[Labs-l] Get those small bugs fixed by new contributors: It's Google Code-In time!

Wed Nov 4 19:14:34 UTC 2015

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Cyberpower678
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> On Nov 4, 2015, at 14:13, TParis <tparis.wiki at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Can you give my labs account access to the xtools project again?  I’d like to take a stab at articleinfo.
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> From: Labs-l [mailto:labs-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Maximilian Doerr
> Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2015 9:08 AM
> To: Wikimedia Labs <labs-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
> Subject: Re: [Labs-l] Get those small bugs fixed by new contributors: It's Google Code-In time!
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> Artcleinfo is suffering from a huge bug that no one can find.  I spent 2 weeks looking at the code and couldn’t find it.  When I managed to get it working on my local installation I applied the fixes and it was still broken.  The code is too convoluted and stationary that it takes a lot of effort to simply get it working else where.  Thank you Hedonil.  As such I can no longer provide the time to maintain these tools as they are poorly documented and too time-consuming for me to fix, and have as such lost interest in their maintainence.
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> I’m sorry everyone.
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>> On Nov 4, 2015, at 13:09, TParis <tparis.wiki at gmail.com <mailto:tparis.wiki at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>> Someone should go through the current edition of X!'s tools and make a list. Could be a great help.   I hear articleinfo had been down for quite some time. 
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>> Sent via the Samsung Galaxy Note® 4, an AT&T 4G LTE smartphone
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>> -------- Original message --------
>> From: Andre Klapper <aklapper at wikimedia.org <mailto:aklapper at wikimedia.org>> 
>> Date: 11/04/2015 2:37 AM (GMT-10:00) 
>> To: labs-l at lists.wikimedia.org <mailto:labs-l at lists.wikimedia.org> 
>> Subject: [Labs-l] Get those small bugs fixed by new contributors: It's Google Code-In time! 
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>> Tool and Labs developers!
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>> * Do you have small, self-contained, "easy" bugs you'd love to get fixed?
>>   (Also see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Annoying_little_bugs <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Annoying_little_bugs> )
>> * Does the documentation of your tool need improvements?
>> * Do your old bugs welcome some testing?
>> * Does your user interface have some small design issues?
>> * Do you have some tasks that welcome some research?
>> 
>> Google Code-In (GCI) will take place again in Dec+Jan: a contest for
>> 13-17 year old students to provide small contributions to free software
>> projects. 
>> Wikimedia will apply again to take part in GCI. The more tasks we can
>> offer the likelier the changes Wikimedia will get accepted.
>> 
>> Unsure about quality of contributions and effort?
>> Read about tgr's post about Multimedia achievements in GCI 2014:
>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/multimedia/2015-January/001009.html <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/multimedia/2015-January/001009.html>
>> 
>> In short:
>> * Add the project "GCI2015" + a comment to Phabricator tasks you'd mentor.
>> * Tasks are welcome in five areas: Code; Outreach/Research; 
>>   Documentation/Training; Quality Assurance; User Interface.
>> * Make sure the task description provides pointers to help the student.
>> * Add yourself to the table of mentors on the wikipage.
>> * "Beginner tasks" (<30 min for an experienced contributor) also welcome.
>> * "Generic" tasks also welcome (e.g. "Fix two user interface messages from
>>   the "Blocked By" list in https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T40638 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T40638> ").
>> For all information, check 
>> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-in_2015#Mentors.27_corner <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-in_2015#Mentors.27_corner>
>> 
>> Can you imagine providing a helping hand to someone fixing tasks?
>> 
>> Please ask if you have questions!
>> 
>> Thank you!
>> andre
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>> Andre Klapper | Wikimedia Bugwrangler
>> http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/ <http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/>
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