Google Code-In is a contest to introduce pre-university students (ages 13-17) to the many kinds of contributions that make open source software development possible. Students must complete tasks (see examples), one at a time. The Google Code-in 2013 contest runs from November 18, 2013 to January 6, 2014.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-In
PyWikibot could be a great project for this program, under the Wikimedia umbrella. A relatively isolated environment, Python language, plenty of little bugs and enhancement requests in Bugzilla, potential for improvements in documentation and tutorials, a vibrant community including many potential mentors...
What do you think?
We are currently preparing the proposal to apply by Oct 28, next Monday. If you can add at least 5 tasks to the wiki page linked above then you will be ready for the next level - if we are one of the organizations selected on November 1.
If you have questions just ask, here or at the related talk page.
Hello Quim and others:
I just posted three suggestion there, please feel free to edit mercilessly:
[[Manual:Pywikibot|PyWikibot]] is a Python-based framework to write bots for MediaWiki. The project just moved its bug database to Wikimedia's Bugzilla and there are many potential tasks to pick from. *[https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?action=wrap&bug_id_type=anyex... Improvement of interacting with Wikidata] including redesigning interwiki.py and improving harvest_templates.py *Porting scripts and tasks of compat to core *Making PWB compatible with Python 3 (forward compatibility). *Improvement in efficiency of PWB when It's interacting with WMF Labs.
IMO, the first and the second are really important. I'm looking forward to knowing others' opinion about this :)
On 10/22/13, Quim Gil qgil@wikimedia.org wrote:
Google Code-In is a contest to introduce pre-university students (ages 13-17) to the many kinds of contributions that make open source software development possible. Students must complete tasks (see examples), one at a time. The Google Code-in 2013 contest runs from November 18, 2013 to January 6, 2014.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-In
PyWikibot could be a great project for this program, under the Wikimedia umbrella. A relatively isolated environment, Python language, plenty of little bugs and enhancement requests in Bugzilla, potential for improvements in documentation and tutorials, a vibrant community including many potential mentors...
What do you think?
We are currently preparing the proposal to apply by Oct 28, next Monday. If you can add at least 5 tasks to the wiki page linked above then you will be ready for the next level - if we are one of the organizations selected on November 1.
If you have questions just ask, here or at the related talk page.
-- Quim Gil Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil
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2013/10/28 Amir Ladsgroup ladsgroup@gmail.com
IMO, the first and the second are really important. I'm looking forward to knowing others' opinion about this :)
Absolutely right!