Outreach programs/Recommended steps for participants

Introduction
MediaWiki is the free and open source software that powers Wikipedia, its sister projects and thousands of wikis all over the world. It is written in PHP, primarily uses the MySQL and MariaDB database servers and jQuery as the client JavaScript library. MediaWiki is supported by the Wikimedia movement. You can learn more about the differences between MediaWiki, Wikimedia, Wikipedia and Wiki here. By working with us, you're contributing to.

Application process steps
If you are considering to apply, follow the steps in the order in which they are listed:

Accepted participants
If you get accepted, here is what we will encourage you to do to have a successful project:

Stay tuned!

 * Join the wikitech-l mailing list to receive Wikimedia technical news, including program updates. You can select the digest mode and read just the summary, or take part in discussions already.
 * Some MediaWiki updates are also on the Wikimedia Foundation technology blog, Twitter and Facebook.
 * Ask us almost anything on the Freenode IRC channel.