< Outreachy

This page tries to keep up with the current status of all past Outreach Program for Women/Outreachy projects.

See also Google Summer of Code/Past projects.

Quantitative summary of past Outreachy projects

Completed Outreachy projects since 2013:

In the 18 Outreachy rounds between 2013 and 2021, contributors joined from 22 countries: India, United States, Brazil, United Kingdom, Sri Lanka, Canada, Israel, Romania, Germany, Turkey, Cameroon, Kenya, Nigeria, Vietnam, Taiwan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Russia, Malaysia, Uganda, France, Pakistan.

Round 25

Develop a web app for editing Toolhub records

  • Mentees: Nicole Barnabee-Burns, Hannah Waruguru Njoroge
  • Mentors: Slavina Stefanova, Damilare Adedoyin
  • Outcome: Over the course of the internship, we developed a full-stack web application that could be used to improve discoverability of other Wikimedia tools. The tool identifies gaps in the Toolhub records of other tools, and presents a user-friendly interface for filling in the missing information.
  • Tech stack: The application was built with Vue.js on the front-end and Flask on the back-end, and is connected to a MariaDB database. Task queuing is handled by Celery, with Redis as a broker.
  • Relevant links: Toolhunt, Phabricator workboard, Frontend repository, Backend repository
  • Blog: Nicole's blog, Hannah's blog

Hybrid event production for QueeringWikipedia 2023

  • Mentee: André Rodrigues
  • Mentors: Željko Blaće, Owen Blacker
  • Outcome: After investigating various FLOSS options and considering time commitments, we decided to use Zoom for regular meetings, Jitsi for unconference style sessions, and BigBlueButton for workshops and explanatory sessions. In addition, I conducted outreach and held office hours to promote the event during the internship period.
  • Relevant links: Phabricator page
  • Blog: André's blog

Develop features for Wiki Loves Monuments App

Develop a web app for patrolling based on the new ML-based service to predict reverts

Rewrite Imagebulk tool to scale up

  • Mentees: Enow97
  • Mentors: Jay Prakash and Sudhanshu
  • Outcome: The project involved rewriting the existing web app codebase using Vue.js and Flask, along with integrating Celery to improve the scalability and performance of the system. The resulting system will be able to handle large volumes of traffic and complex user interactions while remaining responsive and efficient. Although, code has been written under this project but deployment is still being left and will be handle by mentor (Jay Prakash).
  • Tech stack:
  1. Vue.js on the front-end
  2. Flask on the back-end
  3. Task queuing in Celery along with Redis as the broker
  4. Docker

Round 24

Add support for tracking specific namespaces to Programs & Events Dashboard

  • Student: Vaidehi Atpadkar
  • Mentors: Sage Ross
  • Outcome: Dashboard now has a new feature of selecting specific wiki-namespaces for tracking and displaying the stats for them.
  • Relevant links: source code
  • Blog: Vaidehi's Blog

Build Python library to work with html-dumps

  • Student: Nazia Tasnim
  • Mentors: Martin Gerlach, Isaac Johnson
  • Outcome: mwparserfromhtml, a python-library to parse the Wikipedia HTML dumps.
  • Relevant links: source code
  • Blog: Nazia's Blog

What's in a name? Automatically identifying first and last author names for Wikicite and Wikidata

Round 23

Automatically matching new Wikipedia articles with Wikidata items using Python

Automatically matching new Wikipedia articles with Wikidata items using Python

Develop learning toolkits and videos to demonstrate the use of essential tools for Wikimedia

Improve Wikidata support on Programs & Events Dashboard

  • Student: Ivana Novakovic-Lekovic
  • Mentors: Sage Ross
  • Outcome: Integrated Wikidata edit analysis into the Dashboard’s data update system; it now shares Wikidata edits details about merges, aliases, labels, claims, and more.
  • Relevant links: source code
  • Blog: Ivana's Blog

Refactor Mediawiki tests to use WebdriverIO Async

  • Student: Osama Tahir
  • Mentors: Soham Parekh, Željko Filipin
  • Outcome: Refactored MediaWiki tests in wide range of extensions (such as Math, Newsletter, VisualEditor) to use WebdriverIO Async
  • Relevant links: source code
  • Blog: Osama's Blog

