[Foundation-l] How about WikiMedia in Google Summer of Code 2008

[David Gerard]

On 04/03/2008, Andrew Whitworth <wknight8111 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 3:37 PM, Brion Vibber <brion at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> > Brian wrote:

> >  > They begin accepting applications for mentoring organizations in two days.
> >  > Any word on this?

> >  We're still very short-handed, so we'll see what we can do. We haven't
> >  really been able to support more than one or two projects in the last
> >  couple years.

> A WYSIWYG editor would make a fantastic project for a developer to
> jump into. That's one that I personally would like to participate in,
> although I would need to do a lot of reading to get my PHP back up to
> par. Of course, it may be too ambitious for a single summer project.


Depends. http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/WYSIWYG_editor lists four
not-quite-there WYSIWYG MediaWiki editors so far ...


- d.