Hi all,
In response to [0] I am considering volunteering to develop the tabbed search interface [2] [3]. To me it looks like more logical, more familiar to users compared to the other interfaces.
I'm Gryllida at Wikimedia sites. I have prior Perl and JavaScript experience interacting with the MediaWiki API [1], but none in PHP. The JavaScript things I wrote are rather scattered; I have only minimal understanding of objects and modules as I only wrote subroutine style scripts before. At home, I use a GNU/Linux Debian desktop.
So this week I came to IRC and asked several questions to get an idea of what the Discovery team is doing. Thanks Deborah for sharing the current state of things! :-) I appear to realize that the tabbed interface is in the plans and nobody is working on it, so it's good to take.
We had left some questions unanswered. Particularly, is the Labs instance at [4] expected to be used for all ideas at once or only for one at a time, and is it shared between several people? Is it a good idea for me to use a Labs instance at initial development stages or only when the code is nearing completion? Or is it better to use a Vagrant instance locally? Or both?
What documentation and code do you recommend me to read? May I develop it as an extension as much as possible and not a gadget, so that people don't have to wait for page JavaScript to finish loading before they see the new sister wiki tabs?
May I please ask someone to volunteer mentoring me throughout the project? (I am in the UTC+11 timezone at present; 'gry' nickname at chat.freenode.net.)
Regards, Svetlana.
[0]: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2016-November/001... [1]: http://svetlana.nfshost.com/fs/ [2]: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Cross-wiki_Search_Result_Improvements/Design#... [3]: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Gryllida/sandbox [4]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T151344