Developer Portal/Contribute

This page provides information about how to contribute to the Developer Portal.

Propose content changes
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We would like to keep content on the portal limited. Pages should not duplicate other pages. Pages must be high quality and helpful. Please be aware of the user journeys. Pages which are proposed to be linked must follow the documentation guide for accuracy and consistency.

The proposed changes will be reviewed by the Tech Docs team.

Textual content is licensed under CC-BY-SA 4.0.

Propose code changes
Before submitting a change to the Developer Portal codebase, please open a task in Phabricator to get feedback on your plans.

To submit a code change:


 * 1) Set up your access to Wikimedia Gerrit.
 * 2) Set up your local development environment for the Developer Portal, and make the changes.
 * 3) Follow the commit message guidelines and the Gerrit tutorial to submit your change. The proposed changes will be reviewed by the Tech Docs team.
 * 1) Follow the commit message guidelines and the Gerrit tutorial to submit your change. The proposed changes will be reviewed by the Tech Docs team.

Code is licensed under GNU GPL version 3 or later.

Translate content to your language
Please translate content at https://translatewiki.net/wiki/Translating:WikimediaDeveloperPortal

Your translations will be regularly merged into the codebase at https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/g/wikimedia/developer-portal/. After a while, the latest codebase will be deployed on https://developer.wikimedia.org/ and translations become available to anyone visiting the website.