User:Sanyamgoyal/GSoC2010/Status

Identity
Name: Sanyam Goyal

Email: goyalsanyam@gmail.com

Project title:- Javascript overhaul of Semantic MediaWiki

Working info
Time zone: GMT+5.30(India)

Typical working hours: 10AM to 8 PM (flexible)

Project summary
Improve and extend the Javascript for Semantic MediaWiki and some of its spinoff extensions, most notably Semantic Forms. This would include transferring over much of the Javascript to use the jQuery library, which is now becoming a MediaWiki standard.

Required deliverables
In the Semantic MediaWiki extension:

 In the Semantic Forms extension:'''
 * '''change Special:Ask to use jQuery and add autocompletion to the top two input windows

* change autocompletion to use jQuery instead of YUI ..Done
 * add a jQuery-based library like jqGrid for editing multiple-instance templates
 * change the file-upload window to use jQuery instead of the Floatbox library
 * make 'Special:CreateTemplate' and 'Special:CreateClass' pages more dynamic, using jQuery

In the Semantic Drilldown extension:


 * change the 'combobox' input to use jQuery instead of ext

If time permits
In the Semantic Forms Inputs extension


 * change the 'combobox' input to use jQuery instead of YUI, and possibly add it directly in to Semantic Forms
 * change the 'datepicker' input to use jQuery


 * See Sanyam Goyal's blog about this project