Mailing lists
From MediaWiki.org
There are several e-mail lists that exist for discussion of the MediaWiki software. Note that these lists are not appropriate places for discussing issues with Wikipedia or any other Wikimedia Foundation projects. Those lists can be found on the mailing list page at meta.
These lists are all available as ordinary e-mail discussion lists, which you may subscribe to by using the links in the table below.
| List | Description | Admins |
|---|---|---|
| Help & info for system administrators | ||
| 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. | Brion Vibber Tim Starling |
| Homepage/sign-up • Subscriber login • Archives | ||
| 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. | Brion Vibber |
| Homepage/sign-up • Subscriber login • Archives | ||
| mediawiki-enterprise | For discussion related to the enterprise use of MediaWiki. | Brion Vibber Rob Lanphier |
| Homepage/sign-up • Subscriber login • Archives | ||
| Technical discussion | ||
| 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). | Jeronim Brion Vibber Fire |
| Homepage/sign-up • Subscriber login • Archives | ||
| mediawiki-i18n | Discussion and notifications regarding MediaWiki internationalisation and language setup. | Niklas Laxström |
| Homepage/sign-up • Subscriber login • Archives | ||
| mediawiki-api | Discussion related to the MediaWiki API and its on-going development. | Yuri Astrakhan |
| Homepage/sign-up • Subscriber login • Archives | ||
| 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. | Steve Bennett |
| Homepage/sign-up • Subscriber login • Archives | ||
| Automatic developer notifications | ||
| 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.) | Brion Vibber |
| Homepage/sign-up • Subscriber login • (not archived) | ||
| mediawiki-cvs | Automated notifications of SVN check-ins (name has not been changed since we moved from CVS to SVN!). | Brion Vibber |
| Homepage/sign-up • Subscriber login • Archives | ||
[edit] Gmane
Most of the above lists may additionally be accessed as newsgroups. In order to use these lists like newsgroups you must specify news.gmane.org as your NNTP-server and subscribe to the relevant group as detailed below.
Depending how your browser is configured, you may be able to automatically subscribe to the newsgroup by clicking the newsgroup name in the table below.
In order to post to the newsgroup you must be a list member. The first time you post to a group you will receive an email for verification of your email address, which is normal. If you work by means of the newsgroup you probably no longer wants to receive the messages by email. To disable email delivery you need to login via the subscriber login page for that list and edit your preferences.
You can also use the Gmane web interface for reading AND posting to the list. To post, select "post" (or "followup" to reply to the current post) from the drop-down menu in the top right.
| List | Newsgroup (click to subscribe, if supported by your browser) | Homepage on Gmane | Web interface |
|---|---|---|---|
| mediawiki-l | gmane.org.wikimedia.mediawiki | home | read or post |
| mediawiki-announce | gmane.org.wikimedia.mediawiki.announce | home | read only |
| mediawiki-enterprise | gmane.org.wikimedia.mediawiki.enterprise | home | read only |
| wikitech-l | gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical | home | read or post |
| mediawiki-i18n | gmane.org.wikimedia.mediawiki.i18n | home | read or post |
| mediawiki-api | gmane.org.wikimedia.mediawiki.api | home | read or post |
| wikitext-l | gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.wikitext | home | read or post |
| wikibugs-l | gmane.org.wikimedia.mediawiki.bugs | home | read or post |
| mediawiki-cvs | gmane.org.wikimedia.mediawiki.cvs | home | read only |
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