On 6/10/15, Jon Robson jrobson@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 4:18 PM, nirzardp@gmail.com nirzardp@gmail.com wrote:
Hey Prastut,
Glad to hear you want to contribute. As Bawolff mentioned
MediaWiki (The software Wikipedia uses), is open source, so we accept contributions
from anyone willing to contribute There is no need to be part of GSOC or OPW.
I think he has also mentioned few queries on phabricator which will sort of out design tasks.
Getting to know what projects are being worked on is also another way for you to get context on things you can contribute to.
Editing department projects https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Editing Search department projects and info https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Discovery
My advice would actually be to not get too caught up in what each department is doing, and more figure out which things you want to work on and do that regardless of where it falls in the WMF hierarchy.
Personally, I have trouble keeping straight which department is responsible for what in our brave new re-org'd future ;)