Hi Brion,
Just to clarify...does this mean we should or should not add to:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Summer_of_Code_2007/ proposals
Or should we just make suggestions on the email list.
I'd nominate working on the Category page to see if there's a way to precalculate the article and subcategory counts, and to make the navigation of long lists of subcategories and articles more like the All Pages special page. The SplitCategoryPage extension I've posted is undoubtedly not up to the code quality spec of the real developers, doesn't do all of the above, and is sloooow. But it might be a nice project for a mentee to work on a similar functionality with better supervision.
Best,
Jim
On Mar 15, 2007, at 9:20 AM, Brion Vibber wrote:
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Wikimedia's been accepted as a mentoring organization for the 2007 Google Summer of Code program.
Here's our organization page: http://code.google.com/soc/wikimedia/about.html
I put up an initial project list here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Summer_of_Code_2007
It's semi-protected so it won't be too vandalized ;) but additional suggestions are welcome. I'd like to ask that people who aren't directly involved in development not add too much to the main page directly, though; last year we ended up with lots of project submissions for things that weren't really considered high priority, so I'd like to keep the list a little more ordered this time.
We don't know for sure how many projects we'll get assigned, so we'll see. :) At least Tim and I will serve as mentors for the student projects; if a couple more experienced developers would like to help out with that too that would be super.
Last year's projects went really well up to the public demo stage but never quite got integrated into the mainline; I'm hoping that this year we can stick with projects that will be easier to slip in and take live much earlier in the process, which should help keep the students interested and the projects active.
- -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com / brion @ wikimedia.org)
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