Outreachy/Past projects

This page tries to keep up with the current status of all past Outreach Program for Women/Outreachy projects.

Round 9
Link to proposals page.

Wikipedia article translation metrics
"This project aims at building a model that would estimate whether a page is translated or not, using statistical analysis and machine learning tools."


 * Students: Neta Livneh and  Roxana Necula
 * Mentors: Amir Aharoni and  Joel Sahleen
 * Wrap-up blogpost:
 * Phabricator Evaluation task:
 * Status:

Pywikibot compat to core migration
"The purpose of this project is to improve all the documentation including getting started guides and project documentation in Pywikibot."
 * Student: Priyanka
 * Mentors: Amir Sarabadani and John Vandenberg
 * Wrap-up blogpost: Link
 * Phabricator Evaluation task: phab: T92241
 * Status: Failed. Prototype incomplete. No documentation. Code needs to be rewritten largely.

Wikipedia Education Program need-finding research
"The task is to improve the function, usability and design of the course pages for both professors and students."
 * Student: Anke Nowottne
 * Mentors: Sage Ross and  Andrew Green
 * Wrap-up blogpost: Link
 * Phabricator Evaluation task: T92242
 * Status: The final report is published here.

Collaborative spelling dictionary building tool
"The project aims at developing a collaborative dictionary which shall also have an additional feature of checking spellings of the words."
 * Student: Ankita Shukla
 * Mentors: Amir Aharoni and  Kartik Mistry
 * Wrap-up blogpost: Link
 * Phabricator Evaluation task: T92243
 * Status: Functional prototype as MediaWiki extension working. There are few pending quirks and issues and possibility to extend project further. Available on GitHub

Adding Performance Instrumentation to Parsoid
"This project will develop a dashboard of metrics that will allow users to, at-a-glance, understand Parsoid's performance. It will provide a resource for application tuning, quick assessments of production readiness, and troubleshooting sources of performance problems."
 * Student: Christy Okpo
 * Mentors: Subramanya Sastry
 * Wrap-up blogpost: Link
 * Phabricator Evaluation task: Link
 * Status: Dashboards have been created, here and here. A glossary of metrics and guide to performance instrumentation using Graphite, have also been created.

Extending PyWikiBot support to sites on IWM
"PyWikiBot currently supports only a few wiki projects. At the end of this project, the benefits of automation of tasks by PWB will be provided to all MediaWiki sites on the Interwikimap, and provide the basis for support of non-MediaWiki wiki sites and non-wiki sites."
 * Student: Manpreet Kaur
 * Mentors:John Mark Vandenberg, Fabian Neundorf
 * Wrap-up blogpost: Link
 * Phabricator Evaluation task: Link
 * Status: