Outreachy/Round 21

Wikimedia is taking part as a mentoring organization in Outreachy Round 21. Read information for participants  Read information for mentors



Program timeline
(borrowed from 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 1, 2020) 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.
 * Read stories on Wikimedia technical blog about the technology and software behind running Wikipedia and its sister projects.
 * Watch previous videos on Wikimedia technical topics here.

Ideas for projects

 * 1) Analyze community authored functions that build Wikipedia infoboxes and more mentored by Adam Baso, Denny Vrandečić
 * 2) Analyze 'need help' requests from Wiki Education Dashboard mentored by Sage Ross
 * 3) Build a tool for inferring what countries are associated with a given Wikipedia article mentored by Isaac Johnson
 * 4) Create a Not Safe for Work (NSFW) media Classifier for Wikimedia Commons mentored by Chaitanya Mittal, Daniyal Abbasi
 * 5) Create  Machine Learning datasets to measure content reliability on Wikipedia mentored by Diego Saez-Trumper, Miriam Redi
 * 6) Evaluate Microsoft Playwright as replacement for our browser automation mentored by Željko Filipin, Soham Parekh, Vidhi Mody
 * 7) Refactor Selenium tests and perform cleanup mentored by Vidhi Mody, Željko Filipin, Soham Parekh
 * 8) Review and improve Lua documentation on meta and mediawiki mentored by Doug Taylor, Pavithra Eswaramoorthy

Note: Project details will be available on Outreachy site on October 7 2020 and visible to applicants who passed the initial eligibility check.

Contact

 * Reach out for general questions on the #outreachy21 Zulip chat (preferred), after reading Outreach programs/Zulip.
 * Organization administrators for this round are: Pavithra Eswaramoorthy, Gopa Vasanth and Srishti Sethi.
 * Read how to communicate effectively and get help on technical questions.