Aims

The Appropedia Intern Program has a fourfold aim:

Interns

Interns (often university or college students) help develop Appropedia according to their skill and experience.

Types of Internships

  1. Research Internships - These interns develop new knowledge in a specific Appropedia:CategoryTree and publish it on Appropedia (e.g. testing different types of water filters for removal of contaminants)
  2. Language Internships - These interns translate high quality articles to different languages. This involves both moving English content into languages spoken in the developing world, but also porting content from other languages into the English Appropedia.
  3. Technical Internships - These interns will work on technical areas of the site, creating templates, and automating functions such as porting ideas.

Duration

Internships normally last one academic semester. They can be completed during any semester including the summer.

Credentials

Appropedia Internships are normally regarded as a work internship, but some programs allow for service learning credit. Ask your supervisor for details. Interns that complete their internship successfully will be provided with a certificate and documentation of their work for their schools, programs or future employers.

Application

To apply for an Appropedia Internship do the following:

  1. Create an Appropedia account
  2. Create a User Page in Appropedia detailing your interests and skills - Click here for help
  3. Send a Request for Internship review to User:Lonny by leaving a note on his Talk Page. Provide details on what type of internship you would be interested in and a link back to your userpage.

Selection

The interns are selected through a competitive process. Many applications are received each year and the only top candidates are chosen for telephone interviews. The final selection is based upon:

  • motivation
  • demonstrated interest
  • academic excellence
  • personal maturity
  • the candidate’s potential contribution to the Program;; and
  • the anticipated benefits for the candidate

After being selected interns will be teamed with a supervisor (normally an Appropedia Admin.) who specializes in the particular field or skill set related to the internship. The supervisor will guide the intern in completion of the specific project.

Location

The Appropedia community is spread out all over the world. Most interns work from anywhere they have an internet connection-you do not need to relocate to Appropedia headquarters in California. For those wishing to work on an Internship without regular access to the internet there are also projects to develop offline content collaboration. Oversight of your internship will be conducted virtually through regular phone, email, skype, IM and wikitext communication.

Highlighted Intern

Fatima ported and and assisted in site development of content

See Fatima's Userpage and her prodigious work such as:

See also

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