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 <[email protected]> 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<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mentorship_programs/Possible_projects> > > Many of the ideas listed there are too generic ("Write an extension"), > improvements of existing features ("Improve Extension:CSS") or > work-in-progress tasks ("Fix Parsoid bugs"). Many others are not directly > related with development, and therefore not suitable either for GSOC. > > After this filtering, we seem to be left with: > > * Article evolution playback tool idea > * An easy way to share wiki content on social media services > * Write an extension to support XML Sitemaps without using command line > * Extension:OEmbedProvider > * Add support for x3d 3D files to MediaWiki > * Allow smoother and easier Wikimedia Commons pictures discovery > * Build an interwiki notifications framework and implement it for > InstantCommons > * Automatic category redirects > > (If you think your project should also be considered here please speak up!) > > 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? What about the mobile front? Do we have skin development projects > that could make it here? Anything in the DevOps area? Anything the > MediaWiki core maintainers would like to see happening? > > It would be also nice to have more candidates benefiting specific > Wikimedia projects. Beyond Wikipedia, we have several proposals related to > Commons. Wikidata seems to be joining soon. What else? Could this be a > chance to help Wiktionary, Wikibooks or any other project with specific > needs craving for tech attention? > > Also to the many students that have already showed their interest: feel > free pushing your project ideas now! > > -- > Quim Gil > Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/**User:Qgil<http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil> > > ______________________________**_________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/**mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l<https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l> _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
