Re: [Wikitech-l] GSOC 2012 : Lucene Automatic Query Expansion From Wikipedia Text

2012-04-12 Thread Gautham Shankar
Robert Stojnic gmail.com> writes: > > > Hello, > > Yep, generating the wodnet itself is a challenging and interesting > project. I was simply commenting on the Lucene part, i.e. on possible > application. > > Currently the lucene backend works by employing some very general rules > (e.g. t

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSOC 2012 : Lucene Automatic Query Expansion From Wikipedia Text

2012-04-08 Thread Robert Stojnic
Hello, Yep, generating the wodnet itself is a challenging and interesting project. I was simply commenting on the Lucene part, i.e. on possible application. Currently the lucene backend works by employing some very general rules (e.g. titles get highest score, then first sentence in article

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSOC 2012 : Lucene Automatic Query Expansion From Wikipedia Text

2012-04-06 Thread Oren Bochman
Hi Robert Stojnic and Gautham Shankar I wanted to let Gautham that he has written a great proposal and thank you for the feedback as well. I wanted to point out that in my point of view the main goal of this multilingual wordnet isn't queary expansion, but rather means for ever greater cross lang

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSOC 2012 : Lucene Automatic Query Expansion From Wikipedia Text

2012-04-06 Thread Gautham Shankar
Robert Stojnic gmail.com> writes: > > > Hi Gautham, > > I think mining wiktionary is an interesting project. However, about the > more practical Lucene part: at some point I tried using wordnet to > expand queries however I found that it introduces too many false > positives. The most chall

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSOC 2012 : Lucene Automatic Query Expansion From Wikipedia Text

2012-04-06 Thread Robert Stojnic
Hi Gautham, I think mining wiktionary is an interesting project. However, about the more practical Lucene part: at some point I tried using wordnet to expand queries however I found that it introduces too many false positives. The most challenging part I think it *context-based* expansion. I

[Wikitech-l] GSOC 2012: "Lucene Automatic Query Expansion From Wikipedia Text"

2012-04-06 Thread Gautham Shankar
Hi, I have addressed the issues in my talk page and added a 'Future Project Maintenance' section to address maintenance needs. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Gautham_shankar/Gsoc Kindly let me know if there are any other changes i have to make. Thank you for your support, Regards, Gautham

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSOC 2012 : Lucene Automatic Query Expansion From Wikipedia Text

2012-04-05 Thread Gregory Varnum
Also a reminder for folks that this and some other proposals need mentors. Gautham - thank you for the updated proposal page. I would also solicit feedback in our Irc channel if you can and connect with interested mentors: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/GSOC#Mentor_signup https://www.mediawiki.o

[Wikitech-l] GSOC 2012 : Lucene Automatic Query Expansion From Wikipedia Text

2012-04-05 Thread Gautham Shankar
Hello, Based on the feedback i received i have updated my proposal page. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Gautham_shankar/Gsoc There is about 20 Hrs for the deadline and any final feedback would be useful. I have also submitted the proposal at the GSOC page. Regards, Gautham Shankar

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSOC 2012

2012-04-05 Thread Markus Krötzsch
Dear Sudeep, note that the proposal for "Semantic form rules" is proposed and mentored by Stephan Gambke, who is a contributor to MW/SMW. I am not sure if he is reading this list. I have contacted him now, but if you do not hear from him very soon, I suggest to focus on one of the other proje

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSOC 2012

2012-04-05 Thread Oren Bochman
Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2012 8:48 PM To: wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Wikitech-l] GSOC 2012 Hi, I am sudeep. I am final year student at Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur in the computer science department. I am interested to apply in the following projects for gsoc 2012 1

[Wikitech-l] GSOC 2012: Mentees interested in the 'Who's been awesome' proposal and mentors still looking for help

2012-04-04 Thread James Alexander
Hey everyone, I've had an awful lot of interest in the Who's Been Awesome/Get merchandise to reward the community extension I proposed and we can only really take one in the end so I wanted to make sure that everyone knew the score and mentors still looking for help could chime in and let us know.

