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.

deliverables
In the Semantic MediaWiki extension:


 * changed Special:Ask to use jQuery and add autocompletion to the top two input windows

In the Semantic Forms extension:


 * changed the file-upload window to use jQuery instead of the Floatbox library
 * changed autocompletion to use jQuery instead of YUI
 * made 'Special:CreateClass' pages more dynamic, using jQuery
 * added a autoGrow Plugin to textarea input.

In the Semantic Drilldown extension:


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

In the Semantic Results Format extension:
 * added jqPlot and jqPie results format similar to Goolge Pie and Google-bar.

In the Semantic Forms Inputs extension


 * changed the 'combobox' input to use jQuery instead of YUI, and added it directly in to Semantic Forms removing form SFI
 * created a new 'simpledatepicker' input which use jQuery instead of YUI


 * See Sanyam Goyal's blog about this project