[Wikitech-l] Google Summer of Code 2018: Call for projects and mentors

Hello everyone, Wikimedia has been accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2018! We already have recruited six project ideas and mentors, but we are looking for a minimum of *14-15 ideas* more, as Google Summer of Code is a neat platform to bring new developers :) https://www.mediawiki.org/ wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/2018 If you are interested in mentoring a project, but not sure what the roles and responsibilities of a mentor are like, take a look at our guide: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/Mentors. Feel free to propose your own idea, or help by mentoring one of the below listed, curated from the possible-tech-projects workboard: 1. Tools for volunteers to make it easier to improve the Wikispeech lexicon https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T161310 2. Notification your file was used https://phabricator.wikimedia. org/T77154 3. Notify users about deletion tags being added to pages they created https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T123866 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T123866> 4. Implement HTML e-mail support in MediaWiki https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T15303 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T15303> 5. Implement Internet Archive BookReader in Commons & Wikisource https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T154100 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T154100> 6. Create tool to generate, track and show metrics for Tech News https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T91335 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T91335> 7. Merge proofread text back into Djvu files https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T59807 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T59807> 8. Allow having an on-wiki ToDo list per user https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T48103 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T48103> 9. Allow contributors to update their own details in tech metrics https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T60585 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T60585> 10. Convert WikiLove from jQuery UI to OOUI https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T89815 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T89815> 11. Add VisualEditor support to the Quiz extension https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T148972 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T148972> 12. Pywikibot: Implement support for flagged revisions https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T57081 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T57081> Sidenote: These are only ideas, and we do not encourage students to pick them unless we have recruited at least two mentors for a project. We are also participating in Outreachy Round 16 and funding up to two projects: https://www.outreachy.org/communities/cfp/wikimedia/. Help us spread the word about Wikimedia's participation in these programs :) Cheers, Srishti -- Srishti Sethi Developer Advocate Technical Collaboration team Wikimedia Foundation https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:SSethi_(WMF)