Wikimedia is among the 14 organizations in Google Code-in (GCI) 2015! In Dec & Jan, many young students will want to contribute to Wikimedia.

Will you mentor some tasks? It's easy and fun.

GCI is a great opportunity to let new contributors complete those small little tasks on your To-Do list! Task areas are: Code, docs/training, outreach/research, quality assurance, and user interface.

Do your docs on your wiki need some improvements? Does your template or gadget code needs some updates? Do you have small and self-contained bugs you'd love to get fixed? Does your UI have small design issues? Do your old bugs welcome some testing?

Then become a mentor and enjoy working with a contributor!

Add yourself to the mentor's table on the wiki page, get an invitation email to register on the contest site, and create tasks (which would take you 2-3h to complete, or less technical ~30min "beginner tasks")! Explain the expectations and deliverables in the task. Once the contest starts on Dec 07, be ready to answer and review contributions quickly. See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-in_2015#Mentors.27_corner

Need task ideas? Check out the list of "easy" tasks in Phabricator: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Annoying_little_bugs lists Phabricator queries for your area!

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-in_2015 has all information. Or just ask and we'll be happy to help!

Thank you! andre