Google Summer of Code/2013

Join our meetup: GSoC and other open source internship programs 2013-04-12 00:00 UTC / 2013-04-11 17:00 PDT - San Francisco, CA, USA + video stream + IRC We are working in a proposal to participate 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.

Now we are working on the project ideas in order to submit the application as Wikimedia Foundation. The deadline is March 29, but we want to submit it before. Help is welcome, especially from potential mentors!

Mentors
We have a wide variety of technologies in use and no mentor can offer mentorship for just any project. We might be able to find other mentors specific to other areas if an interesting project idea shows up.

See also the DOs and DON’Ts - Mentor Edition.


 * Sébastien Montoro: I'm offering to mentor Wikimedia Commons related projects. I'm also available for a more generic project for a student who comes from another language and would like to learn PHP / improve PHP skills.
 * Raylton P. Sousa: Interested in stuff relating to sister [non-wikipedia] projects (or maybe generic things like this and this).
 * Brian Wolff.: Particularly interested in any project where the student is a member of the relevant community the project is targeting, and the student came up with the project him/her-self to fix a problem that they are actually encountering.
 * Jeroen De Dauw: I'm involved with both Semantic MediaWiki and Wikidata and willing to mentor interesting projects related to either. I prefer to mentor students who already have a decent background with doing development work.
 * Siebrand Mazeland: Available for helping with the student selection process, available as a mentor if really needed. I'm not really a developer, but I have a little experience in working with them.
 * Yurik Astrakhan: Willing to mentor.
 * Tyler Romeo: I'm available to mentor the E:CSS, E:UploadWizard, the XML sitemaps extension, automatic category redirects, and/or E:OEmbed*. Which one I do I'll leave up to somebody who has a better idea of which projects WMF would prefer. Depending on the time commitment involved, I may be able to mentor more than one project.
 * Rusty Burchfield: willing to mentor.
 * MarkTraceur: I'd love to work with anyone on Parsoid, Extension:UploadWizard, Extension:EtherEditor, or any new extensions or modifications to existing ones. My favourite work is in JavaScript, but I'll also dabble in core modifications and PHP changes when necessary, and I've played with unit testing and our CI infrastructure at least a little.
 * Denny Vrandečić: Available to mentor or co-mentor Wikidata-related proposals. Have mentored GSoC previously.
 * Thomas PT: I'm available as co-mentor for Wikisource-related proposals. I won't be able to help in June and the begin of July but I'll be very pleased to help in August.
 * Yaron Koren: Semantic MediaWiki, Semantic Forms, and related extensions.
 * James Forrester: VisualEditor related projects.
 * Niklas Laxström: internationalization projects.
 * Santhosh Thottingal: internationalization projects.
 * Federico Leva: willing to co-mentor Tools for mass migration of legacy translated wiki content as Meta-Wiki community liasion.
 * Runa Bhattarcharjee: internationalization projects.
 * Alolita Sharma: internationalization projects.
 * Ariel Glenn: Wikimedia offline projects.
 * Matt Flaschen: Prototyping inline comments.
 * Rusty Burchfield: CSS extension projects.

Students interested
This is not the official registration to GSOC. Still, you are invited to add yourself to the list and link to your profile and your ideas to start connecting with the community.

Introduce yourself and your interests in one sentence. Your chances increase if you do it as registered user, signing the entry with --~ and having a user page containing the relevant data and links. How to become a MediaWiki hacker is a good place to start learning your skills and becoming a better candidate.

See also the GSOC DOs and DON’Ts - Student Edition.

