User:Subfader

=My Extension Requests= Generally:
 * Version: MW 1.8.2 and i do not plan to upgrade atm.
 * Site: http://MixesDB.com
 * Skin: Monobook (no other enabled)
 * Language: German, English
 * E-mail: old_school_junkie [at] hotmail.com

If you code me "Advanced Search" as I requested here I will pay 150€ because I urgently need this, every other extension request is less important and the price is up to you.

Advanced Search
The search interface is made of different sections, all can be combined into a search action.

Title, Page content:

It should be possible to truncate, maybe even per default (without a % or ?).

The 3 fields are connected with AND.

Include: normal search

Exclude: searches with NOT

Categories:

Based on the Extension:Multi-Category Search. You can see the standard extension here. But I'd need a more functional version of this.

AND and OR relate to the first field.

No truncation possible I guess, if yes, the better it is :)

Tracklists:

Those match the 3 categories you can see in the sidebar of MixesDB. Every article page is in one of these, actually only in one of these. To exclude two of them or to find mistakes where a page is in two of them it's better to use checkboxes and not radio. Of course it should only be possible to use 1 criteria: Include or Exclude.

Example: "complete" is ticked - the search will only include articles in Category:Tracklist complete to the other search criteria. If two are ticked it's OR which is the same as excluding the unticked one (include pages in one of those ticked).

Could also be done using the Categories Search but this way it's way more comfortable.

Results: The search results should be listed below the search interface, keeping all settings and field entries from the search action (for easy correction).

Namespaces:

I really love this view instead of the chaos list in one row as per default. If you'd realize that, I'd be more than happy. The extension should enable setting which namespaces are listed. By default are those namsepaces as set in "My Preferences" (like standard MW search).

This request would include my request "Search this category" since it's easy to implent when you laready work on Multi-Category Search.

I will pay 150€ if this extension works as requested and would prefer if the dev would release it as beta extension here on mediawiki.org (in a more standard version, e.g. without "Tracklist:" etc.)
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Search this category
Had the idea when testing Extension:Multi-Category Search. A simple search box will be displayed on top of every category page. It searches like the standard search, but it only considers articles in the according category. The search results should be a simple list of article links, no extra info needed.

Combined with that a new search field could be added on the Multi-Category Search on top for normal text search... I post here cos I doubt the devs of Multi-Category Search read their extension talk page.

Category navigation - Change order
I'd like to see an extension that gives you a little more features to the category listings, esp. when there are more than 200 subcategories or articles listed. E.g. switch order (ASC, DESC), or a drop-down menue to choose the number of listed items instead of 200 default for all and everyone.

I'd like to see DESC per default for all categories (yes backwards) but that requires an option to set the ASC oder manually for some other categories by adding some code to the according category page.

Find / Replace in Edit Toolbar
As title says, an extension that lets you search/find and replace text when editing a page just like an external editor. Could be done via a pop-up window with two fields.

Beautify text in edit box
Actually I want to do a marco job for replacing standard "mistakes" by find / replace. (This is different from my above request which is not for standard mistakes). What it should do: In the extension files you can define a "macro" for a routine e.g. find "xyz", replace with "zyx" + find ... etc. When editing a page. Click a button in the edit toolbar and it "fixes" your text.

Could also be done for marked text if necessary. This may require javascript as Extension:Add Button does.

File List with MIME type detection
The current File list simply lists all uploaded files. No funtions except items number limitations. As soon as you have lots of different file types it's pretty unhandy. I'd like to be able to display a list of all files per MIME type detection (AUDIO, VIDEO, MULTIMEDIA, etc.). A table like now, but additionally it should link the page(s) on which the file is used (as used on the file description page). For space reasons those could be linked in the "Name" column below the name, each article a new row. Selecting the MIME type from the drop-down menue should be possible as on Special:Log and the same for linking a pre-selected type, e.g. Special:Log/upload.

If the MIME type detection should be a crappy idea it would also work this way: Define the types by file extensions, e.g. for displaying Audio: Find all *.mp3, *.wav, *.ogg etc.
 * ok i could work on Special:MIMEsearch but it doesn't solve the problem completely. What i want is the MIMEsearch box on the Upload Log.

Play audio files on page without any player
I'm looking for a way to make internal and maybe even external audio files play on the page, without a real player extension.

I want to link the files in normal article page text, with the possibility to let the url work normally but also to play it without leaving the page or by drag-dropping the url into a local machine player. A click on a small audio symbol left to the link (just like the external link symbol on the right) should make the music play, a second click should stop the playback.

It should work with [[Media:Audio File Name.mp3|Alt Text]] for internal files but also for external links that may be put into a syntax like http://address.com/external_file.mp3. Extensions like FlashMP3 break the line and use default space. Very unhandy. This is handy and what I'm kinda looking for. Thanks for any help!

Flexible Watchlists
I'd love to see an extension that allows flexible lists just like the watchlist but without displaying the latest changes, e-mail notification on changes etc., primarily just to list the articles I have added to the list.

Example: Many wikis are about collectable things. Let's assume a wiki about those pokemon cards. Each article of the main namespace stands for one unique pokemon card. Now it would be great if users could keep track of which they already have and which they want. So I imagine new tabs where the "watch" is located reading sth like: [own] [want].

So combined with that, those lists should be located on top aswell where "my watchlist" is atm. In this example it would be "my collection" and "my wantlist". I could also imagine a list for "my favourite articles". Such a list itself should primarily list the articles which were added to it. Now even more awesome would be to search inside such personal list :)

Such a feature could also come with some added value for all users by giving out statistic lists like:

On each article page: "X users own this" or "X users want this" or "X users boomarked this" etc. or "Hitlists" like most owned or most wanted. Or for personal use: List all articles not in my collection or not in my wantlist...

The names for those lists should be easily changable at one place of the code (sth like $list1name= and $list2name=). Note that eachlist has 2 names; one for adding it to the list and one name to display the list. Flexible names would be important cos of the different use of the wikis which may use it. E.g. in my wiki articles are not called articles. Or in the pokemon wiki "artcile" could be called "card page" etc.

I hope I could demonstrate the variety of possibilities by such felxible watchlists. If anyone has an idea how to set this up, pls let me know!