On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 6:48 PM, Andre Klapper <aklapper(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
Google Code-in 2015 has come to an end.
Thanks to our students for resolving 461 Wikimedia tasks. Thanks to our
35 mentors for being available, also on weekends & holidays. Thanks to
everybody on IRC for your friendliness, patience, and help provided to
new contributors.
I want to stress this thankfulness. Google Code-in is a program that allows
teenager newcomers to contribute to Wikimedia technical tasks, but it is
also a good barometer of our health as a free software project.
We have beaten a new mark, thanks to the loose yet efficient collaboration
of dozens of mentors and supportive community members. I take this as one
of our best accomplishments as a community.
Some more achievements, apart from those already mentioned in
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2015-December/084421.html
:
* The CommonsMetadata extension parses vcards in the src field
* The MediaWiki core API exposes "actual watchers" as in
"action=info"
* MediaWiki image thumbnails are interlaced whenever possible
* Kiwix is installable/moveable to the SD card, automatically opens
the virtual keyboard for "find in page", (re)starts with the last
open article
* imageinfo queries in MultimediaViewer are cached
* Twinkle's set of article maintenance tags was audited and its XFD
module has preview functionality
* The RandomRootPage extension got merged into MediaWiki core
* One can remove items from Gather collections
* A new MediaWiki maintenance script imports content from text files
* Pywikibot has action=mergehistory support implemented
* Huggle makes a tone when someone writes something
* Many i18n issues fixed and strings improved
* Namespace aliases added to MediaWiki's export dumps
* The Translate extension is compatible with PHP 7
The Grand Prize winners & finalists will be announced on February 8th.
Again congratulations everybody, and thanks for the hard work.
See you around on IRC, mailing lists, Gerrit, and Phabricator!
Cheers,
andre
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