=Profile Information
**Name**: Eisheeta Barua
**Email:** eisheeta.barua@gmail.com
**Github:** https://github.com/eisheeta
**Web Profile**: https://eisheeta.wordpress.com
**Resume: ** https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kgqrY-2qEK-J0228jQHqRd_EOsHLzXGc/view?usp=sharing
**Location:** New Delhi, India
**Time Zone:** IST (UTC +5:30 )
**Typical working hours:** 10:00 am to 3:00 pm and 5:00 pm to 11:00 pm (UTC +5:30)
**During college:** 4:00 pm to 12:00 am (UTC +5:30)
=Synopsis
The project includes improving documentation of ~20 top 70 most viewed MediaWiki Action API pages on-wiki using a documentation template.
> The MediaWiki action API is a web service that allows access to some wiki-features like authentication, page operations, and search. It can provide meta information about the wiki and the logged-in user. Several Wikimedia projects make use of this API. As of now, there are ~128 pages on the Action API on MediaWiki.org. Our team did a little research on the state of the docs and documented a few problems and recommendations for the next steps. One of the issues we decided to address was inconsistency.
> The goal of this project in Round 18 would be to improve documentation of ~20 top 70 most viewed MediaWiki Action API pages on-wiki using the documentation template. If there is more time, then the next part of the project could be developing one or two demo apps around the use of Action APIs.
==Mentor
Srishti Sethi
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=Deliverables
===Timeline
Week 1 (May 20 - May 26)
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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
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=Participation
- I'll be in contact with my mentor on Zulip Chat as well as on Phabricator and would use Github repository to host my work. All the sample codes and demo apps will reside in my fork of Srishti's repository: https://github.com/eisheeta/MediaWiki-Action-API-Code-Samples. I'll be in contact via email on days I'm not available on Zulip chat.
- I plan on writing at least three articles/blog posts every month and update my MediaWiki user page with all the tasks completed weekly.
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=About Me
I'm an undergraduate student, pursuing B.tech in Computer science & Engineering from Indira Gandhi Delhi Technical University for Women, Delhi, India. I'm a junior and will graduate in May 2020. I've always wanted to be an active member of my community and after witnessing lack of interaction and flow of information among my peers, I co-founded WomenHacks in 2018, a platform for young women to share their skills and build a community of learners and leaders.
I usually code in C++ and have been using python to program Raspberry Pi in my current school course. I am interested in web development technologies and would love to delve more in open source development.
===How did you hear about this program?
I found out about Outreachy through one of the sessions conducted by WomenHacks.
===Will you have any other time commitments, such as school work, another job, planned vacation, etc, during the duration of the program?
I'll have my summer break from 26 May to 31 July. My college reopens on August 1, but I'll be available after 4:00 pm IST. I have no exams scheduled during August.
===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)?
I am only applying for Outreachy this summer.
===What does making this project happen mean to you?
It's my first time delving into open source, and getting an opportunity to become a part of it would mean a lot to me. Delving into something so gigantic as MediaWiki that impacts so many developers and students in the world is a feather in cap indeed. The amount of stuff I've learnt in the past two weeks is unbelievable and it motivates me to continue being a part of this project and give back to the community that has made this possible. I can't imagine how much more there's to learn, and that idea alone excites me!
I believe in leading by example. Through sessions with Outreachy, I've always encouraged students to be a part of FOSS Community and start contributing. But my advice holds no gravity if I don't do it myself and be the example. Making this project happen would be my way of inspiring myself and other girls who are scared to take the first step.
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=Past Experience
Describe any relevant projects that you've worked on previously and what knowledge you gained from working on them. Describe any open source projects you have contributed to as a user and contributor (include links). If you have already written a feature or bugfix for a Wikimedia technology such as MediaWiki, link to it here; we will give strong preference to candidates who have done so
=Any Other Info
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