That is a really good opportunity.

We also have http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikisource_roadmap,

that we set up at Wikimania 2012.

Few of those thought are now in the Wikisource Grant proposal, too:

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Elaborate_Wikisource_strategic_vision

I would say that a proper metadata handling system is maybe the first priority,

but maybe we can accomplish that via Lua templates on WS and

metadata stored in Wikidata.

Another thing would be working with OKFN tools for seeking and integration (TEXTUS, for example).

http://textusproject.org/

Moreover, Djvu support/handling was an interest also of the WMF:

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikisource_roadmap#Djvu

Well, there's a lot of stuff we can do :-)

Aubrey

On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 3:02 AM, billinghurst <billinghurst@gmail.com> wrote:

It was suggested to me that the Wikisources should be paying attention to
the opportunity available through WMF's participation in Google Summer of
Code.

I have started a discussion at
https://wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Scriptorium#Wikisources_asked_for_ideas_re:_Google_Summer_of_Code

Regards, Billinghurst

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [Wikitech-l] Missing project ideas for GSOC
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 16:43:23 -0700
From: Quim Gil <qgil@wikimedia.org>
Reply-To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org>
Organization: Wikimedia Foundation
To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org>

It's time to start defining what we want our Google Summer of Code to be
all about. Let's look at the ideas we are proposing to potential students:

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mentorship_programs/Possible_projects

Many of the ideas listed there are too generic ("Write an extension"),
improvements of existing features ("Improve Extension:CSS") or
work-in-progress tasks ("Fix Parsoid bugs"). Many others are not
directly related with development, and therefore not suitable either for
GSOC.

After this filtering, we seem to be left with:

* Article evolution playback tool idea
* An easy way to share wiki content on social media services
* Write an extension to support XML Sitemaps without using command line
* Extension:OEmbedProvider
* Add support for x3d 3D files to MediaWiki
* Allow smoother and easier Wikimedia Commons pictures discovery
* Build an interwiki notifications framework and implement it for
InstantCommons
* Automatic category redirects

(If you think your project should also be considered here please speak
up!)

Most of these projects seem to be extension (and PHP?) centric. Can we
have more diversity? Maybe gadgets and templates are too simple for a
GSOC project? What about the mobile front? Do we have skin development
projects that could make it here? Anything in the DevOps area? Anything
the MediaWiki core maintainers would like to see happening?

It would be also nice to have more candidates benefiting specific
Wikimedia projects. Beyond Wikipedia, we have several proposals related
to Commons. Wikidata seems to be joining soon. What else? Could this be
a chance to help Wiktionary, Wikibooks or any other project with
specific needs craving for tech attention?

Also to the many students that have already showed their interest: feel
free pushing your project ideas now!

--
Quim Gil
Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil

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