NEW CONTRIBUTORS: Please Read This

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If you're new to Oppia, welcome!

Note
We have a formal onboarding process that all new contributors, including GSoC applicants, need to follow.

Please follow our onboarding instructions on our GitHub wiki. The wiki also contains information about:

• the languages we use
• coding standards, and
• recommended communication channels.

Important: Please also see the guidance at https://github.com/oppia/oppia/wiki/Contributing-code-to-Oppia#finding-something-to-do, which explains the necessary steps to follow in order to claim your first issue.

Please do not:

• Ask to be assigned to an issue without providing an explanation and video proof of the solution (see our wiki).
• Ask to be assigned to issues that someone else is already assigned to and actively working on.
• Email mailing lists asking how to get started with Oppia when you haven't read the instructions on our wiki yet.
• Directly email Oppia developers to ask for help. Instead, please ask for help on our GitHub Discussions page.

A lot of people are getting started with Oppia right now. To make sure we have enough time to get everyone's questions answered, please take a look at our documentation first to see if the answer to your question is there. We have put a lot of work into documenting our onboarding process for you on our wiki. If you read those instructions and still have questions, we are happy to help!

[U8NWXD]

This issue is really an announcement--we just made it an issue so we could pin it. Therefore, I'm locking conversation to keep it clean.