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
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(a)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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