Episode 16: Nikhil Kumar and Yashdeep Thorat

Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast - A podcast by Yaron Koren

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🕑 26 minutes Nikhil Kumar and Yashdeep Thorat are the two students I mentored during the recently-concluded Google Summer of Code 2018. Nikhil (left) is a student at IIT Guwahati in Guwahati, Assam, India. He worked on a project to improve the interface and functionality of the Special:Drilldown page in the Cargo MediaWiki extension. Yashdeep (right) is a student at BITS Pilani in Hyderabad, Telangana, India. He worked on a project to add a new special page, Special:MultiPageEdit (which lets users edit multiple pages via a spreadsheet-like interface), to the Page Forms MediaWiki extension. Links for some of the topics discussed: Google Summer of Code Wikipedia article Google Summer of Code past projects listing for the Wikimedia Foundation IIT Guwahati Wikipedia article BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus Wikipedia article Nikhil Kumar's final report for GSoC Yashdeep Thorat's final report for GSoC