Hello everyone,
I apologize. I didn’t realize that it helps to announce long-term contractors also. ;-) It’s with great pleasure that I’m announcing that Nischay Nahata has joined the Wikimedia Foundation as a Features Engineering Contractor (only six months ago). He expects to get his B.Tech from the National Institute of Technology Karnataka sometime this year.
Before joining us, Nischay worked as a Google Summer of Code student on Semantic Mediawiki. Lately he’s been dealing with bugs in UploadWizard, MoodBar, PageTriage, LiquidThreads, Echo[1].
On the side, Nischay enjoys listening to music, he wishes to see Coldplay and Guns N’ Roses live before Armageddon. He also likes long midnight walks on his college beach.
His first official day actually was November 1, 2012. Nischay was raised up in Assam and currently lives in Mangalore in India, he plans to move to Bangalore after graduation.
Please join me in a belated welcome of Nischay Nahata to the Wikimedia Foundation. :-)
Take care,
Terry
[1]: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/owner:%22Nischayn22+%253Cnischayn22%2540…
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Hi,
I am Anubhav Agarwal, a B.Tech 4th Year student at IIT Roorkee. I wish to
apply for GSoC 2013 and I am thinking about Bayesian Spam Filter as a
project for the same. I have drafted the Idea on my
talk<http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Anubhav_iitr>page.
I request you to go through this and give your suggestions on it.
Hoping for a good feedback
Regards,
Anubhav
Anubhav Agarwal| 4rth Year | Computer Science & Engineering | IIT Roorkee
Hi,
is there already a schedule to update jQuery and jQuery UI to 1.9 or are
there problems at moment? I want to use the new tooltip widget of jQuery UI
1.9 [1].
Best regards,
Jan
[1] http://jqueryui.com/tooltip/
Hello,
I am Kaushal, a student at the Indian Institute of Technology, BHU,
Varanasi (B.Tech. 2014), in Electronics and Computer.
I am experienced using Javascript/jQuery, PHP, HTML/5 and am a Web
Application Development enthusiast.
I came to know about Wikimedia via GSoC 2013 accepted organizations.
I would like to work on idea of Extension/Plugin development for web
Browsers and confidently submit an improvement proposal. I have already
worked on few small extension development for Google Chrome.
Have also gone through the jQuery Input Method Editor (jQuery.IME) on '
https://github.com/wikimedia/jquery.ime', and implemented on my local nginx
server with PHP.
Would also like to know and work on jQuery.IME next big improvements.
I am familiar with:
GIT, PHP, HTML, Database Systems (SQLite, MySQL, Postgres), virualenv, MVC
design paradigm, OAuth2.0, ssl, linux, bash, also have good experience with
Adobe Photoshop.
I have a worked on quite much Web applications with complete frontend UI
and backend management.
I have an Amazon AWS account, and access to a VPS to deploy apps for
demonstration.
How can I start contributing to Wikimedia?
Where do I carry out my subsequent communication, ask questions and share
ideas?
Looking forward to your response.
My generic handle is: kaushal.singh07, kaushalsingh11, 'ksingh' on IRC
--
With Kind Regards,
Kaushal Kumar Singh
B.tech Part III
Electronics Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology, B.H.U, Varanasi
INDIA PIN-221005
Mo: +91 - 9839203380
E-Mail : kaushal.ksingh.ece10(a)itbhu.ac.in
kaushal.singh07(a)gmail.com
Skype : kaushal.singh07
Hello everyone,
It’s with great pleasure that I’m announcing that Erik Bernhardson has joined the Wikimedia Foundation as a Features Engineer.
Before joining us, Erik was a web developer and operational jack-of-all-trades at Cite Media/Maverick Media which is a custom Symfony2 CRM working on “what the internet is for”[1]. There he worked on MySQL, Redis, Graylog2, ElasticSearch, Nginx w/PHP-FPM integration, phpUnderControl and capifony. He integrated dozens of different payment processors (shh… don’t tell FR-tech) and automated micro-site rollout for the clients using PHP integration into Chef.
Six years ago, he became a PHP developer when he found out, while hacking his DVR that it had a PHP-based webserver. He still likes to do a lot of open-source work[2], and we found him because he was patching HipHop to add namespace support.
His first official day is today (April 22). He is going to work with the Editor Engagement team on Messaging, and any other stuff we can throw at him until he feels sufficiently overwhelmed. I’m still trying to figure out how to verbally distinguish between my boss and him (suggestions welcome!).
Erik lives in Campbell, CA, but is strangely okay with commuting to San Francisco all the time. He likes to drive his motorcycle down to Monterrey on weekends.
Please join me in a welcoming Erik to the Wikimedia Foundation. :-)
Take care,
Terry
[1]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWEjvCRPrCo
[2]: https://github.com/ebernhardson
terry chay 최태리
Director of Features Engineering
Wikimedia Foundation
“Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. That's our commitment.”
p: +1 (415) 839-6885 x6832
m: +1 (408) 480-8902
e: tchay(a)wikimedia.org
i: http://terrychay.com/
w: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Tychay
aim: terrychay
Hi,
I'm pursuing a M.Sc. degree in Physics of Complex Systems (currently
attending the 2nd year). I have a background in electronic engineering, I'm
passionate in computer science and I'm looking for the possibility of being
part of something that I've always admired.
My proposal regards ConceptualWiki: an extension to improve the usability
of wikis as educational/study tools (a drag-and-drop interface to quickly
built up conceptual maps from wiki articles).
I'm drafting the project here:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:MaJac89/GSoC2013/ConceptualWiki
And I've submitted a bug report here:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47476
Hope you find it interesting, let me know if you have any
question/suggestion for the project.
Thank you,
Marco
Hi! This is Siddha, an open source enthusiast and I really want to work on
the Mobilize Wikidata project for GSoC 2013. Having developed apps for the
Windows Phone I believe has given me some experience in developing mobile
UIs, which shall help me contribute for this project.
The link for a mentor has not been provided. Could you please direct me to
where I should start discussing for a solution for implementing a mobile
view for Wikidata.
I am really excited to help out, please let me know where to start.
Links for the apps I had developed:
1.
http://www.windowsphone.com/en-ug/store/app/caladd/6546cf64-7fdd-43b0-aaab-…
2.
http://www.windowsphone.com/en-ug/store/app/doodle/be9f29de-1439-4e06-abd5-…
Thanks a lot!
--
Siddha Ganju
2nd Year Undergraduate Student
Computer Science and Engineering Department
National Institute of Technology, Hamirpur - 177005
E-mail Id : siddhaganju(a)gmail.com