Hello,
I've been having discussions about my GSoC 2013 project with the Wikidata group on the IRC(#mediawiki-wikidata) for a few days and have completed the first draft of my proposal. I'd really appreciate some feedback on it. I welcome any queries that you may have and would love to get tips on how to improve it.
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Pragunbhutani/GSoC_2013_Proposal
On Sumanah's suggestion, I've limited the scope of the project to 6 weeks to allow time for code review and bug fixes. I thought it best to run it by Wikidata-I before sharing it with Wikitech-I for their opinion.
Many thanks!
On 26.04.2013 06:06, Pragun Bhutani wrote:
Hello,
I've been having discussions about my GSoC 2013 project with the Wikidata group on the IRC(#mediawiki-wikidata) for a few days and have completed the first draft of my proposal. I'd really appreciate some feedback on it. I welcome any queries that you may have and would love to get tips on how to improve it.
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Pragunbhutani/GSoC_2013_Proposal
Sounds very good to me already!
I'd like to mention though that "make Wikidata usable on mobile devices" and "make Wikidata editable without JavaScript" are two pretty separate concerns. While I would love to see the latter happening too, it is not a requirement for getting the former to work.
So, my advice is: make sure you don't end up trying to do two projects at once. If there is time for the non-JS editing stuff, great, but if there isn't, a complete non-JS *view* without full editing capabilities would be sufficient for supporting the mobile version.
Another note: Daniel Werner and Henning Snater are the people most involved with designing CSS and JS for the Wikibase UI.
Good luck and have fun, -- daniel
I agree with you on that. I did make that mistake while writing down my proposal at first, but Sumanah corrected me early on and advised me to limit the scope to 6 weeks.
Which is why I've decided to limit my project to "Make Wikidata usable on mobile devices." If that's sorted well in time, I'd love to add some basic edit functionality too but I've kept it in the "if time permits" category.
On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 2:44 PM, Daniel Kinzler <daniel.kinzler@wikimedia.de
wrote:
On 26.04.2013 06:06, Pragun Bhutani wrote:
Hello,
I've been having discussions about my GSoC 2013 project with the
Wikidata group
on the IRC(#mediawiki-wikidata) for a few days and have completed the
first
draft of my proposal. I'd really appreciate some feedback on it. I
welcome any
queries that you may have and would love to get tips on how to improve
it.
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Pragunbhutani/GSoC_2013_Proposal
Sounds very good to me already!
I'd like to mention though that "make Wikidata usable on mobile devices" and "make Wikidata editable without JavaScript" are two pretty separate concerns. While I would love to see the latter happening too, it is not a requirement for getting the former to work.
So, my advice is: make sure you don't end up trying to do two projects at once. If there is time for the non-JS editing stuff, great, but if there isn't, a complete non-JS *view* without full editing capabilities would be sufficient for supporting the mobile version.
Another note: Daniel Werner and Henning Snater are the people most involved with designing CSS and JS for the Wikibase UI.
Good luck and have fun, -- daniel
-- Daniel Kinzler, Softwarearchitekt Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V.
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