About Me:
editHi, I'm Amanpreet Singh. I am a second year student currently enrolled in Electrical Engineering (IV Year Course) at IIT Roorkee. I developed a passion for programming and web development in my freshman year. I am regularly contributing to Mediawiki since November 2013. I am currently proficient in Javascript, PHP, Python and Node.js.
Works done till now:
edit- Build web app for a local startup at IIT Roorkee, [Delivers|Roorkee Delivers].
- Created a code sharing website OpenCode
- A web app that makes matches on the basis of common interest between two people[1].
- jQuery plugin for shopping cart ( jCart ) and cookies ( jCookie ).
- Github Profile.
- I am currently trying to fix bugs in Mediawiki (Gerrit Repo).
- I have mostly worked on improve the extension Multimedia Viewer.
GSoC 2014 Proposal
editProject
editAnnotation Tool that extracts information from the books and feed them on wikidata
Name and Contact Information
editName
editAmanpreet Singh
IRC Nick
editapsdehal
Web Page / Blog / Microblog:
editLocation
editRoorkee, Uttarakhand, India
Typical Working Hours:
edit10:00- 13:00, 15:30-19:00, 22:00-03:00 ( IST ) 4:30- 7:30, 9:30-1:30, 16:30- 21:30 ( UTC )
Synopsis
editProject is strongly based on belief to increase the user interactivity with Wikidata by creating a tool that on highlighting a statement would provide a GUI to fix its structure then feed it to Wikidata. Wikidata is a free information base that is same for humans and machines. It centralizes access to and structurally manage data so that every piece of data is easily available and accessible.
Need
edit1. You are at home, reading a book. You often note important points all around the book by annotating it. Often you want to share this info with world or save them for future use. So think of a solution such that you annotate and directly feed and share important quotes to the knowledge base of Wikidata. 2. You are at presentation or some sort of seminar. Say you have a very important thing to share and make it available to all, then this tool again comes to your rescue
How it will work?
editI am going to create a Mediawiki extension for this project that will offer a GUI on highlighting a sentence. This GUI will analyze the statement using Pundit software, as a triple (subject, object, predicate), offer a change screen and then feed the same to Wikidata by linking to its items and property. Optionally providing the functionality to share the same to the world.
Deliverables
editPossible Mentors
edit1. Cristian Consonni 2. Andrea Zanni 3. The Pundit team