Wikitech-l April 2013

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GSoC and OPW Participation
by Jiabao Wu 28 Apr '13

28 Apr '13

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

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GSoc 2013 Proposal - Pronunciation Recording Extension
by Rahul Maliakkal 28 Apr '13

28 Apr '13

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

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GSOC2013 Project idea - WiPhys: Box2D Interactive Physics Engine Plugin
by Moriel Schottlender 28 Apr '13

28 Apr '13

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 -- No trees were harmed in the creation of this post. But billions of electrons, photons, and electromagnetic waves were terribly inconvenienced during its transmission!

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GSoC 2013 proposal
by Or Sagi 28 Apr '13

28 Apr '13

Hi all, I'm glad to announce my GSoC 2013 proposal for translatewiki.net Android application. please review it at: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Orsagi/GSoC_2013_proposal and feel free to leave your tips and comments. Thanks, Or

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GSoC proposals: Wikidata language fallback and conversion ( + one backup: category redirects )
by Liangent 28 Apr '13

28 Apr '13

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

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Works on annotations
by Mathieu Stumpf 28 Apr '13

28 Apr '13

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. -- Association Culture-Libre http://www.culture-libre.org/

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Google Summer of Code 2013 - Project Proposal (Centralized Search Engine)
by siddhartha garg 28 Apr '13

28 Apr '13

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. -- Siddhartha Garg

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$wgUseMathJax
by Moritz Schubotz 27 Apr '13

27 Apr '13

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 -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen Moritz Schubotz Telefon (Büro): +49 30 314 22784 Telefon (Privat):+49 30 488 27330 E-Mail: schubotz(a)itp.physik.tu-berlin.de Web: http://www.physikerwelt.de Skype: Schubi87 ICQ: 200302764 Msn: Moritz(a)Schubotz.de

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Help required for thinking of a project idea .
by ishitva goel 27 Apr '13

27 Apr '13

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

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[Wikitech-I] [GSoC 2013] Mobilize Wikidata Proposal Draft
by Pragun Bhutani 27 Apr '13

27 Apr '13

Hello, I've written down my proposal regarding my GSoC project, Mobilize Wikidata. 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 Thanks! -- Pragun Bhutani http://pragunbhutani.in Skype : pragun.bhutani

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