Translations:New Developers/Introduction to the Wikimedia Technical Ecosystem/15/en

The MediaWiki software is developed collaboratively by people from all around the world. The Wikimedia technical community has added many key features to MediaWiki and built a large ecosystem of extensions to the core software. Due to its complexity, contributing to MediaWiki may be more challenging than other types of technical contributions. As a new contributor, focus on features and bugs that only touch a small region of code. Avoid building new MediaWiki skins and extensions: every new extension adds to the software's overall maintenance burden, and can block the launch of new, crucial features. Instead, look into working on one of the many existing extensions.