[Digikam-devel] Contribution and Mentorship Request.

[Gilles Caulier]

Parthasarathy,

Look at this line from kipi-plugins :
https://projects.kde.org/projects/extragear/graphics/kipi-plugins/repository/revisions/master/entry/CMakeLists.txt#L449

... just uncomments these lines to working on. this will enable
mediawiki tool for compilation.

For multiple reasons, this tool is not able to be used properly in
production, especially with wikipedia. This tool use a shared library
named libmediawiki here :

https://projects.kde.org/projects/extragear/libs/libmediawiki

There is nothing special to do in this lib. Only plugin need to be
patched to support some missing features, descibed in this bugzilla
entry :

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=206842#c11

Guillaume Paumier work at wikipedia organization. You can talk with
him through this bugzilla entry for details. In this comment #11, he
explain all missing features to switch this tool in production.

Also, from my viewpoint, the site manager is very basic in this tool
and must be improved. Url are hardcode in tool. It's better to be able
to edit url of remote web service and to store last used url in kipirc
config file.

To work on this subject, i recommend to use git/master code of digiKam
software compilation, where kipi-plugins and libmediawiki are present
:

https://projects.kde.org/projects/extragear/graphics/digikam/digikam-software-compilation

Follow README file to checkout all the rest of the code.

To review your code, please post a patch against git/master in
bugzilla entry #206842. Me and Guillaume we will take a look.

Let's me hear if you need more information.

Best

Gilles Caulier