I've been thinking of having the Wikidata mobile skin use CSS3 animations instead of jQuery and adding a two column layout for tablets.
I think this shouldn't take more than a few hours each and I'm pretty sure I'm capable enough to help students along if they'd like to pick this task up. Is this something that I could propose for GCI? On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 9:48 PM, Brion Vibber <[email protected]> wrote: > Woohoo! Everybody prepare your bugs and feature reqs for bite-sized work > units! > > -- brion > > On Friday, November 1, 2013, Quim Gil wrote: > > > Wikimedia is one of the ten organizations selected to participate in > > Google Code-in 2013! This means that on November 18 we will start having > > hundreds of 13-17 year old students looking at Wikimedia tech tasks to be > > completed. > > > > The announcement: > > http://google-opensource.**blogspot.com/2013/11/** > > mentoring-organizations-for-**google-code.html< > http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2013/11/mentoring-organizations-for-google-code.html > > > > > > Our GCI page: > > https://www.mediawiki.org/**wiki/Google_Code-In< > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-In> > > > > If you are involved in FOSS Outreach Program for Women in any way you can > > stop reading here. Otherwise, please stay with us. This program is a very > > good opportunity to find fresh young helpers willing to complete that > > little task that has been sitting in your ToDo list for too long. > > > > > > WE NEED STRUCTURE > > > > Andre Klapper and me are the Wikimedia org admins and we will take a lot > > of dirty and boring work so the rest of you don't have to. However, we > > won't be able to make it without meta-mentors. > > > > META-MENTORS are seasoned contributors that have a good knowledge of the > > relevant technologies, features and people involved in a specific area. > > They are also mentors of some tasks in their areas, but their role > includes > > looking for more mentors that bring more tasks, and coordinate with them. > > GCI organizations get an average of 150-200 tasks completed during the > > program. You see the need for a distributed structure that scales. > > > > GCI has five areas: > > > > * Code (proposing MatmaRex, helped by ?) > > * Documentation/Training (guillom, helped by ?) > > * Outreach/Research (?, helped by Quim - or the other way around) > > * Quality Assurance (proposing Ċ½eljko, helped by Andre) > > * User Interface (Pau and Jorm) > > > > Please, help substituting question marks with names. > > > > > > WE NEED MENTORS BRINGING TASKS > > > > The deal is simple: join GCI as mentor and bring your little tasks (that > > would take you 2-3 hours to complete). You need to describe the tasks > for a > > newcomer, linking to the resources needed to complete them. You also need > > to be ready to answer the questions of the students assigning your tasks > to > > them. > > > > We will have more specific instructions for mentors before the beginning > > of the program. > > > > > > WE NEED PEOPLE PROPOSING TASKS > > > > Even if you can't mentor a specific task we still want to know about it. > > All we need is a bug report with > > > > gci2013 > https://www.mediawiki.org/**wiki/Google_Code-In#Candidate_**tasks< > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-In#Candidate_tasks> > > > > added to its Whiteboard field to make it easy to track them. Please CC > the > > related meta-mentors, Andre and me. > > > > Questions? Please ask and you will help us improving our documentation. > > > > -- > > 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 > -- Pragun Bhutani http://pragunbhutani.in Skype : pragun.bhutani _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
