Hello everyone,
I am Aashish Mittal, a final year student from Mumbai University, India. I aim to take part in GSoC 2012 with Mediawiki and wish to get an early start in knowing and understanding the software well.
I am relatively new to the organizationg. I have been through the intro steps http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_become_a_MediaWiki_hacker and the project ideas of this year. I have started working on the code and submitted a patch for one of the bugs (bug 33545https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33545) and am looking into solving more bugs.
I am going through the projects and the attached links. However, I would request some more details on the following projects:
1. Integration of Mediawiki/Sakai: I have been a GSoC student with Sakai in 2010, so I would like to explore the project more deeper.
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.
Apart from the above two projects, I am interested in a couple of more projects (Create a way to have “books” for wikisource/wikibookshttps://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15071and Give editors a way to slice and dice their watchlists with groups)https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5875. I am going through the comments on their bugzilla page.
Kindly provide me with some suggestions or tips which would help me understand the project and their implementation aspects better. Any help regarding the same would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
Regards, Aashish
I hadn't announced it yet just because I was swamped with other work, but yes, Google is holding GSoC 2012 and MediaWiki is applying to participate. More details at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Summer_of_Code_2012
If Brion, Tim, etc. are ok with it, I'll be organizational administrator again this year and run our application process. Which means I'll be seeking mentors this month and submitting our application by early March.
I'll respond to Aashish inline. Hi Aashish! Welcome to MediaWiki!
On 02/10/2012 12:54 PM, Aashish Mittal wrote:
Hello everyone,
I am Aashish Mittal, a final year student from Mumbai University, India. I aim to take part in GSoC 2012 with Mediawiki and wish to get an early start in knowing and understanding the software well.
I am relatively new to the organizationg. I have been through the intro steps http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_become_a_MediaWiki_hacker and the project ideas of this year. I have started working on the code and submitted a patch for one of the bugs (bug 33545https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33545) and am looking into solving more bugs.
Thanks! That's a great start.
I am going through the projects and the attached links. However, I would request some more details on the following projects:
- Integration of Mediawiki/Sakai: I have been a GSoC student with Sakai in
2010, so I would like to explore the project more deeper.
I just threw that idea on there with basically no further details, because I have none. I suggest that you create a proposal. In Google Summer of Code, the student creates the proposal. (See http://en.flossmanuals.net/GSoCStudentGuide/ch008_writing-a-proposal/ for more tips.) Go ahead and investigate Sakai's needs, MediaWiki's needs, and educators' needs, and think of what kind of integration you think would be useful, and then write that spec. If you write it on a subpage of your mediawiki.org user page and then circulate that link on this mailing list and on our IRC channel (#mediawiki on Freenode) then you can get feedback before the application deadline.
- 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.
The people who know the most about that idea are Chad Horohoe, who was thinking of working on this -- Chad, do you have some abandoned code somewhere that Aashish could look at? -- and the Wikimania organizers, who are at #wikimania on Freenode and https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l . You have the chance to do product design here, Aashish! :-)
Apart from the above two projects, I am interested in a couple of more projects (Create a way to have “books” for wikisource/wikibookshttps://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15071and Give editors a way to slice and dice their watchlists with groups)https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5875. I am going through the comments on their bugzilla page.
Kindly provide me with some suggestions or tips which would help me understand the project and their implementation aspects better. Any help regarding the same would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
Regards, Aashish
I don't know anything more about those, Aashish, but you should probably talk to the people who filed those bugs. Maybe you should leave comments on those Bugzilla issues explaining your aims and asking useful questions.
Good luck!
On 10/02/12 18:54, Aashish Mittal wrote:
- 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.
On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 8:01 AM, Platonides Platonides@gmail.com wrote:
On 10/02/12 18:54, Aashish Mittal wrote:
- 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...
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 OpenCWhttp://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/openconferenceware_is_beautiful_software_for_event.phpand 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@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 8:01 AM, Platonides Platonides@gmail.com wrote:
On 10/02/12 18:54, Aashish Mittal wrote:
- 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...
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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.
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