Google Code-in

The Hashtags tool (https://hashtags.wmflabs.org/) tracks the usage of hashtags (e.g. #test) in edit summaries to projects like Wikipedia. It helps event organisers track edits made as part of a campaign or event, or using a particular editing tool. The source code can be found at https://github.com/samwalton9/hashtags.

The tool was recently rewritten and now has a solid base on which to develop additional features. One such requested feature is an endpoint for displaying search results in JSON format. The Wikimedia movement has many other tools that might be able to incorporate data from this tool, and displaying JSON results would make that easier.

Students should have some experience of Python, and Django experience is a plus but not required.

I can be contacted via email (swalton@wikimedia.org), IRC (samwalton9 on Freenode), or via the Google Code-in site. Questions or progress updates can also be posted on Phabricator (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T186708), and pull requests filed directly on Github.

You are expected to provide a Pull Request on Github.