Coding The Summer Away! 👨💻🌞
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I have almost completed my second last week of coding in Google Summer of Code 🌞 under Wikimedia Foundation with my mentor Sage Ross. Reflecting back, it has been an amazing journey 🏂🏻️ with only good moments that I can remember of; how can everything be so perfect!! For me, this journey has been an exciting and amazing learning experience, even to the point that I would really appreciate the way I have:
- evolved my coding practices.
- regularly been trying to analyze what I am doing; thanks to all the PR reviews from my mentor, while coding I have started to critically think in depths what I am doing.
- started using industry standards in my very own projects, thanks to all the knowledge and depth that I keep learning along the way because of my amazing mentor!
This journey has technically been long, but to me it feels very short…I still remember the days I was a newcomer in the organization and was trying to make contributions…but time flies. I love Wikimedia Foundation!! 😄 😄
Now, coming to the contributions I have made in the previous 2 weeks, I have worked on the following:
- Making course article status update slightly more efficient and fully integrated it into the course update process rather than getting them updated via a separate daily worker.
- Adding a new feature to assign random peer reviews to all the students in a course on a click, to make it easy for instructors to be able to assign peer reviews.
- Fixing the issue of tracking categories not working in talk page categories and talk templates outside of English Wikipedia.
Also, I am happy to know that I and a co-intern are going to be featured in Wiki Education blogs by our mentor! My next blog will include a summary of all the work I have done in the internship period along with links to my PRs.
