On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 6:48 PM, Andre Klapper aklapper@wikimedia.org wrote:

Google Code-in 2015 has come to an end.

Thanks to our students for resolving 461 Wikimedia tasks. Thanks to our 35 mentors for being available, also on weekends & holidays. Thanks to everybody on IRC for your friendliness, patience, and help provided to new contributors.

I want to stress this thankfulness. Google Code-in is a program that allows teenager newcomers to contribute to Wikimedia technical tasks, but it is also a good barometer of our health as a free software project.

We have beaten a new mark, thanks to the loose yet efficient collaboration of dozens of mentors and supportive community members. I take this as one of our best accomplishments as a community.

Some more achievements, apart from those already mentioned in https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2015-December/084421.html :

• The CommonsMetadata extension parses vcards in the src field
• The MediaWiki core API exposes "actual watchers" as in "action=info"
• MediaWiki image thumbnails are interlaced whenever possible
• Kiwix is installable/moveable to the SD card, automatically opens the virtual keyboard for "find in page", (re)starts with the last open article
• imageinfo queries in MultimediaViewer are cached
• Twinkle's set of article maintenance tags was audited and its XFD module has preview functionality
• The RandomRootPage extension got merged into MediaWiki core
• One can remove items from Gather collections
• A new MediaWiki maintenance script imports content from text files
• Pywikibot has action=mergehistory support implemented
• Huggle makes a tone when someone writes something
• Many i18n issues fixed and strings improved
• Namespace aliases added to MediaWiki's export dumps
• The Translate extension is compatible with PHP 7

The Grand Prize winners & finalists will be announced on February 8th.

Again congratulations everybody, and thanks for the hard work.

See you around on IRC, mailing lists, Gerrit, and Phabricator!

Cheers, andre

-- Andre Klapper | Wikimedia Bugwrangler http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/

On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 12:48 PM, Andre Klapper aklapper@wikimedia.org wrote:

Google Code-in 2015 has come to an end.

Thanks to our students for resolving 461 Wikimedia tasks. Thanks to our 35 mentors for being available, also on weekends & holidays. Thanks to everybody on IRC for your friendliness, patience, and help provided to new contributors.

Some more achievements, apart from those already mentioned in https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2015-December/084421.html :

• The CommonsMetadata extension parses vcards in the src field
• The MediaWiki core API exposes "actual watchers" as in "action=info"
• MediaWiki image thumbnails are interlaced whenever possible
• Kiwix is installable/moveable to the SD card, automatically opens the virtual keyboard for "find in page", (re)starts with the last open article
• imageinfo queries in MultimediaViewer are cached
• Twinkle's set of article maintenance tags was audited and its XFD module has preview functionality
• The RandomRootPage extension got merged into MediaWiki core
• One can remove items from Gather collections
• A new MediaWiki maintenance script imports content from text files
• Pywikibot has action=mergehistory support implemented
• Huggle makes a tone when someone writes something
• Many i18n issues fixed and strings improved
• Namespace aliases added to MediaWiki's export dumps
• The Translate extension is compatible with PHP 7

The Grand Prize winners & finalists will be announced on February 8th.

Again congratulations everybody, and thanks for the hard work.

See you around on IRC, mailing lists, Gerrit, and Phabricator!

Cheers, andre

-- Andre Klapper | Wikimedia Bugwrangler http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/

I'd also like to congratulate Unicornisaurous specifically, who found a security issue in MediaWiki core [details aren't public yet]. Although technically that accomplishment isn't part of GCI, to my knowledge it is the first time someone participating in GCI has done that, and I thought it deserved to be mentioned.

Congratulations to everyone who participated.

Cheers, Brian