[kde-doc-english] Introducing Myself

[Yuri Chornoivan]

Thu, 18 Jul 2013 12:15:57 +0300 було написано Adrián Chaves Fernández  
<adriyetichaves at gmail.com>:

> Hello,
>
> My name is Adrián Chaves Fernández (Gallaecio), and my constributions to  
> KDE
> are mostly Galician translations. Talking to Valerie and Claus in the
> Documentation BoF yesterday, they suggested that I introduce myself to  
> the
> list.
>
> While I do not plan to work on KDE documentation — not in the short term
> anyway — I am a Technical Writter in my Real Life™ job, and my company  
> works
> with MediaWiki. Because of that and because of my involvement in the  
> Galician
> edition of the Wiktionary project, I am quite interested in MediaWiki and
> related technologies.
>
> So, even if I don’t contribute actually writing documentation, I would  
> not
> mind (and it would be actually kind of fun :) to contribute to make  
> working
> with MediaWiki easier. And I can do that with PyWikipediaBot and Editora.
>
> —
>
> PyWikipediaBot is a Python framework to work with MediaWiki sites. It’s a
> powerfull framework that allows to automate almost any task that a  
> MediaWiki
> user can perform.
>
> Just by using regular expressions I can perform replacements in any wiki
> easily. That includes spellchecking, fixing links, and almost any  
> replacement
> you can think of.
>
> I can also use the framework to write Python scripts that you can use to
> perform more advanced tasks, such as renaming bunches of pages, uploading
> files, and such.
>
> So please, if there is any repetitive task that you are about to perform  
> that
> you think I might be able to automate (I probably can), just let me  
> know. If
> using the framework is enough, I might be able to perform the task in  
> less
> than 24 hours. If I need to write a script, I will happily do so (it’s  
> fun!)
> and we can maintain a Git repository somewhere where anyone can fetch the
> script and use it.
>
> —
>
> Editora is the name — I would not mind changing it, ideas are welcome! —  
> of a
> KDE MediaWiki editor I’m working on. The long-term goals of the editor  
> are:
>
> 	• Syntax highlighting and code completion of MediaWiki code.
> 	• Live preview of the resulting page while writing MediaWiki code.
> 	• Offline edition, with session/project support.
> 	• Visual edition.
> 	• Plugin support.
>
> I’m not an experienced developer, so I do not expect to reach those  
> goals any
> time soon; in fact, since this project does not have my full attention  
> (none
> of my projects do), it might take a year or so to reach even one of those
> goals.
>
> However, I will definitely continue with this project, I’m sure many of  
> you
> might benefit from some of its features, even if it’s only the syntax
> highlighting which will be available in the first release.
>
> The source code can be found on Gitorious:
> https://gitorious.org/galicionario/galicionario-editor (do not believe  
> the
> information there, it’s wuite outdated). As soon as I have a first  
> release, I
> would like to move the project to the KDE infrastructure.
>
> Currently, the application is just a text editor which can load pages  
> from the
> Galician wiktionary (it’s hard-coded) using Kate’s MediaWiki syntax
> highlighting (which I’m developing as well) and send the changes back to  
> the
> wiki as an anonymous user. For the first release (0.4), I want to  
> implement
> the following features:
>
> 	• Availability of a predefined list of MediaWiki sites (those that
> PyWikipediaBot supports by default, for example).
> 	• Ability to define a custom MediaWiki site. For example, to manually  
> add
> KDE UserBase to the list of MediaWiki sites that Editora can interact  
> with, in
> case the site is not supported by default.
> 	• Ability to define a user account (username and password).
> 	• Ability to define a connection profile (combination of MediaWiki site  
> and
> user account).
>
> As you can see, the only long-term goal that the first release will  
> include is
> syntax highlighting, as it comes “for free” with the editor component.   
> After
> the release, I plan to add spellchecking and tab support as well before  
> I turn
> my focus to the remaining long-term goals.
>
> I would like to take the chance to ask all of you for feedback regarding  
> the
> long-term goals. That is, which other features would you also like to  
> have in
> a MediaWiki editor, and which ones do you consider the most important  
> ones.
>
> —
>
> I think that’s enough for now, and I hope most of you get at least to  
> read the
> PyWikipediaBot stuff, as I don’t want to get rusty in Python programming  
> or
> regular expressions :)
>
> Cheers!

Hi Adrián,

It is great to meet you here. :)

Any help will be much appreciated. To be honest, you have already helped  
the team from time to time by reporting the bugs in the documentation so  
you are not a new person here. ;)

Best regards,
Yuri