Outreachy/Round 19

Wikimedia is participating in Outreachy Round 19. Internship period runs from December 3rd 2019 to March 3rd, 2020. See the Wikimedia community page on the Outreachy website.

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.
 * Read how to communicate effectively and get help on technical questions.