Round 22

WikiNav

  • Student: Muniza A.
  • Mentors: Martin Gerlach and Isaac Johnson
  • Outcome: Developed WikiNav, a tool that processes the Wikipedia clickstream data to generate statistics and visualizations that help make this data more accessible to folks with varying levels of programming and data wrangling experience.
  • Relevant links: Phabricator task, demo application
  • Blog: Muniza's Blog

Developing mwsql: A Python package for working with Wikimedia SQL dumps

Synchronising Wikidata and Wikipedias using pywikibot


Round 21

Modules Research Tool

  • Student: Aisha Khatun and Liudmila (Jade) Kalina
  • Mentors: Adam Baso
  • Outcome: Created a tool to identify important modules across wikis and group similar ones. Intent is to allow contributors merge and modularize modules to be used from a 'single' place for Abstract Wikipedia.
  • Try it: Modules Research Tool
  • Relevant links: meta, source code, project task
  • Blogs: Aisha's Blog, Jade's Blog

Wiki-Reliability: A Large Scale Dataset for Content Reliability on Wikipedia

  • Student: Kay Wong
  • Mentors: Miriam Redi, Diego Saez-Trumper
  • Outcome: Created Wiki-Reliability: a large scale Machine Learning dataset annotated with a wide set of content reliability issues for measuring the reliability of content on Wikipedia
  • Relevant links: meta, dataset, source code, project task, blog

Wiki Country Inference Tool: A Model that Infers countries from Wikipedia Articles

Developing a lightweight and efficient Content Filtration module for Wikimedia Commons

Review and improve Lua documentation on meta and mediawiki

Round 20

Enhancements to gdrive-to-commons uploader tool

  • Student: Daniyal Abbasi
  • Mentors: Tony Thomas and Srishti Sethi
  • Outcome: Redesigned the UI of the tool, added more relevant fields in the form for staged images and incorporated form validation and API response handling.
  • Relevant links: source code: , project task

Productionize Wikidata-based Topic Model on ORES

  • Student: Dibya Gautam
  • Mentors: Isaac Johnson and Aaron Halfaker
  • Outcome: Created a Wikidata-based topic prediction model that can be used to predict labels for Wikipedia articles in any language.
  • Relevant links: report

WikiContrib: Gather and analyze user contributions on Wiki and GitHub

  • Student: Raymond Ndibe
  • Mentors: Srishti Sethi and Rammanoj potla
  • Outcome: 1) Implemented feature to count contributions made to Wikimedia repositories on GitHub 2) Implemented contributions caching feature 3) Implemented persistent URL feature 4) Fixed all outstanding issues and bugs 5) Improved the tool's UI/ UX.

Round 19

Converting Campaign pages to React

  • Student: Lalitha Reddy
  • Mentors: Sage Ross, Khyati Soneji
  • Outcome: Created the campaign navbar and the home tab component in React.
  • Relevant links: project task, bi-weekly reports

Improvements and User Testing of Wiki Education Dashboard Android App

A system for releasing data dumps from a classifier detecting unsourced sentences in Wikipedia

  • Student: Aiko Chou
  • Mentors: Guilherme Gonçalves, Miriam Redi, Sam Walton
  • Outcome: 1) Developed a tool and public dataset named Citation Detective that contains sentences that have been identified as needing a citation using a machine learning-based classifier; 2) Created a proof of concept for integrating Citation Detective and Citation Hunt.
  • Relevant links: project task, meta page, github repository, blog posts

Documentation improvements to the ~20 top 100 most viewed MediaWiki Action API pages on-wiki

Create regression automated tests for Special:Homepage functionality testing

Improve MediaWiki Action API Integration Tests

  • Student: Esther Akinloose
  • Mentors: Daniel Kinzler, Kate Chapman, Clara Andrew-Wani
  • Outcome: Completed the integration test for 12 cases for 3 MediaWiki Action API modules.
  • Relevant links: project task, bi-weekly reports

Round 18

Documentation improvements to the ~20 top 70 most viewed MediaWiki Action API pages on-wiki

  • Student: Brenda Jerop
  • Mentors: Srishti Sethi, Sarah Rodlund
  • Outcome: Improved the documentation of 22 MediaWiki API documentation pages and developed one demo app.
  • Relevant links: Project reports, project task, project proposal

