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2013/4/11 Thomas PT <thoma...@hotmail.fr> > Hi! > Your proposal looks very good. I'll be very happy to help you as co-mentor > on this project if is no GSoc project for Proofread Page. > > Some comments: > 1. You should keep in mind that the extension will be used by Wikibook and > Wikisource communities so these communities must be involve in the project. > 2. For Wikisource, the extension should be nicely integrated with the > current proofreading workflow managed by Proofread Page (this can be done > in a second time but we should keep it in mind). > 3. The extension should, I think, be able to manage metadata about books > like the author(s) in order to be able to provide these information in the > exported files. The metadata have sometime to be input by the contributors > (like the author of a Wikisource book) or to be get from MediaWiki (like > the authors of Wikibook books that are the contributors of the book pages) > or maybe, in the future, even get from Wikidata. > 4. The extension must be simple to use. I believe that one of the main > goal is to simplify the edition workflow. So, new wikicode syntax to learn > for basic users should be avoided as much as possible (this doesn't concern > syntax that will only be used in templates). > > A good way to archive these goals is maybe be to make book main pages not > wikitext based pages, but a page that store in a structured format (like > JSON) metadata of the book, a table of content and some free text spaces, > all of that edited via a clever form. For that, we can reuse some code > written for the Wikidata project (storage with the Content handler, Diff > system, DataValue library...). > Working in that way will allow to get nice and well-formatted metadata > that can be used to improve cataloging of books and avoid the need for > people to learn new tags, templates or parser functions in order to create > a new books. But this will require more development time. > > What do you think about it? > Thomas > > (I CC the members of the "Elaborate Wikisource strategic vision" group) > > > Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2013 12:16:44 -0400 > > From: gorillawarfarewikipe...@gmail.com > > To: wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > Subject: [Wikitech-l] GSoC 2013: Improve support for book structures > > > > Hi! I'm Molly White, or GorillaWarfare on the WMF projects. I'm planning > to > > submit a proposal to the WMF for this summer's Google Summer of Code (and > > probably also the Outreach Program for Women) and was hoping to get some > > feedback. See my proposal at > > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:GorillaWarfare/Proposal. > > > > I would like to improve support for projects (like Wikisource and > > Wikibooks) that have content that's structured as a book and not as an > > article. I plan to do this by working on the existing BookManager > > extension. It's currently unstable and very much in development, so > there's > > a lot of room for improvement. > > > > Do you have any feedback, concerns, suggestions, etc.? Do you think the > > project is feasible for GSoC? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Molly White > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikitech-l mailing list > > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
