User:SamanthaNguyen

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This user is an administrator on MediaWiki.org. (verify) This user is a proud MediaWiki extension developer.

I'm an independent software developer. I focus on maintenance work around the wiki. Extensions I'm currently maintaining and developing:

• StructuredNavigation - A MediaWiki extension that allows creating machine-readable navigation templates.

I was invited to come talk about the StructuredNavigation extension at the MediaWiki Stakeholder's Group on the October 2nd meeting! It was very cool and exciting.

Subpages

• SamanthaNguyen/Contributions
• SamanthaNguyen/Db column
• SamanthaNguyen/ExampleExtensionJson
• SamanthaNguyen/Extending VisualEditor
• SamanthaNguyen/Guides/Global functions
• SamanthaNguyen/Guides/HTMLForm
• SamanthaNguyen/Guides/Writing an extension
• SamanthaNguyen/Guides/Writing special pages
• SamanthaNguyen/Regular expressions
• SamanthaNguyen/Sandbox
• SamanthaNguyen/Sandbox/2
• SamanthaNguyen/Sandbox/DB table page
• SamanthaNguyen/Sandbox/Diffusion
• SamanthaNguyen/Sandbox/MW file
• SamanthaNguyen/Sandbox/MW file/Usage
• SamanthaNguyen/Sandbox/PHP libraries
• SamanthaNguyen/Sandbox/db table
• SamanthaNguyen/Todo
• SamanthaNguyen/Wiki/Historical
• SamanthaNguyen/configuration-settings
• SamanthaNguyen/git
• SamanthaNguyen/git/commit-msg
• SamanthaNguyen/version-page-updates

Contributions

A non-comprehensive list of some contributions I have made to the wiki!

• Templates I created (please disregard the different casing styles in the template names)
  • External link templates
    • Template:NPM package
    • Template:Packagist
    • Template:CVE entry
    • Template:PHPLibraryLinks
  • Code formatting
    • Template:Describe table
    • Template:Show index in table
    • Template:Table name from page
  • UI
    • Template:ContentGrid
    • Template:FramelessInfoCard
    • Template:GoodFirstBugProject
    • Template:InfoCard
    • Template:NewDeveloperProject
    • Template:TwoColumnGrid
  • Site messages
    • Template:Dropped Oracle MSSQL
    • Template:MediaWiki PHP 7.4.0 to 7.4.2
    • Template:MediaWiki hooks included in file
    • Template:Undocumented Extension Hook
    • Template:Undocumented configuration setting
• Templates I contributed to
  • Template:ContentHandler
  • Template:HookUsage
  • Template:ExtensionHook
  • Template:MediaWikiHook
  • Template:SettingSummary

Things to do

• Big things to consider possibly doing in the future. (of course these would probably need some discussion beforehand)
• Some are also small and I just need to get around doing

Today is November 23, 2024

• Skin:Vector/Hooks/VectorBeforeFooter: https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-skins-Vector/commit/a7c983a2edccda6a1d5f36580ab117a2e0d79f0e
• Skin:Vector/Hooks/VectorAfterToolbox: https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-skins-Vector/commit/ea52da4dd0e51950b153cef3ee260edeb6d3608d

Modules to create

• Module for Template:Compatibility browser
• Module for Template:Compatibility PHP
• Module for on Template:Compatibility DB
• Module for table on Version lifecycle
• Module for data on Bundled extensions and skins, this would also help auto-populate the data in Template:Bundled
• Module for data on Extension default namespaces, for extensions that have migrated to using extension.json

Modules to update

• Update Module:Extension to do the following:
  • Auto-generate list of authors (possibly have another module that could map author name to wiki page so it'd auto-link)
  • Auto-generate MediaWiki version required
  • (possibly, for maintenance) Auto-add categories to extension pages based on which information is auto-generated:
    • [[Category:Extensions that have their hooks information manually inserted]]
    • [[Category:Extensions that have their hooks information automatically generated]]
    • etc.

Templates to create

• The following warning templates for software support should be created, since this information is important, and also since the same is used across many articles
  • Warning template for dropped support of HHVM
  • Warning template for dropped support of Oracle and MSSQL (see {{Dropped Oracle MSSQL }})
  • Warning template that MediaWiki is currently incompatibile with PHP between 7.4.0 and 7.4.2 (see {{MediaWiki PHP 7.4.0 to 7.4.2 }})

Templates to update

Hook template

Consolidation

Would be great to consolidate Template:ExtensionHook, Template:MediaWikiHook, and a skin hook template (doesn't exist yet, however skins provide their own hooks too).

Could be consolidated with a {{{type}}}, and "extension", "skin", or "core" could be used.

If {{{type}}} equals "extension" or "skin", provide a {{{repo-name}}} parameter to use. Links would automatically work based on the value of {{{type}}}.

Auto-generated categories

These hook templates should have auto-generated categories for maintenance purposes for when certain parameters aren't filled. Such as when the {{{gerrit}}} or {{{rev}}} isn't filled, there should be a Category:MediaWiki hooks that don't have a link to a Gerrit patch (that could also probably be better named). This information is historical info and thus it's important to find which ones need filling their historical info out.

More template parameters for version data

There should be a {{{gerrit-deprecated}}} and {{{gerrit-removed}}} parameter to pair with the already existing {{{deprecated}}} and {{{removed}}} respectively, to link to those patches based on when they were deprecated/removed.

Maintenance

Pages to update across site for every new version

To help keep things up to date when a new version is released, we have a list of pages to create or update all in one place down below.

Modules

• Update: Module:Version

Pages in the mainspace

• Update: Release notes
• Update/Create: [[Release notes/x.xx]]
• Update: Version lifecycle
• Update: [[MediaWiki x.xx]]

Categories

• Update: Category:MediaWiki version templates
• Hooks:
  • Create: [[Category:Hooks added in MediaWiki x.xx.x]]
  • Create: [[Category:Hooks deprecated in MediaWiki x.xx.x]]
  • Create: [[Category:Hooks removed in MediaWiki x.xx.x]]
• Configuration settings:
  • Create: [[Category:MediaWiki_configuration_settings_x.xx.x]]
  • Create: [[Category:MediaWiki configuration settings introduced in version x.xx.x]]
  • Create: [[Category:MediaWiki configuration settings deprecated in version x.xx.x]]‎
  • Create: [[Category:MediaWiki configuration settings removed in version x.xx.x]]‎

Templates

• Update: Template:CS cat header
• Update: Template:MediaWiki News
• Create: [[Template:MW x.xx]] (e.g Template:MW 1.30)