User:Zhenya

I am testing wiki

Identity
Name: Yevhenii Vlasenko (Zhenya is a short name) Email: benjamin22.987@gmail.com Project title: "Add some kind of GUI for toolbar customization"

Contact/working info
Timezone: EET (GMT +2) Typical working hours:  8:00-12:00; 19:00-22:00 Contact information:
 * IRC: Zheee
 * GTalk: benjamin22.987@gmail.com (Zhenya Vlasenko)
 * Skype: Zhenya_987

Project summary
The aim of the project is to make nice GUI for editing and changing WikiEditor toolbar. GUI will allow to add, delete,change buttons, groups, sections and so on. GUI will be an easy and fast way to change toolbar in many different ways. Adding new usabilities to toolbar so it was more helpful and useful to users.

About me
I am a student of Chernihiv Technological University (Ukraine) on the Computer Science specialization. As a student I always have to find some information for my studying and work. And Wikis known as the best, fastest and easiest sources of all kind of information on different subjects. If you are interested in something, and you even don't know how to start study it, the first source of data is always wiki. So when I saw MediaWiki in the list of mentors for GSoC 2011, I felt that I can participate in something greater than an ordinary project. I mean the project, which helps millions of people all over the world to get knowledge! And I am able to pay back, and use the knowledge I've got, to enhance Wiki, make it better and participate in its development and its life!

Required deliverables

 * Creating a new module for GUI editor
 * Creating the visual interface for the editor
 * Creating functions for adding/deleting/changing elements to the toolbar
 * Creating functions for editiong the elements,and their content
 * Implementing Google Closure Library for creating the effects (optional)
 * Createing tools for visualization buttons,groups,sections.
 * Making wikiEditor.js to work with GUI editor.
 * Debugging

If time permits

 * Making more stuff for increasing toolbar's usability and functionality.
 * Making history, and "viewed links" buttons (if needed)

Participation
I plan to communicate with my mentor via Google Talk as its a very fast way to communicate with each other. I will form the reports about "what I have done" and "what I'm planning to do" with all the sources. I have a good knowledge of English and Russian so it will be easy for me to have phone or video sessions.

I can ask questions both to my mentor and community. To connect to the community I can enter IRC chat on #mediaWiki, visit forum, or just use a MediaWiki's mail list. Participating in the life of the community is a very necessary thing and I will try my best to become a part of it.

Past open source experience
I have some experience. Took part in developing and dug-closing of the University's web open source project.

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