Hello sandeep! Thank you for your interest in contributing to Wikimedia.
On 03/30/2013 10:54 AM, sandeep kumar wrote:
Hi,
I am sandeep and pursuing my MS by Research at IIIT-Hyderabad. I am thinking of applying for GSoC this year. I have gone through theideas page of mediawiki and find the following ideas quite apt for me to work on. 1. Visual Editor Plugins. 2. Proofread extension needs to be refactored. 3. Prototyping inline comments.
Good! I recommend you to choose one and go for it, asking or proposing more details in the related bug reports and drafting a proposal in your user page.
Which one, this is something you should decide by yourself. Which project would you like to do even if GSOC wouldn't exist? You seem to have the basic knowledge to work on any of them, and they have good mentor coverage.
As far as we know nobody has "claimed" any of these projects. Although we don't assure exclusivity to any student, if you are already working on a proposal with an impressive draft you will probably encourage other students to look elsewhere.
PS: note that for for Visual Editor Plugins you would still need to choose a specific plugin.