Priyanka's Scrapbook

Am almost at the end of my four months long journey with Wikimedia Foundation that began on the 2nd of January when I started my OPW internship under this organization. The summary of all my work, done in these 4 months can either be foun d o n my earlier blogs. The links to all the documentation done during my work phase are here: [1] Documentation against getting the 'Cite' option on your MediaWiki [2] Documenting noteworthy local templates I have had edited Wikipedia pages, translated content from English to Bengali Wikipedia, had contributed to Mozilla in several ways but never had done any prominent work in Open Source till before OPW. For me, OPW was the perfect platform where I got to upgrade myself from being a FOSS enthusiast to a FOSS contributor.  We worked from different parts of the globe, but still worked together. I was here in India, my mentor in Israel and all the other Wikimedians who came to my help when I got stuck, I don't even know which place ...

Well, I am happy to announce this good news for all my Bengali Wikipedians.  After working on it for months, after several local implementations followed by User page implementation of the 'Cite' option , I have finally been successful in getting the option up on Bengali Wikipedia.  Well, what this option is and how to get it up on any Wikipedia can be found here . Here, I will t alk about my experience of community interaction and getting the job done. Well, I began the community interaction (actually begging for help) through the community india mailing list. M y idea initiall y was to get some response from someone who, even if unable to directly help, could guide me as to where to get help from. I actually needed either the admin rights to some Wikipedia to push this option up or needed help from some admin who could do this work on my behalf. Not waiting for the repli es, I also started looking for the admins on different Wi kipedia(s). Well the Special:ListAdmins o...

There is a 'cite' option available in the English Wikipedia's Wiki-editor which is missing from most other language's Wikipedia. How to get this option on your own language's Wikipedia can be found here . Once, you have the 'Cite' option placed, you will see that the options you are getting under the Cite-template are all in English. Now, its an obvious thing that in your language's Wikipedia, you will not want to have a Citation template which shows options in English, you will want the options to come in your own language.  Now, I have done it for Bengali Wikipedia, and here is how I got the citation template and its options in Bengali for the Bengali Wikipedia. There is one page which we will need to create under our userpage named:  User:UserName/RefToolbarMessages-en.js.  Well, instead of Messages-en.js, we are free to use anything else like Messages-bn.js etc but we just need to make sure that wherever this page is being called from, the n...

Well, the struggle has been really long going but finally got it to work! Finally I did manage to pull the 'Cite' option (the one which exists in English Wikipedia and was missing from Bengali Wikipedia) into Bengali Wikipedia. Unfortunately, I do not have admin rights to bn.wikipedia.org, so I couldn't get it get in on the Edit toolbar for all users, but could obviously manage to get it for my own Edit toolbar and am surely in a state where I can help other users get it on their respective Edit toolbars by just adding one single line in their common.js files. Well, what I did to get it up and running is as follows: Created a common.js page under my username...so something like, User: Priyanka Nag/common.js In my common.js file, I imported a few other js files like: RefToolbar.js RefToolbarMessages-en.js RefToolbarBase.js RefToolbarLegacy.js I created all these js pages under my user-name like User:Priyanka Nag/Reftoolbar.js, User:Priyanka Nag/RefToolbarMe...

The first Mozilla South Asia Inter-Community meet-up took place in Kathmandu, Nepal, on 23-24 February 2013, with the coordination from Mozilla Nepal Regional community. It brought together community leaders from the South Asia, including paid staff from across the SAARC countries , to meet for 3 days of presentations, breakout sessions and discussions to plan the implementation of the Mozilla South Asia community road map for 2013 and ensure that the regional community is fully aligned with greater engagement efforts across the Mozilla organization. The Wiki Link against this event is here. Well, after the initial introduction (the above content is copied directly from the Wiki page), I will share my experience of this event though this blog. Why not start from the top! I reached Nepal on the 22nd of February, 2013 by around 3pm. Well, to be honest, the Kathmandu airport is kind of messed up. It took me some time to even find the right Immigration form before actually q...

Building gadgets in MediaWiki is awesomely simple and real fun. Well, I wasn't actually aware of it, until I attended the Gadget building workshop in GNUnify last week, taken by Yuvi, Sucheta and Harsh. Initial step didn't sound much interesting to me, as they were mostly talking stuff which I was already aware of and tried hands on, but Yuvi probably understood my disappointment, and soon came to my rescue with some really cool and interesting stuff. Writing JavaScript files in my own MediaWiki was a regular job which I had tried a few times already, but blending some cool Ajax codes in those JavaScript files was a real fun thing to learn. It was like mixing some cream in my rich coffee :P Learning to make use of Special:ApiSandbox made life so much easier for me. Coding made so much easy using the multiple options here. Sitting right there, did manage to put some Ajax codes into a js file and make it work fine.  The learning didn't stop there. The fun continued as Yuv...

Taking from the top: I got a clean MediaWiki installed from Git on January 14 2013, with the following extensions: • Cite • ParserFunctions • Gadgets • Vector • WikiEditor • SyntaxHighlight What are Extensions on MediaWiki? Ans: Extensions are powerful tools on Media Wiki which lets one customize the way their wiki looks and works. How to install these extensions on a clean Wiki? Downloading these extensions https://www.mediawiki.or/wiki/Manual:Extensions documents how different extensions are to be downloaded and installed on a Wiki. The Wikimedia SVN repositories hosts all extensions. This repository is located at svn:trunk/extensions. After being downloaded, these extensions make home in their own own subdirectory of $IP/extensions/.(*IP means the full path to the installation directory. It stands for Install Path.) Installing the downloaded extensions This process is generally simple. We just need to add one line at the end of the LocalSettings.php file (but above the...