Introducing Myself

[Adrián Chaves Fernández]

Hi people.

I wrote a personal introduction for the documentation mailing list. Per 
Valories’s suggestion, since some people in this list are not in the 
documentation list, I’m forwarding the message here as well.

The part about PyWikipediaBot might interest some of you.

O Xoves, 18 de Xullo de 2013 11:15:57 Adrián Chaves Fernández escribiu:
> 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!