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### Research, Write and Update our guide articles

**What are Guide articles?**
**What are guide articles?**

Guide articles help you to get a quick understanding of a technology concept. These are short, plain-English explanations that you can read before going on to more in-depth resources.
Guide articles help you get a quick understanding of a technology concept. These are short, plain English explanations that you can read before going on to more in-depth resources.

You can find an [example article about HTML Anchor Elements here](https://github.com/freeCodeCamp/freeCodeCamp/blob/master/guide/english/html/elements/a-tag/index.md).

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### Create, Update and Fix Bugs in our coding challenges

All our Coding challenges are curated by the community, bringing in expert knowledge from volunteers like you.
All our coding challenges are curated by the community, bringing in expert knowledge from volunteers like you.

You can help expand them and make their wording more clear. You can update the user stories to explain the concept better and even remove redundant ones. You can also improve the challenge tests to make them more accurately test people's code.
You can help expand them and make their wording clearer. You can update the user stories to explain the concept better and even remove redundant ones. You can also improve the challenge tests to make them more accurately test people's code.

If you're interested in improving these coding challenges, here's [how to work on coding challenges](/docs/how-to-work-on-coding-challenges.md).

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### Help us fix bugs in freeCodeCamp.org's learning platform

Our learning platform runs on a modern JavaScript stack. It has various components, tools and libraries including but not limited to Node.js, MongoDB, LoopBack, OAuth 2.0, React, Gatsby, Webpack, and more.
Our learning platform runs on a modern JavaScript stack. It has various components, tools and libraries, including but not limited to, Node.js, MongoDB, LoopBack, OAuth 2.0, React, Gatsby, Webpack, and more.

Broadly,

- We have a Node.js based API server.
- A set of React based client applications.
- A script that we use to evaluate our Frontend projects.
- A script that we use to evaluate our front-end projects.

Contributing to this requires some understanding of APIs, ES6 Syntax and a lot of curiosity.
Contributing to this requires some understanding of APIs, ES6 Syntax, and a lot of curiosity.

Essentially we expect basic familiarity with some of the aforementioned technologies, tools and libraries. That being said, you are not required to be an expert on them in order to contribute.
Essentially, we expect basic familiarity with some of the aforementioned technologies, tools, and libraries. With that being said, you are not required to be an expert on them in order to contribute.

Feel free to ask us questions on the related issue threads, and we will be glad to clarify. When in doubt, you can reach Mrugesh Mohapatra [`@raisedadead`](https://github.com/raisedadead) or Stuart Taylor [`@bouncey`](https://github.com/bouncey) from our platform dev team to help you with this.

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**What do these different labels that are tagged on issues mean?**

Our community moderators [triage](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_bug#Bug_management) issues and pull requests based on their priority, severity and other factors. You can [find a complete glossary of their meanings here](https://github.com/freecodecamp/freecodecamp/labels).
Our community moderators [triage](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_bug#Bug_management) issues and pull requests based on their priority, severity, and other factors. You can [find a complete glossary of their meanings here](https://github.com/freecodecamp/freecodecamp/labels).

You should go through **`Help Wanted`** or **`first timers welcome`** issues for a quick overview of what is available for you to work on. These are up for grabs and you do not need to seek permission before working on them.
You should go through **`Help Wanted`** or **`first timers welcome`** issues for a quick overview of what is available for you to work on. These are up for grabs, and you do not need to seek permission before working on them.

If these issues lack clarity on what needs to be done, feel free to ask questions in the comments.

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