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Profile

Name: Soumya Atul Gupta
Email: soumyag213@gmail.com
IRC or IM networks/handle(s): soum on freenode
Web Page / Blog / Microblog / Portfolio: My Github profile and my personal blog
Location: New Delhi/Mumbai
Typical working hours: 1000-1330 hours and 2030-0230 hours, GMT +5.30

Synopsis
The project aims to consolidate the documentation for Zotero's translation servers, which in turn will help Citoid (a service that allows people to easily add references on Wikipedias). Currently, up-to-date documentation exists only for the browser plug-ins not the translation-server and not on wikipedia, but on Zotero. This documentation will be present on mediawiki.org and and the translation of the documentation to Hindi and French will be done.
While writing the documentation, site-specific bugs will be solved (in order to establish full rapport with it).

Mentors: @Mvolz and @czar

Deliverables:

1. Write documentation for Zotero plug-in and translation server
2. Write translators for Zotero
3. Cleaning up Citoid-related issues site-specific Zotero bugs

Proposed Timeline:

Mid-term review: Basic Documentation begun, and 6/8 bugs solved

Given below are the screenshots of the Zotero and Scaffold plug-ins in use to translate webpages

Participation

I've been a regular user of Git for quite a while now, so I've got the basics of code review firmly established.
While I'll be working on the project, I'll be backing up my code everyday to Git and for review to Gerrit. This regularity will help other developers keep a track of my progress, and to point out corrections at every stage.

In addition to this, other forums where I will be available are:
IRC: I'll stay online on freenode in MediaWiki-General and #wikimedia-services as soum during my working hours.
I'll post my progress (weekly summary) on my personal blog.

About you

Education and Work Experience

I am a final (fourth) year student pursuing Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Communication at Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India . Over the years, I've gleaned knowledge of not only Circuits and Systems, Electronics, Digital Signal Processing, Computer System Architecture, Microprocessors et al but Programming, Data Structures, Algorithms and Machine Learning. I want to pursue Natural Language Processing in the future with a side of Linguistics. My final year project is based on Image Captioning using Neural Networks. I am also a open-source contributor to CLTK (Classical Language Toolkit) (I've talked about this later)

Over the summer (2016), I interned with Royal Bank of Scotland as a Software Development Intern. My work was mainly centered around RESTful HTTP APIs using the language Groovy (a mixture of Java + Python) as a base. I also did a project on Data Analysis wherein I had to organize the messed-up data streaming in through my department, I used SQL and QlikView to streamline the data.
I am also comfortable coding in C++, Python and Java.

HTML is a language that I have been introduced to since 2007, ever since web design became a part of our curriculum.
I am the senior editor of the college newspaper, so I like to think that I would be able to get the documentation done easily. I am not alien to the open-source contribution culture having contributed to a FOSS organization before.
These three skills together, make me an ideal candidate for the project at hand which mainly requires documentation and web scraping.

How did you hear about this program?
I heard about this program from colleagues who have been participants in the previous rounds (Mozilla, Round 12 and The Perl Foundation, Round 9). The learning curve exhibited by both my colleagues is primarily what inspired me to apply here.

Will you have any other time commitments, such as school work, another job, planned vacation, etc., during the duration of the program?
I will have college work from mid-Feb to March, but the work pressure will be minimal as it is mainly a research-based semester. I will easily be able to give 40+ hours a week to this project. Other than that, I will have a classical dance exam (Odissi, that's an Indian Classical Dance Form) and anthropology related NGO work (concentrating on the olden traditions of West Bengal).

We don't just care about your project -- you are a person, and that matters to us! What drives you? What makes you want to make this the most awesomest wiki enhancement ever?
I've been using Wikipedia ever since I've started using the Internet itself. That's 14 years out of a 21 year old existence. Needless to say, it's Google and Wikipedia that singlehandedly define the Internet today. They form the fundamental pillars of the information age. To be a part of something so dynamic and affecting would be unbelievable for me, I would extrapolate it as my way of changing the world (one wiki enhancement at a time).

Moreover, I can observe any contributions I make, in real time. Any change that I make, makes wikimedia easier for millions of people around the globe. The sheer scale of this effect motivates me.

Past experience

Please describe your experience with any other FOSS projects as a user and as a contributor
As a user, I've been using Firefox, Linux, Mediawiki, Python and OpenJDK. They seem to be miles ahead kind of development they bring about by just sharing all the knowledge that they possess. I think it's amazing how people all over the world can cohesively make such a difference in real time (for instance Mozilla nightly builds and Google Canary, it's improved everyday consistently, by the people who use it). This goes for EVERY FOSS organization, I think they grow exponentially not only in terms of the software, but in terms of the camaraderie and the culture they cultivate.

As a open-source contributor, I've been contributing to the CLTK Project (Classical Language Toolkit; this project concerns itself with the documentation with the ancient languages of the world, it employs extensive Natural Language Processing with Python as its base). CLTK was featured in GSoc 2016 for the first time, and that is how I got to know about its existence. I have been importing code from third party libraries into their source code, while converting it from Python 2.7 to Python 3. My contributions can be accessed here.