How to hack on Wikipedia

Wiki Media Wiki

+ 1000s

Wikipedia in your app!

Reuse, remix &contribute data

18M articles15M media files1.3T free & alive

API

Hard but hearty

New features i.e. VisualEditor

Browser test automation

Bug Squad4k open bugs

Test

The wiki waytranslatewiki.net

347 languages!

Scripts, input, RTL, grammar...

Translate

Start small

UX - not just art

MediaWiki first

Wikipedia last

Work with devs

Design

World class infra

866 wikis & more

Puppetize!

labs.wikimedia.org

Sysadmin

Start coding here

JavaScript

Local user scripts

Share

Get promoted as supported gadget

Gadgets

Just anywhere

Web & native

Help us with Android & iOS

Commons!

Bring the rest

Mobile

Restless editors

Importing, typos vandalism, ©...

1.657 around

Python and more

Bots

Feature creation

PHP, also JS...

2.118 around

83 used by

Extensions

The wiki software

PHP

932.270 LOC

155 active contributors

Wikipedia first

Core

Join the backstage

mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_contribute

Thank you!

commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:How_to_hack_on_Wikipedia.pdf

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