Hi,
I am final year computer engineering undergraduate from University of Peradeniya. I would like to join MediaWiki for GSOC 2013. I am interesting about these projects
Write an extension to support XML Sitemaps without using command lineAdd support for x3d 3D files to MediaWiki Could you please provide more detail about these projects.
Thanks & regards, Malintha Adikari
Hi Malintha,
On 02/24/2013 12:22 PM, Malintha Adikari wrote:
I am final year computer engineering undergraduate from University of Peradeniya. I would like to join MediaWiki for GSOC 2013. I am interesting about these projects
Write an extension to support XML Sitemaps without using command lineAdd support for x3d 3D files to MediaWiki Could you please provide more detail about these projects.
Great! Thank you for your interest.
Please add yourself to https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Summer_of_Code_2013 and watch that page and this list for updates.
Here you have some landing instructions, just in case: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Communication#Landing
If you have any question, just ask.
On 2013-02-24 4:22 PM, "Malintha Adikari" malintha.adikari@hotmail.com wrote:
Hi,
I am final year computer engineering undergraduate from University of Peradeniya. I would like to join MediaWiki for GSOC 2013. I am
interesting
about these projects
Write an extension to support XML Sitemaps without using command lineAdd
support for x3d 3D files to MediaWiki
Could you please provide more detail about these projects.
Thanks & regards, Malintha Adikari _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
If its helpful in deciding - x3d would probably be much more useful (particularly to Wikimedia, but even generally to third parties). However it would also be more difficult and also represents quite a bit more work.
-bawolff
On 2013-02-24 5:21 PM, "Brian Wolff" bawolff@gmail.com wrote:
On 2013-02-24 4:22 PM, "Malintha Adikari" malintha.adikari@hotmail.com
wrote:
Hi,
I am final year computer engineering undergraduate from University of Peradeniya. I would like to join MediaWiki for GSOC 2013. I am
interesting
about these projects
Write an extension to support XML Sitemaps without using command
lineAdd support for x3d 3D files to MediaWiki
Could you please provide more detail about these projects.
Thanks & regards, Malintha Adikari _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
If its helpful in deciding - x3d would probably be much more useful
(particularly to Wikimedia, but even generally to third parties). However it would also be more difficult and also represents quite a bit more work.
-bawolff
Sorry I realized that wasnt actually answering your question. What type of information were you looking for?
For the x3d one - you would probably be doing two main things. First you would need to write a filter that validates the file, and more importantly strips any dangerous elements ( im not familar with x3d format, but for example if user can also supply arbitrary macro scripts we would want to filter that out probably, etc).
Second step would probably be to include some way of displaying the 3d models inline in articles (maybe some webgl js library exists that could be integrated in mediawiki, you would have to do some research there)
Its possible a gsoc project could be scoped to be just the first step, or both steps depending on how much work that is.
For background research you may want to check out extensions that do the same thing but for different formats, e.g. OggHandler (which isn't used anymore but a lot simpler than its replacement), and PagedTiffHandler.
Emw has also started work on displaying 3d models of chemicals which sounds related (not sure how related it actually is)
I hope that was helpful. Please don't hesitate to ask any questions.
-bawolff
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