User:RobLa

This is the user page for Rob Lanphier (User:RobLa). See w:User:RobLa or check out my homepage on robla.net. I also used to be a Wikimedia Foundation employee (from 2010 to 2016). A more complete timeline is below

2020s

Welcome to the Twenties

2020

See User:RobLa/Journal here on mediawiki.org, or w:User:RobLa/Journal for the trouble I'm causing on Wikipedia. Or for that matter, see https://robla.miraheze.org/wiki/RobLa_journal for other things I'm up to.

2010s

For the decade we never figured out how to talk about verbally. See wikipedia:2010s for more about that.

2019

I was at Internet Archive back then. I also was trying to keep electowiki

2017-2018

Lots of stuff with Indivisible and Swing Left.

2010-2016

I was pretty busy in my job at Wikimedia Foundation. See User:RobLa-WMF for most edits I've made as part of my day job. I haven't edited my User:RobLa-WMF page, but maybe I'll drop a note on his talk page, and see if he answers....

2000s

This is the decade that some refer to as the Aughts.

2006-2009

A lot of my work was on the Second Life wiki (https://wiki.secondlife.com) I made a few small MediaWiki improvements while I was at Linden Lab (sorry, no source available)

2005-2006

Work on MediaWiki:

• Extensionless files patch - A patch which lifts the requirement that the page title have a file extension appropriate for the MIME type. This patch addresses Bugzilla:4421.
• A few minor patches here and there (e.g Bugzilla:11867, Bugzilla:3603)
• Electowidget - MediaWiki extension for displaying election results from complicated election methods.
• Some work on Wikidata for Erik, which I think he used on some non-WMF wikis.
• AuthPress - extension which allowed MediaWiki installs to authenticate against a Wordpress database. I doubt this works anymore.
• EditOversight extension - defunct work done on behalf of ManyOne (also defunct)