Google Summer of Code/2024

Wikimedia will be taking part as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2024.

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Program timeline

Google Summer of Code 2024's timeline
	Date	Action by	Item
Prep	February 6, 18:00 UTC	WMF	Mentoring organization application deadline
Prep	February 21, 18:00 UTC	Google Inc.	List of accepted mentoring organizations published
Application	March 18, 18:00 UTC	Applicants	GSoC projects application period begins, two mentors required.
	April 2, 18:00 UTC	Applicants	GSoC projects application deadline
	May 1, 18:00 UTC	Google Inc.	GSoC projects being accepted are announced
	May 1 - 26	Contributors	GSoC contributors get to know mentors, read documentation, get up to speed to begin working on their projects
Internships	May 27 – August 26	Contributors	Coding period – first half
	July 8 – 12	Contributors & Mentors	Midterm Evaluation period
	August 19 – 26	Contributors	Final Report Submission period
	August 26 – September 2	Mentors	Final Evaluation period for all 12 week projects
	September 3	Google Inc.	Initial results of Google Summer of Code 2024 announced
Extension	September 3 – November 4	Contributors	GSoC contributors with extended timelines continue coding
	October 28 – November 1	Contributors	Final Evaluation period for 22 week projects
	November 11	Mentors	Final date for mentors to submit evaluations for GSoC contributor projects with extended deadlines
	November 14	Google Inc.	All projects completed: end of 2024 program
Legend: 1) Applicants = Wikimedia mentors and/or GSoC contributors ; 2) Contributors = interns, junior developers. 3) Green background : ongoing phase.

Gallery

Outreachy and GSoC Welcome Session (online) - June 5, 2024
Final group picture of our Outreachy Round 28 interns and Google Summer of Code (GSoC) contributors 2024, August 2024

Accepted projects


Intern Name (+ Pronouns)	Location	Project	Mentor(s)	Weekly Updates	Blogs
Angel Sharma	Mathura, India	Improve searchability and filtering of PageTriage feed Project Timeline: 22 weeks	Sohom Datta Sammy Tarling	Week 1 Week 2 Weeks 3 & 4 Weeks 5 & 6 Weeks 7 & 8 Weeks 9 & 10 Weeks 11 - 14 Weeks 15 - 16 Weeks 17 - 18	Mid-term report Final report
Marcel Mehl	Germany	Scribe-iOS: Add multilingual translation and internationalized interfaces Project Timeline: 12 weeks	Andrew McAllister Henrik Thomasson Will Yoshida	Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Weeks 5-7 Week 8 Week 9 Week 10 Week 11 Week 12 Week 13	Initial Report Midterm Report Final Report
Jayanth Vikash Saminathan	Tamil Nadu, India	Improve InlineComments extension Project Timeline: 12 weeks	Yaron Koren Brian Wolff	Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Week 5 Week 6 Week 7 Week 8 Week 9 Week 10 Week 11	Initial report Mid-term report Final report
Kabir Singh	Delhi, India	Lingua Libre SignIt extension Project Timeline: 12 weeks	IshanSaini Hugo Lopez	Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Week 5 Week 6 Final Update	Initial Report Midterm Report Final Report
Kanahia Kaushal	Patna, Bihar, India	Commons app: Improve upload queue management Project Timeline: 12 weeks	Nicolas Raoul Ritika Pahwa	Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Week 5 Week 6 & 7 Week 8 Week 9 & 10 Final update	Initial Report Midterm Report Final Report
Mahfuza Humayra Mohona	Bangladesh	Scribe-Data: Refactor into a Multi-Purpose Wikidata Language Pack CLI Tool Project Timeline: 12 weeks	Andrew McAllister Henrik Thomasson Will Yoshida	Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Week 5 Week 6 Week 7 Week 8 Week 9 Week 10 Week 11 Week 12	Blog #1 Mid-term report Final report
Om Chauhan	India	Improve the training module creation and update process [Programs & Events Dashboard Project Timeline: 12 weeks	Shashwat Khanna Sage Ross	Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Week 5 Week 6 Week7 Week 8 Week 9 Week 10	Final report
Pranjal Rajput	India	Programs & Events Dashboard Improve system for copying courses from one Dashboard to another Project Timeline: 12 weeks	Shashwat Khanna Sage Ross	Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Week 5 Week 6 Week 7 Week 8 Week 9 Week 10 Week 11 Week 12	Final Report
Pushkar Bansal	India	Lingua Libre v3.0 enhancement and migration Project Timeline: 12 weeks	Hugo Lopez Florian Cuny	Week 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 (see bottom of task description)	Mid-term report Final report

Ideas for projects

Watch this space for project ideas! We will keep adding ideas below between now and when the application period opens.

