Me, 3 months after

My Outreachy Internship with the Wikimedia Foundation is officially coming to an end and I am already going through withdrawal.

A Project Report of Sorts

My project titled ‘Improve observability of Wiki Education Dashboard’ focused on improving the observability of the Dashboard and making it easier for system administrators — and possibly end-users as well — to detect and understand problems with the system. My deliverables were set as the following and I am proud to say I successfully completed them:

• Reduce noise in Sentry: Merged commits ✔

• A user-friendly system status and performance information UI: https://dashboard.wikiedu.org/status and https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/status✔

• Documentation for Dashboard Deployment in CloudVPS and Toolforge in form of an ‘Admin Guide’✔

Do read my previous blog posts for a detailed breakdown of my project.

My experience taught me:

• the importance of tests and how they can be used to both debug an error and also ensure the system works fine

• the importance of reusable and maintainable code as some parts of the codebase hasn't been touched in 5+ years

• the approach to understand a new and big codebase so now I feel less intimidated about diving into big codebases

• the importance of asking the right questions and documenting debugging efforts

• and finally, the importance of communication and community within the open source space; A lot of software developers are introverts but such projects and internships encourage community, building relationships and networking.

All in all, I daresay this was the best 3 months of my life. I am very proud of the work I have done with the Dashboard, my co-intern Formasit Chijoh and my esteemed mentor, Sage Ross💖. The me 3 months before, cannot hold a candle to the me now so I’m looking forward to see how much much and farther I can go in the next 3, 6, 9, and 12 months.

I plan to continue contributing to the WikiEduDashboard and helping Sage maintain the project.

A little vote of thanks

• Outreachy Organizers for this beautiful opportunity 🙂

• The Wikimedia Foundation and Wiki Education Foundation 🏢

• Sage Ross for all his support and time 🙇🏾

• Formasit Chijoh my co-intern, we were a really good team 💕

• Deb Tankersley, Lani Goto and Mahfuza Mohona for coordinating the wikimedia interns 🙇🏾

• Manaswini Das, Dustin Mitchell and Ricardo Garcia for their invaluable advice 🙇🏾

• The whole Dec 24 Outreachy Cohort, I loved the community we built 💕