@Pavithraes Just recalled that I agreed to work on this ;-)

Sharing here you the email we have sent to accepted participants of both GSoC/Outreachy in the past. All mentors are CC'd on these emails and for Outreachy we first wait for the organizers to send a message to an accepted candidate and then send a message on the same thread dropping Outreachy organizers. Additional TODO for this year would be to document the revised emails here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/Administrators/Announcements and https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreachy/Administrators/Announcements.

Update: Gadgets page on meta-wiki received some updates. It now has a section that lists gadgets that are most-used/popular on Wikimedia wikis. And, the Starter kit item on Gadgets has a link now to the statistics page and gadget writing tutorial on mediawiki.org: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Small_wiki_toolkits/Starter_kit#Gadgets.

@Pavithraes Thank you for creating and willing to work on this :) The points in the task look good to me. I will be happy to review as and when you make edits on the wiki pages.

@srodlund It is ready from our end :) You can start reviewing and schedule it for posting.

@bd808 Okay! I've requested admin access to the repository from @N3rsti

@Dvorapa Hi! I'm wondering where exactly the sysopnames references need to be removed. The three documentation venues that I'm looking at for this project are https://doc.wikimedia.org/pywikibot/master, https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Pywikibot, or in the code itself (downloaded from Gerrit) https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/admin/projects/pywikibot/core. I think this task might benefit from clear pointers for a newcomer to get started :)

@Dvorapa I've a couple of getting started questions related to this task. Should the code changes take place in the script file core/scripts/listpages.py in https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/admin/projects/pywikibot/core? Should the main() function be expanded to handle an additional argument related to custom text? Please share any other tips for getting started on this task.

@Dvorapa I'm wondering where should the doc changes related to this task take place? Do they need to be in the script file itself in core/scripts/data_ingestion.py in https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/admin/projects/pywikibot/core?

Shared the post that @Pavithraes and I worked on with @srodlund to help with review and publishing on Wikimedia Tech blog :)

Trying to recall..I don't think I have ever logged into superset or turnilo before. Anything else I can do to help reproduce the issue? :-/

Hi everyone! After checking with Google about the time requirements for the program, I learned that we would not be able to accept this proposal as part of GSoC as it does not meet the requirement of +30 hrs time commitment per week. Of course, @Quasipodo can work on the project outside GSoC.

That's a really great point that you have shared @RhinosF1 and thanks @He7d3r for linking that page; I had not seen that before :)

In T246181#6060442, @Aklapper wrote:

@srishakatux: Ah, so you do not plan to "recommend the top 20 most used gadgets" to small wikis, good, thanks. :)

@Aklapper Yes, it is about the potential approach to identify recommendations so that we can start somewhere ;-) The idea is that once we agree on a plan, we use that to build a list and then later gather feedback from interested folks to modify/expand it. From what I understand, with these recommendations we are targeting small wikis that don't use gadgets or templates at all or use them way too less. Does that make sense?

Two possible approaches to share far developing a list of recommended templates to be included in the "Templates" section of the Starter Kit:

• Recommend the top 50 most used templates on English Wikipedia from here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_reports/Templates_transcluded_on_the_most_pages. Remove the ones that are English Wikipedia specific.
• Recommend the top 50 most used templates across Wikimedia wikis: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Small_and_large_wikis. Sidenote: Probably, see how the tool https://tools.wmflabs.org/templatecount has been implemented.

@Aklapper I think not in the scope of this very task but the parent task, yes! But, maybe in the first phase we focus on the items already filed as subtasks.

Two possible approaches to share far developing a list of recommended gadgets to be included in the "Gadgets" section of the Starter Kit:

• Recommend the top 20 most used gadgets (including the ones enabled by default) on English Wikipedia from here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:GadgetUsage. Remove the ones that are English Wikipedia specific (e.g., formWizard).
• Recommend the top 20 most used gadgets across Wikimedia wikis: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Small_and_large_wikis OR Wikipedia wikis https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Gadgets/wikipedia.

Blurb shared in a few venues: https://twitter.com/mediawiki/status/1249786015889281024 (MediaWiki Twitter)

@Xqt Hi! As this task is tagged as good first task, it might be ideal if there could be some getting started steps added as well to this task's description. It is not clear to me how to begin and add wikihow family farm to pywikibot/families.

@Gopavasanth Hi! As this task is tagged with good first task, it might be ideal if you can add to the task description, what home.js component does, and how to go about splitting it. For the scope of this task, contributing to one new component might be reasonable that you can advise what that should be. Please update the task description accordingly. Thanks!

I am not able to log into https://superset.wikimedia.org/ anymore :( I believe I'm using the same credentials I use to log into Wikitech with username srishakatux.

@Pavithraes and I have sent emails to mentors of all projects listed here https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/2020#Project_ideas and are talking with a couple of others listed on projects proposed by students.

@Karma2902 Submitting a proposal on the Outreachy website is a mandatory requirement. Unfortunately, we will not be able to consider your proposal for review.

A couple statistics on proposals that we received for Outreachy:

@ema Hello! As this task is tagged as a good first task, I'm wondering if it can be made clear where exactly the code needs to be changed. Should it be here https://github.com/wikimedia/puppet/blob/production/modules/varnish/templates/vcl/wikimedia-frontend.vcl.erb#L837?

@Yaeluria I meant just submit the application in whatever format required on the Outreachy site!

@Jencwong Thanks for creating this proposal! I would like to remind you that the deadline for final submission is in ~24 hrs. Make sure you finish the bits and pieces of this proposal before the deadline here on Phabricator and also submit the application on the Outreachy site :)

@Yaeluria Hi! Your proposal looks great :) I don't see anything super important that is missing in the proposal. Only if you have time, maybe consider answering in your proposal: do you see any risks/concerns involved with implementing the planned features?

@shivanigangadharan Thanks for creating this proposal! I would like to remind you that the deadline for final submission is in ~24 hrs. Make sure you finish the bits and pieces of this proposal before the deadline here on Phabricator and also submit the application on the Outreachy site :)

@Raymond_Ndibe Thanks for making the changes, all sounds good to me. I've no further questions :)

@318anushka You are probably referring to the application form you will be submitting on the Outreachy site. There aren't any community-specific questions, and you can leave that field blank.

In T248964#6030168, @Quasipodo wrote:

Finally, I want to highlight that I could only commit part-time, given the current situation and my possible future situation in summer.

In light of COVID-19, the SWT workshop originally planned to take place in India in June will now be coordinated online. Planning ongoing with @KCVelaga and @Jayprakash12345.

(closing this task as we are done with documenting big announcements, don't need to keep this task open even if there are more coming)

@Raymond_Ndibe Hi! Your proposal looks great :) I don't see anything super important that is missing in the proposal. I have a couple of questions if you want to consider answering them in your proposal:

• How the planned features for WikiContrib will benefit Wikimedia projects, and what making this happen means to you?
• Do you see any risks/concerns involved with implementing the planned features?