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Hi, Jean-Lou,

I see that you released your SecureWidgets extension - it's great to see some competition in the field. Too bad you didn't have it developed when I needed the widgets ;)

You approach seems to be covering some things that are quite far on development time line for Widgets. Hope we'll be able to benefit from each other's work.

The only concern I have is that you're reusing widget code without giving credit to those who spent time creating it. Users who contributed the widgets (including myself) are not very happy with that. I hope you'll consider this a good practice to mention them.

In any case, I think it'll be beneficial if we'll figure out a way to combine our effort in creating widgets and maybe even developing the code - this will definitely benefit end users. --Sergey Chernyshev 15:49, 16 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Hi - I did inspire some of my widgets from your repository, that's all. Sorry for any harm done. I have added a note on the base-page of the extension attributing some credits to yourself. I hope you can forgive me. Jean-Lou Dupont 17:54, 16 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Jean-Lou, I wish you all the best in SecureWidgets development! Please don't forget that Open Source is not just about freely promoting yourself, but about contributing to community and giving credit to those who helped you. --Sergey Chernyshev 21:19, 20 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Well, it would be better if you credited the authors on the widget pages themselves. Yaron Koren 20:36, 16 May 2008 (UTC)
 * I am happy to oblige provided you tell me where, please. Could I also remind you guys that the embed code is readily available on the originating service web site e.g. Yahoo for Flickr etc.  I hope we can conclude this matter swiftly. Jean-Lou Dupont 20:53, 16 May 2008 (UTC)


 * I'd say somewhere in the documentation part of each relevant widget (e.g. here). I created the YouTube and AddThis widgets, and I believe Sergey created all the rest on mediawikiwidgets.org. Obviously some of them weren't that hard to create, but the programming did take some work, in addition to writing the descriptions and such. Yaron Koren 21:07, 16 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Guys, I have added additional credits on the widget pages directly. If you are looking for these on my web-site, please bear in mind that the content of my site is mostly cached and refreshed every 2days. Thus, the updated pages should be visible then. I hope this conclude this aparte to your satisfaction. Jean-Lou Dupont 23:48, 20 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Cool, this is fine with me. Thanks. Yaron Koren 23:16, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

MediaWiki Question (CLOSED)
How I would be able to make it to where annon users can edit Project:Help Desk as well as talk pages, but nothing else. Thanks for your help.-71.221.196.127 01:08, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Sorry I wasn't clear enough the last time around :- send me a private email on this subject. Jean-Lou Dupont 01:12, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

runphp tags: accessing $wgUser
Fatal error: Call to a member function getId on a non-object in /home/content/d/e/m/demonscarnage/html/extensions/SecurePHP/SecurePHP.body.php(65) : eval'd code on line 2

This is what I get when I try to use $wgUser->getId within the runphp tags. Any suggestions as to how to get around it?
 * Did you insert global $wgUser; before this call? Jean-Lou Dupont 10:31, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

Thank you. I guess I didn't realize you needed to do that ;)