User:Inchikutty/OPW Internship Report

UploadWizard OSM Map Embedding Project
This project is about enhancing the image upload process for Wikimedia Commons. Commons is an image hosting site which is used by Wikipedia and a bunch of other sites, as a central location to store free images, which can be reused anywhere without needing to worry about copyright. Commons has millions of images and Wikipedia editors need to be able to find quickly the right ones for their articles, so it is important to store various metadata with the image which will help navigation - topic of the image, when it was made and so on. This metadata is usually stored in a complex template language that is specific to MediaWiki, and the sight of which usually makes people to flee in terror. Since we cannot expect image authors to learn to write something like that, Commons has a tool called UploadWizard which creates all the code for you, after you fill out a bunch of forms. The main goal of the OSM map embedding project would be to provide map interface & the integration with external databases to the UploadWizard. (OSM stands for OpenStreetMap) The secondary goal is to integrate with some databases of locations and use that in various ways. One way would be checking if there are locations with requested images nearby (that is, someone put out a note that Commons needs good images about a certain place and doesn't currently have any), and warn the uploader about them. Another involves image competitions where people can participate with pictures taken at some predefined locations; UploadWizard could get a list of these locations and use it to help the participant in selecting where he took the photo. Information Courtesy:Gergő Tisza,Project Mentor

Status
Work In Progress

Plan

 * With the help of my mentor,I will navigate through the existing code and structure of UploadWizard, in order to understand the system in detail.

Progress
Dec 10 : Navigating through source code of UploadWizard .. Dec 11 : Working on an exercise task Dec 12 : First step

Dec 13 : Investigation Time.. Spend most of the day by going through various manuals, reading about Git best practices

Dec 14 : Uploaded another patchset, Investigation time.. this time about Upload Wizard/Geolocation

Dec 15 : The curious case of declaring and using 'state' variable within 'loop'.. possibilities and impossibilities..

Dec 16 : Rushing through various manuals and closely looking at leaflet.js

Dec 17 : Actually working on .each, .map and eliminating global state variables while using these methods

Plan

 * Design and Code

Progress
Dec 18 : IRC meeting at #opw channel and planning on next week activities.. added another patchset

Dec 19 : More time with JQuery

Dec 20 : Playing around with display (CSS time)

Dec 21 : Alternative to line break.. CSS best practices

Dec 22 : Experimenting with CSS pseudo elements

break : Merry Christmas

Plan

 * Report, Design and Code

Progress
Dec 26 :I was working with a very lengthy method.. using CSS content property I added a text string say "xxxxxx" and made it transparent. So eventually I will have a invisible text string before the link and hence a fake line break is achieved.. I am not happy about it.. Will look into more methods..

Dec 27 :Found a very useful discussion at stackoverflow

Dec 28 : Uploaded another patch set

Dec 29 : Thanks to my mentor [|Tisza Gergő] I know that my next step is to make design documents, and for that purpose I should dive into the actual design of UploadWizard..Its investigation time again

Dec 30 : Came to know about Wikimedia labs and MediaWiki-Vagrant for the first time.. More investigation

Dec 31 : Patch set is merged. Decided to build a mockup.

Jan 01 : Setting up and getting used to MediaWiki-Vagrant

Plan

 * To build a mockup