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-Please see our guidelines in the wiki: https://github.com/commons-app/apps-android-commons/wiki/Volunteers-welcome%21
+Thanks for considering to contribute to this project! A few guidelines for
+people who want to contribute their code to this software are documented in
+[this project's Wiki](https://github.com/commons-app/apps-android-commons/wiki/Contributing-Guidelines).
+If you're not sure where to start head on to [this wiki page](https://github.com/commons-app/apps-android-commons/wiki/Volunteers-welcome!).
+
+Here's a gist of the guidelines,
+
+# Make separate commits for logically separate changes
+
+# Describe your changes well in the commit message
+
+The first line of the commit message should be a short description of what has
+changed. It is also good to prefix the first line with "area: " where the "area"
+is a filename or identifier for the general area of the code being modified.
+The body should provide a meaningful commit message.
+
+# Write tests for your code (if possible)
+
+# Make sure the Wiki pages don't become stale by updating them (if needed)