I've co-authored two extensions that need an additional hook and
additional parameters to two existing hooks. I am requesting commit
access so that I may upload the extensions and amend the hooks.
The first is a spellchecker that I posted here a few months ago:
http://code.google.com/p/wikimediaspellchecker/
along with some contributed improvements that I've received.
I understand (based on reading the archives) that this won't be
included on wikipedia but it is useful for people who have their own
mediawiki installations, at least until ff 2.0 or ie7 become standard
everywhere. Some users of our wiki prefer this spellcheck extension
over the browser spell checkers and google spell check because of its
UI and ability to have separate custom dictionaries per wiki.
Ideally I'd like to commit this to the extensions directory so that it
can be more easily improved by interested persons. If that isn't
possible I'd like to at least commit a hook addition so that users of
this extension don't have to change the mediawiki source every time
they download a new version of mediawiki.
The second is a "track changes" / "svn blame" view that shows who is
responsible for what portions of an encyclopedia entry.
Here are some screenshots:
http://people.virginia.edu/~kjl3d/newlinks.png
http://people.virginia.edu/~kjl3d/trackchangesview.png
This is not ready for wikipedia yet but is, again, useful for smaller
local instances of mediawiki. Ideally I'd like to get this checked in
to the extensions directory so that parties interested in improving it
can do so. I'll be updating and improving it for a while but it is
usable (and being used locally) as is. I'd also like to commit some
additional parameters to a few hooks that this extension uses for the
reasons outlined above (users don't have to change the mediawiki
source every time they update their mediawiki version).
Therein lies my request for commit access.
