So you wanna be a MediaWiki coder?

Some easy bugs to cut your teeth on…

  • Bug 1600 – clean up accidental == header markup == in new sections. (Note — there’s an unrelated patch which got posted on this bug by mistake ages ago, just ignore it. :)
  • Bug 11389 – current diff views probably should clear watchlist update notifications generally, as they do for talk page notifications.
  • Bug 11380 – the ‘Go’ search shortcut needs some namespace option lovin’…

Or maybe you’re prefer to clean up an old patch and get it ready to go?

  • Bug 900 – Fix category column spacing. Since letter headers take up more space than individual lines, we get oddly balanced columns if some letters are better represented than others…
    Age: 2 years, 7 months. Ouch! :)
    Patch status: Applied with only minor cleanup, this function hasn’t changed much! There seems to be something wrong with the algorithm here; while it seems to balance a bit better, I see items dropped off the end of the list sometimes. Needs more work.
  • Bug 1433 – HTML meta info for interlanguage links.
    Age: Two years, seven months.
    Patch status: Applied after minor changes, but doesn’t seem compatible. Provided an alternate version which seems to work with SeaMonkey and Lynx. Is this an appropriate thing, and how do we i18nize the link text?