User:Eloquence
- You could give Aristotle a tutorial. And you could thrill him to the core of his being. Aristotle was an encyclopedic polymath, an all time intellect. Yet not only can you know more than him about the world. You also can have a deeper understanding of how everything works. Such is the privilege of living after Newton, Darwin, Einstein, Planck, Watson, Crick and their colleagues. -- Richard Dawkins
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.