Hello all,
Google released the selects for GSoC 2016 yesterday, and Wikimedia is happy to welcome its 8 interns:
1. Accuracy Review of Wikipedia https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T129536 - Priyanka. Mentors - James Salsman, Fabian Flock 2. Extension for page creating/editing notification https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T130924 - Abhinand. Mentors - Yaron_Koren, tosfos 3. Implementing HTML E-Mail support in MediaWiki https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T130490 - Galorefitz. Mentors - Parent5446, Tony Thomas 4. Integration of IFTTT support to WikiData https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T129016 - D3r1ck01. Mentors - Slaporte, Bene, hoo, Lydia_Pintscher 5. Improving static analysis tools for MediaWiki https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T130574 - Lethexie. Mentors. Mentors - Addshore, EBernhardson, Legoktm 6. List Of Contributors https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T129123 - Devirk. Mentors- Addshore, Samtar 7. Port catimages.py to pywikibot-core https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T129611 - AbdealiJK. Mentors - DrTrigo, jayvdb 8. Pywikibot Support for Thanks https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T130585 - darthbhyrava. Mentors - javydb, legoktm
Your comments and feedback are welcome at the proposal and its parent tasks. We have couple of projects coming up from the Community Wishlist survey, and thanks to the Wikidata team too for their help.
We selected three[1] of our Outreachy interns for GSoC, as their mentors and org admins agreed.
For the selected applicants, the community bonding period will begin shortly, and you can find out how to make maximum out of it in our *Life of a successful project* doc[2]. Edits are welcome on that document too, to make things easy for the interns.
For applicants who came up with a strong proposal, and couldn't make it for this round, you can plan to work on the same ( if your mentors agree too ). You can apply with the same for a future round considering consensus and eligibility. We have marked rejected proposal tasks as declined, but feel free to implement, in case the community and mentors seem interested. Consider notifying your siblings about the upcoming Google Code In ( g.co/gci ) round too, if they are < 18 years of age and do take a look at Wikimedia PEG[3].
Thanks to Sumit[4] and Niharika for co-organizing this round with me, and Quim for his time.
You can find the GSoC-16 phab project at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/google-summer-of-code-2016/ for a better view.
[1] https://wiki.gnome.org/Outreachy/2016/MayAugust#Wikimedia [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreach_programs/Life_of_a_successful_projec... [3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG%5C [4] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Sumit.iitp
Thanks, Tony Thomas https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:01tonythomas Home http://www.thomastony.me | Blog http://blog.thomastony.me | ThinkFOSS http://www.thinkfoss.com
Congratulations to all selected interns!
I had also submitted a GSoC proposal for "Improving static analysis tools for MediaWiki", but I suppose the better candidate got selected. What I would like to know, for the next round of GSoC/ Outreachy is, how exactly was the better candidate decided? The answer would be really helpful to me and all other future candidates :)
Thank you, and good luck to all the interns! Regards, Aashaka Shah
On Sat, Apr 23, 2016 at 12:31 PM, Tony Thomas 01tonythomas@gmail.com wrote:
Hello all,
Google released the selects for GSoC 2016 yesterday, and Wikimedia is happy to welcome its 8 interns:
- Accuracy Review of Wikipedia
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T129536 - Priyanka. Mentors - James Salsman, Fabian Flock 2. Extension for page creating/editing notification https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T130924 - Abhinand. Mentors - Yaron_Koren, tosfos 3. Implementing HTML E-Mail support in MediaWiki https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T130490 - Galorefitz. Mentors - Parent5446, Tony Thomas 4. Integration of IFTTT support to WikiData https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T129016 - D3r1ck01. Mentors - Slaporte, Bene, hoo, Lydia_Pintscher 5. Improving static analysis tools for MediaWiki https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T130574 - Lethexie. Mentors. Mentors
- Addshore, EBernhardson, Legoktm
- List Of Contributors https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T129123 -
Devirk. Mentors- Addshore, Samtar 7. Port catimages.py to pywikibot-core https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T129611 - AbdealiJK. Mentors - DrTrigo, jayvdb 8. Pywikibot Support for Thanks https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T130585 - darthbhyrava. Mentors - javydb, legoktm
Your comments and feedback are welcome at the proposal and its parent tasks. We have couple of projects coming up from the Community Wishlist survey, and thanks to the Wikidata team too for their help.
