http://techblog.wikimedia.org/2011/04/mediawiki-selects-8-students-gsoc-201…
We received more than 25 proposals for this year’s Google Summer of
Code<http://techblog.wikimedia.org/2011/03/projects-students-mentors-wan…c/>,
and several mentors put many hours into evaluating project ideas, discussing
them with applicants, and making the tough decisions. Our final choices,
the Google Summer of Code students for MediaWiki for 2011:
- Akshay
Agarwal<https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/mediawiki/wiki/User:Aksha…
“Account Creation, Login Screens and AJAX-ification of everything” (mentor:
Brandon Harris)
- Kevin Brown’s “Working Archival for Web References/Citations,” “to
facilitate the archival of external links used as references in the English
Wikipedia” (mentor: Neil Kandalgaonkar)
- Devayon
Das<https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/mediawiki/wiki/User:Devayon&g…
“Improving Semantic Search/Semantic Query usability issues in SMW” (mentor:
Markus Krötzsch)
- Ankit
Garg<https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/mediawiki/wiki/User:Ankitgar…
“Semantic Schemas extension” (mentor: Yaron Koren)
- Salvatore
Ingala<https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/mediawiki/wiki/User:Salvat…
“AMICUS: Awesome Monolithic Infrastructure for Customization of User
Scripts” (mentors: Brion Vibber and Max Semenik)
- Aigerim
Karabekova<https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/mediawiki/wiki/User:Ai…
“Extension Release Management” (mentors: Sam Reed, Priyanka Dhanda, and Chad
Horohoe)
- Yuvi
Panda<https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/mediawiki/wiki/User:Yuvipan…
“Making Offline Wikipedia Article Selection Easier with Mediawiki
Extensions” (mentor: Arthur Richards)
- Zhenya Vlasyenko <http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User_talk:Zhenya>‘s
“MediaWiki Extension: SocialProfile – UserStatus feature” (mentor: Jack
Phoenix)
You’ll be hearing more about each of these projects in the next few weeks!
Congratulations to this year’s students, and thanks to all the applicants,
as well as MediaWiki’s many mentors, developers who evaluated applications,
and Google’s Open Source Programs
Office<http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/>m/>.
The accepted students now have a month to ramp up on MediaWiki’s processes
and get to know their mentors (the Community Bonding
Period<http://www.google-melange.com/document/show/gsoc_program/google/g…)
and will start coding their summer projects on or before May 23rd. As
organizational administrator for MediaWiki’s GSoC participation, I’ll be
keeping an eye on all eight students and helping them out.
Good luck!
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