Outreach programs

Wikimedia's technical community participates in several outreach programs. This helps new contributors join Wikimedia technical projects, it spreads knowledge about the movement to bigger and more diverse audiences, and it gives contributors an opportunity to mentor newcomers.

Google Summer of Code

• Vision: help open source projects with up to 350h of intership.
• Approach: funded by Google, mentored by FOSS developers. Once a year.
• Information for Participants
• Information for Mentors
• Information for Administrators

Outreachy

• Vision: provides internships to people subject to systemic bias and impacted by underrepresentation in the technical industry.
• Approach: funded by Outreachy, mentorer by FOSS members. Twice a year.
• Information for Participants
• Information for Mentors
• Information for Administrators

Season of Docs

• Vision: help open communities to push their documentation to the next level.

News about technical outreach programs

• Wikimedia and Outreachy: Technical internships are bridging the free and open source inclusion gap (2019)
• Six Outreachy Interns Funded (2017)
• Wikimedia Tech Blog posts about Outreach Programs
• Intern success stories

More ways to get involved

To work on Wikimedia software projects outside an outreach program, see New Developers .

For ways to contribute to Wikimedia apart from software development, see How to contribute .

Historical programs

Note that the following historical programs are discontinued:

• Google Code-In