GSoC 2016 Project: WikiToLearn Improved Editor

[Nanduni Nimalsiri]

Hi all,

Thank you very much for the information. I am already working on
understanding the wikitolearn website, so that I can come up with better
suggestions for editor improvements.

Thank you for inviting me to WikiToLearn GSoc telegram group and I will
carry out conversations through that.  I will keep my updates via
wikitolearn-tech group as well. I shall follow your instructions and report
once done or if I have any problem. Thank you.

Best regards,

Nanduni

On 28 February 2016 at 00:03, Gianluca Rigoletti <
gianluca.rigoletti at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Nanduni,
> nice to meet you!
> I am very happy to see you're interested in this project. Lets' see if
> I can explain it better:
> First, like Riccardo said, I would suggest you to get comfortable with
> wikitolearn website (if you're not already). Then I would suggest you
> to look at how does mediawiki works. In particular, you should look on
> the extensions about the editor. Currently WikiToLearn has a simple
> text editor: it allows you to write content and has some snippets
> buttons. Our plan is to make it better for people that wants to write
> content in WTL (the editors).
>
> If you're asking why we need that, the motivation is that we want
> people to share knowledge, writing collaborative textbooks, in the
> most easy and efficient way. 100% of the editors write WikiToLearn
> pages directly using the web editor. It is easy to use but not so
> efficient for speed writing. You can see that is the same of wikipedia
> and mediawiki one; but they also have a new more powerful editor
> called VisualEditor that we currently don't have but we plain to
> support.
>
> So, how can I improve the editor?
> This is the main point of the GSoc task. To understand what needs to
> be improved, it should be understood what editors would like to see in
> an editor and what can speed them up. Once it is clear what features
> are really important to improve the usability and efficiency of the
> editors, then VisualEditor should be hacked (I see, reading the
> documentation, that it can be done) or a new editor should be written.
>
> Remember it's up to you to propose the main idea. We can continue the
> conversation on mail using the wikitolearn-tech group or the
> WikiToLearn GSoc telegram group.
>
> Let me know :)
>
> Bye!
>
>
> >
> > I found several interesting projects in KDE Community Wiki that matches
> with
> > my interests. Hence I would like to take part in a WikitoLearn project.
> Out
> > of the project ideas listed, I would like to contribute to the project :
> > 2.14.8 Project: WikiToLearn improved editor. Can you please explain me
> more
> > on this project and how I should proceed with this task. Thank you.
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Nanduni.
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Nanduni Nimalsiri
> > Undergraduate, Department of Computer Science and Engineering,
> University of
> > Moratuwa, Sri Lanka.
> > Software Engineering Intern, WSO2 Inc. (http://wso2.com)
> > email : nanduni.12 at cse.mrt.ac.lk, nanduni at wso2.com
> > blog : http://nanduni.blogspot.com/
> > website: http://nanduni-nimalsiri.branded.me/
> > mobile : +94714114256
>
>
>
> --
> Gianluca
>



-- 
*Nanduni Nimalsiri*
Undergraduate, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University
of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka.
Software Engineering Intern, WSO2 Inc. (http://wso2.com)
email : nanduni.12 at cse.mrt.ac.lk, nanduni at wso2.com
blog : http://nanduni.blogspot.com/
website: http://nanduni-nimalsiri.branded.me/
mobile : +94714114256
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