Summer of Code 2013

Wikimedia has been accepted again at Google Summer of Code!

GSOC is the most popular among the open source mentorship programs where we get involved.

You can find more information, FAQs and tutorials for students, mentors and org admins in the official website.

See the GSOC DOs and DON’Ts - Student Edition. Check also some real examples of good GSoC project proposals, and these ones specific to Wikimedia: User:Jarry1250/GSoC 2012 roadmap & User:Drecodeam/GSoC 2012 Application.

LADIES! Check out also the Free and Open Source Outreach Program for Women. We are running both programs in parallel.

Students

This table reflects the students that have applied to GSoC 2013 and have options to be selected. Students are encouraged to keep their entries up to date.

The selection process has started. Google has announced we have 21 slots available. In the meantime, everybody is encouraged to

• Vote and contribute to the technical discussion about features at their Bugzilla reports.
• Endorse and comment on students' proposals at their discussion wiki pages.

We will use this feedback as one of several factors to prioritize features and candidates.

Candidates confirmed

Name	Location	Contributions	Project	Mentor(s)	#Bug
Gaurav Chawla (Grv99)	Roorkee, India	Working on an enhancement request and wikicards.	jQuery.IME extensions for Firefox and Chrome	Santhosh Thottingal and Amir E. Aharoni	46647
Praveen Singh (Prageck)	New Delhi, India	Submitted patches	jQuery.IME extensions for Firefox and Chrome	Santhosh Thottingal and Amir E. Aharoni	46647
Nasir Khan (Nasir8891)	Dhaka, Bangladesh	gerrit, github contributions	jQuery.IME extensions for Firefox and Chrome	Santhosh Thottingal and Amir E. Aharoni	46647
Kaushal Singh (Kaushalsingh11)	Varanasi, India	Github	jQuery.IME extensions for Firefox and Chrome	Santhosh Thottingal and Amir E. Aharoni	46647
Liangent	China	gerrit / gerrit-review	Wikidata language fallback and conversion (primary)	Denny Vrandečić and Daniel Kinzler	37461 36430
Liangent	China	gerrit / gerrit-review	Category redirects	Brian Wolff.	3311
Andre Saboia (Anboia)	Brazil	?	Category redirects	Bawolff	3311
Molly White (GorillaWarfare)	Boston, Massachusetts, USA	See submitted patches	Improve support for book structures	Raylton P. Sousa and Mwalker, possibly Tpt	15071
Nazmul Chowdhury (Rasel160)	Brooklyn, New York, USA	gerrit / gerrit-review	UploadWizard: Book upload customization	MarkTraceur and Micru	47561
Tianhao Wang (Vvv214wth)	Shanghai, China	gerrit / gerrit-review	UploadWizard: Book upload customization	MarkTraceur and Micru	47561
Aayush Sharma (Aayush251)	New Delhi , India	None Yet	MediaWiki API Improvement	Yuri Astrakhan and Adam Baso	39592
Tongbo Sui (Beanixster)	Beijing, China	Nothing to date.	VisualEditor plugin for source code	James Forrester and Trevor Parscal	47742
Richa Jain (Rjain)	Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India	A few patches submitted	Prototyping inline comments	Matthew Flaschen and Tyler Romeo	46440
AV Aditya Sastry (Ganeshaditya1)	Vishkapatanam, Andhra Pradesh, India	A few patches submitted	Prototyping inline comments	Matthew Flaschen and Tyler Romeo	46440
Rodrigo Cabrera Peña	?	?	Prototyping inline comments	?	46440
Anthony Chen (N3c)	Singapore	Opened source app, NASA International Space Apps Challenge	Prototyping inline comments	Matt Flaschen	46440
Siddhartha Garg (Code_sid)	New Delhi,India	None up till now	Centralized Search Engine	?	47775
Aarti Dwivedi (Rtdwivedi)	Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India	Submitted patches	Refactoring of ProofreadPage extension	Tpt and Zaran	46616
Petr Onderka (Svick)	Prague, Czech Republic	gerrit, github	Incremental data dumps	Ariel Glenn, Reedy?	28956
Shao Hong (Shaohong)	Singapore	?	Incremental data dumps	Ariel Glenn	28956
