Would any of the task subscribers be interested in mentoring this project for Google-Summer-of-Code (2019) or Outreachy (Round 18)? Could you suggest folks whom we should reach out to about this? View program timeline here.

cc @Mooeypoo ?

I don't know enough about the 'map' parameter to consider any behaviors that are needed or any edge cases to say how difficult it is to implement.

Out of a quick view, though, adding a representation to the TemplateData dialog that outputs another piece of JSON should be doable.

The documentation helped but I am still a bit vague on things, so I am not sure if I can mentor this on my own without knowing much much deeper about what "maps" parameter is supposed to do, how deep it goes, what its parts represent, etc.

In T208305#4946185, @Mooeypoo wrote:

I don't know enough about the 'map' parameter to consider any behaviors that are needed or any edge cases to say how difficult it is to implement.

Out of a quick view, though, adding a representation to the TemplateData dialog that outputs another piece of JSON should be doable.

The documentation helped but I am still a bit vague on things, so I am not sure if I can mentor this on my own without knowing much much deeper about what "maps" parameter is supposed to do, how deep it goes, what its parts represent, etc.

I wrote the code for the maps parameter so I'm happy to mentor that aspect. I don't have any experience with the GUI side of things though!

@Mvolz Would you still be interested in mentoring the project via upcoming rounds? If so, we can promote the project via mailing lists to see if there is an interest in mentoring for the GUI part.

In T208305#5808210, @srishakatux wrote:

@Mvolz Would you still be interested in mentoring the project via upcoming rounds? If so, we can promote the project via mailing lists to see if there is an interest in mentoring for the GUI part.

Co-mentor, yes, as but I would definitely need another person as I'm not familiar with the template data gui code Javascript side at all, which is where all the changes would be- only the php side of TemplateData and details the maps parameter. If @Mooeypoo is still game I am as well.

Hello @Mvolz thanks for the additional description! I am interested in working on this project,

Please when you say add some templates to your mediawiki extension, how do you mean?

Is there a Separate extension called Mediawiki? or are you referring to the TemplateData Extension?

Also how do I add the Cite_Journal Template? I don't get what I am required to do [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Cite_journal | here ] to add the template

Lastly I have errors when trying to navigate to the Special:Import Page

Clicking on Administrators in the page leads me to the page below

In T208305#5839990, @Prondubuisi wrote:

Hello @Mvolz thanks for the additional description! I am interested in working on this project,

Please when you say add some templates to your mediawiki extension, how do you mean?

Is there a Separate extension called Mediawiki? or are you referring to the TemplateData Extension?

No, mediawiki is just the "core" basic software. You have that installed already.
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/admin/projects/mediawiki/core

Also how do I add the Cite_Journal Template? I don't get what I am required to do [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Cite_journal | here ] to add the template

A template is just a special kind of page. You can export pages as an xml file from wikipedia, so you don't have to create them from scratch, using Special:Export. Just type in Template:Cite_journal into the box to export it. More info about Exporting here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Export

Lastly I have errors when trying to navigate to the Special:Import Page

Clicking on Administrators in the page leads me to the page below

You need to log in as an administrator in your local installation. Are you using vagrant? If so the admin username is Admin and the password vagrant. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki-Vagrant#Quick_start

Hello @Mvolz thanks for the additional information, I was able to create a vagrant install of mediawiki, then followed the steps to export the cite journal template

I try importing locally like below

and I end up with an error message like below

When I export without Templates though I have no error, but I don't see the original page content, just some kind of JSON, is this the expected behavior

After going through https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Content_handlers page, I was able to enable missing extensions and import the template page Successfully

However I see no content when I navigate to the imported page

Is there any other step to see page content

In T208305#5843856, @Prondubuisi wrote:

After going through https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Content_handlers page, I was able to enable missing extensions and import the template page Successfully

However I see no content when I navigate to the imported page

Is there any other step to see page content

I think you need https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Scribunto as well to use these templates. Sorry, forgot about that ^-^

No issues @Mvolz . I have the extensions enabled though. Import continued failing until I got all necessary extensions installed

@Tchanders any ideas for good microtasks for this project?

Hi, i am vaibhav. And i would love to work upon this project. Can you help in getting started. I have already Installed mediawiki and the templatedata extension locally, as well as the Scribunto extension.

@Vaibhav_apt Please see the "Getting started" and "Potential microtasks" section in this tasks' description.

Hi, I am Thoby, I am an aspiring gsoc 2020 student and would love to contribute to this project on time. Having read comments I still couldn't find any task under the "pontential tasks" section.

