User:Gopavasanth

About me :
I am Gopa Vasanth, a Sophomore in Computer Science and Engineering from Amrita University, India. I am an active member of the Open Source student club of my University FOSS@Amrita. I also contribute to Free and Open Source software projects and have been actively contributing Mediawiki for the past nine months i.e from Dec 2017.

I got introduced to Open Source through hacktoberfest 2017. Where I learned how to use version control system and how it works, My first pull request is towards the FOSS@Amrita webpage.

After hacktoberfest I started my journey with Mediawiki, in which I am working and I also will be working, I am very inspired while contributing to MediaWiki.

Experience with Mediawiki :
I have worked on the following skins and extensions in Mediawiki:
 * Vector Skin
 * Refreshed skin
 * Liquidthreads
 * Poem
 * ContentTranslation
 * Special page:PrefixIndex
 * RevisionSlider

I frequently take part in problem-solving, I completed CS50 till week-4 and also solved few questions in codeforces[0] as well as Hackerrank[1].

I solved a couple of issues and bugs in the above extensions, skins and I have my commits here. While working with the wiki I found some bugs and I reported in phabricator.

[0] http://codeforces.com/profile/GopaVasanth

[1] https://www.hackerrank.com/gopavasanth1999

Idea: Star's On WikiPages
This is Gopa Vasanth, I have an idea regarding Improving wiki data quality by adding a feature called Rating's to the wiki pages

Rating's such as 5-star rating is the topmost rating that readers can give to the wiki pages and then goes to 4, 3, 2, 1. Based on these ratings the pages can also be categorized.

This is already present in movie sites such as bookmyshow and also this played the main role there.

Advantages :
These are the few advantages I mentioned above and there may be a lot more. Eagerly waiting for your opinion.
 * New Users can Identify the Pages that require improvement
 * Improve's Wiki data quality
 * Welcome's number of new developers and also readers
 * Identification of more informative Pages can be possible
 * Makes browsing through wiki pages interesting