MediaWiki hosting and development

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Between 2004 and 2010 I offered MediaWiki hosting, but have stopped accepting new customers. Existing customers are still supported.

I have done a lot of MediaWiki-related development over the years. I donated a lot of volunteer development to MediaWiki in general (most of it in 2004), and since then earned my money by doing commercial / in-house projects for customers.

Here is a list of open source contributions to MediaWiki:

• Squid cache integration and initial Wikipedia cache infrastructure: Allow Wikipedia (and other wikis) to scale.
• The Monobook skin, a pure XHTML/CSS skin with accessible content-first and table-less page source, with support for pretty much anything past IE 5.0. The public face of Wikipedia between 2004 and 2010.
• User styles and sitewide styles and scripts: Give users and site admins the power to customize their wiki experience through the wiki.
• Access keys: Speed up navigation for heavy or visually impaired users.
• XHTMLification of the parser, html tidy integration: Try hard to produce valid xhtml.
• __TOC__: Allow placement of the table of content anywhere in the page.
• Tabbed preferences: Divide the preferences in many panes defined using semantic markup and folded using javascript instead of one huge page.
• Diff selection checkbox interface: Help the user select correct pairs of versions using light-weight highlighting.
• action=raw: Access the unrendered source of a page .
• action=purge: Clear the cache for a page.
• The old phptal skin sytem.
• Misc other stuff

Between 2003 and 2005 I was also active as system administrator at Wikipedia, where I helped to grow the wiki installation there from two servers to a few dozen and developed and set up the Squid caching infrastructure. Other contributions from this period include log analysis scripts for the merging and processing of logs from many Squid frontends.