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Wikimedia Foundation

Bringing free educational content to the world

Wikimedia strives to bring about a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge; through various projects, chapters, and the support structure of the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. Wikimedia officially supports 13 projects, including Wikipedia, the seventh most popular site on the internet. Wikipedia receives over 20 billion global page views every month and is available in over 300 languages. The tech behind it ensures that our projects are fast, reliable, and open to all. We design and build the open-source technology that powers Wikimedia projects from hosting Wikipedia to creating edit-checking artificial intelligence (AI). Community volunteers and Foundation technologists collaborate on MediaWiki, which makes sharing free knowledge possible. Read more about Wikimedia on our homepage: https://wikimediafoundation.org/

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Project ideas

10 ideas on its 2026 ideas page; of the 10 that state a difficulty: 9 medium, 1 hard. Sizes: 1 small, 9 large. 21 mentors named.

Bulk OCR Improvements large medium
CampWiz NxT Redesign small medium
Gamifying constraint violation fixes on Wikidata large medium
Implement lossless JPG transformations in the Commons Android App large medium
Integration testing for extensions in Canasta large medium
Modularization + Jetpack Compose in Android Commons App large medium
Montage improvements large medium
Programs & Events Dashboard system-wide metrics and data downloads large medium
Scribe Conjugation Application Development large hard
Wikifile-Transfer Enhancement large medium

Read the ideas page. Ideas are for scope reference; never copy one into a proposal.

History

In GSoC since 2016, 10 years. Projects per year: '16: 6, '17: 7, '18: 12, '19: 11, '20: 14, '21: 10, '22: 7, '23: 9, '24: 9, '26: 8.

On GitHub

No GitHub organization found in its official listing.

Links and channels

Website: http://wikimediafoundation.org/
Ideas page: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/2026#Projects
Contributor guide: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/Participants#Application_process_steps
Source code: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/
Chat: https://wikimedia.zulipchat.com/#narrow/channel/561533-GSoC2026

go deeper in your terminal

git-into-gsoc org "Wikimedia Foundation" --shortlist
git-into-gsoc repos "Wikimedia Foundation"
git-into-gsoc issues --org "Wikimedia Foundation"

or ask your assistant:
"Which Wikimedia Foundation repositories merge
newcomers' pull requests, and which beginner
issues are still free?"

Those commands read live data: which repositories merge outside pull requests, and which beginner issues nobody has claimed. Install in two minutes.