Talk:Google Code-in/2015

Doxygen
> If you don't have a public web site, you could set up a project on Tool Labs for this.

Instead of setting up a tool labs project, wouldn't it be possible to add a paste in phabricator? --Florianschmidtwelzow (talk) 12:36, 6 December 2015 (UTC)
 * It's all up to the mentor so if you plan to mentor any Doxygen related tasks, feel free to edit the boilerplate text! In T117526 TheDJ expressed interest in mentoring but that task needs clarification (see my last comment) before we can make it available. Would you fancy helping? :) --AKlapper (WMF) (talk) 16:51, 6 December 2015 (UTC)

Ideas for beginner tasks
Adaptable from other orgs: We probably need at least: We might consider: Nemo 08:18, 9 December 2015 (UTC)
 * git/gerrit tutorial (with patch to a test repo and perhaps user page),
 * MediaWiki-Vagrant setup (and post a screenshot of an extension in action? or maybe that's a separate task, to improve the Extension namespace pages) (Tgr added an interesting task to verify MediaWiki-Vagrant usage, Create MediaWiki-Vagrant role for a MediaWiki extension).
 * screencast of registering on a wiki and fiddling with Special:Preferences;
 * (asciinema of) running phpunit tests;
 * registering accounts everywhere MediaWiki-related;
 * printing one MediaWiki or GCI poster in A4 (do we have one?) and attach it somewhere at school;


 * Get foreign students to review that our mediawiki.org basic docs are easy to understand even for non-native English speakers (inspired on the «Teacher enrolling students» thread on gci-discuss). Platonides (talk) 22:07, 9 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Good idea, how to make a list of pages they should check? How to verify that the page was actually read, should we ask an edit? Petrb suggests that there are many pages which would be very simple to improve, but I don't know how to find them. :) System administrator documentation could be tested by setting up a wiki and trying to follow the steps suggested by the documentation, I don't know. Nemo 11:15, 10 December 2015 (UTC)
 * I like the idea of having a task where students add screenshots to Extension: namespace pages. Legoktm (talk) 01:57, 10 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Let's do it then. Should we require that they use MediaWiki-Vagrant for the purpose, or recommend some other system? Labs-vagrant? Any demo site existing on the web? Nemo 11:15, 10 December 2015 (UTC)