One quick question,
If the user highlighted two consecutive sentences, and if in the future, another couple of sentences are added in between them like <*sentence1*>new sentences<*sentence2*>, then will the new sentences be highlighted as well? How will you store what has been highlighted and how will you recover it back? This I believe, is a very important case to consider.
On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 11:55 AM, Sahil Dua sahildua2305@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Pratik, Yes, I am considering that wiki-text changes continuously. The tool I am currently working on or rather say testing consists the highlighting part only. Exporting can be done using a wikipedia profile system and showing the topic by topic highlighted points all at one place.
By "Making notes" I meant, making underlined/highlighted (important points) notes in a similar way just like we do on out text-books. Because most of students are accustomed to that practice of underlining/highlighting the important points on their notebooks, it becomes difficult and uncomfortable for them to read form wikipedia while feeling the same. hence it will help them feel the same way as they do whle reading hard copies of the noebooks/text-books.
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On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 11:30 AM, Pratik Lahoti <pr4tiklahoti@gmail.com
wrote:
Hi Sahil,
On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 1:18 AM, Sahil Dua sahildua2305@gmail.com
wrote:
"HighNote" -> Highlight & Making Notes.
Can you elaborate on "making notes" part? Do you plan to export the
content
highlighted somewhere?
Yes, as a regular wikipedian, I have been facing a problem. I used to
read
some article on a topic XYZ. I liked a few keywords or sentences in the article that I wuld like to keep easily accessible.
Here is the solution -> With "HighNote" feature activated internally on wikipedia, a user will
be
able to select(by mouse) the text that he wants to highlight and
remember
for next time. That text will be saved in the database and everytime
that
user comes back to that page he will be able to see what he highlighted
may
be one/ten years ago. Also, he will be able to deselect specific text
by
selecting(by mouse) again.
I have already been working on a prototype of the same by implementing
a
demo wikipedia page. I want to discuss the feasibility of this project as a GSoC'14 project. Please bring uo some of the challenges that I can face while
implementing
this so I can consider everything in my final proposal. Thanks.
The wiki-text changes continuously over a period of time, you might want
to
consider that as well. What the user highlighted one year ago, it might happen that he might not find some of those highlighted points today. In that case, it would be better if you export the points highlighted somewhere. But first things first, make sure it is not already
implemented.
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