Google Code-in (GCI) has been running for only one week and students have already resolved 35 Wikimedia tasks!
Some of the achievements: * Citoid offers export in BibTeX format (and more contributions) * Analytics' Dashiki has a mobile-friendlier view * Echo's badge label text has better readability; Echo uses the standard gear icon for preferences * Wikidata's Wikibase API modules use i18n for help/docs * Two MW extensions got patches to not use deprecated i18n functions * MW displays an error when trying to create a self-redirect * The sidebar group separator in MW's Installer looks like in Vector * Our Phabricator docs have video screencasts and an updated "Bug report life cycle" diagram * Huggle's on-wiki docs were updated; exceptions received cleanup * Pywikibot's replicate_wiki supports global args; optparse was replaced by argparse * Reasons for MW sites listed as defunct on WikiApiary were researched * We got logo proposals for the European Wikimedia Hackathon 2015 * ...and many more.
Sounds good? Then please spend 5 minutes to go through your tasks and identify simple tasks to allow more young people contribute!
Got an idea for a task? Become a mentor for that task! And spread the word to other community members who might be good mentors! Read https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-in_2014#Mentors.27_corner and please contact me if you need help.
Thank you! andre