User:Mooeypoo



I'm a Physicist-turned-Computer Scientist from New York. I have a Bachelor's degree in Physics and I'm currently pursuing a Masters degree in Computer Science.

I'm also participating in a research group in campus creating agent-based models in Java. I have working knowledge in Web Development (PHP, mySQL, Javascript/jQuery, CSS, HTML5) and created a couple of small extensions. I also work with Java and Perl and have some limited experience with C and C++.

I'm a firm believer in free access and open source tools. My personal website is also available, and contains some web and programming projects I've done lately.

GSoC2013 Project
My Google Summer of Code project will focus on providing better RTL Support in VisualEditor. I've already started submitting code fixes as I'm delving into the VisualEditor codebase, and I am hoping to get more community feedback from the hebrew Wikipedia so I can help aim the solution to the users. My mentor this summer is Amir Aharoni and I am also working with James Forrester and the great team of VisualEditor.

Take a look at the full full proposal here.

Feedback is always appreciated!

Availability
I'm in the East Coast, but I'm a night owl, and sleep is overrated when you're a grad student anyways. I am also extremely attached to my tech gadgets, so I'm fairly easy to reach.

That said, I'll update this page soon with more official working hours.

Here are the ways to find me online:
 * IRC: irc.freenode.net / mooeypoo
 * Email and/or Google+ Hangouts: moriel [at] gmail [dot] com

Contributions
I have started submitting bug fixes to MediaWiki and extensions, including VisualEditor:
 * Fixed: Bug 47717 - VisualEditor: Link inspector input text always has LTR direction}: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/61960/
 * Fixed: Bug 36032 - The reference number should be bidi-isolated: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/61634/
 * Fixed: Bug 45585 - Keyboard Icon of Language selector for RTL languages should be at left: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/61749/ (Submitted to GitHub repository for jQuery.IME)

Special:ExtensionStatus
I've created a preliminary extension for MediaWiki that's based on Special:Version page.

This special page displays a list of the user's installed extensions with the status of its available updates. For the moment, the extension checks changes in front of a Gerrit repository only, but the plan is to adapt to code to work in front of the Mediawiki GitHub mirrors for better performance.

For details about the (ongoing) development of this extension, see Extension:ExtensionStatus

Note: For the moment the extension code is in Github, but a Gerrit repository has already been created, and the code will be migrated there in the next couple of weeks.