[Wikimediaindia-l] Regarding - Improving the Wiki-UI using AJAX JQuery
Hi, A mail sent by Wikimedia said that I'll be contacted shortly regarding my talk, but haven't been contacted yet. ( http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2011/Submissions_Review - No. 179) Hence, I am starting a thread for the same. *1. *The idea behind my proposal was to put as much *AJAX *in a Wiki Page as possible, which will make Wiki more Professional Enticing for users. For instance, if you take a look at the pages - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_sovereign_debt_crisis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010%E2%80%932011_Greek_protests or, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_natural_disasters_by_death_toll A user (an Engineer like me) might not be interested in going through each every topic. Since the whole page (1.54 MB for the Euro Debt Crisis Page) would be loaded every time, we can implement a method which would only show the topic which would be selected from the Table of Contents. Thus, one doesnt have to scroll through long paragraphs each time he has to look for different topics within a page. Hence, instead of the whole page, a section of the page is transferred at a time. *Advantages-* The whole Web page would be compact. One wont have to scroll through large paragraphs. *Waiting Time *is reduced. *Bandwidth Usage- *Since pages do not have to completely reload, it can help in less server bandwidth (helpful for me in my college), and when you are in countries or places that charge for your hosting bandwith, it will be more efficient, *Traffic *to and from the server is *reduced*. Form Validation. User Simplicity. Speed. *Disadvantages-* If you press the back button, you may not be able to return in the previous state. Might be *difficult to* *bookmark *and return to that particular state of the application *2. *The second idea was to put *JQuery *into use. For instance, Stave Jobs died on 5th Oct, a couple of days bak. We could have had an implementation of a simple slideshow of pictures showing his Life (from Apple NeXT, Pixar, Disney to Apple), his inventions (from Apple I to Macbook Air + IPad IPhone) on the main Wiki Page. Example for implementation- http://www.mirrorfootball.co.uk/archive/Bill-Shankly-previously-unseen-pictures-of-the-Liverpool-and-Preston-legend-plus-original-Daily-Mirror-features-and-stories-from-our-archive-article579.html *Advantages *are that it has a Large library an efficient helpful Open Source Community and has *AJAX Support.* Obviously for that JQuery Javascript file would be required to run the JQuery commands. * * *Till here was about my Proposal.* I have a few more queries though. 1. Could someone tell me about Hackathon what role can I play, depending on my proposal? 2. How do I present my talk (if I am allowed)..like present a modified page with AJAX usage as well? 3. Could I have a contact no. of someone incharge so that I can speak directly, in case for some minor queries. Thanks in advance. With Regards, -- Shivansh Srivastava | +91-955-243-5407 | http://in.linkedin.com/pub/shivansh-srivastava/17/a50/b18mr.shivansh.srivast...@gmail.com mr.shivansh.srivast...@gmail.comSecretary, BITS Alumni Affairs Division | Web Expert, BITSAA International 3rd Year Undergraduate | B.E. (Hons.) - Electronics Instrumentation BITS-Pilani. ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Regarding - Improving the Wiki-UI using AJAX JQuery
Hi Shivansh, On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 4:08 PM, Shivansh Srivastava shivansh.b...@gmail.com wrote: *Advantages-* The whole Web page would be compact. One wont have to scroll through large paragraphs. *Waiting Time *is reduced. *Bandwidth Usage- *Since pages do not have to completely reload, it can help in less server bandwidth (helpful for me in my college), and when you are in countries or places that charge for your hosting bandwith, it will be more efficient, *Traffic *to and from the server is *reduced*. Form Validation. User Simplicity. Speed. You have proposed a really nice talk regarding the usability. The Wikimedia Foundation has also been considering similar improvements in the UI UX, checkout http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Usability_Initiative I have also worked on a similar project for MediaWiki this summer developed an extension http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SignupAPI My work involved a lot of jQuery Ajax stuff, so in case you need any help with that, feel free to contact me directly. *Disadvantages-* If you press the back button, you may not be able to return in the previous state. Might be *difficult to* *bookmark *and return to that particular state of the application There are ways to get around this problem as well *2. *The second idea was to put *JQuery *into use. MediaWiki (the software that powers Wikipedia) already has a jQuery library also the necessary CSS markups to support the specific functionalities for vector theme, you can try downloading a copy of MediaWiki on your local host play with it, you may also come up with a modified version of the article page which you can showcase in your talk I have a few more queries though. 1. Could someone tell me about Hackathon what role can I play, depending on my proposal? 2. How do I present my talk (if I am allowed)..like present a modified page with AJAX usage as well? 3. Could I have a contact no. of someone incharge so that I can speak directly, in case for some minor queries. The conference hackathon committee will be able to help you a lot with it, in the meantime you can checkout the hackathon page at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/India_Hackathon_2011 -- Thanks Regards -Akshay Agarwal ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Regarding - Improving the Wiki-UI using AJAX JQuery
