia Search-specific fork of UserStatus, from Wikia's SVN
- ↑ MediaWiki selects eight students for Google Summer of Code 2011 on Wikimedia blog
- ↑ Changeset 40097 on Wikia's Subversion
| Social tools | |
|---|---|
| SocialProfile | Overview • UserStatus (GSoC 2011 project) • Roadmap • Developer info • Screenshots • History |
| Other social extensions | Automatic Board Welcome • BlogPage • FanBoxes • NewUsersList • PictureGame • PollNY • QuizGame • RandomFeaturedUser • RandomGameUnit • RandomUsersWithAvatars • SiteMetrics • UserWelcome |
| Semanticness | Semantic Social Profile |
| Other related extensions (which do not depend on SocialProfile) |
Comments • LinkFilter • NewSignupPage • RandomImageByCategory • Video • VoteNY • WikiTextLoggedInOut |
