User:TheProtonade

About

Volunteer developer from Kerala writing code and fixing (and breaking) things in the Wikiverse.

Things I do

• Tools
  • Mediawiki Rest API Sandbox demo · Built at [Wikimedia Hackathon 2025]
  • Year in review tool · Built at [Wikimedia Hackathon 2024]
  • Match and Split tool · Co-maintainer

• Mentoring
  • Outreachy June 2025 cohort · Bulk OCR on Wikisource
  • Outreachy December 2023 cohort · Integrate Wikimedia ecosystem into the BUB2 tool

• Blogs
  • Beyond Code: Wikimedia Hackathon 2025 as a Volunteer Developer
  • Enabling Handwritten Text Recognition on Wikisource using Transkribus OCR Engine

• Non-tech
  • Member of Communication team for Wikisource Conference 2025

Things I did...as contractor

I used to be User:PMenon-WMF, where I mostly built things on Wikisource and Wikimedia OCR.