On 04/24/2013 08:16 AM, Jiabao Wu wrote:
Hello,
Thanks for your friendly replies.
I am interested in the awesome Visual Editor and would like to take the
plugins project idea. I would like to focus on adding support for editing
equations and also insertion of images.
If you are interested in support for mathematical equations then this is
an interesting area where improvements are welcome.
See
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43058 - we know the
situation isn't ideal (and not even well documented) but James Forrester
(VisualEditor product manager and volunteer mentor) can help pointing to
possible directions.
An alternative idea is to leave VisualEditor aside and work on features
to improve the current Math support. You should take into consideration
how equations are currently rendered in MediaWiki by default with the
Math extension and with the opt-in MathJax support.
Coincidentally, today we had lunch with James Forrester (VisualEditor
product manager) and a member of the MathJax team, and the interest
shown by a student (you) came to the conversation. We might get him as
co-mentor from MathJax if your present a proposal and it's selected.
But there is a lot of definition work that needs to be done and there
are not many days left. In addition to this, OPW requires a small
contribution related to your proposal. I'm not the best person to
recommend a small task in this area, but there is no lack of open
Bugzilla reports under the Math extension...
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?list_id=197627&resolution=--…
These are common and useful functions, what are your opinions on the value
of this proposal to mediawiki?
Google docs handles these two quite nicely with their editor. Though we
can't see the language they represent it with I would like to accomplish
something similar for visual editor.
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Quim Gil
Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil