Mailing lists
From MediaWiki.org
There are several e-mail lists that exist for discussion of the MediaWiki software. Note that these lists are not appropriate places for discussing issues with Wikipedia or any other Wikimedia Foundation projects. Those lists can be found on the mailing list page at meta. When responding publicly to a message, reply inline, rather than top posting.
These lists are all available as ordinary e-mail discussion lists, which you may subscribe to by using the links in the table below.
| List | Description | Admins |
|---|---|---|
| Help & info for system administrators | ||
| mediawiki-l | For administrators and users of the MediaWiki software in non-Wikimedia-related projects, including some feature and development discussion. If you are having difficulty with your own installation of MediaWiki, then this is the place to ask for help. | Abigor |
| Homepage/sign-up • Subscriber login • Archives | ||
| mediawiki-announce | A low traffic list for announcements about new MediaWiki releases and security updates. All messages to this list also go to mediawiki-l, so you don't need to be on both. | Sam Reed |
| Homepage/sign-up • Subscriber login • Archives | ||
| mediawiki-api-announce | A low-traffic list for announcements about the API, such as breaking changes and new MediaWiki releases. All messages to this list also go to mediawiki-api, so you don't need to be on both. | Roan Kattouw Victor Vasiliev |
| Homepage/sign-up • Subscriber login • Archives | ||
| mediawiki-enterprise | For discussion related to the enterprise use of MediaWiki. | Brion Vibber Rob Lanphier |
| Homepage/sign-up • Subscriber login • Archives | ||
| mediawiki-distributors | A very low volume list directly related to the issues of those who package and distribute MediaWiki. | Mark Hershberger Daniel Zahn |
| Homepage/sign-up • Subscriber login • Archives | ||
| mediawiki-sv | Support mailing list in Swedish for MediaWiki | Micke Nordin |
| Homepage/sign-up • Subscriber login • Archives | ||
| Technical liaison list for Wikimedia readers and contributors | ||
| wikitech-ambassadors | Discussion and announcements of upcoming features | Howie Fung Alolita Sharma Casey Brown Alex Zariv |
| Homepage/sign-up • Subscriber login • Archives | ||
| Technical discussion | ||
| wikitech-l | For discussion of technical issues with Wikimedia servers, features and development of the MediaWiki software, etc. This is not a forum for user help (see mediawiki-l, above). | Abigor |
| Homepage/sign-up • Subscriber login • Archives | ||
| wikitech-announce | Wikimedia technology platform and MediaWiki development and maintenance announcements, reports and updates (low-traffic) | Greg Varnum Sumana Harihareswara Thehelpfulone |
| Homepage/sign-up • Subscriber login • Archives | ||
| mediawiki-i18n | Discussion and notifications regarding MediaWiki internationalisation and language setup. | Amir Aharoni Siebrand Mazeland |
| Homepage/sign-up • Subscriber login • Archives | ||
| mediawiki-api | Discussion related to the MediaWiki API and its on-going development. | Roan Kattouw Victor Vasiliev |
| Homepage/sign-up • Subscriber login • Archives | ||
| design | Discussion of Wikimedia design (information architecture, visual design, style, etc.) | Brandon Harris |
| Homepage/sign-up • Subscriber login • Archives | ||
| wikitext-l | This list is for long-term discussion of MediaWiki's syntax ("wikitext"), its current parser, improvements, and work on a possible future parser. Specific, fixable problems with the current parser should go to wikitech-l instead. Wikitext-l is also the main venue where we discuss the new MediaWiki visual editor. | Sumana Harihareswara Brion Vibber |
| Homepage/sign-up • Subscriber login • Archives | ||
| offline-l | This list is a place where technologists and practitioners meet to discuss the best approaches for using -- as readers or as participants -- MediaWiki-powered sites without Internet connectivity. | Erik Möller |
| Homepage/sign-up • Subscriber login • Archives | ||
| mobile-l | A list for announcing and discussing the Wikimedia mobile projects. This includes mobile web, apps, and tablets. | Tomasz Finc |
| Homepage/sign-up • Subscriber login • Archives | ||
| analytics | A mailinglist for the Analytics Team at WMF and everybody who has an interest in Wikipedia and analytics. | Diederik van Liere |
