Hi everyone 👋
I am Shashwat and I'm currently pursuing an undergrad degree in Computer Science. You may remember me from last year - I had participated in GSoC 2022 as well and my project was about improving the JavaScript tooling of WikiEduDashboard.
As you might've guessed, that project was mostly relevant to developers and users of the Dashboard probably won't have noticed any changes. This year, I'm still working on the Dashboard but on a more user side project. My project is about improving/designing the UI for adding and editing the various scoping methods supported by the Dashboard to make more instructors aware of these features. It'll involve a bit of designing, some user research, and a lot of prototyping.
I had a lot of fun last year and can't wait to meet everyone again.
Thanks and congratulations to the rest of the interns.
Shashwat
On Tue, May 9, 2023, 7:55 PM Saurabh Jamadagni < saurabhjamadagni2002@gmail.com> wrote:
Hey all!
My name is Saurabh Jamadagni and I am a Junior in college from India. I'll be contributing to the Scribe-iOS project under the mentorship of Andrew.
My tasks for the duration of my contributing period will be to create an application menu based on the design files of Scribe. Currently, the mobile app only consists of two pages with the core functionality. The Scribe codebase has received a lot of changes in the past few months. These have brought in new exciting features and a comprehensive menu will allow the users to select their preferences in a more user friendly manner. The second part of my project will be to add new languages to the Scribe keyboard. As Scribe is a keyboard application for language learners, the scope to expand the offerings is huge. By working on this project I will be able to contribute in bringing more languages to Scribe using the abundant Wikidata data stores.
To talk about my likings outside programming, I play badminton and am part of my college team. I also love tinkering with water colours and painting! I am so excited to be a part of the community (even just being a part of this email thread is thrilling haha). I would like to thank all the Org Admins and my mentor for a smooth application process. You have been immensely helpful!
Looking forward to a great summer and beyond with you all :)
Warm Regards, Saurabh
On Tue, May 9, 2023 at 7:35 PM Sohom Datta dattasohom1@gmail.com wrote:
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:
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**
- Ahmed Amine Hassou, Morocco, Wiki Education Dashboard:
Refactoring and upgrading React < https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T332976%3E Mentors: Sage Ross
- Chenhao Liu, United States of America, Wiki farm support for
Canasta https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T333773 Mentors: Yaron Koren, Jeffrey Wang
- 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
- Zexi Gong, China, Wikidocumentaries to import images from the
web to Structured Data on Commons < https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T332671%3E Mentors: TuukkaH, Susannaanas
- Shashwat Khanna, India, Improve Programs & Events Dashboard UX
for Article Scoped Programs https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T332932 Mentors: Sage Ross
- Saurabh Jamadagni, India, Adding a menu to Scribe-iOS
application and expanding keyboard languages < https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T333156%3E Mentors: Andrew McAllister
- Ritika Pahwa, India, Commons Android app: Make upload more
reliable https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T332126 Mentors: Nicolas Raoul, Kaartic Sivaraam
- Punith Nayak, India, Improve the functionality of VideoCutTool -
New features https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T330465 Mentors: Gopa Vasanth, Sohom Datta
- 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**
- Nathaly Toledo, Venezuela, Research imbalances in translation
between languages on Wikipedia < https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T333792%3E Mentors: Adam Wight, Kavitha A, Simulo
- Abhishek Bhardwaj, India, Research imbalances in translation
between languages on Wikipedia < https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T333097%3E Mentors: Adam Wight, Kavitha A, Simulo
- 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)
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