Thanks to Andre and Johan for the welcoming message and the tips to start out in the wikimedia community. I have been taking my time to look at the different links Andre pointed me to. Looking at this particular link https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Annoying_little_bugs, I looked at this particular bug https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T116759 and I'm confused on which particular tables.sql file to modify for there are several versions of it.
On Sun, Nov 1, 2015 at 11:24 PM, Andre Klapper aklapper@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi Bill,
On Sun, 2015-11-01 at 22:22 +0100, Bill Morrisson wrote:
I want to contribute to Wikimedia's opensource projects. I am a newbie in PHP and MySQL(just started learning the language 8 months ago) and had in mind in contributing to the organization as soon as I am comfortable in
the
languages. I would like to contribute in PHP and looking forward to learn javascript on the go with other projects as well. I would love to hear from
wikimedia
if there is anything I can do first.
Great! Thank you for your interest!
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_contribute is an overview of all the many ways how to contribute to Wikimedia. As you state that you are interested in hacking, https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_hub provides a high-level overview of MediaWiki development for hackers. It also links to https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_become_a_MediaWiki_hacker for starters. If you are looking for some "easy" bugs to work on, https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Annoying_little_bugs is also linked from that page. It offers some queries for bug reports in Wikimedia's issue tracking system.
Don't hesitate to ask if you have any questions!
Looking forward to your first patch contribution!
Cheers, andre -- Andre Klapper | Wikimedia Bugwrangler http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/
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