[WikiToLearn] GSoC 2016 Project: WikiToLearn Improved Editor

Mon Mar 7 10:29:36 UTC 2016

Dear Sir,

Sorry for the late reply. I was not well and that's why I couldn't reply.

Thank you for the clarification about the syntax highlighting extension. I
already tried Visual Editor in sandbox environment. I also went through
[1], which I suppose that I need to look into. Am I right?

[1]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi/VisualEditor

Best regards,
Nanduni.

On 6 March 2016 at 16:46, Gianluca Rigoletti <gianluca.rigoletti at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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
>

-- 
*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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