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After doing a pile of research on how to best create an extension management platform for MediaWiki as my Google Summer of Code project<\/a>, I realized that a lot of the work that I wanted to do was already done in some form or another, and decided to somewhat augment my goals. Since I can build upon Configure<\/a>, and the Deployment Framework<\/a> of Ontoprise<\/a>, it should now be possible to also take care of the MediaWiki and extension configuration that I put as optional in my original proposal<\/a>. To have some transparency here, and not to cause misconceptions, I created an awesome<\/strong> new roadmap<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I did an attempt to get some feedback by posting my roadmap on wikitech-l, but apparently everyone is either happy with it, or more likely, Parkinson’s Law of Triviality is in play here. So feedback and suggestions are definitely welcome, you can post them on the discussion page<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As Configure is doing an awesome<\/strong> job already without making significant changes to any existing code, I decided to start off with the Deployment Framework. I’m currently in the process of figuring out how it works exactly, so I’m able to extend it’s features, and build a GUI in the form of several MediaWiki special pages on top of it. This will have some immediate pay-off as Ontoprise will be able to use this improved version directly.<\/p>\n

Both my presentations for Wikimania 2010<\/a> have been accepted, of which one is about my project<\/a>, which will give me a change to explain to people what I’m doing and why it’s so awesome<\/strong> \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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