Hi all -
Wikimedia is participating in Round 30 of the Outreachy program
<https://www.outreachy.org/> [1] that runs from June 2025 through August
2025! The deadline to submit projects on the Outreachy website is March 4,
2025 at 4pm UTC and the project list will be finalized by March 14, 2025.
We are currently gathering a list of interesting project ideas. If you have
some ideas for coding or non-coding (design, documentation, translation,
outreach, research) projects, please share them on this task:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T386245 [2]. (Note that tasks will be
hidden until the application period begins.)
About the Outreachy Program
Outreachy is a paid, remote three-month internship program. Outreachy's
goal is to support people from groups underrepresented in tech. We help
newcomers to free software and open source make their first contributions
in Free and Open Source Software (FOSS), coding, and non-coding projects
with experienced mentors.
Interns are paid a stipend of USD 7000 for the three months of work.
Outreachy internship projects may include programming, user experience,
documentation, illustration, graphical design, or data science. Interns
often find employment after their internship with Outreachy sponsors or in
jobs that use the skills they learned during their internship.
Outreachy expressly invites the following people to apply:
- women (both cis and trans), trans men, and genderqueer people to apply.
- residents and nationals of the United States of any gender who are
Black/African American, Hispanic/Latin@, Native American/American
Indian, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, or Pacific Islander
- anyone who faces under-representation, systematic bias, or
discrimination in the technology industry of their country
More details and eligibility criteria can be found here:
https://www.outreachy.org/apply/eligibility/ [3]
Tips for mentors for proposing projects
As a mentor, you will engage with potential candidates in the application
period from February to March and help them make small contributions to
your project. You will work more closely with the accepted candidates
during the internship period from June through August.
Each mentor will need to submit an intern project proposal:
https://www.outreachy.org/communities/cfp/wikimedia/ [4]
The project proposal will then be reviewed and approved by the FOSS
community coordinators. Additional co-mentors for the intern project will
be able to sign up for the project after it has been approved by the
community coordinator.
Guidelines for Crafting Project Proposals
- A proposal should include:
- Brief summary
- Skills required
- Learning outcomes
- Possible mentor(s)
- Microtasks
- Each project should have at least two mentors, with one of them
holding a technical background.
- Ideally, the project has no tight deadlines, a moderate learning
curve, and fewer dependencies on Wikimedia's core infrastructure. Projects
addressing the needs of a language community are most welcome.
- Project should require an experienced developer ~15 days and a
newcomer ~3 months to complete.
- To learn more about the roles and responsibilities of mentors, visit
the resources:
- https://www.outreachy.org/mentor/mentor-faq/ [5]
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreachy/Mentors [6]
Thanks!
- Developer Outreach team
[1] https://www.outreachy.org/
[2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T386245
[3] https://www.outreachy.org/apply/eligibility/
[4] https://www.outreachy.org/communities/cfp/wikimedia/
[5] https://www.outreachy.org/mentor/mentor-faq/
[6] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreachy/Mentors
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Lani Goto (they/them)
Senior Technical Program Manager
After the successful working on solving the problem of human settlements
without a country, we have to move to the elephant in the room: items
without statements.
After some discussion in Telegram, let me share some numbers here.
There are currently 829k of them.
https://w.wiki/DEYs
There are another 493k items with only one identifier and no other
statement.
https://qlever.cs.uni-freiburg.de/wikidata/Z8OkZi?exec=true
Often that single identifier is just the Google Knowledge Graph ID (P2671).
So basically we have more than a million items that are empty or almost
empty.
(And this is not even the list of all items without any instance of (P31) /
subclass of (P279), nor a list of items with missing other basic
statements, like country, coordinates, sports, etc, etc.)
All these items are basically useless as they contain no data.
Any thoughts on how we can reduce this problem?
Romaine
Hello all!
The Search Platform Team usually holds an open meeting on the first
Wednesday of each month. Come talk to us about anything related to
Wikimedia search, Wikidata Query Service (WDQS), Wikimedia Commons Query
Service (WCQS), etc.!
Feel free to add your items to the Etherpad Agenda for the next meeting.
Details for our next meeting:
Date: Wednesday, March 5, 2025
Time: 16:00-17:00 UTC / 08:00 PST / 11:00 EST / 17:00 CET
Etherpad: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Search_Platform_Office_Hours
Google Meet link: https://meet.google.com/vgj-bbeb-uyi
Join by phone: https://tel.meet/vgj-bbeb-uyi?pin=8118110806927
Have fun and see you soon!
Guillaume
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*Guillaume Lederrey* (he/him)
Engineering Manager
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Hello
A new Wikidata online event approaches: Wikidata and Sister Projects
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Event:wikidata_and_Sister_Projects>.
We're bringing together editors from across the Wikimedia Projects who are
using Wikidata to enhance their articles, content, workflows and more, so
please head on over and register
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:RegisterForEvent/1291>!
📆 The event is taking place online from *May 29 to June 1, 2025*. You will
be able to join live or watch the videos later.
Proposals are welcome from editors of all Wikimedia projects where Wikidata
is used, in Wikipedia, Commons, Wikisource and more!
You can propose sessions on the talk page
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Event_talk:Wikidata_and_Sister_Projects>
until March 31st, here’s some ideas for inspiration:
⚒️ - demos of tools, gadgets or templates using Wikidata's data in another
Wikimedia project
💬 - discussions between Wikidata editors and editors from other projects
on collaboration and knowledge sharing
✅ - Success stories, creative uses and experiments.
If you have any questions or suggestions, feel free to write on the talk
page or to reach out to me directly.
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*Danny Benjafield*
Community Communications Manager
Wikidata For Wikimedia Projects
Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin
Phone: +49 (0)30-577 11 62-0
https://wikimedia.de
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