Profile Information
Name: Guneet Singh Tuli
IRC nickname on libera.chat IRC (optional): GuneetSingh02
Web Profile: Medium, LinkedIn
Resume (optional): Resume
Location (country or state): India
Typical working hours (include your timezone): 4 PM - 2 AM (IST) (GMT +5:30 hours)
Synopsis
This project will solve the problem of an Entry Barrier which makes it difficult for beginners to start editing and make their first edit request.
The aim of the project is to
- To make it easier for beginners to start editing and make edit request
- The form will help edit requests to comply with the Wikipedia policy
- Make editing more accessible for people from all backgrounds.
- Add a Source of the information which can be an image, pdf, or Link, and add validation to it.
We can majorly focus on creating a better User Interface, which also includes providing high-quality guidance and error messages while making their request which is also suitable for use by beginners.
Possible Mentor(s)
@Enterprisey, @Firefly, @SD0001
Timeline
| Period | Task |
| May 20 to June 12 | Community Bonding period: Discussion with mentors and communicating with other fellow mates.Will start with Designing UI for the Edit Request Form. |
| June 14-June 20 | Implementing the designs to an actual working application with basic validations. |
| June 21- June 30 | Code various ways for users to add the sources of the information which can be a file, image or a link, etc., and validation of the source |
| July 1 - July 10 | Implementing the feature which also includes providing high-quality guidance and error messages while making edit requests. |
| July 11- July 20 | Increasing the validation process of all the information and source, Discussing with mentors for more possible updates. |
| July 21- July 25 | Testing of the application on actual devices and fixing the errors or bugs. |
| July 26- July 29 | Phase-I evaluation |
| July 30- Aug 10 | Start with developing the backend API for the submission of edit requests. |
| Aug 10- Aug 15 | Adding Backend validation of the data as well URL validation and storing it in the Database. |
| Aug 15- Aug 20 | Connecting the APIs with the form and Working on displaying the server response message on the front end with handling error cases. |
| Aug 20- Aug 26 | Testing of the complete application in the staging process with various test cases. |
| Aug 26- Sept 4 | Bug fixes, writing documentation, and code cleanup for submission and deployment. |
| Sept 5 to Sept 12 | Submission of final work and reviewing by mentors for Phase-II valuation |
| Sept 13 to Sept 19 | Mentors submit final GSOC contributor evaluations. |
| Sept 20 | Results of Google Summer of Code 2022 announced. |
Deliverables
- A complete User-friendly interface with step by step form that is beginner-friendly.
- Validation of all the information including the URL provided in the edit request in the frontend as well as backend
- Providing high-quality guidance and error messages while making the edit request.
- API’s for the submission of the request in the backend
- Status about the acceptance or rejection of the edit request.
Participation
- Will try to make the Mentor’s updated about my work by using the Github Projects wherein they will be able to see the current progress of the feature
- Keeping the documentation updated in every PR and listing down all the test cases. I will make everything clear for everyone to understand
- In case of help during the project will be active on Zulip / emails.
- Will make use of Github for publishing code and Github actions for testing.
About Me
Currently, I am in my second year of the bachelor of technology in electronics and communication engineering but starting from my freshmen year I had a keen interest in development which helped me in learning new technologies and making interesting projects using them. I came to know about GSoC and MediaWiki in my freshmen year unfortunately the applications were closed at that time, but that didn’t stop me from learning new things.
I don’t have any specific time commitments as of now and I am pretty sure that I will be able to manage 35 - 40 hours of work per week. It’s my first time applying for GSOC, haven’t heard of Outreachy much before but will surely consider applying in Outreachy as well.
I think that many people including me will have one place in our mind common for finding the correct information that’s Wikipedia and I want this mindset to continue, as a software developer, it will be a great opportunity for me to learn and apply my knowledge to implement this feature that brings in new people by breaking the entry barrier into proving the correct information.
Past Experience
I have experience working with HTML, CSS, JavaScript. and ReactJS Framework, for the Frontend and NodeJS, Express for the Backend.
- Here is the link to a few of my PRs in an open-source project of Linkfree which was an open-source alternative to Linktree.
https://github.com/EddieHubCommunity/LinkFree/pull/406
https://github.com/EddieHubCommunity/LinkFree/pull/383
- SocketIO open source project (Documentation error)
https://github.com/socketio/chat-example/issues/61
- I have also started an open-source project for new developers trying to find the free news APIs to create interesting projects
https://github.com/Guneetsinghtuli/free-news-api
Any Other Info
I have participated in a hackathon where we created a bill splitting application wherein we created the application using the design we created, You can have a look at a few of the designs we created Figma