Profile Information

Name: Lalit Suthar
IRC Nick: lalit97
Email: sutharlalit.97@gmail.com
Github: https://github.com/lalit97
Twitter: https://twitter.com/lalit_97
Location: India
Working hours: 11 AM to 6 PM and 10 PM to 12 AM (UTC +5:30)

Synopsis

Short summary describing your project and how it will benefit Wikimedia projects

Wikimedia commons has a large number of Images divided into different categories. There are some competitions held by ISA in which users who are top contributors win some prize.
This may push some participants to enter ‘wrong’ or ‘unclear’ information which needs to be verified.

Solution for this is to create a tool where org-admins can verify the depicts made on images. which will allow org-admins to accept or decline claims made by users. This tool will help in streamlining all the images according to categories reducing the erroneous data.

Possible Mentor(s)

@Eugene233, @NavinoEvans

Have you contacted your mentors already?

Yes I have contacted Eugene233 on Zulip.

Deliverables

Tool will perform the following tasks at the end.

• Sign in functionality with OAuth for org admins.
• Display a category based search for Wikimedia commons images. (Phase 1)
• Users can explore images from each category. (Phase 2)
• Providing an interactive platform to accept or reject depicts on Images. (Phase 3)
• Add a page to show contribution history of different moderators.
• Leaderboard for depict verification activity.

Implementation Details

• Sign up using O-auth

The tool will let admins sign-in using the O-auth application of Wikimedia.

• Category based searching

There will be a search bar on the home page which searches through all the
categories present in Wikimedia commons. The search will have autocomplete feature
We will get categories using commons api and will be displayed using React.

• Displaying images from a category with depicts

After selecting an image category , the user sees a list of images from that category.
We will display a paginated list of images which will be sortable based on the image's creation time. Admin can pick any image and verify depict claims of that image.

We will get Metadata of an image using commons api. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:API/MediaWiki

• Contribution History & Leaderboard of Activity

History of contributions will be stored for each user in the database (mysql/postgresql/mongodb). Any user can view any user’s history of depict claims verification activity.

We Will create a global leaderboard and leaderboard across categories for verifying depict images and scores will be assigned for each verification in a uniform way.

• Technical details, Documentation, Testing and Deployment
  • The code will be hosted on Gerrit.
  • We will use Python as a coding language and Django framework for implementing the tool. For customizations required, I will make a custom dashboard using Django.
  • Frontend interactions and development will be done using ReactJS.
  • Technical documentation for each backend feature and Unit tests for each module will be written using python’s unit test library.
  • It will be deployed on Toolforge.

UI Mockups

Img: home page

Image Pick Page

Depict claim page

Timeline

Participation

• I will use Gerrit to version control my code. Each Phase will be a new branch, and will be deployed in an iterative cycle.
• I will get feedback on code and functionality after each deliverable.
• I will be active on Zulip and IRC to communicate with mentors.
• I will talk to mentors on zulip for any design decision, feature implementation, bug or code review discussion.
• I will write blog posts regularly about my experience and learnings from this project on Medium (lalit suthar).

About Me

Tell us about a few:

Your education (completed or in progress)

Pursuing my B.Tech 4th year in Information Technology major at Government Engineering College Bikaner.

How did you hear about this program?

I have been contributing in open source from last year and I heard about the program from my seniors who also have been actively working on open source projects.

Will you have any other time commitments, such as school work, another job, planned vacation, etc, during the duration of the program?

I will have my semester exams possibly in June (shifted due to Covoid-19) . I have no other time commitments during this summer. No vacation planned as well. I will be staying at home.

We advise all candidates eligible for Google Summer of Code and Outreachy to apply for both programs. Are you planning to apply to both programs and, if so, with what organization(s)?

No, I am applying for Google Summer of Code only.

What does making this project happen mean to you?

Wikimedia commons belongs to data which helps users across the globe to access information which is open and free for everyone.
It’s collaborative nature helps people to volunteer for the depicts claim, It's a powerful tool which is with the power of community.
Building a layer on top of that to verify all the depict claim submissions is a great contribution opportunity as a developer.
Making this project would mean helping the community be more efficient in depict claims.

I have made some projects using django and reactjs. But I was looking for an impactful project in which I can apply and improve my skills in both frontend and backend further. So this project is exactly what I am looking for and it will help in growing my self confidence in web development. It will also give a great platform to learn by developing for a real use case and to learn from user feedback.

Past Experience

Skills

• Language : Python
• Frameworks : Django, ReactJs, Bootstrap
• Web Technologies : Html, CSS, JavaScript
• Version Control : Git
• Database : Mysql, Sqlite
• Libraries and Tools : Django Rest Framework, React-Redux, Celery, Redis, Selenium

Projects

• Krishna Lessons: Twitter Bot which posts one verse from Bhagavad Gita daily. Made using Python and Tweepy library. Live at https://twitter.com/krishnalessons

• Feedfetcher: News aggregator application, which collects summary of news from different categories from given RSS feed urls. It processes the RSS feeds asynchronously to get news content. Built using Python, Django, Django Rest framework & Celery.

• Blog App: Simple blog application made using python, django.

• Tic Tac Toe: Simple Tic-tac-toe game built using Vanilla Js.

• College Website: Updated version of Govt. Engineering College Bikaner website using Reactjs.

Open source contributions

• Upgrade django to version 1.11.19 or later Pull Request: # 11

Problem Solving Profiles

• Hackerrank
• HackerEarth
• GeeksForGeeks

Wikimedia Contributions

Any Other Info

• Tool used for Mockups Balsamiq Cloud