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Vision de projet
== libmediawiki ==
Problème
 
Le problème de l'intégration du contenu de Wikipedia sur le bureau et
=== Problem statement ===
l'indisponibilité de son contenu hors-ligne
 
affecte les développeurs et les utilisateurs de KDE.
{| class="wikitable"
L'impact du problème est que l'accès à Wikipedia dépend d'une connexion internet.
|-
Une solution réussie permettrait de
! scope="row" | The fact that
pouvoir accéder au contenu de Wikipedia à partir de
| there doesn't exist a Qt API for MediaWiki 
l'environnement KDE en étant connecté à internet ou horsligne.
|-
Critères de succès
! scope="row" | affects
• Bibliothèque utilisable et utilisée.
| Qt and KDE developers, and their users,
• Taux de satisfaction et d'utilisation élevés de la part des utilisateurs. (ex : nombre d'étoiles
|-
proche de 5)
! scope="row" | because
Position du produit
| the absence of readily available API discourages developers from building desktop tools for reading or editing MediaWiki-hosted content.
Pour les utilisateurs et les développeurs de KDE
|-
Qui cherchent à utiliser de manière simplifié Wikipedia.
! scope="row" | A successful solution would
MediaWiki/Silk est une API ainsi qu'une ressource akonadi
| provide Qt developers with such a tool, therefore enabling and encouraging them to create new software based on it.
Qui
|}
permet d'interfacer l'API MediaWiki en Qt, de
 
synchroniser des pages Wikipedia afin de les utiliser en
=== Success criteria ===
étant hors-ligne.
 
Mieux que le navigateur internet.
* The library is usable and reused outside this project.
Rôles
 
• Développeur de KDE
=== Product position ===
• Utilisateur de KDE
 
Features
{| class="wikitable"
Intitulé Priorité
|-
Librairie libmediawiki *
! scope="row" | For
Widget photo du jour 12
| Qt and KDE developers
Widget article du jour 7
|-
Widget Interrogation
! scope="row" | who
dictionnaires (Wiktionary)
| want to build software that interacts with a MediaWiki website
7
|-
Ressource akonadi 17
! scope="row" | libmediawiki
Outil de publication 12
| is a Qt API
|-
! scope="row" | that
| allows to quickly and abstractly interface with a MediaWiki interface
|-
! 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" | who
| wish to access bits of Wikipedia and other Wikimedia websites from their desktop,
|-
! 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" |
|
|
|-
! scope="row" |
|
|
|-
! scope="row" |
|
|
|-
! scope="row" |
|
|
|-
! scope="row" |
|
|
|-
|}
 
== 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" |
|
|
|-
|}

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