Added an initial Contributing guide

CONTRIBUTING.md

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+# Contributing to MkDocs
+
+See the contributing guide in the documentation for an
+introduction to contributing to MkDocs.
+
+    http://www.mkdocs.org/about/contributing

docs/about/contributing.md

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+# Contributing to MkDocs
+
+An introduction to contributing to the MkDocs project.
+
+The MkDocs project welcomes, and depends, on contributions from
+developers and users in the open source community. Contributions
+can be made in a number of ways, a few examples are:
+
+- Code patches via pull requests
+- Documentation improvements
+- Bug reports and patch reviews
+
+## Installing for development
+
+First you'll need to fork and clone the repository. Once you have
+a local copy, run the following command. It is recommended that
+you do this within a [virtualenv](virtualenv).
+
+```no-highlight
+pip install --editable .
+```
+
+This will install MkDocs in development mode which binds the
+`mkdocs` command to the git repository.
+
+
+## Running the tests
+
+To run the tests, it is recommended that you use [Tox](tox). This
+just needs to be pip installed and then the test suite can be ran
+for MkDocs but running the command `tox` in the root of your
+MkDocs repository.
+
+It will attempt to run the tests against all of the Python
+versions we support. So don't be concerned if you are missing
+some and they fail. The rest will be verified by [Travis](travis)
+when you submit a pull request.
+
+## Submitting Pull Requests
+
+Once you are happy with your changes or you are ready for some
+feedback, push it to your fork and send a pull request. For a
+change to be accepted it will most likely need to have tests and
+documentation if it is a new feature.
+
+[virtualenv]: https://virtualenv.pypa.io/en/latest/userguide.html
+[tox]: https://tox.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
+[travis]: https://travis-ci.org/repositories

mkdocs.yml

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 - ['user-guide/configuration.md', 'User Guide', 'Configuration']
 - ['about/license.md', 'About', 'License']
 - ['about/release-notes.md', 'About', 'Release Notes']
+- ['about/contributing.md', 'About', 'Contributing']
 
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