User:Deepanshu/GSoC Application

Identity
Name: Deepanshu Mehndiratta Email: deepanshumehndiratta [AT] gmail.com Project title: Organizing watchlists, adding articles/edits to favourites, rating edits. Inclusion of sidebar to display recent activity and integration with social gadget on mediawiki websites and external wikis.

Contact/working info
Timezone: GMT + 5.5 (Mumbai) Typical working hours: 4pm - 4am (flexible work time) IRC or IM networks/handle(s): deepanshum

Project summary
This project aims at integration of a very minimal social component into the MediaWiki websites and other personal as well as external wikis connected to MediaWiki. Inclusion of a 'Add to favourites' button(Much like the 'Add to watchlist' button) which would be available both for complete Posts as well as Edits. Which would be along with the 'Add to watchlist' button be integrated with a sidebar(available to logged in users). The buttons panel could also be (with the help of API integration) be made as a separate gadget which could then be placed on external wikis too.

Here is a small preview of the intended gadgets.

Deliverables
It should be possible to break down your project into some bullet points describing particular features or milestones which can be reached individually. Consider that we may wish to roll out the system for testing while at an intermediate stage of completion, and that time estimates might vary, leaving you with more time than you expected or (more likely) a lot less -- some features can be pushed back if you end up short.

Project schedule
Try to break your deliverables into "milestones" which can be reached in sequence. Show us your estimated schedule of when you'll reach each functional milestone. Don't forget that real time may change -- leave enough buffer for your required features to be completed!

We suggest that you budget one-half to one-third of your time for merging with trunk, pre-deploy review, testing, bugfixing, documentation of course, and other integration work.

About you
We don't just care about your project -- you are a person, and that matters to us! What drives you? What makes you want to make this the most awesomest wiki enhancement ever?

You don't need to write out your life story (we can read your blog if we want that), but we want to know a little about what makes you tick. Are you a Wikipedia addict wanting to make your own experience better? Did a wiki with usability problems run over your dog, and you're seeking revenge? :-) What does making this project happen mean to you?

Participation
We don't just want to know what you plan to accomplish; we want to know how. Briefly describe your work style: how you plan to communicate progress, where you plan to publish your source code while you're working, how and where you plan to ask for help. (We will tend to favor applicants that demonstrate a clear vision for what it means to be an active participant in our development community.)

Past open source experience
Do you have any past experience working in open source projects (MediaWiki or otherwise)? If so, tell us about it! If you have already written a feature or bugfix in a Wikimedia technology such as MediaWiki, link to it here; we will give strong preference to candidates who have done so.

Any other info
Please add any other relevant information -- UI mockups, references to related projects, a link to your proof of concept code, whatever. There are no specific requirements, but we love to see people who love what they're doing. Show us you're excited about this project and have an interest in the background and are considering how best to make your idea work.