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSOC 2012 : Lucene Automatic Query Expansion from Wikipedia Text

2012-04-04 Thread Gregory Varnum
Greetings, Thank you for putting this proposal together. I would expand a bit on how you plan to implement this. The why and what seem reasonably clear to me in your proposal, but I'd be curious what others think. You'll also want to look at the GSOC page on MW.org and in the IRC to aide your

[Wikitech-l] GSOC 2012 : Lucene Automatic Query Expansion from Wikipedia Text

2012-04-04 Thread Gautham Shankar
Hello, I'm Gautham Shankar from India pursuing my 4th year bachelors in computer science and engineering.I find the project proposal "Lucene Automatic Query Expansion from Wikipedia Text" in GSOC 2012 very interesting and would love to work on it. i have created a proposal for the idea https://w

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSoC 2012: Proposal-Wikipedia Corpus Tools (Oren Bochman) (Amir E. Aharoni)(Gregory Varnum)

2012-04-04 Thread Gregory Varnum
s project and working with you; and truth be > told, 23rd April seems like ages ahead. > > Thanking you, > Yours sincerely, > Karthik > > >> Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2012 11:49:41 +0200 >> From: "Oren Bochman" >> To: "'Wikimedia developers&

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSOC-2012(proposal)Convention Extension

2012-04-04 Thread Gregory Varnum
As a reminder to folks. Please remember that students are in need of mentors. Its key to their applications. Please designate your interest on the MW.org GSOC page to help connect with students. You're also welcome to use this list to reach out to folks like Akshay who you may feel is addressing

[Wikitech-l] GSOC-2012(proposal)Convention Extension

2012-04-04 Thread akshay chugh
Hi everyone, I seek to work on building a Convention extension as part of the Google Summer of Code project.I have set up a proposal for the same , here is the link http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Chughakshay16/GSOCProposal(2012). I haven't found a mentor to work with me for this project yet, s

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSoC 2012 - Integration of Flickr and enhancing Geolocation support in Upload Wizard

2012-04-04 Thread drecodeam
On Wednesday 4 April 2012 at 9:18 AM, Gregory Varnum wrote: > drecodeam, > > This proposal and the other one I just responded to about Flickr seem to have > some overlaps. I suspect only one would be accepted - and this one does > appear to be more developed at this stage. > > However, sim

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSoC 2012: Proposal-Wikipedia Corpus Tools (Oren Bochman) (Amir E. Aharoni)(Gregory Varnum)

2012-04-04 Thread karthik prasad
, Karthik > Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2012 11:49:41 +0200 > From: "Oren Bochman" > To: "'Wikimedia developers'" > Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] GSoC 2012: Proposal-Wikipedia Corpus Tools > Message-ID: <007f01cd1248$42ee6f40$c8cb4dc0$@com> > Content-Type: t

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSoC 2012: Proposal-Wikipedia Corpus Tools

2012-04-04 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
2012/4/4 Oren Bochman : > You do understand correctly! > > The main idea about NLP components is with POS tagger as an example: Just to make sure, POS = part of speech, isn't it? It's one of the most confusing TLAs in computing :) > If we could get QA from other native speakers we would incorpor

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSoC 2012: Proposal-Wikipedia Corpus Tools

2012-04-04 Thread Oren Bochman
...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Amir E. Aharoni Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2012 10:19 PM To: Wikimedia developers Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] GSoC 2012: Proposal-Wikipedia Corpus Tools 2012/4/3 karthik prasad : > Hello, > I am a GSoC aspirant and have compiled a proposal for one of the >

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSOC-2012 proposal(Convention Extension)

2012-04-04 Thread akshay chugh
Hi varnent, Before setting up this proposal , I have had some discussions with (^demon and saper) about the scope and need for such an extension. Not only they suggested me some features that they would want to see as part of this extension but they pointed out some issues as well that I would fac

