Hi Fantasy,
I will look for some small tasks for the beginning. Maybe documentation?
You can have a look at the old and current official documentation (the so-called User's Guide at meta), or you can help out in my attempt to restructure and rewrite the complete documentation which I started just about two weeks ago (http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Documentation). I want roughly the following structure:
PART 1: Introduction - General Information and Architecture. PART 2: Administrator's Guide - Installation, Configuration, Administration, Care & Feeding. PART 3: User's Guide - Usage of the MediaWiki Software. PART 4: Developer's Guide - Development, Bug Tracking, Roadmap, Known Issues, (Feature Requests). APPENDIX: Additional Information. FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions.
I need help especially in two areas:
* Administration - best practices, security issues; part of the outlined "Administrator's Guide"; wanted: someone with a few months of experience in administering MediaWiki.
* Development - wanted: someone with experience in PHP and SQL who is able to write some short intructions how the code works, which scripts do what, and maybe later some coding guidelines - simply someone to do some hard work helping other developers to get started easier; this should be someone not yet involved in the all day's work since I don't want to absorb time from coding and debugging; part of the outlined "Developer's Guide".
In Germany we are now officially the "number one choice" in Wiki-Software for large wikis.
Thanks to Erik and the c't ;)
Greetings, -asb
Note: This is not a fork from the current "User's Guide"; more about this is on my Talk page on meta.