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 building the case for enWP deployment - which the editor community and high volume of the site tends to involve some legwork and selling of the idea. :) Regarding your GSOC proposal, this is a good place to solicit some feedback - you can also try our IRC room: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_on_IRC Be sure to fill out the other sections as they'll all be reviewed and considered when the deadline (April 6th) comes. Thanks, -greg aka varnent On Apr 4, 2012, at 1:28 AM, Bacon Prime <baconpr...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 obviate the need for the extensive support needed (~10 archived talk > pages over two years!) and might spark a conversion from the manual taxobox > to the automatic (which is desirable to the micro-optimizing programmer in > me) -- in the suboptimal case, such an improvement would still save many > people many hours of work and even out the learning curve. > > As an ancillary benefit, the wizard-like processes described in the help > pages could be easily converted into actual wizards, which would also cut > down on errors (i.e. when steps are applied incorrectly, out of order or > inappropriately). > > A quick blurb about myself: I'm 19, nearly into my third year of university > and majoring in Computational Linguistics at Simon Fraser University. Also, > I'd really, really like to be given the chance to contribute something > positive to Wikipedia's community! > > Proposal Page <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Baconprime/GSoC2012> > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
