Google Summer of Code/Administrators/Organization Application

Wikimedia mentoring organization application for Google Summer of Code 2019:

Public profile

 * 1) Name - Wikimedia Foundation
 * 2) Website URL - http://wikimediafoundation.org/
 * 3) Tagline - Global movement whose mission is to bring free educational content to the world
 * 4) Logo - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Brand
 * 5) Primary Open Source License - GPL 2.0
 * 6) Organization Category - Web
 * 7) Technology Tags - PHP, Javascript, HTML, CSS, Python
 * 8) Topic Tags - Wikipedia, Wikimedia, MediaWiki, Semantic Web, i18n
 * 9) Ideas List - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/2019

Descriptions

 * 1) Short Description - Wikimedia is a global movement whose mission is to bring free educational content to the world through its various projects, local chapters, and support structures.
 * 2) Long Description - Wikimedia envisions a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. It spans various projects, local chapters and support structures of the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. There are 13 projects that Wikimedia officially supports including Wikipedia, a fifth most popular site on the internet and a well known free knowledge project in the world. Wikipedia is used by more than 400 million people every month in over 300 languages. Some of Wikipedia's sister projects are Wikimedia Commons, Wikidata, MediaWiki, Wikivoyage, etc. All major projects of Wikimedia are collaboratively developed by users around the world using the MediaWiki software. There is much more to do that you can help Wikimedia achieve: stabilize infrastructure, increase participation, improve quality, increase reach and foster innovation. Read more about Wikimedia on our homepage.

Proposals

 * 1) Application Instructions - See Step 9 here.
 * 2) Proposal Tags - google-summer-code (2019), outreach-programs-projects

Contact Methods

 * 1) Chat - https://wikimedia.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/180873-gsoc19-outreachy18
 * 2) Mailing list - https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
 * 3) General email - wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Links

 * 1) Twitter URL (optional) - https://twitter.com/Wikimedia
 * 2) Blog URL (optional) - https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/

Why does your org want to participate in Google Summer of Code?
Wikipedia is well known as an encyclopedia, but Wikimedia is less known as a free software project. Through outreach programs like GSoC, we attract new contributors. It is a great opportunity for us to get work done for projects that might be of less priority for our experienced developers. For university students, this is an opportunity to work on real-world projects, build a portfolio, and help land a job of their choice. A diverse pool of candidates that GSOC brings help support Wikimedia’s efforts in different communities. Our participation in GSoC also helps us understand new developers experiences and help make improvements to our contribution guidelines and processes around attracting and retaining developers. Our mentors gain good experience, karma, and have some fun! All this brings meaningful impact to our community.

How many potential mentors have agreed to mentor this year?
6-10

How will you keep mentors engaged with their students?
One of our requirements for a project to get featured in GSoC is to have two mentors, with at least one of them with prior experience. All our mentors use various communication mediums for weekly check-ins and project-related discussions with students. Org administrators host getting started meetings in the beginning, and stay in touch with students throughout the program via Zulip.

How will you help your students stay on schedule to complete their projects?
We promote continuing relationships of our students with mentors and the Wikimedia community. We encourage students and mentors to avoid working in isolation and push for all project management in Phabricator (a task management tool we use at Wikimedia). We also require bi-weekly reports that help organization administrators learn about student's progress.

How will you get your students involved in your community during GSoC?
We share with students some recommendations to get involved in our community, such as https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/2018#Community_bonding_period

How will you keep students involved with your community after GSoC?
We keep betting on establishing personal connections with and beyond the mentors. We invite former GSoC students to participate as mentors or administrators in the future rounds of Google Code-in and GSoC, encourage them to take part in our international community events such as the developer summit, hackathon, etc. and promote some of the success stories and blog posts around completed projects in our community.

Has your org been accepted as a mentoring org in Google Summer of Code before?
Yes

Which years did your org participate in GSoC?
2006-2018

For each year your organization has participated, provide the counts of successful and total students. (e.g. 2016: 3/4)
2018: 12/12

If your org has applied for GSoC before but not been accepted, select the years:
None

=== If you are a new organization to GSoC, is there a Google employee or previously participating organization who will vouch for you? If so, please enter their name, contact email, and relationship to your organization. (optional) === None

What year was your project started?
2001

Where does your source code live?
Most of our source code lives on Wikimedia Gerrit which is being mirrored to Github and also, some code repositories live on [https://github.com/wikimedia. Github] too.