Google Summer of Code/2017

Wikimedia has been accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2017. The program runs from May 4, 2017 to August 29, 2017 (see full timeline).

Google Summer of Code 2017

Accepted Projects

No	Name	Location	Project	Mentor(s)	Updates
1	Alexander Jones	Texas, United States	Implement Thanks support in Pywikibot	John Mark Vandenberg	Done Join Zulip  Done Blog  Done First post (quite late)  Done Introduce yourself on Wikitech-l (even later)  Done First Evaluation (Blog post)  Done Second Evaluation  Done Final update
2	Amrit Sreekumar	Kerela, India	Improvements to ProofreadPage Extension and Wikisource	Yann Forget, Tpt	Done Join Zulip  Done Introduce yourself on Wikitech-l  Done Project Reporting : Phabricator and User Page  Done Blog  Done Blog post - Week 1  Done Blog post - Week 2  Done Blog post - Week 3  Done Blog post - Week 4  Done Blog post - Week 5  Done Blog post - Week 6  Done Blog post - Week 7  Done Blog post - Week 8,9  Done Blog post - Week 10,11  Done Blog post - Week 12,13,14 and project overview  Done First Evaluation  Done Second Evaluation
3	Feroz Ahmad	New Delhi, India	Add a "hierarchy" type to the Cargo extension	Yaron Koren, Nischayn22, Oetterer	Done Introduce yourself on Wikitech-l  Done Join Zulip  Done Blog setup  Done Project Reporting : Phabricator task and MediaWiki page.  Done Blog post - Week 1,2  Done Blog post - Week 3  Done Blog post - Week 4  Done Blog post - Week 5  Done Blog post - Week 6  Done Blog post - Week 7  Done Blog post - Week 8  Done Blog post - Week 9  Done Blog post - Week 10  Done Blog post - Week 11  Done Blog post - Week 12  Done Blog post - Week 13  Done Blog post - Week 14  Done Blog post - Week 15  Done Link to all concise weekly report  Done First Evaluation  Done Second Evaluation Final Evaluation
4	Harjot Singh Bhatia	New Delhi, India	Adding Custom features while upgrading and updating Quiz extension	Marielle Volz, Sam Reed	Done Introduce yourself on Wikitech-l  Done Join Zulip  Done Blogpost - Week 1  Done Blogpost - Week 2  Done Blogpost - Week 3  Done Blogpost - Week 4  Done Blogpost - Week 5  Done Blogpost - Week 6  Done Blogpost - Week 7  Done Blogpost - Week 8  Done Blogpost - Week 9  Done Blogpost - Week 10  Done Blogpost - Week 11  Done Blogpost - Week 12  Done Blogpost - Week 13  Done Blogpost - Week 14  Done Blogpost - Week 15  Done First Evaluation  Done Second Evaluation  Done Final Evaluation
5	Harsh Shah	India	Build a similar to @NYPLEmoji bot for Commons images	Dereckson, Arie	Done Introduce yourself on Wikitech-l  Done Join Zulip  Done Blog setup  Done - Blog Post Week 1  Done Blog post - Week 2  Done Blog post - Week 4  Done Blog post - Week 5  Done BLog post - week 6  Done First Evaluation
6	Keerthana S	India	Automatic editing suggestions and feedbacks for articles in Wiki Ed Dashboard	Sage Ross, Jonathan Morgan	Done Join Zulip  Done Introduce yourself on Wikitech-l  Done Updated user page with project details  Done [1]First Blog post  Done Week 2 - Blog Post  Done Week 3 - Blog post  Done Week 4  Done Week 5  Done Week 6  Done Week 7  Done Week 8  Done Week 9  Done Week 10 & 11  Done Final Post  Done First Evaluation  Done Second Evaluation  Done Final Evaluation
7	Sejal Khatri	India	Provide enhanced usability for Wikimedia Programs & Events Dashboard managed by Wiki Education foundation.	Sage Ross, Jonathan Morgan	Done Introduce yourself on Wikitech-l  Done Join Zulip  Done First blog  Done Updated user page with project details  Done Coding Week2 - Blog Post  Done Coding Week3 - Blog Post  Done Coding Week4 - Blog Post  Done Coding Week5 - Blog Post  Done Coding Week6 - Blog Post  Done Coding Week7 - Blog Post  Done Coding Week8 - Blog Post  Done Coding Week9, 10, 11, 12 - Blog Post  Done GSoC 2017 Project Overview  Done First Evaluation  Done Second Evaluation  Done Final Evaluation
8	Siddhartha Sarkar	India	Glam2Commons (previously Single Image Batch Upload)	Basvb	Done Introduce yourself on Wikitech-l  Done Join Zulip  Done Project Reporting : Phabricator and User Page  Done Blog setup  Done First Blog post  Done Blog Post - Week 2  Done Blog Post - Week 3  Done Blog Post - Week 4  Done Blog Post - Week 5  Done Blog Post - Week 6  Done Blog Post - Week 7  Done Blog Post - Week 8 and 9  Done First Evaluation  Done Second Evaluation  Done Final Evaluation  Done Final Report

Recommended Steps for Current Students

Coding Period (May 31st - August 29th)

• Continue working on your projects under the guidance of mentors.
• Make sure to submit evaluations on time. The first evaluation is due June 30th.
• Continue writing weekly reports and linking them from Updates section above and here. We will be sharing your work with the community in a newsletter format once a month as we did in May.
• Join a bi-weekly IRC meeting on #wikimedia-devrel to meet and greet with fellow GSOC & Outreachy participants and share with them about your work. The first meeting is on June 19th at 9 am PST. Learn more about the purpose of this meeting here.

Community Bonding Period (May 4th-30th)

By May 11th

• Verify your information listed on the under Accepted Projects section above.
• If you haven't yet subscribed to our mailing list wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org, please do so. Introduce yourself on this thread, share where you are from, a brief summary of project you will be contributing to this summer.
• Start communicating with your mentors on refining your project proposal, finalizing deadlines and setting milestones.
• You will receive an invitation to join a group chat on Zulip with other students and mentors of the program in a bit! All throughout the program for communication purposes, we will encourage candidates to be active on Zulip.
• If you haven’t yet setup a blog, please do so. We'll encourage you to submit weekly reports and link them from the Updates section in the table above. We'll also be sharing your work with our broader community through our social media channels.
• Please make sure you are aware of your responsibilities as a student.

By May 18th

• The first blogpost is due next Thursday i.e. May 18th, 2017 as indicated here. Every week, we’ll share your posts on Wikitech-I and through our social media channels
• Setup up your MediaWiki user page and keep it up to date with your project work and reports. Include in the user page a casual landscape picture of yourself in the actual place where you will work on your GSoC project. You can upload the picture to Wikimedia Commons using the web interface or the Commons mobile app. Some example of user pages of previous interns:
  • https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:01tonythomas
  • https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Miriya52

• Add a Twitter DP size photo to the Name column in Accepted Projects above. Also, replace your Zulip avatar with this picture and add a small bio to your profile
• Use the group chat on Zulip to engage in conversations with other interns and mentors
• Interested in learning about other Wikimedia technical topics? Watch the videos here.
• As, and when you finish any of the above, report by adding on the Updates section in Accepted Projects above.

Contact

• Freenode IRC chat channel #wikimedia-devrel
• Ping organization administrators Srishti Sethi or Sumit Asthana
• Mailing list wikitech-l