User:TasneemLo/Outreachy11-3DFormats

Allowing 3D file uploads in Mediawiki commons
Public URL - http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:TasneemLo/Outreachy11-3DFormats

Related phabricator tasks - T3790, T54655

Personal Information
Name - Tasneem Lohani

Email - tasneem.lo.31@gmail.com

IRC Nick - TasneemLo

User Profile - User:TasneemLo

Timezone - UTC + 5:30 (IST - India)

Location - India

Typical working hours (Flexible to ensure deadlines are kept)
 * IST : 10am to 1pm and 3pm - 9pm
 * UTC : 4:30am to 7:30am and 9:30am - 3:30pm

Current experience with Mediawiki

 * Have setup the development and debug environment on the core.
 * Basic familiarity of code and code conventions.
 * Understood the process of submitting a patch and review.

Project Outline
With all sorts of filetypes like SVG, PNG, JPEG, GIF, TIFF, MIDI, OGG, WedM, DjVu, PDF ... (well, basically a lot of them), Wikimedia Commons is one of the biggest databases of media files. 3D images have been on the rise, where nowadays even mobile phone applications can stitch images into a 3D panoramic image. A large number of 3D model formats have come up, and are being used extensively. This project aims to allow users to upload these models on Wikimedia Commons along with a preview and an interactive view for ease of viewing.