Improve Programs & Events Dashboard for use in the #1lib1ref campaign

  • Student: Khyati Soneji
  • Mentors: Sage Ross, Wes Reid
  • Outcome: Added support for counting references added to English Wikipedia articles in Programs & Events Dashboard, along with improved data download options and support for scoping via PetScan PSIDs.
  • Relevant links: Internship blog posts, project task

Research project on the editing patterns of users of wiki CX translation tool

  • Student: Doris Zhou
  • Mentor: Isaac Johnson, Jonathan Morgan
  • Outcome: Did research analyzing the editing patterns, article selection, and article writing quality of users who initiated article translation using the CX Translation tool. Looked specifically at English to French in depth and did some English to Chinese analysis.
  • Relevant links: bi-weekly reports, research meta page

Round 17

Improve top 50 viewed pages of the MediaWiki Action API & create a demo app to educate users

Update MediaWiki Action API docs, add Python code to repo, create a demo app, and write a tutorial for the demo which showcases several APIs.

Write code in Parsoid to detect links inside links and in PHP Linter extension to add this category.

Provide Test Support for Various Wikimedia Projects

Apply exploratory testing principles to test weekly maintenance releases of Content Translation tool and Visual Editor.

  • Student: Barb Van Dine
  • Mentors: Elena Tonkovidova and Rummana Yasmeen
  • Status: Created regression test suite and regression checklist for Content Translation beta (CX2); created regression checklist for Visual Editor; performed weekly regression tests of CX2 and (from January 6th onward) smoke tests of Visual Editor; documented 11 bugs; contributed exploratory testing for 4 existing bugs; verified patches for 5 bugs; created a resource page for future CX2 testing interns and new contributors.
  • Link to project task on Phabricator: T207922
  • Link to reports archives: weekly reports and blog

QA: Testing Automation - port Echo Notification tests to Node.js

Created automated tests to check that updates to the changes made to the code base do no break existing components.

  • Student: Giselle J
  • Mentors: Elena Tonkovidova
  • Status: Created tests for Echo Notification that are either up for review or merged into the main codebase. Created cucumber files to explain proposed tests. Worked on breaking up large tests into smaller components.
  • Link to project task on Phabricator: T217051
  • Link to reports archives: weekly reports and blog

Create an event setup wizard for Programs & Events Dashboard

Design, create and test a wizard which helps to make it easy for users to set up an event with exactly the settings they need, which is an interface that walks through all the main options and describes what they do and what they are for to help configure an event.

  • Student: Yakam Cressence
  • Mentors: Sage Ross, Urvashi Verma, Pratyush Singhal
  • Status: Created a setup wizard to make it easy for users to set up an event with exactly the settings they need.
  • Relevant Links: Programs & Events Dashboard
  • Link to reports archives: My blog

Round 16

Improve support for photo/media contribution campaigns on Wikimedia Programs & Events Dashboard

Made media contributions a first class citizen in the Wikimedia Programs & Events Dashboard. The project included building dedicated user-friendly pages for viewing and assessing the metadata of uploads from a specific campaign, and adding upload contribution statistics in other views alongside article statistics.

Round 15

Automatically detect spambot registration using machine learning like invisible reCAPTCHA

Create a captcha which is friendlier to humans and harder for bots to crack

  • Student: Vinitha V S
  • Mentors: Gergő Tisza and Adam Roses Wight
  • Status: Created a system to collect data for feature creation and used this to build a basic machine learning model.
  • Link to project task on Phabricator: T178463
  • Link to weekly reports archives: Vinitha's blog
  • Project showcase video URL: video

Improvements to Grants review and Wikimania scholarships web apps

Improve scholarships and grant review applications by important bug fixes and feature additions

  • Student: Neha Jha
  • Mentors: Bryan Davis and Niharika Kohli
  • Status: Fixed the bugs listed in the proposal and added a few additional features
  • Link to project task on phabricator: T177770
  • Link to weekly reports archives: Neha's blog

Refactoring of MassMessage Extension

Fix technical depth cleaning on MassMessage

  • Student: Noella
  • Mentors: Kunal Metha and Alangi Derick
  • Status: Completion of and submission of most tasks listed in proposal
  • Link to project task on phabricator: T178431
  • Link to weekly reports archives: Noella's blog

Translation outreach: User guides on MediaWiki.org

Create, test and document new strategies to recruit technical translators

  • Student: Anna e só
  • Mentors: Johan Jönsson and Benoît Evellin
  • Status: Two new strategies were tested; a final report was written as legacy for those interested in continue my work, as well as other meaningful documentation of my work.
  • Link to project task on Phabricator: T177797
  • Link to weekly reports archives: Anna's blog
  • Project showcase video URL: https://youtu.be/GgErSSFdt0M

User Contribution Summary Tool

Create a tool that's optimized for presenting one's activity on wikipedia in a CV-like manner

Improve Programs & Events Dashboard support for Art+Feminism 2018

Improve the Program & Events Dashboard from WikiEducation based on the feedback from the Art+Feminism campaign of 2018.

