diff --git a/docs/contributing.rst b/docs/contributing.rst
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@@ -31,6 +31,8 @@ There are many ways to contribute to Scrapy. Here are some of them:
 * Answer Scrapy questions at
   `Stack Overflow <https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/scrapy>`__.
 
+.. _contributing-to-scrapy-codebase:
+
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 Contributing to Scrapy codebase
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