You are welcome to contribute to DokuWiki and join the development.

What you want to contribute is of course up to you – you should scratch your own itches first. If you need some ideas of what is missing you should have a look at the bugtracker or on the idea pages. You could also consider adopting a plugin or template. Begin with reading the Getting Started chapter.

Working together is more fun. The DokuWiki community needs a lot of different skills and is organized in teams. Please feel free to join one or just hang around the mailinglist and irc channel for development talk. There are also regular IRC meetups, bughunting weekends where eh, bugs are fixed, and sometimes developers meet IRL at DokuWiki https://www.dokuwiki.org/devel:hackfest.

DokuWiki was a mentoring organization for 2011's Google Summer of Code. When you are interested in getting involved with DokuWiki development via this kind of initiatives be sure you come in contact with us.

1. https://www.dokuwiki.org/devel:Git – Obtaining the code and working with Git¹⁾
   1. Working with Github Pull Requests
2. Coding Style
3. Editor Setup
   1. https://www.dokuwiki.org/devel:VIM
   2. https://www.dokuwiki.org/devel:IntelliJ Idea (or PHPStorm)
4. https://www.dokuwiki.org/devel:Security
5. Unit Testing
6. https://www.dokuwiki.org/devel:Patches
7. https://www.dokuwiki.org/devel:Debugging

1. https://www.dokuwiki.org/devel:Overview, walk through of how a page request is served
   1. Directory Layout
   2. https://www.dokuwiki.org/devel:Environment – global variables and defines
      • Accessing Request Variables
      • https://www.dokuwiki.org/devel:Preload
   3. https://www.dokuwiki.org/devel:Callgraph
   4. https://www.dokuwiki.org/devel:Locking
   5. https://www.dokuwiki.org/devel:Action Modes
   6. Caching facilities
   7. https://www.dokuwiki.org/devel:Parser
   8. https://www.dokuwiki.org/devel:Metadata
   9. Fulltext Index
2. https://www.dokuwiki.org/devel:Plugins
   1. https://www.dokuwiki.org/devel:Plugin File Structure
   2. https://www.dokuwiki.org/devel:Common Plugin Functions
   3. https://www.dokuwiki.org/devel:Action Plugins
      • Event System
      • Events Overview
      • Event Handlers
      • Examples of https://www.dokuwiki.org/devel:event handlers code
   4. https://www.dokuwiki.org/devel:Syntax Plugins
   5. https://www.dokuwiki.org/devel:Helper Plugins
   6. https://www.dokuwiki.org/devel:Renderer Plugins
   7. https://www.dokuwiki.org/devel:Admin Plugins
   8. https://www.dokuwiki.org/devel:Remote Plugins
   9. https://www.dokuwiki.org/devel:Auth Plugins
   10. Plugin and Template Unittests
   11. The Toolbar
   12. https://www.dokuwiki.org/devel:Plugin Programming Tips
3. https://www.dokuwiki.org/devel:Templates
   1. Starter template – Basic building block for new templates
   2. style.ini – CSS: loading styles and setting variables
4. https://www.dokuwiki.org/devel:Configuration
5. https://www.dokuwiki.org/devel:Localization
6. https://www.dokuwiki.org/devel:CSS
   1. https://www.dokuwiki.org/devel:LESS preprocessor
7. https://www.dokuwiki.org/devel:JavaScript (jQuery, jQueryUI)
   1. jQuery FAQ for Plugin Developers
8. https://www.dokuwiki.org/devel:Authentication backends
9. Internal Libraries
   1. UTF-8 String handling
   2. Request (GET/POST) variable handling
   3. E-Mail Sending
   4. Zip and Tgz compression/Decompression
   5. HTTP Client Library
   6. RSS Parser
   7. JSON Parser/Writer
   8. GeSHi Syntax Highlighting
10. Web Services
    1. XML-RPC
11. Further Resources
    1. Development API Reference²⁾
    2. Daily Snapshots
    3. Developers' Release notes
    4. Git Webinterface for browsing the source and patches
    5. Hall of Fame – all DokuWiki contributors

1. Release process and information on building a release

• Planning an external https://www.dokuwiki.org/devel:Security Audit of DokuWiki
• Ideas with some concepting that could be picked up and implemented by (new) DokuWiki developers.
• Plans for more radical https://www.dokuwiki.org/devel:Template changes
• DokuWiki https://www.dokuwiki.org/devel:Refactoring
• https://www.dokuwiki.org/devel:Farm – ideas for tips:farm
• Some remarks on https://www.dokuwiki.org/devel:Memory footprint reduction
• Brainstorm about https://www.dokuwiki.org/devel:scalability, https://www.dokuwiki.org/devel:scalability_proposal
• Brainstorm https://www.dokuwiki.org/devel:Tagline for dokuwiki.org