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== | == libmediawiki == | ||
=== Problem statement === | |||
{| class="wikitable" | {| class="wikitable" | ||
|- | |- | ||
! scope="row" | | ! scope="row" | The fact that | ||
| | | there doesn't exist a Qt API for MediaWiki | ||
|- | |- | ||
! scope="row" | | ! scope="row" | affects | ||
| | | Qt and KDE developers, and their users, | ||
|- | |- | ||
! scope="row" | | ! scope="row" | because | ||
| | | the absence of readily available API discourages developers from building desktop tools for reading or editing MediaWiki-hosted content. | ||
|- | |- | ||
! scope="row" | | ! scope="row" | A successful solution would | ||
| | | provide Qt developers with such a tool, therefore enabling and encouraging them to create new software based on it. | ||
|} | |} | ||
== | === Success criteria === | ||
* | * The library is usable and reused outside this project. | ||
== | === Product position === | ||
{| class="wikitable" | {| class="wikitable" | ||
|- | |- | ||
! scope="row" | | ! scope="row" | For | ||
| | | Qt and KDE developers | ||
|- | |- | ||
! scope="row" | | ! scope="row" | who | ||
| | | want to build software that interacts with a MediaWiki website | ||
|- | |- | ||
! scope="row" | | ! scope="row" | libmediawiki | ||
| | | is a Qt API | ||
|- | |- | ||
! scope="row" | | ! scope="row" | that | ||
| | | allows to quickly and abstractly interface with a MediaWiki interface | ||
|- | |- | ||
! scope="row" | | ! scope="row" | in a better way than | ||
| | | building a (different) interface from scratch each time. | ||
|} | |} | ||
== | === Roles === | ||
* Qt & KDE developer | |||
=== Features === | |||
See http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API for details. | |||
{| | {| | ||
|- | |- | ||
! | ! Name !! Priority !! Short description | ||
|- | |||
! scope="row" | Authentication API | |||
| | |||
| Login & logout | |||
|- | |||
! scope="row" | Query API | |||
| | |||
| Meta info, properties & lists | |||
|- | |||
! scope="row" | Parsing API | |||
| | |||
| Template expansion & rendering | |||
|- | |||
! scope="row" | Editing API | |||
| | |||
| Page creation, edition, move, watch | |||
|- | |||
! scope="row" | Maintenance API | |||
| | |||
| Deletion, protection, rollback, patrol | |||
|- | |||
! scope="row" | User API | |||
| | |||
| Block, e-mails, user rights | |||
|- | |||
! scope="row" | Uploading API | |||
| | |||
| File upload | |||
|} | |||
== Wikimedia widgets == | |||
=== Problem statement === | |||
{| class="wikitable" | |||
|- | |||
! scope="row" | The fact that | |||
| a web browser is required to access information from Wikimedia websites | |||
|- | |||
! scope="row" | affects | |||
| KDE users, | |||
|- | |||
! scope="row" | because | |||
| they have no way of quickly accessing Wikimedia information from the desktop. | |||
|- | |||
! scope="row" | A successful solution would | |||
| provide widgets to reach Wikimedia's services. | |||
|} | |||
=== Success criteria === | |||
* Good mark (e.g. 4 stars) | |||
=== Product position === | |||
{| class="wikitable" | |||
|- | |||
! scope="row" | For | |||
| users of the KDE desktop | |||
|- | |- | ||
! scope="row" | | ! scope="row" | who | ||
| | | wish to access bits of Wikipedia and other Wikimedia websites from their desktop, | ||
|- | |- | ||
! scope="row" | | ! scope="row" | Wikimedia widgets | ||
| | | are a suite of widgets/plasmoids | ||
|- | |||
! scope="row" | that | |||
| bring pieces of information from Wikipedia/Wikimedia to their desktop | |||
|- | |||
! scope="row" | in a better way than | |||
| the browser. | |||
|} | |||
=== Roles === | |||
* KDE users | |||
=== Features === | |||
{| | |||
|- | |||
! Name !! Priority !! Short description | |||
|- | |||
! scope="row" | Commons picture of the day | |||
| | |||
| | |||
|- | |||
! scope="row" | Wikipedia article of the day | |||
| | |||
| in multiple languages? | |||
|- | |||
! scope="row" | Wiktionary look-up | |||
| | |||
| | |||
|- | |||
! scope="row" | Watchlist RSS | |||
| | |||
| | |||
|- | |||
|} | |||
== Mass file uploader == | |||
(name TBD) | |||
=== Problem statement === | |||
{| class="wikitable" | |||
|- | |||
! scope="row" | The fact that | |||
| Wikimedia Commons doesn't provide an intuitive, fully-fledged and cross-platform mass file uploader | |||
|- | |||
! scope="row" | affects | |||
| the current and potential participants to Wikimedia Commons | |||
|- | |||
! scope="row" | because | |||
| contributing large amounts of media files is cumbersome. | |||
|- | |||
