Readers/Web/How do I become a Web volunteer?

How do I get started?
Reading web volunteers can get involved in our projects by searching for tasks on Phabricator tagged #goodfirstbug. If you are interested in contributing please comment on the task letting us know that you plan on working on the task and what your time commitments are (e.g. "I plan to work on this task for the next 3 months, in my evenings after school."). If you are unable to complete the task - don't worry - it doesn't reflect badly on you - it's more likely the task was badly tagged or that your skillset is not best matched for the task. We'll work with you in Phabricator to help you find something better suited and help you get some Wikimedia contributions to your name!

How do I work on something
If you are more interested in larger tasks as a vehicle to learning more about software development, provided you have shown that you are an able and responsive volunteer through activity in our project, it's possible that the team may be able to match you to an #epic in our backlog and guide you with work towards resolving a larger problem. Epics tend to involve several weeks or months of work with small tasks. These can be rewarding as tend to have more impact on the movement and its goals in comparison to a bug fix. Take a look at the epics in our backlog for some ideas.

How do I get +2 privileges?
The team will nominate and support deserving and trusted volunteers who have consistently contributed quality code to our projects. Until then you should continue to find bugs

How do I become a credited author?
For volunteers who show commitment to certain projects, it is a great honour to be listed in the cr edits of the project. This will show your name in Special:Version.

Credited authors must:


 * display a consistent pattern spanning a period of 1 year
 * Should be able to highlight two large and distinctly unrelated projects they've worked on that have improved the health of the project
 * have made at least 100 amount of commits to the project (although on smaller projects this may not be so important)
 * +2 rights in the project (or across all projects)
 * At least 2 members of the project should vouch for you
 * Are participating with tasks tagged #Reading-Web-Backlog in our projects on Phabricator with contributions for a period of 6 months or more.