Communication/si

මීඩියාවිකි පරිශීලකයින් හා සම්බන්ධ වීමට හා එසැනින් උදව් ලබා ගැනීමට ක්‍රම කිහිපයක්ම ඇත.

මීඩියාවිකි මෘදුකාංග ගැන උදව් ලබාඝනීමට
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 )

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


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

IRC
on irc.freenode.net is the around-the-clock 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.

ඔබට පිළිතුරක් ලැබුනේ නැතිනම් එයට හේතුව මේවායින් එකක් විය හැක:


 * ඔබ තෝරාගත් වේලාවේ කිසිවෙකු නොසිටින්නට ඇත. නාලිකාව නිශ්ශබ්ද නම්, වෙන වේලාවක පැමිනෙන්න.
 * ඔබ අසන ප්‍රශ්නයට පිළිතුර කිසිවෙකු නොදන්නවා විය හැක. එසේත් නොමැතිනම් එහි පිළිතුරට කිසියම් කාර්යක් කිරීමට සිදුවිය හැක.

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.

විද්‍යුත් ලිපි ලැයිස්තු
There are several available. The recommended ones are:


 * 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. 

බ්ලොග් අඩවිය
See the editorial guidelines for more information.
 * The Wikimedia Tech Blog is a venue to share stories from Wikimedia's technical community across and beyond Wikimedia-tech.
 * 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.

පුවත් පත්‍රිකාව

 * 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 aims to advocate the needs of MediaWiki users.

වෙබ් අඩවි

 *  is where feature requests and bugs may be reported or browsed.
 * Translatewiki is a MediaWiki site that allows collaborative translation, including of MediaWiki software.