Jeremy Coffman (J.a.coffman)	Los Angeles, California	?	Incremental Data Dumps	Ariel Glenn	28956
Kunal Mehta (Legoktm)	?	gerrit patches, SVN	Incremental Data Dumps	Ariel Glenn	28956
Sanja Pavlovic	?	?	Incremental Data Dumps	Ariel Glenn	28956
Or Sagi (Orsagi)	Tel-Aviv, Israel	A similar project for iOS	Android app for MediaWiki translation	Amir Aharoni, Niklas Laxström	47783
Ankit Gadgil (Ankitgadgil)	Pune, India	Test cases for marathi translitrations. Translations for Marathi Language.	jQuery.IME next big release improvements	?	46660
Siddha Ganju (SiddhGanju)	Shimla,Himachal Pradesh,India	See Contributions	jQuery.IME Next Big Release Improvements	Siebrand	46660
Nithin Saji (Diadara536)	Kollam,Kerala,India	?	jQuery.IME next big release improvements	Santhosh Thottingal and Amir E. Aharoni possibly	46660
Jiabao Wu	Australia	gerrit	VisualEditor Mathematical Editor Plugin	co-mentor Peter Krautzberger (MathJax)	43058
Anubhav Agarwal (Anubhav_iitr)	Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India	Submitted Patches	Bayesian Spam Filter Extension for MediaWiki	Chris Steipp and Platonides	47207
Dheeraj Joshi (Dheerajjoshi1991)	?	?	Auto suggestion of categories using Semantic Analysis & Semi-Supervised Learning	?	47871
Rahul Maliakkal (Rahul21)	Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India.	Patches Submitted	Pronunciation Recording Tool	Michael Dale and Matt Flaschen.	46610
Harsh Kothari (Harsh4101991)	Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India	Developed TwitterCards Extension	Language Coverage Matrix Dashboard	Runa Bhattacharjee and Alolita Sharma	46651
Parth Srivastav (Parth4992)	India	None till now	Language Coverage Matrix Dashboard	Runa Bhattacharjee and Alolita Sharma	46651
Moriel Schottlender (Mooeypoo)	NYC, NY, USA (Originally Israel)	gerrit / jQuery.IME GitHub	MediaWiki VisualEditor RTL support	Amir E. Aharoni offered to co-mentor and James Forrester and Inez Korczynski from VisualEditor has shown interest as well.	33126
Pragun Bhutani (Pragunbhutani)	Gurgaon, India	My gerrit profile	Mobilizing Wikidata	Katie Filbert	43065
Govind Kumar (?)	?	?	Mobilizing Wikidata	?	43065
Yevheniy Vlasenko (Zhenya)	Ukraine, Chernihiv	Contributed to Extension:SocialProfile	Improvement of glossary tools	Yury Katkov, Stephan Gambke as co-mentor	47981
Kiran Mathew Koshy (Kiran_mathew_1993)	Kerala, India	Working on a feature request	ZIM incremental updates for Kiwix	Emmanuel 'Kelson' Engelhart and Tommi 'tntnet' Mäkitalo, lead developers of OpenZIM and Kiwix.	47406
Rohan Verma (Clancer)	Canberra, Australia	gerrit	MediaWiki-Moodle extension	Jan Luca Naumann and Brian Wolff	47381
Sourabh Bollapragada (?)	?	?	VisualEditor plugins	?	?
Himeshi De Silva (Himeshi)	Colombo, Sri Lanka	Patch for bug 47606	Section handling in Semantic forms	Yaron Koren	46662
Monica Batham (?)	?	?	Enhancing Wikipedia	?	?
Nilesh Chakraborty (Nilesh)	Kolkata, India	Working on a prototype for the Entity Suggester in this GitHub repo.	Wikidata Entity Suggester : Suggest relevant properties and values for an item in wikidaata, and improving sort order in entity selector	Denny, Daniel Kinzler	46555, 45351
Connor Schlesiger (Connor)	Peterborough, Ontario, Canada	Nothing to date.	Curriculum Wiki: A new interface to host a semantic network of curriculum and related educational resources	?	48053
Puneet Kaur (Puneet_kaur)	New Delhi, India	Nothing till date	Wikidata Features		46555

Administrativia

The people in charge of applying to GSoC, running the program and assist mentors and students in anything beyond their projects.

Our plans take into consideration the lessons learned in 2012 and the DOs and DON’Ts - Org Admin Edition.

• Quim Gil: primary contact with the program organizers.
• Lydia Pintscher (WMDE)