User talk:Aaron Schulz

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Welcome

Tasks: start a new article • add basic, wanted or requested articles • add definitions • add metadata • edit new pages

Welcome to the Citizendium! We hope you will contribute boldly and well. Here are pointers for a quick start, and see Getting Started for other helpful "startup" links, our help system and CZ:Home for the top menu of community pages. You can test out editing in the sandbox if you'd like. If you need help to get going, the forum is one option. That's also where we discuss policy and proposals. You can ask any user or the editors for help, too. Just put a note on their "talk" page. Again, welcome and have fun!

You can find some more information about our collaboration groups if you follow this link CZ:Workgroups.You can always ask me on my talk page or others about how to proceed or any other question you might have.

Have fun and Happy editing!

--Matt Innis (Talk) 21:49, 7 June 2007 (CDT)

OK, thanks :) Aaron Schulz 23:10, 7 June 2007 (CDT)

Thanks

Hi Aaron. Thanks for your tech work on the wiki. Semi-automated account registration is going to be an incredible service to users.  —Stephen Ewen (Talk) 19:19, 6 October 2007 (CDT)

I hope so :) I'd like to help out more here really. As I get more academic and informal experience (with apache/squid/threading and such) I'd like to become a sysadmin here if I still have the time. In the mean time, feel free to send any bug reports/extension requests to me (as long as it is a consensus idea). Aaron Schulz 19:24, 6 October 2007 (CDT)

Three cheers for Aaron! --Robert W King 16:46, 7 October 2007 (CDT)

Javascript/PHP

Aaron- can you tell me what I need to do in order to create a javascript or php submission form so that data may be submitted and written to an article, or other page space? I want to add/change functionality to some of the wizards and create a new one, but I'm not sure exactly how to interface with mediawiki. --Robert W King 21:19, 4 December 2007 (CST)

automation

Hi Aaron, do you know if there is any reason that this step cannot be automated? [1]. D. Matt Innis 22:23, 5 January 2008 (CST)

This has been implemented now. Aaron Schulz 10:33, 5 March 2008 (CST)

Hi Aaron

I replied at User_talk:Stephen_Ewen#Areas_of_expertise_only. Stephen Ewen 17:57, 7 January 2008 (CST)

StringFunctions?

Hi, any chance we can get Extension:StringFunctions added to CZ? It would be useful. According to the Bugzilla entry here, it's in pretty good shape now, and on another Bugzilla thread TimS or Brion said something about how they likely would add either that package, or something like it, to WP at some point.

Actually, there are a number of useful MediaWiki markup extensions we would use. Since we are doing a lot of stuff with templates (for a variety of reasons - i) lack of people who can hack PHP; ii) template hacking is less likely to crash the whole system; iii) templates, which are purely local, are less likely to get bashed by MediaWiki development, etc, etc), more powerful template semantics would help us.

Yes, I know they can be inefficient, etc, but we can always replace them later with builtin stuff, and as long as the template wasn't subst'd, we just change the template to call the new builtin function. J. Noel Chiappa 09:07, 17 March 2008 (CDT)

They don't seem to be supporting it right now, in so much as making suggestions. According to the comment by Ross M., significant code changes were done that solve the problem. I don't know how efficient it is. Someone would have to review it. Additionally, I am not a sysadmin here, so I can't install anything; Greg Mullane would be the one to talk to about that. Lastly, I am sure it can have has its uses here, but did you have anything particular in mind? Aaron Schulz 00:24, 18 March 2008 (CDT)