Anyone from the Analytics team interested in mentoring a GSoC project? - Analytics

27 Mar 2020

Hello analytics folks!

My name is Abel Serrano Juste (alias Quasipodo in Wikimedia, akronix in 
Github).

I'm considering to do GSoC with WMF this summer and I'd like it to do it 
with the analytics team as my recent experience is mainly in this topic. 
For instance, I propose to implement this one: 
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T195033 as I'm already very familiar 
with the topic (I'm the presentor of the talk which, eventually, opened 
that ticket). However I am open to listen any other ideas / suggestions.

About me: I'm currently ending my master in Data Science and I should be 
done by the middle of June. I have previously attended to a couple of 
wikimedia hackathons and I'm familiar with mediawiki analysis and data 
visualization (I'm the developer of WikiChron: http://wikichron.science/ 
). I'm quite fluent in Python. You can have a look also to my github 
profile: https://github.com/Akronix/. <https://github.com/Akronix/> 
Furthermore, I have been working for two years in the academia doing 
research on wikis (smaller than wikipedia ones) and published some 
articles on the matter: https://www.akronix.es/publications.html

Here are some information that GSoC mentors need to know, in case you 
are not familiar with it:

  * GSoC mentors are typically required to commit 4-5 hours per week,
    per student
  * GSoC mentor responsibilities
    <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/Mentors> (also
    includes 'Selection process tips' which might help answer your
    previous question about likelihood of selection)

Best wishes and take care,

Abel Serrano Juste.