! scope="row" | A successful solution would | |||
| provide an easy way to mass upload media files from the desktop to Wikimedia Commons. | |||
|} | |||
=== Success criteria === | |||
* The tool is well-received by the community of users. | |||
* The tool is downloaded by a large number of people. | |||
* A large number of media files are uploaded using the tool. | |||
=== Product position === | |||
{| class="wikitable" | |||
|- | |||
! scope="row" | For | |||
| current and potential participants to Wikimedia Commons | |||
|- | |||
! scope="row" | who | |||
| want to contribute media files, | |||
|- | |||
! scope="row" | the mass file uploader | |||
| is a cross-platform Qt application | |||
|- | |||
! scope="row" | that | |||
| facilitates the upload of multiple files | |||
|- | |||
! scope="row" | in a better way than | |||
| [[:commons:Special:Upload|the web interface]], [[:commons:Commons:Tools/Commonist|Commonist]], [[:commons:User:Nichalp/Upload script|Nichalp's Upload Script]] and [[:metawikipedia:Pywikipediabot/upload.py|Pywikipediabot]]. | |||
|} | |||
=== Roles === | |||
* Wikimedia Commons participant | |||
=== Features === | |||
{| | |||
|- | |||
! Name !! Priority !! Short description | |||
|- | |||
! scope="row" | Multilingual descriptions | |||
| | |||
| | |||
|- | |||
! scope="row" | Copyright terms | |||
| | |||
| Author, source, license | |||
|- | |||
! scope="row" | Specifics of Wikimedia Commons | |||
| | |||
| Mandatory fields, licenses and other templates | |||
|- | |||
! scope="row" | Prepopulation of fields | |||
| | |||
| Metadata extraction from EXIF, IPTC, XMP | |||
|- | |||
! scope="row" | Batch operations | |||
| | |||
| Ability to apply specific changes to a selection of files | |||
|- | |||
! scope="row" | User preferences | |||
| | |||
| Ability to customize and remember settings | |||
|- | |||
! scope="row" | Integration with KIPI plugins | |||
| | |||
| | |||
|- | |||
! scope="row" | Lossless rotation | |||
| | |||
| | |||
|- | |||
! scope="row" | Progress bar | |||
| | |||
| | |||
|- | |||
! scope="row" | Geolocation | |||
| | |||
| Ability to extract from EXIF and add template or hide for privacy | |||
|- | |||
! scope="row" | | |||
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|} | |||
== Wikimedia offline editor == | |||
=== Problem statement === | |||
{| class="wikitable" | |||
|- | |||
! scope="row" | The fact that | |||
| an Internet connection is required to edit Wikimedia websites | |||
|- | |||
! scope="row" | affects | |||
| current and potential participants to Wikimedia websites, including Wikipedia, who have limited, intermittent or no access to Internet | |||
|- | |||
! scope="row" | because | |||
| they can't share their knowledge | |||
|- | |||
! scope="row" | A successful solution would | |||
| provide a way to edit Wikimedia sites offline and synchronize the changes later. | |||
|} | |||
=== Success criteria === | |||
* The product is downloaded, and used, by a large amount of users to edit Wikimedia and other Wikimedia sites offline. | |||
=== Product position === | |||
{| class="wikitable" | |||
|- | |||
! scope="row" | For | |||
| current and potential participants to Wikimedia websites | |||
|- | |||
! scope="row" | who | |||
| have a limited, intermittent or no Internet connection | |||
|- | |||
! scope="row" | the Wikimedia offline editor | |||
| is a cross-platform Qt application | |||
|- | |||
! scope="row" | that | |||
| allows to edit Wikimedia content offline and synchronize the changes later | |||
|- | |||
! scope="row" | in a better way than | |||
| manual offline editing and synchronization. | |||
|} | |||
=== Roles === | |||
* Wikipedia users | |||
=== Features === | |||
{| | |||
|- | |- | ||
! | ! Name !! Priority !! Short description | ||
|- | |- | ||
! scope="row" | | ! scope="row" | | ||
| | | | ||
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|- | |- | ||
! scope="row" | | ! scope="row" | | ||
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|- | |- | ||
|} | |} |
Latest revision as of 18:04, 7 October 2010
libmediawiki
Problem statement
The fact that | there doesn't exist a Qt API for MediaWiki |
---|---|
affects | Qt and KDE developers, and their users, |
because | the absence of readily available API discourages developers from building desktop tools for reading or editing MediaWiki-hosted content. |
A successful solution would | provide Qt developers with such a tool, therefore enabling and encouraging them to create new software based on it. |
Success criteria
- The library is usable and reused outside this project.
