If you want to help us grow the MediaWiki developer community, there's a
quick thing you can do today. You can give feedback to one of these
three proposals:
* Automatic Taxobox Usability and Feature Enhancements - Have the
automatic taxobox's main and most used features exposed as a GUI
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Baconprime/GSoC2012
* Grouping, a new UI for the watchlist page, and modifying the raw
watchlist page
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Blackjack48/GSOC_proposal_for_watchlist…
* Revamping the watchlist structure to incorporate groups and shared
watchlists
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Bagariavivek/GSoC_Application
Right now, none of these students has found a mentor who's enthusiastic
about the proposal, so they're unlikely to be accepted into the summer
program (Google Summer of Code). But if they improve their proposals by
tomorrow (deadline) and can appeal to some mentors by the end of next
week, their chances go up.
And maybe you can suggest to the two students who are interested in
watchlists how they could decrease the overlap in their proposals.
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Sumana Harihareswara
Volunteer Development Coordinator
Wikimedia Foundation