Outreachy/Round 14

About
Wikimedia is participating as a mentoring organization for Outreachy. Outreachy is a progam that connects people from groups underrepresented in free and open source software in a three-month, full-time internship and runs two editions every year.

Learn more about our motivation and goals to run this program: FLOSS internships programs as catalysts for richer community collaboration.

This year's program will run May - August 2017. To learn about the full program timeline, visit the official website. Official coding period starts on May 30th.

All major projects of Wikimedia are developed with help from contributors from all around the world using MediaWiki. MediaWiki is the software that powers Wikipedia, its sister projects and thousands of wikis all over the world. MediaWiki runs on most operating systems, is written in PHP, primarily uses the MySQL and MariaDB database servers and uses jQuery as the client JavaScript library. Besides software development, there are various ways through which one could contribute to our community: Design, Documentation, Translation, Testing, etc. Learn more here

Interested in applying next year?
Read the recommended steps listed below if you are considering to apply to the program next year:
 * 1) Read the Outreachy websiteand develop your understanding of the various stages of the program.
 * 2) In the context of an outreach program with Wikimedia, learn how to have a successful project here.
 * 3) Get a brief overview of projects available under Project Ideas section on this page. Choose a project that you really like and best fits your skill set. Express your interest in working on the project by commenting on the corresponding task on Phabricator. Post in the task comments, ask intelligent and explicit questions ("Could you tell me more about this?" is a bad example), do your research thoroughly, don't expect spoon-feeding. That's the recipe for a perfect intern!
 * 4) If you are going to work on a coding-related project, learn basic skills required for contributing to the MediaWiki development.
 * 5) Read some really good proposals that were accepted for the previous round:
 * 6) * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T148287
 * 7) * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T147727
 * 8) * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T148074
 * 9) Submit your proposal on Wikimedia's Phabricator by following the guidelines here. Keep in mind that the program expects its applicants to fill out answers to all questions in its application template in their proposal. Also, upload a copy of your proposal on the Outreachy's application system including a link to your public proposal in Wikmedia Phabricator.
 * 10) If you would like to work on your own project idea, communicate with relevant developers first.

Contact

 * IRC Channel #wikimedia-devrel
 * Ping organization administrators Srishti Sethi or Sumit Asthana
 * Mailing list wikitech-l@undefinedlists.wikimedia.org