Google Code-in/2018
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Google Code-in 2018 is over. 765 Wikimedia task instances (80 of them "get onto IRC" tasks) were successfully completed thanks to 199 students and 39 mentors. Thanks everybody!
Google Code-in is a contest to introduce pre-university students (ages 13-17) to the many kinds of contributions that make free and open source software (FOSS) development possible. Students must complete tasks, one at a time. It is sponsored and run by Google. Read Google's announcement. The Wikimedia Foundation has participated since 2013.
The Google Code-in 2018 contest takes place from October 23 to December 13, 2018. Wikimedia's organization admins this year are Andre, Derick, Étienne, Florian, Isaac, and Reedy.
List of Wikimedia mentors
Please be patient with mentors. Mentors are humans. They eventually leave their computers to sleep, work, study. They might be in different timezones than you. It can take your mentor(s) up to 36 hours to review the work that you have submitted. You should be patient. Do not ask for a review of your work after only a few hours of waiting. Google Code-In is about the quality of your contributions and about learning how FOSS development works. It is not about the number of tasks that you complete.
| Name | IRC nick | IRC channel | Timezone | Areas of interest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andre Klapper | andre__ | #wikimedia-dev connect | UTC +1:00 | User documentation, Phabricator |
| Marielle Volz | mvolz | #wikimedia-services connect | UTC +1:00 | citoid |
| Brian Wolff | bawolff | #wikimedia-dev connect #mediawiki connect | UTC -4:00 | Security, MediaWiki PHP |
| Étienne Beaulé | Ebe123 | #wikimedia-dev connect | UTC -4:00 | Extension:Score |
| Sage Ross | ragesoss | #wikimedia-ed connect | UTC -7:00 | Wiki Education Dashboard |
| Pratyush Singhal | psinghal20 | #wikimedia-ed connect | UTC +5:30 | Wiki Education Dashboard |
| Srishti Sethi | srishakatux_ | #wikimedia-devrel connect | UTC -7:00 | API documentation on-wiki, code samples |
| Fz-29 | Fz-29 | #wikimedia-dev connect | UTC +5:30 | MediaWiki Extensions |
| User:RexxS | RexxS | #wikimedia-uk connect | UTC +0:00 | Lua, Wikibase client, teaching |
| Urvashi Verma | ihsavru | #wikimedia-ed connect | UTC +5:30 | Wiki Education Dashboard |
| Jonas Kress | Jonas (WMDE) | #wikidata connect | UTC +1:00 | Wikidata Wikidata Query |
| Awangba Mangang | Awangba Mangang | #wikimedia-dev connect | UTC +0:00 | MediaWiki Extensions |
| Amir E. Aharoni | aharoni | #mediawiki-i18n connect | UTC +2:00 | translatewiki configuration (especially T189982), other localization and translation tasks |
| Legoktm | legoktm | #wikimedia-dev connect, #mediawiki connect | UTC -7:00 | MediaWiki, Pywikibot, Continuous Integration, Tools/Toolforge |
| Mateus Santos | mateusbs17 | #wikimedia-interactive connect | UTC -3:00 | Maps |
| Rosalieper | r054l13 | #wikimedia-dev connect, #wikimedia-dev-africa connect | UTC +1:00 | MediaWiki ext, CommonsTwitterBot |
| Tony Thomas | tonythomas | #wikimedia-dev connect | UTC +1:00 | MediaWiki extensions, Unit tests, Python |
| Egbe Eugene | Egbe Eugene | #wikimedia-dev connect, #wikimedia-dev-africa connect | UTC +1:00 | Mediawiki ext, FormWizard, API |
| Benoît Evellin | Trizek | #mediawiki connect | UTC +1:00 | User documentation |
| Yashdeep Thorat | yashdeep97 | #wikimedia-dev connect | UTC +5:30 | MediaWiki Extensions, Page Forms Extension |
| Syced | Nicolas | commons-app-android@googlegroups.com | UTC +9:00 | Commons Android app documentation |
| Zppix | Zppix | #wikimedia-dev connect #wikimedia-dev-africa connect #ZppixBot connect | UTC -5:00 | documentation, ZppixBot, L18N |
| Gopavasanth | Gopa | #wikimedia-dev connect | UTC +5:30 | RevisionSlider, MediaWiki Extensions |
| Alangi_Derick | xSavitar | #wikimedia-dev connect | UTC +1:00 | MediaWiki, Tools/Toolforge |