Round 14

Remind me of this article in X days

Make it possible for logged-in user to get a reminder of an article after a few

days. Possibility to enter a short comment.

  • Student: Ela Opper
  • Mentors: Moriel Schottlender and Matt Flaschen
  • Status: All tasks as mentioned in the proposal and in the timeline have been completed.
  • Link to project task on Phabricator: T2582
  • Link to weekly reports archives: My blog
  • Project showcase video URL: https://youtu.be/z99ENVV4p5c

Documentation on how to develop Zotero translators at translation-server

Document the process of writing Zotero web translators on server side and on Scaffold and how to get them in production.

  • Student: Sonali Gupta
  • Mentors: Marielle Volz and Czar
  • Status: Documentation in English prepared, waiting for review. Documentation in Hindi not prepared.
  • Link to project task on Phabricator: T115158
  • Link to weekly reports archives: T165144, Personal Blog
  • Project showcase video URL: https://youtu.be/8MYGVsqWHhs

Allow Programs & Events Dashboard to make automatic edits on connected wikis

  • Student: Medha Bansal
  • Mentors: Sage Ross and Jonathan Morgan
  • Status: All tasks as mentioned in the proposal and in the timeline have been completed. Project is live with all supporting documentation.
  • Link to project task on Phabricator: T158678
  • Link to weekly reports archives: Weekly reports

Round 13

Creating User Profile Pages for Wiki Ed Dashboard and providing cumulative statistics for all programs a user has participated in.

Added customizable Profile pages to the Wiki Education Dashboard and generated contribution statistics of the users, providing them a brief overview of all the contributions they made to encourage them to do more.

  • Student: Sejal Khatri
  • Mentors: Sage Ross and Jonathan Morgan
  • Status: Successfully completed.
  • Link to project task on Phabricator: T147727
  • Link to Blog Posts: Personal Blog

Round 11

Easier categorization of pictures in Upload to Commons Android app

This project improves the image categorization functionality of the app by offering relevant category suggestions based on geolocation, and making category search more flexible.

  • Student: Josephine Lim
  • Mentors: Stephen Niedzielski and Nicolas Raoul
  • Status: All tasks as mentioned in the proposal and in the timeline have been completed.
  • Link to project task on Phabricator: T115101

Round 10

The objective of this project is to offer a search tool to empower translators to find messages they want to translate and maintain consistency between translations.

  • Student: Dibya Singh
  • Mentors: Niklas Laxström and Federico Leva
  • Status: All tasks as mentioned in the proposal and in the timeline have been completed.
  • Link to project task on Phabricator: T92929

Round 9

Wikipedia article translation metrics

"This project aims at building a model that would estimate whether a page is translated or not, using statistical analysis and machine learning tools."

  • Students: Neta Livneh and Roxana Necula
  • Mentors: Amir Aharoni and Joel Sahleen
  • Wrap-up blogpost: Link
  • Phabricator Evaluation task: T92240
  • Status: Functional prototype for some of the pages. Still needs to run it on the whole database. Can also add more functionally for the translation detector.

Pywikibot compat to core migration

"The purpose of this project is to improve all the documentation including getting started guides and project documentation in Pywikibot."

  • Student: Priyanka
  • Mentors: Amir Sarabadani and John Vandenberg
  • Wrap-up blogpost: Link
  • Phabricator Evaluation task: T92241
  • Status: Failed. Prototype incomplete. No documentation. Code needs to be rewritten largely.

Wikipedia Education Program need-finding research

"The task is to improve the function, usability and design of the course pages for both professors and students."

  • Student: Anke Nowottne
  • Mentors: Sage Ross and Andrew Green
  • Wrap-up blogpost: Link
  • Phabricator Evaluation task: T92242
  • Status: The final report is published here.

