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28 records across 2 programs2026Google Summer of CodeAnnual program · 8 projects indexed
- CampWiz Nxt Redesign
- Enhancing Wikisource Bulk OCR User Controls and Feedback Modal
- Gamifying Data Curation on Wikidata
- GSoC 2026: Programs & Events Dashboard — System-Wide Metrics and Data Downloads - Lakshita Jain
- Implement lossless JPG transformations in the Commons Android App
- Montage Improvements
- Scribe Conjugation Application Development
- Wikifile Transfer Enhancement
Source checked Sep 28, 2026
Participation imported from the GSoC Organizations archive snapshot; this historical listing is not an application-status claim.
2026OutreachyMay 2026 · 1 project indexed
Source checked Oct 2, 2026
See the program source for current details. Imported and normalized from Outreachy / Software Freedom Conservancy, CC-BY-3.0.
2025OutreachyJune 2025 · 10 projects indexed
- Addressing the new Lusophone Technological Wishlist proposals
- Bulk OCR on Wikisource
- Cat-a-lot javascript gadget development
- Connect Scribe End Applications to Data Server
- Create a tool to simplify creation of mediawiki banners
- Improve performance of slow routes in Programs & Events Dashboard
- Improve the Nearby feature of the Wikimedia Commons Android app
- Improve the Search entry points for the Wikipedia iOS App
- minecraft-education
- VisualData's Json-schema enhancements (bringing json-schema into MediaWiki)
Source checked Oct 2, 2026
See the program source for current details. Imported and normalized from Outreachy / Software Freedom Conservancy, CC-BY-3.0.
2025OutreachyDecember 2025 · 6 projects indexed
- Add Wikidata-editing features to Paulina, a user-friendly interface to discover authors and works
- Improve the Wikisource Reader App
- Micro-task Generator for Organizers on Wikipedia
- Programs & Events Dashboard — Upgrade Ruby-on-Rails and other dependencies
- Rewriting PendingChangesBot from PHP to Python
- Scribe Client Mobile Application to Server Connections
Source checked Oct 2, 2026
See the program source for current details. Imported and normalized from Outreachy / Software Freedom Conservancy, CC-BY-3.0.
2024Google Summer of CodeAnnual program · 9 projects indexed
- [Programs & Events Dashboard] Improve system for copying courses from one Dashboard to another
- Improve InlineComments extension
- Improve searchability and filtering of PageTriage feed
- Improve the training module creation and update process [Programs & Events Dashboard]
- Improve upload queue management
- Lingua Libre v3.0 enhancement and migration
- Migration towards Manifest V3
- Scribe-Data: Refactor into a Multi-Purpose Wikidata Language Pack CLI Tool
- Scribe-iOS: Add multilingual translation and internationalized interfaces
Source checked Sep 28, 2026
Participation imported from the GSoC Organizations archive snapshot; this historical listing is not an application-status claim.
2024OutreachyMay 2024 · 2 projects indexed
- Build a data visualization tool for the evolution of Wikipedia articles maintained by WikiProjects
- Create tool for informative infographics from structured information from Wikimedia projects
Source checked Oct 2, 2026
See the program source for current details. Imported and normalized from Outreachy / Software Freedom Conservancy, CC-BY-3.0.
2024OutreachyDecember 2024 · 6 projects indexed
- Create Scribe-Data Wiktionary based translation and synonym commands
- Creation of Codex (Wikimedia design system) components + libraries in Penpot (from Figma)
- Design tailored reading experiences for different accessibility (a11y) requirements
- Improve observability of Wiki Education Dashboard
- Improve the Wiki Education Dashboard test suite
- QuickStatements 3.0 public documentation
Source checked Oct 2, 2026
See the program source for current details. Imported and normalized from Outreachy / Software Freedom Conservancy, CC-BY-3.0.
2023Google Summer of CodeAnnual program · 9 projects indexed
- [GSOC 2023 - Proposal] Improve the functionality of VideoCutTool
- Adding a menu to Scribe-iOS application and expanding keyboard languages
- Commons Android app: Make upload more reliable
- End-to-end test coverage for Abstract Wikipedia's Wikifunctions
- GSoC 2023 Proposal: Wiki farm support for Canasta
- GSoC 2023 Proposal: Wikidocumentaries to import images from the web to Structured Data on Commons
- Improve Programs & Events Dashboard UX for Article Scoped Programs
- VideoCutTool: Improve the functionality of VideoCutTool
- Wiki Education Dashboard: Refactoring and upgrading React
Source checked Sep 28, 2026
Participation imported from the GSoC Organizations archive snapshot; this historical listing is not an application-status claim.
