[Wikimediaindia-l] MediaWiki selects eight students for Google Summer of Code 2011

[Santhosh Thottingal]

http://techblog.wikimedia.org/2011/04/mediawiki-selects-8-students-gsoc-2011/

* Akshay Agarwal‘s “Account Creation, Login Screens and AJAX-ification of
everything” (mentor: Brandon Harris)
* Kevin Brown’s “Working Archival for Web References/Citations,” “to
facilitate the archival of external links used as references in the
English Wikipedia” (mentor: Neil Kandalgaonkar)
* Devayon Das‘s “Improving Semantic Search/Semantic Query usability issues
in SMW” (mentor: Markus Krötzsch)
* Ankit Garg‘s “Semantic Schemas extension” (mentor: Yaron Koren)
    Salvatore Ingala‘s “AMICUS: Awesome Monolithic Infrastructure for
Customization of User Scripts” (mentors: Brion Vibber and Max Semenik)
* Aigerim Karabekova‘s “Extension Release Management” (mentors: Sam Reed,
Priyanka Dhanda, and Chad Horohoe)
* Yuvi Panda‘s “Making Offline Wikipedia Article Selection Easier with
Mediawiki Extensions” (mentor: Arthur Richards)
* Zhenya Vlasyenko‘s “MediaWiki Extension: SocialProfile – UserStatus
feature” (mentor: Jack Phoenix)

Out of 8, 4 students are from India!. Congrats and best wishes to  Akshay
Agarwal ,  Yuvi Panda, Devayon Das and Ankit Garg.

Thanks
Santhosh