Outreach programs/Messages to candidates

Boilerplate texts for participants in mentoring programs, to be sent as plain text in emails.

Candidate accepted
Congratulations! Your proposal has been accepted. You can find more details at

(URL of the program, for instance https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2014 )

In the next months you will become a dedicated Wikimedia contributor. Your mentors and our community will help you succeeding in your project; never hesitate asking questions.

We want to help you meet interesting people and learn what the best documentation and courses will not be able to teach you. Our goal is to make you feel at home, to help you become a long term contributor.

Here you have three basic steps to get up to speed: This is also a good moment to review our Lessons Learned, in order to avoid common mistakes at the beginning of a project:
 * 1) Establish a relationship with your mentors. You are members of the same team now.
 * 2) Agree with your mentors your minimum viable product, and publish a first contribution towards that goal.
 * 3) Start a routine of micro-reporting your progress on a weekly (or daily) basis, using simple sentences with links.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mentorship_programs/Lessons_learned

Thank you for your interest in contributing to Wikimedia!