Edit: Thanks for all the responses, I didn’t expect we had so many webdevs here lol. To complete the brief, the first thing we’ll need to do I think is upgrade the PHP which is on an EOL version. What we are looking for is someone who shows initiative, it’s how we work at ProleWiki from the admins down to the newest editors. You’ll be able and encouraged to come up with your own solutions, ours may of course not be the best we could get. Our keywords are scalability, maintenance, and optimization, always to better serve the readers.
We have tons of ideas for the future, but every time we find a developer, either they don’t know PHP (I can’t blame them) or they bail.
I’m looking for a PHP dev who wants to help out with ProleWiki. We have tons of cool ideas to really bring this show on the road, but nobody to put them into action.
Can’t guarantee we can pay you (and if we can believe me it won’t be a wage), but you get tons of perks such as being part of a cool, chill, growing community, a project bigger than any of us, and I can even write you a letter of recommendation I don’t mind.
As we look towards the future and where ProleWiki can grow and better serve its readers, we come to the conclusion we need more tech. And for that we need at least one PHP dev.
ProleWiki runs on MediaWiki and a VPS. We’re thinking of getting an S3 bucket as that seems more and more needed every day (it’s just our processes make acquiring stuff a bit slow). One thing I would want to optimize for example is image delivery.
If you’re interested hit me up.
Its seems pretty interesting. Now day MediaWiki is one of the largest codebases in PHP out there. But Wikimedia has excellent resources, somewhat extensive, but very good, from the lowest level sections (database, backend) to the style (css), plugins and frontend, including the scripts (lua). Although as @CriticalResist8@lemmygrad.ml comments that much is done in a very artisanal way, I think more than anything that the correct organization of the main dev, including admins and contributors, a lot of progress can be made with the limited resources available.