2023OutreachyMay 2023 · 2 projects indexed
- Research imbalances in translation between languages on Wikipedia
- Write a Ruby gem for analyzing Wikidata edits
Source checked Oct 2, 2026
See the program source for current details. Imported and normalized from Outreachy / Software Freedom Conservancy, CC-BY-3.0.
2023OutreachyDecember 2023 · 7 projects indexed
- Addressing the Lusophone technological wishlist proposals
- Assist Capacity Exchange Development
- Extend WikiCurricula, an interactive dashboard to visualize curriculum data
- Improve documentation of Programs & Events Dashboard
- Improve how Wiki Education Dashboard counts references added
- Integrate Wikimedia Ecosystem within BUB2 tool
- Multilingual Wikipedia Editor Survey
Source checked Oct 2, 2026
See the program source for current details. Imported and normalized from Outreachy / Software Freedom Conservancy, CC-BY-3.0.
2022Google Summer of CodeAnnual program · 7 projects indexed
- Campaigns Retention Metrics Dashboard
- Command-line interface (CLI) for Canasta & Canasta Kubernetes Stack
- Edit Request Wizard
- Extending the WikidataComplete plugin for enabling data donations, recommendations, and gamification
- Make it easier for contributors to choose pictures for upload on the Commons Android app
- Modernize JavaScript build process and dependencies for Wiki Education Dashboard
- Rewrite the Wikidata Infobox on Commons in Lua
Source checked Sep 28, 2026
Participation imported from the GSoC Organizations archive snapshot; this historical listing is not an application-status claim.
2022OutreachyMay 2022 · 4 projects indexed
- Add support for tracking specific namespaces to Programs & Events Dashboard
- Build a Python library to work with Wikipedia’s HTML-dumps
- Create an Edit Request Wizard
- What's in a name? Automatically identifying first and last author names for Wikicite and Wikidata
Source checked Oct 2, 2026
See the program source for current details. Imported and normalized from Outreachy / Software Freedom Conservancy, CC-BY-3.0.
2022OutreachyDecember 2022 · 6 projects indexed
- Create a Web Application for Editing Toolhub Records
- Develop a web app for patrolling based on the new ML-based service to predict reverts
- Develop features for Wiki Loves Monuments App
- Hybrid event production for QueeringWikipedia 2023
- Rewrite Imagebulk tool to scale up
- Write a Ruby gem for analyzing Wikidata edits
Source checked Oct 2, 2026
See the program source for current details. Imported and normalized from Outreachy / Software Freedom Conservancy, CC-BY-3.0.
2021Google Summer of CodeAnnual program · 10 projects indexed
- Add autocompletion to Page Forms spreadsheet-style display
- Add zoom and pan to the Wikisource Pagelist Widget
- Custom Picture Selector
- Develop a UserScript/Gadget tutorial on MediaWiki.org similar to Wikipedia:The_Wikipedia_Adventure
- Develop a web based monitoring dashboard to improve and monitor existing database backup inventory processes and improve long term maintainability of existing code
- Gamified Knowledge Base Completion Plugin for Wikibase/Wikidata
- GSOC - Create cypress tests for wikipedia-preview
- Retraining models from ORES to be deployable on Lift Wing
- Update the front-page of Wikimedia projects
- Upgrade WebdriverIO to the latest version 7 for all repositories
Source checked Sep 28, 2026
Participation imported from the GSoC Organizations archive snapshot; this historical listing is not an application-status claim.
2021OutreachyMay 2021 · 3 projects indexed
- Build a tool for analyzing and visualizing reader navigation on wikipedia
- Create notebook based tutorials that help users access and work with data on Wikimedia projects
- Synchronising Wikidata and Wikipedias using pywikibot
Source checked Oct 2, 2026
See the program source for current details. Imported and normalized from Outreachy / Software Freedom Conservancy, CC-BY-3.0.
2021OutreachyDecember 2021 · 6 projects indexed
- Automatically matching new Wikipedia articles with Wikidata items using Python
- Create MediaWiki-Docker documentation for all repositories with Selenium tests
- Develop a tool for large-scale open image similarity
- Develop learning toolkits and videos to demonstrate the use of essential tools for Wikimedia
- Improve Wikidata support on Programs & Events Dashboard
- Refactor WebdriverIO tests from sync to async mode
Source checked Oct 2, 2026
See the program source for current details. Imported and normalized from Outreachy / Software Freedom Conservancy, CC-BY-3.0.
