User talk:Gero
I am interested to promote DPL to become part of mediawiki / wikipedia. How do you feel about this idea?
I agree, it seems very useful.--Patrick 15:14, 17 February 2007 (CET)
Your message at my Wikisource talk page
Hi, and thanks for your message (you said to reply here).
I tool a look at your DPL extension. It looks nice, and I think I understand some of what you are trying to accomplish with it, but my technical expertise is limited and I don't fully understand it. I am also not entirely clear as to what elements of Labeled Section Transclusion are included in DPL.
As to how to promote these things: First, people with technical expertise have to build a working, tested extension. That has apparently been accomplished both with DPL and LST.
The next step is to get the senior developers to actually apply the extension live at Wikimedia wikis (for instance, LST was designed for Wikisource). I thought that this second step would be easy, but apparently it is not, because the developers are extremely busy and have a huge list of things to be implemented. So you have to keep reminding, lobbying, etc., for instance on IRC or Wikitech mail (I don't have access to IRC).
It would be great if you could further clarify, in layman's terms, about DPL and how it incorporates LST. And lobbying is useful too...
Best to reach me at my Wikisource page as you did. Dovi
- please see my answer at the end of Talk:Manual --Gero 20:53, 19 February 2007 (CET)
Developer note
Hi! Thanks for the hard work on the DPL, it's so much more useful than when I used to work on it. Please see my message at Discussion. -- IlyaHaykinson 12:00, 25 February 2007 (CET)
- Thanks for the compliment. I think something like DPL is really needed for MediaWiki and it´s worth investing time and energy ... -- Gero 15:31, 26 February 2007 (CET)
