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To potentially publish on blog.wikimedia.org **after Feb 02 19:00 UTC** when Grand Prize winners have been decided by Wikimedia and published by Google. I'm dropping this here, can also be moved to some wikipage or such. Just do it. Recommendations: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Blog/Guidelines ----- == Blogpost draft (feel free to edit): == <a href="https://www.google-melange.com/gci/homepage/google/gci2014">Google Code-in</a> is an annual contest for 13 and 17 year old students. They get introduced to contributions which make free and open source software (FOSS) development happen. For the second time in December 2014 and January 2015, Wikimedia was one of the 12 mentoring organizations which provided tasks that students could choose to work on. Students who complete tasks received a certificate and t-shirt from Google. TODO:EMBED-IMG: Progress chart: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_at_Google_Code-in_2014.png In those seven weeks, 48 students successfully completed 226 Wikimedia tasks, supported by 30 mentors from the community. Tasks are not only about dealing with code but also about documentation, research and testing. <ul> <li><a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Pywikibot">Pywikibot</a> handles batches of files to be uploaded, increased its test coverage, <a href="http://daviskr.com/blog/2015/01/10/code-in-with-wikimedia/">got several components ported</a>, and improved its ISBN validation with support for <a href="https://wikidata.org/">Wikidata</a> </li><li> <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Huggle">Huggle</a>, the application for dealing with vandalism, <a href="http://evanmcintire.com/wordpress/?p=11">offers updated documentation and improved internationalization </li><li> Kiwix, the Wikipedia offline reader for Android devices, TODO.... </li><li> * MultimediaViewer (Gergő/tgr?) * Wikidata (Lydia, aude?) * Citoid offers export in BibTeX format * VisualEditor Template Data (mvolz?) * https://www.google-melange.com/gci/dashboard/google/gci2014#all_org_tasks * The <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Phabricator/Help">Wikimedia Phabricator documentation</a> received many video screencasts, helping users to effectively use that tool * Several MediaWiki extensions do not use deprecated i18n functions anymore, Sec? </li><li> ...and many, many more. </li> </ul> <quote>It's been satisfying (and a little addictive too) to see your changes merged into a project used by millions</quote>, as <a href="http://bitshy.com/blog/?p=5">Unicodesnowman, one of the participating students, writes</a>. Check out <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_contribute">how you can contribute</a> and the <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Annoying_little_bugs">list of easy software bugs</a> to start with. Thank you and congratulations to all the students who became part of Wikimedia and joined and supported its mission to freely share knowledge. Special congratulations to Wikimedia's two Grand Prize Winners XXXX YYYY and XXXX YYYY! TODO:EMBED-IMG: Photo of 2013 winners: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GCI2013_Group_Photo_-_Android_Building_44.jpg

To potentially publish on blog.wikimedia.org **after Feb 02 19:00 UTC** when Grand Prize winners have been decided by Wikimedia and published by Google. MUST place Grand Prize winner names here after that deadline and before publishing. I am dropping this blogpost draft here in Phabricator. Can also be moved to some wikipage or such. Just do it. Recommendations: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Blog/Guidelines ----- == Blogpost draft (feel free to edit): == <a href="https://www.google-melange.com/gci/homepage/google/gci2014">Google Code-in</a> is an annual contest for 13 and 17 year old students. They get introduced to contributions which make free and open source software (FOSS) development happen. For the second time in December 2014 and January 2015, Wikimedia was proud to be one of the 12 mentoring organizations which provided tasks that students could choose to work on. Thanks to Google organizing and hosting this contest, students who complete tasks receive a certificate and t-shirt. <img src="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_at_Google_Code-in_2014.png" /> In those seven weeks, 48 students successfully completed 226 Wikimedia tasks, supported by 30 mentors from the community. Tasks are not only about dealing with code but also about documentation, research and testing. The variety of achievements is huge: <ul> <li><a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Pywikibot">Pywikibot</a> handles batches of files to be uploaded, increased its test coverage, <a href="http://daviskr.com/blog/2015/01/10/code-in-with-wikimedia/">got several components ported</a>, and improved its ISBN validation with support for <a href="https://wikidata.org/">Wikidata</a> </li><li> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:TemplateData">Template Data</a> was added to more than a dozen of templates, improving the editing experience for <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor">VisualEditor</a> users </li><li> <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Huggle">Huggle</a>, the application for dealing with vandalism, <a href="http://evanmcintire.com/wordpress/?p=11">offers updated documentation and improved internationalization</a> </li><li> <a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/qIE022.XruMG/#R">18 software bugs in MediaWiki's MultimediaViewer extension</a> were fixed or worked on </li><li> Kiwix, the Wikipedia offline reader for Android devices, offers a "Read Aloud" function providing text-to-speech output </li><li> <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Citoid">Citoid</a>, an application to retrieve certain information, offers exporting in BibTeX format </li><li> Several <a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/dsH3O7Q4yiJY/#R">JQuery related bugs were fixed or worked on</a> </li><li> Several MediaWiki extensions do not use deprecated internationalization