Outreachy/Round 20

Wikimedia takes part as a mentoring organization for Outreachy Round 20.

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Program timeline

(borrowed from https://www.outreachy.org/apply/project-selection/)

Outreachy and GSoC Welcome Party, May 2020

February 25, 2020 at 4pm UTC	Project list finalized
March 5, 2020	Applicants start making contributions to internship projects
April 7, 2020 at 4pm UTC	Application deadline (Last day to finish any contributions to internship projects. Applications who made a contribution must submit the rest of their project application by this date.)
April 7, 2020 to April 27, 2020	Applicants are encouraged to continue making contributions
April 27, 2020 at 4pm UTC	Accepted interns announced on the alums page
May 19, 2020 to August 18, 2020	Internship period

Accepted projects

Name	Location	Project	Mentor(s)	Updates
Daniyal Abbasi	India	Enhancements to gdrive-to-commons uploader tool	Tony Thomas and Srishti Sethi	Done Joined Zulip Done First blog post Done Second blog post
Dibya Gautam	Nepal	Productionize API for Wikidata-based Topic Model on ORES	Isaac Johnson and Aaron Halfaker	Done Joined Zulip Done First blog post Done Second blog post Done Third blog post Done Fourth blog post
Raymond Ndibe	Nigeria	WikiContrib: Gather and analyze use contributions on wiki and Github	Rammanoj Potla and Srishti Sethi	Done Joined Zulip Done First blog post Done Second blog post Done Third blog post Done Fourth blog post Done Fifth blog post Done Sixth blog post Done Seventh blog post

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 May 20, 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

The following ideas were promoted during the application period.

Add Cron Job Functionality to PAWS (A Wikimedia JupyterHub Project)

Link to project: Add Cron Job Functionality to PAWS (A Wikimedia JupyterHub Project)

Mentors: Brooke Storm, Chico Venancio and Arturo Borrero Gonzalez

Add leaderboard based on user's edits using Commons Android app

Link to project: Add leaderboard based on user's edits using Commons Android app

Mentors: Vivek Maskara, Nicolas Raoul

Enhancements to gdrive-to-commons uploader tool

Link to project: Enhancements to gdrive-to-commons uploader tool

Mentors: Tony Thomas and Srishti Sethi

Improve Wiki Education Dashboard javascript build pipeline and reduce bundle size

Link to project: Improve Wiki Education Dashboard javascript build pipeline and reduce bundle size

Mentors: Sage Ross

Improve Wiki Education Dashboard's error monitoring

Link to project: Improve Wiki Education Dashboard's error monitoring

Mentors: Sage Ross

Productionize API for Wikidata-based Topic Model

Link to project: Productionize API for Wikidata-based Topic Model

Mentors: Isaac Johnson and Aaron Halfaker

WikiContrib: Gather and analyze use contributions on wiki and Github

Link to project: WikiContrib: Gather and analyze use contributions on wiki and Github

Mentors: Rammanoj Potla and Srishti Sethi

Contact

Reach out for general questions on the #gsoc20-outreachy20 Zulip chat (preferred) or send an email to the organization administrators: Srishti Sethi (ssethi wikimedia.org) and Pavithra Eswaramoorthy (pavithraes outlook.com).
Read how to communicate effectively and get help on technical questions.

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. Also see our communication tips.

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