Wedium

A social media platform built around Wikipedia.

Influenced by forum-based apps such as Reddit, and Medium, in combination with annotation apps, allow users to share interesting Wikipedia articles, comment and ask questions about the article. Wedium provides a social hub and a sense of community to the users of Wikipedia.

Wedium Features

• Browse and Search Posts: Browse posts created by other users, filter posts based on post-types, or search for posts by inserting keywords in the searchbar.
• Create Posts: Easily create a new post by providing a title, Wikipedia URL and an optional description.
• Liking and Saving Posts: Posts can be liked and saved by logged in users; perfect for re-visiting later.
• Viewing Posts: Read the wikipedia article directly from Wedium.
• Commenting on Posts: Comment on posts to share your thoughts. Wedium supports replying to other comments and liking comments. Comments can also be marked as questions to promote response from other users.
• Quoting Text: See some text in the article worthy of a comment? Simply highlight the text to quote it. Your comments can be formatted/styled how you want it with the use of Wedium's quirky comment box; it supports bold, italics, quoting, links bulletpoints and more.
• Viewing Profile: Wedium users can view their recent activity, including recently liked, saved and created posts.
• Secure Authentication: Wedium uses Google Authentication to manage authentication.

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Prerequisites

• Ensure you have installed the .NET Core 3.1 SDK. If using Visual Studio, also ensure the ASP.NET and Web Development Tools package is installed.
• Ensure NPM / NodeJS is installed to run the frontend.

We recommend the usage of Visual Studio for the development of the backend and your choice of text editor for the frontend.

Installing & Running Wedium

Backend Setup

1. Find and open WediumBackend.sln in ./WediumBackend.
2. Add the WediumDatabase connection string and JwtSecret into appsettings.json (contact a team-member to obtain values).
3. Build the project and launch WediumAPI in Visual Studio. This will install the necessary NuGet packages and launch IISExpress.

Frontend Setup

1. Naviagate to the frontend folder in ./WediumFrontend in a command line tool.
2. Run npm install in the command line tool to download and install frontend dependencies.
3. Edit the .env.development file in ./WediumFrontend. Add the required settings (contact a team-member to obtain values).
4. Run npm run start in the command line tool to start the React development server.
5. The default internet browser will redirect to the home page (http://localhost:3000/). This should be successfully connected to the backend.

Database

Contact a team member to obtain details regarding the database.

Testing Wedium

Backend Testing

1. Find and open WediumBackend.sln in ./WediumBackend.
2. Ensure the Test Explorer window is open (Test > Test Explorer).
3. Find WediumTestSuite in the solution explorer. Right click the project and select Run Tests.

Frontend Testing

1. Naviagate to the frontend folder in ./WediumFrontend in a command line tool.
2. Run npm run test in the command line tool.

Wedium Documentation

We're using GitHub Wiki to document Wedium's development.

The Wedium Team

Thanks to the following people who have contributed to the project.

• @JainalGandhi (jgan963)
• @harmanlamba (hlm132)
• @itsercleung (eleu033)
• @salma-s (ssan631)

If you wish to start contributing then reach out to one of the listed team members! Be sure to read about our license, code and GitHub conventions and our Git Workflow.

License

This project uses the following license: GPL-2.0