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I WANT YOU .. to stop looking at my user page and go back to work! I expect the results on my desk talk page in 30 minutes.

Erik is kinda like his role model, 60s German radical Red Rudi Dutschke, only nobody has shot Erik yet.

— Bruce Sterling

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:

• LiquidThreads
• Wikidata
• Multilingual MediaWiki
• Single login specifications (team effort)

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.