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 functionality in most cases except one-to-multiple links in Wikisource :-)
Eugene. 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 > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
