Welcome to the MediaWiki development community!
You might be interested in fixing some Annoying little bugs if you have some time, or in reviewing some JavaScript code like Special:Code/MediaWiki/100851. Hope to see you in the #mediawiki channel on FreeNode IRC sometime! Sumanah 15:12, 7 November 2011 (UTC)
The "proper" welcome :-)
editDear Phiarc, Welcome to MediaWiki.org!
Yes, welcome! This site is dedicated to documenting the MediaWiki software, the software behind many wikis, including that of Wikipedia and the Wikimedia Foundation projects.
Please, take a look at the following pages. They might prove useful to you as a newcomer here:
If you have any questions, please ask me on my talk page. Once again, welcome, and I hope you quickly feel comfortable here, and find this site useful documentation of the MediaWiki software.
Thanks, and regards,