Hello Jiabao,
On 04/16/2013 05:52 AM, Jiabao Wu wrote:
I am currently studying a course of free and opensource software development. This has boosted my passion to contribute to the FOSS community.
Then you landed at the right place. Welcome!
I am going to apply GSoC and OPW. In the mean time, I would like to contribute to MediaWiki. I have finished "landing instructions" and installed mediawiki-vagrant. Could you give me some suggestions what I shall do next?
I would focus on preparing a good GSoC/OPW project proposal supported by a mentor. If you have some time left then you can start exercising trying to fix annoying little bugs in the area of your project proposal:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Annoying_little_bugs
For GSoC and OPW, I am interested in the following project ideas.
- VisualEditor plugins
- Proofread Page extension needs to be refactored
- Prototyping inline comments
- Bugzilla-MediaWiki extension
- Allowing 3rd party wiki editors to run more CSS features
All these are featured projects so you can't go wrong with any of them.
They all look fun and within my ability to me. But not sure which one shall I actually pick... May I pick more than one when I apply? Any suggestions in picking the projects?
It is your choice. Maybe the mentors of these projects can help you deciding? As far as I'm aware, so far nobody has presented proposals about any of these areas. Note that "VisualEditor plugins" still requires that you choose a specific plugin you would work on.
Thank you for your interest in contributing to Wikimedia!