diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
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@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 Contributing code to The React SDK
 ==================================
 
-matrix-react-sdk follows the same pattern as https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-js-sdk/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.rst
+matrix-react-sdk follows the same pattern as https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-js-sdk/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md