Google Code-in (GCI) has been running for 8 days and students have
already resolved more than 50 tasks!
Some highlights:
* Several extension pages on
mediawiki.org display screenshots
(AbuseFilter, InputBox, Cite, MobileFrontend, …)
* Kiwix ZIM files can now be opened from the Android file manager
* Pywikibot received additional tests
* The celery logging of the ORES service does not include
TimeoutErrors
* WikiEduDashboard does not allow to create programs with url-encoded
spaces in the title
* Wikidata has a special page to list all available badges
* MediaWiki's Newsletter extension received numerous code fixes
* All deprecated Linker::link() usage got replaced in MediaWiki core
* html-metadata received support for Twitter cards metadata
* Numerous MediaWiki extensions specify extension dependencies in
their maintenance scripts
* Translatable messages in several projects show $1 as an insertable
* Huggle got support for Ukrainian and Russian language added
* ConfirmEdit's system messages aren't CAPTCHA module specific anymore
* action=checktoken in MediaWiki's API warns if the token ends in " \"
* The MobileFrontend hooks documentation got updated
* The PageImages API offers a "Help" link
* VisualEditor's user guide has a new section about musical scores
* …and many more.
Congratulations to all our students and thanks to all our mentors!
You also have an idea for a task you'd like to mentor? Read
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-in_2016
Please contact us if you need help or have questions!
Thanks,
andre
--
Andre Klapper | Wikimedia Bugwrangler
http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/