2020Google Summer of CodeAnnual program · 14 projects indexed
- Add leaderboard based on user's edits using Commons Android app
- Creating a page-list editing widget for the ProofreadPage extension
- Design and implement a tool to create overlays on pre-rendered offline maps for Internet In A Box
- Detecting reverts and tagging reverted edits
- Evaluate WebdriverIO replacements for our browser automation framework
- goodbot: a simple, friendly bot for Wikimedia Zulipchat
- Implement articlequality and draftquality model for ptwiki and apply insights to models for bs, uk, hi wikis
- Improve the framework to transfer files over the LAN
- Improve Wiki Education Dashboard's Error Monitoring
- Media Data Verification Tool
- Reduce Bundle Size
- Remove use of jQuery UI from Page Forms.
- Supporting the ‘maps’ parameter in TemplateData Editor (GUI)
- Upgrade WebdriverIO to the latest version for all repositories
Source checked Sep 28, 2026
Participation imported from the GSoC Organizations archive snapshot; this historical listing is not an application-status claim.
2020OutreachyMay 2020 · 7 projects indexed
- Add Cron Job Functionality to PAWS (A Wikimedia JupyterHub Project)
- Add leaderboard based on user's edits using Commons Android app
- Enhancements to gdrive-to-commons uploader tool
- Improve Wiki Education Dashboard javascript build pipeline and reduce bundle size
- Improve Wiki Education Dashboard's error monitoring
- Productionize API for Wikidata-based Topic Model
- WikiContrib: Gather & analyze user contributions on wiki & Github
Source checked Oct 2, 2026
See the program source for current details. Imported and normalized from Outreachy / Software Freedom Conservancy, CC-BY-3.0.
2020OutreachyDecember 2020 · 8 projects indexed
- Analyze 'need help' requests from Wiki Education Dashboard
- Analyze community authored functions that build Wikipedia infoboxes and more
- Build a tool for inferring what countries are associated with a given Wikipedia article
- Create a Not Safe for Work (NSFW) media Classifier for Wikimedia Commons
- Create Machine Learning datasets to measure content reliability on Wikipedia.
- Evaluate Microsoft Playwright as replacement for our browser automation
- Refactor Selenium tests and perform cleanup
- Review and improve Lua documentation on meta and mediawiki.
Source checked Oct 2, 2026
See the program source for current details. Imported and normalized from Outreachy / Software Freedom Conservancy, CC-BY-3.0.
2019Google Summer of CodeAnnual program · 11 projects indexed
- Add Multi-Wiki Support to WikiEduDashboard
- Create a subpage for statistics and charts related to a hashtag search
- Develop a tool for event organizers to track developer activity
- GSoC 2019 Proposal: Page Forms - add an editable calendar interface
- GSoC Proposal: Develop code samples in Javascript and PHP for API Modules
- Improve article recommendation pipeline
- Improve the interface of Special:ViewData in the Cargo extension
- Make notification counts update without page reload
- Proposal for Wikimedia Commons
- Tool to Cut Videos in Commons
- Ujjwal Agrawal/ WikiEdu Dashboard Android App
Source checked Sep 28, 2026
Participation imported from the GSoC Organizations archive snapshot; this historical listing is not an application-status claim.
2018Google Summer of CodeAnnual program · 12 projects indexed
- [#1Lib1Ref] Build a "worklist" tool for campaigns and in-person editing events
- [Analytics] Improvements to Wikistats 2.0 front-end
- [GSoC proposal 2018] Emoji Twitter bot for Commons images from NYPL fork
- [Wikimedia Commons app] Allow users to browse Commons from app
- Add a spreadsheet interface for modifying multiple pages to the Page Forms extension
- Adding 'User' search filters to the existing filter menu
- Feedback on how pictures uploaded to Commons get used: statistics, barnstars, light gamification
- Improve Data Explorer on query.wikidata.org
- Improve the Cargo Special:Drilldown page
- Improvements for the Toolforge 'webservice' command
- Predict relevance of search results from historical clicks using a Neural Click Model
- WikiEducation Dashboard Article Finder Tool
Source checked Sep 28, 2026
Participation imported from the GSoC Organizations archive snapshot; this historical listing is not an application-status claim.
