Re: Congratulations to accepted candidates for Google Summer of Code 2023 & Outreachy Round 26 - Wikitech-l

9 May 2023

Congratulations and welcome, looking forward to seeing you guys around in
Wikimedia :)
Regards,
Sohom Datta
---
Open-source contributor @Wikimedia

On Tue, May 9, 2023 at 9:54 AM Nikhil &lt;nik.xyz.in(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:

...
  Greetings,
 I would like to introduce myself as Nikhil Mahajan from India, currently a
 sophomore at IIT Roorkee <https://www.iitr.ac.in/>. I am enthusiastic
 about software development and have been actively involved as a software
 developer at the coding club <https://github.com/mdgspace> at my college.
 Some of my noteworthy projects can be found on my Github profile
 <https://github.com/nik-55>.
 My journey into the world of open source began through GSoC, and I made my
 first contribution to MediaWiki. I was thrilled to see my first patch get
 merged and it gives me a boost to make more contributions. During my
 exploration of MediaWiki, I came across an interesting project called
 "Abstract Wikipedia". The GSoC project is about writing end-to-end tests
 for different critical user journeys in Wikifunctions. These tests will run
 against any patch review. The tests fail if the patch introduces changes
 that break down any of the user journeys. This will help avoid merging the
 patches that mistakenly introduce bugs into the project
 Initially, I faced some difficulty in understanding the concept of
 "zobject" in the Abstract Wikipedia project. However, my mentor, @stef,
 helped me to gain a clearer understanding of the project.
 Although my university exams have kept me away from making contributions
 for a while, I am now keen to contribute to the project.

 Thank you for your time and consideration.

 Sincerely,
 Nikhil Mahajan

 On Tue, 9 May 2023 at 16:53, Vasanth Gopa &lt;gopavasanth1999(a)gmail.com&gt;
 wrote:

  Hello folks,

 Please join us in welcoming Wikimedia's accepted candidates for Google
 Summer of Code 2023 [1] and Outreachy Round 26 [2]!

 **Google Summer of Code 2023**

    1.  Ahmed Amine Hassou, Morocco, Wiki Education Dashboard: Refactoring
 and upgrading React <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T332976>
         Mentors: Sage Ross

    2. Chenhao Liu, United States of America, Wiki farm support for
 Canasta <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T333773>
         Mentors:  Yaron Koren, Jeffrey Wang

    3.  Nikhil Mahajan, India, End-to-end test coverage for Abstract
 Wikipedia's Wikifunctions <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T333498>
         Mentors: Stef Dunlap, James Forrester, Cory Massaro, Denny
 Vrandečić

    4.  Zexi Gong, China, Wikidocumentaries to import images from the web
 to Structured Data on Commons <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T332671>
         Mentors: TuukkaH, Susannaanas

    5.  Shashwat Khanna, India, Improve Programs & Events Dashboard UX for
 Article Scoped Programs <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T332932>
         Mentors: Sage Ross

    6.   Saurabh Jamadagni, India, Adding a menu to Scribe-iOS application
 and expanding keyboard languages <
 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T333156>
          Mentors: Andrew McAllister

    7.  Ritika Pahwa, India, Commons Android app: Make upload more
 reliable <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T332126>
         Mentors: Nicolas Raoul, Kaartic Sivaraam

    8.  Punith Nayak, India, Improve the functionality of VideoCutTool -
 New features <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T330465>
         Mentors: Gopa Vasanth, Sohom Datta

    9. Varun Shrivastava, India,  Improve the functionality of
 VideoCutTool - Code Quality/Code Health <
 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T333466>
         Mentors: Gopa Vasanth, Sohom Datta

 **Outreachy Round 26**

    1.  Nathaly Toledo, Venezuela, Research imbalances in translation
 between languages on Wikipedia <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T333792
           Mentors: Adam Wight, Kavitha A,
Simulo

    2.  Abhishek Bhardwaj, India, Research imbalances in translation
 between languages on Wikipedia <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T333097
           Mentors: Adam Wight, Kavitha A,
Simulo

    3.  Sulagna Saha, Bangladesh, Write a Ruby gem for analyzing Wikidata
 edits <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T333790>
         Mentors: Sage Ross, Will Kent

 We would like to encourage accepted candidates to introduce themselves on
 this thread 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!

 [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/2023
 [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreachy/Round_26

 Regards,
 GSoC / Outreachy Wikimedia organization administrators (Gopa, Sohom,
 Srishti)