This year's edition of Google-Code is already half over:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-in/2017
*** YOUR HELP IS NEEDED: GCI is still running for another 3½ weeks.
We do need more of your tasks, especially in the next days when many
students will have more time. If you have a task in mind to mentor, add
it. You can still become a mentor at any time - see the link above! ***
Thanks to many students and the help of Wikimedia's 46 mentors we have
seen more than 200 tasks resolved already!
Curious? Here is a subjective list of some of the achievements:
* Several students took incremental tasks to learn Lua and templates
* New help pages explain how to use VisualEditor to create complex
links and how to use the Thanks extension
* Several students learned how to create simple on-wiki user scripts
* The Commons Android app got screenshots in several languages and
their Play Store texts added to TranslateWiki
* The Kiwix mobile app on Android has an improved language selection
and warns users when opening external content
* In the Wikipedia Android app, a long press on find in page up / down
arrows now advances to the first / last match
* Several Wiki Education Dashboard components received tests
* Huggle got new languages incorporated and docs are now on one page
* Added tabindex to MediaWiki's Special:Upload page
* MediaWiki API offers a parameter to filter revisions based on a tag
* phpcs code sniffs got re-enabled in several MediaWiki extensions
* MinusX support was added to numerous skins and extensions
* MediaWiki's "includes/Feed.php" file now uses a Mustache template
* Pywikibot received numerous code improvements and can now detect
when it is run in the Wikimedia Toolforge environment
* Labels + numbers in the ContentTranslation trend graph are localized
* The EasyQuery JS gadget on
wikidata.org got a query error fixed
* Scraping of PRISM tags was added to the html-metadata node library
* The wikilabels AI service got pytests for the flask application
introduced and created
* Potential logos for the PAWS and Citoid projects were proposed
* Several extensions do not use deprecated jQuery.fn.hover() anymore
* Many deprecated wfWaitForSlaves usages in MW+extensions got replaced
* MediaWiki's comment based strip markers now include quotes to avoid
being included in attributes
* Some MW maintenance scripts got code improvements to not trigger
false positives in the phan-taint-check-plugin script
* The Timeless skin received several updated screenshots on Commons
* In Echo, the Help tooltip is now accessible and the difference
between "un/read" background colors in the flyout has been increased
* Strategies to improve event participation were researched
* The wm-bot IRC bot received a @restrict command
* The git-repo client tool received Gerrit support
...and many more.
Congratulations & thanks to all our students and mentors!
andre
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Andre Klapper | Wikimedia Bugwrangler
http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/