IUP ISI/MediaWiki-Silk/Project vision

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

Widgets / plasmoids

Problem statement

The fact that	there doesn't exist Wikipedia widgets
affects	KDE users,
because	the users who need Wikipedia's services don't have widgets for the desktop.
A successful solution would	provide widgets to reach Wikipedia's services.

Success criteria

• Good mark (e.g. 4 stars)

Product position

For	User of the KDE desktop
who	wish to integrates bits of Wikipedia and other Wikimedia websites in their desktop,
Wikipedia widgets	are a suite of widgets/plasmoids
that	brings 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
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

Offline editor

Problem statement

The fact that	there doesn't exist offline editor
affects	Wikipedia users
because	they have to use a browser to edit.
A successful solution would	provide an offline editor based on an akonadi resource.

Success criteria

• Wikipedia users choose the offline editor instead of the browser.

Product position

For	the Wikipedia users
who	edit the Wikipedia article.
Offline editor	is a rich editor
that	allows to edit the Wikipedia article
in a better way than	the browser.

Roles

• Wikipedia users

Features

Name	Priority	Short description

Original page

Problem statement

Le problème de	l'accès à Wikipedia, dépendant d'une connexion internet et d'un navigateur,
affecte	les développeurs et les utilisateurs.
L'impact du problème est	que les utilisateurs ne peuvent pas avoir le contenu de Wikipedia sur le bureau et que s'il n'ont pas de connexion, le contenu de Wikipedia est indisponible.
Une solution réussie permettrait de	pouvoir accéder au contenu de Wikipedia à partir de l'environnement KDE en étant connecté à internet ou hors-ligne.

Critères de succès

• Bibliothèque utilisable et utilisée.
• Taux de satisfaction et d'utilisation élevés de la part des utilisateurs. (ex : nombre d'étoiles proche de 5)

Position du produit

Pour	les utilisateurs et les développeurs
Qui	cherchent à utiliser de manière simplifié Wikipedia.
MediaWiki/Silk	est une API ainsi qu'une ressource akonadi
Qui	permet d'interfacer l'API MediaWiki en Qt, de synchroniser des pages Wikipedia afin de les utiliser en étant hors-ligne.
Mieux que	le navigateur internet.