Kommunikation

Det finns flera sätt att komma i kontakt med andra MediaWiki-användare eller utvecklare, eller att följa Wikimedia och MediaWiki relaterade nyheter.

Grunder

Dessa första steg är bra:

• Registrera dig och lägg till lite information om dig på din användarsida.
• Följ nyheterna och våra kanaler på sociala medier.
• Check the newsletters that you can subscribe to.
• Anslut dig till IRC-kanalen $mediawiki-irc och kanske fler.

• Make sure you have an email address confirmed and email notifications enabled in your mediawiki.org preferences.
• "Watch" (click the star icon of) the pages you want to follow and perhaps contribute to.
• Check the FAQ, the help, the manual, or other documentation.

Chatt

#mediawiki ^connect on irc.freenode.net is the around-the-clock IRC real-time chat channel for user questions. For technical questions about MediaWiki, use #wikimedia-dev ^connect.

• State your problem immediately and wait for a response. Don't ask "is there anyone here" or "can someone help me". This is normal IRC etiquette and allows participants to multitask effectively.
• Expect to wait for some time for an initial response, especially in off-peak times. Despite this, out of courtesy for the volunteer who is helping you, try to answer their questions promptly.

Om du inte mottar ett svar kan det betyda en av följande orsaker:

• Nobody was around at the time of day you chose. If the channel is generally quiet, come back later.
• You're asking a question which nobody knows the answer to, or which requires a lot of work to answer.

Questions relating to problems with your particular installation of MediaWiki are generally best answered on IRC, since they often require a back-and-forth exchange to isolate the problem, which is tedious when performed on the mailing lists.

Sändlista

Det finns flera Mailing lists tillgängliga. De rekommenderade listorna är:

• 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

Följ dessa MediaWiki-konton:

• @MediaWiki (Twitter)
• MediaWiki (Facebook)

Fler detaljer på sidan Social media .

Blogg

• 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.

Nyhetsbrev

• Wikimedia's Tech/News covers all the technical activity happening across the Wikimedia movement.
• There are further newsletters that you can subscribe to.

Grupper

• There are several MediaWiki Groups which could match your location or interests.
• The MediaWiki Stakeholders' Group aims to advocate the needs of MediaWiki users.

Fotnoter

• Wikimedia's Meta-Wiki was formerly where documents were managed and proposals were discussed before this site was started. There is still a lot of content there that has yet to be moved.
• 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.

Forum

För hjälp med MediaWiki-programvaran

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
• Wikimedia Developer Support (Discourse)
• MediaWiki Users forum (Unofficial)
• StackExchange's #mediawiki tag (RSS feed) (Unofficial)
• Reddit's MediaWiki group (Unofficial)

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