On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 12:48 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.
>
> 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/
>
>
>

I'd also like to congratulate Unicornisaurous specifically, who found
a security issue in MediaWiki core [details aren't public yet].
Although technically that accomplishment isn't part of GCI, to my
knowledge it is the first time someone participating in GCI has done
that, and I thought it deserved to be mentioned.

Congratulations to everyone who participated.

Cheers,
Brian

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