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Developer hub
Starting point for users interested in Semantic MediaWiki development


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Contents [hide] 1 How can I start? 2 Questions

MediaWiki dependencies

Have a look at mws:How to become a MediaWiki hacker
Fixing coding style issues is a way to get familiar with the environment
Pick a "easy" task from the issue list which should (if not please ping us) contain some code samples to move the issue forward

How to setup (use) a DataValue in PHPUnit
How is SMW organized inside? What parts of Architecture guide are outdated and don't reflect the current state of the code?
What's happening when I add the property to my page?
What's happening when I query something?
In which ways can SMW be extended? What abstract classes, hooks and interfaces do we have?
How to do the following things:
- How to add new reasoning capability? For example support the inverse properties?
- How to extend the query language?
- How to add new types of properties and extend the old ones?
- How to search the bottlenecks in the performance?
- How to read SMW data from PHP code?
- How to write SMW data from PHP code?

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 * [https://github.com/SemanticMediaWiki/SemanticMediaWiki/ SemanticMediaWiki source code repository]
 * [[Programmer's guide]]