Aashish Mittal is working on a project proposal to facilitate "books" for Wikisource/Wikibooks: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Aashish.mittal/GSoC_Application
Ashwini Kumar has this as one of several plans for a summer project: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Ashwini/GSOC_2012_Application Historically, sometimes we receive multiple proposals for very similar tasks for Google Summer of Code, but we only accept one (factors going into our decision will include which proposal is better, which student has participated more in the Wikimedia community, which student has better technical skills, and which student has better communication skills). Therefore, Ashwini and Aashish should either choose to strive to make their applications the best they can be, or one of them should choose a different topic. In this case, since Aashish is very interested in the books topic and Ashwini mentions it as one in a list, I suggest Ashwini should simply choose ONE of the 5 topics listed on Ashwini's application -- something other than the books topic. -- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation On 02/11/2012 05:18 PM, Aashish Mittal wrote: > Hello, > > Thanks a lot for the reply. > > I am currently going through the project for implementing book management. > I have read through and installed Collection and BookManager extensions and > am going through other documentation related with this project. > > Also, regarding the Convention extension, I am exploring the features > offered by > OpenCW<http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/openconferenceware_is_beautiful_software_for_event.php>and > wiscondb. I will be installing OpenCW to get an idea of the usage and > will start looking into developing wikimedia extensions. Will try to get a > fair idea of the functionalities and their implementation details that are > needed to be achieved in this project. Will be discussing these on the list > and irc. Any suggestions on features/requirements that can be incorporated > in this project for making it better and more usable would be great to hear. > > Thanks, > Aashish > > > On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 8:19 AM, K. Peachey <p858sn...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 8:01 AM, Platonides <platoni...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> On 10/02/12 18:54, Aashish Mittal wrote: >>>> 2. Convention extension for converting mediawiki wiki into website for >>>> conference. I have been through the links, but I would like to get a >> better >>>> technical understanding of this project related to the implementation of >>>> the project. Any appropriate link or some useful guidelines would be >> great. >>> >>> Is this a new proposal? I remember about someone having implemented >>> something similar. >> >> Sounds like the DumpHTML extension... _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
