@gpaumier Do you think this fits the bill for being a 3-month GSoC project?

In T91335#1085421, @NiharikaKohli wrote:

@gpaumier Do you think this fits the bill for being a 3-month GSoC project?

Not really. This is something I wrote with the Wikimedia-Hackathon-2015 or #Wikimania-hackathon-2015 in mind, meaning the bulk of it could be done in a few days, maybe a week at most.

Please confirm and promote this activity by assigning it to its owner, listing it or scheduling it at the Hackathon wiki page and by placing it in the right column at #Wikimania-Hackathon-2015. Thank you!

This is a message posted to all tasks under "Need Discussion" at Possible-Tech-Projects. Outreachy-Round-11 is around the corner. If you want to propose this task as a featured project idea, we need a clear plan with community support, and two mentors willing to support it.

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Hi @Tanmaysharma024. Thanks for your interest! Please see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreach_programs/Life_of_a_successful_project#Answering_your_questions for information on best audiences and successful questions, and https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_become_a_MediaWiki_hacker for how to get started. Thank you! :)

Hi! @Tanmaysharma024! Glad you're interested. If you've got any questions about Tech News as a newsletter rather than MediaWiki code, feel free to get in touch with me – send an email, set up a video meeting, whatever you prefer.

Before @Tanmaysharma024 digs too deep in this Possible-Tech-Projects , is this a good GSoC project idea, and are there mentors ready to support it?

In T91335#2120160, @Tanmaysharma024 wrote:

Hi, I'm new and I would like to contribute, can someone get me started?

Hi @Tanmaysharma024 thanks for your interest. This project currently does not have mentors and is not suitable for GSoC. You are encouraged to go through "Featured For GSoC/Outreachy" projects in Possible-Tech-Projects .

For general information on GSoC with Wikimedia, please read https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2016

Okay @Sumit @Qgil @Aklapper @Johan . I will look for more projects in wikimedia through GSOC . I really appreciate the work this foundation is doing for the benefit of the society and i hope to contribute in every way possible.Thanks a lot for your help guys.

I guess this has not moved forward? Given that T91338 and this are relatively small tasks, can we club the two to have an Outreachy-13 internship project? Thoughts?

@Johan, as the current editor-in-chief of TechNews, is this a project you are interested about? If so, let's try to push it forward. If not, then maybe it is better to resolve the task, or at least remove it from Possible-Tech-Projects .

@Sumit @Qgil This seems to be a great idea. We should push this project forward and I am really interested in doing this. As Sumit sir has already mentioned we can even club it with another task and make it a bigger task as a whole.

@Qgil Absolutely.

Hey all. I want to know that is this project going to have a mentor? I really wish to contribute, for it will help me in my GSoc 2017 application.

Hi @Tanmaysharma024, thank you for your interest in this project. First we are trying to find mentors for the next Outreachy round.

In T91335#2643676, @Tanmaysharma024 wrote:

Hey all. I want to know that is this project going to have a mentor? I really wish to contribute, for it will help me in my GSoc 2017 application.

@Tanmaysharma024 if you're planning for GSoC 2017, following https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_become_a_MediaWiki_hacker and solving easy bugs is the best way to start with. This task is currently being considered for Outreachy-13

@Johan do you think that this project can be put up for current round of Outreachy, GSoC internships? If yes, can you suggest possible mentors.

I'd love for it to be, if it's of relevant size. I'll see if I can find a mentor or two; anyone else reading this is free to suggest folks as well.

Adding Outreach-Programs-Projects and removing Possible-Tech-Projects as we are planning on killing that workboard soon!

In T91335#2627775, @Qgil wrote:

@Johan, as the current editor-in-chief of TechNews, is this a project you are interested about?

Let me rephrase this question. If we would have an intern to work full-time on a project related with #community-relation , would this be the project we would choose?

I'm happy to be convinced, but it looks like a nice to have to me, really. Currently we are checking Tech News metrics on a quarterly basis, it doesn't take much time to get them, and (being terribly honest) we are not doing much with these metrics.

I fear having one intern and two mentors working three months for a result that it will not have much impact, when that intern and those mentors could be working on another project instead.

The metrics this task is talking about (readability etc) is mainly something we don't track at all any longer, to be honest, because it was so time-consuming to do manually. The things I whip together in five minutes every quarter don't tell us the things we'd want to get from this. With that said, the answer is probably still no.

@Johan so the basic need is those two (readability, subscribers) pages? Could work on that. Maybe wouldn't automate it fully, but I think it would be better than current situation. Won't guarantee anything, though (real life and other wiki-tech-stuff).

CommRel-Internals is closing as a project board.

@Johan Is this idea still valid in 2022? If yes, let's keep on the board. If not, I'd consider removing the OPP tag.

I'd say it is. @Quiddity? @Trizek-WMF?

+1. Automated metrics would be nice.

Oh yes! It would be great to find ressource to get some metrics!