Hi, this is a heads up about this suggestion:
A proper catalog for extensions https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46704
We want to know whether this could become a good candidate for the Outreach Program for Women:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreach_Program_for_Women
Feedback welcome (especially in the bug report). All the better if someone wants to step in as potential mentor for this project.
I would *really* love if this could be implemented with an eye towards providing machine-readable search. Even if that's not the initial step, we should eventually be able to have an administrator console special page on the wiki that gets you into that portal and automates installation...
Collecting ideas from prior discussions and prepping up a plan would definitely be a good intern-ish task, and that can scale out to implementation depending on what details we choose to go with.
-- brion
On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 1:27 PM, Quim Gil qgil@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi, this is a heads up about this suggestion:
A proper catalog for extensions https://bugzilla.wikimedia.**org/show_bug.cgi?id=46704https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46704
We want to know whether this could become a good candidate for the Outreach Program for Women:
https://www.mediawiki.org/**wiki/Outreach_Program_for_**Womenhttps://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreach_Program_for_Women
Feedback welcome (especially in the bug report). All the better if someone wants to step in as potential mentor for this project.
-- Quim Gil Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/**User:Qgilhttp://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil
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God yes!!!
Now the catalog of extensions is total... wiki. I think that creation of such catalog is not only programming task but also some changes related to the actual process of publishing, documenting and quality assurance of the extensions. The first things that come to my mind: 1) install semantic extensions so that it would be possible to search through extensions by various parameters (smth like that but better: http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/advanced-search) 2) allow users to rate the extensions and provide some analytics, filtering and sorting based on that (for example showing the best rated) 3) add the information about what's happenning with the code of the extension to its page. This will allow to search recently changed extensions and quickly see those which have been abandonned.
I think that this task is very important and maybw the first step will be to find other software that has good extension catalog and learn from them.
----- Yury Katkov, WikiVote
On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 12:27 AM, Quim Gil qgil@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi, this is a heads up about this suggestion:
A proper catalog for extensions https://bugzilla.wikimedia.**org/show_bug.cgi?id=46704https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46704
We want to know whether this could become a good candidate for the Outreach Program for Women:
https://www.mediawiki.org/**wiki/Outreach_Program_for_**Womenhttps://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreach_Program_for_Women
Feedback welcome (especially in the bug report). All the better if someone wants to step in as potential mentor for this project.
-- Quim Gil Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/**User:Qgilhttp://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil
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On 03/29/2013 10:18 PM, Yury Katkov wrote:
I think that this task is very important and maybw the first step will be to find other software that has good extension catalog and learn from them.
Well, if you want an intern working on this during 3 months then the first step is actually:
On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 12:27 AM, Quim Gil qgil@wikimedia.org wrote:
All the better if someone wants to step in as potential mentor for this project.
Anybody?
I've never tried to participate in such programs, but I think I'm competent enough to apply as a mentor. In short, I'd love to help. ----- Yury Katkov, WikiVote
On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 8:14 AM, Quim Gil qgil@wikimedia.org wrote:
On 03/29/2013 10:18 PM, Yury Katkov wrote:
I think that this task is very important and maybw the first step will be to find other software that has good extension catalog and learn from them.
Well, if you want an intern working on this during 3 months then the first step is actually:
On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 12:27 AM, Quim Gil qgil@wikimedia.org wrote:
All the better if someone wants to step in as potential mentor for this project.
Anybody?
-- Quim Gil Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/**User:Qgilhttp://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil
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On 04/02/2013 06:52 AM, Yury Katkov wrote:
I've never tried to participate in such programs, but I think I'm competent enough to apply as a mentor. In short, I'd love to help.
Thank you! The project is now featured for Outreach Program for Women:
Research & propose a catalog of extensions http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mentorship_programs/Possible_projects#Research...
Feel free improving the entry.
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