After seven weeks, Google Code-in 2017 ended.
Wikimedia has seen 760 completed tasks (last year: 453). 300 students (last year: 192) finished at least one task (out of 686 who worked on Wikimedia tasks). Supported by 51 active mentors (last year: 46). Thanks everybody who took part - students, mentors, admins, everyone who helped sort out issues and answer questions, Google.
Numerous contributors have blogged about their experience. Reading these posts is a good use of time to get reminded why free and open source software communities can be a beautiful:
https://www.codebucket.de/blog/contest/2018/01/17/google-code-in-2017-and-th... https://medium.com/@Albert221/the-end-of-gci2017-or-maybe-not-d82758d359b1 https://struggling-math-tech.blogspot.com/2018/01/my-experiences-with-google... https://blog.phandev.net/posts/gci17 http://gciexpreincewithwikimedia.blogspot.com/2018/01/my-gci-exprience-with-... https://omkarfarmax.blogspot.com/2018/01/google-code-in-best-thing-ever-happ... https://googlegcitaskanurag.blogspot.com/2018/01/my-gci-experience-with-goog... https://www.arefly.com/google-code-in-2017-wikimedia/
For the complete list, see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-in/2017#Wrap-up_blog_posts
Thanks, andre