Hi Ankita, On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 11:06 PM, Ankita Shukla <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello everyone! > > I am Ankita Shukla and am a Computer Science and Engineering student > pursuing > the junior year of Bachelor of Technology. > > I am interested in working on the project: Collaborative spelling > dictionary > building tool, as given on the Featured Projects Section of MediaWiki OPW > page. > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/FOSS_Outreach_Program_for_Women/Round_9#Collaborative_spelling_dictionary_building_tool is mentored by Kartik and Amir (explicitly CCed above). There should have been a link to a Bugzilla report where you and other candidates interested could ask questions directly and discuss the project. I have created that report now: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=71973 Please follow up there. Let me also paste the description of that project idea, just in case other contributors in this list want to help defining it: There are extensive spelling dictionaries for the major languages of the world: English, Italian, French and some others; at various degrees of coverage, Mozilla has over a hundred <https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/dictionaries/>,LibreOffice dozens <https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Language_support_of_LibreOffice>. They help make Wikipedia articles in these languages more readable and professional and provide an opportunity for participation in improving spelling. Many other languages, however, don’t have spelling dictionaries. One possible way to build good spelling dictionaries would be to employ crowdsourcing, and Wikipedia editors can be a good source for this, but this approach will also require a robust system in which language experts will be able to manage the submissions: accept, reject, filter and build new versions of the spelling dictionary upon them. This can be done as a MediaWiki extension integrated with VisualEditor, and possibly use Wikidata as a backend. - Skills: PHP, Web frontend. Bonus: Familiarity with VisualEditor and Wikidata; experience in an existing dictionary-building community. - Mentors: Amir Aharoni <https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/User:Aaharoni>, Kartik Mistry <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:KartikMistry> _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
