Wikimedia Foundation

Global movement whose mission is to bring free educational content to the world

Technologies
javascript, android, ruby on rails, php, reactjs
Topics
education, web, wikipedia, wikimedia, mediawiki
Global movement whose mission is to bring free educational content to the world

We believe that knowledge should be free for every human being. We prioritize efforts that empower disadvantaged and underrepresented communities, and that help overcome barriers to participation. We believe in mass collaboration, diversity and consensus building to achieve our goals. Wikipedia has become the fifth most-visited site in the world, used by more than 400 million people every month in more than 270 languages. We have other content projects including Wikimedia Commons, Wikidata and the most recent one, Wikivoyage. We also maintain the MediaWiki engine and a wide collection of open source software projects around it. But there is much more we can do: stabilize infrastructure, increase participation, improve quality, increase reach, encourage innovation. You can help to these goals in many ways.

2018 Program

Successful Projects

Contributor
Megha Sharma
Mentor
James Hare, Guilherme Gonçalves
Organization
Wikimedia Foundation
[#1Lib1Ref] Build a "worklist" tool for campaigns and in-person editing events
In this project, a tool will be developed that will basically enable people to collaborate during campaigns and in-person editing events. It'll act...
Contributor
Hagar Shilo
Mentor
Moriel Schottlender
Organization
Wikimedia Foundation
Adding 'User' search filters to the existing filter menu
The User filter’s purpose is to display edits made by particular users. It will be added to the main filter panel. Desired features include the...
Contributor
psinghal20
Mentor
ragesoss
Organization
Wikimedia Foundation
WikiEducation Dashboard Article Finder Tool
The Wiki Education Dashboard/ Programs & Events Dashboard is a Web Application that helps people organize groups of newcomers to contribute to...
Contributor
Karan Dhingra
Mentor
Erik Bernhardson
Organization
Wikimedia Foundation
Predict relevance of search results from historical clicks using a Neural Click Model
Click models are algorithmic approaches which help in the ​understanding relevance of documents over a given query by modeling the search queries in...
Contributor
Ujjwal Agrawal
Mentor
Nes, Nicolas Raoul
Organization
Wikimedia Foundation
[Wikimedia Commons app] Allow users to browse Commons from app
About the project This project is aimed at providing an option to browse/search the Wikimedia Commons using the app. Why this feature is needed? ...
Contributor
Perside Rosalie
Mentor
Ariel Glenn, Derick Ndimnain Alangi, Dereckson
Organization
Wikimedia Foundation
[GSoC proposal 2018] Emoji Twitter bot for Commons images from NYPL fork
Wikimedia Commons is a Wikimedia Foundation project and an online repository of images videos and other media files. A Twitter bot is a type of bot...
Contributor
Tanvi Dadu
Mentor
Josephine Lim, Vivek Maskara
Organization
Wikimedia Foundation
Feedback on how pictures uploaded to Commons get used: statistics, barnstars, light gamification
This project will be executed in two phases. First phase is sharing feedback about uploaded photos in the form of number of images used in...
Contributor
Yashdeep Thorat
Mentor
Yaron Koren, Nischay Nahata
Organization
Wikimedia Foundation
Add a spreadsheet interface for modifying multiple pages to the Page Forms extension
The Page Forms extension for MediaWiki is currently used to create and edit pages using an interface made up of forms that simplify the process. The...
Contributor
Nikhil-nk
Mentor
Yaron Koren, Derick Ndimnain Alangi, FAhmad
Organization
Wikimedia Foundation
Improve the Cargo Special:Drilldown page
The Cargo extension's Special:Drilldown page shows a listing of each table, its contents, and a set of filters, for all the data in a wiki stored via...
Contributor
Sahil Khokhar
Mentor
Marcel Ruiz Forns
Organization
Wikimedia Foundation
[Analytics] Improvements to Wikistats 2.0 front-end
Wikistats is the public statistics website of the Wikimedia Foundation. Its main purpose is to add context and motivate our editor community by...
Contributor
Neha Jha
Mentor
Andrew Bogott
Organization
Wikimedia Foundation
Improvements for the Toolforge 'webservice' command
This project is about improving the webservice command used by toolforge to start and stop web services. It involves solving bugs and adding features...
Contributor
Prssanna Desai
Mentor
Jonas Kress, Stanislav Malyshev
Organization
Wikimedia Foundation
Improve Data Explorer on query.wikidata.org
The Wikidata Query Service allows users to run complex queries and ask intricate questions to Wikidata, a free, open and vast knowledge base. My...