Hello everyone,
I am Aashish Mittal, a final year student from Mumbai University, India. I aim to take part in GSoC 2012 with Mediawiki and wish to get an early start in knowing and understanding the software well.
I am relatively new to the organizationg. I have been through the intro steps http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_become_a_MediaWiki_hacker and the project ideas of this year. I have started working on the code and submitted a patch for one of the bugs (bug 33545https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33545) and am looking into solving more bugs.
I am going through the projects and the attached links. However, I would request some more details on the following projects:
1. Integration of Mediawiki/Sakai: I have been a GSoC student with Sakai in 2010, so I would like to explore the project more deeper.
2. Convention extension for converting mediawiki wiki into website for conference. I have been through the links, but I would like to get a better technical understanding of this project related to the implementation of the project. Any appropriate link or some useful guidelines would be great.
Apart from the above two projects, I am interested in a couple of more projects (Create a way to have “books” for wikisource/wikibookshttps://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15071and Give editors a way to slice and dice their watchlists with groups)https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5875. I am going through the comments on their bugzilla page.
Kindly provide me with some suggestions or tips which would help me understand the project and their implementation aspects better. Any help regarding the same would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
Regards, Aashish