Google Summer of Code/2012

Google Summer of Code 2012 was announced on Februray 4th, 2012.

A FAQ is available here

Relevant dates
Organisation applications begin February 27.

Organisation applications deadline March 9.

Student applications begin March 26.

Student application deadline is April 6.

Student signup
We'll open student signup if and when we get accepted to participate in GSoC 2012. In the meantime, the best way to increase your chances of being accepted is to talk with us on IRC and start going through the intro steps to learn MediaWiki. It's even better if you can start contributing by fixing an annoying little bug. This experience will help you write a good proposal.

Project ideas
Also have a look at the ideas of 2011 and past projects.


 * Search should index transcluded text — This is sorely wanted for Wiktionary, Wikibooks, Wikisource and the like that depend heaviliy on template expansion.
 * Create a way to have “books” for wikisource/wikibooks — This would mean you could “watch” books (sets of pages, watch a category) instead of just single pages. Might be able to do by extending the Extension:Collection or improving Extension:BookManager.
 * Upload to Commons plugins for common photo management apps (iPhoto, Aperture, Lightroom, Picasa, Shotwell, F-spot, etc.) similar to existing plugins that allow synchronization with sites like flickr, facebook.
 * Implement pre- or post-commit checks in our code repositories that automatically look for security vulnerabilities, broken coding conventions, broken code, etc, perhaps with a web interface to facilitate the process, or using our Jenkins continuous integration setup. Help MediaWiki developers save time in code review, and make our code more secure.
 * This should be done via Jenkins for sure. We already have a build project for it, but we haven't taken the time to actually write our coding conventions down in this format--that could make a good summer project!
 * Improve our Android application -- integrate with SuggestBot to suggest a mobile task to a user.
 * Give editors a way to slice and dice their watchlists with groups (perhaps group similar pages in their watchlists).
 * Improve volunteer-written mass upload tools to make them more robust, especially for use by museums, galleries, libraries and archives. Use Python, PHP, or jQuery with the MediaWiki API and help thousands of people share free culture.
 * I wonder about whether there are things we could do wrt Wikibooks and Wikiversity to improve their reuse/integrability (is that a word?) in terms of our web API. Or something. Sumana Harihareswara, Wikimedia Foundation Volunteer Development Coordinator 05:21, 26 January 2012 (UTC)
 * MediaWiki/Moodle or MediaWiki/Sakai or MediaWiki/Blackboard or MediaWiki/Desire2Learn integration.