Outreachy/Round 15

Wikimedia is participating as a mentoring organization for Outreachy's Round 15.

Program timeline

 * September 7 - application period opens
 * October 23 - contributions and applications are due
 * November 9 - interns announced
 * December 5, 2017 to March 5, 2018 - internship period

Ideas for projects
More ideas will be added below soon!

Translation outreach for user guides on MediaWiki.org
The Wikimedia movement has a lot of technical user guides and other technical documentation in English, relevant for users of all languages, hosted on MediaWiki.org. This is usually translatable and rarely translated, at least not into more than a few languages, leaving many Wikimedians without documentation of their software in languages they can comfortably read. The road to becoming a translator are difficult to find, and it's difficult to get engaged in the movement as a translator rather than as a an editor who sooner or later ends up helping out with translation. Some of the tasks as part of this project would be to: Identify places and communities where it'd make sense to reach out to potential translators, identify ways to do it, test them and make sure someone else can continue the work.

Skills required Localization of technical documentation

More details https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T158296

Mentor(s) Johan Jönsson, Benoît Evellin

Contact
Reach out for questions on the Freenode IRC channel  or send an email to the organization administrator Srishti Sethi at ssethi@wikimedia.org