User:Eloquence
- All good soldiers fall in line,
- Marching and singing,
- Will go anywhere the president says,
- Because the president believes in God,
- Like all good soldiers should. — Bad Religion
Dipl.-Inform. (FH) Erik Möller. Editor of infoAnarchy. Webmaster of The Origins of Peace and Violence and Der Humanist (German). Freelance writer, coder, analyst, researcher. Personal Homepage (German). I am a sysop and a MediaWiki developer. I am fairly active on the mailing lists and try to take a look at most current policy issues.
Stuff I started here on Meta:
- Wikinews proposal and vote
- Wikimedia Commons proposal
- foundation-l (based on m:Foundation-L Proposal)
- I created the first Wikipedia IRC channel, #wikipedia, as well as #mediawiki and #wikinews.
- Requests for permissions
- Power structure
- Development policy
- article count reform, first Wikimedia-wide vote
- international logo contest
- edit summary prefill poll
- extension syntax vote
- merge of intlwiki-l and wikipedia-l (voting page has been deleted for mysterious reasons)
- Wikimedia COTW
I contributed to and strongly believe in the Wikiversity idea.
Specs and ideas:
Code:
- subpages (can be enabled or disabled on a per-namespace basis)
- ability to edit individual sections
- graphical edit toolbar
- section anchors allow linking to individual sections
- table of contents feature
- conceived and implemented first generation of Wikimedia Commons
- double-click editing
- some skin work, mostly on the old Standard skin
- "Watch this article" checkbox and "Watch new and modified articles" user preference
- "Mark all edits minor by default" user preference
- Go button to view articles directly
- Talk pages for anonymous users; more visible Talk page change notification
- Wikipedia:Book sources
- Improvements to deletion, e.g. pre-fill reason box with content
- "Ancient pages"
- diff-link and history link in user contributions list
- automatically add section titles to the edit summary
- links in edit summaries
- external editor support
- Help: namespace, custom extra namespaces, and finally the namespace manager and complete namespace redesign
- multiline upload description
- optional email authentication requirement for editing (based on existing auth code)
- inputbox extension
- TODO:
- voting
- (team) certification
- disambiguation needs to be somehow supported in code (#REDIRECT?)
- improved redirect syntax
- better interlanguage link system
- watch new and/or modified instead of just "watch new and modified", possibly improved auto-watchlist for discussions, improved watchlist (show revisions prior to last edit/last view)
- Recent changes really needs a redesign. It works if you know how to use it, but if you don't, it's a usability nightmare, esp. the enhanced version. See also m:Recent Changes redesign
- History search for keywords that shows the first diff where this keyword was added to (removed from?) the article
- m:FileReplacement instead of / in addition to protected pages
Art:
- designed MediaWiki logo (flower by Anthere)
Declaration of bias:
- I am opposed to irrationalism, be it in the form of organized religion, miracle healers or postmodernism.
- I am strongly opposed to all types of "intellectual property".
- I am in favor of personal liberties (speech, abortion, sex, drugs etc.).
- I am in favor of democracy and capitalism.
- I am in favor of a working social system.
- I am not a pacifist.