Being Google Summer of Code Intern

I am very excited (and also a little late :D) to share the news that I have been selected as an intern for Google summer of code in Wikimedia Foundation for the project of developing language coverage matrics dashboard for language engineering team of Wikimedia Foundation.

I would like to thank my mentors Runa Bhattacharjee and Alolita Sharma, for guiding me throughout and very special thanks to Amir Aharohi for his valuable inputs for this proposal. Last but not the least special thanks to Sumana and Quim for polishing up my proposal, and the feedbacks all this while.

Being selected as a GSoC intern was finally a good news after quite while. The result came at 12:30 midnight – I couldn’t sleep. Nevertheless, great night it was and so was the news.

Community bonding period started right after. I tinkered around a few new technologies and did the overall planning for my project.

Until June 17

• Created Database scheme

• Created python script to save entire data from datasheet to mysql https://github.com/harshkothari410/lcmd/tree/master/xlstodb

Until June 24

• Created new language entry system

  

  Search + New language button

  

  Language Entry form

   

• Created language search system with suggestion

Language search with suggestion facility

Language Search result

 

Until July 1

• created and set up primary thing on wikimedia labs

• jquery.ime implemented in project

• done minor changes in language search system

• created on the spot editing facility for any language detail under admin privileges

Edit button for on the spot editing

when click on edit button this menu will appear

After saving the changes it will change

Until July 8

• set up basic filtering functionality

• set up some test cases to find smooth and fast filter facility

• created simple idea of API for language data

Until July 15

• Created Filtering functionality : By this time, a filtering functionality seemed to be an important feature to have on the LCMD interface. Filtering simply means that there would be a list of the language tools on one side along with checkboxes and the checking those would output the list of the languages that have those tools enabled. So, if say suppose, we have both jquery.ime and jquery.webfonts checked in, the language output will give a list of the common languages with both the tools enabled. This was kind of important. Screen shot and more detail on another blog post.

• Set up tools instance for project tool instance

• Set up new repo for project with lots of commits New repo

• Created simple php API for language data :  Here I have developed a simple prototype version of Language detail APIs so that any website / user want to use that information that can fetch the details using that API

Return dataType is : JSON and if you are using cross domain data transfer then it should be JSONP.

$.ajax({
    url : 'http://tools.wmflabs.org/lcm-dashboard/lcmd/api/php/dataapi.php?query=jquery_ime',
    dataType : 'JSONP',
    type : 'GET',
    //data : 'query=webfonts jquery_ime' ,
    success : function(data){
        console.log(data);
    },
    error : function(data){
        console.log(data);
    })

It will return the data in JSON format.

Beautiful example of this API usage is here

http://mikipedian.blogspot.in/2013/07/i-see-rather-what-all-i-now-visualize.html