functions anymore in their code </li><li> <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/WikiReleaseTeam/Google_Code-in_2014">Dozens of inactive MediaWiki websites were researched, new 3rd party MediaWiki installations were identified</a> </li><li> The <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Phabricator/Help">Wikimedia Phabricator documentation</a> offers video screencasts, helping users to effectively use Phabricator </li><li> …and many, many more. </li> </ul> <quote>It's been satisfying (and a little addictive too) to see your changes merged into a project used by millions</quote>, as <a href="http://bitshy.com/blog/?p=5">Unicodesnowman, one of the participating students, writes</a>. Check out <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_contribute">how you can contribute</a> and the <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Annoying_little_bugs">list of easy software bugs</a> to start with. Thank you and congratulations to all the students who became part of Wikimedia and joined and supported its mission to freely share knowledge. Special congratulations to Wikimedia's two Grand Prize Winners TODO:XXXX YYYY and TODO:XXXX YYYY! <img src="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GCI2013_Group_Photo_-_Android_Building_44.jpg" /> (Photo of the Google Code-in 2013 winners)

To potentially publish on blog.wikimedia.org **after Feb 02 19:00 UTC** when Grand Prize winners have been decided by Wikimedia and published by Google. I'm dropping this here,MUST place Grand Prize winner names here after that deadline and before publishing. I am dropping this blogpost draft here in Phabricator. canCan also be moved to some wikipage or such. Just do it. Recommendations: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Blog/Guidelines ----- == Blogpost draft (feel free to edit): == <a href="https://www.google-melange.com/gci/homepage/google/gci2014">Google Code-in</a> is an annual contest for 13 and 17 year old students. They get introduced to contributions which make free and open source software (FOSS) development happen. For the second time in December 2014 and January 2015, Wikimedia was proud to be one of the 12 mentoring organizations which provided tasks that students could choose to work on. Thanks to Google organizing and hosting this contest, Sstudents who complete tasks received a certificate and t-shirt from Google. TODO:EMBED-IMG: Progress chart: <img src="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_at_Google_Code-in_2014.png" /> In those seven weeks, 48 students successfully completed 226 Wikimedia tasks, supported by 30 mentors from the community. Tasks are not only about dealing with code but also about documentation, research and testing. The variety of achievements is huge: <ul> <li><a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Pywikibot">Pywikibot</a> handles batches of files to be uploaded, increased its test coverage, <a href="http://daviskr.com/blog/2015/01/10/code-in-with-wikimedia/">got several components ported</a>, and improved its ISBN validation with support for <a href="https://wikidata.org/">Wikidata</a> </li><li> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:TemplateData">Template Data</a> was added to more than a dozen of templates, improving the editing experience for <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor">VisualEditor</a> users </li><li> <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Huggle">Huggle</a>, the application for dealing with vandalism, <a href="http://evanmcintire.com/wordpress/?p=11">offers updated documentation and improved internationalization</a> </li><li> <a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/qIE022.XruMG/#R">18 software bugs in MediaWiki's MultimediaViewer extension</a> were fixed or worked on </li><li> Kiwix, the Wikipedia offline reader for Android devices, TODO....offers a "Read Aloud" function providing text-to-speech output </li><li> * MultimediaViewer (Gergő/tgr?)<a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Citoid">Citoid</a>, an application to retrieve certain information, offers exporting in BibTeX format * Wikidata (Lydia, aude?)</li><li> * Citoid offers export in BibTeX formatSeveral <a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/dsH3O7Q4yiJY/#R">JQuery related bugs were fixed or worked on</a> * VisualEditor Template Data (mvolz?)</li><li> * https://www.google-melange.com/gci/dashboard/google/gci2014#all_org_tasksSeveral MediaWiki extensions do not use deprecated internationalization functions anymore in their code * The <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Phabricator/Help">Wikimedia Phabricator documentation</a> received many video screencasts, helping users to effectively use that tool</li><li> * Several MediaWiki extensions do not use deprecated i18n functions anymore<a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/WikiReleaseTeam/Google_Code-in_2014">Dozens of inactive MediaWiki websites were researched, Sec?new 3rd party MediaWiki installations were identified</a> </li><li> ...The <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Phabricator/Help">Wikimedia Phabricator documentation</a> offers video screencasts, helping users to effectively use Phabricator </li><li> …and many, many more. </li> </ul> <quote>It's been satisfying (and a little addictive too) to see your changes merged into a project used by millions</quote>, as <a href="http://bitshy.com/blog/?p=5">Unicodesnowman, one of the participating students, writes</a>. Check out <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_contribute">how you can contribute</a> and the <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Annoying_little_bugs">list of easy software bugs</a> to start with. Thank you and congratulations to all the students who became part of Wikimedia and joined and supported its mission to freely share knowledge. Special congratulations to Wikimedia's two Grand Prize Winners TODO:XXXX YYYY and TODO:XXXX YYYY! TODO:EMBED-IMG: Photo of 2013 winners: <img src="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GCI2013_Group_Photo_-_Android_Building_44.jpg" /> (Photo of the Google Code-in 2013 winners)