On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 6:48 PM, Andre Klapper <[email protected]> wrote:
> Google Code-in 2015 has come to an end. > > Thanks to our students for resolving 461 Wikimedia tasks. Thanks to our > 35 mentors for being available, also on weekends & holidays. Thanks to > everybody on IRC for your friendliness, patience, and help provided to > new contributors. > I want to stress this thankfulness. Google Code-in is a program that allows teenager newcomers to contribute to Wikimedia technical tasks, but it is also a good barometer of our health as a free software project. We have beaten a new mark, thanks to the loose yet efficient collaboration of dozens of mentors and supportive community members. I take this as one of our best accomplishments as a community. > > Some more achievements, apart from those already mentioned in > https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2015-December/084421.html > : > > * The CommonsMetadata extension parses vcards in the src field > * The MediaWiki core API exposes "actual watchers" as in "action=info" > * MediaWiki image thumbnails are interlaced whenever possible > * Kiwix is installable/moveable to the SD card, automatically opens > the virtual keyboard for "find in page", (re)starts with the last > open article > * imageinfo queries in MultimediaViewer are cached > * Twinkle's set of article maintenance tags was audited and its XFD > module has preview functionality > * The RandomRootPage extension got merged into MediaWiki core > * One can remove items from Gather collections > * A new MediaWiki maintenance script imports content from text files > * Pywikibot has action=mergehistory support implemented > * Huggle makes a tone when someone writes something > * Many i18n issues fixed and strings improved > * Namespace aliases added to MediaWiki's export dumps > * The Translate extension is compatible with PHP 7 > > The Grand Prize winners & finalists will be announced on February 8th. > > Again congratulations everybody, and thanks for the hard work. > > See you around on IRC, mailing lists, Gerrit, and Phabricator! > > Cheers, > andre > > -- > Andre Klapper | Wikimedia Bugwrangler > http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/ > > -- Quim Gil Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
