The Technical Collaboration team continues coordinating Wikimedia’s participation in these two international developer outreach programs:
- Google Summer of Code is an annual program for students and open-source beginners. Currently, it has 9 Wikimedia projects accepted, covering areas like Abstract Wikipedia or Structured Data on Commons. Past projects include rewriting the Wikidata infobox, the Campaigns Retention Metrics Dashboard, and the Edit Request Wizard.
- Outreachy provides internships in open source and open science to people subject to systemic bias and impacted by underrepresentation in the technical industry where they are living. Currently, it has three projects accepted, about Research imbalances in translation between languages on Wikipedia, Research imbalances in translation between languages on Wikipedia, and Write a Ruby gem for analyzing Wikidata edits. This program runs twice every year, the Foundation funds most of its internships, and there have been more than 70 internships.
GSoC and Outreachy have brought many new developers to Wikimedia, many of them repeating as mentors after completing their own internships, and some of them thriving as volunteer developers or staff at the Foundation. A recent example is Jay Prakash, former GSoC intern and awarded Wikimedian of the Year 2021 Tech Innovator winner.