Outreach programs/Possible mentors

You can find what possible and actual mentors need to know at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreach_programs/Life_of_a_successful_project#For_possible_mentors

The bench
Past mentors, just for reference. If former mentors are missing, just add them.


 * Raylton P. Sousa: Interested in stuff relating to sister [non-wikipedia] projects (or maybe generic things like this and this).
 * Brian Wolff.: Particularly interested in any project where the student is a member of the relevant community the project is targeting, and the student came up with the project him/her-self to fix a problem that they are actually encountering.
 * Jeroen De Dauw: I'm involved with both Semantic MediaWiki and Wikidata and willing to mentor interesting projects related to either. I prefer to mentor students who already have a decent background with doing development work.
 * Yury Katkov: I'm involved in developing extensions for MediaWiki and Semantic MediaWiki plus I'm active community member focused on bringing MediaWiki closer to a 3rd party companies and developers.
 * Siebrand Mazeland: Available for helping with the student selection process, available as a mentor if really needed. I'm not really a developer, but I have a little experience in working with them.
 * Yuri Astrakhan: Will mentor most of the external API related work.
 * Tyler Romeo: I'm available to mentor the E:CSS, E:UploadWizard, the XML sitemaps extension, automatic category redirects, and/or E:OEmbed*. Which one I do I'll leave up to somebody who has a better idea of which projects WMF would prefer. Depending on the time commitment involved, I may be able to mentor more than one project.
 * Thomas PT: I'm available as co-mentor for Wikisource-related proposals. I won't be able to help in June and the begin of July but I'll be very pleased to help in August.
 * Yaron Koren: Semantic MediaWiki, Semantic Forms, and related extensions.
 * James Forrester: VisualEditor related projects.
 * Niklas Laxström: internationalization projects.
 * Santhosh Thottingal: internationalization projects.
 * Federico Leva: willing to co-mentor Tools for mass migration of legacy translated wiki content as Meta-Wiki community liasion.
 * Runa Bhattarcharjee: internationalization projects.
 * Alolita Sharma: internationalization projects.
 * Ariel Glenn: Wikimedia offline projects.
 * Kelson: Wikimedia offline projects (openZIM/Kiwix).
 * Matt Flaschen: Prototyping inline comments and SASS/LESS support for ResourceLoader
 * Rusty Burchfield: CSS extension projects.
 * Michael Dale: Multimedia / HTML5 related projects.
 * Sam Reed: Bugzilla-MediaWiki extension.
 * Katie Filbert: Wikidata-related projects.
 * Pau Giner: internationalization projects.
 * Amir E. Aharoni: internationalization projects, right-to-left languages, translation, outreach.
 * Jan Luca Naumann: MW-Moodle-extension
 * Stephan Gambke: I contribute to extensions connected to Semantic MediaWiki and would mentor in that area.
 * Željko Filipin: Browser Test Automation
 * Chris McMahon: Browser Test Automation
 * Zaran: willing to co-mentor the proofread page extension refactoring.
 * Nischay Nahata: I would be available to co-mentor projects related to Extension:UploadWizard.
 * Micru: Available to co-mentor the Book upload customization project.
 * Daniel Kinzler: Available to mentor Wikibase-related projects, as long as they are not too heavy on JavaScript.
 * Sébastien Santoro: I'm offering to mentor Wikimedia Commons related projects. I'm also available for a more generic project for a student who comes from another language and would like to learn PHP / improve PHP skills.
 * Kartik Mistry: Internationalization projects, translation.
 * Sumana Harihareswara: Product management, community management, documentation.
 * S Page: Mentor projects related to documentation and document generation.
 * John Vandenberg: especially Pywikibot, but also development practises and tools.
 * Tony Thomas : ready to help with Mediaiwki extensions, E-mails and PHP! ( not in OPW 11 round )
 * Ankita Shukla : Available to co-mentor projects Implement HTML e-mail support in MediaWiki and Technology to transclude git content into wiki pages
 * Yann : Available for Wikisource and Commons related projects.