GSoC/2016/StatusReports/SrijanAgarwal

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:

• Google Summer of Code Blog Posts
• MediaWiki Documentation on OfflineExtension
• WikiTags Supported by OfflineExtension

Repositories

• OfflineExtension
• WikiToLearn Repository
  • List of commits