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Wikimedia has participated in Outreachy since 2013. Outreachy provides internships in open source and open science, to people subject to systemic bias and impacted by underrepresentation in the technical industry where they are living. Outreachy is a three-month, full-time internship and runs two editions every year. Internship projects may include programming, research, user experience, documentation, graphical design, data science, marketing, user advocacy, event planning, and more!
Outreachy Round 31 interns and organizers, December 10 2025
Start communicating with your mentors on refining your project proposal, finalizing deadlines and setting milestones.
Join Zulip as we use the chat application to share program-related announcements and opportunities for participating in Wikimedia activities.
Set up your blog, if you don't already have one.
We'll encourage you to submit bi-weekly blog post reports and link to them from the updates section in the table below.
We'll also be sharing your work with our broader community through our social media channels.
The following blog platforms are listed in order of recommendation: Diff, WM:TechBlog, Google Blogger, Medium. You'll want to create your blogs on a platform where the URL lives forever.
Setup up your MediaWiki user page and keep it up to date with your project work and reports.
Wikimedia uses Zulip for its Outreach programs to connect students and mentors. Zulip is a free and open source chat group application that we use to share program-related announcements and opportunities for participating in Wikimedia activities.
For Outreachy Round 31, reach out on the chat channel.
Wikimedia organization administrators are also available on Zulip: Lani Goto and Mahfuza Mohona.
We encourage applicants to communicate in the public streams and refrain from sending private emails/messages whenever possible.
Open communication allows fellow applicants to learn from your questions. It also gives all community members a chance to answer your queries. This way, queries get answered sooner and the administrators do not become a bottleneck.
We believe that knowledge should be free for every human being. By working with us, you're contributing to one of the world's largest collaborative knowledge base. You will be adding value to the vast pool of knowledge that has been and will keep satisfying the everlasting curiosity of knowing more. You can be part of a team that solves challenges and scales features to a million users. From desktop to mobile to analytics to bots, it has something to offer for everyone.
We prioritize efforts that empower disadvantaged and underrepresented communities, and that help overcome barriers to participation. We believe in mass collaboration, diversity and consensus building to achieve our goals.
