Hey Guillaume ,
On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 10:35 PM, Guillaume Paumier gpaumier@wikimedia.orgwrote:
Hi,
On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 3:49 PM, lakmal padmakumara lakmalpadmakumara@gmail.com wrote:
Great to hear ,I think I should take their progress in to my
consideration
in order to define the scope of my contribution as there is no point of reinventing the wheel.Thanks a lot for letting me know about this and if you have please send me any links that I can refer to their on going
works.
On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 4:03 PM, Mike Dupont jamesmikedupont@googlemail.com wrote:
Thats great news! Any code to find? digikam is great, but also huge. I am using shotwell all the time.
Here's a quick summary:
Last year, I worked with a group of university students on a Qt library to interface with the MediaWiki API. They didn't implement the whole API, but enough for a proof-of-concept editor, and a prototype of export plugin to Wikimedia Commons. The plugin was developed as a component of the KIPI plugins.
The export plugin wasn't released because, although it worked, it didn't implement features specific to Wikimedia Commons, e.g. proper support for descriptions, licenses, categories, etc. See https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=206842#c11 for a summary of where the plugin's currently at.
The university program ended this year, which means there was no new group of students to complete the project. Fortunately, Jean-Frédéric, a friend of mine from the French chapter (Cc:ed) had the opportunity to propose this project as part of another student program. As far as I know, they haven't started to work on it yet. There's some basic documentation (in French) at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Jean-Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric/digiKam
Unordered list of other links to scattered documentation as promised:
http://www.gpaumier.org/blog/297_digikam-the-perfect-tool-for-wikimedia-comm... — What started the whole thing.
— More context on the original student project. Unfortunately, I never really got around to writing the report.
- http://community.kde.org/IUP_ISI/MediaWiki-Silk — The former student
team's hub; might contain some useful information.
- https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=206842 — Tracking bug for the
export plugin in KDE's bug tracker.
- http://youtu.be/Cc8quyp2XBA?t=53m51s — A short presentation of the
library & the export plugin at Wikimania 2011
— The library's code in the KDE code repository
tutorial on how to use the library
https://projects.kde.org/projects/extragear/graphics/kipi-plugins/repository... — The current export plugin's code in the KDE code repository
I think that's pretty much it. Feel free to ping me and Jean-Frédéric if you want to coordinate further, or if you need more information.
Thanks for this wonderful set of resources. So as far as I understood we can use this Qt library in order to port more KDE photo managing applications like digiKam to communicate with MediaWiki.
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Now my big question what will be a good summer project for me ,whether to work with library to support few more KDE applications (etc Shotwell) or else improving the Add Media Wizard [1] We talked on this thread or else coming up with few more standalone extensions like Flickr ?
After setting up my big goal I might be able to define the scope and the border of the project by few discussions with the community.
Is there a way to get in touch with the author of the original idea list [2] ,if there are multiple authors who might have suggested the third idea in which I'm interested at ?
[1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Add_Media_Wizard [2] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Summer_of_Code_2012