Projects that we’ve showcased on the landing pages of GSOC 2017 https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2017/Outreachy Round 14 https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreachy/Round_14 are receiving great interest from students. See here: T158296 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T158296, T63989 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T63989, and T148969 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T148969.
We need your help to make the same case for a few more projects which are almost ready to be featured but need a little bit more attention, and mentoring support:
- Editor-focused dashboard gadget (T91655 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T91655) [Needs mentors who are familiar w/ developing gadgets, or design research*]*
- Single Image Batch Upload (T138464 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T138464) *[*Needs a mentor with skills: vacant, toollabs, skills/OAuth, frontend]
- Create a captcha that is also a useful micro edit (T87598 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T87598) [Needs discussion]
- Improvements to ProofreadPage extension and wikisource (T128840 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T128840) [Missing mentors]
- One of the subtasks of a developer Wishlist proposal: Customizable templates for core HTML email http://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T156231 *[*Needs discussion + missing mentors]
Not what you could help with is in the list above? Help review a few from the possible-tech-projects https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/possible-tech-projects/. Looking forward (:
Cheers,
Srishti
On Thu, Mar 2, 2017 at 10:20 AM, Sumit Asthana asthana.sumit23@gmail.com wrote:
Hi James,
On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 7:02 PM, James Hare jamesmhare@gmail.com wrote:
I just had an idea. My bot Reports Bot is always in need of updates and minor maintenance, and I think GSOC could be good for people interested in working in Python. But I don't want to propose something if it would be too much work for the person doing it. Is there guidance on how complex/major these tasks and projects can or should be?
You shouldn't worry about the difficulty of the task for GSoC per se. What matters is that you create a phab task and add "*possible-tech-projects*" and "*GSoC-2017*" tag to the project. Once thats done, we can help with working out its scope for the GSoC internship through phabricator. Even if the goal is big, I'm sure the task could be broken down into smaller chunks to make it suitable for the internship. The rest could be finished up as a followup. Please feel free to add your task.
On Feb 27, 2017, at 5:13 PM, Srishti Sethi ssethi@wikimedia.org
wrote:
Wikimedia got accepted among the 201 organizations in the Google Sumer
of
Code (GSOC) 2017 https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/!
We are trying to make it easier for prospective students to choose a project idea and get started. And, so we are considering to showcase a bunch of project ideas on the MediaWiki GSOC page itself: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2017.
Help us by mentoring a project from here:
- Check out the tasks in the '*Missing Mentors*' and '*Almost Ready to
be Mentored*' column on Possible-Tech-Projects https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/possible-tech-projects/ workboard.
- Check out the ''*Wishlist 11-30 (needs owner)*" and *"Wishlist 31-50
(needs owner)"* column on the Community-Wishlist-Survey-2016 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/2420/ workboard.
- Any portion of your project, which needs some support, would be a
2-3
month long project for a beginner and overall a good learning
experience.
If you are interested in mentoring a project, add " *Outreach-Programs-Projects*" and "*Google-Summer-of-Code (2017)*" tag
to
the corresponding task on Phabricator. We will follow up with you from there.
If you are looking for design, and documentation related projects to mentor, we are participating in the Outreachy https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreachy/Round_14 program as well in parallel to GSOC. Add "*Outreach-Programs-Projects*" and "*Outreachy (Round-14)*" tag to a task you are interested in mentoring.
Email me if you've any questions, happy to help!!
Cheers, Srishti
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