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 <[email protected]> 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/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
