Outreachy/Past projects

This page tries to keep up with the current status of all past Outreach Program for Women/Outreachy projects.

Round 9
Link to proposals page.

Wikipedia article translation metrics
"This project aims at building a model that would estimate whether a page is translated or not, using statistical analysis and machine learning tools."


 * Students: Neta Livneh and  Roxana Necula
 * Mentors: Amir Aharoni and  Joel Sahleen
 * Status:

Pywikibot compat to core migration
"The purpose of this project is to improve all the documentation including getting started guides and project documentation in Pywikibot."
 * Student: Priyanka
 * Mentors: Amir Sarabadani and John Vandenberg
 * Status:

Wikipedia Education Program need-finding research
"The task is to improve the function, usability and design of the course pages for both professors and students."
 * Student: Anke Nowottne
 * Mentors: Sage Ross and  Andrew Green
 * Status:

Collaborative spelling dictionary building tool
"The project aims at developing a collaborative dictionary which shall also have an additional feature of checking spellings of the words."
 * Student: Ankita Shukla
 * Mentors: Amir Aharoni and  Kartik Mistry
 * Status: Functional prototype as MediaWiki extension working. There are few pending quirks and issues and possibility to extend project further.
 * Download: https://github.com/ankitashukla/mediawiki-spelling-dictionary
 * Wrap-up Post: https://ankitashukla707.wordpress.com/2015/03/10/mediawiki-opw-an-overview-of-the-entire-journey-till-now/
 * Phabricator Project Evaluation Task: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T92243

Improving the Wikimedia Performance Portal
"This project will develop a dashboard of metrics that will allow users to, at-a-glance, understand the timing performance of Mediawiki and its ecosystem of services. It will provide a resource for system tuning, quick assessments of production readiness, and troubleshooting sources of performance problems."
 * Student: Christy Okpo
 * Mentors: Ori Livneh, Nikolas Everett
 * Status:

Extending PyWikiBot support to sites on IWM, a wiki engine and XML-RPC
"PyWikiBot currently supports only a few wiki projects. At the end of this project, the benefits of automation of tasks by PWB will be provided to all MediaWiki sites, non-MediaWiki wiki sites and non-wiki sites."
 * Student: Manpreet Kaur
 * Mentors:John Mark Vandenberg, Fabian Neundorf
 * Status: