Mailing lists/Overview
From Meta, a Wikimedia project coordination wiki
These are the mailing lists hosted by Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit organization in the state of California which operates Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikibooks, Wikiquote, Wikisource, Wikimedia Commons, Wikispecies, Wikinews, and Wikiversity, as well as many Wikimedia Chapter wikis, and a few other MediaWiki-based wikis.
A mailing list is like a shared email address: messages sent to that address are distributed to all members ("subscribers") of the list.
Except for lists marked "private", archives are available for online reading by anyone; posting to a list generally requires subscribing to it. The Mailman list overview page can be found at lists.wikimedia.org. Some lists can be searched and read on Gmane as web-based threads or blogs, or with an RSS reader or NNTP newsreader; see the links below or, on Gmane, gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia and gmane.org.wikimedia.
See the main Mailing lists page for more information on Wikimedia lists.
Contents
Wikimedia[edit]
Wikimedia Foundation[edit]
Lists relating to the Wikimedia Foundation.
- wikimedia-l (archive, gmane) – general mailing list, see wikimedia-l (formerly foundation-l)
- WikimediaAnnounce-l (archive, gmane) – general Wikimedia announcements low traffic list; forwards and replies-to wikimedia-l (see Mailing lists/Wikimedia Announce)
- Advisory (private) - list for the advisors on the Wikimedia Advisory Board, and Trustees
Interest group lists[edit]
Lists for various topics.
- languages (archive) – a list for all languages-related topics
- translators-l (archive, gmane) – a list for discussing and announcing translations across the Wikimedia projects
- Cultural Partners-l (archive) – GLAM & Cultural sector outreach (currently private)
- GLAM (archive) – GLAM
- GLAM-US (archive) – GLAM in the United States of America
- WikiLovesMonuments (archive) – Wiki Loves Monuments Photograph Competition
- Education (archive) – Wikimedia and Education
- wiki-research-l (archive, gmane) – low volume list for people who are actively engaged in research on the Wikimedia projects
- gendergap (archive) – discussing the gender gap on Wikimedia projects
- Gendergap-de (archive) - German Gendergap list
Museum-l– Wikimedia and Museums, for museum professionals (never used. currently private)
- Libraries (archive) – Wikimedia and Libraries, for library professionals, all things Wikimedian and librarian, and the inevitable love affair between the two
- Program Evaluation and Design (archive) - Announcement list for people interested in program evaluation and design
- Multimedia (archive, gmane) - a list for discussing the contribution, curation, discovery and publishing of multimedia content to Wikimedia projects
Internal, governance and committee lists[edit]
These lists have to do with specific committees or internal operations, and often require approval to join.
- internal-l – internal list for Wikimedia Foundation board, Legal officers, & boards of local chapters (see instructions for chapters).
- stewards-l (archive) – private mailing list for Stewards.
- checkuser-l – private mailing list for CheckUser users.
- functionaries-announce (archive) – private mailing list for all bureaucrats, checkusers and oversighters: «a temporary private announcements list created just for this major change (and other changes related to the VisualEditor deployment) – it includes the registered e-mail of every bureaucrat, checkuser, oversighter, global sysop and steward, as well as staff and sysadmin accounts».
- rcom-l (archive) – Research Committee.
- fundraiser (archive) – fundraising discussions, open-subscription and public successor of the now closed fundraising list (which was private, see Mailing lists/Fundraising)
- treasurers (archive) – mainly for treasurers and auditors of Wikimedia organizations, but also for interested individuals; public archives.
- langcom – Language committee (open subscription, replaces the private langcom-l list)
- board-l – internal WMF board list, not intended for outside email. To contact the board, use the Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard
- wmfcc-l – Communications committee (comcom).
Wikimania[edit]
- wikimania-l (archive, gmane) – for announcements and discussion about the Wikimania conference
- Wikimania 2010 (archive, gmane) (Polish)
Wikimedia chapters[edit]
Lists for Wikimedia chapters.
