Ike Hecht
Ike Hecht
Chief Technology Officer, WikiTeq


About me

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I got involved in MediaWiki in April 2007 in order to create Mikomos which I maintain to this day. I am very proud of the site, but please don't judge me by it! Much of the code running on it now was written when I was a floundering beginner. My time in general is very limited so the wiki format was ideal. I have contributed very little content to the site.

The skills I learned enabled me to start some MediaWiki consulting on my own. In 2009 I was proud to hang that up to join a new consulting company WikiWorks, founded by Yaron Koren. I am currently the Chief Technology Officer at WikiWorks.

In 2018, I also became Lead Project Manager at WikiTeq and CTO in 2020.

My work

My extensions have mostly been created because somebody paid me to create them.

Skins I wrote (with initial release date):

Extensions I wrote (with initial release date):

  1. Extension:Hebrew Numbers - January 2010
  2. Extension:AdManager - October 2011
  3. Extension:GoogleCustomWikiSearch - July 2012
  4. Extension:QuizTabulate - August 2013
  5. Extension:AnchorHandler - November 2013
  6. Extension:SimpleChanges - May 2014
  7. Extension:IfTemplates - May 2014
  8. Extension:IframePage - May 2014
  9. Extension:NamespaceHTML - June 2014
  10. Extension:ListSignup - June 2014
  11. Extension:AddMessages - June 2014
  12. Extension:MultimediaPlayer - August 2014
  13. Extension:DebugMode - October 2014
  14. Extension:ContributionsList - October 2014
  15. Extension:PagesList - December 2014
  16. Extension:PaginateText - December 2014
  17. Extension:VirtualKeyboard - February 2015
  18. Extension:FlickrAPI - April 2015
  19. Extension:LinkTarget - April 2015
  20. Extension:GooglePlaces - August 2015
  21. Extension:GoogleAnalyticsMetrics - September 2015
  22. Extension:GoogleGeocode - March 2016
  23. Extension:CustomPage - May 2016
  24. Extension:ShowMe - June 2017
  25. Extension:MassMessageEmail - August 2017
  26. Extension:MetaMaster - October 2017
  27. Extension:VEForAll - July 2018
  28. Extension:PreferencesList - February 2019
  29. Extension:NamespaceSidebar - March 2019
  30. Extension:PreferencesMaster - Pending

Extensions I led development for (with initial release date):

  1. Extension:UserProtect - March 2020
  2. Extension:GroupWhitelist - April 2020
  3. Extension:CiteDrawer - July 2020
  4. Extension:PopupAlerts - July 2020
  5. Extension:PageMagic - September 2020
  6. Extension:ExternalLinkConfirm - October 2020
  7. Extension:PreferencesMaster - Pending
  8. Extension:EncryptedUploads - Pending
  9. Extension:CollapsibleSections - Pending
  10. Extension:SaveSpinner - Pending

Extensions I contributed significantly to:

Other contributions:

Widgets

Nifty Semantic MediaWiki tips

Contact me