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(a)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(a)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(a)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(a)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**
>>>
>>> 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)
>>>
>>