Message: 5 Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 02:03:10 +0530 From: Shivansh Srivastava shivansh.bits@gmail.com To: Wikimedia developers wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikimediaindia-l] GSoC'12 Proposal : List of Ideas Message-ID: CAPJSHrnjCxeOE3R8iJxbDEsV4b90_96ifxkVJJQCnFeZnV74kg@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
I am infact working on the News Ticker. It is taking a lot of time than I had imagined. Thats why I have started working on it, to get rid of the initial ridges!
Note, we already have something fairly similar (The main difference between what you're describing is that existing ticker works on a static list of pages that isn't updated, instead of doing some auto-update magic with ajax). See https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Template:Ticker and https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/User:Bawolff/sandbox/ticker .
Cheers, -bawolff
Hi,
This is what I was talking about, albeit with 2 more functionalities-
1. Can take News from RSS feed (Problem is that it would have to take the rss feed from site under the same domain, for now. So, except for Wikinews, there would be no other choice.) 2. It appears on top of every page. So, the user just has to wear the skin template OR add it as a gadget (since its all jquery/javascript + whatever css needed can be added through javascript itself.
@bawolff- The Javascript that I am working on, can I send that to you in a week or 2s time? I am just implementing it on a blank html page for now.
Cheers,
On 29 February 2012 05:30, bawolff bawolff+wn@gmail.com wrote:
Message: 5 Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 02:03:10 +0530 From: Shivansh Srivastava shivansh.bits@gmail.com To: Wikimedia developers wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikimediaindia-l] GSoC'12 Proposal : List of Ideas Message-ID: <
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I am infact working on the News Ticker. It is taking a lot of time than I had imagined. Thats why I have started working on it, to get rid of the initial ridges!
Note, we already have something fairly similar (The main difference between what you're describing is that existing ticker works on a static list of pages that isn't updated, instead of doing some auto-update magic with ajax). See https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Template:Ticker and https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/User:Bawolff/sandbox/ticker .
Cheers, -bawolff
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