Anyone interested? please tell if you're interested :) Best
On 11/3/14, Andre Klapper <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Pywikibot crew, > > Google Code-In (GCI) will soon take place again - a contest for 13-17 > year old students to contribute to free software projects. > > Wikimedia wants to take part again. > Last year's GCI results were surprisingly good - see > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-in_2013 > > We need your help: > > 1) Go to > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-in_2014#Mentors.27_corner and > read the information there. If something is unclear, ask! > > 2) Add yourself to the table of mentors on > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-in_2014#Contacting_Wikimedia_mentors > - the more mentors are listed the better our chances are that Google > accepts us. > > 3) Please take ten minutes and go through open recent tickets in > https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org in your area of interest. If you see > self-contained, non-controversial issues with a clear approach which you > can recommend to new developers and would mentor: Add the task to > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-in_2014#Proposed_tasks > > > Until Sunday November 12th, we need at least five tasks from each of > these categories (plus some less technical beginner tasks as well): > * Code: Tasks related to writing or refactoring code > * Documentation/Training: Tasks related to creating/editing documents > and helping others learn more - no translation tasks > * Outreach/research: Tasks related to community management, > outreach/marketing, or studying problems and recommending solutions > * Quality Assurance: Tasks related to testing and ensuring code is of > high quality > * User Interface: Tasks related to user experience research or user > interface design and interaction > > Google wants every organization to have 100+ tasks available on December > 1st. Last year, we had 273 tasks in the end. > > Note that you could also create rather generic tasks, for example fixing > two interface messages from the list of dependencies of > https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38638 > > > Potentially helpful Bugzilla links: > > * Reports that were proposed for GCI last year and are still open: > https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=ALL%20whiteboard%3Agci2014 > > * Open Pywikibot tickets created in the last six months (if I got your > products and components right): > https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=[Bug%20creation]&chfieldfrom=-6m&keywords=easy&keywords_type=nowords&resolution=---&product=Pywikibot > > * 19 already existing Pywikibot "easy" tickets (are they still valid?): > https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=REOPENED&keywords=easy&keywords_type=allwords&resolution=---&product=Pywikibot > > Could you imagine mentoring some of these tasks? > > > Thank you for your help in reaching out to new contributors and making > GCI a success again! Please ask if you have questions. > > Cheers, > andre > > > PS: And in a future Phabricator world, Bugzilla tickets with the 'easy' > keyword will become Phabricator tasks with the 'easy' project. > -- > Andre Klapper | Wikimedia Bugwrangler > http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/ > > > _______________________________________________ > Pywikipedia-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/pywikipedia-l > -- Amir _______________________________________________ Pywikipedia-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/pywikipedia-l
