Hi all, Thank you very much for the information. I am already working on understanding the wikitolearn website, so that I can come up with better suggestions for editor improvements.
Thank you for inviting me to WikiToLearn GSoc telegram group and I will carry out conversations through that. I will keep my updates via wikitolearn-tech group as well. I shall follow your instructions and report once done or if I have any problem. Thank you. Best regards, Nanduni On 28 February 2016 at 00:03, Gianluca Rigoletti < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi Nanduni, > nice to meet you! > I am very happy to see you're interested in this project. Lets' see if > I can explain it better: > First, like Riccardo said, I would suggest you to get comfortable with > wikitolearn website (if you're not already). Then I would suggest you > to look at how does mediawiki works. In particular, you should look on > the extensions about the editor. Currently WikiToLearn has a simple > text editor: it allows you to write content and has some snippets > buttons. Our plan is to make it better for people that wants to write > content in WTL (the editors). > > If you're asking why we need that, the motivation is that we want > people to share knowledge, writing collaborative textbooks, in the > most easy and efficient way. 100% of the editors write WikiToLearn > pages directly using the web editor. It is easy to use but not so > efficient for speed writing. You can see that is the same of wikipedia > and mediawiki one; but they also have a new more powerful editor > called VisualEditor that we currently don't have but we plain to > support. > > So, how can I improve the editor? > This is the main point of the GSoc task. To understand what needs to > be improved, it should be understood what editors would like to see in > an editor and what can speed them up. Once it is clear what features > are really important to improve the usability and efficiency of the > editors, then VisualEditor should be hacked (I see, reading the > documentation, that it can be done) or a new editor should be written. > > Remember it's up to you to propose the main idea. We can continue the > conversation on mail using the wikitolearn-tech group or the > WikiToLearn GSoc telegram group. > > Let me know :) > > Bye! > > > > > > I found several interesting projects in KDE Community Wiki that matches > with > > my interests. Hence I would like to take part in a WikitoLearn project. > Out > > of the project ideas listed, I would like to contribute to the project : > > 2.14.8 Project: WikiToLearn improved editor. Can you please explain me > more > > on this project and how I should proceed with this task. Thank you. > > > > Best regards, > > Nanduni. > > > > > > > > -- > > Nanduni Nimalsiri > > Undergraduate, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, > University of > > Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. > > Software Engineering Intern, WSO2 Inc. (http://wso2.com) > > email : [email protected], [email protected] > > blog : http://nanduni.blogspot.com/ > > website: http://nanduni-nimalsiri.branded.me/ > > mobile : +94714114256 > > > > -- > Gianluca > -- *Nanduni Nimalsiri* Undergraduate, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. Software Engineering Intern, WSO2 Inc. (http://wso2.com) email : [email protected], [email protected] blog : http://nanduni.blogspot.com/ website: http://nanduni-nimalsiri.branded.me/ mobile : +94714114256
