Google Code-in 2015 has come to an end.
Thanks to our students for resolving 461 Wikimedia tasks. Thanks to our 35 mentors for being available, also on weekends & holidays. Thanks to everybody on IRC for your friendliness, patience, and help provided to new contributors.
Some more achievements, apart from those already mentioned in https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2015-December/084421.html :
* The CommonsMetadata extension parses vcards in the src field * The MediaWiki core API exposes "actual watchers" as in "action=info" * MediaWiki image thumbnails are interlaced whenever possible * Kiwix is installable/moveable to the SD card, automatically opens the virtual keyboard for "find in page", (re)starts with the last open article * imageinfo queries in MultimediaViewer are cached * Twinkle's set of article maintenance tags was audited and its XFD module has preview functionality * The RandomRootPage extension got merged into MediaWiki core * One can remove items from Gather collections * A new MediaWiki maintenance script imports content from text files * Pywikibot has action=mergehistory support implemented * Huggle makes a tone when someone writes something * Many i18n issues fixed and strings improved * Namespace aliases added to MediaWiki's export dumps * The Translate extension is compatible with PHP 7
The Grand Prize winners & finalists will be announced on February 8th.
Again congratulations everybody, and thanks for the hard work.
See you around on IRC, mailing lists, Gerrit, and Phabricator!
Cheers, andre