Google Summer of Code/2010
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The Wikimedia Foundation will be taking part in the Google Summer of Code 2010 (Archived 2011-03-16 at the Wayback Machine).
2010-07-12: Mid-term evaluations due on Friday (2010-07-16)
Basic information
edit- Summer of Code wiki: http://code.google.com/p/google-summer-of-code/wiki/WikiStart
- FAQ: http://socghop.appspot.com/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2010/faqs (Archived 2010-03-23 at the Wayback Machine)
- Mentor guide: http://en.flossmanuals.net/GSoCMentoring/Introduction
Accepted projects
editThis section is for projects that have been given a slot from Google for this year's Summer of Code. Thanks to all the others who applied as well.
Extension management platform
- Mentor: Brion Vibber
- Student: Jeroen De Dauw
- Goal: Creating an awesome extension management platform for MediaWiki, facilitating the installation, updating, removal and configuration of extensions.
- Student application: User:Jeroen_De_Dauw/GSoC2010/Proposal
- Status: Requests for comment/Distribution and deployment
Improve metadata support
- Mentor: Chad Horohoe
- Student: Brian Wolff
- Goal: Improve metadata support for uploaded media in mediawiki by displaying embedded IPTC and XMP metadata
- Student application: User:Bawolff/GSoC2010
- Status: User:Bawolff/GSoC2010/Status (WP Signpost summary)
General RDF export/import in Semantic MediaWiki
- Mentor: Denny Vrandecic
- Student: Samuel Lampa
- Goal: Extend the import/export functionality of Semantic MediaWiki (SMW) to allow also full, general RDF import.
- Student application: User:SHL/GSoC2010
- Status: User:SHL/GSoC2010/Status
Javascript overhaul of Semantic MediaWiki
- Mentor: Yaron Koren
- Student: Sanyam Goyal
- Goal: Improve and extend the Javascript for Semantic MediaWiki and some of its spinoff extensions, most notably Semantic Forms - this would include transferring over much of the Javascript to use the jQuery library, which is now becoming a MediaWiki standard.
- Student application: User:Sanyamgoyal/GSoC2010
- Status: User:Sanyamgoyal/GSoC2010/Status
Wikisource Legal Tool
- Mentor: Ariel Glenn
- Student: Stephen LaPorte
- Goal: Creating a tool to format judicial decisions, legal scholarship, and statutes for Wikisource.
- Student application: User:Slaporte/GSoC2010
- Status: User:Slaporte/GSoC2010/Status
Reasonably efficient interwiki template transclusion
- Mentor: Roan Kattouw
- Student: Peter Potrowl
- Goal: The aim is to allow MediaWiki users to insert (transclude) templates from a wiki to another on WikiMedia Foundation (WMF) wikis (Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, etc.).
- Student application: User:Peter17/GSoC2010
- Status: User:Peter17/GSoC2010/Status (WP Signpost summary)
All mentors
editBelow is the full list of mentors for Google Summer of Code 2010. Even those that aren't listed above are available to help out when needed.
- Yaron Koren
- Rob Lanphier
- Siebrand Mazeland
- Trevor Parscal
- Catrope
- Brion Vibber
- Ariel Glenn
- James Salsman
- Andrew Garrett
- Chad H.
- Tim Alder (already has a student and a project)
- Denny Vrandecic (for SMW-related topics)
- Daniel Herzig (for SMW-related topics)
- Ioannis Paparrizos (for SMW-related topics)
Organisation administrator
editEvery GSoC mentor organisation has a so called "org admin". This person deals with Google as the primary contact person for the organisation. For the GSoC 2010 this is RobLa.