Outreachy/Round 10

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. It is a three-month, full-time internship and runs two editions every year. It is overseen by Wikimedia's Program Management team. Wikimedia provides funding for Outreachy internships. See full program timeline here.

Resources

Current and past editions

Outreachy:

See also the parallel program Google Summer of Code 2015.

Timeline

Check all the details about this round at the program page.

MediaWiki GSoC/Outreachy IRC party on March 25, 1700 UTC.

February 17, 2015: participating organizations are announced
February 17 - March 24, 2015: applicants need to get in touch with at least one project and make a contribution to it
March 3, 2015: application system opens
March 24, 2015: application deadline at 7pm UTC
April 27, 2015: accepted participants announced on this page at 7pm UTC
May 25 - August 25, 2015: internship period

Candidates

To see candidates, view all tasks on the #Outreachy-Round-10 board; the names under "Proposal" tasks were the candidates.

Be part of something big

These are the people we develop for.

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.

Wikipedia has become the fifth most-visited site in the world, used by more than 400 million people every month in more than 270 languages. Wikimedia Commons, Wikidata and Wiktionary are some of the other free content projects hosted by Wikimedia thanks to MediaWiki. There is also a wide collection of open source software projects around them.

Much more can be done: stabilize infrastructure, increase participation, improve quality, increase reach, encourage innovation.

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Project ideas

Look through the Phabricator workboards in possible-tech-projects and outreach-programs-projects for project ideas
Post in the task comments, ask intelligent and explicit questions ("Could you tell me more about this?" is a bad example), do your research thoroughly, don't expect spoon-feeding. That's the recipe for a perfect intern!

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