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User:Martin10

I'm currently a Computer Science student at the University of Eindhoven, the Netherlands. In my spare time I create webpages and do some development in open source projects. I've also a weblog: http;//www.wolkje.net (this site is using WordPress). I'm using WordPress since (at least) version 1.0. AFter some server crashes, most of my earlier posts were lost (unfortunately). I developed some plugins for personal use and create multiple WordPress Themes in the past. I think I have some knowledge on the internal workings of WordPress, and intend to put this knowledge to use now by helping improve the documentation and providing some bugfixes.

I'm currently improving/completing the Function Reference. Because I'm a supporter of the 'Don't repeat yourself' paradigm, I created a template/Convertor for [1] in order to generate templates for the function reference (the various headers, the parameters and their types, the return value and so on) in a format which can be put on the Wiki without further editing. This script isn't finished and also not bug free, but I'm sure that will be the case in a reasonable amount of time. Obviously, the script uses the JavaDoc/phpDoc inline documentation. Because I think it is easier (for me) to create the function reference this way, instead of copy/pasting everything manually (which also improves the error rate), I will create Javadoc/phpDoc-style inline documentation. I noticed that there were various discussions in the past on Inline Documentation, I don't expect the inline documentation to be adopted by the WordPress developers. However, I will create patches of the documented parts of WordPress and add them to trac.