Wikimedia is taking part as a mentoring organization in Outreachy Round 21.

Program timeline

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

Outreachy Round 21 Welcome Call

Accepted projects

Name	Location	Project	Mentor(s)	Updates
Aisha Khatun	Bangladesh	Analyze community authored functions that build Wikipedia infoboxes and more	Adam Baso	Done Joined Zulip  Done 1st Blog  Done 2nd Blog  Done 3rd Blog  Done 4th Blog
Liudmila Kalina	Moscow	Analyze community authored functions that build Wikipedia infoboxes and more	Adam Baso	Done Joined Zulip
Jesse Amamgbu	Nigeria	Build a tool for inferring what countries are associated with a given Wikipedia article	Isaac Johnson	Done Joined Zulip
Harshinee Sriram	India	Create a Not Safe for Work (NSFW) media Classifier for Wikimedia Commons	Daniyal Abbasi and Chaitanya Mittal	Done Joined Zulip
Kay Wong	Malaysia	Create Machine Learning datasets to measure content reliability on Wikipedia.	Miriam Redi and Diego Saez-Trumper	Done Joined Zulip
Harriet	Uganda	Evaluate Microsoft Playwright as replacement for our browser automation	Željko Filipin and Vidhi Mody and Soham Parekh	Done Joined Zulip
Ogechi O	Lagos Nigeria	Review and improve Lua documentation on meta and mediawiki.	Pavithra Eswaramoorthy and Rexx	Done Joined Zulip

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 December 1, 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

1. Analyze community authored functions that build Wikipedia infoboxes and more mentored by Adam Baso, Denny Vrandečić
2. Analyze 'need help' requests from Wiki Education Dashboard mentored by Sage Ross
3. Build a tool for inferring what countries are associated with a given Wikipedia article mentored by Isaac Johnson
4. Create a Not Safe for Work (NSFW) media Classifier for Wikimedia Commons mentored by Chaitanya Mittal, Daniyal Abbasi
5. Create Machine Learning datasets to measure content reliability on Wikipedia mentored by Diego Saez-Trumper, Miriam Redi
6. Evaluate Microsoft Playwright as replacement for our browser automation mentored by Željko Filipin, Soham Parekh, Vidhi Mody
7. Refactor Selenium tests and perform cleanup mentored by Vidhi Mody, Željko Filipin, Soham Parekh
8. Review and improve Lua documentation on meta and mediawiki mentored by Doug Taylor, Pavithra Eswaramoorthy

Note: Project details will be available on Outreachy site on October 7 2020 and visible to applicants who passed the initial eligibility check.

Contact

• Reach out for general questions on the #outreachy21 Zulip chat (preferred), after reading Outreach programs/Zulip.
• Organization administrators for this round are: Pavithra Eswaramoorthy, Gopa Vasanth and Srishti Sethi.
• Read how to communicate effectively and get help on technical questions.