User:Aaron Schulz

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MediaWiki stuff
I do work in both adding functionality to core components as well as writing badly needed major extensions. I'll sometimes do cleanup/documentation if I am bored ;).

I have an interest in CMS related ideas, such as revisiondelete, flagging revisions, and approving accounts.

Projects worked on

 * User:Voice of All/CheckUser2.0 (Extension:CheckUser)
 * Bitfields for rev deleted
 * IPv6 support
 * Make MergeHistory special page

Extensions

 * Extension:FlaggedRevs
 * Extension:DeletedContributions
 * Extension:ConfirmAccount (for Citizendium)

Todo maybe

 * Bug 10347
 * Write Extension:ParserFunctions

Specific major bugs worked on

 * 516 (implemented)
 * 3303 (implemented)
 * 4288 (implemented)
 * 5044 (implemented)
 * 4627 (implemented)
 * 8131 (implemented)
 * 3281 (implemented)
 * 8290 (implemented)
 * 8133 (implemented)
 * 3576 (implemented)
 * 5546 (implemented)
 * 8796 (implemented)
 * 1196 (implemented)
 * 10347

General

 * MediaWiki roadmap

Notes on Parser.php

 * [21:15] Tim Starling did a major rewrite creating the skeleton of what we now call the "parser" a few years ago.
 * [21:16] Naturally, time and user demands called for this to have new things added, and I don't suppose it really occurred to anyone to write a formal spec.
 * [21:17] Now we're popular, and everyone wants to be able to use our content, and when they ask how to do it reliably, we're caught trousers down with our regexes hanging out.

Notes on extensions
Many core developers write extensions and have them peer reviewed. However, there are also many third party extension, some that are not hosted on the WikiMedia SVN site, some even with unprotected code on wiki pages. Be careful when installing such. Potential breakage (like DeleteUser and logs), security vulnerabilities like inefficient easy-to-DOS queries, poor default user permission settings, failure to escape inputted data by users when outputting as HTML (can cause JS injection), SQL injection and other such stuff is more likely to be present.

Also, instructions can be a bit unclear and confusing:


 * [22:38]		How do i install Infobox? i tried the one on http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Infobox_Data_Capture, but the SQL has error when i try input into database
 * [22:39]		MySQL said: Documentation
 * [22:39]		#1064 - You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '.`_infoboxdata` (
 * [22:39]		`ib_from` int(8) unsigned NOT NULL def' at line 1
 * [22:39]		VoiceOfAll, LOL.

MediaWiki skins
[21:53]		Why must MediaWiki's skinning system be so hard?

Language stuff

 * En-native
 * Fr-2