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Then, contribute your skills here and learn from other contributors. This page will help you getting started by providing an overview of areas where you can get involved.
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Communication
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.
- For real-time communication use
#wikimedia-dev
connect on IRC (Internet Relay Chat). - There are also several e-mail lists for discussion of Wikimedia software. A complete list is available.
- 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.
Editing and discussing in MediaWiki
If you have not used MediaWiki before:
Register your user account on mediawiki.org.
Learn how to Edit wiki pages with VisualEditor or editing the source.- Feel free to edit your public user page. Introduce yourself. You may use the User Info Template. Learn more reading the Wikipedia instructions.
- Check Help:NavigationHelp:Navigation.
- You can discuss the content of each page in its related Discussion page. You can communicate with users by adding a public message in their discussion pages. Learn more at Help:Talk pagesHelp:Talk pages.
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