@Soham and I have talked about mentoring somebody to do T256626: Refactor WebdriverIO tests from sync to async mode.

@Soham @zeljkofilipin that's great to hear! :) I will remember to ping you when the time comes to upload the proposal on the Outreachy site.

@srishakatux I'm still interested in having a student for T273109 - but I think that's better for GSoC since it is hard coding, and needs Lua knowledge. If you're happy with me sole-supervising another student, I could offer something more with pywikibot and Wikidata - probably a more focused project than last round, though, just focusing on a specific part of it (probably matching up sitelinks) rather than generally being open to anything with importing data to Wikidata.

In T289893#7341776, @Mike_Peel wrote:

@srishakatux I'm still interested in having a student for T273109 - but I think that's better for GSoC since it is hard coding, and needs Lua knowledge. If you're happy with me sole-supervising another student, I could offer something more with pywikibot and Wikidata - probably a more focused project than last round, though, just focusing on a specific part of it (probably matching up sitelinks) rather than generally being open to anything with importing data to Wikidata.

@Mike_Peel I am curious why you think that T273109 would be a better fit for GSoC. Is it because you need a mentor with Lua expertise, and you currently are not sure who can join? I have no doubt, though, on a candidate joining us via Outreachy and unable to work on it. But, I am also OK with you sole-supervising another project around pywikibot and Wikidata.

Also, I see that you mentored two projects via Round 22. If you are mentoring again, that is AWESOME. But, if you want to take a break/rest, please do so. Mentoring can be a lot of work. I have to say this because I want to be able to keep reaching out to you for mentoring in future rounds but also being mindful that you got sufficient time to recharge in between :D

In T289893#7343550, @srishakatux wrote:

@Mike_Peel I am curious why you think that T273109 would be a better fit for GSoC. Is it because you need a mentor with Lua expertise, and you currently are not sure who can join? I have no doubt, though, on a candidate joining us via Outreachy and unable to work on it. But, I am also OK with you sole-supervising another project around pywikibot and Wikidata.

@srishakatux I commented a bit about this in that ticket on the 16th August, not sure if you've seen that? My main worry is that it really is a hard coding exercise in Lua - so it needs solid previous experience with Lua, particularly if a mentor who knows Lua is not available (I don't know who could help with this beyond the people I pinged before - I can help with general programming, but not Lua specifics). You previously said that Outreachy was more for documentation/etc. than hard coding, although the pywikibot projects probably already push that a bit! Also, I'm not too sure how to design starter tasks for the infobox, like those that were necessary for pywikibot. If you think it would fit with Outreachy, though, then that's fine for me - having someone to help with it is more important than which process it goes through. ;-)

Also, I see that you mentored two projects via Round 22. If you are mentoring again, that is AWESOME. But, if you want to take a break/rest, please do so. Mentoring can be a lot of work. I have to say this because I want to be able to keep reaching out to you for mentoring in future rounds but also being mindful that you got sufficient time to recharge in between :D

OK. I'll propose something anyway, particularly since having a winter student is marginally easier than a summer student for me, and having an automated way to match up new sitelinks would really be helpful in my day-to-day editing work (the previous round students focused more on importing data than matching new articles in the end). If you don't have enough projects this round, then we can run it then - but if you get sufficient interest then it can always be pushed to a future round.

I've now set up T290718 plus three starter tasks - heavily based on last round's proposal, but much more focused on matching new articles rather than importing new data. Hope that looks OK - feel free to edit it as needed!

@Mike_Peel Thank you, task looks great!!

5 interns selected for Round 23: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreachy/Round_23#Selected_projects