[WikiToLearn] GSoC 2016 Project: WikiToLearn Improved Editor

[Nanduni Nimalsiri]

Hi all,

I have some doubts to clarify regarding the $subject. When I went through
the MediaWiki extensions, I came across some syntax highlighting
extensions[1]. In the WikiToLearn repo, the syntax highlighter[2] is
already included. I am quite confused by this. Can you please explain me
about this.


[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Category:Syntax_highlighting_extensions
[2] https://github.com/WikiToLearn/WikiToLearn/tree/master/extensions


Best regards,
Nanduni.

On 28 February 2016 at 07:07, Nanduni Nimalsiri <nanduni.12 at cse.mrt.ac.lk>
wrote:

> 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
>



-- 
*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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