User:Danwe

I am a developer from Germany, 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 am also available for hire if you are searching for someone who can setup your MediaWiki, counsel you on your wikis design and structural decisions or if you are in need for an entirely new extension or need a new feature within an existing extension. I have commit access to the mediawiki.org svn code repository since October 2011. You can find my code commits here.

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

My own MediaWiki extensions:
 * Subpage Fun, some parser functions/variables to get helpful informations about subpages (feedback would be nice).
 * Regex Fun, simply the richest implementation for regular expressions in MediaWiki.
 * Parser Fun, Introduces the THIS: prefix for page information related magic variables and adds a parser function  for parsing wikitext.
 * 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.
 * Simple Farm, simple, yet powerfull wiki farm extension without any fancy configuration pages.
 * SemanticUpdateOnPurge, updates Semantic MediaWikis attributes when purging an article.
 * Several private extensions for my Wiki-System RPG-Dev-Wiki.

Extensions I have made substantial contributions to:
 * VariablesExtension, responsible for version 2.0 rewrite and more
 * ArrayExtension, responsible for new features and bugfixes since version 1.3
 * Semantic Result Formats, responsible for hash and array formats

Extensions I have made some minor contributions to:
 * Extension:Validator, changes introduced in 0.4.13 release.

Coming up soon...
 * Recently I have been working on re-integrating the OpenLayers feature for the Maps extension which allows to use simple pictures as maps. Also been working on a couple of other features such as implementing marker groups.

Many of these extensions, I would never recommend using in a huge public wiki, certainly not in Wikipedia. In rather small or non-public wikis, they can be quite useful though.