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSOC 2012 proposal - Ajax functions for editing, blocking, deleting and checking recent changes

2012-04-03 Thread Gregory Varnum
Excellent - you're welcome to share it here for folks to review. :) -greg On Apr 4, 2012, at 2:35 AM, Marco wrote: > >> >> Looking over your application - I'd suggest flushing our more details on >> your proposed schedule and what exactly the advantages of your proposed >> project are. T

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSOC 2012 proposal - Ajax functions for editing, blocking, deleting and checking recent changes

2012-04-03 Thread Marco
Looking over your application - I'd suggest flushing our more details on your proposed schedule and what exactly the advantages of your proposed project are. The mockup helps convey the what - but they how and why are a bit vague to me. I think connecting the functional benefits of Ajax co

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSOC 2012 - Automatic Taxobox Usability and Feature Enhancements

2012-04-03 Thread Gregory Varnum
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 buildi

[Wikitech-l] GSOC 2012 - Automatic Taxobox Usability and Feature Enhancements

2012-04-03 Thread Bacon Prime
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

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSoC 2012: Proposal-Wikipedia Corpus Tools

2012-04-03 Thread Gregory Varnum
Whoops - I meant that email to be directed to Karthik - although Amir you're welcome to read it as well. :) -greg On Apr 3, 2012, at 11:24 PM, Gregory Varnum wrote: > Amir, > > Thank you for your GSOC proposal! :) > > Between now and Google's submission deadline on April 6th - you are inv

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSoC 2012 - Integration of Flickr and enhancing Geolocation support in Upload Wizard

2012-04-03 Thread Gregory Varnum
drecodeam, This proposal and the other one I just responded to about Flickr seem to have some overlaps. I suspect only one would be accepted - and this one does appear to be more developed at this stage. However, similar comments as before - has input been sought from folks administering exis

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSOC-2012 proposal(Convention Extension)

2012-04-03 Thread Gregory Varnum
Hi there Akshay, I've talked with a few Wikimania folks - and I think there's some interest in this. My impression is our current system is a series of patch jobs done to evolve the original system to our growing needs. A complete rewrite seems fitting, from what I've seen and heard. I'm cur

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSOC 2012

2012-04-03 Thread Gregory Varnum
Sudeep, Thank you for your interest in our GSOC effort this year!! I'm intrigued by some of your ideas - especially the backwards compatibility extension (although I imagine that has more benefit for third-party wikis than WMF wikis). Google's deadline is quickly approach - April 6th. I'd s

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSOC 2012 proposal - Ajax functions for editing, blocking, deleting and checking recent changes

2012-04-03 Thread Gregory Varnum
Marco, Thank you for putting these together - I think the test wiki helps convey what you're proposing. Do you have a proposal on MediaWiki.org as well? There's info on doing this at: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/GSOC#Student_applications Looking over your application - I'd suggest flushin

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSoC 2012: Proposal-Wikipedia Corpus Tools

2012-04-03 Thread Gregory Varnum
Amir, Thank you for your GSOC proposal! :) Between now and Google's submission deadline on April 6th - you are invited to further modify your proposals. The GSOC page on MW.org - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/GSOC - and our IRC rooms - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_on_IRC Lookin

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSoC 2012: Proposal-Wikipedia Corpus Tools

2012-04-03 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
2012/4/3 karthik prasad : > Hello, > I am a GSoC aspirant and have compiled a proposal for one of the project > ideas - Wikipedia Corpus Tools. [Mentor : Oren Bochman] > I would sincerely appreciate if you could kindly go through it and suggest > corrections/additions so that I can settle with a co

[Wikitech-l] GSOC 2012 proposal - Ajax functions for editing, blocking, deleting and checking recent changes

2012-04-03 Thread Marco
Following my proposal at http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/review/google/gsoc2012/marco_inacio/1 I created a test wiki http://wikitest.freehosting.com/ for you to take a look at the functionalities of the script I pretend t

