溝通方法

呢度有好多方法可以同其他嘅MediaWiki用戶聯絡，或者得到即時嘅幫助。建議可以用下面嘅方法。

論壇

MediaWiki 軟件嘅幫手

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)

傾計房

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 on irc.freenode.net is the around-the-clock IRC real-time chat channel for technical questions.

• 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.

If you don't get an answer, this could mean one of a number of things:

• 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.

郵件名單

There are several Mailing lists available. The recommended ones are:

• mediawiki-l (或者經Gmane) (或者經你嘅新聞組閱讀器) 係一個高流量問嘢嘅郵件名單。
• wikitech-l (或者經Gmane) (或者經你嘅新聞組閱讀器) 係一個高流量開發統籌嘅郵件名單。
• mediawiki-announce (或者經Gmane) (或者經你嘅新聞組閱讀器) 係一個低流量嘅新MediaWiki發行版同埋保安更新嘅郵件名單 (另外響 mediawiki-l 都會收到呢度嘅訊息)。

• 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.

請先睇過個歸檔先！ 上面全部嘅名單都可以響Gmane度搵到，可以提供畀新聞組閱讀器或者某啲以網頁為主嘅格式去用，佢又包括埋佢自己嘅歸檔同埋歸檔搜尋。

Social Media

Follow 呢啲 MediaWiki 嘅 account：

• @MediaWiki (Twitter)
• MediaWiki (Facebook)

更多可以喺Social media 。

博客

• 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.

網站

• Wikimedia's Meta-Wiki係之前啲文件嘅雜會地，響呢個網站開始之前就已經響嗰度管理同提議。但係都重有好多內容係重未搬過來嘅。
• Phabricator 係重站住可以報告或瀏覽嘅請求同埋臭蟲。

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