[WikiToLearn] GSoC 2016 Project: WikiToLearn Improved Editor

[Gianluca Rigoletti]

Hi Nanduni!
Syntax highlighting extension in WikiToLearn is not related to the
editor. It provides beautiful syntax layout for content  in the pages.
Look at this page to see what I mean:
http://it.wikitolearn.org/Java/Esempi_vari#La_mancanza_delle_parentesi_graffe

So the syntax extension works for the content and not for the wikitext editor.
Have you tried looking at visual editor yet?

Bye!

2016-03-06 7:29 GMT+01:00 Nanduni Nimalsiri <nanduni.12 at cse.mrt.ac.lk>:
> 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



-- 
Gianluca