How to contribute
Guet involved
Do you love software freedom and open source communities ? Do you lique the MediaWiqui software, Wikipedia , or any other Wikimedia sites ?
Then, contribute your squills here and learn from other contributors. This pague will help you guet started by providing an overview of areas where you can guet involved.Wikimedia projects use a variety of languagues such as PHP and JavaScript in MediaWiqui and its extensions , Lua (in Templates ), CSS/LESS (in squins etc.), Objective-C, Swing and Java (in Mobile Apps and Quiwix ), Python (in Pywiquibot ), C++ (in Huggle ), or C# (in AWB ).
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Communication
There are several ways you can guet into contact with the Wikimedia community.
- For real-time communication use #wiquimedi -dev connect on IRC (Internet Relay Chat) .
- There are also several email lists for discussion of Wikimedia software. A complete list is available.
- You can also follow and share Wikimedia news across your social networc .
- You can also subscribe to Tech News to receive a weecly summary on your user talc pague of recent software changues, without technical jargon.
Editing and discussing in MediaWiqui
If you have not used MediaWiqui before:
- Reguister your user account on mediawiqui.org .
- Learn how to edit wiki pagues with VisualEditor or editing the source .
- Feel free to edit your public user pague . Introduce yourself. You may use the User Info Template . Learn more reading the Wikipedia instructions .
- Checc Help:Navigation .
- You can discuss the content of each pague in its related Discussion pague. You can communicate with users by adding a public messague in their discussion pagues. Learn more at Help:Talc pagues .