Hello Folks,
Please join me in welcoming Wikimedia's accepted candidates for Google
Summer of Code 2022 and Outreachy Round 24!
*Google Summer of Code 2022*
1. Nivas Ramisetty, India, Campaigns Retention Metrics Dashboard
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T304826>
Mentors: KCVelaga, Jayprakash12345.
2. Ayan Sarkar, India, Improve the picture selector of the Commons
Android app
<https://github.com/commons-app/apps-android-commons/issues/4764>
Mentors: Syced, Aditya.
3. Lalit Suthar, India, Extending the WikidataComplete plugin for
enabling data donations, recommendations, and gamification
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T301613>
Mentors: Gabinguo
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Gabinguo>, Aleksandr
Perevalov <https://github.com/Perevalov>
4. Ankit Gupta, India, Edit Request Wizard
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T300454>
Mentors: Enterprisey
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Enterprisey>, SD0001
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:SD0001>.
5. Shashwat Khanna <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Shashwat312>,
India, Modernize JavaScript build process and dependencies for Wiki
Education Dashboard <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T301731>,
Mentors: Sage (Wiki Ed)
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Sage_(Wiki_Ed)> .
6. Lennard Hofmann <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:LennardHofmann>,
Germany, Rewrite the Wikidata Infobox on Commons in Lua
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T302098>,
Mentors: Mike Peel <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Mike_Peel>.
7. Amal Paul, India, Command-line interface for Canasta
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T301893>,
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T279998>
Mentors: Jeffrey Wang
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:MyWikis-JeffreyWang>, Yaron Koren
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Yaron_Koren>
*Outreachy Round 24*
1. Vaidehi Atpadkar, Add support for tracking specific namespaces to
Programs & Events Dashboard <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T301732>
Mentors: Sage Ross.
2. Nazia Tasnim, Build Python library to work with html-dumps
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T302237>
Mentors: Martin Gerlach, Isaac Johnson.
3. Feliciss, What's in a name? Automatically identifying first and
last author names for Wikicite and Wikidata
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T300207>
Mentors: Mike Peel <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Mike_Peel>,
Pigsonthewing <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Pigsonthewing>.
4. Luis Roberto, What's in a name? Automatically identifying first and
last author names for Wikicite and Wikidata
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T300207>
Mentors: Mike Peel <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Mike_Peel>,
Pigsonthewing <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Pigsonthewing>.
We would like to encourage accepted candidates to introduce themselves on
this thread, share with us where they are coming from and give a brief
overview of the project they will be working on.
We’re so proud of the contributions they have made so far to our community,
and we look forward to having a wonderful time working with them over the
summer! Also, a huge shout-out to the project mentors for their enthusiasm
and commitment!
Thank you to Srishti, Jay Prakash
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Jayprakash12345> and Aisha Khatun
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Aisha_Khatun> for coordinating this
round along with me!
[1] Google Summer of Code 2022:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/2022
[2] Outreachy Round 24:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreachy/Round_24
Regards,
Gopa Vasanth <https://gopavasanth.me>
Twitter <https://twitter.com/gopavasanth1999> | LinkedIn
<https://www.linkedin.com/in/gopa-vasanth/> | GitHub
<https://github.com/gopavasanth> | Gerrit
<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/gopavasanth>
“Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.”