We are half way through this year's Google Code-in contest: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-in_2015

Thanks to our GCI contributors (and the help of Wikimedia's 31 mentors) we have seen more than 150 tasks resolved already!

To list only some of the students' achievements: * More than a dozen of MediaWiki extensions converted to use extension registration * Confirmation dialogs in UploadWizard + TimedMediaHandler use OOjs-UI * Vagrant roles created for the EmbedVideo and YouTube extensions * Two more scraping functions in the html-metadata node.js library (used by Citoid) * Many MediaWiki documentation pages marked as translatable * lc, lcfirst, uc and ucfirst magic words implemented in jqueryMsg * Screenshots added to some MW extension homepages on mediawiki.org * ConfirmEdit's ReCaptchaNoCaptcha uses the UI language for the captcha * MobileFrontend, MultimediaViewer, UploadWizard, Newsletter, Huggle, and Pywikibot received numerous improvements (too many to list) * ...and many, many, many more.

Please join me in congratulating and thanking our contributors and mentors for working hard on improving Wikimedia!

I'd also like to thank everybody on the #mediawiki and #wikimedia-dev IRC channels who has helped with onboarding and answering questions.

Sounds interesting? Got a small well-defined task in mind you are willing to mentor? Join and become a mentor if you aren't already! Read https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-in_2015#Mentors.27_corner and contact us if you need help!

Cheers, andre