Outreach programs/Possible mentors

This is the common list of mentors of Summer of Code 2013 and Outreach Program for Women Round #6. It will be reviewed in future programs.

GSOC mentors must register NOW.

Mentors
We have a wide variety of technologies in use and no mentor can offer mentorship for just any project. We might be able to find other mentors specific to other areas if an interesting project idea shows up.

See also the DOs and DON’Ts - Mentor Edition.


 * CONFIRMED Raylton P. Sousa: Interested in stuff relating to sister [non-wikipedia] projects (or maybe generic things like this and this).
 * CONFIRMED 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.
 * CONFIRMED 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.
 * '''CONFIRMED' Yury Katkov: I'm involved in developing extensions for MediaWiki and Semantic MediaWiki plus I'm active community member focused on bringin MediaWiki closer to a 3rd party companies and developers.
 * CONFIRMED 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.
 * CONFIRMED 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.
 * CONFIRMED MarkTraceur: I'd love to work with anyone on Parsoid, Extension:UploadWizard, Extension:EtherEditor, or any new extensions or modifications to existing ones. My favourite work is in JavaScript, but I'll also dabble in core modifications and PHP changes when necessary, and I've played with unit testing and our CI infrastructure at least a little. However, I will not be mentoring under the OPW banner.
 * CONFIRMED Denny Vrandečić: Available to mentor or co-mentor Wikidata-related proposals. Have mentored GSoC previously.
 * CONFIRMED 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.
 * CONFIRMED Yaron Koren: Semantic MediaWiki, Semantic Forms, and related extensions.
 * CONFIRMED James Forrester: VisualEditor related projects.
 * CONFIRMED Niklas Laxström: internationalization projects.
 * CONFIRMED Santhosh Thottingal: internationalization projects.
 * Federico Leva: willing to co-mentor Tools for mass migration of legacy translated wiki content as Meta-Wiki community liasion.
 * CONFIRMED Runa Bhattarcharjee: internationalization projects.
 * CONFIRMED Alolita Sharma: internationalization projects.
 * CONFIRMED Ariel Glenn: Wikimedia offline projects.
 * CONFIRMED Matt Flaschen: Prototyping inline comments and SASS/LESS support for ResourceLoader
 * CONFIRMED Rusty Burchfield: CSS extension projects.
 * CONFIRMED Michael Dale: Multimedia / HTML5 related projects.
 * CONFIRMED Sam Reed: Bugzilla-MediaWiki extension.
 * CONFIRMED Katie Filbert: Wikidata-related projects.
 * CONFIRMED Pau Giner: internationalization projects.
 * CONFIRMED Amir E. Aharoni: internationalization projects, right-to-left languages, translation, outreach.

The bench
People that has offered mentorship in the past but are currently not available.


 * 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.