Communication/ie

It existe divers manieres por contacter altri usatores de MediaWiki o por strax reciver auxilie.

Arriva
To es bon unesim passus:


 * Registra e addí quelc information pri te self sur tui págine.
 * Secue li Novitás e nor canales de social media.
 * Abonna wikitech-announce por reciver e-postal notificationes pri nov activitás.
 * Junte te al IRC-canale e forsan altri.


 * Assecura, que tu have un e-posta confirmat e ha activat notificationes per e-posta in tui preferenties de mediawiki.org.

Chat
#mediawiki sur irc.freenode.net es li sempre activ por communication in real témpore. Si tu ne possede un IRC-client, usa web chat.


 * Ples leer li antequam posir un question.
 * Descrí strax tui problema e attende un response. Ne questiona "esque alquí es ci" o "esque alquí posse auxiliar me". To es normal IRC-etiquette e permisse participantes effectivmen multitaskar.

Si tu ne recive un response, li causes por to posse esser divers:


 * Nequí es present. Si li canal es generalmen quiet, reveni plu tard.
 * You're asking a question which nobody knows the answer to, or which requires a lot of work to answer.
 * You're asking a question which is in the FAQ, the help, the manual, or other documentation, and the volunteers in the channel feel it would be best if you found it yourself.

Normalmen questiones, queles relate a problemas pri tui particular installation de MediaWiki, es max aptmen respondet in IRC, nam illi sovente besona un interchange de missagies por decerner li problema, quo es fatigant in listes de e-posta.

Listes de e-posta
It existe divers. Recommendat listes es:


 * 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 for software development, especially when it relates to Wikimedia (not just MediaWiki) wikis.
 * 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! 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.

Twitter/Facebook/Identi.ca
Follow the MediaWiki accounts:

More details at. 
 * @MediaWiki (Twitter)
 * MediaWiki (Facebook)
 * MediaWiki (Google+, less updated)

Blog
The Wikimedia Blog has a tech section specifically for news and information from the Wikimedia Foundation’s Technology department (link - RSS feed).

Newsletter
English Wikipedia's Signpost has a regular technology report with content related to activity within Wikimedia Foundation’s Technology department.

Also see Wikimedia's Tech/News, which covers all the technical activity happening across the Wikimedia movement.

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

For help with the MediaWiki software
There is no "official" forum or discussion board, but there are some unofficial ones, for instance on StackExchange. 

You can also post support questions at Project:Support desk, though this is less frequented than the other sources of help listed on this page.

To discuss this site, MediaWiki.org

 * Project:Current issues