Thanks a lot Akshay for your reply...!! I will definitely be in touch with you soon for guidance. Cheers, On 7 October 2011 16:38, Akshay Agarwal akshay.leadin...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Shivansh, On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 4:08 PM, Shivansh Srivastava shivansh.b...@gmail.com wrote: *Advantages-* The whole Web page would be compact. One wont have to scroll through large paragraphs. *Waiting Time *is reduced. *Bandwidth Usage- *Since pages do not have to completely reload, it can help in less server bandwidth (helpful for me in my college), and when you are in countries or places that charge for your hosting bandwith, it will be more efficient, *Traffic *to and from the server is *reduced*. Form Validation. User Simplicity. Speed. You have proposed a really nice talk regarding the usability. The Wikimedia Foundation has also been considering similar improvements in the UI UX, checkout http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Usability_Initiative I have also worked on a similar project for MediaWiki this summer developed an extension http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SignupAPI My work involved a lot of jQuery Ajax stuff, so in case you need any help with that, feel free to contact me directly. *Disadvantages-* If you press the back button, you may not be able to return in the previous state. Might be *difficult to* *bookmark *and return to that particular state of the application There are ways to get around this problem as well *2. *The second idea was to put *JQuery *into use. MediaWiki (the software that powers Wikipedia) already has a jQuery library also the necessary CSS markups to support the specific functionalities for vector theme, you can try downloading a copy of MediaWiki on your local host play with it, you may also come up with a modified version of the article page which you can showcase in your talk I have a few more queries though. 1. Could someone tell me about Hackathon what role can I play, depending on my proposal? 2. How do I present my talk (if I am allowed)..like present a modified page with AJAX usage as well? 3. Could I have a contact no. of someone incharge so that I can speak directly, in case for some minor queries. The conference hackathon committee will be able to help you a lot with it, in the meantime you can checkout the hackathon page at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/India_Hackathon_2011 -- Thanks Regards -Akshay Agarwal ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- Shivansh Srivastava | +91-955-243-5407 | shivansh.b...@gmail.commr.shivansh.srivast...@gmail.com mr.shivansh.srivast...@gmail.comSecretary, BITS Alumni Affairs Division | Web Expert, Newsletter, BITSAA International 3rd Year Undergraduate | B.E. (Hons.) - Electronics Instrumentation BITS-Pilani. ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Regarding - Improving the Wiki-UI using AJAX JQuery
Thanks! -- Sent from my Nokia phone --Original message-- From: Shivansh Srivastava shivansh.b...@gmail.com To: Wikimedia India Community list wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Date: Friday, October 7, 2011 11:15:50 PM GMT+0530 Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Regarding - Improving the Wiki-UI using AJAX JQuery Thanks a lot Akshay for your reply...!! I will definitely be in touch with you soon for guidance. Cheers, On 7 October 2011 16:38, Akshay Agarwal akshay.leadin...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Shivansh, On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 4:08 PM, Shivansh Srivastava shivansh.b...@gmail.com wrote: *Advantages-* The whole Web page would be compact. One wont have to scroll through large paragraphs. *Waiting Time *is reduced. *Bandwidth Usage- *Since pages do not have to completely reload, it can help in less server bandwidth (helpful for me in my college), and when you are in countries or places that charge for your hosting bandwith, it will be more efficient, *Traffic *to and from the server is *reduced*. Form Validation. User Simplicity. Speed. You have proposed a really nice talk regarding the usability. The Wikimedia Foundation has also been considering similar improvements in the UI UX, checkout http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Usability_Initiative I have also worked on a similar project for MediaWiki this summer developed an extension http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SignupAPI My work involved a lot of jQuery Ajax stuff, so in case you need any help with that, feel free to contact me directly. *Disadvantages-* If you press the back button, you may not be able to return in the previous state. Might be *difficult to* *bookmark *and return to that particular state of the application There are ways to get around this problem as well *2. *The second idea was to put *JQuery *into use. MediaWiki (the software that powers Wikipedia) already has a jQuery library also the necessary CSS markups to support the specific functionalities for vector theme, you can try downloading a copy of MediaWiki on your local host play with it, you may also come up with a modified version of the article page which you can showcase in your talk I have a few more queries though. 1. Could someone tell me about Hackathon what role can I play, depending on my proposal? 2. How do I present my talk (if I am allowed)..like present a modified page with AJAX usage as well? 3. Could I have a contact no. of someone incharge so that I can speak directly, in case for some minor queries. The conference hackathon committee will be able to help you a lot with it, in the meantime you can checkout the hackathon page at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/India_Hackathon_2011 -- Thanks Regards -Akshay Agarwal ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- Shivansh Srivastava | +91-955-243-5407 | shivansh.b...@gmail.commr.shivansh.srivast...@gmail.com mr.shivansh.srivast...@gmail.comSecretary, BITS Alumni Affairs Division | Web Expert, Newsletter, BITSAA International 3rd Year Undergraduate | B.E. (Hons.) - Electronics Instrumentation BITS-Pilani. ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
