Hi,
we had a great Google Code-in
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Code-in> contest
this year. Of the 28 multimedia-related tasks
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/DYHxaKZei.pe/#R> we had,
23 were closed, thanks to three very talented students, Danny
(unicodesnowman), Geoffrey (Sn1per) and Mateusz (m4tx). Thanks all for
participating and improving MediaWiki, it was a pleasure to work with you!
I was continuously impressed by the high quality of the patches.
The full list of improvements/fixes:
- Media Viewer now handles custom attributions (T67445
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T67445>) and the {{multiple image}}
template (T85354 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T85354>), displays
copy-pastable file names (T76680
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T76680>), uses the alt text if
available (T66519 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T66519>, T75923
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T75923>), and some small
UX/DX/metrics issues have been fixed (T71233
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T71233>, T77272
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T77272>, T68329
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T68329>, T76923
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T76923>, T75962
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T75962>). Progress was made towards
warnings for trademarks (T77717
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T77717>) and a guided tour (T77726
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T77726>), and a prototype was made to
test alternative history navigation strategies (T64266
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T64266>).
- CommonsMetadata returns most dates in a sane format (T66014
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T66014>, T63701
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T63701>) and is more flexible about
styling in descriptions (T69887
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T69887>).
- JSHint is now voting for VipsScaler (T63643
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T63643>).
- Images are now served with a Timing-Allow-Origin header to expose more
timing information (T76020 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T76020>).
- Several bugs were fixed (T74084
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T74084>, T86389
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T86389>, T86032
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T86032>).