User:Danwe

My name is Daniel Werner, I am a developer working for Wikimedia Deutschland .e.V. since April 2012. For Wikimedia Deutschland, the German chapter of Wikimedia, my job is to work on the Wikidata project where I am one of the guys responsible for the fronted most of the time. I have been working with MediaWiki since around 2007. When the need rose, I started writing my own extensions, improving existing ones and released most of them for the public. Even though I never had much to do with PHP before (did web-programming for quite some while though), I found my way into it quite fast and still find it fascinating what one can do with MediaWiki. One of the most impressing encounters I have made so far was the Semantic MediaWiki extension which I am using extensively for my main project RPG-Dev-Wiki, a tool for making the process of producing RPGs (so called role-playing games) more intuitive, team-oriented and with keeping redundancy in story-writing as low as possible.

I used to be available for hire for MediaWiki related work and counseling. Currently I am not available for hire due to lack of time and my work for Wikimedia Deutschland.

Work

The following will introduce you to most of my MediaWiki related work:

My own MediaWiki extensions:

• Semantic Expressivness, adds a new syntax for inline short queries to fight redundancies within the wiki.
• Subpage Fun, some parser functions/variables to get helpful informations about subpages (feedback would be nice).
• Simple Farm, simple, yet powerfull wiki farm extension without any fancy configuration pages.
• Parser Fun, Introduces the THIS: prefix for page information related magic variables and adds a parser function #parse for parsing wikitext as well as a {{CALLER}} variable/function for some kind of template call-stack.
• Regex Fun, simply the richest implementation for regular expressions in MediaWiki.
• HashTables, similar to to Extension:ArrayExtension but for handling hash tables in MediaWiki. This extension also allows to store all Parameters given to a template.
• SemanticUpdateOnPurge, updates Semantic MediaWikis attributes when purging an article.
• Several (currently) non-public extensions and a bot framework for my MediaWiki-based system RPG-Dev-Wiki.

Extensions I have made substantial contributions to:

• Wikibase, extension used by the Wikidata project. I am working on this as an employee of Wikimedia Germany at the moment.
• Variables, responsible for version 2.0 rewrite and more
• Arrays, responsible for new features and bugfixes since version 1.3
• Loops, responsible for development in svn starting with version 0.3.2
• Semantic Result Formats, responsible for hash and array formats

Extensions I have made some minor contributions to:

• Validator, changes introduced in 0.4.13 release.
• Maps, marker groups implementation, currently working on re-integrating the custom picture maps feature using OpenLayers.

Some of these extensions, I would not recommend using in a huge public wiki, certainly not in Wikipedia. In rather small or non-public wikis, they can be quite useful though.