User:Rjain/Gsoc2013/Project Updates

Project Updates

Gerrit repo: https://git.wikimedia.org/summary/?r=mediawiki/extensions/Annotator.git
Meetings attended: GSoC/OPW IRC AllHands on 26th June, IRC, gtalk chat almost everyday with the mentors discussing the progress.

Extension: Extension:Annotator‎‎

Blog: http://richajain-annotator.blogspot.in/

Monthly Reports

June

• Investigated regarding the storage of comments, store-plugin of OKFN technology, and read about the mediawiki API.
• Created the basic skeleton for the extension.
• Provided interface for making inline comments, currently the annotator is being called at namespaces NS_MAIN, NS_TALK and NS_CATEGORY. These can be changed further depending upon the need.
• Started working on the backend of the extension.
• Submitted a patch for db Schema https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/70794 .
• Submitted a patch for creating the annotations https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/71364 .

July

• Decided upon the final db schema.
• Few other patches got merged.
• Added an API submodule for creating annotations. https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/71364
• Added an API submodule for reading annotations. https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/72360
• Added an API submodule for searching annotations which loads all the annotations of a page with the quotes being highlighted. https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/72361
• Labs instance got set up http://annotator.wmflabs.org/
• Added an API submodule for destroying annotations https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/74150
• Submitted a patch for Updating annotations https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/75106
• Submitted a patch for permissions plugin https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/75645

August

• Updating annotations got merged.
• Permissions plugin got merged.
• Allowed logged out users to view annotations. https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/77576
• Submitted a patch for adding support for creating annotations by logged out users. https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/78251
• Submitted a patch for toggling the visibility of annotations. https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/79839/
• Db patches for renaming rev_id and user_id column. https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/78373
• Started working on PHP Unit tests for Annotation Repository. https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/81555/

September

• Toggling the visibilty of annotations got merged.
• Support for creation of annotations by logged out users got merged.
• Fixed a bug of toggling annotations.