Weekly reports for Task T161568 . Reports also posted on my MediaWiki page for Outreachy Round-14.

Week 1 Report (18th May, 2017): Community Bonding Period

I have begun the initial work on my bonding period objectives as mentioned in my Outreachy proposal. Here are a few things that I've made progress with:

• Joined the project's Slack channel and Wikimedia's Zulip channel for GSoC/Outreachy. Introduced myself on the WikimediaEd channel
• Started hanging out on the Outreachy IRC channel, set up my MediaWiki user page
• Updated local project setup
• Interacted on project Slack channel to set up meeting timings with mentors and fellow interns
• Picked an issue, which involves creating an auto-complete search component for Wikipedia articles. After some basic discussion with my project mentor regarding the same, I realised that even though the issue is unrelated to my problem statement, picking it was a good idea, as it helped me identify many learning areas:
  1. Getting proficient working with React.js
  2. Familiarising myself with the MediaWiki API
  3. Getting comfortable with the project front-end best practices.

• Started taking my knowledge of React and Redux to the next level, following a Udemy course and also began investigating the MediaWiki API
• Will be taking my learning forward, and discussing project-relevant issues with my mentor and begin working on them

Week 2 Report (25th May, 2017): Community Bonding Period

• Continued on my learning about project practices.
• Decided on weekly meeting timings and other collaboration details with project mentors.

Week 3 Report (1st June, 2017): Coding period begins

• Attended welcome call with both mentors, and other interns working on the project.
• Started related code investigation, and understanding the Editing flow.
• Attended daily check-in meetings.
• Asked questions and doubts about related code.

Week 4 Report (8th June, 2017)

• Investigated and learnt about Wikipedia templates and template editing as done in project.
• Requested and was granted permission for Wikpedia OAuth consumer.
• Discussions about auto editing process.
• Participated in PR review process.
• Daily check-ins.

Week 5 Report (15th June, 2017)

• Begun hands-on coding and making code changes.
• Created templates for P&E Dashboard.
• Made changes towards generalizing template usage in project.
• Investigated Sidekiq performance locally.
• PR Reviews.
• Daily check-ins.

Week 6 Report (22nd June, 2017)

• Discussion regarding template nomenclature.
• Discussing new design for WikiEdits class.
• Opened PR.
• Discussion on review changes and based design discussions.
• Local testing for PR changes.
• Outreachy/GSoC meet on #wikimedia-devrel.
• Daily check-ins.

Week 7 Report (29th June, 2017)

• Discussion over Sidekiq PR. PR merged.
• Template design finalized.
• Testing template edits.
• Writing tests for Edits classes.
• Daily check-ins.

Week 8 Report (6th July, 2017)

• Focus n writing good RSpecs.
• Prepare RSpec discussion content for check-in calls.
• Pair program on tests with Sage.
• Update PRs with all code changes.
• Complete code review with Sage.
• Daily check-ins.

Week 9 Report (13th July, 2017)

• Made all reveiw changes.
• Main PR got merged.
• Discussion emails with Portuguese Wikipedia volunteer.
• Preparing to test code changes after deployment.
• Started new issue related to deleting course timelines.
• Daily check-ins.

Week 10 Report (20th July, 2017)

• More reveiw changes.
• Code deployed.
• Ad-hoc bug fixing with mentor after post-deployment testing.
• Daily check-ins.

Week 11 Report (27th July, 2017)

• Made more template related changes.
• Added missing templates.
• Zeroed down plan with Portuguese Wikipedia volunteer.
• Started new issue related to user permissions.
• Daily check-ins.

Week 12 Report (3rd August, 2017)

• Investigation and doubt discussion for user permissions.
• Solving login problems with mentor.
• Checking for edits.
• Daily check-ins.

Week 13 Report (10th August, 2017)

• Discussions resume with Portuguese volunteer.
• Permissions issue discussion with Mentor.
• Permissions issue merged.
• Preparing for project going live.
• Daily check-ins.

Week 14 Report (17th August, 2017)

• Prepared documentation for new language wikis to be added, as well as about code changes.
• Project is live with active editing.
• Checking for edits and bugs.
• Busy with job hunt.

Week 15 Report (24th August, 2017)

• Busy with job hunt.
• Goodbye check-in with mentors.

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