Jeff Warnica wrote:
Greets all. Id like to begin contributing, in a
technical fashion to
wikipedia, and this seems like the place to start.
At heart, Im a sysadmin, but to start out (especially in isolation), the
best way seems programming work on mediawiki. Be it squashing bugs, or
implementing new features, Id like to help. Unfortunately, while Ive
contributed some content, Im not overtly involved in wikipedia: thus I
dont know if on Sourceforge bugs are really bugs, and RFE are wanted by
more then one person - I don't want to waste anyones time by working on
things that wouldnt be accepted. Thus, I ask: what would be some tasks
that I could cut my teeth on?
Speaking as a non-technical person, it would be comforting to feel that
someone is patrolling the bug report pages on the various projects.
Much of what appears there may not be bugs at all, but what do the rest
of us know about that? Sometimes it may just take reporting that it's
being looked at or letting us know what we were doing wrong. If it's
reported that it's being looked at and is still there after a month,
then the fact that it's still being looked at needs to be noted with a
date again. For some of us looking at that page is like watching the
hourglass icon during a download, and wondering, "Has the time come to
just re-boot?" :-)
Ec