[Wikimediaindia-l] Regarding - "Improving the Wiki-UI using AJAX & JQuery"

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From: Shivansh Srivastava <shivansh.bits at gmail.com>
To: "Wikimedia India Community list" <wikimediaindia-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
Date: Friday, October 7, 2011 11:15:50 PM GMT+0530
Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Regarding - "Improving the Wiki-UI using AJAX & JQuery"

Thanks a lot Akshay for your reply...!!

I will definitely be in touch with you soon for guidance.

Cheers,

On 7 October 2011 16:38, Akshay Agarwal <akshay.leadindia at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Shivansh,
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 4:08 PM, Shivansh Srivastava <
> shivansh.bits at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> *Advantages-*
>>
>> The whole Web page would be compact.
>> One wont have to scroll through large paragraphs.
>> *Waiting Time *is reduced.
>> *Bandwidth Usage- *Since pages do not have to completely reload, it can
>> help in less server bandwidth (helpful for me in my college), and when you
>> are in countries or places that charge for your hosting bandwith, it will be
>> more efficient,
>> *Traffic *to and from the server is *reduced*.
>> Form Validation.
>> User Simplicity.
>> Speed.
>>
>>
> You have proposed a really nice talk regarding the usability. The Wikimedia
> Foundation has also been considering similar improvements in the UI & UX,
> checkout http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Usability_Initiative
>
> I have also worked on a similar project for MediaWiki this summer &
> developed an extension http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SignupAPI
> My work involved a lot of jQuery & Ajax stuff, so in case you need any help
> with that, feel free to contact me directly.
>
>
>> *Disadvantages-*
>>
>> If you press the back button, you may not be able to return in the
>> previous state.
>> Might be *difficult to* *bookmark *and return to that particular state of
>> the application
>>
>>
> There are ways to get around this problem as well
>
>
>
>>  *2. *The second idea was to put *JQuery *into use.
>>
>>
> MediaWiki (the software that powers Wikipedia) already has a jQuery library
> & also the necessary CSS markups to support the specific functionalities for
> vector theme, you can try downloading a copy of MediaWiki on your local host
> & play with it, you may also come up with a modified version of the article
> page which you can showcase in your talk
>
> I have a few more queries though.
>>
>> 1. Could someone tell me about Hackathon & what role can I play, depending
>> on my proposal?
>> 2. How do I present my talk (if I am allowed)..like present a modified
>> page with AJAX usage as well?
>> 3. Could I have a contact no. of someone incharge so that I can speak
>> directly, in case for some minor queries.
>>
>>
> The conference & hackathon committee will be able to help you a lot with
> it, in the meantime you can checkout the hackathon page at
> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/India_Hackathon_2011
>
>
> -- Thanks & Regards
> -Akshay Agarwal
>
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