Google Code-in 2016 has been announced: A contest for 13-17 year old students. While we wait for Wikimedia to get accepted:

Take those 10 minutes to find (or update) some Phabricator tasks in your project(s) that would take an experienced contributor 2-3 hours.

* Do you have small, self-contained bugs you'd love to get fixed? * Does your documentation need improvements? * Does your user interface have small design issues? * Does your Outreachy/Summer of Code project welcome small tweaks? * Would you enjoy helping someone port your template to Lua? * Does your gadget use some deprecated API calls? * Do you have tasks in mind that welcome some research?

We have nearly 600 open "easy" tasks listed: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/609oZQR8EpOH/#R Are the tasks in your area clear enough and still valid? And can you imagine helping a young person fix some of these tasks?

* Add the project "Google-Code-in-2016" and a comment in Phabricator tasks that you would mentor those tasks. * Tasks are welcome in five areas: Code; Outreach/Research; Documentation/Training; Quality Assurance; User Interface. * Add yourself to the table of mentors on the wikipage. * Make sure the task description provides pointers to help the student. * "Beginner tasks" (e.g. "Set up Vagrant"?) also very very welcome! * "Generic" tasks also welcome (e.g. "Choose and fix 2 UI messages from the task list in https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T40638 ").

For complete info about Google Code-in, check https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-in_2016#Mentors.27_corner

Unsure about quality of contributions in GCI and effort? Please read https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/multimedia/2015-January/001009.html

Please ask if you have questions. Happy to help!

See you in Google Code-in!

*Inverencial PeaceAlangi Derick Ndimnain*