Interesting data of the first week of GCI, shared by the organizers: > 1929 students registered (this is already higher than what we had at the halfway point last year) > 84 countries represented > 342 tasks completed by 162 students
Since completed 32 and there are 10 organizations, we are just lightly below average. I would say this is pretty good considering that it is our first time. And no, it's not late for you to join as mentor and bring your tasks. :) On 11/25/2013 10:51 AM, Quim Gil wrote: > Google Code-in weekly update. Summary: > > WE NEED MORE TASKS, URGENTLY! > > http://www.google-melange.com/gci/dashboard/google/gci2013#all_org_tasks > > We are expecting new tasks coming from Mobile, Wikidata, Language and > Lua templates. Still, GCI students are crunching tasks faster than we > are able to create new ones. Please join the party with your tasks! > > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-In > > > On 11/19/2013 10:23 AM, Quim Gil wrote: >> GCI is moving fast. We need more mentors and tasks, especially for >> software development! > > This is still very true a week after starting Google Code-in. These are > the numbers so far: > > * 32 tasks have been completed (28% from the current total of 90) > > MediaWiki core, PyWikiBot, Kiwix, and mediawiki.org have been the main > beneficiaires so far. We have seen students following the process in > Gerrit and Bugzilla as described, some picking things up quickly, some > needing an initial push. > > * 24 are currently claimed, meaning that 24 students are currently > working on them. > > * 3 need review, 6 need more work, 2 are possibly abandoned, 9 were left > by students that had claimed them. > > * Only 13 tasks haven't been touched at all in this first week. > > As you can see, this is working. > > First lesson: the best GCI tasks are those expecting an exact result > e.g. a SVG with PNG fallback to substitute a low-resolution icon. Tasks > giving more margin to creativity (write an article or a wiki page about > certain topic) have a higher risk of requiring a lot more mentorship and > obtaining mixed results. > > Second lesson: org admins can cover mentors when the tasks are well > defined and must be resolved via Gerrit & Bugzilla. The help received > from non-mentor community members commenting in Gerrit changes and gug > reports is priceless! Thank You Very Much for your help. > -- 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
