I hadn't announced it yet just because I was swamped with other work, but yes, Google is holding GSoC 2012 and MediaWiki is applying to participate. More details at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Summer_of_Code_2012 If Brion, Tim, etc. are ok with it, I'll be organizational administrator again this year and run our application process. Which means I'll be seeking mentors this month and submitting our application by early March. I'll respond to Aashish inline. Hi Aashish! Welcome to MediaWiki! On 02/10/2012 12:54 PM, Aashish Mittal wrote: Thanks! That's a great start. I just threw that idea on there with basically no further details, because I have none. I suggest that you create a proposal. In Google Summer of Code, the student creates the proposal. (See http://en.flossmanuals.net/GSoCStudentGuide/ch008_writing-a-proposal/ for more tips.) Go ahead and investigate Sakai's needs, MediaWiki's needs, and educators' needs, and think of what kind of integration you think would be useful, and then write that spec. If you write it on a subpage of your mediawiki.org user page and then circulate that link on this mailing list and on our IRC channel (#mediawiki on Freenode) then you can get feedback before the application deadline. The people who know the most about that idea are Chad Horohoe, who was thinking of working on this -- Chad, do you have some abandoned code somewhere that Aashish could look at? -- and the Wikimania organizers, who are at #wikimania on Freenode and https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l . You have the chance to do product design here, Aashish! :-) I don't know anything more about those, Aashish, but you should probably talk to the people who filed those bugs. Maybe you should leave comments on those Bugzilla issues explaining your aims and asking useful questions. Good luck! -- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation

On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 8:01 AM, Platonides <Platonides(a)gmail.com> wrote: Sounds like the DumpHTML extension...

Aashish Mittal is working on a project proposal to facilitate "books" for Wikisource/Wikibooks: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Aashish.mittal/GSoC_Application Ashwini Kumar has this as one of several plans for a summer project: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Ashwini/GSOC_2012_Application Historically, sometimes we receive multiple proposals for very similar tasks for Google Summer of Code, but we only accept one (factors going into our decision will include which proposal is better, which student has participated more in the Wikimedia community, which student has better technical skills, and which student has better communication skills). Therefore, Ashwini and Aashish should either choose to strive to make their applications the best they can be, or one of them should choose a different topic. In this case, since Aashish is very interested in the books topic and Ashwini mentions it as one in a list, I suggest Ashwini should simply choose ONE of the 5 topics listed on Ashwini's application -- something other than the books topic. -- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation On 02/11/2012 05:18 PM, Aashish Mittal wrote: