I don't think this is suitable for the mediawiki codebase, but it sounds like something wikifunctions would be interested in. See https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Abstract_Wikipedia
-- Bawolff On Wednesday, February 8, 2023, <tim.h...@gmx.de> wrote: > Hello, > > I am interested in programming and I asked a question about potential use > cases for block based programming within the Wikimedia projects in the last > year on this Mailinglist. In the last months I tried different things to > offer alternative ways of creating source code. > > I like for example the programming language COBOL as it is possible to > write source code with only a few brackets and it is quite similar to short > English sentences. I have experience with the programming languages R and > COBOL. Do you think it is possible to collect the most used code snippets > and create blocks for these code snippets. I wrote a script in the > programming language R that enables the conversion of blocks to code. > https://gitlab.wikimedia.org/hogue/block-to-code/-/tree/main/ There are > two folders and I am still experimenting and changes are possible to make > it more useful for code generation. From my point of view it could enable > more people to contribute to the Wikimedia Codebase if it is possible to > create programs through combining blocks in a visual programming language > like Snap! or Scratch. I also tried it the other way with converting source > code to blocks in the visual programming language Snap! and wrote a script > to convert Spreadsheet functions to source code in Programming language R. > Do you think the possibility to use of visual programming languages could > enable more people to contribute to the Wikimedia Codebase. I am interested > in extending the existing script to help people to contribute in such a > way. Another advantage is the possibility to translate the blocks. This > makes it possible to understand to contribute also without an understanding > of English. > > Please tell me what you think about my thoughts and if and how I could do > it from your point of view. > > Hogü-456 > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list -- wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe send an email to wikitech-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/wikitech-l. > lists.wikimedia.org/
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