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<div style="text-align: center; padding: 1em;font-size:200%;" >Join the MediaWiki development community</div>
Thanks for joining the MediaWiki development community. By doing so, you gain access to two important tools:
* '''[[Gerrit]]''' is the tool that we use for reviewing code contributions to our [[w:Git (software)|Git]] repositories before merging them into the main branch. You'll need to familiarize yourself with the [[Git/Workflow|Git and Gerrit workflow]] to submit changes.
* '''[[Wikimedia Labs]]''' is an environment used for staging and testing code and services. You'll get an account on Labs, but you'll need to be added to specific projects before you can do anything there.
The centralized accounts ([[w:LDAP|LDAP]]) are managed from the Wikimedia Labs console [[labsconsole:Help:Access|(more information)]].
You must have an account on this wiki ([[Special:Createaccount|create one here]] - a recently-created Wikipedia account or other account on a Wikimedia project would also work here) and be logged in to post a request for an account. To post a request for a developer account, add a comment on this page with:
:* '''Preferred Git username''' - Alphanumeric; will also be your Git commit author name, so your full name or wiki username would be reasonable. This will be permanent, so choose wisely, and leave out things like organization names or other current affiliations.
:* '''Your svn account name if you have one,''' or if you didn't, your preferred '''shell username'''. Shell account names should start with a lower-case letter, followed by 1 to 16 numbers, lower case [[w:ASCII|ASCII]] letters or <tt>-</tt> ([[w:Hyphen-minus|hyphen-minus]]) characters. (regex: [a-z_][-a-z0-9]*) Shell account names can be the same as your username, if your username fits these guidelines.
:* '''Did you previously have a svn.wikimedia.org account? (Yes/No)'''
:* '''Your preferred email address''' This must be an email address. ('''not''' <code><nowiki>[[</nowiki>special:emailuser]]</code>!) Your email address will be easily accessible to (and not obfuscated) all other labs users.
And then someone with the relevant privileges will create an account for you. Check back here to see whether it's been done, then do your [[labsconsole:Help:Access#Initial_log_in|initial login]].
If you don't want to post a public request, you can privately email [[User:Sumanah]] and give her the information above to get an account, but it will take longer.
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'''By requesting an account in Labs, you are agreeing to the [[Wikimedia Labs/Terms of use|Labs terms of service]].'''
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<small>Prior to March 2012, Wikimedia used [[Subversion]] as its version control system. The commit access process for Subversion is archived here: [[Developer access/Subversion]]</small>
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