Hobbyist coders who are eager to get started might find it useful to start getting familiar with MediaWiki: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_become_a_MediaWiki_hacker and set up their own bleeding-edge MediaWiki installations: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_Git Other Wikimedia technology projects that you might want to get familiar with: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Developer_hub Hope this helps! -- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation