How to contribute

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Get involved
Do you love software freedom and open source communities? Do you like the MediaWiki software, [ http://www.wikipedia.org/ Wikipedia], or any other [ https://www.wikimedia.org/ Wikimedia sites]?

Then, contribute your skills here and learn from other contributors. This page will help you get started by providing an overview of areas where you can get involved. }}



Communication

 * There are several ways you can get into contact with the Wikimedia community.


 * You can also follow and share Wikimedia news across your social network.


 * You can also subscribe to Tech News to receive a weekly summary on your user talk page of recent software changes, without technical jargon.

Editing and discussing in MediaWiki
If you have not used MediaWiki before:


 * Register your user account on mediawiki.org.


 * Learn how to edit wiki pages with VisualEditor or editing the source.


 * Feel free to edit your public user page. Introduce yourself. You may use the User Info Template. Learn more reading the Wikipedia instructions.


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 * You can discuss the content of each page in its related Discussion page. You can communicate with users by adding a public message in their discussion pages. Learn more at.