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 该项目旨在启动非洲大陆的开发者社区，并鼓励更多开发人员为维基媒体基金会做志愿者. 我们的"使命"是通过志愿作为维基媒体基金会的开发者，为愿意在开放空间学习和建立新技能的开发人员创建一个有利的生态系统.

你愿意参与吗？
您可以通过多种方式参与成为非洲维基媒体开发人员. 请问你是否来自非洲大陆，喜欢技术并对开放知识感兴趣？ 如果是，请加入社区african-wikimedia-developerslists.wikimedia.org. 请按照以下步骤熟悉我们社区需要的技能：

第1步：了解如何成为MediaWiki的开发者
 请花点时间阅读以下资源丰富的文档：



第2步：Wikimedia代码评审(CR)和开发平台
 是Wikimedia的代码评审(CR)软件，软件开发过程的核心. 没有Gerrit，Wikimedia是不可能进行（标准化的）软件开发. 在Gerrit网站上注册账户并获得. 你也可以阅读关于如何在PC上设置Gerrit的Gerrit教程.

 Step 3: Familiarize yourself with Phabricator
 Wikimedia uses an open source development platform called: Phabricator, it is mainly used for project management, software bug reporting and request for features. It's not that complicated to use and you can login to Wikimedia's Phabricator using your MediaWiki account.

Phabricator has a lot of functionalities but as a developer, the functionalities you will mostly used are focused on; creating tasks, resolving tasks, uploading files, feature request etc. So, we don't expect you will learn all of Phabricator's functionality (except you want to). We will focus on what we need for a start and keep learning as time goes.

 Step 4: Bonding with the Wikimedia developer community
 There are of course many different ways to bond with the developer community in the Wikimedia Movement, but the fastest and most comfortable way for most developers is on Internet Relay Chat IRC. Wikimedia has so many IRC channels and the particular channel for developers is:. This is a starting point and on this channel, you can introduce yourself and make your interest known to the community and wait for a while, be rest assured that someone in the channel will guide you or react to your message. You can also ask technical questions on the channel and someone might answer you or point you to resources that will enable you find the answer(s) to your question(s).

 Step 5: Configure MediaWiki locally and get started!
 It's a great thing you are at this step and we recommend you do step 2 before doing this as they are highly interlinked to each other. MediaWiki can be installed following these docs and after this, it will be available locally and you can also see how to clone the MediaWiki Core in the Gerrit Tutorials in Step 2. After mastering all the first 4 steps, developing on MediaWiki will be relatively easy so we recommend that you take your time and master the first 4 steps before diving to this last step.

Happy hacking on MediaWiki!!!

Further resources
For more information about getting into MediaWiki development and even more on other Wikimedia related projects, you can checkout the link below:



Contact us
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