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# Issues for the NumPy WiMLDS sprint

## Guidelines on choosing an issue to work on

When you decide to work on an issue that is listed below or tagged with a `sprint-wimlds` label, please comment on the issue that you are working on it. This avoids multiple people taking on the same issue.

The selections below are focused on beginner-to-intermediate-friendly issues that are actionable and should be doable today. If you want to take on something a little more challenging, there are a lot of issues on the main repo to choose from. Try to choose issues that (from the title or labels) seem to be bugs, and don't have more than 5 comments - those are most likely to be actionable.

## Issues on the main repo

See [these issues labelled with `sprint-wimlds`](https://github.com/numpy/numpy/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3Asprint-wimlds). This includes code and documentation issues; more documentation issues are listed below.

## Documentation issues

These issues are supposed to be relatively self-contained - they will probably be appropriate for getting started and learning your way through NumPy building and bug fixing :)

The caveat is that some of those may end up not being relevant anymore, but if you can check for that and tag me mentioning it should be closed, that would already be helpful.

_Note: at the start of the sprint we'll have a lot of people looking at these, so to avoid people all starting at the top of this list and working on the same thing, we'll split it by table here. Please try to start (if you want to work on a doc issue) with one for your own table first._

#### Table 1

- [DOC: "Scalar arrays" (or 0-dimensional arrays)? #17744](https://github.com/numpy/numpy/issues/17744)
- [DOC: mark np.testing.dec functions as not recommended for future use #17566](https://github.com/numpy/numpy/issues/17566)
- [DOC: redirect notice to `default_rng()` is not linked #17140](https://github.com/numpy/numpy/issues/17140)

#### Table 2

- [DOC: Create a documentation subpage for ufunc #16924](https://github.com/numpy/numpy/issues/16924)
- [Wrong return type for array creation functions in np.ma docstrings #16751](https://github.com/numpy/numpy/issues/16751)
- ~~[DOC: Update Sum function with axis #16697](https://github.com/numpy/numpy/issues/16697)~~ - DONE!
~~- [Gitpod documentation - fix numbered list formatting](https://numpy.org/devdocs/dev/development_gitpod.html#forking-the-numpy-repository) (note: not filed as an issue on the repo)~~

#### Table 3

- [Mixed capitalization styles in page titles #16261](https://github.com/numpy/numpy/issues/16261)
- [DOC: https://numpy.org/doc/stable/reference/routines.math.html #16165](https://github.com/numpy/numpy/issues/16165)
- [Documenting single-character type codes #15859](https://github.com/numpy/numpy/issues/15859)
- [Formatting of the return values of the Polynomial.fit method](https://numpy.org/devdocs/reference/generated/numpy.polynomial.polynomial.Polynomial.fit.html#numpy.polynomial.polynomial.Polynomial.fit) (note: not filed as an issue on the repo)

#### Table 4

- [DOC: Improve datetime64 docs? #14299](https://github.com/numpy/numpy/issues/14299)
- [DOC: dtype optional argument to __array__ not included in custom container guide #15292](https://github.com/numpy/numpy/issues/15292)
- [DOC: how to find your way in the code, for instance the dot function #15567](https://github.com/numpy/numpy/issues/15567)

#### Table 5

- ~~[numpy.isrealobj('a string') is True ! #12652](https://github.com/numpy/numpy/issues/12652)~~ DONE!
- [Formatting issue (typo) in f2py docs](https://numpy.org/devdocs/f2py/signature-file.html#c-expressions) (note: not filed as an issue on the repo)

#### Table 6

- [Misleading info in the build docs says a Fortran compiler is needed to build numpy #7992](https://github.com/numpy/numpy/issues/7992)
- [histogram2d bug (or wrong documentation) #18929](https://github.com/numpy/numpy/issues/18929)
- ~~[Copyright "The SciPy community"](https://numpy.org/doc/stable/) (note: not filed as an issue on the repo)~~ - DONE!

## Website issues

See [issues labelled with `sprint-wimlds`](https://github.com/numpy/numpy.org/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3Asprint-wimlds).

## Newsletter issues

See [issues labelled with `sprint-wimlds`](https://github.com/numpy/numpy-newsletter/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3Asprint-wimlds).

## Policy writing

Develop [social media guidelines](https://github.com/numpy/archive/issues/48).

## Reminder: developer workflow

Please try to label your commits with an indicative label
https://numpy.org/devdocs/dev/development_workflow.html?highlight=commit%20message#writing-the-commit-message