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|[https://culturaitaliana.org/wiki/Special:Version Mediawiki extensions] | |[https://culturaitaliana.org/wiki/Special:Version Mediawiki extensions] | ||
|Plugins extending the set of features of Mediawiki. | |Plugins extending the set of features of Mediawiki. | ||
− | |Some of the most prominent extensions include: [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Page_Forms Page forms], [https://www.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Semantic_MediaWiki Semantic Mediawiki], [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:VisualEditor Visual editor], [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MsUpload Ms Upload], [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MultimediaViewer MultimediaViewer], and more: we are also using a custom extension created by us! | + | |Some of the most prominent extensions include: [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Page_Forms Page forms], [https://www.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Semantic_MediaWiki Semantic Mediawiki], [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:VisualEditor Visual editor], [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MsUpload Ms Upload], [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MultimediaViewer MultimediaViewer], and more: we are also using a custom extension created by us which makes the overall functioning possible! |
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|[https://quasar.dev/ Quasar framework] | |[https://quasar.dev/ Quasar framework] |
Revision as of 07:34, 8 July 2020
Here is a list of the tools we use to make this platform work. Of course each of them depends in turn by other tools (for instance Quasar Framework depends on Vue.js, and Vue.js is in turn composed by several components), however, given a set even arbitrary of the most prominent tools we use, the reader might explore the vast areas not covered by the following table both in extension and in depth.
software | description | use |
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Mediawiki 1.34 | The collaboration and documentation platform which inspired and powers Wikipedia. | We use it for the back-end side of this site, in order to ensure collaborative creation of quality contents. |
Mediawiki extensions | Plugins extending the set of features of Mediawiki. | Some of the most prominent extensions include: Page forms, Semantic Mediawiki, Visual editor, Ms Upload, MultimediaViewer, and more: we are also using a custom extension created by us which makes the overall functioning possible! |
Quasar framework | open-source Vue.js based framework for building apps | We use it for all the Frontend part of the site, taking advantage of the server side rendering feature |
Cheerio | DOM manipulation from an html string | We use it to perform some adjustments to the mediawiki html output before recording the last version of a page to be served through the APIs |
Esprima | ECMAScript parser | We use it to securely parse the javascript object produced by the Frontend Index storing the structure of the tree |
nodemw | Node.js interface for the Mediawiki APIs | We use it to call the mediawiki APIs from a nodejs script to retrieve and structure wiki pages before serving them through the APIs |
detectlanguage | Language identification JSON webservice | We use it to determine the language of a wiki page, in order to filter them by language in the frontend site, or to perform hyphenation |
Detecting languages (Google Cloud Translation) | Language detect using Google Cloud Translation APIs | As above, we use both of them concurrently |
Knex | Query builder for Node.js | We use it to assemble mysql queries in our Node.js scripts |
Email templates | A wrapper for sending email using template engines (like PUG) and transports (like Nodemailer) | We use it to send email using PUG templates and Node mailer-Sendgrid transport |
Prism | Javascript syntax highlighter | We use it to display code snippets on the Frontend site |
jsonwebtoken | Nodejs implementation of An implementation of JSON Web Tokens. | We use it to signin a student accessing to Classes |
fancytree | Javascript library providing interactive trees based on hierarchical data structures | We use it to display a structured and editable table of contents of a given set of wiki pages to be used as navigation panel in the related front-end site. |
... and more ! The list is in progress !