Outreachy/Round 20

Wikimedia is applying as a mentoring organization for Outreachy Round 20.



Program timeline
(borrowed from https://www.outreachy.org/apply/project-selection/)

Recommended steps for accepted interns
Here are some recommended steps for accepted interns before the internship period kick-off:


 * Refine your project proposal with guidance from mentors.
 * Join Zulip to keep yourself up to date with the announcements related to the program and opportunities for participating in Wikimedia activities.
 * Write blog posts (first due by May 20, 2020) in a language you are most comfortable with and add it to the Bi-weekly Reports page.
 * Add your updates about non-coding tasks (e.g., writing a blog post, joining Zulip, etc.) in the Accepted projects' Updates section above.
 * Setup your MediaWiki user page, link it with your name in the accepted projects section above and keep it up to date with your project work and reports. (e.g., User:Martyav, User:Amrit_sreekumar)
 * Stay in touch with Wikimedia technical discussions by subscribing to the mailing list: wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org.
 * Read stories from across the Wikimedia movement on Wikimedia Foundation’s blog.
 * Watch previous videos on Wikimedia technical topics here.

Roles and responsibilities

 * Read information for participants
 * Read information for mentors

Ideas for projects
The following ideas were promoted during the application period.


 * 1) Add Cron Job Functionality to PAWS (A Wikimedia JupyterHub Project), mentored by Brooke Storm, Chico Venancio and Arturo Borrero Gonzalez
 * 2) Add leaderboard based on user's edits using Commons Android app, mentored by Vivek Maskara, Nicolas Raoul
 * 3) Enhancements to gdrive-to-commons uploader tool, mentored by Tony Thomas and Srishti Sethi
 * 4) Improve Wiki Education Dashboard javascript build pipeline and reduce bundle size, mentored by Sage Ross
 * 5) Improve Wiki Education Dashboard's error monitoring, mentored by Sage Ross
 * 6) Productionize API for Wikidata-based Topic Model, mentored by Isaac Johnson and Aaron Halfaker
 * 7) WikiContrib: Gather and analyze use contributions on wiki and Github, mentored by Rammanoj Potla, Srishti Sethi and Suchakra Sharma

Contact

 * Reach out for general questions on the #gsoc20-outreachy20 Zulip chat. Please be more specific than "Can you provide more information?" etc. :)
 * Ask a technical question in the support places.