WMDE Engineering/Mentoring

Personal Development

Six mentees work in the software development department at Wikimedia Germany at the moment. For us your personal development is paramount. We are helping you to identify your strengths and find your own project at Wikimedia.

We offer internships, working student contracts, dissertations for pupils and students. Each pupil and student gets a mentor who supports them with their personal development.

These are the following ways we support you:


 * Level I: mandatory and voluntary internships (3-6 months)
 * Level II: dissertation (6 months)
 * Level III: Working Student (1-2 years)

Additionally we support you and your project by offering you the possibility to go to hackathons and events to present your project.
 * Read about Andrew's Internship at Wikimedia


 * Listen to Marius on his Opinion to Mediawiki and Wikidata
 * Watch Jens Ohlig und Julia Schütze present the GameJam at Fosdem 2016Group advancement

We do not only support individual development but also the advancement of a study group. If you have a semester project at your university, we welcome to work with the group closely.

For example, a student group of developers from the HPI Potsdam enhanced the quality of Wikidata in a project:
 * Data Quality Improvements by Hasso Plattner Institut Students
 * Press anouncement Hasso Plattner Institut (german only)

Please apply with your motivation and cv and send it to sandra.muellrick@wikimedia.de



Join us at Events

April and May: If you have questions concerning the events or the mentoring program, please contact: sandra.muellrick@wikimedia.de
 * MediaWiki Hackathon in Jerusalem 31. March to 03 of April 2016
 * Missing Maps meetup, 10.04.2016, Berlin
 * FOSSCOMM, 16.04./17.04.2016, Athen
 * Wikimedia Conference, 21.04. - 24.04.2016, Berlin
 * Craft Con, 26.04. - 29.04.2016, Budapest
 * republica 02.05. - 04.05.2016, Berlin
 * csv con 03.05./04.05.2016, Berlin
 * Open Tech Summit. 05.05.2016, Berlin
 * ITAKE Unconference 19.05./20.05.
 * Wikicitie, 25.05./26.05.2016, Berlin

Get to know our projects

Inspiration? You need inspiration for a thesis topic or a semester project?


 * Read Lucie's Bachelor's thesis about the Wikidata Article Placeholder on GitHub
 * Here you find a list with potential topics around wikidata

You are looking for “easy tasks” to get the hang of our development work?


 * Easy Tasks in Wikidata on Phabricator
 * Small Easy Tasks with big impact on wikidata.org

The code you write will be reviewed by our developers. Personal Insight by our Developer's

Developers in private: On their personal blogs, you may find some interesting information about their work and the open source universe.


 * Jeroen De Dauw on https://entropywins.wtf/
 * Adam Shorland on http://addshore.com/
 * Lucie Kaffee on http://fuzzle.me/