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There are several ways to get in contact with other MediaWiki users, or to get instant help. The recommended possibilities are listed below.

Chat

#mediawiki on irc.freenode.net is the around-the-clock IRC channel for realtime communication. (Please read the FAQ before asking, and don't ask to ask, just ask.)

Mailing lists

Get in contact!

mediawiki-l (or via Gmane) (or via your newsreader) is the high-traffic mailing list to ask for support.
wikitech-l (or via Gmane) (or via your newsreader) is the high-traffic mailing list where script development is coordinated.
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).

Please check the archives first! To search the archives, you can restrict most search engines

by server name (site:mail.wikipedia.org, e.g. Google) or
by the directory containing a particular list's archive (site:mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/<list name>, e.g. Google).

Using "mail.wikipedia.org" seems to work better than "mail.wikimedia.org" for this purpose, though both are valid URLs.

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.

Websites

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