@Thobyv, according to the "potential tasks" section:

Checkout tasks labelled good first task

Hello, I am interested in participating in the project as part of GSoC. I have installed MediaWiki on my device in addition to some other extensions including the required ones for this project and now trying to work around to really get familiar with the codebase. However, I have a problem importing Template:cite_journal

Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 120 seconds exceeded in C:\xampp\htdocs\mediawiki\extensions\Scribunto\includes\engines\LuaStandalone\LuaStandaloneEngine.php on line 533

Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 120 seconds exceeded in C:\xampp\htdocs\mediawiki\includes\Title.php on line 431

although these pointed lines do not seem to contain anything related to this issue even when I tried to track there parameters and returns.
If you are familiar with this issue it would be very helpful if you could give me a hint about it or what I am doing wrong.

Thanks in advance.

@AdhamKhatean, if you search on Google, you'll get answers, such as: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:Veh8l4gmryp07fzh

In T208305#5987134, @AdhamKhatean wrote:

Hello, I am interested in participating in the project as part of GSoC. I have installed MediaWiki on my device in addition to some other extensions including the required ones for this project and now trying to work around to really get familiar with the codebase. However, I have a problem importing Template:cite_journal

as one of these two errors always appear:

Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 120 seconds exceeded in C:\xampp\htdocs\mediawiki\extensions\Scribunto\includes\engines\LuaStandalone\LuaStandaloneEngine.php on line 533

OR

Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 120 seconds exceeded in C:\xampp\htdocs\mediawiki\includes\Title.php on line 431

although these pointed lines do not seem to contain anything related to this issue even when I tried to track there parameters and returns.
If you are familiar with this issue it would be very helpful if you could give me a hint about it or what I am doing wrong.

Thanks in advance.

How have you installed mediawiki? Is it LAMP, or are you using vagrant (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki-Vagrant)? Just from the error it sounds like you might need to increase the timeout for php on your system. Sometimes the process is fine it just takes a while.

Since this is a pretty general question you may also want to check out irc (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_on_IRC); #wikimedia-tech maybe? @srishakatux do you know a better place to ask?

In T208305#5987147, @Gabrielchl wrote:

@AdhamKhatean, if you search on Google, you'll get answers, such as: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:Veh8l4gmryp07fzh

@Gabrielchl - thanks for responding, I came across this solution before I post this comment but for some reason, it did not work for me.

How have you installed mediawiki? Is it LAMP, or are you using vagrant (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki-Vagrant)? Just from the error it sounds like you might need to increase the timeout for php on your system. Sometimes the process is fine it just takes a while.

Since this is a pretty general question you may also want to check out irc (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_on_IRC); #wikimedia-tech maybe? @srishakatux do you know a better place to ask?

@Mvolz - Thanks for responding, I am using Xampp. Sorry if this was not the place to ask my question.

*However, this issue started to come out after I installed TemplateStyles extension and, which was causing another error when it was missing. And I was just wondering if this is a common issue.

I will try to change the maximum execution time again maybe I was doing something wrong.
I will keep you updated if something changed.
thanks again :)

I came across this solution before I post this comment but for some reason, it did not work for me.

If possible, tell us what exactly did you try to fix it, if it still doesn't work 2nd try.

It worked! thanks a lot!
I did not restart my server at first so that is why it kept showing me the old value (120s).

In T208305#5987192, @Mvolz wrote:

Since this is a pretty general question you may also want to check out irc (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_on_IRC); #wikimedia-tech maybe? @srishakatux do you know a better place to ask?

Yes #wikimedia-tech might be the best venue for this or you may reach out on Zulip here https://wikimedia.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/220258-gsoc20-outreachy20/topic/Technical.20Support

In T208305#5859243, @Mvolz wrote:

@Tchanders any ideas for good microtasks for this project?

Good first bugs/microtasks:

• T126150: TemplateData display table should not be sortable when there's zero or one parameter
• T248486: Top and bottom borders for the alias pills in the TemplateData editor are cut off

(I'll see if we can add to this list with new tasks, and edit this comment accordingly - many of the existing tasks are a bit complex or controversial)

If you decide to pick up a task, please assign it to yourself so that we don't duplicate work. And please reach out with any questions!

Is everything in this project task planned for Google-Summer-of-Code (2020) completed? If yes, please consider closing this task as resolved. If bits and pieces are remaining, you could consider creating a new task and moving them there.

@srishakatux I think we could close this task, since the maps parameter is now supported, and that the outstanding tasks are improvements. I'll leave it to @Mvolz though, as the domain expert!