--Hit goyal (talk) 12:56, 20 March 2013 (UTC)
 * The first one here :) though I'm not really sure what I'll do... Some ideas: an extension? proper language (script) conversion for Wikidata? 38486 + 43547? That category-redirect idea? Liangent (talk) 06:36, 18 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Harpreet Singh, 3rd year UG, Computer Science, IIT Kanpur: Have extensive programming and web development experience and am open to ideas on what to work on.--Harpreet (talk) 17:10, 24 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Aarti Dwivedi, 2nd year Integrated M.Tech, Geophysical Technology, IIT Roorkee: Have experience in programming, web development and Ubuntu application development. I would like to work on an extension. I will post my idea for a project soon. Any suggestions for ideas are welcome. -- Rtdwivedi (talk) 07:44, 31 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Rahul Maliakkal,3rd year UG ,Computer Science,U.V Patel College Of Engineering.Have programmed before C,Java and Python. Extension Development or Bug Fixing would be the place where i would want to put my foot in.Rahul21 (Rahul21)
 * Shekhar Kadyan, 4th year UG, Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Kanpur: Interested and highly experienced in web development/android development/data mining. Open to ideas. .--Shekharkadyan (talk) 11:34, February 3, 2013 (UTC)
 * Udit Saxena, 3rd year UG, Maths and Computer Science Engineering, BITS Pilani: Have programmed in Python, Go, Java, C/C++, LAMP; I am currently doing a course in Machine Learning. I have experience in Web Development. I am open to ideas on what to work on. Phaedrus24 (talk) 04:09, 13 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Vivek Rai, 1st year Undergraduate student at Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. I have a deep interest and some programming experience in PHP, Python, Javascript and C. I have been a continued Wikipedia editor and love writing and contributing. I'm open to work on any idea. Thanks! Vivek Rai (talk) 04:42, 15 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Richa Jain, 2nd year undergraduate Electrical Engineering ,IIT Roorkee: experienced in programming and quite interested in web development. I would like to work for an extension and i am open to work on any idea. --Rjain (talk) 12:17, 15 February 2013 (UTC) Rjain
 * Thiago Avelino, 5th year of Computer Engineering UTFPR, I have experience in web development using design patterns such as MVC and MVVM. You can find more information about me in my blog --Thiagoavelino (talk) 20:58, 15 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Anubhav Agarwal, 4rth year UG, Computer Science IIT Roorkee. Proficient in Web development using MVC Architecture. Skilled in C, Php and Python -- Anubhav iitr (talk) 21:55, 16 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Puneet Kala, 4th year B.tech, Computer Science DA-IICT Gandhinagar. I have a good knowledge and experience of web development. I am proficient in PHP, JS, JQuery, HTML, CSS apart from this I have also worked on C/C++. I have used CakePHP(Framework) for one of my projects. I am open to work on any idea. Thanks :) Please contact me through email: puneet.0191@gmail.com
 * Mayank Bhola, 3rd year undergraduate from JIIT Noida: Loves web programming and scripting , have fair coding experience in PHP,Python,JS,C++.I am open to work on any idea,and also have project idea for wiki inter-operatibilty with other formats (updated my user page for ideas ) .Psych0der (talk) 13:35, 18 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Saheb Motiani, A developer, who loves the concept of semantic web and open source development. I did my GSOC 2012 with ASCEND. I am currently working on Semantic Web Research and would like to contribute in Semantic-MediaWiki. I have clear understanding of web semantics concepts like ontologies, rdf, xml, structuring of data etc.I have good web programming experience which includes languages like JS, PHP, node.js etc. I have worked previously with open source organizations, and so have good experience with versioning tools like and standards.Saheb
 * Rihan Pereira, myself a 3rd year undergraduate student,i am interested in contributing and learning your codebase,i have experience in version control like git and mercurial,learning php on the way for better code reviews.I have done projects on python using its frameworks,javascript,php,nodejs.So,looking forward to be a part of mediawiki developer community.Rihnapstor(Rihnapstor)
 * Atul Agrawal,myself a 3rd year computer science student from BITS Pilani. I am interested in solving user related problems.I have good knowledge and experience of php,JS,Jquery,mysql,java and C . Moreover I have experience in git.I am observing the community via mailing list and irc and am looking forward to be part of MediaWiki.IRC Nick(Mr_Alpha) Atul (talk)
 * Avilash Kumar, myself a third year undergraduate from IIT Bombay. I have a good experience with web development (PHP , MYSQL , DJANGO , CSS , JAVASCRIPT , HTML ) and have also programmed on C++ and Java. Looking forward to building extensions as a part of MediaWiki Avilash (talk)
 * Ashen Gomez, Final year Computer Engineering undergraduate from Sri Lanka. Looking forward to work with MediaWiki as a contributor. I have experience in web development(PHP,MySQL,Zend,jQuery etc...), mobile development in Android, Java, C and Python. ashengmz (talk)
 * Nadeem Anjum, Third Year Computer Science and Engineering Student from IIT Kharagpur. Have extensive experience in development with HTML, PHP, CSS, JavaScript, JQuery, MySQL, AJAX, Java, C, C++, Python, Hadoop, Android. Have contributed to several open source projects. Open to ideas. My Webpage can be accessed here
 * Varun Singhal, 2nd year Electronics and Communication engineering, undergraduate from Delhi College of Engineering, Delhi. Looking forward to work with MediaWiki. I have experience in web development with php,MySQL,phpmyadmin,ajax,javascript,jQuery,html,css. --Varunsinghal (talk)
