It feels a little surreal to write this, my Outreachy internship has come to an end. When I started this journey, I wasn’t sure if I belonged. Open source always felt like this big, intimidating world where you had to be an expert to contribute. I was worried I’d mess things up, or that my […]
What I Learned, Built, and Found Through Outreachy Read More »
Wikimania is the annual heartbeat of the Wikimedia movement, a global gathering of volunteers, editors, developers, translators, and dreamers who work to build the world’s largest free knowledge projects. Each year it moves to a different part of the world, and 2025 marks its 20th edition and the first time it’s being hosted in East
From My Desk to Nairobi: My Wikimania 2025 Journey Read More »
As I reach the halfway point of my Outreachy internship, I’ve found myself reflecting not just on what I’ve done so far but on the kind of work I want to keep doing long after the internship ends. My project revolves around improving the Cat-a-lot JavaScript gadget on Wikimedia Commons, a community-driven tool used for
What My Dream Job Looks Like Read More »
When I first came across Wikimedia Commons as part of my Outreachy project, I saw it as just a place for freely usable media but behind the scenes, Commons is a complex, community-driven platform where contributors work together to maintain, organize, and improve millions of media files. One of the ways this is done is
Taming the Chaos: How Cat-a-lot Makes Batch Categorization Easy Read More »
If there’s one thing I’ve learned since stepping into the world of open source and Outreachy, it’s this: everyone struggles. No matter how experienced someone looks, how confident they seem, or how smoothly things appear on the outside, there are always challenges behind the scenes. I used to think struggling meant I wasn’t good enough.
Everyone Struggles (And That’s Okay) Read More »