On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 6:32 PM, Mono <monom...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > It's likely many of you have heard of or even participated in the Picture > of the Year contest. Every year, the Wikimedia community votes for a > picture of the year from the pool of images promoted to featured picture > status in the previous year on the Wikimedia Commons. This typically occurs > in late spring; last year's contest took place in May and was a huge > success. > > This year, we're looking to improve the operation of the contest. In the > past, with the notable exception of a community-developed JavaScript > interface, the galleries, voting, and counting has been done manually. This > hurts the efficiency of the contest significantly, as these somewhat > tedious tasks will be repeated year after year. > > It would be really wonderful if we could get a couple of developers to put > an extension together. I've searched fairly extensively for something that > would be sufficient for our needs and I've come to the conclusion that > building such an extension would be the most future-proof and efficient way > to accomplish the task. > > I considered using a Toolserver-based system, but authenticating users in a > SecurePoll-like way on a large scale would be difficult. (It's possible > that some parts of the SecurePoll code could be used for this.) The > functionality needs for the extension include: > *a front-end voting gallery where users can vote while logged in with a SUL > account on Commons > *an administration panel to manage the front-end galleries, including > account verification requirements, dates, and statistics > *a user right for committee members to access the interface > > This is certainly a "project," but it could be used for every POTY contest, > perhaps some other contests, and it doesn't have to be elaborate. However, > as I said, it would be really great if we could get just a couple people > who have some experience developing MediaWiki extensions to help program > this in time for this year's contest. > > If anyone is interested in helping out or would like some more information, > please contact me as soon as possible - anything helps! > > Thanks, > User:Mono > > -- > Sent from my iPad > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l >
For someone who is not fimilar with the commons PoTY voting process, could you share with us some dates so we have an idea of when the delivery date would be? -- John _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
