Communication

It existe divers manieres por contacter altri usatores de MediaWiki o por strax reciver auxilie.

Forums

For help with the MediaWiki software

There are a few forums around the internet where you can get help both with using MediaWiki and with setting up MediaWiki.

• Project:Support desk
• MediaWiki Users forum (Unofficial)
• StackExchange's #mediawiki tag (RSS feed) (Unofficial)
• Reddit's MediaWiki group (Unofficial)

Chat

Easy to use chat

There are a few different discord-like chat servers where help can be found depending on the topic:

1. MediaWiki unofficial (Discord) - Run by wiki operators. Topics include wiki installation, operation, skinning, custom developments (details)
2. Wikimedia Chat (Mattermost) - For movement-wide discussions, not just technical matters. Started in September 2020 (details)
3. Outreachy programs chat (Zulip) - For Outreachy programs(details)
4. Hackathon chat (Telegram @wmhack group) - For Hackathon related questions (details)

IRC

[#mediawiki ^connect #mediawiki] sur irc.freenode.net es li sempre activ IRC channel por communication in real témpore. Si tu ne possede un IRC-client, usa [$3 web chat].

• Ples leer li $1 antequam posir un question.
• Descrí strax tui problema e attende un response. Ne questiona "esque alquí es ci" o "esque alquí posse auxiliar me". To es normal IRC-etiquette e permisse participantes effectivmen multitaskar.

Si tu ne recive un response, li causes por to posse esser divers:

• Nequí es present. Si li canal es generalmen quiet, reveni plu tard.

• You're asking a question which nobody knows the answer to, or which requires a lot of work to answer.

Normalmen questiones, queles relate a problemas pri tui particular installation de MediaWiki, es max aptmen respondet in IRC, nam illi sovente besona un interchange de missagies por decerner li problema, quo es fatigant in listes de e-posta.

Listes de e-posta

It existe divers Mailing lists . Recommendat listes es:

• mediawiki-l (or via Gmane) (or via your newsreader) is the high-traffic mailing list to ask for help with using or setting up MediaWiki.
• wikitech-l (or via Gmane) (or via your newsreader) is the high-traffic mailing list for both MediaWiki and Wikimedia software development.
• mediawiki-announce (or via Gmane) (or via your newsreader) is a low-traffic list for announcements of new MediaWiki releases and security updates (all messages also go to mediawiki-l).

• wikitech-ambassadors Announcements about upcoming changes on Wikimedia websites. This list is primarily aimed at end users of Wikimedia wikis, not the MediaWiki software in general.

Please check the archives first! All three lists are also available through Gmane which provides access as newsgroups or in various web-based formats, and includes its own archives and archive search.

Social Media

Follow the MediaWiki accounts:

• @MediaWiki (Twitter)
• MediaWiki (Facebook)

More details at Social media .

Blog

• The Wikimedia Tech Blog is a venue to share stories from Wikimedia's technical community across and beyond Wikimedia-tech.

See the editorial guidelines for more information.

• There are some tech blogs hosted on Phabricator.

• The English Wikimedia planet blog aggregator sometimes contains tech stuff mixed in with posts mostly about non-technical aspects of Wikimedia projects.

Newsletter

• Wikimedia's Tech/News covers all the technical activity happening across the Wikimedia movement.

• There are further newsletters that you can subscribe to.

Groups

• There are several MediaWiki Groups which could match your location or interests.

• The MediaWiki Stakeholders' Group aims to advocate the needs of MediaWiki users.

Websites

• Phabricator is where feature requests and bugs may be reported or browsed.

• Translatewiki is a MediaWiki site that allows collaborative translation, including of MediaWiki software.