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.