Google Summer of Code/2008

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

 * brion 21:55, 3 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Catrope 22:04, 3 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Turnstep 00:18, 4 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Mdale 19:14, 4 March 2008 (UTC)
 * this could be you!

Projects!

 * Image renaming — already taken and semi-done by User:VasilievVV
 * Category renaming
 * improving video support:
 * metavid related stuff? improving mediaWiki media integration, scalability etc
 * check out oggPusher, would be good to have mediaWiki support it... so that users could directly transcode from high quality sources and can hide some of the complexity of transcodeing, save server side resources, avoid multiple-pass transcodes prevalent in online video, and have a path for simplifying configuration of "live" broadcasts in the future.
 * most voted not assigned bugs
 * 86 votes - Cannot rename/move images and other media files - User:VasilievVV
 * 82 votes - Support collation by a certain locale (sorting order of characters)
 * 60 votes - Support global blocking
 * 54 votes - "File links" on the image pages should list links from other wikis
 * 54 votes - Implement rev_deleted (deletion of single article revisions) already being done
 * 49 votes - Interwikies sort in phonetic, site defined order (w/ patch)
 * 45 votes - Install the StringFunctions extension site request, not a GSoC project
 * 40 votes - Use a dedicated interface for adding interwiki/category links, not wikitext
 * 39 votes - gallery of images uploaded by a user
 * 39 votes - Subcategory paging is not separate from article or image paging Simetrical's working on this and already has some code
 * 38 votes - Record "new" pages on User contributions
 * insert ideas here!

Old stuff

 * Summer of Code 2006 and 2007 notes.