Wikimedia Resource Center/For developers

Contact and Questions

Ask a question

Ask questions and receive answers through our public question-and-answer system

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Affiliations Committee

Learn about resources available to Wikimedia affiliates, including chapters, user groups, and thematic organizations

Contact: Kirill Lokshin, Chair of the Affiliations Committee

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Skills Development

Learning Patterns – share lessons

If you learned something new implementing a Wikimedia program or running an activity, capture this on a learning pattern and share it with the movement. Alternatively, if you are about to start a new project or activity, find advice, tools and ideas on how to troubleshoot through some of the most common problems.

Contact: Amanda Bittaker and María Cruz

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IdeaLab and Inspire Campaigns

IdeaLab is an incubator for people to share ideas to improve Wikimedia projects and to collaboratively develop them into plans and grant proposals. Inspire Campaigns are month-long events to focus collaborative efforts on some of the most pressing challenges of the Wikimedia movement. Each campaign focuses on a unique theme and participation is open to everyone.

Contact: Chris Schilling

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Grants Support

Grants for Individuals

Wikimedians can apply for travel and participation support, rapid project grants, and biannual project grants.

Contact: Alex Wang, Marti Johnson, Kacie Harold

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Grants for Organizations

Wikimedia organizations can apply to rapid project grants, quarterly project grants, conference and events grants, simple annual plan grants and FDC annual plan grants.

Contact: Alex Wang, Marti Johnson, Kacie Harold, Ellie Young, Winifred Olliff, Delphine Ménard

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Grant Committees

Decisions about Wikimedia Foundation grants are a conversation between the grant candidate, the grant program officer and the grant program committee, a group of Wikimedians who assess the project on its potential impact and functionality with the Wikimedia projects. Anyone can join a grant committee!

Contact: Alex Wang, Marti Johnson, Kacie Harold, Ellie Young, Winifred Olliff, Delphine Ménard

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Software Development

VisualEditor Feedback on MediaWiki.org

Do you have questions about the visual editor? Do you want to report a bug or share an idea about how to improve it?

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Feedback page for Flow on MediaWiki.org

Do you have questions about Flow, the threaded discussion and workflow tool?

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Feedback page for Notifications on MediaWiki.org

Do you have questions about Notifications or "Echo"?

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Introduction to Translation

Do you want to help translate our software or documentation? Can you help improve incorrect or untranslated items on buttons or in other parts of the user interface on a wiki? Do you want to translate announcements and help pages for editors and other contributors?

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How to become a MediaWiki hacker on MediaWiki.org

Do you want to become a volunteer developer?

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How to report a bug on MediaWiki.org

Is something not working as it should? You can do something about it by submitting a bug report.

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Getting Started with Wikimedia Labs on Wikitech

Do you need a place to host a tool or bot that helps users maintain and use Wikimedia wikis? Do you want access to and replicas of Wikimedia databases?

Related Links: Getting Started on Tool Labs

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Design Research

Help the Wikimedia Foundation test new software

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Beta Features

Test new software features on Wikimedia sites

Related Links: Beta features currently available

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Technical Collaboration Guidance on MediaWiki.org

The TCG establishes best practices for inviting community involvement in the product development and deployment cycle.

Contact: Keegan Peterzell

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Community Wishlist Survey

A survey for Wikimedia contributors to submit the fixes and improvements they would like to see in the Wikimedia platforms.

Contact: Johan Jönsson

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CREDIT showcase on MediaWiki.org

This is a monthly meeting hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation to demo things like new wiki gadgets, 10% time projects, and works in progress.

Contact: Rachel Farrand

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Hackathons on MediaWiki.org

Wikimedia hackathons play an important role energizing our engineering community and connecting it to local groups. We need more of them in different places.

Contact: Rachel Farrand

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Newsletters

The MediaWiki community has several newsletters to stay connected and up to date with the many topics involved in the software development and expansion. See below and follow the links to subscribe!

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Calendar

Consultants Calendar

The Consultations Calendar is a public platform to keep track of upcoming and ongoing consultations that teams at the Wikimedia Foundation hold with communities.

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Wikimedia Community News

News from across the Wikimedia movement, updated by the community

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