 * Moriel Schottlender, 1st year Computer Science Graduate student at NYIT. I have a B.S in Physics and I've been programming as a hobby since I was a little girl, but this will be my first big open source project. I have web development experience (PHP, Javascript/jQuery, HTML5, CSS) and also Perl and Java. I'm open to ideas for projects, and can't wait to expand my skills and contribute to the community! Mooeypoo (talk) 00:17, 4 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Tarun Bansal, 3rd year Computer Science undergraduate student at .Efficient in programming in Php, CSS, MySQL,javascript,jquery,c++. Looking forward to get involved in the community. Learning about the api and will soon start fixing any bugs i comme to know.Open to any ideas.Tarun365 10:13, 4 March 2013 (+5.30 GMT)
 * Arunwebber, Hi this is arunwebber and i am intrested in devoleping php apps as well as good with googles app engine and phython seccond year ug student in jyohty you can read more about me on the user page arunwebber and my website is www.eduladder.com
 * Shashi Kumar P, 3rd year Computer Science undergraduate student at SDMCET.good in C,PHP,Python,JAVA,C++, CSS,javascript. Interested Open Source projects & web devlopment .Open to any ideas.shashisp
 * Abhinav Koppula, 3rd year Computer Science undergraduate student at R.V.C.E Bangalore.Good in C/C++/PHP/JQuery/CSS. I Have worked on full fledged PHP projects using MVC framework. I have used Codeigniter immensely in my projects. I'm interested in open source projects and semantic web. I am open to all kinds of ideas.mancoolgunda(talk)
 * Ram Tripathi, I'm a 3rd year undergraduate student and a Web Developer. I'm an open source enthusiast enthusiast and my interests include Python, PHP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript and different libraries and tools built on these technologies. Open to all kinds of ideas.
 * Shuo Wang, 1st year graduate student in Computer Science, at University of Chinese Academy of Sciences. Have programming experience in C and Python. Dedicate myself to improve reading and editing experience of Wikipedia. A truly Wikipediholic. -KeepOpera (talk) 17:25, 12 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Victoria Zhong, first year undergraduate at Hunter College. I have experience in Web Development using HTML, CSS, Javascript, and PHP. I have worked with databases in the context of Web Development. Outside of Web Development I have also worked with Java and C++. I am open to work for any ideas presented. I really look forward to getting involved in this community! -- SemicolonExpected (talk) 22:51, 14 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Mayank Jha, second year undergraduate at NIT,Durgapur,India. I am skilled in C,C++,HTML,Qt, CSS, Javascript, and PHP. I have contributed to the world of FOSS since I was introduced to it is mentioned in my page. I am looking forward to be a part of MediaWiki project. --Mjnovice (talk) 08:10, 16 March 2013 (UTC)mjnovice
 * Yura Bobusky, 4th year Computer Science undergraduate student at Uzhgorod National University.  I have experience in Web Development using HTML, CSS, PHP. I also have programming skills in C, C++, C#. Open to any ideas. Bobusky  17:18, 16 March 2013 (UTC+2)
 * Shondhi Singhal, I am a 4th year student at DA-IICT, Gandhinagar, India . I have worked on two live web development projects till now. I have a thorough knowledge of PHP,HTML, CSS, JavaScript. My current project involves working on Dspace and Jhoomla platform. I also have an experience of C and C++. I would like to contribute to Wikipedia and reach out to its millions of users. If possible, I would like to start contributing right away. Looking forward to your response. Email address: shondhi.singhal@gmail.com
 * Harsh Choudhary, 2nd year student from NIT Kurukshetra, India and knows php, HTML, CSS, Javascript, MySQL, C, C++ and Java.--Shry.harsh (talk) 17:40, 18 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Hitesh Goyal, sophomore of NIT Kurukshetra, India. I know php, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, MySQL, C, C++ and basics of Qt.
 * Nasir Khan, final year student form United Internaional University, Dhaka, Bangladesh. experienced in frontend and backend web application development. involved with Wikipedia as well as some other opensource projects. -- Nasir Khan Saikat •  talk  • 09:44, 21 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Erick Frank, freshman at Donghua University. I have an experience of C/C++, Python, Qt. And a wikipedian since 2008. I wants to do some work to have the page load by AJAX. Visual Editor plugins would be great too. --Fantasticfears (talk) 15:13, 25 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Ishitva Goel, third year undergraduate student studying Computer Science and Engineering at G.B Pant Engineering College ,New Delhi . I have interest in programming in PHP ,MySql ,JS, HTML , C , C++ and Core Java . I have made a college project using PHP and MySQL the code and presentation of which can be accessed at my GitHub repository https://github.com/ishitvagoel/InternshipWork --Ishitva (talk) 16:05, 27 March 2013 (UTC) 15:43 , 27 March (UTC)
 * Sumudu Rangani, Third year undergraduate student in Management Information System at NIBM, Sri Lanka. I am hoping to work as a contributor to the MediaWiki project. I have experience in web development, PHP, MySQL, java, jQuery, c#, javascript, C and Python. sumudurangani (talk)
 * Molly White, sophomore computer engineering student at Northeastern University and Wikipedian for six years (mainly on enwiki). I'm experienced in Python, C++, and C, with some HTML/CSS/JavaScript. I'm interested in working on exporting pages to different document formats, Wikisource enhancements, or Parsoid/VisualEditor improvements. I have a page with some ideas at User:GorillaWarfare/GSoC. – GorillaWarfare (talk) 17:20, 28 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Ruturaj Zadbuke, freshman Engineering student from BITS Pilani Goa Campus, India. I am comfortable with and have experience of C, C++, Javascript, HTML and Python, Java. I am interested primarily in the Entity Suggester part. --Rutu (talk) 20:01, 28 March 2013 (UTC)

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.
 * Yaron Koren
 * Lydia Pintscher (WMDE)