1. Commons app: Improve upload queue management

The Commons app is an open source Android app that allows anyone to upload pictures to Wikimedia Commons (the image repository used by Wikipedia, Wikinews and other projects). The goal of this GSoC is to improve upload queue management, and modernize the app:

Improve upload queue management
Modernize the app by replacing Kotlin Android Extensions and Butterknife with ViewBinding: https://github.com/commons-app/apps-android-commons/issues/4664
Improve the "Nearby" feature.

Tech stack: Java or Kotlin, Android Development
Size: 350 Hours
Difficulty: Intermediate
Mentor(s): Nicolas Raoul, Ritika Pahwa
Phabricator task: T356237

2. [Programs & Events Dashboard] Improve the training module creation and update process

The training modules on Programs & Events Dashboard - https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/training - can be created, edited and translated by users. Each piece of training content is based on a corresponding page on meta.wikimedia.org.

However, creating new modules is tedious, involving the creation of .json pages to define a new Library or Module, and a set of required formatting conventions for individual training slides. It would be nice to switch to a simpler and more user-friendly way of creating and editing training content, perhaps by removing the need for .json pages and allows the configuration of Libraries and Modules to be done from the Dashboard itself.

Tech stack: Ruby (required), JavaScript and React (helpful)
Size: Large (350 hours)
Difficulty: Hard (This project involves one of the more complex subsystems of the Dashboard, in which the Dashboard database gets data drawn from a set of structured wiki pages (currently), and some of that system will need to be rewritten to be updated via a UI within the Dashboard.)
Mentor(s): Sage Ross
Phabricator task: T356572

3. Improve InlineComments extension

This project idea has quite a few strong proposals from folks so you may want to look at another project idea.

InlineComments is a relatively new MediaWiki extension that provides a long-missing feature for MediaWiki: the ability to do inline annotation on pages, in the manner of Google Docs, Confluence and other content-management systems. This extension already works fairly well, but it could use some improvements that would take it to the next level:

Add user mentions, i.e. selecting a user or users to "ping" about the current discussion by typing "@" and then selecting a username from the dropdown (phab:T355942)
Make sidebar creation more skin-neutral - currently, the "sidebar" in which comments are displayed is created on somewhat of a skin-by-skin basis; it would be good to have the code handle all skins in a standard way, via CSS and/or JavaScript (phab:T355948)
Add correct display of username and date/time of posting, on comment creation - currently, these are only displayed correctly for comments created before the page was loaded (phab:T355943)

There are other improvements that could be made to the extension, although mostly they are smaller; one is even listed as a microtask. However, it is possible that more potential improvements could be suggested during the project, by either the mentors or the student.

Tech stack: JavaScript (ideally including jQuery), PHP, CSS
Size: 175 hours
Difficulty: Intermediate
Mentor(s): Yaron Koren, Brian Wolff
Phabricator task: T356436

4. [Programs & Events Dashboard] Improve system for copying courses from one Dashboard to another

There are two production instances of the WikiEduDashboard software: Programs & Events Dashboard (https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/) and Wiki Education Dashboard (https://dashboard.wikiedu.org/). The system includes a tool to copy a course page from one Dashboard to the other, but the copied content is incomplete. If a course with Timeline content is copied, the Timeline content is not included, making it difficult to re-use assignment plans from Wiki Education Dashboard on Programs & Events Dashboard. In this project, you will improve the course copying feature so that useful Timelines and other content can more easily be transferred across servers.

Tech stack: JavaScript & React, Ruby
Size: 350 hours
Difficulty: Intermediate (This is a moderately complex feature with frontend and backend components, but it touches a limited and well-defined portion of the codebase with code that is all in our control.)
Mentor(s): Sage Ross
Phabricator task: T356573

5. Improve searchability and filtering of PageTriage feed

PageTriage is an MediaWiki extension that allows patrollers on the English Wikipedia to track, categorize and deal with problematic new pages. One of it's features is the VueJS based New pages feed which allows patrollers to filter specific interesting pages they might want to patrol based on certain criteria. However, these filters are often limited and there has been some interest amongst the community to introduce newer filters and in general improve the ability to search for specific content on the New pages feed.

As part of this project, we would like to enhance the filtering and searching capabilities of the New pages feed. Particularly, we would like to add AI based topic prediction (leveraging the ORES API), the ability to search for a specific keyword in a article, filter by how many pageviews a article gets and be able to search by how similar a particular page is to other deleted pages. While other ideas are also welcomed, they might need to be reviewed by community members before being implemented.

