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Projects and mentors for Google Summer of Code 2026
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Description

WARNING: The deadline for project proposals was 26 January 2026. Submissions are now closed.
NOTE: Prospective mentors should use the task template to create a task with your GSoC 2026 project information. It will become a subtask of this one.

This task will collect suggestions via subtasks for project ideas and mentors for the WMF GSoC 2026. Please do not suggest projects by commenting on this task itself.

IMPORTANT: Deadline for project proposals is 26 January 2026.

Please review the following resources for more information:

NOTE: Good projects can be: low-hanging fruit, risky/exploratory, fun or peripheral, core development, infrastructure or automation.

The task template will include the following information:

Project title: name of the project
Brief summary: description of the project (2-5 sentences)
Expected outcomes: the overall goal of the project
Skills required/preferred: skills, specific technologies, Phabricator project tags
Possible mentors: must have at least 2, include Phabricator username of each mentor
Expected size of the project: 90, 175 or 350 hours
Rating: easy, medium, or hard
Microtasks: links to easy and self-contained tasks on Phabricator that students can work on to get familiar with the project and technologies
Any other additional information for contributors: communication channels, etc
NEW QUESTIONS
Why are you proposing this project? What needs are you aiming to meet? Is it for your Wiki chapter, your community, etc?
What is the expected impact? What does success look like? How will this affect the needs you have identified?

Recommendation

We strongly encourage mentors to request additional specific details to help weed out AI-generated applications from potential contributors. Consider adding pre-reqs and ensure that you communicate directly with contributors before making your selection.

IMPORTANT: GSoC / Outreachy candidates are required to complete micro-tasks during the application period to prove their ability to work on a three month long project

Event Timeline

LGoto triaged this task as Medium priority.Jan 8 2026, 7:26 PM
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