Chapters-reports (archive) – announcement mailing list for all Wikimedia chapters(now merged into Wikimedia Announcements)- Chapters-l (archive) – private mailing list for Chapters
- Iberocoop list – for discussion of Iberocoop activities (currently private)
- WikimediaAU-l (archive) – for matters relating to the Australian chapter
- Wikimediabr-l (archive) – for matters relating to the planned Brazilian chapter
- Wikimedia-ca (archive) – for matters relating to the planned Canadian chapter
- WikimediaCH-l (archive, gmane) for matters relating to the Swiss chapter
- WikimediaCZ-l (archive) for matters relating to the Czech chapter
- VereinAT-l (archive) – for matters relating to the Austrian chapter
- VereinDE-l (archive, gmane) – for matters relating to the German chapter
- Wikimediaindia-l (archive) – for matters relating to the Indian chapter
- WikimediaFR-l (archive, gmane) – for matters relating to the French chapter
- WikimediaNL-l (archive) – for matters relating to the Dutch chapter
- Wikimedia-PH (archive) – for matters relating to the Philippine chapter
- WikimediaPL-l (archive) – for matters relating to the Polish chapter
- WikimediaPT-l (archive, gmane) – for matters relating to the PT chapter
- WikimediaRO-l (archive) – for matters relating to the proposed Romanian chapter
- WikimediaRU-l (archive) – for matters relating to the Russian chapter
- WikimediaSE-l (archive, gmane) – for matters relating to the Swedish chapter
- WikimediaSR-l (archive) – for matters relating to the Serbian chapter
- WikimediaRS-info (archive) – Wikimedia Serbia Info (previously WikimediaSCG-INFO, now superseded)
- WikimediaUA (archive) – for matters relating to the Ukrainian chapter
- Wikimedia-US-MW (archive) – for matters relating to the proposed Midwest US chapter and for organizing activities in the Midwest region of the US
- WikimediaUK-l (archive, gmane) – for matters relating to the UK chapter
- WikimediaUK schools list – (gmane)
- Wikimedia-TW (archive) – for matters relating to the TW chapter
- WikimediaZA (archive) – for matters relating to the proposed South African chapter
- Wikimedia_NYC (archive) – New York City area Wikimedians
Regional mailing lists[edit]
Lists for established meetup groups in particular locations.
- Wikimedia-Boston (archive) – Boston area Wikimedians – meetup group
- Wikimedia-KH (archive) – Wikimedia Cambodia/ Khmer Wikipedia mailing list – meetup group
- Wikimedia-SF (archive) – San Francisco Bay area Wikimedians – meetup group
- WikimediaIE (archive) – Ireland Wikimedians <!– Geographical, not political, please! –>
- Wikimedia-BD (archive) – Bangladeshi Wikimedians
- wikimedia-in-wb (archive) – Wikimedians in West Bengal (India)
- Wikimedia-US-CO (archive) – Wikimedians in Colorado, USA
- Wikimedia-SK (archive) – Wikimedians in Slovakia; chapter-to-be
Project mailing lists[edit]
Sorted by project name.
