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. MediaWiki 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). By working with us, you're contributing to.

Stay Tuned!

 * Follow MediaWiki on Twitter and Facebook for program updates.
 * Join the wikitech-l mailing list to follow and take part in general technical announcements about Wikimedia.
 * Ask us almost anything on the Freenode IRC channel.