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 nik.xyz.in@gmail.com 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 gopavasanth1999@gmail.com wrote:

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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%3E 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%3E 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

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    Mentors: Adam Wight, Kavitha A, Simulo

2. Abhishek Bhardwaj, India, Research imbalances in translation

between languages on Wikipedia <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T333097

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    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)