Google Summer of Code/2013

Students must apply before May 3 at 19:00 UTC. The sooner the better. Remember to use the template. Wikimedia has been accepted 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. Check also some real examples of good GSoC project proposals.

LADIES! Check out also the Free and Open Source Outreach Program for Women. We are running both programs in parallel.

Students interested
This is not the official registration for 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.

Confirmed candidates
Students have applied officially to GSoC:


 * Gaurav Chawla I am an undergraduate student at IIT Roorkee, India. I am a social, eager kind of student, who loves to keep things as simple as possible. I want to apply at Wikimedia this summer under Google Summer of Code 2013. And I have drafted a proposal on my user page. Kindly look into it. -Gaurav Chawla (talk)
 * 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)
 * 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)

Potential candidates
Students that are drafting a proposal but haven't applied yet to GSoC:


 * 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)
 * Anubhav Agarwal, 4th 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)
 * Pragun Bhutani, Hi, I am a final year computer science engineer studying at JIIT Noida. I like learning about web technologies, user interface/experience and design. I code in CSS, JavaScript and PHP. I'd love to work towards improving the VisualEditor or Mobilizing Wikidata and shall be in touch with the community regarding ideas. --Pragunbhutani (talk) 01:22, 30 March 2013 (UTC)

Interested
Students that have expressed their interest but (to the best of our knowledge) haven't selected any Wikimedia project yet.


 * 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)
 * 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 interested in An easy way to share wiki content on social media services and Allow smoother and easier Wikimedia Commons pictures discovery. 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 on "prototyping inline comments". --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)
 * 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.--Hit goyal (talk) 12:56, 20 March 2013 (UTC)
 * 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)
 * 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)
 * Ershad Kunnakkadan, a student and software developer from India. I've contributed to MediaWiki before. --Ershad (talk) 02:07, 29 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Pranjal Prabhash, Hi, I am a programming enthusiast from Birla Institute of Technology and Science Pilani (BITS Pilani), Pilani Campus. This could be my second term in GSoC after last year(GSoC 2012). I am a PHP lover and would like to work on a PHP project. With GSoC 2013, I expect to learn a lot, gain knowledge, find people with similar ideas, the list is endless. From the given "Featured project ideas", I am interested to work on "Section handling in Semantic Forms". --Pranjal710 (talk) 06:19, 29 March 2013 (UTC)
 * OlufemiLawal, a junior computer science student at Tianjin Polytechnic University, I am hoping to work on developing dynamic web pages using Java and Javascript, I'd also had experience working with languages like Mysql, C, ASP.NET. --User:Olufemi_Lawal


 * Yevheniy Vlasenko Hi, I am a student of Chernihiv State Technological University(Ukraine) studying Computer Science. I've already participated 2 times in GSoC (2011 - WikiMedia, 2012 - Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard) and I hope to be considered for this year too. I loved to work with MediaWiki mostly for 2 things. The first one is that it's community is great. It helped me a lot while I was preparing to GSoC 2011. Second one - I had to work with the project that helps people to get knowledge and information all over the world. I am particularly interested in working with Visual Editor ("VisualEditor plugins") as I consider it to be very interesting and useful project.


 * Bharat Kumar Jonnalagadda (talk) 23:37, 5 April 2013 (UTC) Software Developer, Translator and Student. I started contributing to Translate extension and would love to work on Internationalization projects. --Malkum (talk) 23:41, 5 April 2013 (UTC)


 * Sean I'm a novice programmer and I hope to contribute something to MediaWiki. -Sean (talk)


 * Kushal Khandelwal I'm a third year engineering undergraduate from BITS Pilani India. I would like to contribute to mediawiki. I am well versed with data mining and analysis. Also I do web development in HTML/CSS PHP Javascript . I mostly use Python for my work. I am interested in working for Wikidata or SASS/LESS implementation.Kushal Khandelwal (talk)


 * Joe Mathai I am an undergraduate student at Model Engineering College, India.I am comfortable with C/C++/java/PHP/HTML/css/Python/Javascript/Mysql.I am interested in working on the Automatic category redirects or Section handling in Semantic Forms. -Joe Mathai (talk)


 * Suyash Dixit, I am perusing my bachelors in engineering in Computer Science (3rd year) . I have a keen interest and  programming experience in PHP, HTML5,CSS,Jquery, Javascript and Java. I love to code and highly interested in working on projects. I have a lot of past experience in PHP, Javascript and Jquery. Thanks! http://suyashdixit.com " suyash.dixit@gmail.com " Suyash Dixit (talk)


 * Nazmul Chowdhury, I am a senior at Hunter-CUNY, NYC. I am proficient in Java, C++, PHP, JSP, HTML, CSS, SASS, JavaScript, jQuery, jQuery Mobile, and MySQL. I want to make a difference, what better place to start than Wikimedia? -Nazmul Chowdhury (talk)


 * Aayush Sharma, I'm 3rd Year B. Tech Student majoring in computer science. I have knowledge in C,C++,PHP,HTML,CSS and MySQL . I'm a fast learner and being a part of GSOC 2013 I am interested in working on CSS extension projects, API and Automation Testing . I will use this platform to learn and get involved with greater open source community . Lets create and innovate together . (talk)


 * Célestin Matte: first year of master of computer science and applied mathematics in Ensimag, France. I'm interested in many subject related to computer science, like security, system administration, web apps or scripting languages. I'd we glad to work on a perl project... And, of course, I would love to work for this wonderful project!


 * Gopi Ramena, 3rd year UG, Electrical Engineering, IIT Kanpur: Highly experienced in web development/database systems. Open to ideas. .--Gopi Ramena
 * Nithin Saji 3rd year undergraduate student pursuing,physics and computer science degrees from Bits Pilani. Good skills in web development ,both front end and back end using javascript,jquery and ruby,python,,php.Intrested in working on jquery.ime project which I think is simply wonderful.--Diadara536 (talk) 18:28, 18 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Maksimilijan Sarajlija,Lots of cool ideas and as php is the core of MediaWiki i should learn to write in it. If i don't succeed in time for the applications, i'll go for something with python (only one i can see is with the data dumps, oh well, why not)--Bananadine (talk) 21:57, 18 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Nisrina Luthfiyati, I'm a 3rd year undergrad student majoring in Computer Science at Universitas Indonesia. I have knowledge and experiences in web (php, html, javascript, css, SQL) and mobile development (Java, android). I'm mainly interested to work on the mobilize wikidata project or the entity suggester, looking forward to contribute to the community :) --Nisrina (talk)


 *  Marco Jacopo Ferrarotti, 2nd year M.Sc. in Physics of Complex Systems. I have a background in electronic engineering, I'm passionate in computer science and I'm looking for the possibility of being part of something that I've always admired. As a first choice I would like to work on the MediaWiki extension that I'm proposing here: ConceptualWiki; -MaJac89 (talk) 21:38, 21 April 2013 (UTC)


 *  Kiran Mathew Koshy, 2nd year undergraduate student in Electrical engineering, IIT Patna,India. Knows C/C++,Python,PHP,SQL,etc. Interested in incremental Data Dumps.

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.
 * Lydia Pintscher (WMDE)