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Celebrating Free and Open Source Software with Google Summer of Code and Outreachy

Programs like Google Summer of Code, Google Season of Docs, and Outreachy can provide a platform to accelerate your FOSS journey. Learn about Wikimedia’s outreach programs.

Lalitha’s story: an Outreachy intern shares her experience

In this post, Lalitha, an Outreachy intern from 2020, shares her experience with the program.

Designing technical workshops for the Indic community

This blog post summarizes planning that went into designing a technical workshop series for the Indic community, key outcomes, success stories, lessons learned, and some next steps! It targets potential organizers who might be interested in conducting similar training in their wiki community.

Celebrating 600,000 commits for Wikimedia

A reflection on the developer services we offer and our community of developers.

Using Zulip, an Open Source tool, for engaging participants in Wikimedia’s technical outreach programs

Zulip enables organizers and mentors to provide support and guidance to participants in each phase of technical outreach programs.

Google Code-In 2019: The next generation of technologists contribute to Wikimedia’s code

Each year the Google Code-in contest brings students and mentors from around the world together to improve their technical skills and to make contributions to the Wikimedia movement.

First-ever Coolest Tool Award: Thank you for the tools!

The Coolest Tool Award acknowledges projects and with that, all the people who have been contributing to those projects — primarily the developers and maintainers, and the people who help with documentation, translation, feedback, technical advice, design or communication.