Ostrzyciel

Ahoy! I'm Ostrzyciel, former MW extension developer. I speak Polish and English.

I am no longer developing any of my MW extensions. I only merge PRs and update them to newer MW versions on an extremely occasional basis. If you would like to take over any of my projects, please contact me.

You can contact me through my talk page or on Libera (nick Ostrzyciel).

Extensions

They are ordered from pretty normal to batshit crazy.

MediaUploader – almost finished, a shiny fork of UploadWizard that aims to be vastly more configurable and usable for third parties.
- Although the extension was brought up to full functionality, I never released it due to me moving on from MW development in general.
- I wish I could continue this work, but this is unfortunately not possible (and it won't ever be). If you want to finish this, please contact me. You would do the community a great service.
NamespacePreload – a simple, nice and stable extension for preloading text in the edit form.
RatePage – rating pages and setting up contests.
MarkImages – marking images on category pages based on the category they belong to.
AdvancedBacklinks – true craziness starts here. What if we messed with the parser to forcibly extract the information on which links are added through transclusions? Well, now you know.
Svetovid – I challenge you to find an extension with a more complicated setup process. It uses science and black magic to automatically suggest links to pages, while keeping Polish grammar in mind.

There are also other small extensions / tools that I wrote specifically for Nonsensopedia. You can find them on Nonsensopedia's GitLab group.

Work that I really appreciate

The stuff that has proven itself to be extremely useful, or is just a solid piece of technical work. There are many volunteers in MW development who deserve some praise, so I do it here.

The list is not exhaustive. Order is alphabetical. Most things were made by volunteers, others weren't.

DiscordRCFeed by Lens0021, for the effort put into making a really solid extension out of a quick hack.
Star Citizen Wiki fork of EmbedVideo by Octofox, for taking a bunch of unmaintained code, tidying it up and making it work again.
hCaptcha module for ConfirmEdit by Sam Reed et al., for exceptional work in combating spam on wikis. This module saved me a lot of work hours.
QuickInstantCommons by Brian Wolff, for fixing a fugly piece of core code and making it into a performance gem. Also, for making it possible to reuse content from Commons more widely. This is the kind of effort Wikimedia should be promoting, IMO; it has measurable, real impact on the reuse of free content.
SemanticMediaWiki, for being the most professionally maintained MW ecosystem of extensions. And I also like semantics.
Timeless by Isarra et al., for being a great universal skin that after several years is still waaaayyy ahead of WMF's efforts with hacking Vector.

Cheers, devs! Wasze zdrowie!

Google Summer of Code

I did a project for Wikimedia in GSoC 2020 regarding adding a reverted filter to RecentChanges and more. You can find more information on that on this subpage.