Hello Folks,

Please join me in welcoming Wikimedia's accepted candidates for Google Summer of Code 2021 and Outreachy Round 22!

*Google Summer of Code 2021*

1. Yash Varshney, India, Add autocompletion to Page Forms spreadsheet-style display https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T278714 Mentors: Yaron Koren, Sahaj Khandelwal.

2. Yash Agrawal, India, Add zoom and pan to the Wikisource Pagelist Widget https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T279255 Mentors: Sam Wilson, Satdeep Gill, Sohom Datta.

3. Aditya Srivastav, India, Custom Picture Selector for upload in Commons app https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T279266 Mentors: Madhur-Gupta, Nicolas Raoul.

4. Devyansh Chawla, India, Develop a UserScript/Gadget tutorial on MediaWiki.org similar to Wikipedia:The_Wikipedia_Adventure https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T278730 Mentors: Krishna Chaitanya (KC), Enterprisey, Jay Prakash.

5. Hari Krishna, India, Develop a web based monitoring dashboard to improve and monitor existing database backup inventory processes and improve long term maintainability of existing code https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T279552, Mentors: Manuel Arostegui, Jaime Crespo.

6. Dhairya Khanna, India, Gamified Knowledge Base Completion Plugin for Wikibase/Wikidata https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T278730, Mentors: Dennis Diefenbach, Aleksandr Perevalov, Andreas Both, Kunpeng GUO.

7. Shailesh Kanojiya, India, Write Cypress tests for wikipedia-preview https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T280062, Mentors: Gabriel Pita, Vidhi Mody, Soham Parekh

8. Anubhav Sharma, India, Retraining models from ORES to be deployable on Lift Wing https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T279961, Mentors: Chtnnh, Calbon

9. Bhaarat Kumar Khatri, India, Update the front-page of Wikimedia projects https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T279961, Mentors: Jdrewniak

10. Sahil Grewal, India, Upgrade WebdriverIO to the latest version 7 for all repositories https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T279998, Mentors: Vidhi Mody, Soham Parekh

*Outreachy Round 22*

1. Ammar Abdulhamid, Synchronising Wikidata and Wikipedias using pywikibot https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T276329 Mentors: Mike Peel.

2. Nirali Sahoo, Synchronising Wikidata and Wikipedias using pywikibot https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T276329 Mentors: Mike Peel.

3. Slavina S, Use PAWS to create a series of notebook based tutorials that help users access and work with data on Wikimedia projects https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T276270 Mentors: Srodlund, Isaac Johnson.

4. Muniza A., Build a tool for analyzing and visualizing reader navigation on wikipedia. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T276270 Mentors: Martin Gerlach and Isaac Johnson.

We would like to encourage accepted candidates to introduce themselves on this thread, share with us where they are coming from and give a brief overview of the project they will be working on.

We planned GSoC and Outreachy Interns Welcome Party during the Wikimedia Hackathon 2021 on Sunday, i.e May 23th 04:00 UTC/GMT in the Jitsi platform, Feel free to pop into the room to know more about the project details that our interns will be working for the next several months.

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!

Thank you to Srishti, Pavithra and Ankit Maity for coordinating this round along with me!