User:Diwanshipandey/OPW Internship Report

Completing media wiki API development course on codecademy

December 2013

Status

Previously Tutorials : 6
New Tutorials : 11
Lesson Plan : Refer
Blog : First step in Wikimedia through codecademy

Week 1 ( DEC 10 - DEC 16 )

Plan

• To discuss with my mentor about which APIs/ modules to be implemented in codecademy.
• Make few tutorials as an example to understand how modules needs to be implemented and what they should look like(i.e HTML and CSS).
• Start with Parsing module

Progress

Dec 10 : Started with going through all the media wiki APIs and their various parameters
Dec 11 : Discussed about 3 modules i.e Parsing, Querying, Modifying

Dec 12 : Done with 2 tutorials as an examples

• Accessing Image Information
• Performing full text search

Dec 13 : According to the mentor's review started with action=parse module
Dec 14 : Continued reviewing the action=parse tutorials

Dec 16 : Done with 2 tutorials on action=parse

• Getting wikimarkup text as an HTML
• Parsing wikitext by specifying summary(Deleted)

Week 2 ( Dec 17 - Dec 23 )

Plan

• Make an overall Lesson Plan.
• Implement various props in action=parse tutorials.
• Make different sections of the course.

Progress

Dec 17 : Continued with parsing and Deleted tutorial for Parsing wikitext by specifying summary as it was not needed as a tutorial.

Dec 18 : Done with 2 tutorials of action=parse

• Parsing an Image
• Get internal links of a parsed wikitext

Dec 19 : Done with 2 more tutorials of the same

• Get multiple props(piece of information) of a parsed page
• Parsing Templates

Dec 21 : Started making a lesson Plan.
Dec 22 : Done with a Lesson Plan(will keep updating)

Dec 23 : Made 3 sections of overall course i.e

• Introduction:action=parse
• Querying:action=query
• Modifications

Week 3 ( Dec 24 - Dec 30 )

Plan

• Sort previously made slides accordingly in the sections.
• Start action=query module.

Progress

Dec 24 : Sorted the previously made slides of action=query into sections. Started with action=query module.
Dec 25 : Gone through the query props of action=query from mediawiki API documentation.

Dec 26 : Done with following 2 tutorials

• Get content of the revision of the page
• Get First and last 5 revisions of a page

Dec 27 : Done with a tutorial for

• Getting the revisions made by an anonymous user

Dec 28 : Done with a tutorial for

• Listing Wikipedia Categories

Dec 30 : Wrote a blog about whole work done this far.

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