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Code review is at the heart of our development process. Any software contribution to MediaWiki or any other Wikimedia hosted project is reviewed and approved at gerrit.wikimedia.org before being merged to our Git repositories. The tool we use to handle code reviews is Gerrit.

All Gerrit users can review contributions. Maintainers have the special rights to approve or reject contributions.

Prerequisites
If you are a novice developer, read How to become a MediaWiki hacker. Learn how to contribute to MediaWiki development and how to set up a functioning pre-configured development installation of MediaWiki.

If you are an experienced developer, visit the Developer hub instead.

Getting started

 * Gerrit/Tutorial - A thorough guide to using Git and Gerrit for MediaWiki development
 * Gerrit/Getting started - A very short guide to using Git and Gerrit for MediaWiki development

Tutorials and help on Gerrit

 * Gerrit/Advanced usage - How to do things "the hard way" in Gerrit
 * Gerrit/Troubleshooting - Problems and how to solve them
 * Gerrit/Navigation - How to navigate Gerrit's web interface
 * Gerrit/FAQ - Frequently asked questions concerning how to use Git and Gerrit
 * Gerrit/GitHub - About integration with the GitHub service

For code contributors / authors

 * Gerrit/Code review/Getting reviews - Learn how to get your patches reviewed
 * Gerrit/Commit message guidelines - Learn how to write good commit summaries

For code reviewers

 * Gerrit/Code review - Learn how to perform code review. Your help reviewing changes is welcome!
 * Gerrit/+2 - Guidelines for reviewers with merging rights in Gerrit

For project owners / administration

 * Gerrit/New repositories - How to create a new project in Gerrit
 * Gerrit/Project ownership - How to become the owner of a project in Gerrit
 * Gerrit/+2 - Guidelines for reviewers with merging rights in Gerrit
 * Gerrit/Inactive projects - Guidelines how to handle inactive projects

Download code without a Gerrit account
If you only want to get the code and do not plan to propose changes:


 * To simply browse & fork our code you can use the GitHub mirror. Also see Gerrit/GitHub.


 * To make an anonymous git clone of core MediaWiki, git clone https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/p/mediawiki/core.git