[Wikitech-l] GSoC 2012: Proposal-Wikipedia Corpus Tools

2012-04-03 Thread karthik prasad
Hello, I am a GSoC aspirant and have compiled a proposal for one of the project ideas - Wikipedia Corpus Tools. [Mentor : Oren Bochman] I would sincerely appreciate if you could kindly go through it and suggest corrections/additions so that I can settle with a coherent proposal. Link to my proposa

[Wikitech-l] GSOC 2012

2012-04-03 Thread Sudeep Singh
Hi, I am sudeep. I am final year student at Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur in the computer science department. I am interested to apply in the following projects for gsoc 2012 1. Lucene automatic query expansion from wikipedia text 2. Backwards compatibility extension 3. Semantic form

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSOC-2012 proposal(Convention Extension)

2012-04-03 Thread akshay chugh
Max, I have taken your points into consideration, and have made changes to my proposal.Have also narrowed down the scope as well. updated proposal : - www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Chughakshay16/GSOCProposal(2012) >How are you going to write special pages and API modules before the database access la

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSOC-2012 proposal(Convention Extension)

2012-04-03 Thread Max Semenik
On 03.04.2012, 11:51 akshay wrote: > Hi everyone, Hi, please see https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists#Using_digests > I am an engineering student from Bits Pilani (India) currently in my 5th > and final year.I seek to apply for GSOC this year under Mediawiki. So from > the list of ideas

[Wikitech-l] GSOC-2012 proposal(Convention Extension)

2012-04-03 Thread akshay chugh
Hi everyone, I am an engineering student from Bits Pilani (India) currently in my 5th and final year.I seek to apply for GSOC this year under Mediawiki. So from the list of ideas given on the Mediawiki gsoc page, I wish to work on building a convention extension which would help convert any wiki

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSOC 2012 - Text Processing and Data Mining (Oren Bochman)

2012-04-02 Thread karthik prasad
he structure. We tried to analyse the statistics of the essay to come up with a measure to grade the essay structure. I am very excited about this and am eagerly looking forward to hear from you. Thank you. Best Regards, Karthik > Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2012 11:46:21 +0200 > From: "Oren Bochma

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSOC 2012 - Text Processing and Data Mining

2012-04-02 Thread Oren Bochman
Dear, Karthik Prasad & Other GSOC candidates. I was not getting this list but I am now. The GSOC proposal should be specified by the student. I'll can expand the details on these projects. I can answer specific questions you have about expectation. To optimally match you with a su

[Wikitech-l] GSoC 2012 - Integration of Flickr and enhancing Geolocation support in Upload Wizard

2012-04-01 Thread drecodeam
Hi, I am Ankur Anand( drecodeam ). I have been interested in working on the idea of integrating Flickr and enhancing the current Geolocation support in the Upload Wizard extension. I have been talking to my mentor Ryan Kaldari, and have drafted my proposal: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:D

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSOC 2012 - Text Processing and Data Mining (John Erling Blad)

2012-03-31 Thread karthik prasad
r.com/_karthikprasad Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2012 12:05:00 +0200 > From: John Erling Blad > To: Wikimedia developers > Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] GSOC 2012 - Text Processing and Data Mining > Message-ID: > > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 > > Your point (a) &quo

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSOC 2012 - Text Processing and Data Mining

2012-03-31 Thread John Erling Blad
Your point (a) "Implementing a wikiSumarizer widget which will give the summary of the page being read by the user" could be extremely usefull for a hover/ helpbubbles functionality where bubbles with a small explanations are created within external articles. Such functionality imply creating an ex

[Wikitech-l] GSOC 2012 - Text Processing and Data Mining

2012-03-31 Thread karthik prasad
Hello, I am Karthik from India - currently pursuing 3rd year Bachelors in Computer Science and Engineering in PESIT, Bangalore. I am interested in some of the projects proposed for Google SOC 2012 and would love to work and contribute the same to the open-source world. I am very attracted towards

