Outreachy/Round 19

Wikimedia is participating in Outreachy Round 19. Internship period runs from December 3rd 2019 to March 3rd, 2020. See Wikimedia community page on the Outreachy website: https://www.outreachy.org/communities/cfp/wikimedia/.

Program timeline
Source: https://www.outreachy.org/apply/project-selection/

Recommended steps for accepted interns
Here are some recommended steps for accepted interns before the internship period kick-off:


 * Refine your project proposal with guidance from mentors.
 * Join Zulip to keep yourself up to date with the announcements related to the program and opportunities for participating in Wikimedia activities.
 * Write blog posts (first due by December 17th, 2019) in a language you are most comfortable with and add it to the Bi-weekly Reports page.
 * Add your updates about non-coding tasks (e.g., writing a blog post, joining Zulip, etc.) in the Accepted projects' Updates section above.
 * Setup your MediaWiki user page, link it with your name in the accepted projects section above and keep it up to date with your project work and reports. (e.g., User:Martyav, User:Amrit_sreekumar)
 * Stay in touch with Wikimedia technical discussions by subscribing to the mailing list: wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org.
 * Read stories from across the Wikimedia movement on Wikimedia Foundation’s blog.
 * Watch previous videos on Wikimedia technical topics here.

Roles and responsibilities

 * Read information for participants
 * Read information for mentors

Ideas for projects

 * 1) A system for releasing data dumps from a classifier detecting unsourced sentences in Wikipedia, mentored by Sam Walton and Miriam Redi
 * 2) Convert Campaign pages to React, mentored by Sage Ross and Khyati Soneji
 * 3) Create command-line runner for MediaWiki maintenance tasks, mentored by Will Doran
 * 4) Create regression automated tests for Special:Homepage functionality testing, mentored by Elena Tonkovidova
 * 5) Documentation improvements to the ~20 top 100 most viewed MediaWiki Action API pages on-wiki, mentored by Jerop Brenda
 * 6) Improve MediaWiki Action API Integration Tests, mentored by Daniel Kinzler, Clara Andrew-Wani and Kate Chapman
 * 7) Improvements and User Testing of Wiki Education Dashboard Android App, mentored by Ujjwal Agrawal

Note: Project details will be available on Outreachy site on October 2019 and visible to applicants who passed the initial eligibility check.

Contact

 * Reach out for general questions on the #outreachy19 Zulip chat.
 * Ask a technical question on the Wikimedia Developer Support channel.