Wikimedia is one of the 12 organizations selected to participate in Google Code-in (GCI) 2014! This means that on December 01 we will start having dozens of 13-17 year old students looking at Wikimedia tasks to be completed.
Read our GCI page with all information: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-in_2014
This program is a great opportunity to find fresh young contributors willing to complete that little task that has been on your ToDo list for too long. Task areas are: Code, docs/training, outreach/research, quality assurance, and user interface.
== WE NEED MORE MENTORS BRINGING TASKS! ==
It's easy: Join GCI as a mentor & bring your little tasks (that would take you 2-3h to complete, or less technical ~30min "beginner task")!
You need to describe the tasks for a newcomer, linking to the resources needed to complete them, and cover skill expectations + deliverables.
You also need to be ready to answer the questions of a student working on a task (but the clearer your task description is the less questions there should be). See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-in_2014#Mentors.27_corner
For task ideas, check out the list of "easy" Bugzilla tickets: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=REO...
== WE NEED MORE MENTORS BRINGING MENTORS! ==
We need seasoned contributors that have a good knowledge of the relevant technologies, features and people involved in a specific area. While they are also mentors of some tasks in their areas, they also look for more mentors that bring more tasks, and help coordinating with them - last year we had 273 tasks completed in the six weeks of the program.
== WE NEED PEOPLE PROPOSING TASKS! ==
Even if you can't mentor a specific task we still want to know about it (and who could potentially mentor it and who you have already asked to become a mentor)! Feel free to add an entry to https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Google_Code-in#Tasks_searching_for_a_.28...
== QUESTIONS? ==
Please ask and you will help us improving our documentation!
Cheers, andre