Hi,
I am Jiabao Wu, 1st year postgraduate student in Australian National
University. At the end of last year, I graduated in B.IT in ANU with double
major of Software Development and IT in New Media Arts.
I am currently studying a course of free and opensource software
development. This has boosted my passion to contribute to the FOSS
community. I am going to apply GSoC and OPW. In the mean time, I would like
to contribute to MediaWiki. I have finished "landing instructions" and
installed mediawiki-vagrant. Could you give me some suggestions what I
shall do next?
For GSoC and OPW, I am interested in the following project ideas.
- VisualEditor plugins
- Proofread Page extension needs to be refactored
- Prototyping inline comments
- Bugzilla-MediaWiki extension
- Allowing 3rd party wiki editors to run more CSS features
They all look fun and within my ability to me. But not sure which one shall
I actually pick... May I pick more than one when I apply? Any suggestions
in picking the projects?
Thanks a lot for reading.
Cheers,
Jiabao
Hello,
Based on the feedback I got from the community, I have made my final
proposal. Since only 3 days are left, I urge everyone to kindly reply as
early as possible.
My proposal can be found here:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Rahul21/Gsoc
Thanks in advance,
Rahul
Hi everyone,
I posted an idea earlier this weekend to the list and received feedback --
and I really appreciate it! It made me realize that the idea I proposed was
a little vague and elaborate and sounded too complex. So I re-drafted it
and simplified it a lot, and I would really appreciate your opinions again.
I think it can be doable for a GSoC project.
The idea briefly: My idea is to develop a plugin for MediaWiki that enables
the easy embedding of interactive physics demos in wiki articles, using a
Javascript physics engine like Box2web (which is based on Box2D)
You can see the new edited proposal here:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Mooeypoo/GSOC_2013_Project
Also, since this idea does not appear in the main idea list, I am hoping
there may be a mentor available :)
Thank you again!
Moriel
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Hello,
I've drafted my proposal about language fallback and conversion issues
for Wikidata at [1].
Currently Wikidata stores multilingual contents. Labels (names,
descriptions etc) are expected to be written in every language, so
every user can read them in their own language. But there're some
problems currently:
* If some content doesn't exist in some specific language, users with
this exact language set in their preferences see something meaningless
(its ID instead). This renders some language with fewer users (thus
fewer labels filled) even unusable.
* There're some similar languages which may often share the same
value. Having strings populated for every language one by one wastes
resources and may allow them out of sync later.
* Even for languages which are not "that similar", MediaWiki already
has some facility to transliterate (aka. convert) contents from its
another sister language (aka. variant) which can be used to provide
better results for users.
This proposal aims at resolving these issues by displaying contents
from another language to users based on user preferences (some users
may know more than one languages), language similarity (language
fallback chain), or the possibility to do transliteration, and allow
proper editing on these contents.
Although Wikidata is in its fast development stage, lots of data have
been added to it. The later we resolve these issues, the more
duplications may be created which will require more clean up work in
the future, like what we had to face before / when the language
converter (that transliteration system) was introduced for the Chinese
Wikipedia. So I'm planning to do this project in this summer.
There's also a backup proposal about category redirects at [2]. I
wrote it because I really want to see it implemented too, either by me
or someone else. Some of its contents may be also useful for other
participants willing to do this project.
Comments are welcome and appreciated.
[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Liangent/wb-lang
[2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Liangent/cat-redir
-Liangent
I think I red some things on annotations in the Visual Editor, but I
can't find it again. Do you have relevant informations on the subject? I
like to use template like {{why|blabla}} and {{according to
who|blabla}}, but in the same time I can see that while making a
contribution call to knowledgeable people, it can quickly clutter the
text with a lot of underlined sentances. So it may be interesting to
have an option to hide/show this kind of query.
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http://www.culture-libre.org/
Hello,
I have proposed a project to WikiMedia through Google Summer of Code
2013 internship program. The project is based on Central Search Engine
having capability to bind all the WikiMedia services till the date and
showing the results of search term on a common place with best possible
results being searched and sorted.
I have prepared synopsis on what the project is and how it is going to be
dealt. Its a tentative schedule so pardon any amateurish behavior I might
have reflected.
The link for the official proposal is :
http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/review/google/gsoc2013/code_sid…
The link for my mediawiki user page is :
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Code_sid
The link for bugzilla report is :
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47775#c0
Kindly visit all the stuff and do let me know if there is anything I have
left out in the process.
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Siddhartha Garg
Hi,
I'd like to improve the variables of the math extension. I think
$wgUseMathJax is misleading.
I'd like to change $wgUseMathJax to $wgAllowMathJax and set it to true
by default. In the same style I'd like to introduce $wgAllowLaTeXML
and $wgDebugMath.
What are your suggestions?
Best regards
Physikerwelt
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Hello everyone
I am interested in working for MediaWiki for Google Summer Of code 2013 , but I haven't been able to think of any idea yet . I don't know which project I can work upon . Please help me think of an idea , so that I can proceed with my proposal .
Thank you
Ishitva