2017Google Summer of CodeAnnual program · 7 projects indexed
- Add a "hierarchy" type to the Cargo extension
- Adding custom features while Upgrading and updating Quiz extension
- Automatic editing suggestions and feedbacks for articles in Wiki Ed Dashboard
- Glam2Commons (previously Single Image Batch Upload)
- GSoC17 Proposal to provide enhanced usability for Wikimedia Programs & Events Dashboard managed by Wiki Education foundation.
- Implement Thanks support in Pywikibot
- Improvements to ProofreadPage Extension and Wikisource
Source checked Sep 28, 2026
Participation imported from the GSoC Organizations archive snapshot; this historical listing is not an application-status claim.
2016Google Summer of CodeAnnual program · 6 projects indexed
- Abhinand GSoC Proposal : Extension for page creating/editing notification
- Accuracy Review of Wikipedia
- Automated Testing and Integration of IFTTT support to Wikidata
- Improving static analysis tools for MediaWiki
- List Of Contributors
- Port catimages.py to pywikibot-core
Source checked Sep 28, 2026
Participation imported from the GSoC Organizations archive snapshot; this historical listing is not an application-status claim.
2015Google Summer of CodeAnnual program · 8 projects indexed
- An enhanced cross-wiki watchlist as an OAuth tool
- Extension to identify and delete spam pages
- GraphData extension for VisualEditor
- GSoC'15/Outreachy Proposal for Unified language proofing tools integration
- Implement Flow support in Pywikibot
- Implement OAuth Support for Pywikibot
- Newsletter Extension for Mediawiki
- WikidataPageBanner extension for wikivoyage
Source checked Oct 2, 2026
Community mirror of the 2009–2015 Google Melange project archive. Original Melange project links may now redirect; the participation source retains the mirrored records. Organizations without indexed projects may be absent. Imported and normalized from Vaibhav Gupta / GSoC-Data-Analyser, MIT.
2012Google Summer of CodeAnnual program · 8 projects indexed
- Application for mass uploading files to Wikimedia Commons on upload campaigns
- Convention Extension
- Green SMW
- Incubator improvements and language support
- Integration of Flickr and Geolocation in Upload Wizard
- Realtime Collaboration on Visual Editor
- TranslateSvg: Bringing the translation revolution to Wikimedia Commons
- Watchlist grouping and workflow improvements
Source checked Oct 2, 2026
Community mirror of the 2009–2015 Google Melange project archive. Original Melange project links may now redirect; the participation source retains the mirrored records. Organizations without indexed projects may be absent. Imported and normalized from Vaibhav Gupta / GSoC-Data-Analyser, MIT.
2011Google Summer of CodeAnnual program · 7 projects indexed
- Account Creation, Login Screens and AJAX-ification of everything
- AMICUS: Awesome Monolithic Infrastructure for Customization of User Scripts
- Improving Semantic Search/Semantic Query usability issues in SMW
- Making Offline WIkipedia Article Selection Easier with Mediawiki Extensions
- MediaWiki Extension: SocialProfile - UserStatus feature
- Semantic Schemas extension
- Working Archival for Web Ciations
Source checked Oct 2, 2026
Community mirror of the 2009–2015 Google Melange project archive. Original Melange project links may now redirect; the participation source retains the mirrored records. Organizations without indexed projects may be absent. Imported and normalized from Vaibhav Gupta / GSoC-Data-Analyser, MIT.
2010Google Summer of CodeAnnual program · 6 projects indexed
- Extension management platform for MediaWiki
- General RDF export/import in Semantic MediaWiki
- Improve metadata support for uploaded media in mediawiki by displaying and extracting embedded IPTC, XMP, and other metadata formats.
- Javascript overhaul of Semantic MediaWiki
- Reasonably efficient interwiki template transclusion
- Wikisource Legal Tool
Source checked Oct 2, 2026
Community mirror of the 2009–2015 Google Melange project archive. Original Melange project links may now redirect; the participation source retains the mirrored records. Organizations without indexed projects may be absent. Imported and normalized from Vaibhav Gupta / GSoC-Data-Analyser, MIT.
2009Google Summer of CodeAnnual program · 4 projects indexed
- A universal Image Rendering and Resizing Daemon
- Doogg - The New Cortado Applet -
- Semantic Layers extension
- Turning MediaWiki into an efficient localisation platform
Source checked Oct 2, 2026
Community mirror of the 2009–2015 Google Melange project archive. Original Melange project links may now redirect; the participation source retains the mirrored records. Organizations without indexed projects may be absent. Imported and normalized from Vaibhav Gupta / GSoC-Data-Analyser, MIT.