A WikiForum App

Introduction

Wikipedia is one of the most popular online resources, so on average, people spend quite a bit of time on Wikipedia;

yet there is surprisingly little social interaction possibility.

The talk pages on Wikipedia are predominantly for editorial discussions and not for general discussion on a topic and also have some drawbacks, being basically just a wikipage.

This project is about building a social media web app around Wikipedia that may offer functions such as forum, recommender, commenting and Q&A functions.

Various ways of linking to Wikipedia content/importing content are possible, ideal would be a system where one can annotate questions and comments directly to specific points in the text.

Core Feature

One can annotate questions and comments directly to specific points in the text

Some Tech/Dependencies in use

React: Mainly invovled

Scss: Css style control

React router: Solving routing issues

Antd: style misc like avatars and something

Moment.js: handle posts, request with fake date within json

Jquery: an old way to handle ajax

Nomdemon: hot fresh dev tool

Wiki api

get the content and handle exceptions(e.g. no such article)

Done - Features

Nav bar

Basic page layout

Fetch wiki article content

Data base: structure(login, wikiarticle-blog)

Optimize fetching wiki article content: what if the response is only a title? what if the response is a series of related hyperlink? what if the input is a random string

Login function

Optimize the layout of article content

Anotate the article

Home page: update articles in database(by getting json?)

Notes of some features / components

• The fetch wiki pages api is now done in Jquery and in render() by ajax rather than in componentWillMount() : This will cause empty content when access it.