Tech stack: VueJS, some familiarity with PHP
Size: 350 hours
Difficulty: Intermediate
Mentor(s): Sohom Datta, Sammy
Phabricator task: T357337

6. Scribe-Data: Refactor into a multi purpose Wikidata language pack CLI tool

This is one of two projects for Google Summer of Code 2024 for the Scribe organization that makes keyboard applications for second language learners using Wikidata and other Wikimedia projects as a basis for the data. The goal of Scribe is to provide everything that a user needs to help them with their second language in any app without them needing to leave their keyboard to look up grammar or other needed information. One focuses on Scribe-iOS (phab:T358063), and the other on Scribe-Data (phab:T358064).

We are a Wikimedia Project for New Developers and would love to work with you!

Tech stack: Python, SPARQL query language, maybe Docker
Prerequisites: prior experience with Python and data analytics is a plus
Size: 350 hours
Difficulty: Intermediate
Mentor(s): Will Yoshida (Primary), Andrew McAllister (Secondary), Henrik Thomasson (Tertiary)
Phabricator task: T358064

7. Scribe-iOS: Add multilingual translation and internationalized interfaces

This is one of two projects for Google Summer of Code 2024 for the Scribe organization that makes keyboard applications for second language learners using Wikidata and other Wikimedia projects as a basis for the data. The goal of Scribe is to provide everything that a user needs to help them with their second language in any app without them needing to leave their keyboard to look up grammar or other needed information. One focuses on Scribe-iOS (phab:T358063), and the other on Scribe-Data (phab:T358064).

We are a Wikimedia Project for New Developers and would love to work with you!

Tech stack: Swift, maybe Python, maybe SPARQL query language
Prerequisites: the intern needs to develop on Mac as they need access to Xcode, prior Swift experience is a plus
Size: 350 hours
Difficulty: Intermediate
Mentor(s): Andrew McAllister (Primary), Henrik Thomasson (Secondary), Will Yoshida (Tertiary)
Phabricator task: T358063

8. Lingua Libre SignIt

Lingua Libre's mission has been extended to Sign Languages in 2019. Both a click-and-translate Firefox extension and a video recording studio have been developed. Both system UI exist in 35+ languages allowing the global documentation and learning of various sign languages. As Manisfest v2.0 extensions are being phased out, the project is under threat. A full revamp into manifest v3.0 and a modern extension structure would allow the project to be compatible with all web navigators. This project must navigate updated in browser web extension security constrains and new web extension API.

Tech stack: JS, NodeJS, potentially modern frameworks (Vue, React, Svelte)
Size: 175 hours
Difficulty: Intermediate
Mentor(s): Yug, Ishan Saini
Intern: Kabir Singh T361550
Phabricator task: T359799
Relevant links: Repository, Issues, Lingua Libre SignIt, Firefox extension

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9. Lingua Libre Django migration

In the field of Language diversity, Wikimedia Foundation and Wikimedia France have supported LinguaLibre.org, a single page VueJS application to rapidly record vocabularies of the world. Over 240 languages and 1.2 millions words have been audio recorded into Wikimedia sites through this open project. Current back end (wikibase, PHP, blazegraph) while interesting have shown limitations, mostly limited query speed, no API, stack opacity and duplication of data. A revamp have been engaged (here) but requires further full stack work to be migrated into a maintainable code base, upgraded into an elegant service and pushed into production for willful native speakers.

Tech stack: VueJS, Django (Python), NodeJS
Size: 350 hours
Difficulty: Intermediate
Mentor(s): Yug, Poslovitch
Intern: Pushkar Bansal T361440
Phabricator task: T359797
Relevant links: Repository (demo), Phabricator dashboard, Lingua Libre, closed tasks.

Not accepted project

Wikimedia Portals codebase modernization

Help modernize the code that generates www.wikipedia.org. This codebase was originally written in 2015 and now many of it's NPM dependencies have become outdated. This project will involve cleaning up, refactoring, adding tests and removing unnecessary dependencies for one of the most viewed pages on the internet. Tech stack: JS, Node.js, Gulp.js, Jest.js Size: 150 hours Difficulty: Easy to intermediate Mentor(s): Jan Drewniak (WMF), Bernard Wang (WMF) Phabricator task: T358885 Relevant links: Wikimedia Portals workboard, Repository

Recommended steps for accepted candidates

See Google_Summer_of_Code/Participants#Accepted_participants

Contact

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