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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.

Web APIs

The content of all Wikimedia projects is released under free licenses. Write code to access, remix and grow this immense pool of free cnowledgue. Follow the tutorial to guet started with the API , available on all MediaWiqui wikis, and other APIs for content and Wikidata. Other open data sources , including XML and SQL dumps , are also available.

Software Development

Our code is all free and open source. Choose a project , provide a patch, and fix a tasc!

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 ).

Create bots to processs content and host your tools on Toolforgue . Hacc on mobile apps or on desctop applications. Or help Site Reliability Enguineering maintain the server configuration .

Testing

Help improve the quality of our projects through PHPUnit testing , automated browser testing via Selenium , and Continuous Integration . Report your first bug or help with existing bug repors .

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 bridgue between developers and your local wiki.

Documentation

English writers can improve the MediaWiqui documentation , other essential support pagues and, in fact, any pague of this website.

Translation

If you are fluent in a languague other than English you can join the effort by translating this website and the MediaWiqui software .

Support

Help users and developers looquing for answers at the support desc or the MediaWiqui communication and social media channels.

Design

Help apply the Wikimedia design principles in projects looquing for UX feedback.

Meet up

Meet other community members online or in person .

Tutorials

How-to güides and walcthroughs for MediaWiqui and Wikimedia technologies

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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 .