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<div>Someone should go through the current edition of X!'s tools and make a list. Could be a great help. I hear articleinfo had been down for quite some time. </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div id="composer_signature"><div style="font-size:85%;color:#575757">Sent via the Samsung Galaxy Note® 4, an AT&T 4G LTE smartphone</div></div><br><br>-------- Original message --------<br>From: Andre Klapper <aklapper@wikimedia.org> <br>Date: 11/04/2015 2:37 AM (GMT-10:00) <br>To: labs-l@lists.wikimedia.org <br>Subject: [Labs-l] Get those small bugs fixed by new contributors: It's
Google Code-In time! <br><br>Tool and Labs developers!<br><br>* Do you have small, self-contained, "easy" bugs you'd love to get fixed?<br> (Also see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Annoying_little_bugs )<br>* Does the documentation of your tool need improvements?<br>* Do your old bugs welcome some testing?<br>* Does your user interface have some small design issues?<br>* Do you have some tasks that welcome some research?<br><br>Google Code-In (GCI) will take place again in Dec+Jan: a contest for<br>13-17 year old students to provide small contributions to free software<br>projects. <br>Wikimedia will apply again to take part in GCI. The more tasks we can<br>offer the likelier the changes Wikimedia will get accepted.<br><br>Unsure about quality of contributions and effort?<br>Read about tgr's post about Multimedia achievements in GCI 2014:<br>https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/multimedia/2015-January/001009.html<br><br>In short:<br>* Add the project "GCI2015" + a comment to Phabricator tasks you'd mentor.<br>* Tasks are welcome in five areas: Code; Outreach/Research; <br> Documentation/Training; Quality Assurance; User Interface.<br>* Make sure the task description provides pointers to help the student.<br>* Add yourself to the table of mentors on the wikipage.<br>* "Beginner tasks" (<30 min for an experienced contributor) also welcome.<br>* "Generic" tasks also welcome (e.g. "Fix two user interface messages from<br> the "Blocked By" list in https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T40638 ").<br>For all information, check <br>https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-in_2015#Mentors.27_corner<br><br>Can you imagine providing a helping hand to someone fixing tasks?<br><br>Please ask if you have questions!<br><br>Thank you!<br>andre<br>-- <br>Andre Klapper | Wikimedia Bugwrangler<br>http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/<br><br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Labs-l mailing list<br>Labs-l@lists.wikimedia.org<br>https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/labs-l<br></body></html>