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BESSONG ATABE JUNIOR
Resume (optional): Data Science intern at InchTechs, Yaoundé, 2021 and Software developer intern at Digital Renter, Buea, 2022. Knowledgeable in Data Science concepts, tools and Techniques. Full stack Developer with Node, Express, Flask, Fastapi, Laravel, React, Svelte and Vue.
Location (country or state): Cameroon, South West region, Buea
Typical working hours (include your time zone): 8am - 5pm GMT+1 Douala

Synopsis

• Short summary describing your project and how it will benefit Wikimedia projects:

Wikidocumentaries is a wiki to pull together material from the Wikimedia projects, open content from GLAM institutions and user contributed content. The topics expand the scope of Wikimedia projects with less-notable content, such as local and family history, for example. The aim here is making it available for all languages based on regions. Lots and lots of stories are hidden within families which when express can be used to revolutionize the world. The benefit here is the data obtained is structured, which will contribute in the Wikimedia goal on getting more information and to serve the globe discover information, contribute knowledge and share with others.

• Possible Mentor(s): TuukkaH, Susannaanas
• Have you contacted your mentors already? Yes

Deliverables

Describe the timeline of your work with deadlines and milestones, broken down week by week. Make sure to include time you are planning to allocate for investigation, coding, deploying, testing and documentation

Sample Draft from project scope to reviews and documentation, dates are to be updated if selected as well as task and durations per task.

Participation

Describe how you plan to communicate progress and ask for help, where you plan to publish your source code, etc:
Progress communication is done in phabricator while following Wikimedia rules. For help, it could be done in the Wikimedia zulip chat as well as on phabricator. Moreover, with mentors and mentees. Currently, the project repository is on GitHub hence the use of git and GitHub is resourceful for code publishing (Gerrit isn’t used).

About Me

Tell us about a few:
Am called Bessong Atabe Junior, a graduate data scientist from the College of Technology, University of Buea, Cameroon. I am 24 years old and a vibrant youth willing to innovate and contribute in tool and technologies helping everyone. Am good in critical thinking and very good abilities to quickly understand concept. Knowledgeable in Data Science, DevOps and Web development. Am very open in question answering and constructive critics. As for hubbies, I love Tennis, Football and cinematography.

• Your education (completed or in progress): Education is Completed with a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Engineering with options in Data Science, year of achievement is Dec 1, 2022.
• How did you hear about this program?

On Wikimedia platforms, GSoC platform and previous Interns of the program.

• Will you have any other time commitments, such as school work, another job, planned vacation, etc, during the duration of the program? No commitment nor actual job or vacation planned. Only GSoC a focus.
• We advise all candidates eligible for Google Summer of Code and Outreachy to apply for both programs. Are you planning to apply to both programs and, if so, with what organization(s)?

Am only involve with GSoC and focused with Wikimedia foundation.

• What does making this project happen mean to you? A lot, since I will not only gain experience but only motivate in braving other task within open-source as well as side projects. Also, this project making could be a move for me to be a core maintainer on Wikimedia.

Past Experience

• Please add links to any feature or bug fix you have written for a Wikimedia project during the application phase.

Currently am still working on a microtask and still to release a patch, which will be done within the week.
Here is it GitHub repository https://github.com/Wikidocumentaries/wikidocumentaries-ui and the phabricator task link https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T255530

• Describe any relevant projects that you've worked on previously and what knowledge you gained from working on them.

I have worked on the African German Phrasebook, which make use of wikidata, Its design for translation between German language to African traditional languages which are specified by the Goethe Institute. Skills achieved was mobile application development, NLP, API and web base application.
Another was building and advance ecommerce platform called Ravegen, Nigeria base with responsibility in Frontend and integrating a chatbot (still under development).

• Describe any open-source projects you have contributed to as a user and contributor (include links).

This is my first open-source project, previously was interested in fixing bugs on open refine, but currently interested and working on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T255530 for Wikimedia.

Any Other Info

Add any other relevant information such as UI mockups, references to related projects, a link to your proof of concept code, etc
All projects I worked on listed are protected on GitHub, but here are their links;
https://github.com/Go-ethe-Kamerun/agpb-mobile/tree/main
https://github.com/Go-ethe-Kamerun/agpb-web/tree/main
https://github.com/Go-ethe-Kamerun/agpb-api/tree/main
https://github.com/splashray/Ravegen
https://www.figma.com/file/MOIYkurbWmAQ6yEArfvKJf/Ravegen-designs?node-id=23%3A11187&t=HXGKLFWF9TuLLbRL-0