On 03.04.2012, 11:51 akshay wrote:
Hi everyone,
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I am an engineering student from Bits Pilani (India) currently in my 5th and final year.I seek to apply for GSOC this year under Mediawiki. So from the list of ideas given on the Mediawiki gsoc page, I wish to work on building a convention extension which would help convert any wiki into a conference like website such as Wikimania.After having discussions over IRC channels regarding the features that this extension should possess , and some feedback that I got from other developers I have written a proposal for this extension. I would really appreciate any feedback in this short period of time left, as it would help me in setting the right deliverables for this project. The proposal page - http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Chughakshay16/GSOCProposal%282012%29 The other details about this extension can be found on the following pages:
- implementation details (+UI mockups) -
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Chughakshay16/ConventionExtension 2. database details - http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Chughakshay16/databasedetails The talk pages for the above can also be used for the feedback.
Some comments on proposal details:
- user profile pages for the attendees
We already have userpages, don't we? ;)
- special badge feature for the attendees
What is it?
- payment gateway - for managing the financial transactions occurring during the conference
Seems overkillish for a summer project.
- some custom tags to design the conference wiki pages.
What is it and why not just use templates?
- poll management - for setting up polls across the conference
There are existing solutions for polls.
How are you going to write special pages and API modules before the database access layer?