Collaborative spelling dictionary building tool

"The project aims at developing a collaborative dictionary which shall also have an additional feature of checking spellings of the words."

  • Student: Ankita Shukla
  • Mentors: Amir Aharoni and Kartik Mistry
  • Wrap-up blogpost: Link
  • Phabricator Evaluation task: T92243
  • Status: Functional prototype as MediaWiki extension working. There are few pending quirks and issues and possibility to extend project further. Available on GitHub

Adding Performance Instrumentation to Parsoid

"This project will develop a dashboard of metrics that will allow users to, at-a-glance, understand Parsoid's performance. It will provide a resource for application tuning, quick assessments of production readiness, and troubleshooting sources of performance problems."

  • Student: Christy Okpo
  • Mentors: Subramanya Sastry
  • Wrap-up blogpost: Link
  • Phabricator Evaluation task: T92244
  • Status: Dashboards have been created, here and here. A glossary of metrics and guide to performance instrumentation using Graphite, have also been created.

Extending PyWikiBot support to sites on IWM

"PyWikiBot currently supports only a few wiki projects. At the end of this project, the benefits of automation of tasks by PWB will be provided to all MediaWiki sites on the meta:Interwikimap, and provide the basis for support of non-MediaWiki wiki sites and non-wiki sites."

  • Student: Manpreet Kaur
  • Mentors:John Mark Vandenberg, Fabian Neundorf
  • Wrap-up blogpost: Link
  • Phabricator Evaluation task: T92246
  • Status: Final report can be found here. Further work to be done on non-mw sites.

Round 8

Improving URL citations on Wikimedia

Aims to make citing sources in VisualEditor easier by generating a citation given a unique identifier such as a URL or DOI.

  • Student: Marielle Volz
  • Mentors: James Forrester, Trevor Parscal, Gabriel Wicke, Matthew Walker
  • Wrap-up blogpost: Link
  • Final Report: User:Mvolz/Weekly Reports#.28not so final.29 Report: August 18th
  • Status: Completed with working prototype, but the prototype required hard-coding of templates and so was not usable in a general manner on wikis at the end of the internship. Changes to TemplateData extension to allow it to work in a non-hard coded way were merged in Nov 2014 (4 months after internship completion). Entire project went into production in March 2015. Extension has been deployed on all language wikis, although not all language wikis have configured it. Phabricator board for project here.

Enhancing Wikimaps/OpenHistoricalMaps Project

  • Student: Jaime Lyn
  • Mentors: Dr. Rob Warren
  • Wrap-up blogpost: Link
  • Final report:
  • Status:

Welcome to labs - Welcoming new contributors to Wikimedia Labs and Tool Labs

  • Student: Dinu Kumarasiri
  • Mentors: Andrew Bogott
  • Wrap-up blogpost:
  • Final report: User:Sandaru/Welcome_to_labs/Progress_Reports#Final_Summary_and_Overview
  • Status:

Finding the best and making them better: Evaluating, documenting, and improving MediaWiki web API client libraries

Feed the Gnomes - Wikidata Outreach

  • Student: Helen Halbert
  • Mentors: Lydia Pintscher
  • Wrap-up blogpost: User:Thepwnco/OPW_Reporting#Final_report
  • Final report:
  • Status:

Template Matching for RDFIO

  • Student: Ali King
  • Mentors: Joel Sachs and Samuel Lampa
  • Wrap-up blogpost:
  • Final report:
  • Status: Extension:RDFIO

WikiHunt the 'Property': Wikidata Outreach Initiative

Round 7

  • Anu G Enchackal - UploadWizard:OSM Map Embedding (mentored by Gergő Tisza)
  • Diwanshi Pandey - Complete the MediaWiki development course at Codecademy (Yuri Astrakhan)
  • Brena Monteiro - mediawiki.org homepage redesign (Heather Walls and Quim Gil)
  • Be Birchall - Clean up Parsoid round-trip testing UI, including using a templating system (Marc Ordinas and Subramanya Sastry)
  • Maria Pacana - Clean up tracing/debugging/logging inside Parsoid (Subramanya Sastry and Arlo Breault)
  • Niharika Kohli - Compact interlanguage links as a beta feature (Sucheta Ghoshal and Pau Giner, co-mentored by Niklas Laxström)
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