Shlomi Fish

shlomif@iglu.org.il

Writing a Perl-based Parser for MediaWiki Syntax:

This project will create a reusable parser for the syntax of
MediaWiki ( http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki ) in Perl 5, so
Perl projects can process its wiki syntax, or create compatible wikis.

Deliverables
  As a result of the project:

  1. A CPAN module for parsing a subset of the MediaWiki syntax will be
  written.

  2. A Kwiki plugin for using this MediaWiki syntax in Kwiki wikis will
  be written.

Project Details

    MediaWiki is a popular open-source wiki engine that powers the Wikimedia
web-sites (including the Wikipedias, the Wiktionaries, and the Wikiquotes)
and many other wikis around the world, including many Perl-related ones.
MediaWiki is an open-source wiki written in PHP and licensed under the GPL.

    At the moment, Perl lacks a reusable parser for its syntax with a
usable licence. As a result, one cannot process the syntax using Perl or
write wikis based on this syntax. So for example, one cannot re-use the
MediaWiki-based texts in Perl wikis.

    This project aims to solve it by creating a re-usable codebase in Perl 5
to parse and process MediaWiki-syntax.

Project Schedule

  The project will take 1-2 months.
  I can begin work immediately.

Bio

  I have worked with Perl since 1996, and have over 40 modules on CPAN (and
many other projects written in Perl). I have a lot of experience and working
knowledge in C programming. I have contributed to many open source projects
in the past, including ones that I initiated on my own, such that I
joined as a co-developer and such that I adopted after some neglect by the
original developer.

Aside from that, I have graduated from the Technion in Electrical Engineering
in 2004 (cum laude).

I have previously conducted work on XML::RSS both voluntarily and later as
part of receiving a TPF grant for reworking it.

For more information about my projects see:

http://www.shlomifish.org/open-source/

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Amount Requested: $1,000.

Regards,

	Shlomi Fish