We are half way through this year's Google Code-in contest:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-in_2015
Thanks to our GCI contributors (and the help of Wikimedia's 31 mentors)
we have seen more than 150 tasks resolved already!
To list only some of the students' achievements:
* More than a dozen of MediaWiki extensions converted to use extension
registration
* Confirmation dialogs in UploadWizard + TimedMediaHandler use OOjs-UI
* Vagrant roles created for the EmbedVideo and YouTube extensions
* Two more scraping functions in the html-metadata node.js library
(used by Citoid)
* Many MediaWiki documentation pages marked as translatable
* lc, lcfirst, uc and ucfirst magic words implemented in jqueryMsg
* Screenshots added to some MW extension homepages on
mediawiki.org
* ConfirmEdit's ReCaptchaNoCaptcha uses the UI language for the
captcha
* MobileFrontend, MultimediaViewer, UploadWizard, Newsletter, Huggle,
and Pywikibot received numerous improvements (too many to list)
* ...and many, many, many more.
Please join me in congratulating and thanking our contributors and
mentors for working hard on improving Wikimedia!
I'd also like to thank everybody on the #mediawiki and #wikimedia-dev
IRC channels who has helped with onboarding and answering questions.
Sounds interesting? Got a small well-defined task in mind you are
willing to mentor? Join and become a mentor if you aren't already! Read
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-in_2015#Mentors.27_corner
and contact us if you need help!
Cheers,
andre
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Andre Klapper | Wikimedia Bugwrangler
http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/