User:Didicodes/Apps

Current Events Viewer
An app that shows a list of current events happening in the world from Portal:Current_events. The page only displays events that happened a week to the current day. For instance, if today’s date is 18/03/2019 the page will show only events that happened from 12/03/2019 to 18/03/2019 which means that events older than seven days are automatically archived. If the day the user is looking for is not displayed by default, the users  needs to select day exact day he/she is looking for.

APIs
 * API:Parsing_wikitext

Page Finder
A simple web browser that can used to perform a prefix search for page titles and images embedded in those pages.Users can search for any page title example: Star wars, and get a list of pages starting with the title (Star wars), the user also has an option to click on images and see all images that are embedded in those pages. Note: Users can also click on the displayed page titles and read the contents of the page.

APIs
 * API:Prefixsearch would be used to perform the prefix search.
 * API:Images would be used to display a list embedded of media files on the pages.
 * API:Imageinfo would be used to retrieve information about each image file.

On This Day
On Wikimedia wiki’s homepage, the is a section called On this day that shows a list of historical anniversaries such as events, deaths, and births that happened on a particular day.This app will serve as a viewer for this feature.