Hey David, I think finding TEI equivalent of Wikisource templates is a great idea. I am willing to mentor but during the initial stages of the program my end-semester exams overlap with the program. Also, I haven't written any Lua modules for Wikisource before but I can manage that. Is anyone else interested in mentoring?
Cheers, Aarti
On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 2:13 PM, David Cuenca dacuetu@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Aarti,
I think it is a good idea to start with the Author template, maybe you could post it in the Mediawiki page for the Google Code-in? https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-In
Another thing that also could be interesting is to find the equivalent of wikisource templates as TEI tags.
Will you be mentoring?
Cheers, David
On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 10:04 PM, Aarti K. Dwivedi < ellydwivedi2093@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello everyone,
Google Code-in starts on 18 November. It is aimed at pre-universitystudents aged 13-17. You can
find more information here[1]https://www.google-melange.com/gci/document/show/gci_program/google/gci2013/about_page. It is a contest and tasks are rated separately. Since, this would be the first
time most of the contestants would be coding something in FOSS and would have relatively less expertise,
the projects are supposed to small. I would be really glad if one of the contestants from Wikimedia, works
on a Wikisource related task. This[2]https://wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Wikisource_common_template_set link mentions that there are some templates which are common to
a few Wikisources, but have been developed independently.
I understand that the reason is dependency on other templates, which follow different development routines.
In my opinion, templates that serve the same purpose on various Wikisources can be just one module,
instead of several implementations, as is the current situation. Although I am not aware of all the templates
that are used on various Wikisources,
I would suggest that a common template be used for displaying the author boxes on author pages. The
design need not be the same but the backend can be shared.
Challenges involved:
- Deciding an optimal design of the template so that it works properly
on all Wikisources/
- Making sure the new template does not break any template that was
initially dependent on the author template.
In my opinion, point 3 would be the most notorious of all the challenges to be handled.
It would be great if someone from each Wikisource could tell how other templates are dependent on
the "author" template. It might be a bit overwhelming for a newcomer, so I would prefer doing the standardisation
of templates for the Wikisources, for which there are least dependencies on the author template
I would like feedback from the community on the idea before I propose it on the code-in page[3].
[1] https://www.google-melange.com/gci/document/show/gci_program/google/gci2013/...
[2] https://wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Wikisource_common_template_set
[3] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Annoying_little_bugs
Thank You,
Aarti ( Rtdwivedi )
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