[Wikitech-l] [GSoC 2012] Application: Realtime Collaboration on Visual Editor

2012-03-16 Thread Ashish Dubey
Hi Everyone, So with respect to my GSoC proposal earlier [1], I've written an application draft under my user page [2]. The scope of the project has been greatly resolved. I would be really thankful, if I get some feedback. Thank you. Links - [1] - http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-

[Wikitech-l] GSOC-2012 Proposal(Writing a convention extension for mediawiki)

2012-02-23 Thread akshay chugh
Hi all, I am an undergraduate student, currently pursuing my Integrated degree( Msc. Chemistry and B.Tech Electronics& Instrumentation) from Bits Pilani(India). I am looking forward to apply for GSOC this year under Mediawiki. So from the list of projects/ideas stated on the Mediawiki gsoc page I

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSoC 2012 Ideas/Projects

2012-02-21 Thread Shivansh Srivastava
Cant the same be done to allow users to login only through HTTPS, or if they are on HTTP, user can be redirected to an HTTPS. SO, the script will only work when the user is over a secured HTTP. On 22 February 2012 01:24, Roan Kattouw wrote: > On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 5:28 PM, Daniel Friesen > wr

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSoC 2012 Ideas/Projects

2012-02-21 Thread Roan Kattouw
On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 5:28 PM, Daniel Friesen wrote: > The idea that login is secure because it's on a separate page than the rest > of the site is actually an old mistake. > If a script is included ANYWHERE on the site on the same domain then it's > possible to inject in some code that will fak

Re: [Wikitech-l] [GSoC 2012] Proposal - Realtime Collaboration on Visual Editor

2012-02-21 Thread Trevor Parscal
I would be willing to mentor this project pending some further review so that we could scope it correctly. - Trevor On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 10:38 AM, Ashish Dubey wrote: > Hi Platonides > > You're right on the fact that its ambitious. And this is the reason I've > started working early on this.

Re: [Wikitech-l] [GSoC 2012] Proposal - Realtime Collaboration on Visual Editor

2012-02-19 Thread Ashish Dubey
Hi Platonides You're right on the fact that its ambitious. And this is the reason I've started working early on this. The key part in the project to me would be to consolidate the concurrent transactions and avoid conflicts. I've been reading considerably on measures to do so, perhaps working to m

Re: [Wikitech-l] [GSoC 2012] Proposal - Realtime Collaboration on Visual Editor

2012-02-19 Thread Platonides
Are you confident you would be able to complete it in time? Looks too ambitious to me. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] [GSoC 2012] Proposal - Realtime Collaboration on Visual Editor

2012-02-19 Thread John Du Hart
No, that's not the answer. On Feb 19, 2012 8:22 AM, "Thomas Gries" wrote: > Am 19.02.2012 14:20, schrieb Ashish Dubey: > > Hi Everyone > > > > The idea of realtime collaboration, > > > use Etherpad Lite > See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:EtherpadLite > > > > __

Re: [Wikitech-l] [GSoC 2012] Proposal - Realtime Collaboration on Visual Editor

2012-02-19 Thread Ashish Dubey
Hi Thomas, thanks for the reply. Great work with the Etherpad Lite. It can be used to bring realtime editing on wiki pages now, but I think building realtime collaboration into the Visual Editor project has its own set of advantages. As the Visual Editor evolves it will support more features of a

Re: [Wikitech-l] [GSoC 2012] Proposal - Realtime Collaboration on Visual Editor

2012-02-19 Thread Thomas Gries
Am 19.02.2012 14:20, schrieb Ashish Dubey: > Hi Everyone > > The idea of realtime collaboration, use Etherpad Lite See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:EtherpadLite signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Wikitech-l mailing

