Hello Wikimedians,
Gnome's Outreachy-13 https://wiki.gnome.org/Outreachy is round the corner and Wikimedia is again participating in yet another internship season ( Dec 6 to March 6 ). The application deadline is *Oct - 17*.
Its interesting to see that candidates have already started to ping on projects and show their interest!
Our Outreachy-13 board https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/2207/ till now has only three projects. A lot of projects are sitting in possible-tech-projects https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/possible-tech-projects/ board waiting to be mentored. Many of them are tagged as *community-wishlist* showing the community consensus. The *community wishlist* items which could use some love are:
1. Make Special:Listfiles show the quantity of globalusage for a file - T120748 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T120748 2. Category suggestions based on filename, description and location - T120437 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T120437 3. Create a Timer based reminder for workflows - T88781 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T88781
Some others which look interesting:
1. Dark archive for Commons - T120454 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T120454 2. Create a CAPTCHA that is also a useful micro edit - T87598 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T87598 3. Fix TreeViews to provide pageviews statistics for all articles of any wikiproject etc. - T56184 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T56184 4. Stash unsaved drafts of articles - T89235 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T89235 5. Merge proofread text back into Djvu files - T59807 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T59807
Its a gentle request to please go through the projects, and if you could mentor any of those, add yourself to the task as a mentor, and we'll do the rest.
Also, if you have a lingering task to finish or a new interesting feature waiting to get implemented, add *possbile-tech-projects*, and we'll make sure to feature it. The only scope requirement is that it should take 2-3 weeks for an experienced developer to finish.
Please come forward to mentor some of the enthusiastic students so that we can welcome new members into our community :)
-Thanks and Regards, -Sumit, B.Tech Final Year, Dept. of CSE, IIT Patna