Hi Aditya, let me be more precise, before someone licitly thinks/says that
a GSoC project relying on major changes in
mediawiki.org is more than
risky...
On Wednesday, March 19, 2014, Aditya Chaturvedi <aditya.iiita102(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
The purpose of this project is to address the problem
that mediawiki has
over 2000 extensions and there exists no proper catalog to manage the
information and make it easily available for wiki user's. My proposal
focuses on taking the few beginning steps that will help Mediawiki to
achieve a fully functional catalogue in the future. It majorly involves
working on a Rating system and Data syndication to
MW.org.
Copied from the proposal:
"Currently, a third party site
Wikiapiary.com maintains data on extensions
in a structured manner and and is tracking MediaWiki use in the wild. The
idea is to make this process more intuitive and ensure good browsing
experience, by making enhancements to Wikiapiary to accommodate more
information about extensions in a structured manner and integrate some form
of user feedback system while also improving the overall user interface to
enrich user experience. Along with this, the plan is that this extended
information gained on WikiApiary will be syndicated back to
MediaWiki.org ."
In other words, this is a project for
http://wikiapiary.com that aims to
generate useful information that could be syndicated or copied
automatically to
mediawiki.org
Please read through my proposal and share your
thoughts on this on the Talk
page so that I can improve it further and make it up to the community's
expectation.
Bugzilla:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46704
If you are interested in the idea of a better catalog for extensions, check
^^^^
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Quim Gil
Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil