User:Mvolz/Weekly Reports

These are weekly reports on the cite-from-id FOSS OPW project for User:Mvolz

Lessons learned since 21 April

 * Roadmaps change fast!
 * Terseness---verbosity axis is mostly a matter of personal style.

Communication Plan

 * Communicate with Visual Editor mentors (James Forrester, Trevor Parscal) and team on #wikimedia-visualeditor
 * Communicate with REST API/node mentors (Gabriel Wicke, Matthew Walker) via e-mail.
 * Communicate with Parsoid mentor (Gabriel Wicke) and team on #mediawiki-parsoid.
 * Occasional morning meetings with Matthew Walker on #wikimedia-office.

Goals for first half of internship

 * 1) A REST API running on node.js that takes a URL(/my/server/?url="http://citeme.com") and gives a response of structured citation data.
 * 2) Calls and responses should be hooked into Visual Editor in localhost, although not necessarily committed/production ready.

Week 1: May 19 to May 25

 * 1) Made first commit to git repo
 * 2) Wrote proof of concept scraper and server
 * 3) Investigated how to incorporate Zotero translators-
 * 4) Translators seem relatively independent but do rely on Zotero libraries. I've located most required .js files but I haven't traced them up the stack to see how much I'll have to implement in order to use the translators.