- textbook-l (archive, gmane) – for global issues, relating to all language versions of Wikibooks (see below for local mailing lists)
- wikidata-l (archive, gmane) – a mailing list for discussing Wikidata
- commons-l (archive, gmane) – for the Wikimedia Commons-related discussion
- Commons-poty (archive, gmane) – Picture of the day feature on Commons
- incubator (archive) – list for Wikimedia Incubator-related discussion
- Wikimediameta-l (archive, gmane) – list for issues specific for the Meta-Wiki (the wiki where you are now)
- wikinews-l (archive, gmane) – for global issues, relating to all language versions of Wikinews (see below for local mailing lists)
- wikipedia-l (archive, gmane) – for global issues, relating to all language versions of Wikipedia (see below for local mailing lists)
- wikiquote-l (archive) – for Wikiquote-related discussion
- wikisource-l (archive, gmane) – for global issues, relating to all language versions of Wikisource
- wikispecies-l (archive) – for global issues, relating to all language versions of Wikispecies
- wikiversity-l (archive) – for global issues, relating to all language versions of Wikiversity
- wiktionary-l (archive, gmane) – for global issues, relating to all language versions of Wiktionary (see below for local mailing lists)
- wikivoyage-l (archive) – for Wikivoyage-related discussion
Local Wikipedia mailing lists[edit]
- wikials-l (archive) (Alemannisch)
- wikiar-l (archive, gmane) (العربية)
- wikipedia-bn (archive) (বাংলা)
- wikimedia-in-wb (archive) (বাংলা)
- wikica-l (archive) (català)
- wikida-l (archive, gmane) (dansk)
- wikide-l (archive, gmane) (Deutsch)
- wikien-l (archive, gmane) (English)
- daily-article-l (archive, gmane) – sends the current article featured on the Main Page to all subscribers
- accounts-enwiki-l (archive) – used to create accounts for new users who can't create one themselves, and internal discussion between the Account Creation Team
- wikien-bureaucrats (archive) – English Wikipedia's Bureaucrat's mailing list; correspondence and project contact
- ambassador-announce-l (archive) – English Wikipedia Ambassadors
- wikieo-l (archive, gmane) (Esperanto)
- wikies-l (archive, gmane) (español)
- wikieu-l (archive, gmane) (español)
- wikifa-l (archive) (فارسی)
- wikifi-l (archive) (suomi)
- wikifr-l (archive, gmane) (français)
- wikihe-l (archive) (עברית)
- wikihi-l (archive) (हिन्दी)
- wikihu-l (archive) (magyar)
- wikiia-l (archive) (interlingua)
- wikiid-l (archive) (Bahasa Indonesia)
- wikiis-l (archive) (íslenska)
- wikiit-l (archive, gmane) (italiano)
- wikiit-admins-l (private archive) (italiano)
- wikikn-l (archive) (ಕನ್ನಡ)
- wikilb-l (archive) (Lëtzebuergesch)
- wikija-l (archive) (日本語)
- wikiko-l (archive) (한국어)
- wikimk-l (archive) (македонски)
- wikiml-l (archive) (മലയാളം)
- wikinl-l (archive, gmane) (Nederlands)
- wikinn-l (archive) (norsk nynorsk)
- wikino-l (archive, gmane) (norsk bokmål)
- wikipl-l (archive, gmane) (polski)
- wikipt (archive, gmane) (português)
- wikiro-l (archive) (română)
- wikiru-l (archive, gmane) (русский)
- wikisa-l (archive) (संस्कृतम्)
- wikisk-l (archive) (slovenčina)
- wikiskan-l (archive) (new all-Scandinavian list)
- wikisv-l (archive, gmane) (svenska)
- wikita-l (archive) (தமிழ்)
- wikite-l (archive) (తెలుగు)
- wikitr-l (archive) (Türkçe)
- wikiuk-l (archive) (українська)
- wikivi-l (archive, gmane) (Tiếng Việt)
- wikizh-l (archive, gmane) (中文)
- wikipedia-or (archive) (ଓଡ଼ିଆ)
Local Wiktionary mailing lists[edit]
- WiktionaryDE-l (archive) (Deutsch)
- WiktionaryPT-l (archive) (Português)
Local Wikibooks mailing lists[edit]
- WikibooksDE-l (archive) (Deutsch)
Local and otherwise Wikinews mailing lists[edit]
- Wikinews-DE-l (archive) (Deutsch)
- Wikinews-accreditation (archive) – verifying accreditation requests
- Wikinews-hotline (archive) – voicemails submitted to the Wikinews hotline
- Wikinews-fa (archive) (فارسی)
- Wikinews-zh (archive) (中文)
Local Wikiversity mailing lists[edit]
- Wikiversityde-l (archive, gmane) (Deutsch)
MediaWiki and technical[edit]
Lists related to software and technical matters.
