User talk:Jldupont

BizzWiki related
see Extension_talk:BizzWiki

Messed up extension
Ouch! I hope not. Can you clarify? - I'm not seeing the problem. Not in the browser (same Firefox) and not in the template code.

The changes I made only added choices to the list of types. They should not have affected layout unless I made a typo. I tried doing a diff to compare the current version with the version before my changes and I can't see the typo if there is one. If you can see anything I missed, help would be appreciated.
 * Some newer extensions (i.e. recently posted on MediaWiki.org) I stumbled upon appeared messed up; but now, I can't find which ones. Sorry.
 * I have looked at some of my extensions and they appear OK.
 * Sorry for the confusion. Jean-Lou Dupont 13:25, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

If you are referring to the <?php /* that seems to appear at the start of many of your extension pages, it may have another source. I noticed them in my browser before I changed the template. I don't believe that this version of MediaWiki has any extensions that support embedded PHP (check Special:Version to be sure) and the MediaWiki core markup certainly doesn't (it is a security risk for an open-to-the-public wiki like this one). Egfrank 07:29, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
 * No I am not referring to <?php /* appearing on my extension pages; I know where these come from: I do not like to maintain multiple pages with the same content. The extension pages I post on MediaWiki.org come straight out of my Google Code SVN file; those are executable PHP pages. So, when I copy an extension from my SVN to MediaWiki.org, I just cut&paste the actual executable PHP code. Of course I could remove the extra <?php /* but sometimes I forget. Sorry for that. Jean-Lou Dupont 13:25, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Are you still having problems with the "way things look?
 * Whoops - no need to answer - just saw your note above. But thanks for the feedback anyway. Egfrank 13:30, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

Backup related extension
Do you mean an extension that assists in backups? In theory there is no reason why it couldn't exist - most professionally administered installations probably have a few mediawiki backup scripts lying around. I know we do. I did a quick search and found Extension:Backup & Restore (unstable) Your mediawiki maintenance directory also has a nifty little script dumpHTML.php Although I suspect you already know about both of these.

Did you have something specific in mind? Egfrank 20:07, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Well, I am writing an extension that provides a 'backup' hook; this hook will be used by another extension of mine which provides a backup facility to Amazon S3.Jean-Lou Dupont 20:19, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
 * This sounds like the kind of thing that would normally be put on a special page. Perhaps you want to consider writing a subclass of special page and then add a custom hook that lets those who install your special page extension define custom backup procedures in addition to whatever ones you bundle with your extension.  Egfrank 11:17, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
 * There will be a special page but still I will define a new hook in case some other extensions want to have their say in the process. Jean-Lou Dupont 11:36, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

(TODO) While we're on the topic of hooks
I've been doing some cleanup on Category:Hook extensions and Extension hook registry. I've noticed you've defined quite a number of custom hooks for your extensions. Perhaps you might want to add some documentation of each of those hooks to the Extension hook registry - it would help users make better use of your extensions. Egfrank 11:17, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Of course. Jean-Lou Dupont 11:37, 10 September 2007 (UTC)