User:Sohom Datta/Bi Weekly Report 1

Hi guys, I'm Sohom Datta. I'm from Kolkata, a pretty cool city in the banks of the Ganges (okay, Hooghly if you want to be really specific). I'm a B Tech first year student studying Computer Science at Manipal Institute of Technology. I do edit English Wikipedia from time to time on a wide range of topics starting from nerdy software internals to topics on Indian history. I'll be working on "Creating a page-list editing widget for the ProofreadPage extension" (T247157) where I'll be working on implementing a widget to make it easier to create and edit pagelists in the Index: namespace of Wikisource.

Work
The last two weeks have been mainly occupied by me learning about the community, various nitty-gritty of the MediaWiki extension system and generally getting familiar with the tools/technologies I will be using. Personally, I have been a pretty avid reader of books, but I was pretty surprised to learn just how much complex page-numbers can get! I've also been looking up Selenium, a frontend testing framework that will form a major part of the tests for the widget. Besides this, tinkering around with the API to figure out how it will be using it in the widget. TBW