Google Summer of Code/2014

Wikimedia served a mentoring organization for the Google Summer of Code in 2014.

See also the parallel program FOSS Outreach Program for Women/Round 8.

Timeline

For more detail, check the official timeline.

• 24 February: List of accepted mentoring organizations published
• 11 March: Wikimedia IRC meeting (logs)
• 21 March: Student application deadline
• 9 April: Slot allocations published to mentoring organizations
• 21 April: Accepted student proposals announced
• 19 May: Official start.
• 20 May: GSoC & OPW IRC meeting (logs)
• 23-27 June: Mid term evaluations by students and mentors.
• 18 August: Firm 'pencils down' date.
• 19 August: GSoC & FOSS OPW wrap-up meeting on IRC; #wikimedia-office @ 3pm UTC (logs)
• 18-22 August: Final evaluations by students, mentors, and organization administrators.
• 22 August: Final evaluation deadline
• 25 & 26 October: Mentor Summit at Google

Status

Reporting progress is essential in free software projects. Good reports are concise, they highlight relevant progress/blockers, and they link to bug reports, patches, or other interesting pages.

Participants are required to share Updates about their projects:

• initial announcement on Wikitech-l
• initial microtasks completed
• community bonding report by 25 May including links to
  • goals for the first half of the internship
  • communication plan
  • lessons learned since 21 April
• first weekly report by 30 May
• project wrap-up post by 20 August

See also:

• Lessons learned
• Category:Summer of Code 2014 proposals

GSoC participants

Name	Location	Updates	Project	Mentor(s)	#Bug
Pratik Lahoti	Pune, India	Done Announcement on Wikitech-l  Done Two mentors?  Done Microtasks [1], [2][3]  Done Progress report	Tools for mass migration of legacy translated wiki content	Niklas Laxström, Federico Leva	46645
Jatin Mehta	Allahabad, India	Done Announcement on Wikitech-l  Done Two mentors?  Done Microtasks  Done Progress Report	Switching Semantic Forms autocompletion to Select2	Yaron Koren, Stephan Gambke	61974
Amanpreet Singh	Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India	Done Announcement on Wikitech-l  Done Two mentors?  Done Microtasks  Done Community Bonding Report  Done Weekly Reports  Done Demo In progress Project Wrap Up Report	Annotation tool that extracts information and feed it on wikidata	Cristian Consonni, Andrea Zanni, Simone Fonda, Christian Morbidoni, Luca Martinelli	[4],57812
Tony Thomas	Kerala, India	Done Wikitech-l Announcement  Done Two mentors?  Done Microtasks?  Done Progress Report  Done GSoC Project wrap up report	Add proper email bounce handling to MediaWiki (with VERP)	Jeff Green,Kunal Mehta	46640
Rohit Dua	New Delhi, India	Done Announcement on Wikitech-l  Done Two mentors?  Done Microtasks1, Microtasks2 In progress Progress Report	(Automation Tool) Google Books > Internet Archive > Commons upload cycle	Aubrey, Yann, Tpt	57813
Aaron Xiao	Beijing, China	Done Announcement on Wikitech-l  Done Two mentors?  Done Microtasks?  Done Progress Report  Done GSoC Project wrap up report	UniversalLanguageSelector fonts for Chinese wikis	Liangent, DChan_(WMF)	bug 31791 bug 63122
Aditya Chaturvedi	Allahabad, India	Done Announcement on Wikitech-l  Done Two mentors?  Done Microtasks?  Done Progress Report	Catalogue for MediaWiki extensions	Markus Glaser, Mark Hershberger	46704
Wen-Chien Chen	Taipei, Taiwan	Community bonding report Progress reports Project summary on wikitech-l	MassMessage page input list improvements	Legoktm, Prtksxna	bug 61255
Deepali Jain	Roorkee, India	Wikitech-l annoucement(student):  Done Two mentors:  Done Microtasks(student):  Done Bonding (student): Done May report (student): Done Mid-term evaluations (mentors & student): Done June report (student): Done July report (student): Done Final evaluation (mentors & student):  Done Final report (student): Done Code sample to Google (student): Done Weekly progress report (student)	Book management in Wikibooks/Wikisource	Raylton, Tpt	51239, 53286, 52435
kondi	India	Done Wikitech-l annoucement  Done Two mentors in Google Melange  Done Microtasks In progress Updates	Generic, efficient localisation update service	Kartik Mistry	46653
Hardik Juneja	India	Done Wikitech-l annoucement  Done Two mentors in Google Melange  Done Microtasks In progress Progress Report	Parsoid-based online-detection of broken wikitext	Cscott , Ssastry	[5]
Kunal Grover	Delhi, India	Done Announcement on Wikitech-l  Done Two mentors?  Done Microtasks? In progress Progress report	Usability improvements for the Translate extension	Robin, Siebrand Mazeland	bug 35489, bug 51533, bug 37297 & bug 39415, bug 34098, bug 36298
Jack Phoenix	Turku, Finland	Done Announcement on wikitech-l  Done Two mentors  Done Microtasks  Done Community bonding report  Done Progress reports  Done Wrap-up report	A modern, scalable and attractive skin for MediaWiki	Isarra, Emufarmers	TBD
Vikas S Yaligar	Surathkal, Karnataka, India	Done Announcement on Wikitech-l  Done Two mentors?  Done Microtasks?  Done Progress reports  Done Wrap-up report	Automatic cross-language screenshots for user documentation	Amir Aharoni, James Forrester and the Quality Assurance team	Bug #62737
Bartosz Dziewoński	Kraków, Poland	Done Announcement on wikitech-l  Done Two mentors? → Ongoing project updates	Separating skins from core MediaWiki	Jon Robson, Ori Livneh	bug 60453, bug 43658
Rillke	Germany	Done Announcement on wikitech-l, commons-l  Done Two mentors?  Done Microtasks In progress internship report	Chemical Markup support for Wikimedia Commons	Gilles Dubuc, Brian Wolff, Bryan Davis	bugzilla:16491