Mediawiki developer hub¶
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Introduction¶
A place for programmers who are looking for an opportunity to help with wikimedia software projects.
Developer hub¶
This is a high-level overview of MediaWiki development, including links to the key documents, resources and tools available to MediaWiki developers.
It is written for skilled LAMP developers who have experience using MediaWiki.
Manual:MediaWiki Developer’s Guide¶
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How to become a MediaWiki hacker¶
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MediaWiki is the software that powers Wikipedia, its sister projects and thousands of wikis all over the world.
It runs on most operating systems, is written in PHP, primarily uses the MySQL database server and uses jQuery as the client Javascript library.
Development of MediaWiki is primarily supported by the Wikimedia Foundation, though volunteer community developers play a huge part as well.
This page should help you get started on the path to becoming a contributor to MediaWiki. It is not a tutorial; it just points you to various places where you can go learn whatever is necessary.