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@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!
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