MediaWiki[edit]
General MediaWiki discussion, strictly suitable (also) for a general, non-Wikimedia-only audience.
| List | Description |
|---|---|
| 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. |
| Homepage/sign-up • Subscriber login • Archives • gmane | |
| 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. Note: this list is in "emergency moderation". Only messages from accepted addresses don't get immediately discarded, and any message has to be manually approved by a list admin or moderator (Tim Starling, Reedy or Csteipp). |
| Homepage/sign-up • Subscriber login • Archives • gmane | |
| mediawiki-i18n | Discussion and notifications regarding MediaWiki internationalisation and language setup. |
| Homepage/sign-up • Subscriber login • Archives • gmane | |
| mediawiki-api | Discussion related to the MediaWiki API and its on-going development. |
| Homepage/sign-up • Subscriber login • Archives • gmane | |
| 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. |
| Homepage/sign-up • Subscriber login • Archives • gmane | |
| 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. |
| Homepage/sign-up • Subscriber login • Archives • gmane | |
| wikidata-tech | Discussion regarding the development of Wikidata |
| Homepage/sign-up • Subscriber login • Archives • gmane | |
| wikifarm | Discussion for managers of Wiki Farms |
| Homepage/sign-up • Subscriber login • Archives • gmane |
Code and bugs[edit]
Of interest mainly for developers following the code closely.
| List | Description |
|---|---|
| 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. |
| Homepage/sign-up • Subscriber login • (not archived) • gmane | |
| mediawiki-commits | Automated notifications of Git/Gerrit commits and reviews. |
| Homepage/sign-up • Subscriber login • (not archived) • 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. |
| Homepage/sign-up • Subscriber login • Archives • not on Gmane? | |
| 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. |
| Homepage/sign-up • Subscriber login • (not archived) • not on Gmane? | |
| mediawiki-codereview | All CodeReview comments were sent to this list (only for the SVN repository). Follow-ups should go into CodeReview or be sent to to wikitech-l. |
| Homepage/sign-up • Subscriber login • (not archived) • gmane |
Local[edit]
MediaWiki discussions local to a specific area or userbase.
| List | Description |
|---|---|
| mediawiki-distributors | A very low volume list directly related to the issues of those who package and distribute MediaWiki. |
| Homepage/sign-up • Subscriber login • Archives • gmane | |
| mediawiki-enterprise | For discussion related to the enterprise use of MediaWiki. |
| Homepage/sign-up • Subscriber login • Archives • gmane | |
| mediawiki-india | A list for developers and users of MediaWiki from India. |
| Homepage/sign-up • Subscriber login • Archives • not on Gmane? | |
| mediawiki-fr | Liste de discussion francophone sur MediaWiki / MediaWiki french-speaking mailinglist |
| Homepage/sign-up • Subscriber login • Archives • not on Gmane? | |
| mediawiki-sv | Swedish language discussions about the MediaWiki software (closed). |
| Homepage/sign-up • Subscriber login • Archives • gmane |
Related software, tools and infrastructure[edit]
Tools to help use and development of all MediaWiki and MediaWiki sites, or of Wikimedia projects by anyone including researchers etc.
