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Title : Offline Support for WikiToLearn WikiEditor

A Brief Description: OfflineExtension is an extension for WikiToLearn that will add offline support to the current WikiEditor. This extension notifies the user, his/her's internet connectivity status and if submitted while offline, will parse Wikitext to HTML and then renders it.

Work Report

During Summer the following tasks were completed :

A MediaWiki Extension that :
- Shows the exact status of internet connectivity of the user and alerts the same.
- Parses WikiText to HTML offline using Regular Expressions.

Screenshots

When the user is offline :

Trying to reconnect :

When the user is online :

Work to be done

The OfflineExtension is nearly complete at the moment, but still needs tweaking before it comes to production mode. Some of them are :

Since, all the wikitext tags are currently not supported such as Tables and Templates, I have to look for ways to parse those tags without making the parser heavy.
Making the user interface better by
- Asking user, whether he needs offline editing or not.

References

Telegram Nick: srijancse

Telegram Channels: WikiToLearn Tech, WikiToLearn, WikiToLearn GSoC, KDE-Soc

Blog: https://srijanfoss2k16.blogspot.com/

This is awesome about GSoC: Everything about GSoC is awesome. The best thing that I found about GSoC is be able to work on something that will actually be in production, which I think is a rare opportunity. In addition, interacting with mentors and developers from across the world and learning new things every day is priceless.

This is what I learned during GSoC:

Working with large codebase
Regular Expressions
Advanced JavaScript and Jquery
MediaWiki Extension Development
Working with Docker
Working with MediaWiki WikiEditor
GIT

Documents:

Repositories

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 *[http://srijanfoss2k16.blogspot.in/search/label/GSoC Google Summer of Code Blog Posts]
-*[https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:OfflineExtension OfflineExtension ]
+*[https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:OfflineExtension MediaWiki Documentation on OfflineExtension ]
 *[https://github.com/Srijancse/OfflineExtension/wiki/WikiText-Supported-by-OfflineExtension  WikiTags Supported by OfflineExtension  ]
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 *[https://github.com/Srijancse/OfflineExtension OfflineExtension]
 *[https://github.com/WikiToLearn/Wikitolearn WikiToLearn Repository]
+*[https://quickgit.kde.org/?p=wikitolearn-offline-extension.git KDE Repository]
 **[https://github.com/Srijancse/OfflineExtension/commits/master?author=Srijancse List of commits]