Hi Sagie,
Thanks for your interest in "Inline Editing extension for MW/SMW".
I'd say the status is a set of great but independent efforts dealing with
parts of the actual goal we have in mind:
1) Inline editing of text in MediaWiki (MW)
2) Inline editing of markup, from simple bold text and links up to
categories and templates, in MW
3) Inline editing of properties-value-pairs (and other SMW related markup),
in Semantic MediaWiki (SMW)
4) Inline editing of results of Inline Queries, in SMW
Some work is being done for 1) and 2) in [1]. It looks pretty good, but
seems to be a research project, mainly; I am not sure about this project's
ambition to have a productive extension, eventually. For 3) there is a demo
by Vulcan Inc. [2]. For 4) there has been work done by Ontoprise (for a demo
login to [3] and put in [4]). Also, there is AlohaEditor [5], which I have
not fully tried, yet, but also seems to provide good opportunities for
Inline Editing. They even have a semantic plugin, that allows to
automatically create property-value-pairs for a given text (great
opportunities, there, also).
I think, GSoC 2011 could be a great opportunity to consolidate these
efforts, resulting in a working and published extension. This could make
MediaWiki/SMW even more broadly-used among non-technicians.
Best,
Benedikt
[1]
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:JanPaul123/Sentence-level_editing
[2]
http://wiking.vulcan.com/dev_sandbox/index.php?title=Main_Page&action=w…
[3]
http://dailywikibuilds.ontoprise.com/smwhalo/index.php/Sandbox
[4] ------------------
{{#ask: [[Category:Athlete]]
| ?TestProp =
| format=tabularform
| link=all
| enable add=true
| enable delete=true
| order=ascending
| queryname=Test
| merge=false
|}}
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[5]
http://www.aloha-editor.org/
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Subject: [Wikitech-l] [GSoC 2011] Introduction + About some ideas
Hi guys,
My name is Sagie, I'm a first-year CS and linguistics student at Tel-Aviv
University. I'm applying for GSoC this summer and wanted to introduce
myself. I actually talked with some of you on #mediawiki last night, under
the handle "n0nick".
I've been a professional web developer for 6 years, mostly done PHP work.
I'm fairly familiar with web & wiki frameworks in general, and have had some
(short) experience with MediaWiki.
I'd like to read your thoughts on the following projects I had my eyes on:
* Inline Editing extension for MW/SMW
Sounds like a very interesting and useful project to work on, and seems to
me it fits the timeframe.
I saw that there's been a lot of work done already for this task by user
janpaul123, and was wondering what's the status of this project and how I
can help with making this a possible GSoC project.
* Sidebar/toolbar customization GUI
I understand there's overhaul work being done on element skin systems, but I
talked with Dantman about the sidebar customization and from what I
understand, it's possible to take this project as long as my work is
abstract (and good) enough.
Anyone has other thoughts on this? Should I perhaps avoid working on
something that might interfere with current developers work?
* Email notifications
Again, I see in the wiki page that some work has been done on this, and
testing and bugfixing is required.
Do you think it could be a suitable summer project?
Would love to hear your thoughts.
Thanks,
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Sagie Maoz
sagie(a)maoz.info // +1 (347) 556.5044 // +972 (52) 834-3339
http://sagie.maoz.info/ http://n0nick.net/
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