User:Sumanah/TechVolunteersCanDo

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Ten Things Technical Volunteers Can Do to Make Wikimedia Projects Better

 * 1) Fix an annoying little bug today: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Annoying_Little_Bug
 * 2) Help test and localize WikiLove, and implement ideas from the idea log: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/WikiLove/Idea_Log. WikiLove doesn’t just have to be tea and cookies. Make this tool work for you and your community.
 * 3) Get involved with other New Editor Engagement projects: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/New_Editor_Engagement. New editors means more help for the Wikimedia projects you care the most about. Let’s figure out ways to find great new volunteers.
 * 4) Fix right-to-left issues for speakers of Farsi, Arabic, Hebrew and more: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=rtl. This will bring us one step closer to the sum of all knowledge for every language.
 * 5) Give us test cases for the new parser and get involved in the visual editor development: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Future. The new parser will enable us to get a WYSIWYG editor that can scale for a top ten website like Wikipedia.
 * 6) Test the mobile site on your phone. Tell us how you use Wikipedia while you’re away from your desktop, and how we can make it better. See: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mobile_Projects
 * 7) Prioritize and validate bugs at https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/. Bug smashing makes everyone’s day better.
 * 8) Install and test MediaWiki on Linux, Windows and Mac, and report problems.
 * 9) Make Article Feedback data more useful by building dashboards and other tools: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Article_feedback/Data. There are thousands of ratings, but it’s still hard to see which ones are helpful to authors.
 * 10) Build any idea that strikes your fancy as a MediaWiki extension, gadget or patch. Looking for inspiration? http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Feature_map may help.

Your liaison: Sumana Harihareswara, volunteer development coordinator, sumanah@wikimedia.org and sumanah on FreeNode IRC.

General pointers for tech volunteers:


 * www.mediawiki.org
 * http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_become_a_MediaWiki_hacker
 * techblog.wikimedia.org
 * on Freenode