pywikipedia[edit]
| List | Description |
|---|---|
| pywikipedia-announce | for important Python MediaWiki bot announcements (important bugfixes, updates and notes). |
| Homepage/sign-up • Subscriber login • Archives • gmane | |
| pywikipedia-l | Python MediaWiki bot discussion (user and developer) about the pywikipediabot framework. |
| Homepage/sign-up • Subscriber login • Archives • gmane | |
| pywikipedia-svn | Commits to the Pywikipedia Subversion repository. |
| Homepage/sign-up • Subscriber login • Archives • gmane | |
| pywikipedia-bugs | Bugs filed against Pywikipedia (sourceforge.net). |
| Homepage/sign-up • Subscriber login • Archives • gmane |
Toolserver[edit]
| List | Description |
|---|---|
| toolserver-announce | Important announcements about and regarding the toolserver |
| Homepage/sign-up • Subscriber login • Archives • gmane | |
| toolserver-l | For discussion about and regarding the toolserver |
| Homepage/sign-up • Subscriber login • Archives • gmane |
Other[edit]
| List | Description |
|---|---|
| huggle | Discussion of Huggle anti-vandalism tool (in English). |
| Homepage/sign-up • Subscriber login • Archives • not on Gmane? | |
| labs-l | Discussing Wikimedia Labs testing, prototyping, & development environment. |
| Homepage/sign-up • Subscriber login • Archives • gmane | |
| xmldatadumps-l | Discussion of providing and downloading Wikimedia data, see Data dumps for on-wiki documentation. |
| Homepage/sign-up • Subscriber login • Archives • gmane |
General development and technical discussion[edit]
For all Wikimedians: the tech ambassadors list for discussion and announcements of upcoming changes and features:
| List | Description |
|---|---|
| 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). |
| Homepage/sign-up • Subscriber login • Archives • gmane | |
| wikitech-announce | Wikimedia technology platform and MediaWiki development and maintenance announcements, reports and updates (low-traffic). |
| Homepage/sign-up • Subscriber login • Archives • gmane | |
| wikibots-l | Discussion and self-help among bots users. |
| Homepage/sign-up • Subscriber login • Archives • gmane |
Interest areas[edit]
Specific technical areas of work on MediaWiki in general and Wikimedia projects specifically.
| List | Description |
|---|---|
| analytics | A mailing list for the Analytics Team at WMF and everybody who has an interest in Wikipedia and analytics. |
| Homepage/sign-up • Subscriber login • Archives • not on Gmane? | |
| design | Discussion of Wikimedia design: information architecture, visual design, style, etc. |
| Homepage/sign-up • Subscriber login • Archives • not on Gmane? | |
| ee | Discussion of initiatives that support new users and experienced editors on Wikipedia and MediaWiki projects ("Editor engagement"). |
| Homepage/sign-up • Subscriber login • Archives • not on Gmane? | |
| maps-l | Discussion about the integration of open maps (including from OpenStreetMap) with MediaWiki. |
| Homepage/sign-up • Subscriber login • Archives • gmane | |
| MetaVid-l | Discussion about MetaVidWiki and the integration of MetaVid with MediaWiki. |
| Homepage/sign-up • Subscriber login • Archives • gmane | |
| mobile-l | A list for announcing and discussing the Wikimedia mobile projects. This includes mobile web, apps, and tablets. |
| Homepage/sign-up • Subscriber login • Archives • gmane | |
| 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. |
| Homepage/sign-up • Subscriber login • Archives • not on Gmane? | |
| wikivideo-l | Discussion about video on Wikimedia projects. |
| Homepage/sign-up • Subscriber login • Archives • gmane |
Defunct[edit]
- intlwiki-l (external archive, gmane) – formerly for Wikipedia internationalisation and multilingual coordination, closed in favor of wikipedia-l (for project-wide issues), wikitech-l (for tech issues) and requests for permissions (for administrative setup on small wikis): see Mailing list merge[1]
- wikilegal-l (archive) – legal & licensing issues, deprecated by wikimedia-l and the individual project mailing lists
- Juriwiki-l (archive) – for legal issues
- announce-l (archive, gmane) – Wikizine newsletter
- wikizine-de (archive, gmane) – German
- wikizine-id (archive, gmane) – Indonesian
- wikizine-es (archive, gmane) – Spanish
- Nupedia had a number of mailing lists. Of particular interest:
- wiki-offline-reader-l (archive) – list for the co-ordination of work on a free offline MediaWiki reader
- wikiquality-l (archive) – discussions regarding the design and implementation of quality-related technology for Wikimedia projects, as well as quality policies and initiatives
- wikix-l (archive) – planning for Wikipedia's 10th anniversary (which has already happened)
See also[edit]
There are other ways of communicating with the community besides mailing lists. Some of them include:
- Wikimedia Meta-Wiki (this wiki!) – a general discussion and brainstorming wiki
- Wikimedia IRC channels – live chat
- Village pump equivalents on different projects – for discussions relating to the specific project: see Distribution list for a list
