My team have recently started maintaining an unmaintained MediaWiki extension called Extension:OAuth2 Client again, and we want to put our library to the page mentioned above and update some information on the page. I wonder if we can do so.
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I see that you've changed that extension's repo link to your fork – though that works for on-wiki documentation and people finding the extension for the first time through this wiki, it might be smoother to fork it to a new name and set of pages for more visibility? Other than that, I don't think there's a proper process.
You mean that we should take it as a new extension?
Generally i think its fine as long as the original author doesn't object. An attempt should be made to contact the original author first and get their blessing (but if they don't respond, then i still think its fine).
If there is ever any sort of disagreement over which version is "real", then i think the original author should take precedence.
Thanks. I'll try to contact the original authors, though they seem to be inactive.
@Jdforrester (WMF)@Bawolff I have received the reply of the original author Joost de Keijzer, who allowed us to modify the extension. Meanwhile my teammate noticed that the author mentioned above is the real original author, which means the other people mentioned on that MediaWiki.org page had just forked the repo before, so could we start maintaining formally?
If you have the original author's blessing, then i certainly don't see why not.
There's nothing really formal to be done, its just where the link on the page points to, and anyone can change it.
OK, maybe what my said is easy to misunderstand... I mean I have got the original author' blessing. Sorry for my poor English (; w ;)