Do you think that working on the Proofread extension for making it compliant with the brand new Visual Editor could be feasible? I know that Tpt (in cc) was working on it, maybe it would be a good (and useful) project.
Aubrey On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 12:43 PM, Andrea Zanni <[email protected]>wrote: > That is a really good opportunity. > We also have http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikisource_roadmap, > that we set up at Wikimania 2012. > Few of those thought are now in the Wikisource Grant proposal, too: > > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Elaborate_Wikisource_strategic_vision > > I would say that a proper metadata handling system is maybe the first > priority, > but maybe we can accomplish that via Lua templates on WS and > metadata stored in Wikidata. > > Another thing would be working with OKFN tools for seeking and integration > (TEXTUS, for example). > http://textusproject.org/ > > Moreover, Djvu support/handling was an interest also of the WMF: > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikisource_roadmap#Djvu > > Well, there's a lot of stuff we can do :-) > > Aubrey > > > > > > On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 3:02 AM, billinghurst <[email protected]>wrote: > >> It was suggested to me that the Wikisources should be paying attention to >> the opportunity available through WMF's participation in Google Summer of >> Code. >> >> I have started a discussion at >> >> https://wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Scriptorium#Wikisources_asked_for_ideas_re:_Google_Summer_of_Code >> >> Regards, Billinghurst >> >> -------- Original Message -------- >> Subject: [Wikitech-l] Missing project ideas for GSOC >> Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 16:43:23 -0700 >> From: Quim Gil <[email protected]> >> Reply-To: Wikimedia developers <[email protected]> >> Organization: Wikimedia Foundation >> To: Wikimedia developers <[email protected]> >> >> It's time to start defining what we want our Google Summer of Code to be >> all about. Let's look at the ideas we are proposing to potential students: >> >> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mentorship_programs/Possible_projects >> >> Many of the ideas listed there are too generic ("Write an extension"), >> improvements of existing features ("Improve Extension:CSS") or >> work-in-progress tasks ("Fix Parsoid bugs"). Many others are not >> directly related with development, and therefore not suitable either for >> GSOC. >> >> After this filtering, we seem to be left with: >> >> * Article evolution playback tool idea >> * An easy way to share wiki content on social media services >> * Write an extension to support XML Sitemaps without using command line >> * Extension:OEmbedProvider >> * Add support for x3d 3D files to MediaWiki >> * Allow smoother and easier Wikimedia Commons pictures discovery >> * Build an interwiki notifications framework and implement it for >> InstantCommons >> * Automatic category redirects >> >> (If you think your project should also be considered here please speak >> up!) >> >> Most of these projects seem to be extension (and PHP?) centric. Can we >> have more diversity? Maybe gadgets and templates are too simple for a >> GSOC project? What about the mobile front? Do we have skin development >> projects that could make it here? Anything in the DevOps area? Anything >> the MediaWiki core maintainers would like to see happening? >> >> It would be also nice to have more candidates benefiting specific >> Wikimedia projects. Beyond Wikipedia, we have several proposals related >> to Commons. Wikidata seems to be joining soon. What else? Could this be >> a chance to help Wiktionary, Wikibooks or any other project with >> specific needs craving for tech attention? >> >> Also to the many students that have already showed their interest: feel >> free pushing your project ideas now! >> >> -- >> Quim Gil >> Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation >> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikitech-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikisource-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l >> > >
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