Hey,
I got asked by a friend whether there are any projects in Outreachy in general and if any projects could be pitched to Wikimedia in particular, that are focused on UX or if it's limited to software development.
Thanks for the organization of this awesome program!
On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 8:58 AM, Sumit Asthana asthana.sumit23@gmail.com wrote:
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:
- 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:
- 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 _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l