[WikiToLearn] GSoC 2016 Project: WikiToLearn Improved Editor

[Gianluca Rigoletti]

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/
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Gianluca