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 years dates of 11th May to 30th August) & hence narrowing down to the more required projects projected a more modeled aim. With regard to the previous mails, I'll go point by point. 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 it. Would have to get back on this later. 2. Image Preview - Can be integrated with Image magnification X times. More aptly shown here - http://james.padolsey.com/demos/imgPreview/full/ & http://cssglobe.com/lab/tooltip/02/ 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) 5. News Ticker - News Ticker at the top of every page, which shows the latest headlines, fed from an RSS feed. I saw in the BBC Website ( http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/), & I consider it an informative addition to a page for any user visiting a page. RSS can be taken from WikiNews.org 6. OnScreen Keypad/Keyboard - I wasnt aware of the Extension ( https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Narayam). But isnt this only for some specific dialects. What I had in mind was only for En Wikipedia. JS would enable it whenever user enables that as a gadget. Should I drop this idea then? 8. HTML5 Implementation - Kindly find attached a small html file that changes Hue Saturation Colour of text. Could something related/better with HTML5 be implemented? 7. Voice Search - (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Shivansh13/common.js -Extension 5). I want to implement it in the Search box directly. The Search box can be seen at the end of the page. Apologies for poor js there, its just a general idea. 10. Bookmark & Sharethis - A very small application. But guess the specified Extension Sharebox does the bit. (Idea dropped) 11. Accordian - Again for long paragraphs. I guess, would have to prepend a div before each para found on the page, & jquery could be added in the js. Suggestions? 12. Float Menu - ( https://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/trunk/mockups/ajax-mockups/FloatingToc/index.html) - JS + CSS combined on this. I would consider it useful for long pages. Suggestions? 13. Notified scrollbar - Actually it would be an awesome functionality. Main intention would, again, be for long pages. The scroll bar be divided & at the top of each scrollbar would be a label of the div id. Something to think about? I hope I have replied appropriately & covered all points. Please reply with suggestions. I am doing this drill well before the submission list of GSoC, so that I can have an approx idea/heads up on what I am required to do, if I get a go ahead. @Sumana Ma'am - I am still learning the bits of the Open Source World. Hence, kindly overlook the imprudence of my questions, which may come from time to time. :-P :-D With Regards, On 14 February 2012 06:59, Sumana Harihareswara <suma...@wikimedia.org>wrote: > On 02/13/2012 08:10 PM, K. Peachey wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 10:38 AM, Shivansh Srivastava > > <shivansh.b...@gmail.com> 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 validation or > >> creation; without having to go to a different page. ( > > > > I believe we had a GSOC project not long ago (Last year?) to improve > > the login progress (including the AJAX side of things and API support > > for it). Although for security reasons I believe we would want to > > leave the Login stuff on it's own page (for security reasons). > > Yeah, I think Shivansh didn't look carefully enough at > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Summer_of_Code_Past_Projects when I > pointed him there to compare his ideas with other past projects. :-) > > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Summer_of_Code_Past_Projects#Signup_API > > Signup API (Original name: "Account Creation, Login Screens and > AJAX-ification of everything"). Goal: Implement the Account creation > proposal, which would allow for Ajax-based login. This was implemented > as the SignupAPI extension. > > Status: The SignupAPI extension is currently at "experimental" status. > Some of Akshay Agarwal's commits have received code critique and await > improvement. Akshay is responding to those critiques and working towards > the goal of deploying the extension on WMF wikis. > > CC'ing Akshay. Akshay, how is that going? > > -- > Sumana Harihareswara > Volunteer Development Coordinator > Wikimedia Foundation > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > -- Shivansh Srivastava | +91-955-243-5407 | http://in.linkedin.com/pub/shivansh-srivastava/17/a50/b18<mr.shivansh.srivast...@gmail.com> <mr.shivansh.srivast...@gmail.com>Secretary, BITS Alumni Affairs Division | Web Expert, Newsletter, BITSAA International 3rd Year Undergraduate | B.E. (Hons.) - Electronics & Instrumentation BITS-Pilani.
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