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,
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