[Wikitech-l] [GSoC 2012] Proposal - Realtime Collaboration on Visual Editor

2012-02-19 Thread Ashish Dubey
Hi Everyone The idea of realtime collaboration, and the thought of it being implemented on MediaWiki based sites has amazed me ever since I read about it in the strategic proposal about Realtime collaboration here[1]. I really wanted to work on it as my GSoC project and through some fruitful amoun

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSoC 2012 project thoughts (Global User Preferences)

2012-02-17 Thread Jeremias Nuñez
Thanks for all your replies! Taking in to account what you all have said, and after re-viewing past years projects like Sumana said I realized that maybe what was stopping me from having a clear understanding of the idea and how to sort it out was actually it's too wide scope. Looking at other ye

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSoC 2012 project thoughts (Global User Preferences)

2012-02-16 Thread Platonides
On 16/02/12 14:11, Jeremias Nuñez wrote: > When you say "extensive consultation" are you referring to the UI or to > which preferences could be made global? I think we talked about this on IRC > too but I don't quite remember. > > I'd also appreciate if you could point me where I could start "divi

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSoC 2012 project thoughts (Global User Preferences)

2012-02-16 Thread Platonides
On 16/02/12 17:44, Mark A. Hershberger wrote: >> 3 - Would it be too big of a project for a single person to take on? >> (given the amount of time to actually implement it for GSoC) > > If nothing else, I'd like signatures copied. That should be simple > enough, but I don't know enough about how

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSoC 2012 project thoughts (Global User Preferences)

2012-02-16 Thread Robin Pepermans
I am planning to participate in GSoC, and was looking for a project. Global preferences also came to my mind, and now I see this thread. So if Jeremias doesn't take this project, I will consider doing it. 2012/2/16 Sumana Harihareswara : > On 02/15/2012 04:39 PM, Andrew Garrett wrote: >> On Wed, F

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSoC 2012 project thoughts (Global User Preferences)

2012-02-16 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
On 02/15/2012 04:39 PM, Andrew Garrett wrote: > On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 4:29 AM, Jeremias Nunez wrote: > >> >> Hey everyone, >> >> Reading around MW and looking into some ideas for GSoC I ran into this >> bug, https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14950, which I >> noticed (correct me if

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSoC 2012 Ideas/Projects

2012-02-16 Thread Shivansh Srivastava
Hi All, I replied back on most of the points, mentioning the prudence of each idea. Could I get some assessment on a couple of things:- 1. Are these ideas & features needed or useful? 2. I reckon, except for jQuery with AJAX (which I will clarify on IRC), Voice Search & HTML5, the other points h

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSoC 2012 project thoughts (Global User Preferences)

2012-02-16 Thread Mark A. Hershberger
Jeremias Nunez writes: > 1 - Is this a feature that could actually be needed/helpful/useful? I often have to copy my sig to a new wiki whenever I sign into it to make a comment. My email is copied to every wiki automatically, why not my signature? I would LOVE to have this implemented. > 2 -

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSoC 2012 project thoughts (Global User Preferences)

2012-02-16 Thread Jeremias Nuñez
When you say "extensive consultation" are you referring to the UI or to which preferences could be made global? I think we talked about this on IRC too but I don't quite remember. I'd also appreciate if you could point me where I could start "diving in", so I can get a sense of how things were don

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSoC 2012 project thoughts (Global User Preferences)

2012-02-15 Thread Andrew Garrett
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 4:29 AM, Jeremias Nunez wrote: > > Hey everyone, > > Reading around MW and looking into some ideas for GSoC I ran into this > bug, https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14950, which I > noticed (correct me if i'm wrong) isn't currently being worked on, and as > Roa

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSoC 2012 project thoughts (Global User Preferences)

2012-02-15 Thread Bináris
2012/2/15 Jeremias Nunez > > 1 - Is this a feature that could actually be needed/helpful/useful? > Would be the most useful thing since sliced bread! I miss it very much. Go on! :-) -- Bináris ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.or

