Hey Connor,
Thank you for posting a proposal on
MW.org and for your interest in GSOC.
Anything seeking deployment on Wikipedia is certainly an ambitious plan. I would also
consider investigating other MWF projects that may benefit as well. Sometimes deployment
there first is helpful in building the case for enWP deployment - which the editor
community and high volume of the site tends to involve some legwork and selling of the
idea. :)
Regarding your GSOC proposal, this is a good place to solicit some feedback - you can also
try our IRC room:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_on_IRC
Be sure to fill out the other sections as they'll all be reviewed and considered when
the deadline (April 6th) comes.
Thanks,
-greg aka varnent
On Apr 4, 2012, at 1:28 AM, Bacon Prime <baconprime(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
I'm writing a proposal to improve the usability of the automatic taxobox on
Wikipedia; specifically, to create a GUI such that all future taxoboxes
could be created with it, and most current taxoboxes could be edited
without ever touching the templating syntax. In the optimal case, this
would obviate the need for the extensive support needed (~10 archived talk
pages over two years!) and might spark a conversion from the manual taxobox
to the automatic (which is desirable to the micro-optimizing programmer in
me) -- in the suboptimal case, such an improvement would still save many
people many hours of work and even out the learning curve.
As an ancillary benefit, the wizard-like processes described in the help
pages could be easily converted into actual wizards, which would also cut
down on errors (i.e. when steps are applied incorrectly, out of order or
inappropriately).
A quick blurb about myself: I'm 19, nearly into my third year of university
and majoring in Computational Linguistics at Simon Fraser University. Also,
I'd really, really like to be given the chance to contribute something
positive to Wikipedia's community!
Proposal Page <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Baconprime/GSoC2012>
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