Generally asking the Multimedia team:

What are further Multimedia tasks available for Google Code-in?


On Fri, 2014-11-07 at 08:51 +0100, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote:
> This point needs a lot of work: 
> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:Media_Viewer#How_can_I_disable_Media_Viewer_for_unrelated_images.3F>.
> We're talking of thousands (or probably an order of 10^5) templates to 
> edit across all Wikimedia projects. It would be nice to have GCI 
> students audit (AKA Special:Random over and over) one wiki from the long 
> tail and fix at least the most important templates (usually infobox and 
> navbox meta-templates, if such a thing exists); on small wikis, they're 
> hopefully not fully protected.

How would students find/identify the most important templates?

If this task wouldn't be boring repetitive gruntwork, if clear steps and
instructions can be identified, and if there is at least a mentor
available (mentoring in a team saves time!) it might be worth to give it
a try as a Google Code-In task.


Cheers,
andre
-- 
Andre Klapper | Wikimedia Bugwrangler
http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/


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