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!

Candidate declined
Sorry, your proposal has been declined this time. You can find more details at

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

We encourage you to try again. Wikimedia participates every year in several outreach programs with an opportunity for internships. Some of our interns were declined in their first attempt, but then were well prepared in their next application.

After investing time and energies in your application, now you know more about our community, and you have established some contacts that can help you defining your next steps.

These are the steps we have seen taken by successful re-applicants: We hope to see you around, becoming a stronger candidate in a few months. Some useful links: Thank you for your interest in contributing to Wikimedia!
 * 1) Learn why your application hasn't been accepted. Ask your mentors, the Wikimedia org admins, and other community members that gave you feedback or helped you in other ways.
 * 2) Keep contributing to your preferred projects, consolidating your relationship with other project members.
 * 3) Start working in your next proposal well in advanced, communicating your initial plans soon, and drafting your proposal publicly.
 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_contribute
 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:New_contributors/Starter_kit
 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Annoying_little_bugs