User:Didicodes/Apps

WORK IN PROGRESS

Current Events:
This page gives details of current events happening in the world.It shows only events that happened a week to the current day. For example, if today’s date is 18/03/2019 the page will show only events that happened from 12/03/2019 to 18/03/2019. Discussions of items older than seven days are automatically archived

For each day, events are divided into different categories like: Disasters and accidents, Sports, Politics and election, Law and crime, Armed conflicts and attacks, Health and environment, International relations. The current event category can be fetched from this page here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Current_events to display the different categories. If a user clicks on a specific category, all the current news in the last 7 days will be displayed. Use API:Categorymembers to get a list of different categories listed here: Category:Current_events. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Links to get links to the current event.

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 [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_historical_anniversaries historical anniversaries] such as events, deaths, and births that happened on a particular day.This app will serve as a viewer for this

Mockups
Page Finder