Planning document shared with students:

I like your diagram more than the one I've in the slides, atleast the former questions hierarchy less. I don't have a strong opinion either, so whatever you decide :)

@Sek2016 has been invited by Google Summer of Code program coordinator to submit her blog post entry for the Google Open Source Blog

+1 to Quim.. expanding below from what I can recall while I worked on the docs:

@D3r1ck01 If you are willing to help a potential candidate get started with the project and assist them in resolving smaller issues along the way, while @Legoktm chimes in to help with bigger pieces of the project, I will be happy to showcase this project in https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreachy/Round_15

I forgot to add an update on this task earlier about the feedback I incorporated in the diagram for Wikimania presentation. Not sure if you have seen it https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Wikimedia_Technical_Areas_An_Overview.pdf&page=2.

Taking the liberty to close this task now that we have all the reports from GSoC 2017 and Outreachy Round 14 candidates listed here:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2017/Weekly_Reports
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreachy/Round_14/WeeklyReports

Hi! If there is not anything remaining in this task could you please resolve it?

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I see Andre has marked the page as obsolete/kept for historical interest only. With that, I'm closing this task for now!

@Qgil yes, I meant a blog post.

Blogpost was published on September 6th on the same day the GSoC results were out https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/09/06/gsoc-outreachy-wikimedia-2017/
Thanks to Melody Kramer and Ed Erhart for all their help!
We have informed Google Open Source Blog team about this post, and they are planning on including it along with round-up of other blog posts later this month.

Note to self, some open-ended questions but closing this task for now:

• Srishti cannot do a good job facilitating for events with crucial topics like this one. So she must recruit a facilitator beforehand. She was lucky that Quim Gil was there already though as a moderator initially who took the lead
• Moderator of the event should also monitor questions coming in via YouTube chat or make it clear before that we will be monitoring questions only at one place
• As of now, the video analytics shows that the maximum times the video was viewed on the day of the event. During the event itself from what I remember there were around 14-18 viewers. I wonder for an event like this with very few interested candidates if the promotion needs to happen similarly (a bit aggressive).
• If the goal was to solicit feedback from users, did we meet that goal at all through this event?

In T175886#3607524, @Aklapper wrote:

If they contributed code a long time before, are they still newcomers? Or does that rather imply "do not consider them newcomers"?

If they consider themselves as newcomers then yes.. iterating over the list if we end up identifying some as not then we rule them out.

How is "Code activity" defined exactly, as I cannot say "We saw 12 code activities"? Did you mean how many newcomers? How many code change proposals?

For the first report, for code activity, I was referring to code changes proposed. So rather than how many times code changes were proposed we measure whether or not there was a code change proposed ( we apply this equally to before, during and after the event)

+1 on Quim's comment on consistency of offline vs online.

+1

Emails have been sent to 34 newcomers (via Qualtrics) who put their first patch into Wikimedia gerrit in July / August.
@Qgil I will create tasks that you have pointed to and 1-2 others I've in mind later today.

In T163440#3581912, @Rfarrand wrote:

I guess it is also important to somehow determine who actually WANTS to be involved. Just because they came to a hackathon and worked does not mean they want to spend evenings and weekends on our projects. If they don't want this at all for sure we can a) respect that b) focus more energy on others who do.

About the fourth idea -- how about a script that collects all user names on the Possible Mentors page and then sends a message to the user talk pages twice a year, checking availability, etc.

Added information about the technical advice meeting on the New Developers page.

Would there be any interest in mentoring this project for Outreachy Round 15? Application period opens in two days. See a few other ideas for projects that we are promoting for the upcoming round https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreachy/Round_15

Would there be any interest in mentoring this project for Outreachy Round 15? Application period opens in two days. See a few other ideas for projects that we are promoting for the upcoming round https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreachy/Round_15

Would there be any interest in mentoring this project for Outreachy Round 15? Application period opens in two days. See a few other ideas for projects that we are promoting for the upcoming round https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreachy/Round_15

Hello @Jopparn @Lokal_Profil @Sebastian_Berlin-WMSE Would there be any interest in mentoring this project for Outreachy Round 15? Application period opens in two days. See a few other ideas for projects that we are promoting for the upcoming round https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreachy/Round_15

Would there be an interest in mentoring this project for Outreachy Round 15? Application period opens in two days. See a few other ideas for projects that we are promoting for the upcoming round https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreachy/Round_15

Would there be an interest in mentoring this project for Outreachy Round 15?

Closing this task, most of the changes suggested by mentors can be seen in action in the outcomes of this task T167065. Mentors and students will soon receive a short program feedback survey.

August, June, May highlights are linked!

@Qgil thanks for your comments! I've made quite a few changes based on it, that has simplified the survey a bit. Removed force response in all questions, removed a question about educational qualification, added an email address question, added editing articles and upload media to commons, etc. options in a question about types of contributions, reduced number of choices in the rating questions, etc.

@Qgil :D in-person not sure came from where that's incorrect. Ideally, you join the hangout on air as well, just in case internet is flaky while the event is on :-/

Draft of the blog post shared with @MelodyKramer and the project outcomes under review by all mentors >
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TQBrQVJjvVRJZUwlgczriE-4ONDanJketpxLCmPYAXQ/edit

Thank you @Tgr for willing to mentor this project! Added it to the list > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreachy/Round_15#Automatically_detect_spambot_registration_using_machine_learning_like_invisible_reCAPTCHA. Same for T174528