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Get involved
Do you love software freedom and open source communities? Do you like the MediaWiki software, Wikipedia, or any other Wikimedia sites?
Then, contribute your skills here and learn from other contributors. This page will help you get started by providing an overview of areas where you can get involved.
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Software Development
Our code is all free and open source. Choose a project, provide a patch, and fix a task!
Wikimedia projects use a variety of languages such as PHP and JavaScript in MediaWiki and its extensions, Lua (in Templates), CSS/LESS (in skins etc), Objective-C, Swing and Java (in Mobile Apps and Kiwix), Python (in Pywikibot), C++ (in Huggle), or C# (in AWB).
Create bots to process content and host your tools on Toolforge. Hack on mobile apps or on desktop applications. Or help Site Reliability Engineering maintain the server configuration.
Testing
Help improve the quality of our projects through automated Browser testing, PHPUnit testing and Continuous Integration. Report your first bug or help with existing bug reports.
Ambassadors
As a Tech ambassador, help other Wikimedians with technical issues, relay Tech News to inform users about what is going to impact them, and join the ambassadors' group and the mailing list to act as a bridge between developers and your local wiki.
Documentation
English writers can improve the MediaWiki documentation, other essential support pages and, in fact, any page of this website.
Translation
If you are fluent in a language other than English you can join the effort by translating this website and the MediaWiki software.
Support
Help users and developers looking for answers at the support desk or the MediaWiki communication and social media channels.
Design
Help apply the Wikimedia design principles in projects looking for UX feedback.
Meet up
Meet other community members online or in person.
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There are several ways you can get into contact with the Wikimedia community.
- Feel free to ask your developer questions on https://discourse-mediawiki.wmflabs.org.
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- You can also follow and share Wikimedia news across your social network.
- You can also subscribe to Tech News to receive a weekly summary on your user talk page of recent software changes, without technical jargon.
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Register your user account on mediawiki.org.
Learn how to Edit wiki pages with VisualEditor or editing the source.
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- Check Help:Navigation .
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