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April 1st marks the beginning of a new Financial year at Interswitch and I can’t help but marvel at what we’ve been able to achieve in Interswitch Engineering within the last financial year particularly towards improving the experience of developers integrating with our APIs.

Wow, it’s 3 months already, I’m excited to be completing my internship with Wikimedia. Yes, I said excited, this internship has been a wonderful experience for me. It has helped in building my developer experience skills, technical writing skills, communication skills and so much more. It has also exposed me to working remotely. I’m excited about moving on to the next phase in my career. During my internship with Wikimedia, my project was to work on documentation improvements to the ~20 top 100 most viewed MediaWiki Action API pages on-wiki and if time permits, develop a bot that mass edits sample code from this repository to the API namespace on MediaWiki.org and vice-versa, as explained in https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-api-demos/issues/172.

My internship with Wikimedia is gradually coming to an end and I must say it’s been a life changing experience for me. I’m really amazed at what I’ve been able to achieve within this short period of time with the help of the community and guidance from my mentor.

Contributing to mediawiki has been an amazing journey for me so far. My project was initially divided into two sections, the first part was to improve 20 top 100 most viewed MediaWiki Action API pages on-wiki which was to last 8 weeks starting from the 3rd of December when the internship officially kicked off while the second part of the project was to develop a bot that mass edits sample code from mediaWiki-api-demos repository to the API namespace on MediaWiki.org and vice-versa and this was estimated to take 4 weeks. A couple of timelines and tasks have changed due to un-forseen circumstances and some tasks taking longer than anticipated but in all I’m excited about all I’ve been able to contribute so far and the knowledge gained while doing so.

MediaWiki is a collaboration and documentation platform brought to you by a vibrant community and anyone who shares Wikimedia’s vision to collect and share knowledge that fully represents human diversity is very much welcome to participate in the community.

My internship with wikimedia officially kicked off on the 3rd of december 2019. I had a chat session with my mentor where my project tasks were outlined. My first task was to work on pages that weren’t completed during the contribution period. I started working on my first task and so far I’ve been able to work on three pages, create 3 PRs and currently working on the fourth one. The journey so far has been a lot easier for me, thanks to the reports and resources from my mentor, but that’s not to say that I haven’t encountered some challenges.

Outreachy is an internship program that helps women and people who are under-represented get more invloved with open source through remote internships. Outreachy provides a supportive community for beginning to contribute any time throughout the year and offer focused internship opportunities twice a year with a number of free software organizations.

Well. Finally got around to putting this old website together. Neat thing about it - powered by Jekyll and I can use Markdown to author my posts. It actually is a lot easier than I thought it was going to be.