Hi!
Your proposal looks very good. I'll be very happy to help you as co-mentor
on this project if is no GSoc project for Proofread Page.
Some comments:
1. You should keep in mind that the extension will be used by Wikibook and
Wikisource communities so these communities must be involve in the project.
2. For Wikisource, the extension should be nicely integrated with the
current proofreading workflow managed by Proofread Page (this can be done
in a second time but we should keep it in mind).
3. The extension should, I think, be able to manage metadata about books
like the author(s) in order to be able to provide these information in the
exported files. The metadata have sometime to be input by the contributors
(like the author of a Wikisource book) or to be get from MediaWiki (like
the authors of Wikibook books that are the contributors of the book pages)
or maybe, in the future, even get from Wikidata.
4. The extension must be simple to use. I believe that one of the main
goal is to simplify the edition workflow. So, new wikicode syntax to learn
for basic users should be avoided as much as possible (this doesn't concern
syntax that will only be used in templates).
A good way to archive these goals is maybe be to make book main pages not
wikitext based pages, but a page that store in a structured format (like
JSON) metadata of the book, a table of content and some free text spaces,
all of that edited via a clever form. For that, we can reuse some code
written for the Wikidata project (storage with the Content handler, Diff
system, DataValue library...).
Working in that way will allow to get nice and well-formatted metadata
that can be used to improve cataloging of books and avoid the need for
people to learn new tags, templates or parser functions in order to create
a new books. But this will require more development time.
What do you think about it?
Thomas
(I CC the members of the "Elaborate Wikisource strategic vision" group)
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2013 12:16:44 -0400
From: gorillawarfarewikipedia(a)gmail.com
To: wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: [Wikitech-l] GSoC 2013: Improve support for book structures
Hi! I'm Molly White, or GorillaWarfare on the WMF projects. I'm planning
to
submit a proposal to the WMF for this
summer's Google Summer of Code (and
probably also the Outreach Program for Women) and was hoping to get some
feedback. See my proposal at
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:GorillaWarfare/Proposal.
I would like to improve support for projects (like Wikisource and
Wikibooks) that have content that's structured as a book and not as an
article. I plan to do this by working on the existing BookManager
extension. It's currently unstable and very much in development, so
there's
a lot of room for improvement.
Do you have any feedback, concerns, suggestions, etc.? Do you think the
project is feasible for GSoC?
Thanks,
Molly White
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