Re: [Wikitech-l] Missing project ideas for GSOC

2013-03-22 Thread Željko Filipin
Hi Quim, comments are inline. On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 12:43 AM, Quim Gil q...@wikimedia.org wrote: (...) After this filtering, we seem to be left with: (...) (If you think your project should also be considered here please speak up!) Browser test automation[1]? Most of these projects

Re: [Wikitech-l] Missing project ideas for GSOC

2013-03-22 Thread Guillaume Paumier
Hi, On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 12:43 AM, Quim Gil q...@wikimedia.org wrote: Many of the ideas listed there are too generic (Write an extension), improvements of existing features (Improve Extension:CSS) This may sound naive, but why are improvements of existing features discarded? My thinking

Re: [Wikitech-l] Missing project ideas for GSOC

2013-03-22 Thread Yuvi Panda
I've a good number of Mobile app ideas to contribute, but do not think I'll be able to mentor. Should I still put those in? Does putting them in with your name attached convey 'hey, this guy might be able to mentor?' to people looking? -- Yuvi Panda T http://yuvi.in/blog

Re: [Wikitech-l] Missing project ideas for GSOC

2013-03-22 Thread sankarshan
On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 6:16 PM, Yuvi Panda yuvipa...@gmail.com wrote: Does putting them in with your name attached convey 'hey, this guy might be able to mentor?' to people looking? It usually does. At least interested students tend to assume as much. -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay

Re: [Wikitech-l] Missing project ideas for GSOC

2013-03-22 Thread K. Peachey
On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 10:30 PM, Željko Filipin zfili...@wikimedia.org wrote: Most of these projects seem to be extension (and PHP?) centric. Can we have more diversity? Browser test automation? Not an extension, not in PHP, but in Ruby[2]. OPs don't want [any more] ruby on the clusters, So

Re: [Wikitech-l] Missing project ideas for GSOC

2013-03-22 Thread Brian Wolff
On 2013-03-22 9:37 AM, Guillaume Paumier gpaum...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hi, On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 12:43 AM, Quim Gil q...@wikimedia.org wrote: Many of the ideas listed there are too generic (Write an extension), improvements of existing features (Improve Extension:CSS) This may sound

Re: [Wikitech-l] Missing project ideas for GSOC

2013-03-22 Thread Chris McMahon
On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 6:55 AM, K. Peachey p858sn...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 10:30 PM, Željko Filipin zfili...@wikimedia.org wrote: Most of these projects seem to be extension (and PHP?) centric. Can we have more diversity? Browser test automation? Not an extension,

Re: [Wikitech-l] Missing project ideas for GSOC

2013-03-22 Thread phoebe ayers
On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 5:36 AM, Guillaume Paumier gpaum...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hi, On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 12:43 AM, Quim Gil q...@wikimedia.org wrote: Many of the ideas listed there are too generic (Write an extension), improvements of existing features (Improve Extension:CSS) This may

Re: [Wikitech-l] Missing project ideas for GSOC

2013-03-21 Thread Lydia Pintscher
On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 1:04 AM, Eugene Zelenko eugene.zele...@gmail.com wrote: Hi! I think will be good idea to direct some of Google Summer of Code participants energy to help Wikidata which misses many must-be features. Some of them like support for projects other then Wikipedia is

Re: [Wikitech-l] Missing project ideas for GSOC

2013-03-21 Thread Quim Gil
Thank you for the feedback! Brion co, I have tried to distill the essence of your comments and write it down as generic guidelines at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Summer_of_Code_2013#Project_ideas On 03/20/2013 04:53 PM, Luca de Alfaro wrote: Would there be interest in integrating the

[Wikitech-l] Missing project ideas for GSOC

2013-03-20 Thread Quim Gil
It's time to start defining what we want our Google Summer of Code to be all about. Let's look at the ideas we are proposing to potential students: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mentorship_programs/Possible_projects Many of the ideas listed there are too generic (Write an extension),

Re: [Wikitech-l] Missing project ideas for GSOC

2013-03-20 Thread Luca de Alfaro
Would there be interest in integrating the work on authorship computation? This would not be an extension; it would be ... server-side development that could fit well with a Summer of Code? Luca On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 4:43 PM, Quim Gil q...@wikimedia.org wrote: It's time to start defining

Re: [Wikitech-l] Missing project ideas for GSOC

2013-03-20 Thread Eugene Zelenko
Hi! I think will be good idea to direct some of Google Summer of Code participants energy to help Wikidata which misses many must-be features. Some of them like support for projects other then Wikipedia is postponed to next years, but something tells me that it may be clone of existing

Re: [Wikitech-l] Missing project ideas for GSOC

2013-03-20 Thread Brian Wolff
Some of these probably aren't really that suitable: After this filtering, we seem to be left with: * An easy way to share wiki content on social media services I don't think this is a good idea unless the political climate on wikipedia has changed (we want the gsocer to stay. Flame wars are

Re: [Wikitech-l] Missing project ideas for GSOC

2013-03-20 Thread Thomas Gries
* Write an extension to support XML Sitemaps without using command line +1 i like that and have use cases for such an extension. Yes, please ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] Missing project ideas for GSOC

2013-03-20 Thread Quim Gil
On 03/20/2013 04:43 PM, Quim Gil wrote: It's time to start defining what we want our Google Summer of Code to be all about. Let's look at the ideas we are proposing to potential students: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mentorship_programs/Possible_projects Edits fine tuning the descriptions

Re: [Wikitech-l] Missing project ideas for GSOC

2013-03-20 Thread Matthew Flaschen
On 03/20/2013 07:43 PM, Quim Gil wrote: Most of these projects seem to be extension (and PHP?) centric. Can we have more diversity? Maybe gadgets and templates are too simple for a GSOC project? A gadget can be quite elaborate. Examples (among many others) include Navigation_popups, Twinkle,