Profile Information

Name: Maunika Shekar
Email: maunika.shekar@gmail.com
GitHub: https://github.com/maunikashekar
Location: Tamil Nadu, India (IN).
Mentors: @Soda and @TheresNoTime
Typical working hours: 18:00 IST - 01:00 IST (UTC +5:30)

Synopsis

Improve searchability and filtering of PageTriage feed
PageTriage is an MediaWiki extension that allows patrollers on the English Wikipedia to track, categorize and deal with problematic new pages. One of its features is the VueJS based New pages feed which allows patrollers to filter specific interesting pages they might want to patrol based on certain criteria. However, these filters are often limited and there has been some interest amongst the community to introduce newer filters and in general improve the ability to search for specific content on the NewPagesFeed. The goal of this project is to enhance the filtering and searching capabilities of the NewPagesFeed. Particularly adding features like AI based topic prediction (leveraging the ORES API), the ability to search for a specific keyword in an article, filter by how many pageviews an article gets and be able to search by how similar a particular page is to other deleted pages.

Deliverables

• Add ORES topic prediction to the NewPagesFeed and allow filtering by the same(T218132)

Enhancements to the frontend UI of PageTriage will include adding a tagging interface for users to easily understand the topics that article falls under. Backend integration will involve making API calls to ORES for topic predictions based on the context and body. A filtering mechanism will then be developed to display only articles relevant to the selected tags in the feed or toolbar.

• Special:NewPageFeed - add option to filter by pageviews(T207238)

I plan to utilize pagetriage_page_tags table along with the page table to arrive at the pageviews count. Backend changes should be made to filter by a range of pageviews in Special:NewPagesFeed and should be served as an API action. Frontend should communicate with this API to fetch the filtered list based on the pageviews range.

• Keyword Search for New Pages Feed( T207761)

I will introduce a new field titled "Search by keyword" in the search filters of the New Pages Feed, probably to fit in the "That" section. Backend integration will involve creating functionality to handle user-entered keywords and filter the article list accordingly. This can be achieved by forming an efficient database query to obtain the desired search results based on keyword. This might require modifications in the database table schema level for faster query processing.

• See and filter with percent similarity to top deleted revision( T327955)

I will create an API within PageTriage to fetch the top deleted revision of an article. Additionally, I'll utilize functions like similar_text in PHP for determining the percentage of wikicode similarity between the current top revision and the retrieved deleted revision.

To facilitate manual triggering of the comparison, I'll incorporate a "Compare" button into the PageTriage interface. Moreover, I'll explore the possibility of automating the comparison process when users visit an article within PageTriage.

Project size - 350 hours

About Me

I am Maunika Shekar, working as an R&D Apprentice in Informatica Business Solutions Pvt. Ltd. I'm inclined towards full stack development and looking forward to getting started with my Open Source journey. I have closely collaborated with connector development team and implemented minor features of the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) connector based on the business requirements using core Java. I have experience in setting up and maintaining Docker environments in business setup for large scale applications. I also have experience in building and maintaining web applications made with frameworks like React, VueJS, SpringBoot and Django.

Relevant skills

• Vue JS
• PHP
• JavaScript
• SQL
• REST API
• SPARQL
• HTML
• CSS
• Java

Availability

1. Are you eligible for Google Summer of Code?
Yes. I’m eligible according to the terms described.

2. Do you plan to submit any other proposal apart from this one?
No. This is my only go.

3. Do you have any other plans during the period of GSoC?
No. I will be available for the entire term of GSoC.

4. How many hours per week can you dedicate to this?
I can dedicate 30 hours per week and even more if necessary.

5. Have you been accepted to GSoC before?
No. This is my first attempt.

Wikimedia Contribution

Microtask

WikiStats - A Vue.js based single page application to show some interesting statistics from PageTriage and Wikipedia Article Views along with a sample image grid from Wikimedia Commons.
Source code: https://github.com/maunikashekar/wikistats
Libraries: Wikimedia Codex, Axios

Timeline