“It’s not the Destination, It’s the journey.”

~ Ralph Waldo

It’s been less than a month but this community has really grown on me. The past few weeks have been really eventful. A huge shoutout to my mentor, Daniel Glus, and Siddharth for giving me the best onboarding experience ever! In this short span, I gained a new sense of professionalism and a clearer view of what it meant to be working as a community! 💜

Highlights

Week 3 - 4(27th June - 10th July)

Of all the past and upcoming weeks, this one is always going to be my favorite. I got to learn about how things actually run behind the front, on the server!! :)

• Changed the citation screen to use Citoid API(extracts the citation from the URL) and display it on the talk page.

• Added functionality to let users know they are on the process of editing while selecting the spot by dimming the background.

• Build the backend server to check if the quote comes from the cited URL.

  // API to verify the quote if it comes from source
  app.post('/api/v1/verifyQuote', async (req, res) => {
    const { linkValue, quoteValue } = req.body;
    try {
      fetch(linkValue)
      .then(res => res.text())
      .then((html) => {
        const { document } = (new JSDOM(html)).window;
        const isParagraphTextOnPage =  document.body.textContent.includes( quoteValue )
        res.send({isParagraphTextOnPage})
      }); 
    } catch (error) {
      console.log(error)
      res.send('failure')
      res.sendStatus(404);
    } 
  })
  

• Added functionality to store the section(from the article) of the spot where the edit is to be made.

• Learned more about the Wikimedia server named Toolforge.

• Created a Wikimedia developer account and submitted the Toolforge project membership request.

• Discussed the working of the Toolforge with the mentors, and also deployed the production files to the server. Got to learn a lot in this meet about how things actually run behind the front, on the server.

  

• Successfully deployed my project(MVP) on the server!!!

It was really a productive week coding. Learned more about professionalism and how things actually work behind the front. Looking forward to more productive weeks of coding!!!