Google Code-in 2016 just started: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-in_2016 In the next seven weeks, many young people are going to make their first contributions to Wikimedia. Expect many questions on IRC and mailing lists by onboarding newcomers who have never used IRC or lists before. Your help and patience is welcome to provide a helping hand! Thanks to all mentors who have already registered & provided tasks! You have not become a mentor yet? Please do consider it. It is fun and we do need more tasks! :) * Think of easy tasks in your area that you could mentor. Areas are: Code, docs/training, outreach/research, quality assurance, and user interface. "Easy" means 2-3h to complete for you, or less technical ~30min "beginner tasks" for onboarding). * OR: provide an easy 'clonable' task (a task that is generic and could be repeated many times by different students). * Note that you commit to answer to students' questions and to evaluate their work within 36 hours (but the better your task description the less questions. No worries, we're here to help!) For the full info, please check out https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-in_2016/Mentors and ask if something is unclear! Thank you again for giving young contributors the opportunity to learn about and work on all aspects of Free & Open Source Software projects! Cheers, andre -- Andre Klapper | Wikimedia Bugwrangler http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/ _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l