Ankita Shukla <ankitashukla707 <at> gmail.com> writes:

Hello everyone!

I am Ankita Shukla and am a Computer Science and Engineering student

pursuing

the junior year of Bachelor of Technology.

I am interested in working on the project: Collaborative spelling

dictionary

building tool, as given on the Featured Projects Section of MediaWiki OPW page.

It'd be really great if I could get some guidance through this. Also,

since

the project did not seem to mention any micro-task explicitly, could

someone

suggest what I could take up as a micro-task? I'd be really grateful for the help and support. :)

Thanks in advance, Ankita Shukla

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Hi again!

I have been looking forward to your response so that I can get started on the code-base as soon as possible. Please suggest some micro tasks that would be useful for this project and help me get started with the same.

The featured ideas page doesn't have any tracked bug for this project idea (Collaborative Dictionary Building Tool)

Kind regards, Thanks, Ankita Shukla

Hi Ankita,

On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 11:06 PM, Ankita Shukla ankitashukla707@gmail.com wrote:

Hello everyone!

I am Ankita Shukla and am a Computer Science and Engineering student pursuing the junior year of Bachelor of Technology.

I am interested in working on the project: Collaborative spelling dictionary building tool, as given on the Featured Projects Section of MediaWiki OPW page.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/FOSS_Outreach_Program_for_Women/Round_9#Colla... is mentored by Kartik and Amir (explicitly CCed above). There should have been a link to a Bugzilla report where you and other candidates interested could ask questions directly and discuss the project. I have created that report now:

https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=71973

Please follow up there.

Let me also paste the description of that project idea, just in case other contributors in this list want to help defining it:

There are extensive spelling dictionaries for the major languages of the world: English, Italian, French and some others; at various degrees of coverage, Mozilla has over a hundred https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/dictionaries/,LibreOffice dozens https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Language_support_of_LibreOffice. They help make Wikipedia articles in these languages more readable and professional and provide an opportunity for participation in improving spelling. Many other languages, however, don’t have spelling dictionaries. One possible way to build good spelling dictionaries would be to employ crowdsourcing, and Wikipedia editors can be a good source for this, but this approach will also require a robust system in which language experts will be able to manage the submissions: accept, reject, filter and build new versions of the spelling dictionary upon them. This can be done as a MediaWiki extension integrated with VisualEditor, and possibly use Wikidata as a backend.

- Skills: PHP, Web frontend. Bonus: Familiarity with VisualEditor and Wikidata; experience in an existing dictionary-building community. - Mentors: Amir Aharoni https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/User:Aaharoni, Kartik Mistry https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:KartikMistry