Getting started with contribution: Wikipedia, Github

What's all this?

I don't have a lot of experience working with other people on Open Source code, so within my FOSS classes, I wanted to try a couple of different methods of contributions just to get my feet write in a variety of ways.  These are both areas that I'd like to do more work in, so expect me to (assuming I have permission), do additional contributions for both of these projects.

Wikipedia :

• What I edited: Construct 2
• What I did: Added sources, reorganized article, proposed further changes to the community that will be implemented soon.
• How I approached: I spent some time learning the editor with small changes (adding sources), before I thought about larger formatting changes.  Once I felt comfortable with the interface, I switched the formatting around an extremely small amount and waited to see if anyone would yell at me.  I then attempted to write out my proposed changes in the community talk page to give people yet more time to tell me if I was about to kill someone's baby.  I'm now ready to implement the changes.
• Links to the logs: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Construct_%28game_engine%29&diff=597145775&oldid=596445136, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk%3AConstruct_%28game_engine%29&diff=597369714&oldid=596070839
• The moral: I've kidnapped the Construct 2 page, and if my demands aren't met I will kill one hostage every hour.

Github:

• What I patched: Monogame
• What I did: Fixed a bug that caused deactivation and activation events to be fired off multiple times during Monogame initialization.
• How I approached: I downloaded and got familiar with the source code before even looking for bugs to fix.  Monogame makes compilation interesting; you need to set up a test project on your own in order to test anything.  When I found bugs, I tried to avoid stepping on people's toes as much as possible, so I tried not to attack bugs that would require me to refactor lots of code.  I went with the assumption that because this was a large project and I wasn't familiar with it, the more code I touched the worse.  Before I did a commit I tried to talk about the changes with the community and get feedback on it.  The monogame community isn't overwhelmingly active, so this was sometimes more of a challenge than I expected it to be.
• Link to the log: https://github.com/mono/MonoGame/pull/2255
• The moral: When I put this on my resume, I'm not going to mention that the end result was just moving around two lines of code and re-commenting stuff.