User:X!/MediaWiki

I am a MediaWiki developer, volunteering my time to make the software for Wikipedia better.

My areas of expertise are in the following:

• Core
  • The api.php interface
  • Unit testing
• Extensions
  • Extension:SyntaxHighlight GeSHi
  • Extension:CheckUser

What I've done

• Unit tests
  • Made them non-destructive
  • Large amount of bugfixing
• API
  • format=dump
  • Required params
• Multiple bugfixes.

More stuff that I can't remember...

Current projects and todos

• Improve the MediaWiki unit testing suite, expand it to test much of the code, and get Selenium to work nicely.
• Deprecate $wgPageProps, use new PageProps::register() method.

Future projects

• Convert call_user_func ( _array) to MWFunction::call (Array)
• Rewrite the CheckUser extension to use current code standards, complete with API
• Get XMPP support working, instead of IRC as a RC feed
• (Long term) Get rid of globals
  • Make MWConfig class, convert all instances of $wg to use it.
  • wfGetDB to Database::get();