Outreachy/Round 22

Wikimedia will be taking part as a mentoring organization for Outreachy Round 22. Read information for participants  Read information for mentors



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 (more info) 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 31st, 2021) 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:Gopavasanth, User:Amrit_sreekumar)
 * Stay in touch with Wikimedia technical discussions by subscribing to the wikitech-l mailing list.
 * Read stories from across the Wikimedia movement on Wikimedia Foundation’s blog.
 * Read stories on Wikimedia technical blog about the technology and software behind running Wikipedia and its sister projects.
 * Watch previous videos on Wikimedia technical topics here.

Ideas for projects

 * 1) Build a tool for analyzing and visualizing reader navigation on wikipedia mentored by Isaac Johnson and Martin Gerlach
 * 2) Create notebook based tutorials that help users access and work with data on Wikimedia projects mentored by Isaac Johnson and Sarah R.
 * 3) Synchronising Wikidata and Wikipedias using pywikibot mentored by Mike Peel

Contact

 * Reach out for general questions on the gsoc21-outreachy22 Zulip chat (preferred), after reading Outreach programs/Zulip.
 * Organization administrators for this round are: Pavithra Eswaramoorthy, Gopa Vasanth, Srishti Sethi and Ankit Maity.
 * Ask a technical question in the support places.