San Francisco Hackathon January 2012/Showcase

Wikipedia SMS + IVR on Twilio

An SMS Application in which the user texts a wikipedia entry to a phone number, then is called up by the service and read the Wikipedia entry.

Source and documentation

• Github: https://github.com/judytuna/SMS-Wikipedia
• Complete Notes to SMS Product
• Team page

Team

• Judy Tuan
• Romy
• Neil K
• Deeb
• WikiWidgetTablets

Glanceable display for mobile & editorial tools for tablet UI

Build on the existing Phonegap app, adding homescreen widgets that give people a glanceable display, make the content more browseable. Maybe add additional editorial tools for tablets. Start with Android, move on to Blackberry, Windows Phone 7, etc.

Source and documentation

• Github: https://github.com/emezias/WikipediaMobile
• team's page

Team

• Elizabeth Mezias
• Kenneth Ng

Nearby map view in mobile site

Source and documentation

• Source:
• team's page

Team

Visualizing article quality

We built a tool that attempts to automatically evaluate the quality of an article.

Source and documentation

• Github: https://github.com/slaporte/qualityvis
• Brainstorming notes

Team

• Ben Plowman
• Mahmoud Hashemi
• Sarah Nahm
• Stephen LaPorte

Geolocation data missing in articles robot

Source and documentation

• Source:

Team

• Shervin Afshar

Messaging from Mediawiki

• Daily-updated RSS feed 100 years ago today, thanks to the Months in the 1900s project
• Daily RSS feed Noisebridge events from the Noisebridge wiki
• Twitter feed from Noisebridge using BTI

Source and documentation

• Source: GitHub
• Proposal for plug-in parsers on wiki articles with user-defined structure

Failed to load RSS feed from http://modernhacker.com/feeds/rss/noisebridge.xml: Error fetching URL: connect() timed out!

Team

Jesse Zbikowski

API/AJAX features for WorkingWiki

A proof of concept for adding AJAX features and API actions to the existing WorkingWiki extension.

Currently it implements a sort of "hello world" api application and a trivial AJAX call that displays the api action result at the top of the extension's Special:ManageProject page.

Source and documentation

• SVN: https://workingwiki.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/workingwiki/branches/api
• WW docs: http://lalashan.mcmaster.ca/theobio/projects/index.php/WorkingWiki
• The API branch requires MW 1.17 or later, because it relies on the ResourceLoader and jQuery.

Team

• Lee Worden

Nearby locations for coordinate links on mobile app

Many infoboxes on Wikipedia contain coordinates which link to pages on the toolserver that show a whole load of info about these coordinates. It's not nice to click such coordinates in the mobile app and then having to open a browser to access the toolserver page, which also is not at all optimized for mobile use. The changes I made reuse the already existing "show nearby articles" feature of the mobile application, that shows articles near the location of the user, by displaying the same map, but with articles near the coordinates clicked. This results in a much better user experience.

Source and documentation

• GitHub pull requests: initial one & follow up

Team

• Jeroen De Dauw with help from Yuvipanda

Unit Testing with PHPUnit, Selenium and QUnit

Adds an extension for unit testing with PHPUnit, Selenium and QUnit.

Source and documentation

The extension has been committed to the Mediawiki repository:

Extension:UnitTest

Team

• Jeremy Postlethwaite
• Alolita Sharma
• mglaser
• Peter Gehres

'Did you mean' search suggestions for Android App

Adds suggestions for possible misspellings in the search feature of the Android app.

Source

• GitHub

Team

• Arthur RIchards
• Patrick Reilly