Re: [Wikitech-l] Google Code-in 2016: We need your tasks!; 2nd week achievements

[Tony Thomas]

Thank you Andre for mentioning Newsletter extension here. For the numbers,
we have 15 tasks completed as of 14 days, and we have 1 more left with a
student working on it. Andre asked me to share how GCI works for our
project, in an attempt to *push* more maintainers in this list to add in
and mentor more GCI tasks. Its a fact that Wikimedia is running out of
tasks, and lets hope this mail goes through well.

Some general pointers, which I think works out:

   1. Come out with simple *independent* tasks for your project - which has
   a proper description for a complete newcomer of what needs to be done. This
   can start usually with a line like 'This tasks requiures $extension to be
   installed'.
   2. Never underestimate the students - from what I see from their
   patchsets, the students who I had to deal with are really good, and
   understand the software pretty easily. Good luck to get those there.
   3. If you *cannot* find tasks for the project, think about dropping an
   email to *any* Google Summer of Code/Outreachy intern who has worked
   *previously* with your project. This works great, and we had huge help
   coming around from them. Even though a lot of mails were sent, personal
   email from the maintainer can mean much more, I would say.
   4. If you know any non developers who can test your application brining
   in more design and software bugs - they are your best chance. If your
   extension/project is in a design review phase - each and every *sensible*
   comment can be made a GCI task! We had our extension hosted in labs -
   http://newsletter-test.wmflabs.org/ - and we had people like Quim Gil
   ready to test things out, bringing in more bugs = yay!
   5. If you have some *partial* bug fix already in Gerrit, and you
are too *lazy
   *to finish it - a task with the name 'To complete Gerrit change:
   ' also makes sense, and is allowed by GCI rules.
   6. In any case, you can always follow
   https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-in_2016/Mentors, and forward
   this to people who you think might be able to help out on things!

Hope this helps.

Thanks,
Tony Thomas 
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On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 6:49 PM, Andre Klapper 
wrote:

> We are soon going to run out of Google Code-in tasks.
> Please mentor small and easy tasks!
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-in_2016
> Contact us if you need help or have questions!
>
> Some GCI achievements of the last week (week 2 out of 7):
>  * Newsletter extension again received numerous patches
>  * Proposals for a redesign of the Romanian Wikipedia's main page
>  * MobileFrontend hooks documentation got updated
>  * One Wikispeech logo proposal (student still needs to upload to
>Commons)
>  * A long CREDIT showcase video got split into 'one video per topic'
>parts on Commons
>  * Deprecated "Article::getContent()" calls got replaced in several
>MediaWiki extensions
>  * Wikidata user docs were analyzed and improvements proposed
>  * In WikiEduDashboard, .erb html templates were converted to .haml
>  * The RelatedArticles extension received a design fix for the footer
>  * Updated screencast videos in the Phabricator help on mw.org
>  * More screenshots on extension pages (Echo, Poem, TemplateSandbox, …)
>  * Soon in the pageview API: Monthly request stats per article title!
>  * …and many many more.
>
> Congratulations to all our students and thanks to all our mentors!
>
> Thanks,
> andre
> --
> Andre Klapper | Wikimedia Bugwrangler
> http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/
>
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[Wikitech-l] Google Code-in 2016: We need your tasks!; 2nd week achievements

[Andre Klapper]

We are soon going to run out of Google Code-in tasks. 
Please mentor small and easy tasks!
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-in_2016
Contact us if you need help or have questions!

Some GCI achievements of the last week (week 2 out of 7):
 * Newsletter extension again received numerous patches
 * Proposals for a redesign of the Romanian Wikipedia's main page
 * MobileFrontend hooks documentation got updated
 * One Wikispeech logo proposal (student still needs to upload to
   Commons)
 * A long CREDIT showcase video got split into 'one video per topic'
   parts on Commons
 * Deprecated "Article::getContent()" calls got replaced in several
   MediaWiki extensions
 * Wikidata user docs were analyzed and improvements proposed
 * In WikiEduDashboard, .erb html templates were converted to .haml
 * The RelatedArticles extension received a design fix for the footer
 * Updated screencast videos in the Phabricator help on mw.org
 * More screenshots on extension pages (Echo, Poem, TemplateSandbox, …)
 * Soon in the pageview API: Monthly request stats per article title!
 * …and many many more.

Congratulations to all our students and thanks to all our mentors!

Thanks,
andre
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http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/

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