How to hack on Wikipedia

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A practical guide to getting involved with MediaWiki/Wikipedia development and community contribution. It names MediaWiki and Wikimedia projects (Wikipedia, Commons, Wiktionary, Wikiversity) and offers a concrete list of ten starter activities across development, testing, design, sysadmin, documentation, product and marketing, with pointers to mediawiki.org pages and entry points for each role.

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