| Prateek Saxena | prtksxna | #wikimedia-dev connect | UTC +5:30 | Design, OOU, MediaWiki extensions |
| Isaac Hutt | mhutti1 | #kiwix connect | UTC +0:00 | Kiwix, Offline Wikipedia, Android |
| Jon Robson | jdlrobson | #wikimedia-mobile connect | UTC -8:00 | Mobile, MobileFrontend, JavaScript, CSS, UI standardisation |
| Piotr Miazga | raynor | #wikimedia-mobile connect#wikimedia-dev connect | UTC +2:00 | PHP, Mobile Web, MobileFrontend, MediaWiki Extensions, Unit testing, Code hygiene |
| African Hope | africanhope | #wikimedia-dev connect | UTC +0:00 | MediaWiki, Tools/Toolforge |
| Kelson | kelson | #kiwix connect | UTC +1:00 | Kiwix, MWoffliner |
| Siddharth Sharma | siddharth2010 | #kiwix connect | UTC +5:30 | Kiwix, Offline Wikipedia, Android |
| Konrad Djimeli | djkonro | #wikimedia-dev connect #wikimedia-dev-africa connect | UTC +1:00 | MediaWiki, Pywikibot |
| Martin Urbanec | Urbanecm | #wikimedia-dev connect | UTC +1:00 | Wikinity, Tools/Toolforge |
| Gergő Tisza | tgr | #mediawiki-core connect | UTC -7:00 | MediaWiki, Vagrant |
| Framawiki | framawiki | #wikimedia-dev connect | UTC +1:00 | Pywikibot, Huggle, Quarry, help with Toolforge/Gerrit/other tech stuff if needed |
| Niharika Kohli | Niharika | #wikimedia-dev connect | UTC -7:00 | PHP, JavaScript, MediaWiki; Help with installation issues, putting up Gerrit patches etc. |
| opentechno | opentechno | #wikimedia-dev-africa connect | UTC +0:00 | MediaWiki, Pywikibot, Python |
| Abdul Wadood | abdulwd | #kiwix connect | UTC +5:30 | Kiwix, Offline Wikipedia, Android |
| Reedy | reedy | #wikimedia-dev connect, #mediawiki-core connect, #mediawiki connect | UTC +0:00 | MediaWiki, PHP, AutoWikiBrowser, Wikimedia Stuff (Phabricator, Gerrit, Wikitech...) |
| Harjot Singh | harjotsingh | #wikimedia-dev connect | UTC +5:30 | mediawiki |
| Rachel Farrand | rfarrand | #wikimedia-dev connect | UTC -7:00 | Events, design, documentation |
| Sam Walton | Samwalton9 | #wikipedia-library connect | UTC +0:00 | Library Card platform, Citation tools, Python |
| Nikita Volobuiev | nikitavbv | #wikimedia-dev connect | UTC +3:00 | PHP, MediaWiki, MediaWiki Extensions, Unit Tests |
| Anyi Jonathan | anyi_jonathan | #wikimedia-dev-africa connect | UTC +01:00 | API Documentation, Python |
| Bartosz Dziewoński | MatmaRex | #wikimedia-dev connect #mediawiki-visualeditor connect | UTC +02:00 | VisualEditor, MediaWiki |
| Sarah R. Rodlund | srrodlund | #wikimedia-cloud-admin connect | UTC -7:00 | Technical Documentation |
| Michael Holloway | mdholloway | #wikimedia-interactive connect | UTC -6:00 | Maps |
| Dvorapa | Dvorapa | #pywikibot connect, #wikipedia-cs connect | UTC +1:00 | Pywikibot, Python |
| Stephane Bisson | stephanebisson | #wikimedia-collaboration connect | UTC -4:00 | MediaWiki Core/Extensions, PHP, JavaScript |
| David Abián | abian | #wikidata connect | UTC +1:00 | Wikidata, Wikidata Query UI |
Weekly summary of tasks
| Wikimedia at Google Code-in 2018 |
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You can find details for some of these tasks in the #Google-Code-in-2018 workboard on Phabricator. (Not all of the GCI tasks are also tracked in Phabricator.)
Unofficial smalltalk / chat groups
These groups have been created by participants and are not affiliated with Wikimedia. Students, mentors and admins are free to join:
Blog posts
At the end of GCI 2018, some students summarized their experience with Wikimedia:
- https://shreyasminocha.me/blog/gci-2018 by Shreyas Minocha
- https://gist.github.com/takidelfin/931158c645ca6a2cb7203cb4f0186e82 by takidelfin
- <Add URL of your blog post here>
See also:
- https://opensource.googleblog.com/2018/12/wrapping-up-google-code-in-2018.html by Google
- List of achievements of Wikimedia students: 1, 2
- https://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/2019/01/07/wikimedia-google-code-in-2018/ by Andre (org admin)