We selected three[1] of our Outreachy interns for GSoC, as their mentors and org admins agreed.
For the selected applicants, the community bonding period will begin shortly, and you can find out how to make maximum out of it in our *Life of a successful project* doc[2]. Edits are welcome on that document too, to make things easy for the interns.
For applicants who came up with a strong proposal, and couldn't make it for this round, you can plan to work on the same ( if your mentors agree too ). You can apply with the same for a future round considering consensus and eligibility. We have marked rejected proposal tasks as declined, but feel free to implement, in case the community and mentors seem interested. Consider notifying your siblings about the upcoming Google Code In ( g.co/gci ) round too, if they are < 18 years of age and do take a look at Wikimedia PEG[3].
Thanks to Sumit[4] and Niharika for co-organizing this round with me, and Quim for his time.
You can find the GSoC-16 phab project at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/google-summer-of-code-2016/ for a better view.
[1] https://wiki.gnome.org/Outreachy/2016/MayAugust#Wikimedia [2]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreach_programs/Life_of_a_successful_projec... [3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG%5C [4] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Sumit.iitp
Thanks, Tony Thomas https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:01tonythomas Home http://www.thomastony.me | Blog http://blog.thomastony.me | ThinkFOSS http://www.thinkfoss.com _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Hello Aashaka,
On Sat, Apr 23, 2016 at 1:26 PM, Aashaka Shah aashaka96@gmail.com wrote:
I had also submitted a GSoC proposal for "Improving static analysis tools for MediaWiki", but I suppose the better candidate got selected. What I would like to know, for the next round of GSoC/ Outreachy is, how exactly was the better candidate decided? The answer would be really helpful to me and all other future candidates :)
True. The best approach would be to open up a Conpherence with your mentors ( I hope they appreciate it ), and asking the same. If you do not find any lucky with that, kindly ping or add in the the org-admins too, and we will get this resolved.
Thanks, Tony Thomas https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:01tonythomas Home http://www.thomastony.me | Blog http://blog.thomastony.me | ThinkFOSS http://www.thinkfoss.com
On Sat, 2016-04-23 at 13:44 +0530, Tony Thomas wrote:
The best approach would be to open up a Conpherence with your mentors ( I hope they appreciate it ), and asking the same. If you do not find any lucky with that, kindly ping or add in the org-admins too, and we will get this resolved.
For those wondering: "Conpherence" is the name of the discussion tool in Wikimedia Phabricator. It allows private conversations. See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Phabricator/Help#Using_Conpherence
Cheers, andre
Congratulations to all the candidates selected -- and their mentors!
Also an encouragement to all the candidates that worked hard but could not get an internship. Our statistics show that applicants going after a second round have a very high success rate.
I also want to thank volunteer org admins Tony and Sumit, who (with just a bit of support from Niharika and me) have run the GSoC and Outreachy selection processes smoothly and on time. Tony, your announcement almost reads like a Wikimedia Blog post (hint, hint). :)
On Sat, Apr 23, 2016 at 9:56 AM, Aashaka Shah aashaka96@gmail.com wrote:
I had also submitted a GSoC proposal for "Improving static analysis tools for MediaWiki", but
Aashaka, thank your for your understanding. Without knowing the details of this decision, let me note that Priyanka (prnk28) was in a situation similar to yours six months ago, when she was an Outreachy candidate but saw her application declined. Yet she continued being involved, I guess she learned a lot, and got more experience in our developer community, and now that perseverance is paying off.
D3r1ck01 has a similar story, and... can it be that he is our first African GSoC student? He joined this community half year ago, expressed his clear interest in this GSoC round, and since then he has been involved as a volunteer, also learning through practice and informal mentorship from experienced developers.
To all the participants in this round: don't give up! Wikimedia is a movement offering many possibilities to volunteer developers. I'm sure there is a project or two where you can learn, meet interesting people, and prepare for the next round.
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