| Homepage/sign-up • Subscriber login • Archives | ||
| wikidata-l | A mailinglist for discussing Wikidata. | Lydia Pintscher Denny Vrandečić |
| Homepage/sign-up • Subscriber login • Archives | ||
| labs-l | Discussing Wikimedia Labs | Ryan Lane |
| Homepage/sign-up • Subscriber login • Archives | ||
| xmldatadumps-l | discussion of providing and downloading Wikimedia data | Ariel Glenn |
| Homepage/sign-up • Subscriber login • Archives | ||
| pywikipedia-announce | for important Python MediaWiki bot announcements (important bugfixes, updates and notes) | Maarten Dammers Merlijn van Deen |
| Homepage/sign-up • Subscriber login • Archives | ||
| pywikipedia-l | Python MediaWiki bot discussion (user and developer) about the pywikipediabot framework | Maarten Dammers Merlijn van Deen |
| Homepage/sign-up • Subscriber login • Archives | ||
| wikibots-l | Discussion and self-help among bots users | Brion Vibber |
| Homepage/sign-up • Subscriber login • Archives | ||
| maps-l | Discussion about the integration of open maps (including from OpenStreetMap) with MediaWiki | Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason Tim Bartel |
| Homepage/sign-up • Subscriber login • Archives | ||
| MetaVid-l | Discussion about MetaVidWiki and the integration of MetaVid with MediaWiki | Michael Dale |
| Homepage/sign-up • Subscriber login • Archives | ||
| wikivideo-l | Discussion about video on Wikimedia projects | Michael Dale Erik Moeller |
| Homepage/sign-up • Subscriber login • Archives | ||
| huggle | Discussion of Huggle anti-vandalism tool | Petr Bena Michael Movchin Thehelpfulone |
| Homepage/sign-up • Subscriber login • Archives | ||
| Automatic developer notifications | ||
| wikibugs-l | Automated notifications of bug reports. (Note that follow-ups should go into Bugzilla, or sent directly to the reporter and/or to wikitech-l. They should not be sent to wikibugs-l.) | Brion Vibber |
| Homepage/sign-up • Subscriber login • (not archived) (Archived in #Gmane) | ||
| mediawiki-codereview | All CodeReview comments are sent to this list. Follow-ups should go into CodeReview or be sent to to wikitech-l. | Roan Kattouw Tim Starling |
| Homepage/sign-up • Subscriber login • (not archived) | ||
| mediawiki-commits | Automated notifications of Git check-ins. | Chad Horohoe Siebrand Mazeland |
| Homepage/sign-up • Subscriber login • (not archived) (Archived in #Gmane) | ||
| wikidata-bugs | Automated notifications of bug reports. (Note that follow-ups should go into Bugzilla, or sent directly to the reporter and/or to wikidata-l. They should not be sent to wikidata-bugs.) | Lydia Pintscher |
| Homepage/sign-up • Subscriber login • Archives | ||
| wikimedia-commits | This list sends out notifications of commits to the Wikimedia repository. Wikimedia staff developers and other interested users may wish to subscribe to keep abreast of the latest whizz-bang changes that somebody forgot to mention on wikitech-l. | Sam Reed Arthur Richards |
| Homepage/sign-up • Subscriber login • (not archived) | ||
| pywikipedia-bugs | Bugs filed against Pywikipedia | Maarten Dammers Merlijn van Deen |
| Homepage/sign-up • Subscriber login • Archives | ||
| pywikipedia-svn | Commits to the Pywikipedia Subversion repository | Maarten Dammers Merlijn van Deen |
| Homepage/sign-up • Subscriber login • Archives | ||
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| List | Newsgroup (click to subscribe, if supported by your browser) | Homepage on Gmane | Web interface |
|---|---|---|---|
| mediawiki-l | gmane.org.wikimedia.mediawiki | home | read or post |
| mediawiki-announce | gmane.org.wikimedia.mediawiki.announce | home | read only |
| mediawiki-enterprise | gmane.org.wikimedia.mediawiki.enterprise | home | read only |
| wikitech-l | gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical | home | read or post |
| mediawiki-i18n | gmane.org.wikimedia.mediawiki.i18n | home | read or post |
| mediawiki-api | gmane.org.wikimedia.mediawiki.api | home | read or post |
| wikitext-l | gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.wikitext | home | read or post |
| wikibugs-l | gmane.org.wikimedia.mediawiki.bugs | home | read or post |
| mediawiki-cvs | gmane.org.wikimedia.mediawiki.cvs | home | read only |
See also
| Language: | English • 日本語 • português |
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