Product position
For | Qt and KDE developers |
---|---|
who | want to build software that interacts with a MediaWiki website |
libmediawiki | is a Qt API |
that | allows to quickly and abstractly interface with a MediaWiki interface |
in a better way than | building a (different) interface from scratch each time. |
Roles
- Qt & KDE developer
Features
See http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API for details.
Name | Priority | Short description |
---|---|---|
Authentication API | Login & logout | |
Query API | Meta info, properties & lists | |
Parsing API | Template expansion & rendering | |
Editing API | Page creation, edition, move, watch | |
Maintenance API | Deletion, protection, rollback, patrol | |
User API | Block, e-mails, user rights | |
Uploading API | File upload |
Wikimedia widgets
Problem statement
The fact that | a web browser is required to access information from Wikimedia websites |
---|---|
affects | KDE users, |
because | they have no way of quickly accessing Wikimedia information from the desktop. |
A successful solution would | provide widgets to reach Wikimedia's services. |
Success criteria
- Good mark (e.g. 4 stars)
Product position
For | users of the KDE desktop |
---|---|
who | wish to access bits of Wikipedia and other Wikimedia websites from their desktop, |
Wikimedia widgets | are a suite of widgets/plasmoids |
that | bring pieces of information from Wikipedia/Wikimedia to their desktop |
in a better way than | the browser. |
Roles
- KDE users
Features
Name | Priority | Short description |
---|---|---|
Commons picture of the day | ||
Wikipedia article of the day | in multiple languages? | |
Wiktionary look-up | ||
Watchlist RSS |
Mass file uploader
(name TBD)
Problem statement
The fact that | Wikimedia Commons doesn't provide an intuitive, fully-fledged and cross-platform mass file uploader |
---|---|
affects | the current and potential participants to Wikimedia Commons |
because | contributing large amounts of media files is cumbersome. |
A successful solution would | provide an easy way to mass upload media files from the desktop to Wikimedia Commons. |
Success criteria
- The tool is well-received by the community of users.
- The tool is downloaded by a large number of people.
- A large number of media files are uploaded using the tool.
Product position
For | current and potential participants to Wikimedia Commons |
---|---|
who | want to contribute media files, |
the mass file uploader | is a cross-platform Qt application |
that | facilitates the upload of multiple files |
in a better way than | the web interface, Commonist, Nichalp's Upload Script and Pywikipediabot. |
Roles
- Wikimedia Commons participant
Features
Name | Priority | Short description |
---|---|---|
Multilingual descriptions | ||
Copyright terms | Author, source, license | |
Specifics of Wikimedia Commons | Mandatory fields, licenses and other templates | |
Prepopulation of fields | Metadata extraction from EXIF, IPTC, XMP | |
Batch operations | Ability to apply specific changes to a selection of files | |
User preferences | Ability to customize and remember settings | |
Integration with KIPI plugins | ||
Lossless rotation | ||
Progress bar | ||
Geolocation | Ability to extract from EXIF and add template or hide for privacy | |
Wikimedia offline editor
Problem statement
The fact that | an Internet connection is required to edit Wikimedia websites |
---|---|
affects | current and potential participants to Wikimedia websites, including Wikipedia, who have limited, intermittent or no access to Internet |
because | they can't share their knowledge |
A successful solution would | provide a way to edit Wikimedia sites offline and synchronize the changes later. |
Success criteria
- The product is downloaded, and used, by a large amount of users to edit Wikimedia and other Wikimedia sites offline.
Product position
For | current and potential participants to Wikimedia websites |
---|---|
who | have a limited, intermittent or no Internet connection |
the Wikimedia offline editor | is a cross-platform Qt application |
that | allows to edit Wikimedia content offline and synchronize the changes later |
in a better way than | manual offline editing and synchronization. |
Roles
- Wikipedia users
Features
Name | Priority | Short description |
---|---|---|