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A developer sharing their code in the MediaWiki code repository should expect:

Feedback / Criticism / Code reviews: Review and comments by other developers on things like framework use, security, efficiency and usability.

Developer tweaking: Other developers modifying your submission to improve or clean-up your code to meet new framework classes and methods, coding conventions and translations.

Improved access for wiki sysadmins: If you do decide to put your code on the wiki, another developer may decide to move it to the MediaWiki code repository for easier maintenance. You may then create a [[Special:MyLanguage/developer account|Template:Translations:Developer account/Page display title/en]] to continue maintaining it.

Future versions by other developers: New branches of your code being created automatically as new versions of MediaWiki are released. You should backport to these branches if you want to support older versions.; Incorporation of your code into other extensions with duplicate or similar purposes — incorporating the best features from each extension.

Credit: Credit for your work being preserved in future versions — including any merged extensions.; Similarly, you should credit the developers of any extensions whose code you borrow from — especially when performing a merger.

Any developer who is uncomfortable with any of these actions occurring should not host in the code repository. You are still encouraged to create a summary page for your extension on the wiki to let people know about the extension, and where to download it. [[Category:Extension creation{{#translation:}}|Extension/CreateExtensionInputBox/en]] [[Category:Extension templates{{#translation:}}|Extension/CreateExtensionInputBox/en]]