Outreach programs
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Outreach programs
Google Summer of Code, LevelUp, Outreach Program for Women and other programs that mentor contributors
| Group: | Engineering Community Team |
| Team: | |
| Lead: | Quim Gil |
| Status: | See updates |
MediaWiki participates in several mentorship programs; these include the Outreach Program for Women, Google Summer of Code, Google Code-In, Facebook Open Academy, and UCOSP.
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Wikimedia took part in Google Code-in 2014, a contest for 13-17 year old pre-university students. In those seven weeks, 48 students successfully completed 226 Wikimedia tasks, supported by 30 mentors from the community.
Five out of seven FOSS Outreach Program for Women/Round 9 interns passed the mid-term check-point (Roxana and Priyanka are still under evaluation). You can check their weekly reports:
- Neta Livneh: Wikipedia article translation metrics weekly reports.
- Roxana Necula: Wikipedia article translation metrics weekly reports.
- Priyanka Jayaswal: Pywikibot: Compat to core migration weekly reports.
- Anke Nowottne: Wikipedia Education Program need-finding research weekly reports.
- Ankita Shukla: Collaborative spelling dictionary building tool weekly reports.
- Manpreet Kaur: Extending PyWikiBot support to sites on IWM weekly reports.
- Christy Okpo: Improving the Wikimedia Performance Portal weekly reports.
Rationale[edit | edit source]
The Wikimedia Foundation, and the MediaWiki community, want to encourage new and intermediate contributors to grow their skills, spread knowledge around the community to improve bus factor, and give more senior contributors a leadership opportunity.
More: FLOSS internship programs as catalysts for richer community collaboration
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- Possible projects
- Possible mentors
- Organizations
- Application template
- Selection process
- Evaluation criteria
- Lessons learned
- /Messages to candidates
- /2014-03-11 IRC Q&A session on GSoC and FOSS OPW
Communications[edit | edit source]
- Declining Google Code-In, 2011
- whether to do Google Code-In, 2012
- Wikimedia & MediaWiki to participate in Outreach Program for Women, 2012
- Apply for the FOSS Outreach Program for Women internships, 2012
- Evaluating Google Summer of Code, 2012
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Reporting instructions
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Summer_of_Code_2013#Reporting
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/Project_documentation_howto
- Example: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mentorship_programs/status
Do's and dont's
- http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2009/08/contact-early-contact-often.html
- http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2011/04/dos-and-donts-of-google-summer-of-code_21.html
- http://en.flossmanuals.net/GSoCMentoring/warning-signs
- https://terrrydactyl.wordpress.com/2013/01/02/first-day
- http://www.aosabook.org/en/index.html
- http://sindhus.bitbucket.org/asking-for-help-floss-communities.html
- http://dberkholz.com/2011/03/27/the-dos-and-don%E2%80%99ts-of-google-summer-of-code-student-edition
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreach_Program_for_Women/Round_5
Help
- https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!forum/google-summer-of-code-discuss
- https://plus.google.com/106914622056861826817/about
Logs, blogs and jobs
- http://bots.wmflabs.org/~wm-bot/logs/%23wikimedia-office/20130626.txt
- http://bots.wmflabs.org/~wm-bot/logs/%23wikimedia-office/
- http://en.planet.wikimedia.org/
- https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Planet_Wikimedia
- https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Job_openings#Wikimedia_Careers
