Google Summer of Code/2019
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Wikimedia has been accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2019. The program runs from May 14 to August 14 (see #Program timeline below).
Program timeline
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- February 6 20:00 UTC - Mentoring organization applications due
- March 25 18:00 UTC - Student application period begins
- April 9 18:00 UTC - Student applications due
- May 6 18:00 UTC - Accepted students announced
- May 27 - August 26 - Coding period
Accepted projects
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Aditya Jain | Jhansi, India | Create a subpage for statistics and charts related to a hashtag search | Sam Walton |  Done Joined Zulip
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| Amit Joki | Add Multi-Wiki Support to WikiEduDashboard | Sage Ross, Wes Reid | Done Joined Zulip
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| Ankita Mandal | Improve the interface of Special:ViewData in the Cargo extension | Yaron Koren, Nikhil Kumar | Done Joined Zulip
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Jay Prakash | Meerut, India | Develop code samples in Javascript and PHP to demonstrate the use of MediaWiki Action API modules | Srishti Sethi, Sarah Rodlund | Done Joined Zulip
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Muhammad Usman | Bangalore, India | Improve article recommendation pipeline | Bahodir Mansurov | Done Joined Zulip
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Priyanshu Varshney | Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, India | Add an editable calendar interface to Page Forms extension | Yaron Koren, Erik Biegert, Yashdeep Thorat | Done Joined Zulip
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Rammanoj Potla | Amritapuri, Kerala, India | Develop a tool for event organizers to track developer activity | Suchakra Sharma, Srishti Sethi | Done Joined Zulip
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| Shivansh Bindal | Roorkee, India | Make notification counts update without page reload | Kosta Harlan, Roan Kattouw | Done Joined Zulip
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| Ton Creus Costa | Barcelona, Catalonia | Integrate SVG Translate with Content Translation | Petar Petkovic, Sam Wilson |
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Ujjwal Agrawal | Raipur, India | Create an Android app that acts as an alternative frontend for the WikiEducation Dashboard | Sage Ross, Wes Reid | Done Joined Zulip
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| Vanshika Arora | Agra, India | Add Structured Commons support to Commons Android app | Nicolas Raoul, Ashish Kumar | Done Joined Zulip
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Vasanth Gopa | Amritapuri, Kerala, India. | Develop a tool to cut videos in Wikimedia Commons | James Heilman, Pratik Shetty, Hassan Amin | Done Joined Zulip
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Community bonding period
editHere are some recommended steps for current interns:
- Refine your project proposal with guidance from mentors.
- Join Zulip to keep yourself up to date with the announcements related to the program and opportunities for participating in Wikimedia activities.
- Write blog posts (first due by May 20th) in a language you are most comfortable with and add it to the Bi-weekly Reports page.
- Add your updates about non-coding tasks (e.g., writing a blog post, joining Zulip, etc.) in the Accepted projects' Updates section above.
- Setup your MediaWiki user page, link it with your name in the accepted projects section above and keep it up to date with your project work and reports. (e.g., User:Martyav, User:Amrit_sreekumar)
- Stay in touch with Wikimedia technical discussions by subscribing to the mailing list: wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org.
- Read stories from across the Wikimedia movement on Wikimedia Foundation’s blog.
- Watch previous videos on Wikimedia technical topics here.
Ideas for projects
editView ideas for projects promoted during the application period.
Contact
edit- Reach out for general questions on the #gsoc19-outreachy18 Zulip chat or send an email to the organization administrators: Srishti Sethi (ssethi@wikimedia.org), Pratyush Singhal (psinghal20@gmail.com) and Derick Alangi (alangi.derick@wikipedia.de).
- Read how to communicate effectively and get help on technical questions.