Hi,
I plan to propose a GSOC project through Wikimedia this year, based around the idea of mobilizing Wikidata. I'd like to share my understanding of the problem and gain some feedback on that, as well as some more input from the community. * * *Problem at hand:* * * Unlike Wikipedia, which displays information as mainly text, WIkidata presents information in the form of a grid of divs. While the MobileFrontend extension prints a mobile friendly version of Wikipedia, there needs to be a separate extension for Wikidata.
This extension needs to be tailored to print these grids instead of text and lay them out in a way that's suitable for a mobile device.
Additionally, the design should allow the addition of/should include 'edit' functionality tailored to suit a mobile device.
- Has there been any previous work done on this front that I could refer to?
I look forward to receiving your feedback.
Thanks, Pragun Bhutani
At first glance this looks too big a project for GSoC.
On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 1:12 PM, Pragun Bhutani pragun06@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
I plan to propose a GSOC project through Wikimedia this year, based around the idea of mobilizing Wikidata. I'd like to share my understanding of the problem and gain some feedback on that, as well as some more input from the community.
*Problem at hand:*
Unlike Wikipedia, which displays information as mainly text, WIkidata presents information in the form of a grid of divs. While the MobileFrontend extension prints a mobile friendly version of Wikipedia, there needs to be a separate extension for Wikidata.
This extension needs to be tailored to print these grids instead of text and lay them out in a way that's suitable for a mobile device.
Additionally, the design should allow the addition of/should include 'edit' functionality tailored to suit a mobile device.
- Has there been any previous work done on this front that I could refer
to?
I look forward to receiving your feedback.
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I would hope that the widgets we have developed for the Wikidata desktop UI - especially the Entity Selector widget - would be reusable on mobile.
It would also be extremely good to look in what the mobile team is doing for Wikipedia. Since both is MediaWiki in the backend anyway, I would assume that the Wikipedia Mobile code has a lot of reusable parts, or even should be a commons start ground. Brion, did you have a look at how feasible that would be?
I disagree with Nishayn -- I don't think that's too big for a GSoC. It really depends on where you draw the line and how perfect you want to be, but we would define that in a way that makes it feasibly sized.
2013/4/9 Nischay Nahata nischayn22@gmail.com
At first glance this looks too big a project for GSoC.
On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 1:12 PM, Pragun Bhutani pragun06@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
I plan to propose a GSOC project through Wikimedia this year, based
around
the idea of mobilizing Wikidata. I'd like to share my understanding of
the
problem and gain some feedback on that, as well as some more input from
the
community.
*Problem at hand:*
Unlike Wikipedia, which displays information as mainly text, WIkidata presents information in the form of a grid of divs. While the MobileFrontend extension prints a mobile friendly version of Wikipedia, there needs to be a separate extension for Wikidata.
This extension needs to be tailored to print these grids instead of text and lay them out in a way that's suitable for a mobile device.
Additionally, the design should allow the addition of/should include
'edit'
functionality tailored to suit a mobile device.
- Has there been any previous work done on this front that I could
refer
to?
I look forward to receiving your feedback.
Thanks, Pragun Bhutani _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
-- Cheers,
Nischay Nahata nischayn22.in _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
On 04/09/2013 02:39 AM, Denny Vrandečić wrote:
I would hope
It would also be extremely good to look
I would assume
I don't think
Can the Wikidata and Mobile teams please answer with the best of your knowledge to the questions at
Bug 43065 - WikibaseRepo to be mobile friendly (tracking) https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43065
Beyond hope and believe, the fact is that I couldn't get any answer more precise than "Interesting" when asking about this project to people in those teams. And as for today I'm not confident to tell to a candidate like Pragun whether this project is too complex or too simple, and where the complexity/simplicity relies.
In case of doubt I'd prefer to play safe and actually not encourage GSOC / OPW to apply for a project like this, before we regret around August.
Is it possible to have a Wikidata / WikidataRepo test instance somewhere with MobileFrontend enabled, so we can all have a look and know more about the gap this project should fill?
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