Google Summer of Code/2009

Google Summer of Code for detailed information.

Mentors needed
The last couple of years we’ve had limited success with the SoC, in part because we’ve been so shorthanded on mentors that we can’t support more than one or two students. I’m looking for a few MediaWiki hackers who’d like to help out this time around…

You’ll need to be reasonably available by e-mail and IRC, and able to help answer the student’s questions and review their progress.

Part of the fun of Summer of Code projects is that we can get somebody excited and involved by working on something that’s big enough that it hasn’t got done yet, but small enough that they can make real progress and hopefully get something in production over the course of a couple months.

The real important part is making sure they feel welcome, and are excited about continuing their involvement in MediaWiki development after they’re done… so let’s make everybody feel at home!

Mentor signup

 * this could be you!

Projects!

 * Support for Chemical Markup Language and Jmol viewer . See 16491.
 * Special pages improvements. See 6220, 10049, 12925, 12942, 12984, etc.
 * Upload log improvements. See 14171, 14417.
 * Tiff file format support.
 * Bot for automation interwikis adding for categories by countries, albums by artist, interwikis for categories based on interwikis for articles. See http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikibots-l/2008-July/thread.html.
 * Special page to change wiki configuration variables via the web with built in validation before changes are made permanent.
 * Special page to automatically upgrade/downgrade the database between versions of MediaWiki (which could be hooked into by extensions).
 * Upgrade the installer to allow for automatic download, installation, and configuration of extensions. Include a special page to do live updates of extensions
 * MetavidWiki ! summer of code page here
 * Image rendering and resizing daemon
 * Make Translation platform more efficient in terms of speed and tools for translators and administrators

Proposed Projects

 * MediaWiki to slideshow --Still uncertain of mentor organisation.

Previous Years

 * Summer of Code: 2006, 2007 and 2008 notes.