[Wikitech-l] GSoC 2012 project thoughts (Global User Preferences)

2012-02-15 Thread Jeremias Nunez
Hey everyone, Reading around MW and looking into some ideas for GSoC I ran into this bug, https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14950, which I noticed (correct me if i'm wrong) isn't currently being worked on, and as Roan Kattouw said on one of the last comments, hasn't ever been wri

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSoC 2012 Ideas/Projects

2012-02-15 Thread Akshay Agarwal
Hi, I have made a TODO list of what needs to be done to take this extension to the next level & get it deployment ready, will keep updating my user page as I progress. My ongoing exams have made the progress slow, I will be back in swing once its completed at the end of this month. Thanks! -

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSoC 2012 Ideas/Projects

2012-02-14 Thread K. Peachey
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 3:19 AM, Ryan Lane wrote: >> 3. jQuery drop down menu - I wanted to implement this functionality on >> every page. I had seen the SignUP API & wanted this universally. If there >> are security issues with AJAX, then there is no need to even implement the >> jQuery alongside

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSoC 2012 Ideas/Projects

2012-02-14 Thread Ryan Lane
> 3. jQuery drop down menu - I wanted to implement this functionality on > every page. I had seen the SignUP API & wanted this universally. If there > are security issues with AJAX, then there is no need to even implement the > jQuery alongside. (Idea dropped) > Well, just because it would be inse

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSoC 2012 Ideas/Projects

2012-02-14 Thread Helder
Hi! On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 15:02, Shivansh Srivastava wrote: > 1. Page Preview - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Gadget-popups.js - > I had seen this, it takes a bit of time to load. I'll try & use/edit modify > it on my common.js more, see if I can be a bit more creative/improve upon > i

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSoC 2012 Ideas/Projects

2012-02-14 Thread Shivansh Srivastava
Hi All, Thanks a lot for your inputs. The reason I proposed more than a few ideas was so that I could get a feedback from the community, so that I could narrow/filter them down. I was a little unsure whether or not these projects could be finished over the Summer (16 weeks I presumed from last ye

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSoC 2012 Ideas/Projects

2012-02-13 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
On 02/13/2012 08:10 PM, K. Peachey wrote: > On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 10:38 AM, Shivansh Srivastava > wrote: >> 3. jQuery drop menu for login - ( >> https://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/trunk/mockups/ajax-mockups/Login/index.html#) >> - Can be integrated with AJAX for an on the page account v

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSoC 2012 Ideas/Projects

2012-02-13 Thread Daniel Friesen
On Mon, 13 Feb 2012 17:10:47 -0800, K. Peachey wrote: On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 10:38 AM, Shivansh Srivastava wrote: 3. jQuery drop menu for login - ( https://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/trunk/mockups/ajax-mockups/Login/index.html#) - Can be integrated with AJAX for an on the page accou

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSoC 2012 Ideas/Projects

2012-02-13 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
I talked to Shivansh in IRC earlier today. On 02/13/2012 07:38 PM, Shivansh Srivastava wrote: > I understand there are 16 weeks in which I would have to complete my > project(s). So, kindly also inform me what would happen if the time taken > by me exceeds & extends after the summer? Would I be al

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSoC 2012 Ideas/Projects

2012-02-13 Thread K. Peachey
On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 10:38 AM, Shivansh Srivastava wrote: > 1. Page Preview (onmouseover) - A small Dialog box, that could display the > Intro para of the hypertext/link in an iframe or related text. (1 week + > testing) . I'll need to discuss this more There is a nice little user based gadget

[Wikitech-l] GSoC 2012 Ideas/Projects

2012-02-13 Thread Shivansh Srivastava
Hi Sir, Kindly find below the abstract of what I want to propose for GSoC '12. Could you please review it & suggest to make it better before mailing it on te Wikitech-I mailing list. Kindly tell me whether I need to be more elaborate & whether they can be taken up as projects under GSoC '12. Sinc