New Developers/Featured Projects

How to become a featured project recommended to new developers
You maintain a Wikimedia project, are interested in more contributors, and would like to take part in Wikimedia's Onboarding New Developers program?

Awesome! Here is some information which should help you and us to deliver a pleasant experience for new developers:

Projects

 * You offer a short description what your project does and link to more information (e.g. your project page on mediawiki.org). Your description allows new developers to judge whether your project fits their interest area and which knowledge (programming languages, technology) and level you expect.

Mentors

 * You commit to helping new developers with their first steps joining our community.
 * You provide information how you can be contacted.
 * You know which resources and information (documentation, communication channels, places) to point to and when, so new developers can grow and understand our ecosystem.
 * You review their patches quickly.
 * You make them become good FOSS citizens and help create bonds with other community members.
 * You are willing to learn from each other.
 * Finally: You realize when you do not have enough time for mentoring anymore and communicate that you are not available anymore.

Microtasks

 * A list of tasks suitable for starters. If your project uses Wikimedia Phabricator this could be a link to tasks tagged as #easy in your project.
 * Tasks should take no longer than two or three days for someone new to the code base.
 * Tasks are self-contained, non-controversial issues with a clear approach.
 * Tasks do not require any special permissions in order to test the contribution or to fix the task.
 * Tasks should preferably be well-described with pointers to help the contributor.
 * You regularly update this list of tasks and add new tasks when applicable.

Documentation
Your featured project provides a landing page which
 * offers a basic project description
 * offers mentor information
 * links to microtasks
 * links to developer documentation
 * links to a roadmap

Roadmap

 * You provide some perspective which direction your project is heading and which next tasks or areas other developers could work on. This could be a column on the workboard of a Phabricator project, some tag for tasks in GitHub or Sourceforge, or a wiki page which you regularly update.

Thanks for making our community bigger and more diverse!