Hello all, Following up here with a quick note that the Outreachy selection phase got recently over, and they announced the selected interns - Wikimedia is pleased to welcome six Outreachy interns through December 2022 - March 2023 round to work on technical projects:
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreachy/Round_25#Selected_projects> [1]

If you come across an intern in a virtual setting, please say hi :)

Cheers,
Srishti

[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreachy/Round_25#Selected_projects

Srishti Sethi
Senior Developer Advocate
Wikimedia Foundation



On Tue, Oct 11, 2022 at 5:58 PM Srishti Sethi <ssethi@wikimedia.org> wrote:

Hello all,


Here is a quick update on Outreachy Round 25: we recently concluded the final call for projects and mentors and are now promoting 6 projects led by 14 mentors. If you know someone who cleared the Outreachy's initial eligibility check, encourage them to explore the Wikimedia projects below: 


  • Create a web application for editing Toolhub records, mentored by: Slavina Stefanova, Damilare Adedoyin, Roy Smith
  • Develop features for Wiki Loves Monuments app, mentored by: Ederporto, Mike Peel
  • Rewrite Imagebulk tool to scale up, mentored by: Jay Prakash, Sudhanshu Gautam
  • Write a Ruby gem for analyzing Wikidata edits, mentored by: Sage Ross, Will Kent
  • Develop a web app for patrolling based on the new ML-based service to predict reverts, mentored by: Diego Saez-Trumper, Muniza A.
  • Hybrid event production for QueeringWikipedia 2023, mentored by: Z. Blace, Owen Blacker, Freddy eduardo


If you are interested in any of these projects, you can either subscribe to the related Phabricator tickets or share your ideas and suggestions in a comment. 


Learn more here: <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreachy/Round_25> [1]


Cheers,

Srishti


[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreachy/Round_25


Srishti Sethi
Senior Developer Advocate
Wikimedia Foundation