User talk:Peter17

Google Summer of Code 2010
Thanks for expressing an interest in MediaWiki for Google Summer of Code 2010. Please note (if you haven't already done so) that you must apply and a submit proposal at http://socghop.appspot.com/gsoc/student/apply/google/gsoc2010 by April 9 at the latest or a slot will not be reserved. Thanks! -- RobLa 19:38, 1 April 2010 (UTC)

Interwiki
On a practical level this is the killer ap for "reasonably efficient cross wiki trasclusion", beacause the interwikis could "just" be dumped to a central wiki, this would save thousands of edits a day, keep them all up to date etc. etc, There would need to be a little work for special cases, buit they are few and far betweeen.

The second significant use might well be for user/user talk pages. Users would be able to transclude their main page on some, all or none of the other projects.

The use for infoboxen and similar is more complex, having data outside in template spaace, with the exception of navboxes is generally frowned on, and constructing a self=translating template would be tricky, and prone to problems.

Rich Farmbrough

Good luck
I wish you success in your project. As you say, "it needs a lot of energy at the beginning to get to know the code"; I found that my first projects were very frustrating and even demoralizing, and I wondered whether I had what it takes to become a successful MediaWiki developer. However, after the first successful project or two, it was a lot easier, and now I have confidence that I can accomplish pretty much anything. The key seems to be to sketch out the big picture and then to break the project up into manageable chunks that can be tested independently. Tisane 00:35, 2 June 2010 (UTC)