Aashish Mittal is working on a project proposal to facilitate "books"
for Wikisource/Wikibooks:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Aashish.mittal/GSoC_Application
Ashwini Kumar has this as one of several plans for a summer project:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Ashwini/GSOC_2012_Application
Historically, sometimes we receive multiple proposals for very similar
tasks for Google Summer of Code, but we only accept one (factors going
into our decision will include which proposal is better, which student
has participated more in the Wikimedia community, which student has
better technical skills, and which student has better communication
skills). Therefore, Ashwini and Aashish should either choose to strive
to make their applications the best they can be, or one of them should
choose a different topic.
In this case, since Aashish is very interested in the books topic and
Ashwini mentions it as one in a list, I suggest Ashwini should simply
choose ONE of the 5 topics listed on Ashwini's application -- something
other than the books topic.
--
Sumana Harihareswara
Volunteer Development Coordinator
Wikimedia Foundation
On 02/11/2012 05:18 PM, Aashish Mittal wrote:
Hello,
Thanks a lot for the reply.
I am currently going through the project for implementing book management.
I have read through and installed Collection and BookManager extensions and
am going through other documentation related with this project.
Also, regarding the Convention extension, I am exploring the features
offered by
OpenCW<http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/openconferenceware_is_beauti…
wiscondb. I will be installing OpenCW to get an idea of the usage and
will start looking into developing wikimedia extensions. Will try to get a
fair idea of the functionalities and their implementation details that are
needed to be achieved in this project. Will be discussing these on the list
and irc. Any suggestions on features/requirements that can be incorporated
in this project for making it better and more usable would be great to hear.
Thanks,
Aashish
On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 8:19 AM, K. Peachey <p858snake(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 8:01 AM, Platonides <Platonides(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 10/02/12 18:54, Aashish Mittal wrote:
>>> 2. Convention extension for converting mediawiki wiki into website for
>>> conference. I have been through the links, but I would like to get a
> better
>>> technical understanding of this project related to the implementation of
>>> the project. Any appropriate link or some useful guidelines would be
> great.
>>
>> Is this a new proposal? I remember about someone having implemented
>> something similar.
>
> Sounds like the DumpHTML extension...