User:Niharika (usurped)/MediawikiHomepageRedesign

Contact Information
Name: Niharika Kohli

Email: niharikakohli29@gmail.com, Available to chat on GTalk

IRC Handle: Niharika

Location: New Delhi, India

Typical Working Hours: GMT+5:30, free to work during the day for most of the days in the internship period. Typical working hours, 5PM to 1 AM.

Synopsis
This project deals with revamping the mediawiki.org homepage and giving it a new look and feel. There is a need to highlight and reflect newer projects undertaken by the community and the progress being made. The homepage of the Mediawiki.org has to be distinguished from the rest of the website.

Currently, the homepage is mostly text-based, with very little icons/visual content. It does not accurately reflect what Mediawiki is all about. This project aims to change that and bring the website homepage design at par to other open source websites.

Deliverables
- Shall be discussed with mentor---

About You
I am Niharika, a third year undergraduate from the Indira Gandhi Delhi Technical University of Delhi. I am majoring in Information Technology. My key areas of interest are algorithmic programming and web design. I am proficient in C, C++, Python and web technologies, HTML, CSS, JavaScript. I developed a web-application as part of a team in a summer workshop in my sophomore year. It can be accessed here: http://rk-labs.dyndns.org:8080/webDesign/home.html

Past Open Source Experience
I am new to open source and this will, hopefully, be my first project for an open source organization.