Hello everyone,
Please join me in welcoming 7 interns we have accepted through Outreachy Round 21! :) We received over 28 applications for 8 projects we promoted during the application period. See below for more information on the accepted projects:
*Outreachy Round 21*
* Name, Project <link>, Mentor(s)*
1. Aisha Khatun, Analyze community authored functions that build Wikipedia infoboxes and more <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T263678>, Adam Baso
2. Liudmila Kalina, Analyze community authored functions that build Wikipedia infoboxes and more <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T263678>, Adam Baso
3. Jesse Amamgbu, Build a tool for inferring what countries are associated with a given Wikipedia article <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T263646>, Isaac Johnson
4. Harshinee Sriram, Create a Not Safe for Work (NSFW) media Classifier for Wikimedia Commons <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T264045>, Daniyal Abbasi and Chaitanya Mittal
5. Kay Wong, Create Machine Learning datasets to measure content reliability on Wikipedia <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T263860>, Miriam Redi and Diego Saez-Trumper
6. Harriet, Evaluate Microsoft Playwright as replacement for our browser automation <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T262682>, Željko Filipin and Vidhi Mody and Soham Parekh
7. Ogechi O, Review and improve Lua documentation on meta and mediawiki <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T254956>, Doug Taylor and Pavithra Eswaramoorthy
You can stay up to date on the progress of selected projects by keeping an eye on https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreachy/Round_21/Bi-weekly_Reports
We wish all interns have a wonderful winter working on projects and a huge thank you to all the mentors involved in this edition!
Cheers,
Gopa Vasanth, Pavithra & Srishti (Wikimedia org admins)
“Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.”